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FATE. ?
A sunbeam kissed a river-ripple?"Nay,
Naught shall dissever thee ami me!"'
In night's wide darkness passed the beam
awn v.
The ripple mingled with the sen.
?John Vancr Cheney, in the Century.
THE TIDAL TRAIN.
There was a great rush for the tidal
train that morning fram Paris. It started
at a very convenient hour, 9:10. and was
patronized by a crowd of people. As
the time for departure approached, there
was the usual outcry for seats. The
French officials, if asked, shrugged their
shoulders and pointed to the nearest carriage;
what they meant was, that there
was stiil room and to spare if people did
uot cover up extra seats witn their belongings,
and so monopolize more than
their share. Late arrivals thus neglected
.wandered miserably up and down the
whole length of the train, seeking accommodation
excitedly, and in vain.
Among the rest were two ladies, one
of whom, the elder, seemed greatly Hurried
and put out. "1 knew how it
would l>e," she cried, in a despairing
voice, "every seat is occupied! What
shall we do? why were we so late?''
She was a middle-aged, somewhat
plethoric-looking dame, with an air of
much importance, marred-for the moment
by helplessness and ill-temper.
"We shall find places presently, dear
Lady Jones," replied the younger, who
had the lather sycophantic air of a humble
friend. "The guard will help us."
"They never do, and they don't understand.
Dear, dear! why didn't we come
in time? It was all your fault Hester"?
this to the maid who followed them as
they ranged backward along the platform?
"you ought to have packed last
night. What shall we do? Oh, thank
you so much!" she cricd suddenly, with
effusion.
A gentleman, who apparently had been
watching her distress, pushed open the
door of the carriage he occupied and in*
vited her to enter. His companion, another
man at the far end, made room by
removing rugs and bags, and presently
Lady Jones, with a sigh of relief, sank
back into the cushions. Then with feminine
selfishness, and forgetful of the
trouble she had but just escaped, she proceeded
to prevent any one else from getting
in.
"Cover up the seats well, Milliccnt,"
she cried, "and do keep that door shut.
Oh, thank you, sir,'' she added to one of
the men, who seemed to fall in readily
with her idea of keeping the carriage to
themse'ves.
There was nothing very remarkable
about Lady .Tones' new-found friends.
One was a tall, dark man, with a cleanshaved
face, and very dark eyes which
glared out from under the shade of a
black felt hat; the other was-smaller?a
restless little freckled-faced man, with a
short red beard cut and trimmed to a
point. They did not look like Englishmen;
but they spoke the language fluently
with a slight accent.
The firm, somewhat fiercc demeanor of
the dark man had the desired effect.
"When he said, abruptly, "II n'v a pas de
place," people retired discomfited, and as
time was nearly up, Lady Jones began to
hope that their privacy and comfort
would not be disturbed. Almost at the
last moment a man came to the door,
importunate and persistent.
'Any room?" he asked in English, as
he stood on the doorstep. Then getting
no answer, he repeated the question in
French. "How many are you?" Still
no answer; so he counted for himself,
and went away.
Lady Jones was delighted: but her triumph
was of short duration. The last
arrival came back at once with a whole
posse of French officials at his back, the
chief of whom, in a voice of authority,
repeated the inquiry.
"How many are you? Four? More to
come? Impossible! The train is starting.
Entrcz, monsier; entrez, vile;"
and the nest minute the stranger was
bundled into the carriage, the door was
shut with a bang, the horns sounded,
and the train went off at express speed.
The occupants of the carriage. Lady
Jones in particular, resented this unceremonious
intrusion.
"Extraordinary!" she said, iu aloud
aside to Millicent. "People never know
when they are in the way."
"So forward and presuming!" replied
the young lady.
"In my country," said the dark man,
"mep never intrude themselves on ladies.
They wait to be asked."
"We have a very short way of settling
with them if they do," 'added the short
man, offensively.
"And pray what do you do with them,"
asked the last coiner, quietly.
He was cool and self-possessed, with a I
broad facc framed in by S(juare-cut grayish
whiskers. His upper lip was cleanshaven,
showing his firm, rather hard
mouth, and his blue eyes were steady
and penetrating. Not a man to be trifled
with, in spite of his calm manner and
unobtrusive demeanor,
"What do. you do with them?" he
repeated, looking hard at the insolent [
little red man.
"Pitch them out of the window, or on i
to the line."
"Would you like to do it now?" said |
the other.
"Be quiet, Tliaddy," interposed the !
dark man; "remember there are ladies j
present."
"Don't mind me, gentlemen, if you i
wish to give him a lesson." said Lady
Jones, who had espoused the part of her i
first friends.
The Englishman looked at her rather |
keenly, but made no remark. Nor, al- j
though they continued to talk at him and I
about him for the next lalf hour, did he j
take ar.y further notice of them, but i
read a novel attentively which he had
extracted from his little black bag. By
the time they reached Amiens, quite a
pleasant intimacy had sprung up between
Lady Jones and the two men. The
four went to the buffet and breakfasted
together. Returning to their carriage
they found that the Englishman had disappeared,
so they made merry at his expense.
But they had not done with him yet.
lie was there on the quay as the train
ran alongside the Boulogne steamer: |
they saw him again on board with his j
little hand-bag, and always calm and j
imperturable. Only once did he betray
the slightest emotion; it was when a
man came up to him as lie stood near the
funnel, and, with an almost imperccpti- j
ble salute, addressed him as Mr. Ilopkinson.
"Ilush, you fool!" he replied angrily.
"Don't mention names here."'
"It was too late, however; many of ,
those around had heard the name, and i
among the rest the two men, who were j
smoking close by.
"Come aft, Thaddeus!" whispered the |
tall man. "Did you hear that name?" j
"I did. It must be that murdering j
villain himself."
"And you, you fool, to get quarreling |
with hiin in the train!"
"Do you think he has his eye on us?"
"You may take your oath of that."
"What in the name of conscience shall ;
we do?"
"Leave it to me; I have a dodge, if I j
can only work it."
The steamer l>eiug very crowded, Lady j
Jones and her party had been unable to
secure a private cabin. They had to stay j
on deck, and in by no means a good j
place. But, thanks to the attention of j
her friends, Lady Jones was made com-j
fortab!e with rugs and wraps near one of !
the paddle-boxes, while Millicent and
the maid sat close beside her. The j
voyage across the channel was not good,
and the ladies reached Folkestone in a j
more or less battered condition. Now j
the^trangers, like chivalrous gentlemen, j
came out in their true colors. Nothing j
could exceed their kindness. They took I
infinite trouble to prepare the party for I
going on shore; they helped the maid to | ,
fold and strap up the rugs, aud made |
themselves generally useful. Lady Jones ,
was so grateful and so charmed that she (
begged them to call on her in London, j
and gave them her address. (
"When the porters rushed on board, f
Lady Jones desired one of them to go at i j
once and secure her carriage.
"Can t be done, mum," he replied, j
"All the things have to be examined J
before they let us through to the train.'' i J
"Absurd!" said her ladyship; "they j a
won't examine mine. I am Lady JoDes." i f
Bnt her ladyship was no better than ^
an ordinary person before the law. The ^
custom house officers were inexorable; a
and, in spite t)f her protests, all her c
small parcels and those of her party, ) ^
were taken into the search-room,and laid I _
out on the counter. With an imperious j j
wave of the hand, an official ordered her t
to follow them. To make matters worse, n
the quiet Englishman, to whom she had
been so rude in the train, was standing in
the doorway, talking to two other men, j
and laughing,as she thought, at her dis- j f
tress. | c
For a moment her two friends Averc : r
nowhere to be seen. i $
"I never heard of huch a thing 1" she j I
/
said indignantly to Millicent, as the officious
searchers turned everything out of
Uer gold-mounted dressing ease, and
then proceeded to unroll the rugs.
"What do they take us for?"
"Everyhotly is treated alike,dear Lady
Jones. 1 suppose they arc afraid of Fenians,
or dynamite, or something.*'
"it is preposterous, disgraceful! Sir
John shall write to the papers?I beg
your pardon."
This was to an oflicial who had said to
her twice, "What is this?"
A small parcel done rp in strong
brown paper securely tied and
sealed.
"I haven't the least idea. Something
of my maid's or Milliccut's?this young
lady here. I really cannot say."
Hut while she chattered on with accustomed
garrulity, the custom house
officer had already cut the strings, undone
the parcel, and laid bare a small
plain tin case.
It had a lid, which was easily opened.
Inside were a number of slabs of a
whity-brown, sugary-looking substance,
which might have been tenth-rate chocolate
or indifTcrently-niade "tolTee."
"Some sort of sugar, "said Lady Jones.
"How odd! 1 cannot imagine?
"It's just what I expected," said a
quiet voice behind. Hand it over, Mr.
Saunders. This is my a Hair."
"What, Mr. Hopkinson, arc you
here?"
"Very much on the spot this time. I
think, Mr. Saunders. Now, ma'am"?
to Lady Jones?"where are your other
friends?"
"How dare you speak to me!" she replied,
hotly, recognizing her old enemy
of the train. "I am Lady Jones."
"Of course, all right," replied the man
called Mr. Hopkinson. "Hut there," he
went on. half to himself, "we don't want
any scandal or noise. We might lose the
others;" and with that he whispered a
few words to an attendant, and drew
back into the crowd.
The examination of Lady Jones' baggage
was completed, everything was repacked,
and the party proceeded toward
the train. Just as they passed the refresh- j
ment-room, a railway guard came up, and,
touching his cap, said: "The stationmaster
has reserved you a compartment.
Please come this way."
"How uncommonly civil of him, to be
sure!" cried her ladyship. "I suppose it
is to make up for this annoyance. I am
really much obliged."
Within five minutes the two ladies were
stowed away in a, carriage by themselves,
and the door securely locked. Presently
the train ran out of the station up the hill
to Folkestone town, and Lady Jones, who
was rapidly recovering her equanimity,
after a few ejaculations of delight at being
home again, composed herself to
sleep in the corner of the carriage.
But fresh annoyance was in store for
her. At Folkestone Town station the
carriage was unlocked, and three men )
cot in: one of them, to Lady Jones' in- I
dignation and dismay, was Mr. llopkin- '
son, with his black bag, which lie kept j
on his knee.
"You mustn't come in here," she j
said loftily; "this carriage is reserved
specially for me. I am Lady Jones."
"Oh, are you!" replied the other. "It
is time you should know who I am. My
name?"
"I am sure I don't care to know."
"My name is llopkinson. I am chief
inspector of police from Scotland Yard."
"Well," said Lady Jones, still bold, I
but with much inward misgivings. "I
really do not understand!"
"By this time my men will have arrested
your two confederates?your
friends who helped you in trying to keep
me out of the traiu at Paris. I knew
them all along."'
"My friends! I never met them before
this morning! Why, I don't even know
their names!"
"That won't do. You know as well as
I do that they are Phclim Cassidy and
Thaddeus O'Brien, American Fenians?"
"Gracious Heavens!"
"With whose connivance you have attempted
to convey dynamite into Eng- I
land?a nice little lot of 'Atlas powder,'
in slabs too, for convenience in packing.'
" I deny, most positively! I! I!?"
" Case is too strong against you.
Why, the stuff was found in your possession,
and I have it lierg in my bag;
enough to wreck the whole traiu."
Lady Jones shrieked.
" Do you mean to tell me that there is j
dynamite here in this carriage? Oh, do. |
please, throw it away!"
" The concussion would certainly ex- i
plode it, and we should all be blown to j
kingdom come! Don't be frightened; j
you traveled with it all the way from
Paris, and would have carried it on to
London yourself."
"I assure you I know nothing of this. |
I am Lady Jones, the wife of Sir John
Jones of Hurley street. Millicent, help
me to explain who I am."
The detective shook his head doubtfully.
"It maybe as you say; but I don't see j
ray way. Wait till we get to London.
If you can prove your identity, at any
rate you may escape being locked up;
the magistrate may give you bail."
With this cold comfort Lady Jones
had to be satisfied, and in dire terror and
discomfort she made; the rest of the journey
to London. Ilopkinson, it must be
confessed, had already made up his mind
that it was as Lady Jones had said; but
he chose to keep her in suspense.
On reaching Cannon street, the guard
brought him a telegram. The detective [
read it with strong symptoms of disgust.
"Slipped through ray fingers! Just
when I thought I had them, too! It's
the very mischief. What shall I do
next?"
After a pause of deep thought he
turned suddenly to Lady Jones.
"Do these men know your London
address? Yes? Well, if you will assist
us now, I think I can promise that nothing
more shall be said about this unfor- !
tunatc alTair. But first, you must be j
secret, silent as the grave. Can I trust J
you? And this young lady?''
junicent auu i-uuy .jones unswurcu iu ;
a breath, promising to be most circum- i
spect.
"My idea now is that these men only
planted the stuff on you, hoping it would
pass unnoticed; whether it did or not i
they would know bv the morning papers, !
which would be sure to publish an ac j
count of the seizure of dynamite. Well," I
went on the detective, "no one must j
know a syllabic of this; there shall be |
nothing in the papers or anywhere. To- j
morrow or next day they will call at |
your house to recover their small parcel,
explaining that it slipped in among your
rugs by mistake. If thev do. we have
them; do you understand? And will you
help?''
Lady .Jones only too gladly assented
That night the house in JIarley street i
was practically in the possession of the j
police. Sir John entered into the spirit 1
of the thing; gave his hall-portci a hoii- '
day, and installed llopkinson disguised J
in his place. On the third day the dark i
man called, sent up his card, and was I
given the dynamite. As he left the :
house his companion joined him. and !
both were arrested before they had j
turned the next corner. The trial, with j
the examination of Lady Jones, was one j
of the events of the season.?London '
Wvrld.
Olives in (irecce.
< ur host took us to inspect an olive-oil J
factory, of which there are several in !
Pyrghi, so that the stream which waters j
the village is brown witn onve juice,
like water tinged by peat in an Irish bog.
Here they use no machinery or modern
appliances in pressing the oil; merely
the old primitive wooden press. Women,
or sometimes mules, walk round and
round revolving a wtfeel which crushes
the olives; in this condition they put
them into sacks, and then into that
"black-faced heifer which devours oak
wood," as the Chiotes in their figurative
way are wont to describe their ovens.
The sacks are then placed one over the
other in the press, and two men turn a
post, which pulls a rope, which drags a
stick, which tightens the press, and the :
i)il oozes into the receptacle prepared for 1
it, with water inside. The oil and water
>f course do not amalgamate, the dregs j
dnk to the bottom, and the pure oil 1
lows into jars prepared for it. 1
It is impossible to realize the affection 1
)eople have for olives in a purely olive- '
jiowing country. "An olive with a 1
cernal gives a boot to a man," is a true I 5
idage with them. It is :he principal '
attening and sustaining food in a coun- ''
ry where hardly any meat is eaten. It {
akes the piare of the potato in Ireland, ^
nd on the olive crop depends the welfare 1
if many. An olive yard is presented to r
he church by way of glebe, and the 1
lesants collect on a stated day to gather (
hese sacred olives, which they buy from j 1
he church, and always at the highest j '
i arket value.?Bazar. I (
!!
The Rev. W. II. Key, a colored i .
ireaeher of Tennessee, made with his j
>wn hands the bricks-of his church, and
low he owns church property worth
MO,000 and a congregation of 1,000 3
>eople. J
SOMETHING TO LAUGH AT.
SKETCHES THAT WILL DRIVE AWAY
THE BLUES.
Tl?c IteaNon?Convenient location?
liOvcN Appetite?."Not Wcicliing; So
Hiich?It Mothered the Doctor.
"My darling, you never have kissed mc
yet," lie said.
"Haven't I?" she answered, with a
gurgling laugh.
"Never," he repeated, "and I wish you
would now. Will you?''
She did.
"Ah!v he sighed, "how sweet it is to
feel the pressure of your warm lips on
mv cheek."
"Do you know why my lips are so
warm?" she asked.
"Because-because," he stammered.
"Because," she broke in, "noicecteam
lias passed them for ever so long."
He took the hint.?SmncrciUe Journal.
Convenient I.oration.
City Boarder?"I thought you said this
place was convenient."
Honest Farmer? "Ycsmarm. We have
found it very convenient."
"But it is two miles from the station."
"Oh, it ain't convenient to the station,
of course. When 1 said the place was
convenient, 1 was thinking about the malaria."
"Malaria! Good gracious!"
"Ves'm. It's mighty convenient
then."
"In what way, pray?"
"We are only half a mile from the ccm- I
etcry."?Phihulc'plna Vnll.
l.ovc'fi Appetiici
' Did you say love took away a man'*
appetite?"' remarked the landlady to
young Snooks at the table.
' Yes, madam. 1 am deeply in love,
and that is my experience,'' he responded,
with his hand on his heart and a don'tJ
ask-me-for-money-now look in his weak
blue eyes.
"I begin to think pretty much the
same way myself."
"Why, madam, are you also touched
by the soft caresses of the little blind
god?" he queried, taking another spoonful
of potatoes, a slice of roast beef and
a big hunk of bread.
"Well, not hardly," she answered, in
a zinc-lined refrigerator tone, "but some
things I have recently seen convince me
that it takes away a man's appetite and
fives him a hog's."
Snooks did not ask for any desert.?
Merchant- Trarc/cr..
Not Weighing: So ."Hueli.
"You arc looking remarkably well,Mr.
Litcwait," said Crimsonbeak to the young
man who lie used to see behind the counter
in the village grocery before his account
rendered it imperative for him to
change his provision man.
"Do you think so ?" replied the young
man with a bland smile, "I'm not weighing
as much as 1 was."
"Why, really." came from Crimsonbeak,
in surprise; "You arc looking
heavier."
"I am heavier," replied the puzzle.
itVAirm luit vmi wrnorli
so much!'' exclaimed the astonished
man ; "Have you gone crazy, Litewait
!"
"No; not exactly, Mr. Crimsonbeak;
but I've gone to work in a carpet
store where we don't have any of that to
do."
"Any of what to do ?" shouted the
beacon light.
"Weighing!"
"Oh!" was all that Crimsonbeik remarked
as he went out to look for a Jeep
well.?Statesman.
II Ilothercd the Doctor.
Dr. McCosh is celebrated for his egotism,
and the best of it is he is never
conscious of it.
He has a broad Scotch accent, and the
habit of gnawing at the joint of his
thumb when busily thinking.
Some years ago he was lecturing before
the senior class in Princeton co lege. He
j had been discussing Leibnitz's view of
the reason of evil, to the effect that mankind
was put upon the earth because
there was less evil here than elsewhere.
One of the seniors inquired, "Well,
doctor, why was evil introduced into the
world ?"
"Ah!"' said the doctor, holdingup both
hands, "ye have asked the hardest qucs
tioninall feelosepliy. Suckkrates tried
to answer it and failed; l'lato tried it.
and failed: Kalint attempted it and
made bad work of it; Leibnitz tried it,
and he begged the whole question as I've
been tellin'ye; and I confess" (gnawing
at his thumb knuckle) "I confess I don't
know?what?to make of it myself."?
Troy Press.
Jtauic-nciu o? wnicnuu.
The battle-iield of Waterloo as it lies
to-day is an uninspiring spectacle?a
good place to sit down and muse on life
and men and the vanity of human
things; but we had a vivacious little
guide who spared no time for musing,
hut engaged us with a very dramatic recital
in broken, though quite intelligible
English, of the stirring things that happened
on that bloody Sunday in 1815,
when Bonaparte's brief candle went out
and the European kaleidoscope rattled
itself into a fresh combination. I can't
help sympathizing with the bottom dog.
The dramatic symmetry of Napolean's
career wins us against our reason.
I went out to Waterloo with some
Englishmen, and I took solid comfort in
giving them my small opinion of their
Iron ihike, although we must allow that
he did this business very handsomely.
But that guide. I shall not soon forget
him. lie made more of an impression
011 me than all the hooks I have read
011 the subject of Waterloo. He omitted
nothing. He opened his soul to us, and
he suited the action to the word. He
gesticulated, he attitudinized, in short,
he fought the battle over again for us.
His English was doubly English. He was
especially happy in his ''hup, guards,
hand hat hem!" He recited this thrilling
incident over his shoulder as lie led us
down the two hundred and odd steps
that mount to the summit of .Mound of
the Lion, and it was only by the most extraordinary
presence of mind ihat 1
grasped the railing in time to escape a
fall.
The Mound of the Lion is an artificial
elevation which has been reared (very illadvisedly,
1 think) in the midst of the
iie!<l ami of its earth, thereby modifying
the configuration of the landscape, so
that one cannot now gain so accurate an
idea of the liattlc-ground as mi^ht otherwise
have been obtained?unless, indeed,
the loss is compensated by the fact
that the summit of the mound affords u
commanding view.
The tranquility of the scene is impressive,and
one is reminded of Byron's line:
"How that ml rain has uiaile the harvests
grow!"
I never saw a fairer stretch of country
?hills and valleys and winding roads
and shining villages. Every feature of
this sweet landscape played its part in
the drama of that day. On the right is
the Chateau of llougomont, against
which, all day long, the French lines
beat like the waves of the sea?the key
of the English position, held to the last
by the gallant Coldstream guards, though
the house was burned over their heads.
The old brick wall around the orchard
still stands pierced with loopholes, worn
away by the pelting rain of musket balls.
If you have any sort of imagination you
can stand there to-day and see the tight.
I suppose there has scarcely been a
closer, hotter, bloodier battle in modern
times. The lines were posted only a
mile apart, and from the moment of the
first assault upon llougomont to the low,
despairing cry of the French general,
"Tout (st perdu! Sauve qui pent!"' the
battle was like the straining of wellmatched
wrestlers.?" A Buffuloninu
Abroad."
Much Ado About a Penny.
A penny will make quite a stir in the
accounts of bankers and business men
[sometimes, in closing the accounts 01
the National Broadway bank, some years
ago, a draft was drawn by Treasurer
Spinner for the balance in the bank,
(mounting to $18,450.10, which was honored,
and in the letter of transmittal the
:>ank cashier notified the treasury that
here was still due the government the
>um of one cent. An examination of the
edgers and cash accounts was instituted,
tnd the error was discovered. The
imonnt should have been .*>18,-150.11. <
forthwith. Treasurer Spinner notified
he cashier that he could forward the
imount. A press copy of tins letter was
nade and a proper record of it kept. In
lue time the bank responded, inclosing
i draft for one cent, the transfer being |
nade without disturbing the financial ,
;ircles. The necessary records were made
n half-a-dozen books, the proper indorsements
obtained, and the money drawn
uid deposited to the credit of the proper
fund.
A "dry-air' store has been established
n England to attempt to keep butter
'rom summer till winter.
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. J
Chalk-white lace is again in vogue.
White embroidered mull ties are re- *
vived.
Sleeves grow fuller and larger in the
armholc.
Skirts grow fuller and bustles more
bouffant.
White and black lacc scarfs are revived <
for neckwear. 1
There are now 155 women students in '
Boston university.
The horse-hair cushion is the latest 1
form of the bustle.
Fifty-seven American women writers .
were born in .Maine. <
Mrs. Cclia Tkaxter, the writer, owns .1 1
large farm at Kittery, Me.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart, of New York, is !
the richest widow in the world.
Women voted at Clinton, X. Y., 011
the question of a water works tax.
Nearly ">,000 women are employed in
the various government oflices in England.
The poke of Valenciennes or Oriental
lace is the bonnet to wear with lacc and
muslin dresses.
Decatur county. Iowa, has ;i girl who
j captured and sold fifteen wolves during
the last season.
Dotted net veils are not worn at all.
They have been superseded by the plain
ones made of colored tulle.
A late fashion is to send presents of
flowers in baskets locked with a tiny padlock,
each person having a key.
In San Francisco all of the day district
telegraph work is done by women. They
are paid from $40 to $00 a month.
Some of the summer parasols are so
pretty that it seems almost a pity to expose
them to being faded in the sua.
The wife of L. F. Fisler, the Camden
baseball player, is said to be the first real
Chinese lady ever seen in this couutry.
A Cuban always smokes two packages
of cigarettes and four or five cigars a
day. The women and children do nearly
the same.
A fancy is for "rose pokes;" they are
simple black or white straw pokes with
the whole brim hidden by clusters of
deep red roses without leaves.
A fnfAritn wow /\f cnunnff nn lnno tine
>. " "J -1" " *"o
year is gathering the lace, then sewing
it on the wrong side, turning and catching
it down at intervals, making a pull.
Miss Sarah O. Jewctt is considered to
be the handsomest woman author in Boston,
with perhaps the exception of Miss
Blanche Howard, who wrote "One Summer."
The old fashioned challie?a light
woolen fabric with which some silk is
woven?is revived for summer dresses.
The ground is light in color and is strewn
with flowers.
Many skirts of silk and brochc are cut
into tabs of various forms at the bottom,
with thickly gathered or plaited ruches
of plain silk set on underneath to make
them set out.
The old-fashioned challie?a light
woolen fabric with which some silk is
woven?is revived for summer dresses;
the ground is light in color and is strewn
with flowers.
Poppy red and jonquil yellow crapes
are used by those who do not employ
cither llowers or feathers on round hats.
A twisted scarf around the crown is used
as trimming.
Wild millinery plants are the last invention.
By this term is meant grasses
of every kind, tied in little bundles
which show the stalks, and fastened on
the hat with a brooch 'or clasp.
French grey of the palest shade, ecru
and violet colors arc very stylishly used
in crapes of different texture, and also in
tulle for bonnets to match costumes of
cashmere of shot silk, foulard, etc.
A Western physician writes pathetically
to a newspaper complaining of the conduct
of a female doctor who has taken
away all his patients, and left him and
his family on the brink of starvation.
German cross-stitch still holds its own
among needlework. It is very useful
for tea-table cloths, toilet covers and the
like, and is an easy, comfortable kind of
work that does not require any thinking.
Mull pokes for the country arc trimmed
with roses and Valenciennes lace when
white mull is used, but for the pale blue,
pink and poppy red mull are white lilacs,
violets or some llowers of contrasting
colors.
At a contcst in a swimming school at
Manchester, England, a young girl swam
000 times around the bath-house, a distance
of eight miles, while the best swim- j
mer among the boys made but 504 j
rounds.
Dotted Swiss lawn, with raised spots
and colored printed figures, made with
gathered flounces edged with black
French lacc, with shirred and belted
waist, is a showy summer dress for a
young lady.
A pleasing design for a polonaise has
each of the two front pieces of the waist
about half a yard wide and laid in folds
at the center. At the belt these cross,
and the upper one curves gracefully and
loses itself in the folds.
Very thin delaine or wool muslin is
popular for young ladies'country dresses,
and "may be had so sheer and of such
delicate hues that it is made tip over colored
silk linings throughout in order to
give deeper tones and more character to
the dress.
White cambric is greatly used for fete
dresses this year, and for children's
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hocks wim uroau uanus ui uuiui ua
trimming. These are woven with the
dress, and very pretty frocks are mudc
by trimming with bands of reJ, pink,
blue or old gold strips.
The Lethargy of Oriental Life.
General Loring. in his book, "Confederate
.Soldier in Egypt," says: "Society
among the inmates of the harem means
simply smoking cigarettes and pipes,and
the most trivial amusements. Instead of
the sparkling conversation and pleasant
music with which the sexes reciprocally
entertain each other among AVestern i
people, horrible screamings, the monot- i
onous noise of drums, and the clang of i
tamborines are here the solace of woman i
in her hours of ease. The boasted lux
ury of the palaces offers in its isolation !
no attraction to a refined nature. This
life makes people prematurely old; a 1
man of fifty is wrinkled and superanu- <
ated, and a woman ol thirty has passed <
her meridian. Noon e works unless com- i
pelled to it, as tranquility of mind and
person best pleases the Oriental taste.
They ignore the passage of time, which
never disturbs them with the cry of bukrah
(to-morrow); yet people write of the 1
fascinations of Eastern life. It may be
the climate, with its sunny sky and the
quickcning air of the desert, or possibly
the stagnation of existence which deludes
them. It cannot be the effort of thinking
or of feeling that awakens pleasing
impressions, for there is nothing here
that does not clash with every sentiment
habit and custom of intellectual life.
Society is the isolation of a prison,
hough the captives are surrounded by
numbers of people. The philosopher residing
in the East is forced to meditate
bitterly upon the waste of humanity
around him. Only an anchorite whose
religious duty consists in counting beads
could be charmed with such monotony
and silence. The man of energy and
thought would think it a cruel punishment
to be forced to undergo the ordeal
of intellectual stagnation amid a. people
whose ignorance and indolence fill their
minds with egotism, obstinacy and selfimportance.
It is a common thing for
Egyptians who have been educated by
order of the government in the best colleges
in Europe to come back to Eastern
life and immediately throw away their
books, abandon intercourse with intelligent
foreigners, shut themselves in a
harem among ignorant women and there
end their existence. This is probably
what they mean when they say that 'in
their education of mind they do not
neglect the heart.' An Eastern man will
sit for hours inhaling the perfume of a
sweet flower and enjoying the music of a
fountain (murmuring at the time a chap- n
ter in the Koran, without stopping to t
understand its meaning) and the bcauti- s
fill objects of nature which Allah has c
spread before him. lie enjoys to-day t
but never thinks of preserving objects a
which please him in sculpture or paint- L
ing, however dear to him, for the sake (1
of the pleasure they might give in the
future. This their writers call a life rich
in sensations." t
Placing Her at Her Ease.
Dumlev had accompanied a friend j?
home to dinner, and, as they seated ?
themselves at the table, the hostess remarked
:
(,I trust that you will make allowances, tl
Mr. Dumlcy. My girl left me this morn- q
ing very unexpectedly, and I was com- tl
polled to cook the dinner myself." t<
"Oh, certainly, my dear madam, cer- h
tainly," responded Dumlev, with much o
manner; "I can put up with anything," h
?New York Sun. h
1 BELLE'S SAD DOWNFALL.
3HE GIVES WAY TO A CRAVING FOB
XJQUOB.
<urToimdcd By Mixury and tlie Idol
of it Yoiuik and Affcctionatc Htisband?A
Sorrowful Story.
A jury of inquisition at Baltimore recently
decided Mrs. Gertrude E. Grove
:o be insane, and she was removed to
Spring Grove Insane asylum for medical
:reatmcnt. Commenting on this, a letter
from Baltimore says: Probably but a
few ot the friends and acquaintances of
Miss Gertrude Henderson, of Chicago,
ifterward the wife of Eugene B. Grove,
of this city, recognize the downfall of
the above named belle in the brief article
quoted above. The story is a very
sad one. Miss Henderson's parents died
when she was quite young, leaving her
in charge of her aunt, a married sister of
Mr. Henderson, the wife of a prominent
grain merchant, residing in Wabash
avenue, between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth
streets, Chicago. Gertrude was
reared with great care and tenderness,
and her debut in society was made in the
latter city during the Masonic celebration
about seven years ago. Among the
visitors to Chicago on the above occa
sion was Eugene B. Grove, a wealthy
young Hour merchant of Baltimore.
Voting Grove met Miss Henderson at a
social gathering, given in honor of a lady
from Kentucky, who was visiting a wellknown
society lady, residing in Michigan
avenue, Chicago. From almost
the moment of the first meeting
of young .Grove and Miss Henderson
both appeared to fall desperately in love
with each other. After Grove's return to
Baltimore a correspondence began, and a
few months later Grove announced to his
friends his engagement to Miss Henderson.
Shortly afterward Miss Henderson
paid a visit to this city, accompanicd by
her aunt. She was cordially received in
the highest social circles, and soon became
a general favorite. She was highly
educated, spoke several languages, possessed
a rich soprano voice, and was a
skillful pianist.
Germans, parties and other festivities
were given in her honor, and upon every
occasion she was accompanied by her
aflianced husband, young Grove. Notwithstanding
the fact that her matrimonial
engagement was generally known,
she had many suitors. Her treatment of
them was ladylike, and when their attentions
became too ardent, she would
modestly take of! her engagement ring,
hand it to her admirer, and remark:
"Mr. , this will explain to you better
than words why I cannot hear further
from you on the present subject. Please
let us be good friends, but remember I
am the promised bride of another."
At the closing reception given by
Governor and Mrs. Groome at the State
house, Annapolis, Miss Henderson was
the acknolcdged belle, and was considered
not only the most beautiful, but the
most elegantlv dressed lady there.
A few evenings prior to her announced
intention to return to Chicago Miss Henderson
was a guest at a fashionable
gathering on Mount Vernon place. At
supper she indulged too freely in champagne,
and when the guests began to
leave the banquet room to return to the
parlor, Miss Henderson was discovered
to be unable to stand upon her feet.
She was removed to a room on an upper
floor, and restoratives given her without
any perceptible effect, and t?s a consequence
she was forced to remain at the
residence of the hostess all night. All
sorts of excuses were made for her nonappearance
in the parlor, yet the truth
it'na 1/nnn'n fn mnnv WVif>n Mis<a TInn
derson awoke the next morning, and
realized what had transpired, she was
inconsolable. It was several hours before
she ceased weeping, then she solemnly
declared never to touch another
glass of liquor of any kind under any
circumstances. She little knew how
hard it would be to keep her resolution,
as the sequel will prove.
After the above episode, Miss Henderson
did not appear again at a social
gathering here, but left rather hurriedly
for homb. In November, 1870, she was
married to Eugene Grove in this city,
and the newly-married couple entered
shortly alter upon the responsibilities of
housekeepers in a handsome dwelling on
Madison avenue, near Hoffman street.
Mr. and Mrs. Grove did not remain
in Baltimore but a few months, and then
went abroad. They returned from Europe
about a year ago. It was th n noticed
that youncr Grove was growing very
despondent, and that his young and
pretty wife was seldom seen outside her
house. The truth was not to be kept
long from the gossiping neighbors, and
the rumor prevailed that Mrs. Grove was
a slave to liquor, and that the taste had
been acquired during her dissipations
here in 1878. Her husband had noticed
her terrible cravings for wine, and his
visit abroad was for the purpose of avoiding
publicity. Mrs. Grove was often
seen at the window of her bedroom with
her hair dishevelled, her eyes bloodshot
and her appearance indicating the terrible
inroads made upon her personal appearance
by the excessive indulgence in
liquor. All efforts to keep it from her
were unavailing. She would frequently
go to the front door of her dwelling,
call in a small boy passing by, give him
an article of clothing belonging to her
husband, with instructions to sell it, buy
wine, and bring it to her. One day she
became so enraged at the refusal of a
neighbor's son to do her bidding that
she struck him a violent blow over the
head with a heavy cane, severely injuring
+ l.i/I
Daring all this time the young husband
had stood nobly by her, but her
conduct became so outrageous that it
was found necessary to place her in an
asylum, anil accordingly she was placcd
in charge of the sisters at St. Vincent's
Asylum for Invalids. Young Grove then
sold all his property here and went
abroad, lie has regularly remitted money
to pay all his wife's expenses, and has
given instructions to spare no expense to
insure her comfort and recovery. The
latter is impossible. About three months
ago her mind became affected, and a few
weeks later she was pronounced insane,
and her removal to Spring Grove Insane
iisylum decided upon. Although, of
course, she is a complete wreck, there
ire still traces of great beauty, and her
voice has lost none of its rich melody.
She is now about twenty-six years of age.
Her adopted parents have not been heard
From here since her marriage, and the
supposition is that they are cither dead
ar have disowned her, owing to their discovery
of her fondness for liquor.
A Live Fly Catcher.
"Of what earthly use is a toad?"' a natjralist
was asked.
"It is a very useful animal about the
liouse. There isn't a better fly catcher.
[ trained a toad once, and kept it in my
ooni. Its place was on the window
jcnch, and it was my diversion to sec it
iatch flies. If riflemen could aim as it
Joes with its tongue, they would be invincible.
Its aim is as unerring as its
jlancc. Its tongue a made so that it
:an shoot it out nearly two inches. It is
10 sharp that it spears a fly as upon the
joint of a needle, and it is done as <juick
is a man can wink. It requires very
jrcat attention to sec the operation/'
"IIow do they live in the winter?"
"Toads crawl into a crack in the earth
)r bury themselves in mud. There are
uimerous stories about the length of time
hey can live without food or air. Mr.
Auckland's experiments showed that they
:ould live two years, so that we must
:onclude the legends of the discovery in
he bowels of the earth of toads that
jossibly lived before Noah are misleadng.
They certainly get a modicum of
lir in their hiding places. There is no
rustworthy account of a live geological
oad. There are toads found in stones,
nit they arc merely housed up in a solid '
:oat of "sun-baked clay, which on the ex- | '
erior seems as hard as a stone, but i
vhich, in all probabitity, contains some
issure invisible to the naked eye, through
vhich it gets air and drink.
"The toad is occasionally found eonealcd
in a knot of a tree, where il has j '
teen encased in bark; but here, too, it is ,
nir If IviS I 1
tut UJIUll> IUtt\CU H | / iiuiii ???.. . w
he power of contracting its body and
welling it to twice its natural size. It 1
ertainfy cun live in a greater state of (
orpidity than almost any other animal,
nd, being l>orn a tadpole, it is likely to ' !
ie carried in the water to verj? extraor- | 1
linary places." I '
' Does it have any cry?"
"Yes; curiously enough, it has a cry 1
hat sounds like an infant screaming }
nder a pillow. Its utterance is strangely j
itiman, but it comes forth only when it j J
? injured or frightened."?Kan York I
lun. ! 1
? I f
In Morocco, when a thief is caught in j i
he most trivial offence, they politely re- I ^
nest him to hold up both hands. Then <
icy ask him what hand he would prefer , I
> have in his possession, and when he 1
as made his choice they cut off the ! <
ther. When a thief has thus lost both i s
ands. and also his feet, he loses his f
ead, and quits stealing. ?
SELECT SIFTINGS.
In Japan the sandals are left outside of
the house.
The sturgeon fishermen in Winnebago
lake use lines six miles long, and use 20,000
hooks on a line.
The guanaco of Patagonia is described
as having the head of a camel, the body
of a deer, wool of a sheep and the neigh
of a horse.
In Madagascar the crocodile is sacred,
and is seldom destroyed by the inhabitants,
although it frequently kills cattle
and human beings.
The register of Hyde Abbey, Winchester,
written in the reign of Canute, is
still in existence, and forms part of the
Ashburnham collection.
A cure has been discovered in South
A mAMt/tn ?< ??? AlnnltnnlinaSa Tf !a f A n<l f I
illlJUl lUtl 1U1 UIU j'iKlULltlOiO. X\> JO l/V \,?%v
the flesh of a turkey-buzzard?a bird, so
loathsome that starving people have been
known to refuse it when offered as a
dish.
A tenant in a house at the cast end of
London, that last refuge of poverty, recently
testified before a charitable committee
to having taken twenty-two thickuesses
of paper off the walls of a room,
preparatory to repapcring it.
The caju is a Brazilian fruit which has
some curious properties. The seed grows
outside the fruit, and is encased in a
pulpy covering filled with a very powerful
acid capable of blistering the skin.
When the seed is roasted it is edible, but
the smoke which arises from the roasting
irritates the skin, and, if it enters the
eye, destroys the sight.
HEALTH HINTS.
The Medical Summary recommcnds the
external use of buttermilk to ladies who
arc exposed to tan or freckles.
Spirits of camphor and starch applied
to a burn will extract the lire and give
speedy relief. The starch should be
kept moistened with the camphor.
Khigolinc spray is recommended in
the treatment of neuralgia, especially of
the portia duo of the seventh nerve. It
is said to give almost instantaneous relief,
and in some casc3 to effect a complete
cure. Its action is explained on
the supposition that the intense cold
effects a radical changc in the nutrition
Ul tnu xjvji v i;,
In one dozen cases of poisoning from
the bite of the rattlesnake, iodine proved
curative, given in one or two drop doses
of the tincture every hour, according to
the severity of the case. In one instance,
where the patient was swollen
terribly, mottled spots appearing over
the entire body, breathing with great
difficult}-, and apparently near death,
four drops of iodine were given every
hour, with entire recovery.
There is nothing new in saying that
lemon juice is good for malaria: or, in
other words, that it is useful to combat
intermittent fever by the victims of that
disease. A French iredical journal recommends
a decoction of the fresh lemon,
that is. a lemon cut. into slices and boiled
in a new earthen pot, making, practically,
a lemon tea. It is to be given four hours
before the fever, and is said to be as serviceable
as quinine, without having any
of its ill effects.?Dr. Fool J $ Health
Monthly.
Sufferings from lice Stings.
T. F. Iiead writes in the Bee Keepers
Magazine: One bright morning in the
latter part of last May, I arose early, as
was my habit, to attend to my bees, and
as I completed my inspection of them
my wife came to call me to breakfast.
As she approached, two bees flew in her
face and stung her; one on the right
nostril, about a quarter of an inch from
where it joins the face, and the other on
the upper lip, just at the base of her
nose. I extracted the stings immediately,
.inrl inv wife annlicd some moist earth.
thinking it would remove the inflammation,
and went into the house. While
my wife was washing her hands in the
kitchen, I irot some ammonia and rubbed
it on the wounds. After washi ig her
hands she proceeded to wipe them on
the roller towel, when she suddenly exclaimed,
"I feel faint!" I turned just in
time to catch her, as she was falling, and
carried her up to the sitting-room,
placing her in a sitting posture on the
sofa; I sat beside her. This was not
more than five minutes from the time
she was stung.
She said: "I feel so strange; my throat
is filling up. Oh, dear! it is getting so
dark!"' and then consciousness left her.
She fell heavily against me. I laid her
upon the sofa; her chest heaved violently,
her breathing was painfully labored, and
a blowing sound proceeded from her
lips, which were blue and swollen; her
eyelids and limbs twitched, and her face
was repulsively pale. I called the servant,
and bidding her sit by and render
every attention in her power, I ran for
the doctor: he was not up, so I left
word for him and returned home, where
I found my wife still unconscious.
The servant had ioosened her clothes
and was bathing her head. I found her
heart was beating, but feebly. It was
thirty minutes from the time I left the
house till the doctor arrived, and ray
wiffl ivjiq iuof. rprnvprinnr consciousness.
but was as helpless as a baby. She
could not speaic or raise her head,
or even her eyelids. After an hour
or so she could talk a little, and as
soon as she was fully conscious,
was taken violently sick at her stomach.
Iler.face did not begin to swell until two
hourf from the time she was stung, and
then it lost its proportions entirely.
My wife was not able to leave the sofa
that day, and it was a week before she
recovcied entirely from it.
I asked her what her sensations were.
She said when she was stung her whole
body seemed to tingle as with electricity,
which was succeeded by a languid feeling,
followed by a sensation as if her
heart was stopping its pulsation, and
then her lungs seemed to till and she
suffocated. I asked the doctor aljput it,
and he said the connection between the
nose and brain, by way of the nerves, is
very close, and that the shock was first
sent to the brain, and from there conveyed
to the heart and lungs. My wife
has never recovered from the shock, and
the buzzing of a large horse-fly terrifies
her. She says no words of hers can convey
the anguish she suffered iu her
struggle for life.
Romantic Character of Arabians.
The romantic character of the Arab
race is too well known to need more than
a passing allusion. The power of Mahammad
lay in a great measure in the
charm of his poetry; and the Anacreontic
bards of Arabia were famous among their
fellows long before Iiis time. The imagination
is excited by the wild landscape
of the desert in a manner which the
dweller in cultivated lands can little appreciate.
The fancy of the Arab peoples
the wilderness with ghostly and demoniac
forms; and the silence which oppresses
tlir. mi ml in stirh vast solitudes, where
the cry of the eagle or the bark of the
jackal is reechoed by the naked crags,
can only be known by those who havo
wandered alone in stick a region. Thus
the ghoul, the afreei, the ghostly wild
goat, under which form the demon appears
to the hunter, are creations of th?
imagination ever present to the Arab
mind. The tribes who love to tell the
wondrous stories of Zir and Jandabah,
the fables of Lokraan, and the songs of
Antar, are men of character very different
from the hopeless and timid peasants
of the Delta. The Koran appeals to their
immugination in a degree of which the
fellahin arc incapable; and its legends,
its fine poetic images, its oft-repeated
descriptions of paradise and of hell, its
claim to be a "reading made plain in the
Arab tongue'' to unlettered men by an
unlettered prophet, appeal to the Bedawi
of to-day, just as they appealed to his
ancestors twelve centurics ago.?lilarkicood.
Smuggling at New York.
' Tne professional smuggler," said a
New York custom house official to a Mail
iml Kv)>re?s reporter, is now almost ex
tinct. It is :i business that does not pay,
for getting stulT through the custom
liouse is not so easy as is imagined. In
the lirst place, honest- dealers assist the
jflicers in detecting the smuggler and
sometimes render most elTcctive aid. As
i rule \vc never have any trouble with
irofessionals. They quietly give up the
,'oods and hasten to tret out of the way.
[Jut the amateur smuggler! The novices,
,vho cannot see they arc doing any moral
ivrong, are the ones who bother us.
Threats for damages, listicuJTs and complete
annihilation are not infrequent.
1'hc goods most persons try to smuggic
hrough are diamonds, laces, silks, satins
ind velvets. The experienced eye of the
nspcctor is not often mistaken, and
vhen his eye fails him his fingers are very
|uick to discover irregular proceedings*,
t is not likely the practice will ever be
>roken up, but it is indulged in less tolay
than ever before, and will still be
topped to a much further extent. As
ar as the present year goes, let the smugglers
come on; we are ready for them."
THE KITCHEN CLOCK.
Knitting is the maid o' the kitchen, Milly,
Doing nothing, sits the chore-boy, Billy:
"Seconds reckoned,
Beconds reckonod;
Every minute,
Sixty in it.
Milly, Billy,
Billy, Milly,
Tick-tock, tock-tick,
Nick-knock, knock-nick,
Knockety-r>k, nickety-knock,"?
Goes the kitchen clock.
Closer to the fire is rosy Milly,
Every whit as close and cosey, Billy:
"Time's a-flying;
Worth your trying;
Pretty Milly?
Kiss her, Billy!
Milly, Billy,
Billy, Milly,'
Rick-tock, tock-tick,
Now?now, quick?quick!
Knockety-nick. nickety-knock,"
Goes the kitchen clock.
Something's happened; very red is Milly,
Billy boy is looking very silly;
"Pretty misses,
Plenty kisses;
Make it twenty,
Take a plenty,
Billy. Milly,
Milly, Billy,
Right-left, left-right,
That's right, all right,
Skippety-nick, rippety-knock,"?
Jumps the kitchen clock.
Night to night they're sitting, Milly, Billy!
Oh, the winter winds are wondrous chilly!
"Winter weather,
Close together;
Wouldn't tarry,
Better marry.
Milly, Billy,
Billy, Milly,
Two one, one-two,
Don't wait, 'twont do,
Knockerty-nick, nickerty-knock,"?
Goes the kitchen clock.
Winters two have gone, and where is Milly?
.Spring has come again and where is Billy'
''Give me credit,
For I cUd it;
Hw.o+ H.wlK
Mind you wind me.
Mr. Billy,
Mistress Milly,
My?Oh, Oh?my,
By-by, by-by,
Nickety-knock, cradle rock,"
Goes the kitchen clock.
?John Vance Cheney, in the Century.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Armed to the teeth?A dentist.
The woman question?May I order a
new bonnet?
The requisites for the best kind of a
"batter" can be ascertained by carefully
reading the baseball news.
Wilmington, N. G\, has a baseballist
whose name is Stitch. They hope he
will prove the Stitch in time that saves
nine. ? Yonkers Gazelle.
It was an unhappy flamingo,
Who said: "They have shot me, by jingo!
I must pick uj> my bits
As I gather my wits,
And evolve?where the deuce did my wing go i
?Harvard Lampoon.
A poem published in a Brooklyn papei
commences: "Come back, sweet memories."
Ah! yes; lei us think of those old
days when a 50-cent sun-bonnet was good
enough for any lady.?Philmlel]>Ma Call.
A blacksmith advertised for a helper
who "must be as quick as lightning."
The first man who applied for the situation
carelessly picked up a hot horseshoe,
and the blacksmith hired him al
once.
fir* vmi anrmnon m'filrn* mum:
T, MV VAV J
worms get on me?" asked a young mar
at a Sunday-school picnic. "I don't
know," replied the young lady who was
with him, "unless it is because worms
are so fond of green things."?Burling
ton Free Press.
A Western paper says that a wild
woman is running at large in the mountains
in Oregon. But whether her wildness
was caused by the relusal of a husband
to crown her with a $17 bonnet 01
the declination of her young man to helf
to shingle the roof of the village ice
crcam dealer does not appear. ?Statesman.
Acorn Bread.
The Indians scattered along the fool
hills of the Sierra are a quiet, inoffensive
people. They do not appear to be
governed by any tribal laws, yet adhere
to many of their old traditions. One 01
two men of superior ability and industry
from a nucleus around which others less
ambitious gather. Here they fence with
brush and logs a tract sufficient for theii
rnnuirpments of havmakim?. nasturaire.
etc. Although they often indulge in
the food of civilized nations, the acorn
is still a favorite article of diet in every
well-regulated wigwam. The process of
converting this bitter nut into bread is
curious. Under the branches of a grand
old pine I found them at work. They
had shucked and ground in the usual
manner a large mass of the acorn meats.
A number of circular vats had been hollowed
out of the black soil, much in the
shape of a punch bowl. Into these was
put the acorn pulp. At hand stood
several large clothes baskets liiled with
water, anil into tbese they dropped hot
stones, thus heating the water to the required
temperature. Upon the mass of
crushed bitterness they carefully ladled
the hot water, making it about the color
and consistency of cream. Not a speck
appeared to mix. A buxom muhala
stood by each vat, and with a small fir
bough stirred the mass, skilfully removing
any speck that floated upon the surface.
The soil gradually absorbed the
bitter waters, leaving a firm, white subtance,
of which they made bread.
I asked to taste it, at which they said
something in their language, and all
laughed. I asked again, and after more
laughter I was handed a small particle on
a lief leaf, and found it sweet and palatable.
Tliey began to remove it, and so
adroitly was this done that but a small
portion adhered to the soil. They spread
it upon the rocks, and in a short time it
was lit for use. This, I am told, they
mix with water, put it into thin cakes
and bake before the fire.?Sun Francisco
Chronicle.
Among the Cliickasnws.
A letter from the Indian Territory
says: The Chickasaws have no written
language of their own, but have adopted
Hiil L Ui IUU V^UUliaW Dy "llll.il U.U-3 lilt ilU"
man alphabet. The Old Testament
scriptures have been translated into Choctaw,
too, and including the second book
of Kings, and the translators are now engaged
in translating the book of Psalms.
The translation to the end of the Pentateuch
has been in print for several years,
and the translators are only waiting to
sec the. new revision of the Bible to send
the remainder of their unlinisbed work
to the printer. This they expect to da
by November, at the latest.
It will doubtless surprise many readers
to learn that the negroes greatly outnumber
the Indians in the Chickasaw nation.
The Cherokccs, Choctaws, Creeks,
Chickasaws, and Seminoles were ail
slave-holding tribes before the war, and
held a larger number of slaves than was
generally supposed. By the treaties
made with these tribes in ISliO,
the freedom of the negro was guaranteed
in each, and political equality
was to be conferred upon them
on certain conditions and for certain
considerations. The C'herokees refused
to acimit the frecdmen and the Delawarcs
*n ii sli!in? in flu> 000 iirmrrmrint-Jrm
made to the tribe by Congress last year.
This will lead to a complete examination
into the whole matter, and the
probable elevation of both to the full
and uni|iiestioncd right of complete
citizenship. The Choctaws have lately
conceded full citizenship rights to the
frccdmen in their nation. It is understood
that the Creeks have accorded the
rights of citizenship to negroes ever since
the war. The Chickasaws alone stand
out.
What Girls Eat at College.
To give an idea as to the quantity consumed
by such a large family, says the
New York Times, the following list of a
few of the leading articles furnished
Yassar during the past school year to
close is appended:
Fresh moat, 11>8 94,15s I Milk, quarts S6.591
Flour, lbs OS,600 | Kcga 92,000
Hotter, lbs 14,561 Canned vepetSuynr,
It>s 2S,lSt | tables, cans.... 5.917
Coffee, lbs 2,?3S I Bananas 28,s56
Caramels, lbs 4o5 | Oranges 21,102
Dried fruits, lbs 5,5461 Clams 36,200
Nuts, lbs 1,527 J I'ickles, bottles... 209
The largest item of expense was for
meat, $15,540.52, and the next largest,
$4,044.05 for milk. Hut if there is one
thing more than another that the average
Yasssar student yearns after, it is a
nicely browned pancake. Yassar's pancake
griddle is ten feet lon^ and three
feet wide, and 2,400 pancakes arc consumed
at breakfast.
Animals Tried In Court ^
The progress of the world from the j
crudeness of the past is, perhaps, in no (
particular made more manifest than in 1
legal proceedings. I do not refer to the j
"trial by ordeal," by poisoned water, or ,
by the duello?for which some apology i
may be found in the faith of the times
that the Deity is so regardful of the <
maintenance of the truth as to be willing <
at the demand of crisis to perform mira- J
cles in its behalf. We may pity such
credulity now; but a sense of theridicu- '
lous is awakened when we read that four
or live centuries ago, brute animals were
made subjects of legal process, and treated
by courts of justice as amenable to '<
sentence and judgment equally with ;
their biped owners. They were liable to
arrest ns responsible for mis./emeanors 1
and crimes, imprisoned and held for
trial. On set days they were arraigned,
1 - - ji
ft iormai muicruieni was rt*?u iu
hearing, and their cases pleaded by the
public prosecutor and a defending lawyer.
If the verdict were against.the animal,
sentence of death was passed upon
the culprit with all solemnity and executed
variously, the condemned being
sometimes clad as human beings. In the
ancient law books of Europe may be
read accounts of the trials of swine,
bulls, horseB and other beasts tor murder.
In those early days of jurisprudence
ecclesiastical courts held jurisdiction
over a certaiu class of cases, and their
decisions were no less absurd than those
of the civil courts. For example, rats,
as a race, were in one instance cited before
an ecclesiastical tribunal for destroying
the grain of a certain region. The
learne 1 counsel assigned for their defense
maintained that his clients desired
to emigrate from the country, but were
prevented by the multitude of cats lying
in wait for them; that necessity compelled
them to eat while they remained
and so the barley suffered. The decision
of the court was in their favor. In
two other countries the Spanish flies and
weevils were respectively prosecuted,
and their lawyers endeavored to forestall
condemnation by i etitioning that a distant
region might be assigned them, to
which they might be warned retiree
The case was pending so long in th.
"glorious uncertainties of the law" that
cold weather removed it from the court
by destroying the defendants before a
decision was reached. Do we here find
an explanation of a practice still
pnnHnnprl in this YAflr nf crmrp
1884, of warning rats on premises by a
writing to that effect laid in some of
their runs? Abbott mentions a casp in
Brazil of legal proceedings against a
swarm of ants, and even so late as the
settlement of Canada, turtle doves were
excommunicated for mischief. He partially
accounts for this seeming boys'
play and nonsense by the vague belief,
then floating in a benighted world, in
the transmigration of souls, which
claimed for the lower animals iWiar
treatment as was due to human:J)eii?gs,
lest injustice be unwittingly done to the
souls of poor wretches, once in human
form, which had been compelled to sojourn
for a time in bestial, and even
lower, shapes until their final disposal.
Strange as it may seem, this opinion was
held by Louis Bonard, a French gentleman
in New York, the disposition of
whose fortune by will on his death in
f 1871 was directed by his peculiar belief
to placing the Society for the Prevention
' of Cruelty to Animals on an independent
monetary footing.?Springfield Iicpubli1
cnn.
Tae Bursting Force of a Boiler.
' Few people conceive how powerful is
the force imprisoned in the interior of a
steam boiler when in active operation.
The steam gauge shows a pressure of per;
haps 100 pounds per square inch, and the
uninitiated spectator who works or walks
' carelessly beside the apparatus, may imi
agine that 100 pounds represents the
i force with which its fragments would be
propelled in case of an explosion. But
i the whole force of the live steam in a
boiler is equivalent to the urea of the internal
surface of the boiler multiplied by
[ the pressure per square inch.
Suppose, for example, the internal
. length of the boiler is 240 inches, and
. that the steam gauge shows a pressure of
100 pounds. A mathematical calculation
, shows that the total internal area of the
. boiler is 36,005 square inches, and hence
. the imprisoned agent is not 100 pounds,
but 30,005x100 pounds, or 3,605,000
{rounds. Think of that the next time you
icar of the employment of an incompetent
engineer to handle a boilfer whose
' explosion is liable to send half a dozen
! men to eternity! '
There are 20,000 oil-producing wells
in Pennsylvania, yielding at present 60,000
barrels of oil per day. It requires
> 5,000 miles of pipe line and 1,600 iron
1 tanks of an average capacity of 25,000
barrels each to transport and store the
oil and surplus stocks,
i ? ?
The name and title of Fortescue came
! from the conduct of the ancestor of the
house, who protected William I. with
1 his shield at Hastings, and thence acquired
the name Fort-escue, or strongshield.
- ? r- u i _ - ^
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
cures dyspepsia.
Silk is now grown in twenty of our States
A Remarkable Cure of Scrofula.
"William S. Baker, of Lewis, Vego county,
Ind., writes as follows: " My son wa* taken
with scrofula in the hip when only two years
old. We tried several physicians, but the
boy got no .relief from thiir treatment.
Noticing your Scovill's Sarsaparilla anl
Stillingia, or Blood and Liver Syrup, recsmmended
so highly, I b u?ht some of it of you
in the year 18ti2, and continue ! taking it till
the sores finally healed up. He is now twenty-one
years of age, and. bein^ satisfied that
your medicine did him so much good when he
used it, we want to try again in another case,
and write to you to got some more."
Life Preserver.
If you are losing tour grip on life,try ,rVVells'
Health Renewer. ' Goes direct to weak spots.
G'oinc. Gentle Spring,
and bring malaria, dyspepsia, biliousness,
torpidity of liver and a train of kind >1 maladies.
Fortunately Kidney-Wort is 5 hand.
It may be had of the nearest druggist and
will purify the system, correct the stomach
and DoweLs, stimulate the liver and kidneys
to healthy action, remove all poisonous
humors and make you feel like a new man.
As a spring medicine, tonic and blood purifier
it has no equal.
25 Cents
Will buy a Treatise on the Horse and Hra
Diseases Book of 100 pages, valuable to
every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken.
Sent postpaid. New York Horse Book Co.,
134 Leonard Stree^ New York city.
"Hough on Toothache."
Instant relief for neuralgia, toothache, faceache.
Ask_for"Rough on Toothache. "15&25c.
"Hough on Itch."
"Rough on Itch" cures humors, eruptions,
ring-worm,tetter,salt rheum, chilblains.
mi 1- 3 -i. J
iDOBUnpit) ttiiu percei;!/ uytsa. xiubiuug z*j
simple ana perfect for coloring as Diamond
Dyes. Far better and cheaper than any other
dye. 10c. Druggists sell them. Sample card
for 2c. stamp. Wells, Richardson & Co.,
Burlington, \_t
Pretty Women.
Ladies who would retain freshness and vivacity.
Try ''Wells' Health Renevver."
For a cold in the head, there is nothing bo
good as Piso's Remedy for Catarrh.
The cotton crop of Mississippi is put at
005,508 bales for 1884-85.
Secure from Scrofula
If you suffer from (liat terribly disagreeable ami
painful disease, scrofula, you will be cured if you
will tako Hood's Sarsaparilln. the great bloo
fier. Wo can give hundreds of testimonials as to pos- ]
iti ve cures of scrofula, some of them ca-ies givea up
as absolutely iucurabla Tako Hood's Sarsaparilla
and you will be secure from scrofula.
"I wasseverely afflicted with scrofula, and for over '
a year had two running sores on my nook. Took fivo i
bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla, and consider myself
cntlroly cured." C. E. Lovejoy, Lowell. Mass. '
Purify Y our Blood
"I have been troubled with scrofula a great deal, I
and was advised to use Hood's .Sarsaparilla. I have
now taken three bottles and have nearly eradicated
the scrofula from my system." W. A. Pekby, Bourne, ,
Mass. ,
"Three years ago scrofula broke out on my face,
head and ears so tliev worn one solid sore, my hair I
fell off. my sight ami hearing were impaired. I com
nieuct'U taKiiiKHood .^arsiii arilla. and in ono year
was entirely cured." Miw. Maky II. I'akkman, Dexter,
Mo.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Sold by all dniKpista. $1; six for $*>. Pr^i arnd only bj I
O. I* HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. |
IOO Dnsfls fins nnllnr
Horsemen ai
for
/W/25 ci
In stamps we will
postpaid, a very
^^/horse I
.^f^Syj/hescrlblnif the diseases apt tc
VrTC*yrgivinK the most approved reme
^^^for tellins: ape by the teeth, how lo
^^>ther information of great value to llor
/ \ HORSE BOOK PUB. CO.! 1341
.
There is ^t^nebefitTxilor for butter, and
;hat that is Wells, Richardson & Co. s Imjroved
Butter Color, no candid investigator
loubts. It is the best butter color in the
world: is free from sediment or impurity,
ilways read/ for instant use, and it imparts
lo butter that rich dandelion yellow, without
i tinge of red, which is the acme oC desirability
in any butter color. ,
It Stands to Reaaon
chat bp. oil devoid of all irritating properties,
that never becomes rancid, shouldmake an excellent
Hair Dressing. Such is Carboline made
Crom pure Petroleum. _All_druggists.
Advertising Cheats-It!
"II has become so common to begin an artlde
in an elegant, interesting etyla,
"Then run it into some advertisement that
we avoid all such,
"And simply call attention to the merits of
Hop Bitters in as plain, honest terms AM pos"To
induce people
"To give them one trial, wh2oh so proves
their value that they will never use anything
else."
"The Remedy so favorably noticed in all
the papers,
j 1.. i?
iveugiuus (uiu secium, 10
"Having a large sale, and is supplanting all
other medicines.
"There is no denying the virtues of the Hop
plant, and the proprietors of Hop Bitter* have
shown great shrewdness and ability * * *
"In compounding a medicine whose virtues
are so palpable to everyone's observation."
Did She Die?
"No!
"She lingered and suffered long, pininj
away all the time for years,"
"The doctors doing ner no good;"
"And at last was cured by this Hop Bitter.:
the papers say so much about."
"Inaeedl Indeed!"
"How thankful we should be for that medicine."
A Daughter's Misery.
"Eleven years our daughter suffered on a
bed of misery,
"From a complication of kidney, liver,rheumatic
trouble and Nervous debility.
"Under the care of the best physicians,
"Who gave her disease various names,
"But no relief,
"And now she is restored to us in good
health by as simple a remedy as Hop Bitters,
that we had shunned for years before using it"
?Thx Parents.
Father is Getting Well.
"My daughters say:
"How much better father is since he used
Hop Bitters." /
"He is getting well after his long suffering ;
from a disease declared incurable." -??
"And we are so glad that he used yoar Bitters."?A
Lady of Utica, N. Y.
t3T None genuine without a bunch of greeo
Hops on the white label. Shun all the vile,
poisonous stuff with "Hop" or "Hops" in
their name.
NYWU-29
Cataw r h t?aofcs5?ftjw
^ * peculiar Minptomi. Itfi
H|V%>I attenced by an Inflamed
"T 9 ~ condition of the lining
m^LRCAU DMW^Smembrane of tha netDn?",fvl
Hill, war-duct? and
mWtt*nZ*rH HPAnl An acrid mncnfta**WCv^O/
n 7^4/* mil creted, tb? disc buz* 1*
rHwFEVER?! ijsekss.iIS*
[fy ityS Tbere are ??T?r? ipuai
M- iJ V" /SB uf ! e?zing, freqaenl
K* / V\A/ attacks ol beadaob#.
'.rater/and i&fiamea
F53Mwi\C!0^q9/ Cream Bala is
^ remedjr foondad onm
liJVCcO ^ correct dUgnods of this
IsE^ZjisJ ass "Sr ? HAY-FEVER
siroplo'botSe tJ'mSii
10c. Ely Bbob., Druggists, Owsgo. N. 7.
HUDSON RIVER R. R.
Bondnctor Melius Sath Something of latef
est to All Travelers. . .
* PouoHKZxrsir, N. Y., Feb S3, VXL I
Or. D. Kennedy, Rondout, K. T.: i
Dxab 8a: I have used roar medicine called Sr.*
KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY, for Iodlfe*
don and Dizziness. to which I was subject at times.
u?d know from experience that is worthy ot all
ihat can be said of It for disorders of that kind.
Respectfully,
W. S. Mbmus,69 Harrison street
That Dr. DAVID KENNEDY'S FAVORITE
REMEDY is extensively used along the Use of the
Hudson River Railroad, ia shown by the following
'torn Tarry town. The writer is none other than
Mr. DeRevere, the Station Agent of the Hadsoa
River Railroad Company at Tarry to wn, a man wsfl
known In that community: ; ]
Tarbttowk, N. Y., Feb. 99,1884. j
Dr. D. Kennedy, Rondout, A. Y.: 1
Dxab Sra: For a long time I was troubled with
evere attacks of Duzintu and Blind Siei Headaches.
I thought It was doe to impure blood and a
disordered state of the system. I was advised to
try FAVORITE REMEDY. I did so, and bare
been completely cured. It's the best thing I ere?
heai d of for any disorder of that nature, and I've
recommended it to many with like success.
A DxRara*.
Dr. KENNEDY'S FAVORITE REMEDY Is not
confined In Its sphere of usefulness to one State or
locality, but is balled as a boon by hundreds la
every Bute. as the following letter'from MUlrde,
N. J., will show: ,
MnxvTLLi, N. J.
Dr. David Kennedy. Rondout, Ar. Y.:
Dear Sir- I had Wn a sufferer from Dyspepsia
from the time I was sixteen years old. I had consulted
various physiclana but could find no relief
hflrofftPA h*f\ ftlmrnt flrlvAn nn in f)ACT\A.{r of ATM
recoTsrWhealtb, when Dr. l&NNED^'S FAVORITE
REMEDY wa? recommended, which I trl?d
and bare been cured. It'* the best medicine I ere*
knew of, and worthy of the greatest confidence.
MB8. & C. Dopohmtt.
Wainul Leal Hair Keiurw.
^K|i7^PfnivMp
1% li entirely different from all others. and aa ttajuaa
Indicates Is a perfect Vegetablo Hair Restorer. It wfll
immediately free the head from all dandruff, restore gam
btir to its natural oolor. and produce a new ?*oirtfl
where It has fallen off. It does not affeot the health
which sulphur, ?ug*r of lead aud nitrate of (liver pregar bona
hare done. It will change light or faded hair in a
few days to a beautiful glossy brown. Ask your drontt
for It. Each bottle is warranted. Smith, Kline i Co-,
Wholesale A<|ts, Phila.. Pa., snd O.W.Onttenton.W.T.
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