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some find him soon,
rose in May,
|H^^R|^H^^R^Ke nightingale in June,
when gray
to some with smiling eyes,
comes with tears to some,
some Love sings, for some i/ove sighs.
For some Love's li{>s are dumb.
How will you come to me, fair Love?
Will you come soon or late?
With sad or smiling skies above,
By light of sun or moon'
Will you be sad, will you be sweet,
Sing, sigh. Love, or l>e dumb,
Will it l>e summer when we meet,
I Or autumn ere you come?
?Pakenham Bccitty.
OUR EXPERIMENT.
"I'm sick of it," said Kate, dashing a
m handful of hair-pins upon the table, and
W letting a big brown braid go tumbling
r down her back.
"So aiu I,"' said Beth.
"So ab I!" said Nannie, who was suffering
with a dreadful cold.
"What is it, girls?"' said I, turning my
book face down in my lap.
"It's the suppers," said Beth.
"It's the everlasting gossip," said Kate.
"It's so differed from hobe," said Nannie,
to whom boarding-house life was a
new experience.
"It's all three, and much more," was
what I wanted to say, but being the
oldest of the four, it seemed ray duty to
. make the best of things; so I said, quite
cheerfully, "I didn't sec anything unusual
about the supper to-night."
"That's the trouble," groaned Beth.
"It was altogether too usual. Iam so
tired of bread and butter and apple
sauce and dry cake that I feel like gnash^
ing ray teeth at the sight of them. 1
should like a slice of toast or a bowl of
bread and milk occasionally, without
being made to feel that I had disarranged
W- wk?lc internal economy of the house."
''The suppers are bad enough," said
Kate, but they are nothing to the gossip.
I'm tired of hearing it whispered round
| that 'Mr. Johnson and his wife had a
quarrel in their room last night,' or that
'Miss Robinson has worn three new
dresses this month,'or that'Mr. Jewett
came in ever so late the other night, and
it sounded as though he fell upstairs.'
Bah!" and Kate locked as scornful as a
round fuce with a dimple in it would
^ "i could staa everythig else,7' said
Xannie, "if it was odly hobe-like. Oh!
if I could odly sit dowd in a dead
kitched, with by feet in the stove oved,
ad see a bruided mat in frod of the stove
with a dice cat od it, I should be pcr,fegly
happy."
>Ve all' laughed at this idea of bliss,
but after thc laugh there was a sudden
y silence, for each one of us recalled sucn
' a kitten, and the presence that had made
it home-like.
We were not sisters, or even kin to
each other, but meeting as strangers .in
a city boarding-house, a strong friend
snip nau grown up ueiween us, stalling,
I thiuk, iu the fact that we were each
orphaned and had our living to earn, and
strengthened by many congenial tastes.
We were doing our dnUv '1-itic^ in rat hia
brave, cheerful * '* '
complaints, bur
a cloud. Outs'
lashing the
[
b
r?. .
more thi
?so we sit tliere quite still Tor
awhile Finally Beth spcivc: "I suppose
w light make these rooms look a
?>: little 1 leasanter. We each have a few
?Vi' ......1 , . . . ..
pictures aau KDiCKnacKS."
"Do you suppose I would hang my
few pictures against this awful paper ?"
said Kate. "Besides, what would be the
?> use ? Just as we got everything nicely
? - fixed, some man would want the room,
and we should be invited to go up higher.
I've boarded iu this house two
;; - 2 years, and iu that time I've advanced
He from the first floor ",>ack to the third floor
>?/ * front, and two moves more will take me
out on the roof."
"We bight go subwhere else," said
HH "Oh! you poor little innocent!"
Wtj; R laughed Beth. "You'd 'change the
place and keep the pain.' They're all
about alike."
gsH At this Nannie lifted such a woe-beprv
9 Sone *ace ^ something must be
* "Girla!" said I, in my most impressive
y- '-HeiS school-room manner.
m:W& But here there was an interruption, for
Nannie'left the rocking-chair and rushed
i toward the bed.
Bra Oh, Nannie !"cried Kate, "don't muss the
k?-'d; aard enough anyway." But
W"'<" B 8^e sP?^e too late, for under the comg.?
bined influence of homesickness and influenza,
Nannie had flung herself on tbe
bed in a forlorn little heap, and was lifting
up her voice in a hoarse cry.
}* " This was simply dreadful.
Beth and I purred over and cuddled
her, and Kate slipped downstairs and
i&t . coaxed the cross kitchen girl iuto making
abowi of sage tea. and by the time
^' she was back with it the invalid was
K- . somewhat comforted.
AVhen quiet was restored, I spoke
again. "Girls! let's go to housekeepBp'y
ing." Nannie stopped the bowl half
wav to her lius. Beth sat unrioht on the
KP ink, and Kate dropped the stick of
lod in her hand back into the box.
" Wnere's the furniture coming from?''
"Who'll pay the bills?" said Nannie.
"Who'll do fhe work?" said Beth,
10 was born south of Mason's and Dix"
We'll all do it," said I. answering
) last question first; "and as for the
nishing, that needn't cost so very
ich; and about the bills?Kate, how
ich do we all pay a week?"
"Four times five is twenty, and two
liars for washing makes twenty two,"
d Kfte, with bookkeeper promptness.
" Why," said Beth, beginning to be
y eager, "lots of families live on less than
that, and pay for everything out of it?
clothes and doctor's bills and cvery.
thing." .
Well, we talked till midnight, and the
more we talked, the more feasible the
scheme seemed, and it was decided that
we should commence tenement-hunting
the verv'next morning; and after Beth
and I had gone to our own room. Kate
came hurrying across to say she had
some spoons and forks which had been
her mother's, and that Nannie said she
knew how to make lovely waffles.
We expected a tedious time finding a
rent within our means; but it is aston
ishing how fortune helps those who try
to help themselves. That very week
a nice littk) scholar of Nannie's stopped
after school to say that her parents
were going to move out of the city.
We knew where she "lived?a pleasant
house in a respectable locality; so after
supper Kate and I hunted up the landlord,
the next day we went in a body
to inspect the place, and the bargain was
concluded.
Between that time and our departure
pi we bade fair to lose our reputation of
being the quietest boarders iu the house,
gj-/ for every night there was talking awl
laughing in one room or the other, while
we stitched and hemmed and figured?
, . this last the hardest of all.
Kate, with a confidence born of much
handling of money, made out a list in a 1
twinkling, which list was perfectly sat- J
M?>; isfactory to all of us?until we inquired
prices. One thing we were agreed upon,
&*: and that was, rigid economy, so we
cheapened this and left out that, until it
j4& " looked quit? reasonable.
; ; . Well, ine first day of December found
V" up in "our own hired house," and as Beth
turned the key in the hall door, we felt
that we had burned our ships behind us.
The outgoing tenants seemed to regard
Bgv our experiment in the light of a huge
8r joke, which they were willing to help
along, so they gave us a number of housekeeping
things, among others a braided
mat, and a half-dozen plants {.11 in blosKgpV
som, and sold us their raugc at a very
?Si- low Drice. Beside this, we had a couple
Icdsteads'with the furnishings, a few
les, our trunks, and a half-dozen
ring boxes of different sizes.
lie next fortnight was a busy one. We
early and went to bed late, and lived
)icnic fashion, while we painted and
ided, and planned. We were in a
s of mind where we wished for no
ce, much le3s help, from anybody
ide; but after jamming considerable
ier from the walls, and skin from our
:kles, we decire 1 there were times
i a man could b m:ide useful, and
Dannie's suggestion a certain young
itect from the boarding house was
a into our confidence, and did valserrice
in putting up shelves and
ie Friday night, with the last screw
e kitchen clock shelf, the work was
done, and I doubt if many brides, going f
Into houses luxuriantly appointed with- i
out care of theirs, feel half the satisfac- t
tion that we did in looking round on the
result of our ingenuity and hardwork. i
And it was a right cosy little place. There I
i was a good-sized si ting-room with two i
sleeping-roo'us opening from it, a kitchen
adjoining, a store-room, closets, etc.,and 1
as the house was on a corner, we had the
sun most of the day. <
Kate and Naunie painted the floor of i
thoir room soft gray, and covered their
dressing-table and wash-stand with blue ;
and drab chintz. The one window was i
draped with full curtains of uublcached !
cotton, trimmed and looped back, with
bands of the chintz, and a low cushioned
chair and ottoman were covered with the
same blue and drab covering.
A low painted bedstead and chest of i
drawers completed their furniture, and
strips of blue and gray carpeting before
Vin l.irrror niopoQ tnnk JlWflV ftDV SUSliicion
"'"fa" l'-~~ ., J !
of bareness.
The room Beth and I shared was precisely
similar, except that our floor was
painted a bright warm brown, and our
cretonne covers and bits of carpet were
scarlet and white. But it was on our
common sitting-room tliat we lavished
our greatest skill. The three windows
were curtained with full draperies of
cheese-cloth, over cream colored shades,
a big crimson bow at the top of cach
window where the draperies parted.
Nannie, who was not in the least aesthetic,
pleaded to have the whole lloor
covered, but as this meant twenty-five
yards of carpeting, sue was vorcu uown
on the score of economy as well as of art.
A wide margin was staiDed a
most delightful dead-leaf brown, and
nine yards of crimson and wood
colored carpet made a square large
enough to comc well out around the center
table. And the table?we saw it one
day in front' of an auction-room. The
top looked as though opposing forces had
fought across it, but the standard was
good and solid; so home it went, and
when it was covered with Beth's old
gray shawl dyed crimson, and the
student-lamp set over the darn in the
middle, the effect was all that could be
desired.
Then we had Beth's piano and the
plants, and nobody knows until she tries
it how far a piano and plants go toward
furnishing a room. We had a comtortable
lounge, bought "in the cloth," and
covered by our own hands, a big Shaker
rocking-chair, and two or three smaller
rockers and camp-chairs. The wall-paper
was subdued, and our few pictures
and brackets made quite a show, and
when we had scattered our books and
trinkets about the room, it was a decided
success.
"There, Nannie," said Kate, when we
reached the cozy kitchen on our tour of
inspection, "you can tuck your little feet
right into the oven, and feast your eyes
on the braided mat, and if the cat was
only here, you would have reached the
climax of earthly happiness."
The young architect looked inquiringly,
and Nannie's ideal of bliss was ex!
rviaJnwl tn him. He made no comments.
but looked at her with a peculiar ev |
presion in his lvm.' -irnc eyes, an J I fei
that the ?ial>i,: fho socicty was |
V- |
-c sit in" '
I
she said, turning on I
eproachfully, "I hope you are not )
; ^ t..g to spoil everything." But Nan- !
nie was busy tilling a saucer for the new '
comer, and made no answer.
T .-.Of no n.oll OQV hurl" fhslf RDOIT Jlfter. t
* u. . , ,
the young man came to rac in a very
straightforward way, made known his I
intentions in regard to Nannie, and
asked permission to visit her. That
night, while she was gone on an errand,
I laid the question before the otlicr
girls.
'I move," said Kate, who was rather
given to sounding phrases?"I move .s
that he be granted leave to withdraw." 1
"Oh, let him come!" said Beth, with s
true Southern obliviousness of consequences.
(
Well, he came, and came again, and 1
the little romance unfolded in a kindlier !
atmosphere than that of a boarding- 1
house parlor, and after a while 1 think J
we all rather enjoyed him, as he was a
high-minded, intelligent young fellow,
who conducted his wooing with very
little nonsense. Some evenings he ]
would come in with his drawing-board
under his arm, and establishing himself
at our kitchen table, put in his mar- ?
velously tine lines and figures, with
Nannie sitting beside him with her sewing,
making quite a Darby-and-Joan ^
picture. XYUirt: suiiiCLiiiicd OIIUUIV uvi uou
at him from the covert of the sitting- J
room, Dut she usually ended with "Bless
the children!''
But to turn from love to figures. IIow "
much did it cost? ^
Now, I do not expect to be believed
when I say that our entire furnishing,
from the small mirrors iu our bedrooms
to the big iron spoon in the pantry, cost
exactly ?128.03; nevertheless, that was
the exact total. It may seem more cred- ?
itable when it is understood that our :
dressing-tables, wash-stands, and otto- j
mans were packing-boxes, and that the '
inviting cushioned chairs were originally '
barrels. Of course our bedsteads were 1
not furnished with hair mattresses and '
rose blankets, but we had warm coverings,
and clean straw-filled ticks, which 1
were simply luxurious after boarding- 1
house mattresses
Our table, was not set forth with cut- J
glass and silver (except Kate's spoons :
and forkd), but it was clean, and the J
food wholesome and varied.
And about the cost of living? We *
elected Kate treasurer, and every Saturday
night each of us put five dollars and *
a half into a box kept for the purpose, (
and she paid for everything out of it. 1
"We questioned her often, during the first
- * i -u: i I
montn, now ine money was iiuiuiujj out,
but she made no satisfactory answer. ;
The first-day of January we each found 1
on our plate at supper the following no- fi
tice: "The first monthly meeting of the !!
Home Co-operative Society will be held *
this evening in the kitchen, as soon '
as the dishes arc done. A full attend- 8
ance is desired, to hear the report of the 11
treasurer." ' *
Every member was present, and the 8
treasurer read her report. After setting
forth at some length the origin and ob- c
ject of the society, she presented the ?
following figures:
In Accoust with Home Co-operative Society.
Dr. Cr. .
To Cash $t7.43 By ton coal $ 7.5 )
" (jroceriusi 22.00 t
" meat unci vege- t
tables 10.75
" milk 2 50
u lnhnr KvftMhiriir. f
ironing and .
cleaning)... O.i'O
" rent. in. 00
$72.75
" balaucconhand 5!4.08
$97.43 $37.4 i
""Which means,"1 said Kate," dropping
her official manner, "that we have had
all this good time, and den't owe a cent 1
for anything, and have six dollars and
seventeen cents apiece coming back to
u.s;" and she counted out four little piles 1
of money. <
"And coal in the bin, and food in the 1
larder," added Beth. ]
The next month we paid five dollars a i
week eaeh, and had a surplus, and after j
that, four dollars a week usually covered j
all expenses. <
"When we started, though wc asked no ]
advice, we had floods of it, and no end
of dismal predictions. "You'll quarrel,"
"You'll run in debt," "You'll find the
work too hard," "You'll get tired of it,"
and, most dreadful of all, "You'll be ,
talked about." j
"Well," said Kate, when this was ,
brought up, "if a good name in the past, (
and orderly living in the future won't ]
? ? ? ?? 1tKom foil- Thov mncf
CHlVe US, VVJUjr, tvi iuv.u? uuu. ,
talk about something, and while we are {
under discussion somebody else will es- s
cape." So that was disposed of. And ,
we did not run into debt, and wc did j
not quarrel. It would be too much to (
say that we never differed, but our dif- ^
ferenccs were never bitter. j
"We used to think sometimes that Beth t
shirked her share of the work, but she j
was the sweetest-tempered creaturc liv- j
ing, and always willing to makenmends. \
Then we had to hold a tight rein on ^
Kate, who was apt to want luxuries out (
of season, at exorbitant priccs; and I
was sometimes a trial about cooking, being
absent-minded, and apt to "burn
things up. As to Nannie, she was never I
anything but a comfort. We didn't keep s
her long, for one day, toward our first *
Thanksgiving, there was an unusual t
flutter in the house. We trimmed the e
rooms with flowers, and tied a white j ii
satin ribbon on The Climax; the minis-!
ter aad.a few friends came in and almost j '
before we knew it, Nannie and the young ' 1
irchitect had gone off together in a hack,
.vith The Climax wailing in a basket on
:hc front seat.
But this did not break up the society,
for another good friend stood ready to
ill the vacancy, and stepped promptly
in. And did we not -find the work too
hard? Well, sometimes it seemed a
bother, but, divided among four, it was
not oppressive; and if the larder got
jmpty, or other work pressed, we took
3ur dinners out for a day or two.
And we did not get tired of it, but
nftcr a three years' trial of the plan, arc
more and more satisfied, for it is
home. We leave it in the morning with
regret, and return to it gladly at night,
feeling that it is ours, that we are not
there on sufference, but by right. And
this sense of security and permanently encourage
us to add comforts and even
luxuries to our surroundings, and I think
you miijht hunt up and down the city
and not find a more contented and comfortable
set of people than the members
of the Home Co-operative society.?liar(icr's
B'izar.
The Y?ar Without a Sninmer.
The year 1810 was known thoughout
the United Siates and Europe as the
coldest ever experienced by any person
then living. Very few persons now
living can recollect it. June was the
coldest ever known in this latitude; frost
and ice were common. Almost every
green thing was killed, fruit nearly all
destroyed. Snow fell to the depth of
ten inches iu Vermont, seven in Maine,
three in the interior of New York, and
also in Massachusetts. There were a few
warm days. All classes looked for them
in that memorable cold summer sixtyeight
years ago. It was called a dry
season. But little rain fell. The wind
blew steadily from the north cold and
fierce. Mothers knit extra socks and mittens
for their children in the spring, and
woodpiles that usually disappeared during
the warm spell in front of the houses
were speedily built up again. Planting
and shivering were done together, and
the farmers who worked out their taxes
on the country* roads wore overcoats
and mittens. In a town iu Vermont a
flock of sheep belonging to a farmer had
been sent, as usual, to their pasture. On
June 17 a heavy snow fell; the cold was
intense, and the owner started away at
noon to look for his sheep. "Better
start the neighbors soon, wife," he said
in jest before leaving; "being in the
middle of June I may get lost in the
snow." Night came, the storm increaserl,
and he did not return. The next morning
the family sent out for help and
started in search. One after another of
the neighbors turned out to look for the
missing man. The snow had covered
up all tracks, and not until the end of
the third day did they find him on the
side of o hill, with both feet frozen, unable
to move. A farmer who had a large
^ n Toti'LrcTMirir Kill If. firn.Q
1JC1U VI tuiu 1U AVT?1?WU*J |
around it to ward off the frost; many an
evening he and his men. took turns
watching it. lie was rewarded with the
only crop of corn in the neighborhood
Considerable damage was done in Nc
' ms v.oiiseq''{nce of cii- un>;d r'
rv-r;
lossibh, .< the sum- .cT hioritiu waica
irccccdt-a it. Ice was formed lmif an
nch in thickness. Indian corn was so
rozen that the greater part was cut down
ind dried for fodder. Almost cveryjreen
thing was destroyed in this counrv
and in Europe. On the 30tli snow
'ell at Barnet, forty miles from London,
'apers received from England stated
'that it would be remembered by the
)resent generation that the year 1810
-vas a year iu which there was no sumncr."
Very little corn ripened in New
ingland and the Middle States; fanners
mpplied themselves from corn produced
n 181.) for seed in the spring of 1817. It
old at from $4 to $5 per bushel.
September furnished about two weeks
>f the mildest weather of the season.
Soon after the middle, it became cold
ind frosty; ice formed a quarter of an
nch in thickness. October produced
norc than its share of cold _wcathcr;
rost and ice were common. The suinner
and autumn of 1810, cold, rainy,
ind ungeuial throughout Europe, were
jeculiarly so in France. Constant rains
ell during the months of July, August,
md September. But for an abundant
lotato crop, famine, with all its horrors,
vould have been her lot. The minister
>f the interior established granaries
hroughouf. the kingdom, where corn
vas sold to the destitute at a reduced
irice. Prices rose, however, to more
ban double, and hundreds perished of
ictual want. November was cold and
clustering; snow fell so as to make good
sleighing. December was mild and comort
a ble. ?Boston Transcript.
The Cowboy's Favorite (inn.
I dropped into a large store on El Paso
street, which enjoy3 the reputation of
selling more arms than any other house
n the city, writes a correspondent of the
>t. Louis Globe-Democrat. While inspecting
the glittering array of pistols of
ill kinds which filled half a dozen show:ases,
a young fellow of about twentyhree
entered. He was dressed in approved
frontier style, sombrero it would
ake three days to walk around the rim>f,
white handkerchief tied loosely round
lie neck, blue shirt, pants stuck in his
joots, and large Mexican spurs upon his
molo iinrrlinnr n? Via Tin wished i
*VV4U> j?"v MV
:o buy a "gun." In the expressiveness
ind laconic tongue of the frontier a
'gun" is a revolver: a rifle is called by
he name of the maker; and the weapon
)f the sportsnwn, uncurtailed of its fair
iroportioiis, is known as a shotgun.
Selecting from the case a handsomely
nounted Colt's forty-live calibre rcvoler,
the clerk said: ''How would you
ike this? It is the newest thing out?
idouble-action forty-five." "Ain't worth
t row of beans. No man 'cept he is a
enderfoot wauls that kind of thing.
Jive me old reliable all the time. You
ec a man that's used to the old style is
ipt to get fooled?not pull her off in
ime?and then he'll be laid out colder'n
t wedge."
He was handed a single-action Colt's
?f the same model, which, after carefully
ixamining, he proceeded to cock and
ire, twirling the pistol around his foreinger
and pressing the trigger the monent
the butt camo into palm of his
land. After some little 4,kick" about
he price the weapon was paid for and
he customer left the store.
"There arc few men," observed the
:lerk, ns his customer left, "that can do
hat trick. I have been ten years on the
Southwest frontier, among the worst
tlasses, and don't know more nor half a
lozen. 'Hill the Kid' could do it; so
an Pat Garret, former sheriif of Lin:oln
county; so can Dan Tucker, deputy
rwi.r nil)
>111 I III vi
it best of the lot, and that's Low lie
tilled Sheriff White at Tombstone.
"How was that?"
"Well, you see Curly Bill was trying
?o paint the town red, and White heard
){ it, and going up to him, covered him
ivith his six-shooter, and told him lie
iiad got to give up his ?jun. Bill handed
!he fjun out butt first, but kept his finger
inside the guard, and as the sheriff
reached for it he gave it that twist you've
seen, turned her loose, and the sheriff
passed in his checks."
The Jumping1 Bean.
Mr. Fred. Frclinghuysen, son of Sec etary
Frclinghuysen, possesses a numjer
of Mexican jumping beans, which he
procured from the United States agricultural
department. According to Mr.
^mlinrvlinvDon timer* anrnhntift hponfl nrA
,'ery rare. They are certainly considered
i great currosity by all those who have
see them, and no one yet has explained
.vhat they are. Each pod contains three
iernels. Each segment is rounded on
)ne side and A shaped on the other,
jreenish yellow in color, and in circumference
about the size of a silver thrce:ent
piece. When placed on a table
hey roll over and skip about, sometimes
umging a couple of inches. "When held
>etween the thumb and forefinger
hey are lelt to beat as strongly as the
hrobbing of a strong man's pulse.
Old man Pettigrew, of Austin, is very
irecise in his statements, and is also a
trict constructionist. One morning a
leitfhbor rushed in on Pettigrew, while
he latter was eating his breakfast, and
xclaimed excitedly: "Your house
3 on fire." "Sir?" "Your house is
turning up." "You are wrong sir."
'Wrong?" "Yes, sir, this is not my
louse. I only rent it."?Texas S if tings. I
FORTUNES WON AND LOST.
WHAT A NOTED GAMBLES SATS |
ABOUT PL ATI H" Q.
( amblcrM \cvcr Fitted for Anything j
EImc?(iaiiiblliig; Endk in Di??tpa> ,
lion.
Quite earl}- yesterday morning a rather
young-looking man of about thirty-five (
entered the Hoffman honse and greeted ]
those present with a pleasant good-morn .
ing. lie was dressed in a neat-fitting !
suit of some light material, and appeared (
as bright as a new gold dollar. He ]
chatted pleasantly a few moments with ,
those about him, and then went to breakfust.
This man was Billy Dcutsch, at one
time the manager of Booth's theatre, '
and Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence.
Billy Deutsch is quite a celebrated |
man in his way. He was known, and is ]
yet, as a mighty gambler. He has gained
a certain kind of fame as a noted bacea- 1
rat bank breaker, and mentioned in Paris j
as ''The King of Baccarat." He is almost
six feet tall, and wears a black mus- '
tache.
After breakfast Mr. Deutsch indulged
in conversation. Of course, gambling '
was mentioned. In his long experience "
i xl i
he ha<l come to tne conclusion mm muse
who touch cards or gamble arc almost
lost. However intelligent a player was,
after he had won a few times he was unfitted
lor anything else but the life of a
gambler.
He stated that bis favorite game was
baccarat, at which he had lost over$.j00,000,
which result all could expect if they
continued to follow the game. On one
occasion, being out$)0,000 on the game,
he bet $20,000 on the turn of a card and
won.
The title "The King of Baccarat" was
bestowed on him in Paris. Some time
ago, for twentv-cight days in succession,
he won $340,000. The smallest he won
during that time was $:i,G00, and the
largest $02,000 in one nicht. He had
often made bets of $0,000, and other
lame amounts. In playing he always remnfiio
nnrl novnr lnsnshis head.
Mr. Deutsch played thirty games of
cards and M on $1,000 on Foxliall when ]
he won the Grand Prix de Paris. Mr. (
Deutsch claims that he is not a profcs- .
sional gambler, and only played for (
pastime. {
His experience had taught him that a ]
mJn who wins money on cards simply ,
squanders and dissipates it. He also ,
forms habits which unfit him for any le- j
gitimatc business. Gambling was the ]
cause of a majority of suicides. t
Gambling in London was not allowed f
as it was in Paris. In France every ope ,
plays, from the highest to the lowest. (
Gambling there is looked upon as a pastime,
and not as a vice.
Mr. Deutsch stated in conclusion that
he had sworn never to touch cards again,
and would go into the brokerage or the- ,
atrical business, probably the theatrical, j
?New York Truth.
" ken in London. <
0
m every " public house " 01 ' ^.n
pulacc," and in every one you pass you c
can see women'drinking. F
Sometimes there may be otrly a few, e
and sometimes they form a large share a
ol the crowd. You will often sec re- a
spectably dressed women, apparently f
well-to-do, walking openly into these j1
places, and evidently thinking nothing ^
of it. They may be goimr in merely for ]?
a glass of beer, but their "less prosperous 11
sisters are more likely to be taking gin.
Walking through Drury lane or some A
other squalid street at midnight of a Saturrlnv
nif*ht vou see a snectacle of n
wretchedness an J vice that is fairly dis- H
heartening. The street swarms with s
dirty, half-naked children and gossiping, v
tipsy women, some of whom not even 1
gray hairs will keep from cursing, quarrel- t
ing and fighting. Whether the presence j]
of the bar-maid behind the counter en- I
courages the women to come in and drink c
or whether she is put there to encourage the j
men to come in, or simply because her d
labor is cheaper than a man'*, ia a prob- a
1cm. She is there to stay, apparently, v
and seems to be regarded as one of the c
established institutions of the country, j
It is the custom to. speak of her as the a
"pretty barmaid." Perhaps this was p
true of the first generation of barmaids, t
but it is not easy t- "?nd the justification d
for it now. The barmaid of the period t
has a business-like, resolute look, as if J
she could exercise the functions of an c
American "bouncer" on occasion, but I
those we happened to see were certainly f
not beautiful. The one making most s
pretentions to prettiness was a modest- c
looking girl in the foyer of the handsome a
new Empire theatre. She tried to open I
a bottle of soda water for us. The cork t
was obstinate. "When she put the bottle i
between her knees ancl began to tug with a
all her strength, I confess that my v
American instincts overcame. I took I
the bottle away from her and pulled the J
cork myself. Probably this was a very I
ridiculous thing to do. Sir Lepel Grif- s
fin says the degree of defference paid to I
women in Amcrica is absurd or some- \
thing of that sort. An American (from e
Wisconsin) told an Englishman, with g
some Western intensity, that in America a
the man who put a woman behind the i
bar to sell his whisky would be lynched n
by the men who drank it. The English- i
man seemed very much amused. i
? s
Swordsmen of the Deep. s
Imagine whales fencing with one ?
another for amusement!
It seems as if such a thing could not 11
be; and yet there are whales of a certain e
species which not only fcnce with one 0
another, but use their teeth for swords. s
It is the narwhal that fences. One of 1
the teeth of the male narwhal always
grows through the upper lip and stands 8
out like a spear, straight in front of the r
animal. ?
It seems as if all the material that t
should have gone to fill the narwahl's e
mouth with teeth had gone to the one "
tooth that grows out through the lip; for 0
^ *1-?
sometimes uii.-j luuin is itci luu^.
The animal itself, from head to tail, is
seldom more than sixteen feet in length.
Of what use such an enormous tooth c
is to the narwhal no one knows. Some s
persons say it is used for spearing fish; j
others, that its use is to stir up the mud ,
in the bottom of the ocean in order to y
scare out the fish that may be hiding j
there; and one man says the tooth is for
the purpose of breaking holes in the ice '
in winter; for the narwhal, like all t
whales, is obliged to come to the surface 0
at intervals to breathe. 1
Whatever the tooth is intended to be s
used for, it is certain that when the nar- (
whal wishes to play it finds another nar- a
whal of a like mind, and away they s
charge at each other till the long tooth- f
swords clash together.
They nre active ns well as frolicsome. <
and sailors tell of seeing them crossing j
ewn-rls in tliis wnv. thriistiiifr und nnrrv
ing, and rolling and darting about with ^
marvelous agility and grace. j
The narwhal is light gray in color, and v
covered with black spots. For a great g
many reasons it is valued by the Green- g
landers. It furnishes a very fine quality c
of oil, its ilesh is used for food, and its t
skin, made into a jelly, and called mattnk, (
is considered a dainty too choice for t
ordinary occasions. s
This "swordsman of the deep," as I j
have callcd him, is a warm-blooded ani- ^
mal, and must not be confoundud with 8
the saw-fish or sword-fish, both of which
are entirely different from the narwhal.?
John li. Coryell, in St. Nicholas.
The Cost of Royalty. ?
As a sample of what royalty costs the 1<
-/ ^ ~i _
people Ol ureuw duiuiu uiuuu, nun.ai\u i v
tjives the following annuities to the royul a
family: k
Her Majesty? ii
Privy purso ? 60,000 a
Salaries of household 131,SCO i.
Expenses of household 172,500
Royai bounty, etc 13,500
Unappropriated 8,540 C
?385,000 b
Prince of Wales ?40,000
Priucess of Wales 10 000
Crown Princess of Prussia 8,000
Duko of Edinburgh 25,000
Princess Christian of SchleswigHolstein
0,000
Princess Louise (Marchioness of
Lorae) 6,000 n
Duke of Comiaught 25,000 n
Duke of Albany 25,000 s
Duke of Cambridge 0,000 n
Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz? 3,000 .
Duke of Cambridge 12,000 11
Duchess of Teck 5,000 a
im d
The diver is the man who weights for tl
the tide. ?New York Journal.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A plan for lessening the violence of
storms has been submitted to the French
Academy of Sciences by M. Minard, who
proposes to use a great number of lightning
rods elevated on telegraph posts
and conncctcd with the iron tracks of
railways.
Mineral wool is used for packing to
deaden the sound between floors in
buildings, and being incombustible it is
now pretty generally used between the
floors and ceilings in new houses. Mineral
wool is obtained from the slag from
blast furnaces, and is produced by
throwing a jet of steam against the stream
Df slag as it flows from the furnace.
Experiments have been made at one of
the large collieries in England with compressed
lime for bringing down coal from
the ledercs. Holes are bored into the
vein of coal, filled in with compressed |
lime and rubbish and then water is
forced in. which causes the charge to expand
and bring down great masses os
the fuel in solid lumps. The experiments
arc said to have been highly satisfactory.
The reign of Charles II. of England
ivas a great era in science. Sir Isaac
Newton discovered the wondrous law
.hat holds the sun and planets in their
arbits; Ilalley commenced his learned investigation
of tides, comets, and the
earth's magnetism; Hoyle improved the
iir pump and studied by its aid the properties
of the atmosphere: Ilobbes and
Locke discoursed of the human mind, its
laws and relations to matter.
When pure platinum is as soft as silver,
but by the addition of iridium it becomcs
?hc hardest of metals. The great difti
^ulty in manipulating platinum 13 us ex:essive
resistance to neat. A temperatcre
tKat will make steel run like water
ind melt down fire clay has absolutely no
jffect upon it. You may put a piece of
platinum wire not thicker than human
tiair into a blast furnace where ingots of
iteel are melting down all around it and
:hc bit of wire will come out as absolutely
unchanged as if it had been in an icejox
all the time.
It is said that an clectric hand lamp
lasbecn invented, the illuminating prin;iple
of which is generated by some simile
chemicals that are redicuously
;heap and easily manipulated. A little
sliding drawer at the bottom of the lamp
holds the electric spark in the solution,
A'hile, by simple touching a button, a
nagnificent light is developed or ex;inguished,
as the case may be. This
amp does not specially differ in appearmce
from the ordinary kerosene affair,
ind can be used in the same way, but
vith a complete absence of trouble, odor
>r danger.
WTUT.TH HINTS.
Do not imagine you need medicine if
>ou feel a little sick. Tuke a rest. In
nany cases a good bath and a few hours
ilecp are all that is necessary.
A cucumber, in lieu of ice, is cut in
slices and laid upon the heads of *<" "
"*? ? in England. The efF'*
. atcful and refres
clief of eara'li
roform in a 1"
lgh the stem
I
Is. ,p ,
* Commence ,
Superfluous ha. v>*ud sue- 1
essfully and pei ? oy using a
aste composed of water and any prop- ]
rly prepared depilatory powder, such as |
re put up by all of the leading chemists ]
nd pharmacists. Allow the paste to
umain on for two minutes then remove ]
t, and the hair and its follicles will have ;
icen completely destroyed. Pepilatory i
iowders are very injurious, however, if ;
mproperly prepared.?Health and Ilome i
A ti4t/wnA TAIL-h CH11 TTn/ilinn(?nH 1
LU II lll(|UU X V IIU UVAAA V U ViiHittj vmi
Why, I saw houses in Nuremburg that '
re not a day more than a hundred and '
fty years old! I was shocked by the
ight of a dozen, at least, plate glass 1
andows. There is gas in Nuremburg.
'hev have street cars there. Some of
he city wall has been torn down to let '
ti more of the nineteenth century.
5ut hardly a sight or sound within the
ircuit of Rothenburg breaks in upon
our midiievnl dream. The narrow,
iingy streetsare lighted ?so far as lighted
t all?by lanterns. Those aro hung Oil 1
rires stretched across the street, and are
Irawn in by pulleys nt one side to be re>lenished.
Street-rail or gas-lamn there
re none. The town is hugged comiletely
around with turrcted gates. And i
he towers, ns they throw their arms tenlerly
about their charge, look back to
tid defiance to all modern institutions.
Lt some points, the very water in the
aoat still sleeps in venerable stagnation.
^.s your omniDus rattles unaer mice or
our successive arches into the silent
treets, the lingering echoes of
iur new era die away behind,
,nd you drop four or five centuries from
luman history. You wander through
he little city (of not more than 6,500
inhabitants) wherever your feet incline,
md pass hundreds of houses, any one of
vhich, like a certain old domicile in
few London. Ct., or one in Medford,
ilass., would be the chief "lion"' of an
American town. Most of them were
tandiug before the Pilgrim fathers left
Tolland?many of them before America
vas discovered. With their steep, towring,
red-tiled roofs, their sculptured
gateways and corner turrets for defense,
,nd gloomy court-yards, they look down
n lordly compassion on your freshness
nd your upstart nation beyond the sea.
lour after hour I roam the streets,, lookng
in vain for a modern house. Every
freet is paved throughout, with not a
idewalk to be seen. The primitive simrmA
nnfm-nlnnoo fArt nf Pftf.H
IllUltjr UUU U?bUiuiilV00| vwj Vi vitv a.v.M
nbergers, are charming. About every
nan you meet recognizes you as a strangr,
and feeling that the town owes you a
ourtesy, touches his hat with a cordial
mile. Not a bad example for some of
is Americans. It must be granted that
he odor of antiquity in some of the bytreets
is slightly too strong for the most
oraantic. But one can pardon that and
ven overlook the torture chamber, under
ho Rathhaus (of which the present genration
is innocent) in consideration of
.11 the wierd fascination of the quaint
ild town.?Prof. C. B. Wilcox.
Center of Eurthqnake Trouble.
rTLM..ML ^awwiKIA nopfKniiaVoo
JLIIUU^U ?UIUU IU1UUIU vui viiipwuvw
iccur in Europe and Asia, South America
eems to be the center of trouble. In
812 the city of Caracas, in Venezuela,
vns destroyed in three shocks, each of
ihich did not occupy twenty seconds,
n 1859 the city of Callao was also comilctely
demolished, this being the second
ime. The first time a wave came in from
he sea one hundred feet high, and without
warning burst upon the city. In
822 an earthquake produced some
trange changes in tho Andes. Mounains
were leveled, others were raised,
nd a tract of land one thousand miles
quare was bodily elevated about seven
eet.
It has been learned from old records
hat the destruction of Hcrculnncmn and
|ompeii was nearly accomplished by an
arthquake sixteen years before the ashes
f Vesuvius covcred them from sight.
Jiblical records tells us that earthquakes
_
vure tun jii oyrm m iiiij uiiiu ui ;vuuu,
i00 15.0., and nlso in the reign of Uzziali,
100 li. C. In Josephus there is mention
>f an earthquake that desolated judea at
he time of the battle of Actium, HI H.
destroying oyer 10,000 people. Anioch
has been visited by some terrible
cencs. The worst visitation was in 520, ,
L I)., when over 200,000 persons were
lestroyed. Sixty years later auother
hock destroyed 60,000 more.
How They Fall.
The womau who steps on a banana i
eel will be down in a heap and up again :
rith a faint little shriek before anybody <
mows anything about it. while the man "
nil fall the length of the whole block, i
e noiinl witvinrr both hands in the air
;icking with both feet, plunging, throw- <
ng hat and umbrella into space, howling
t every jump, until, breathless aud ex- i
lausted, he caroms on an ash barrel at
he end ot the run and rings down the i
urtnin by rolling downstairs into a bar- i
ier shop.?Bob Bunlette.
? ]
Absinthe Drinking. <
The amount of absinthe drinking which ]
iikcs place at Marseilles, France, is ab- 1
ormal. The great street is the Rue Can- '
abiere. which is the boulevard Mont- <
lartrc of Paris raised in intensity. The 1
hady side is an almost unbroken series ]
f cafes, and from early morning until <
itc at night usually the tables in front
re occupied by Marscillais, with a little
ecanter full of syrup of gum,and two or ; i
tirce bottles containing absinthe, from I *
rhich they help themselves. J <
i BUCKEYE JESSE JAMES.
.. \
THE 8T0BT 07 A. BOSBBB VOW XV
JAIL.
Robber and ITIurtlerer, Then a Respected
Ohio Merchant, and Afterward
a Robber Again.
In a letter from Ilillsboro, Ohio, to the
New York Sun, the history of ft notorious
criminal is given as follows: Frank
Messmer, a young man serving a ten
years' term in the penitentiary for robbery,
has been pardoned. Messmer waa
the pal of Bob Mclvimmie, the Jesse
James of Southern Ohio. Since Messmer
has been out of jail he has made many
disclosures, which, with the known history
of McKimmie, make up a t .!e equal
to those told of the Younger and James
criminals. McKimmie was born thirty
years ago near Hainsboro. lie began
stealing when a schoolboy, and at fourteen
joined the regular army at Columbus.
He went, to fight Indians, and de
sertecj in two years, xie ucuamc u iuau |
agent in Utah, and with companions
robbed and murdered stage passengers
and express agents. lie, with others,
was captured and sentenced to fifteen
years in the Mormon penitentiary. In
nine months he escaped with Jack Williamson,
a fellow convict. The cuard
was killed to effect the escape. From
Utah McKimmie went to the Black llills.
In February, 1877, he robbed the Cheyenne
stage. He had organized a gang of
five cut-throats who robbed the mail, express
and passengers. In March, the
gang attempted to rob another stage, and
McKimmie killed Johnny Slaughter, the
driver. The horses ran away, and the
eleven pasgeugers escaped. Later, at the
Cheyenne crossing, the same gang robbed
three coaches, and soon had over $20,000.
A woman dressed in boy's clothes
followed McKimmie in his depredations,
and overheard his comradcs plotting to
kill and rob him. She warned him, and
McKimmie, with one companion, tooK
the entire booty and went to Texas.
From Texa*, McKimmie came to
Hillsboro in September, 1877. He was
well dressed, had abundance of money,
and said he had been successful in cattle
herding in Texas. Ho became a peaceful
citizen of Rainsboro, and married
Clara Ferguson, an orphan girl, against
her uncle's wish. McKimmie bought a
store and was soon a merchant in good
standing.
A few months later, M. F. Leach, of
Ogalla, Mo., enme here after a Union
Pacific train-robber. He had suspected
McKimmie, but was mistaken, as the
latter had come here the month before
the robbery in question. Leach afterward
met Detective Bullock, of. Deadwood,
and told him about McKimmie's
new start in life. Bullock knew the
robber from experience, and hud been
trying to trace him for some time. He
came here at once and visited McKimmie's
store. Getting him outside he arrested
McKimmie on charges of robbery
and murder. McKimmie's lawyers got
him out of jail in an hour *
immediate!' -ei'Tested. '
,.anu . |
nere foi He
11 hn ad arrange ?? bring DcIx.
tivc>, into a certain Chillicothe
saloon tliut he might see him for future
recognition. He saw the detective
through a knothole. He then went to
Virginia, met his wife in Richmond, and
lived with her in Raleigh, Charles,
ton, Savannah, and at Nassau, N.
P. There he became bankrupt and
was imprisoned forty-one days for a
board debt. He worked his way to
New York, leaving his wife at Nassau,
Coming to Ohio he failed to get money
from his lawyers,and plotted with Messmer
to rob a farmer named Roads, living
near here. They got eighty dollars
from Roads. With this money the bandit
went baok to his wife, and came
bcre again is October, and planned to rob
the Bainbridge bank with New York
Charley,another noted robber.
Meanwhile Messmer hnd been sentenced
to ten years' imprisonment for
robbery. With other pals McKimmie remained
in the country, and jobbed two
rich old maids in Pike county. Then he
went to New York, intending to go for
bis wife at Nassau. He came back, as
the ship would not sail for some time,
and HVeU 4n-ati old cabin aL Rains)mm?
It had been, abandoned for years, and
neighbors wore surprised one morning
to se? a curl of blue smoke ascend from
the old atone chimney. The word was
given out that McKimmie was there, and
a posse of men found him there ready for
a fight. He resisted arrest until shot
twice. Efforts were mado to lynch him,
but he was taken to the Hillsboro jail,
"V-nt,d nininnnfl Thn Wvnminrr
uuaiut'u uuu jiiitivMfvt. amv *i j 0
Ruthoritie3 attempted to get him, but he
was tried for robbery on several indictments,
and got a joint term of fifteen
years. His conduct in State prison has
been good, and he hopes to get out
through a pardon before his term ends.
If he does, the "Wyoming detectives will
be on the watch and take him to Deadwood
to be tried for murder and robbery.
He has threatened to kill Bullock and
many other enemies if he ever gets out.
Changes Going On in China.
The Chinaman is clannish and conservative.
But he is remarkably free from
prejudice, religious or patriotic, especialy
in matters of tangible interest. He has a
natural objection to alter his clothes, unlike
the Japanese, for they suit him better
than any other. But he has no objection
to purchasing the articlc which he
judges to bo the cheapest and the best,
wherever it may come from. He is very
sensible in his economy, and if he prefers
the home-made article, it is because he
finds it cheaper and more enduring. Native
patterns of cloth, both woolen and
cotton, if scrupulously imitated, will find
buyers if laid down cheaper than the native
article. Though the Chinese arc
conservative, foreign articles are creeping
into use. Clocks, watches, matches,
lamns. red blankets, are now seen not
only everywhere in the seaport towns nnd I
near the coast, but far inland.
The Chinese, contrary to general
opinion, have been found to appreciate
in a wonderful degree the value of the
rapid transmission by wire. The telegraph
is being carried from north to
south, and from east to west, along the
Yangize and Canton rivers. A line is
working in Formosa. Begun with such
vigor, there is reason to believe that the
network will rapidly spread over the
land. The telephone and electric light
have made their way into China. Although
the first railroad constructed in
China, from Shanghai to "Woosung,
opened and closed in 1876, was not approved
by the government?the line
being bought and removed to the shores
of Formosa, where it now lies?the steam
engine is at work. This is on a line to
the Kaiping coal mines, a distance of six
miles and a half, constructed by Liilung-Chang.
Machinery has been in
troduced not only at tun lvuipin^ minus,
but elsewhere. The ?uperstitions regarding
shafts dug through the earth,
the " dragon's veins," are giving way.
Mines arc being promoted by the Chinese
in various parts, but with great rashness,
the fact that mines are utterly useless
without communication not having been
grasped. Gas has long been in use
at Shanghai. The flotilla of thirty
steamers, with a tonnage of some
:!0,000 tons, started by the China
Merchants' company, has not been a
pecuniary success as yet, mainly owing,
however, to maladministration during
the late speculative crisis. Insurance
companies are at work at Hong Kong
and Shanghai, doing an important and
increasing business. In military matters
while the late Franco-Chinese difficulty
has clearly shown the imperfect condi?:?
fi,? rtiinnsii forces, important
UUU V/I iliw vu??w? 1 k
changes have been effected. The most
important have been the arming bodies
of men with the breech-loader, the drilling
of Li's force, the establishment of
dockyards,the introduction of torpedoes.
Krupp guns, transports, and gun-boats
on the European models. The fact that
the military organization is still wretched
iind the administration corrupt does not
vitiate the fart of progress having been
made. The native press has made considerable
strides. Commenced in 1803
ti,n .<7d/ii. Pnn thnrn are now some
Imlf-dozen papers in China. Their influence
is considerable and is extending
rapidly. As a proof of their enterprise
it may be mentioned that the Shun-Pao
sent a "special correspondent" to Tonjuin
to follow the operations, though he
fery wisely thought discretion the better
part of valor nnd declined to land on his
irrival at Haiphong.?London Times.
An observer says most of the ccntcna(
ians in America are from Ireland,
.hough there an* many among the col
jred people.
J
I knowed a man, which he lived in Jone^,
Which Jones is a county of red liillg ifrui
stones,
And lie Uved pretty mnoh by gettin, of loaiis.
And his mules were nuthin' but skin ?M
bones,
And his hogB was flat as his corn-bread ponds,
And he had 'bout a thousand acre* of
land
This man?which his name it was also JonesHe
swore that he'd leave them old red hiUs
and stones1
Fur he couldn't make jiuthin' but yeUerish
cotton. ,
And little o' thot, and hisfences was rotten,
And what little corn ho had, hit waj
boughten, r. j
And danged if a liviu1 was in liie land.
And the longer ho swore the madder lie got,
And he rizand ho walked to the stable lot;
And ho hollared to Tom to come thar and
hitch,
For to emigrate somewhar what laud was
rich,
And to quit raisin' cockburs, thistles aud
sich,
And a waistin' their time on the cussod
land.
So him and Tom they hitched lip the mnlc3,
Pertestiu' that folks was mighty big fools
That 'ud stay in Georgy their lifetime out.
Just scratchin' a livin' when aji ot *>;n?
nought
VJCL|iiauD in XUAUA, >ru<ii uuufcuu WOUul RpiuUL
"y tho time you could plant ia thb fitttdg
And he driv by a house whar a man namedj
Brown
Was a livin' not far from tho edge/ftf town,
And he bantered Brown for to buy his plaos
And said that boin' as money was akace, '
And bein' as sheriffs was hard o' face . 1
Two dollars and acre would git the landiSThey
closed at a dollar and fifty cents,
And Jonee ho bought him a wagin arid tents,
And loaded his corn and his* wiuunin and
truck,
And moved to Texas, which it tuck v "
His entire pile, with the best 'o luck.
To git thar and git him a little land. '1
But Brown moved out on the old Jones farm
And he rolled up his breeches and bared his
arm,
And he picked all the rocks from ofTn tho
groun',
And he rooted it up and plowed it down; !
Then he plowed his corn and his wheat in
the land.
Five years glid by, and Brown, one day
(Which he'd got so fat that he wouldn't
weigh),
"Was a settin down, sorter lazily,
To the bulliest dinner you ever see,
"When one o' the children jumped on his knee,
And says: "Yan's Jones, which you
bought his land."
I And thar was Jones, standing out at the
fence,
\nd h? V-'ln't ^o wp<rin. v ~
to
.>?111' hot,
xisself and the flow
. sliarp and riz and swore
men's land wns rich or poor,
. as more in the maa than thar was
in the land."
?Sidney Lanier, in Southern Cultivator.
HUMOB OF THE DAY.
The butcher who trusts loses flesh.?
Boston Post.
Babies know nothing of politics, yet
they are fond of crow.?Puck.
A door is sometimes a jar and an earthquake
always is.?Loicell Courier.
"The work of reclaiming the Potomac
flats is rapidly going on," so says an
exchange. "This must be pleasant
reading for "Washington dudes.?Burlington
Free Press.
A boarding-house cook has been'5
awarded $450 for the invention of a
new and improved chicken soup. Perhans
the improvement consists of put
ting in some chicken.?Derrick.
"At great heighta, dogs lose tlieir
power of barking." It is ft fine scheme,
then, to keep your dog in the garret,
or tie him up to the swaying limb of a
tall and lonely tree.?Hawfoye.
SHE AND ME.
She held him fast in her soft white arms
And kissed him warm with a yearning
bug,
For she was a girl of tliff Ttp|jcr ten,'
And he?well, he was a dogoned pug.
?Mcrchant-Travelcr.
Maud?"Isn't this a queer title for a
book, mother: 'Not Like Other Girls ?'
I wonder what she can be if she is not
like other girls?" Mother?"I don't
know, unless she goes into the kitchen
and helps her mother instead of staying
in the parlor to read novels."? Life.
A horrible example: A Parisian doc-'
tor precribed for a lady who had objec
tions against growing stout: "Take.exercise,
my dear lady. Consider the trees
of the field; they never take exercise,
and as a consequencc thev go on growing
bigger and bigger every year."?Boston
Journal.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
The bread eaten at' table in Tnrin is
a yard long and in eighth of au inch in
diameter, of a pipe stem form, very crisp,
and exceedingly palatable. It is called
"grissiui," after the doctor who invented
it on hygienic, principles.
The business of monarchy promotes
longevity. Witness the ages of the following
rulers: The emperor of Germany
is eighty-seven; the king of the Netherlands,
sixty-seven; the king of Denmark,'
sixty-six, and Queen Victoria, sixty-five.
/it i, i?~
Viiuruii uuna 11u1u a uaiuuiuiu iwuuuij
[ are in demand in England. Already
China, West Africa, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland,
the West Indies and parts of
South America have drawn upon the
same establishment for its silver-toned
bells.
In 18G0 we imported half the woolen
goods consumed in cloth and in wool.
Now we produce about four-fifths of the
consumption, and the small proportion
imported is largely carpet wools of too
low a grade for civilized agriculture to
produce.
A great plague, called the "black ,
death," beginning on the plains of Western
Asia, swept over Europe during the
years 1348-1351, destroying probably onethird
of the whole population. This, by
diminishing the number of people, doubled
the price of labor.
In Alabama is a China tree ten feet in
circumference. Its top was torn away
by a storm; but six feet up the trunk
two more trees have taken root and
grown up as high as the old tree is.
Half way up the trunk of the original
tree a peach tree stands out.
It is said that no watch will keep the
s.imn time with two ueoole. This is ow
ing to the temperature of the wearer,
anil it is claimed that even the mere
physical difference in gait and movement
between different people will-affect
the time-keeping of a watch, which is
probably also affected in some degree by
the magnetism of the wearer.
The origin of the trade dollar is thus
explained. The Chinese are paid for their
tea mainly in silver. In 18~:i the United
States coined Uo.uOO.OOO of the trade
dollars for use in India. Previously the
Mexican dollar had practically monopolized
the field. The American dollar
was heavier and possessed more intrinsic
value, but it was found that for some
mysterious reason the Chinese merchants
preferred the Mexican to the American
coin, a fact probably due to their hered:tary
dislike of novelties, and now 110 |
trade dollars are shipped to China. The
The Chinese heard some years ago, that
our government intended to redeem
these dollars at par, and being shrewd
enough to see an opportunity lor speculation,
they hoarded the coins and sent j
them to this country. At all cveuts, I
they are said to have disappeared in J
China as well as in this country.
A Circus Elephant in a Rage. _
Cole's huge elephant Sampson severed ;
his chains at Ilailey, Idaho, and started I
to pulv'erizc his keeper, who made a j
hasty retreat. A cage of lions stood in !
the way of the infuriated animal, which I
he picked up and hurled to one side, j
killing two horses. The fircus people '
called on the crowd to shoot the monster,
and a lively tiring began, but without
appreciable effect. Finally a party of
men succeeded in roping the beast and
he W;:s quieted. Thirty bullet holes
were found in his hide. The damage
done by him amounted to $10,000.
Adolphus?"Why is it, don't you
know, that all the young fellahs sit
dowu on me so?" Mary Jane?"1 don't
know, Dolly, unless it is that they like
a soft scat."?Boston Transcript.
^ C?rn(ii.s ,irn of very inciciitusc in/^^
I East, hut were nolknown in EurdqfflW
cfjtmtfics until comparatively rcjfct
times. U?eu up to the time _of Qyn
Elizabeth, whe.n there was such prc*#il
richness in personal adornment, foe
nouses of the wealthy, in England, ifere
scantily furnished and lacked of
the simplest appliances for healthijnd
comfort, The tloors of beaten and J^rdcned
earth were often covered vritaApi!^
ing warmer than a layer of matted/i/aw,
an<i none of the early chronicled hake
mention of caq~;ets.
infinite toil would not enable you to
sweep away a mist, but by ascej'dinj? a
little you may ofteh look ovcij ft altogether.
So it is with our moral improvement;
we wrestle fiercely wit h jfvicioua
babit which would have no iioi<jupon us
if we ascended into a higherBoral atmosphere.
j;
- In the midst of all the efcitement
concerning it, the north poll remains
perfectly cooL?Blizzard. f
f'It Knock* the 9p?tf r
and everything in the nifcure cf eruption?,
blotches, punpies, ulcers, scrofa'fos hnmors,
and incipient consumption, whlcj is nothing
more nor less than scrofula of twangs, completely
out of the system. It subulate* and
invigorates the lirrr, tones up Joe stomach,
regulates tho bowels, purifies ug blood, ana
up the weak places of tiujhodv. It is a
purely vegetable compound, an# wfll do more
than is clairnod for It. We retef-o D* Pierce's
"Golden Medical PiacoTery." |
Gsbiuxt expends 180,000 a/nually for the
maintenance of experimental prcat stations.
LydiaE. Wnkham's Vegetable Compound
;a to be had at the nearest dn/r store for a dollar.
It is not claimcd that bos remedy will
cure ev&rv HI?a?k/i nnii?r thi mm. bat that it
does all that it claims to ,do, thousands of
good women know and declare.
The New York horso cars last year Ml tad
! twenty-four persons and injured eighty-nine.
L-- 'AsGoodaaNew,''
lar.Uho words used by a lady, who was at one
wM given np by the most eminent physicians,
^and left to die. Reduced to a mere skeleton,
pale and haggard, not able to leave her bed,
from cil those distreesisg diseases peculiar to
Suffering females, such as displacements, leu1
lorrJIoea. inflammation, etc., etc. She began
taking Dr. Pierce's "Fsrorite Prescription,"
iodrnlso using the local treatments recommended
by Lira, and is now, she say?, "aa
Rood as new." irice reduced to one dollar.
By druggists.
iNlMT. hwlq hftfnor f/ninri in NVvjlHa
i 25 Cent*
vir, bay A TBXATISK ONTHJC HOBSS AJTD HIS
tostASM Book of 100 pages, valuable to
Srw^oatpaid. ^EWYOMB^RSI BOOK CO.,
1|4 ^eooard Street, New York city.,
ffgyyefof^tho incin^4- ?
wlmt>w
mnontly cure
wlujut the use
stfcsifor pamj\
p^dan L
'^overed, *.
metal rescarcii, a rwnie*iy io>- <?of tiie j
tnwit, cnest an>i iun?^, wmon was 01 sucn
woiierful efficacy thnt { . soon gained a wide
repletion in this country. The name of the
mediineisDr. TVm. Hall's Balsam for the
Lung, and may be safely relied on as a
rpctfy and positive cure for ooughs, coldi
ior* frroat, eta
:? "Ronah on Pain."
Cires colic, cramps, diarrhoea; externally
for tyhss, pains, sprains, headache, neuralgia,
rheumatism. For man or beast. a5 and 50c.
_. Toon* Men !-Read TbU
Thj- Volt aid Bki.t Co.,c? Marshall*
Mich., offer to send their celebrated EueciBO*
Vol?no Belt and other Euronuo Appu,u?cnuwn
trial for thirty days, to man (young
or oW> afflicted with net0kms debility, loss of
Titalicyand raafihood.andall kindred troubles.
Also Mrtraunalasm, neuralgia,paralysis, and
many ?iASr diabases. Complete restoration
to health, vigi*.&ndmachooa guaranteed No
risk is blurred as thirty days trial is allowed.
Write than ?t once for illustrated pomp&let
'Itonffk ob Fain" Plaitw*
Porota tnd strengthening, improved. tha
best for br.ckacho, pains In chest or side, rheumatism,
Qjuralgin. 25c. DraggaOof xnaiL
Uw lie.ft flatter Color.
Thegreatunaxiimity with which dairymen of
high re^ut-stion have adapted, In preference
IAI CUX YMJ4?I?- ?JW, mo XIUUIVIOU JL/UbK.? WW* I
made by Walls, Richardson &C^.,of BariiMton.
Vfc, is rtenarfcable. It. show* that the
chuma of Imitative colors are baseless; wiae
dairymen *k Jl nse do other.
<^ldrc^U?^Svelo^^n^anyr?ar?Tray
and dajjfejfo ue ''Welb'^^^mewflr."
H?y$Wvr a aty]>eof catarrh ha-riaff pewiuu
uvjn^trtoa it is attended by an inn&uied
conditio of tho linine membrane cf
the nostrils, tatf-ducts and throat, affecting
, the lungs. An acrid mucus is secreted, the.
discharge is ac^mpHofcd with a burning ?osation.
There June suvere spasms of sneezing,
frequent atta^i of hcadache, watery and inMifll
(' fAHtVt Ufllm ID n twwiH
founded ou a oOTect diagnosis of this disease,
and can Ui depe uied upon. CO eta. at drag*
gists; 60 crs. by iyail. Sample bottle by mail
60 cte. Ely Bnti j Dmggiatg, Owego, H. Y.
A baldhcaded icon, who has heard'that the
hairs of a man'; tend are numbered, wante to
know if there ia xat some place where hfi can
obtain the back mumbers. Carboline will
supply tho demand
_____ i
Headache.fever chills, malaria, dyspepsia,
cured by "wells' Health. Rcnewar." |L
Nebraska ho? nearly 250,000 acres of
planted forests in jjod condition.
100 Doset One Dollar
Can be applied trctbfullyto Hood'i Sorttpadlla oalr,
andlttoaaunanBWtmblo.nd eoarisdng MiaxMBtu
to the strength and nti economy of thia great modletoe.
Hood'sSaraaparillais mcfi) of roots, herbs, btrka, etc..
Ion* and itrmbly known f* thtir power ia sriB?au2fc
dltaaae from tho cjitom and pnxl&faw blood
Restored to Health
"During the tnmm?r I bare beemdtftewhat
debilitated or run down. 1 tare takes Hood*' SawaDinlla.
which b?v? me n?w lift and zadtt?da? to tnj
wont6>l health ud H. OLOUOH,
Tilton, V. H. llsT
Given an & >ttte
"Wilhin a week after SimpvtUt my
pprtite began to improvo, inj^B\o hit ma, my
strength wjtmfld to be rcae-.v.^HL Jk bcttar in
very part of my body. I rejolcff^Srf think of the
good Hoo-J'e Sartip.-uilU has diA me."?OKtnrJBi L.
Babbitt, Syracuse, n. T, w
Hood's Sarseparilla
SoMbyalldr .'KKuts. 91:alzfor$l. Preparad only fay
0.1. HOOD A CO.. Apothecaries, Lowell, Haas.
100 Poses One Dollar.
ie spy tite rebellion
by allan pinkerton,
Who was Cuief of the 0, S. S?cret Bwvkse.
il T''
W^Z~Agents
Wanted for our Mow Book,
Tl:? 4i.S PA'" i? now selling by the Trnt o/JTiovtcrutit
Noc>>m:>t<iiitop. Uloar territory. Only nook of Kalaatl,
Tho '4y I* V" rwTeslsmanrjr th? MuaMt before
in.tiii!?hwi, 'iiiri'iiu^ DArratirea o( PlSKp.Toa'*
SPIES, //.'>: nettyed tit' action t q/ our ffjari .'(<??<>?; a
graphic 11" ouct of the oonnplrftc/ to aMarjiWo Lincoln.
t'erilooa pip.irion-osot oor RUBRALbltii ic
the Kot>(>: C'splt*!; thtlr forlorn hope* aaa heroio
bravfo fuiijrri-miintedui tbaM ririd ?ketebos;?Uriie
mont flirllMnjr n?r hook ever publlubn. Eadora.nl
br l.undr.iin of Press ulAcmia' taatmlaWla.
A laiv.v handrume book; 6<)0 pagta; CO illustrate Varefold
only by fttir A rent a. Uaa not Iwfoand
In bo-'l'Stoius. Snlla to merchants, farmers, mojianlcs
and 'V- rjlotiy. We iwnt one agent in e*?iy Urand
Army I'-ct and In o?ery county is the U. 8. SSr fnll
particular.- and medal trrmt to agent.' nddreaa i
O. W ('ARLETONAOO., Publisher!. .WTork.
Thin ulvi!i'.i-?ement will appoar butonoe?cnt it out.
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Chemist The iculinic runpalgu b->oki of 1334. Qutadlali
othe-f !0f> l. 19"Kth tlioiisand in press. Esch vol., 000
parr i. ft.50. 50 lier'Mit.jn Ajreou. ucm: rrrt. rrt-.fjna
pairi. / ARcnta 'ain $in to ti.f a day. Now t? the i.'me to
make mt'uc? f?if Send !c Kxtra Ttrna, at one*. fc>
fljurrroku pobaibhlw cc., lUrt&ni,
Ajjcin* Wanted tot tbo Best and Kn?ti-?t jelling
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cent. J?a-:o><? PPBUBHisa Co. Pbilndelph'^. Pa.
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I aii wccmnirrdWy'
Cr-am BaItq to alt I?aj- I
IwWFAM RM.V1 tl Fc!rr nffoww.H bel3RHlC^*
il (PQVU* il! ay founded
B POsplfrri'M 7Z IN J "P-rtence ?d ?
? ,n HEAnl 5 ocur*'lwM aflU?t^
2rjwf*fc.K??JWwr /or |
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<5TiflB8 dyer before found p*r I
,v~ fifca 'r'ut,nt relief. ? Web- J
jjjjwf A>r H. Hnkiat, Mirth i
i:rean> Biilm ii j
K'"Hiy fonuded on a
WV&S; ^ ll.SJl, [ brnct diagnoiJi of thij ;
gp^/p?1 py .?!?? ""d c#c be ?ie. !
ffl?? ???-I* pnovi upon. out;* at
droKmia: set. by mnl!. Sawyh Iv.ltle hy moil, Iflo
EL* Bjv: . ?Jruss:?;i Owc?o.T. Y.
PATENTS! ITS ^?8 XtfP&i
i-'itri ob'iiifn-'rt- Writ?iorISV rTTO:t (j (iUinn. (
Nervous Debility UruUf'Ct./, |
fJFSSEBOTaBElJb
CURtS WHE8I ALL LSC FAILS. C3
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Tie to time. SofiMrucifnti. t?f i
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h?d_b.-* *i 0-Vcn up by 13 b tt qytggrp
Ui?iM VL WVPoreraux, Mechanic, IoniA?l?p?
J your nerves weak?..?
"Bc? /ort cw*J ma from ner?og? yn*)Bjm
to.,alter 1 ?ms not fxj/ccted to Ut*. ?JU* ~ *B;
GoodYis, Xd. ChrUtiCM Monitor. CtoT?l#nd,<X T*
Have von Blight's Diseaajg
"KldnBT-wort ca-?<i ? when MT w?e*r w#?
uto Sffi ?*
Suffering' from Diabetes?
"Kidney-Wort fathomost mcccMftil
?rtr uwd.
Have you Liver Coinplain*g
nwy.^rtciyd mo of chronio Lirerw*?|
To womtn who ?ufler from aajr ?1 tt i
Kb to their MX it i* aa ^nfaillsrmHr Aif
Drny?i4j.^a4or-'^gy Dti
CONST! PiKWml
' "I nrirewd from Paralysis of tb? Boir*!tJt&&L! w
Jomptsict I Anally urfed DR. DAVJl>KBBDi5!DYH"
fAVOKITE R[iMEDy\sn4Ln my OfitatMflftsTed :
ay life. Yonrs, etc. A. JVX^ro^tp.0
Mr. Olflord is tmbtier VccfentiSf ng&irafi
IItWoij of the rtwfl A Lowtii his
line-* and rt-mvrryxn kaovrji to ?ibt,
ore cm ior oar vwawnmu
l>?ccr?lr^: TnM H seu
LADY flGEMTSSffiSS1!
igtaM
GaanntMd jxWtirdr no*
ad thoroughly flrst-cU?t is
er?ry particular. Warrant' "
i-d f :r 5 yrs. C*u h* r.'Wrnoii i ill ?M8 BMW
*t oureimoM if not ** repr-u
point*." E^ 'toV"" Jj^lS'TS
Nicholson'* Imprc.voJ j-V-r
onlr nuro. eurind mUMn dorii-?u?n-l :r. iSHHB
Bsropa aod Arawlea. Write for free lHrinjS^nEiS
tive book to J. H.??ichwI?on, 7 .Marta?
t?o?. H>nj!? *adt'M^^ndMtoifa treat.
CI jta So Coleman BimIdcm CtflUh
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n ~ ^ to Sokiiars A H?!rm. tli?|ilil?i?iii '
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ClUrarek (N. T.) Co'le**.?$30 & ;var
Every Farmer and Ilorscm&i^/a
nbould own a book descriptive M
cl the Horse, and the Diseases H
to v-hich the noble auimal ig
liable, that sickness may bo recognv.ed
in lis inrinitney and H
relief promptly aiTcd-l. Oral* TB MB
book slnuM bo iifj li^adg ol $ 8 H
every Hors^ o'vuer. us the knowl- nB
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wee u contains may be *ortfc|S - H
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mom. If you want to know alt
abc.it your Hone, how to Teli
bis Age, how to Shot: him,
send SWc, in ntaiups, and Yectt$Y%.
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