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BREAD ON THE WATERS.
A poor vine-flower that clung unto
A small and fragile wayside weed.
Shook out a drop of crystal dew
That there might live a starving seed.
The years sped on?a double scoro
Had sailed into oblivion's sea?
When lo! an hundred vines or more.
Climb up a strong anil giant tree.
?E. G. Blandey.
CLOUD ON THE HONEYMOON.
OOMEDY IN ONE ACT.
CHARACTERS:
%r.. \fu<2 t?ir-ii \ t>n Pvn.
Hilt* AlttlAnw X Li'i/bn, iui>o. A ,
dek, John", a Waiter.
Scene,
A private parlor in a hotel in the White
Mountains, French window at back, opening
on piazza, shows views ot Mount Washington
in the distance. Door to sleeping
room. Right. Door to corridor of hotel.
Left. Usual furniture of parlor, with
table set for breakfast.
John (discovered looking at bill of
fare, whicli has been marked). Broiled
trout, spring chicken, ham omelet. Umi
He's getting particular about his food.
That's a sign they've been married more
than a week. If he stays out the honeymoon
here he'll swear at the cook. They
all do. The cook's a kind of safetyvalve
that lets out the steam when the
matrimonial kettle gets too hot. Well,
I'll order the stuff.
[Goes left.
Enter Mr. Pedtler from door R.
. Mr. P. Any letters this morning,
John?
John. I'll ask, sir.
Mr. P. Thank you. And breakfast
as soon as possible.
John. Won't be ten minutes, sir.
[Goes out.
Mr. P. (walkingabout.) How hungry
I am. Couldn't eat much of that supper
last night. Perhaps the head cook
doesn't condescend to look after the late
meals. Hope my wife won't keep me
waiting for breakfast. ' 'My wife'' sounds
well, doesn't it? Gives a inau a sense of
dignity and comfort to have a wife. And
she's such a darling, is Ellen! If it
weren't for thinking of poor little Lulu,
there wouldn't he the faintest cloud on
my happiness.
Enter John, with letter.
John?Only one letter, sir, for you,
sir.
[Mr. P. takes letter; John goes out.]
Mr. P. (sitting, looks at letter.) From
Geonre. He promised to write soon.
What's he got to say? [Reads. J "Dear
Dick?Hope the honeymoon is proving
all that that the poets describe it to be."
[Speaks.) You can just bet it is, old
boy. [Reads.] "The city is beastly
du*U; nothing decent at the theatres, and
nearly all tlic nice girls are out of town."
; '. [Speaks. J And I've got the nicest here.
[Reads.] "I must except the Tomliusons,
on whom I called yesterday to fulfill
my promise to you to see how Lulu
was getting on." | Speaks. J Dear old
Lulu! [Reads. J "I saw only Miss Tomlinson
and Lulu. 3Iiss Tomlinson inquired
kindly after you, and Lulu was
very anecuonaie in ner greeting. x uui
little thing! it does seem hard you had
to give her up." [Speaks.] It was
tough! [Reads.] "Perhaps Mrs. Pedder's
prejudices may not prove so strong
as you think, and you may yet all three
be good friends. Having duly reported,
1 don't th:nk there's any more to tell you.
May join Vaughan on his yacht. He has
written to me twice. With kindest regards
to the bride, yours, George Hammand."
Mr. P. (folding up letter). "One can
always rely on George. Glad he's seen
Lulu. Better not let my wife see this.
She wouldn't like what he says about
*her prejudices. | Puts letter in pocket. J j
I hear her dress rustling.
(Enter Mrs. Pedder in pretty morning
dress.)
Mrs. P. Here I am, dear.
Mr. P. And very charming you look,
too.
Mrs. P. (turning round so that he can
see all the dress.) I thought you would
like it. Isn't the looping back of the
skirt pretty? I haven't kept you waiting,
have I?
Mr. P. No; he hasn't brought breakfast,
yet.
Enter John with breakfast things,including
wifli cnfrit lomn litrlit**) Mr flnrl
Mrs. P. sit and t^gin eating."
Mr. P. This trout is dried up too
much.
Mrs. P* I'm sure, Dick dear, I don't
cee anything the matter with it.
John (aside.) I thought he was due.
Mr. P. I'm glad you can eat it; I
can't. Change my plate, John.
Mrs. P. No letters for me this morning,
John? , !
John. No, mum. Only one for Mr.
Pedder.
[He goes oil with plates.
M. P. (aside). Why the deuce couldn't
he simply say "no"? (Aloud.) Just a
few lines from Hammond, dear. He
6ends his kindest regards to you.
Sirs. P. Much obliged to him. I like
George Hammond best of all your friends
1 have met.
Mr. P. Pra very glad you do, for he's
the best I have. I want you to make
him feel at home in our crib, when we
get back to the city.
Mrs. P. 1*11 try, Dick. [Holding out
sugar bowl. J Does my dicky-bird want
apiece more sugar.
Mr. P. No. thank you. [Aside.] I
wish she'd drop that canary racket.
Mrs. P. What does Mr. Hammond
v write about?
Mr. P. Oh, nothing in particular. Only
wrote because he nronjised. Sends a
little club gossip and says Lie may go
yochting.
Sirs. P. Can I read his letter? I d like
to see exactly what he has to say about
7 me.
>? . Mr. P. All right, dear; I'll show it to
you some time. Rut I want you now to
get ready for a walk.
*- (Rises.
Sirs. P. You're in a great hurry this
morning. Are you sure you arc not dying
to catch sight of that widow on horseback?
Mr. P. The widow be?married again.
Mrs. P. (coming to him.) Oh, Dick,
you say that as if you thought it would
be a punishment.
Mr. P. Perhaps it would be, to her
husband.
Mis. P. (anxiously.) But you don't
think so?
Mr. P. IIow can I tell anything about
it? I don't know her or her iutcnded
victim.
Mrs. P. You know that isn't what
meant, Dick. You don't find marriage
a punishment?
Mr. P. IIow can I, when I have married
a girl I love so much.
Mrs P. The only one you have ever
really loved?
Mr. P. Haven't I told you so a hun
dred time3?
Mrs. P. Well, tell it again. I can't
hear it too often.
Mr. P. (kissincr her.) The onlv one I
have really loved. Now, while you put
on your things, I'll have a smoke.
(Takes out a cigar and looks in matchfcafe.)
No matchcs again! I believe the
v case must leak.
- *-"^Mrs. P. There's a light under the kettle,
Dick. But please go outside to
smoke.
Mr. P. All right. (He takes out some
letters from his pocket, aud tears a piece
off one to make a lighter; walks to table,
lights cigar, and in putting letters
back drops one without noticing he has
done so.) I'll go out on the balcony.
"Rfinr* mr Vint anrl crlnvpQ flortr whon
you're ready; and don't be long.
He goes out through window.
Mrs. P. I wish tobacco smoke didn't
make me cough so. I hope I shall get
used to it, for Dick's sake. Dear Dick,
how good he is! |Sees letter. | Why, he"
droppei one of his letters. [ Picks it up,
and sees signature.) "George Hammond."
That's the one he received this
mnminrr Hfi said I mierht read it. II5e
"O" <p i
gins to read. J 4 'Dear Dick.k} [ Speaks. ]
I don't like anyone else calling Dick,
' Dick." I wonder if lie couldn't get
them to call him Richard? [Heads.J
"Hope the honeymoon is proving all the
poets describe it to be."' [Speaks. J Of
course it is, and sweeter, too. Such perfect
happiness is beyond the expression
of mere words. [Reads.] ''The city is
beastly?" [Speaks.J What a horrid
word! (Readson.j?"dull; nothing decent
at the theaters, and nearly all the
nice girls out of town." [Speaks reflectively,
and with a self-satisfied toDe. [
Yes. I suppose they are. [ Heads. J "I
must except the Tomlinsons, on whom I
called to-day?" [Speaks.J Dick never
mentioned them; I wonder why ho
didn't? [Reads. J?'"to fulfill my promise
to you to see hr>w Lulu was getting
?on." [Speaks. 1 *Vho is Lulu Tomlinson,
and why shoula Dick want to know
how she is getting cn? Perhaps Tomlinson
has married a friend of Dick's;
but even then I don't sec why he should
take so much interest in her.
[Reads.] I saw only Miss
Tomlinsoa ?ad Lulu. Miss Tomliasoa
- 1
inquired kindly after you, and Lulu was
very affectionate in her greeting."
[Speaks.] Perhaps Lulu is going to
marry George Hammond. (Rends.]
"Poor little thing! It does seem hard
you had to give her up.'' | Speaks. | Oh!
Dick has been in love with Lulu. And
how often had he sworn that I was the
only woman he had ever really loved!
And I?I believed him, fool that I was!
I feel that all my faith is shattered. So
this Mr. Hammond has been helping
Dick to deceive me. I never could bear
him. anyway. | Reads. | "Perhaps Mrs.
Pcdder's prejudices?" [Speaks. | My
prejudices! (Jo 011, Mr. Hammond?go
I nn T nlw.tvs tlimicrllt VOll VOll Were S'v
A J0 v- ? - - ,
and fast. What more does the wretch j
say? | Reads. |?"may not prove so
strong as you think; and you may yet all ;
three be good friends/' | Speaks. | Very j
likely, very likely indeed, Mr. George |
Hammond. Friends with a forward !
minx like this Lulu, who, I am sure, was
much more to blame than Richard. He
has cruelly deceived me, though. If he
had only told me the truth I might have
forgiven him. [ (Jets up and walks about. ]
Rut now?now I can never trust him
again. And all for a girl who was ready
to give his friend an affectionate greeting.
A nrettv friend, this man whom I was to
make feci at home! Home! I shall j
never have a homo now. | Looks at letter
again. | '"With kindest regards to j
the bride.'' [Speaks. | The hypocrite!
How I hate him! And as for this Lulu,
what can I do? Let me think. Oh, if
mamma were only here to advise me!
[Enter Mr. P. through window.
Mr. P. Xot dressed yet, dear?
Mrs. P. (hiding letter, and struggling
to appear calm.) No.
Mr. P. Why not?
Mrs. P. 1 am not going out. I have
a headache.
Mr. P. Your eyes look red. I'm so
sorry, dear! |Coming closer. | Can I get
you anything?
Mrs. P. (shrinking back.) No. Don't
touch me.
Mr. P. What is the matter.
Mrs. P. Oh, nothing. Only my heart
is broken.
Mr. P. What nonsense! What has
U1 UACU lb.
Mrs. P. It may be nonsense to you, sir,
but it is death to me. I have discovered,
your cruel perfidy.
Mr. P. (amazed). My perfidy. [Aside.]
What in thunder is she driving at?
Mrs. P. Yes. You need not affect innocence.
I have proof of one case, but
I dare say it is only one of hundreds.
Oh! to think that f should have married
such a Don Juan!
Mr. P. Will you please explain what
you are talking about.
Mrs. P. (sobbing). Not ten minutes
ago you told me that I was the only
woman you had ever really loved.
Mr. P. And I tell you so once more.
Mrs. P. Don't! don't!! don't!!! Do
not, Mr. Pedder, shatter any lingering
remnant of faith I may have. Do not j
heap perjury ou perjury.
Mr. P. (aside). "Mr. Pedder." It's
serious. |Aloud.] -My dear, you arc
using very strong words.
Mrs. P. I have heard of your loves,
and the false stories you have told others
?the affections you have wronged?the
hearts you have betrayed. And I?I,
who was ready to worship you. am to be
rewarded with the worn-out feelings of a
rake. Oh! it is a bitter awakening from
my dream!
Mr. P. If you will drop your tragic
vein, ana tell me what's the matter, I
shall, no doubt, be able to explain it. I
can see that some one has been trying to
make mischief between us. Who is the
liar??the false friend? Tell me, that I
may prove myself innoccnt.
Mrs. P. You brazen it out Loldly, sir,
but youv acting does not impose upon
me. 1 have proofs?the best proofs.
Mr. P. Then show them to me?tell
me what they are. I cannot answer' an
accusation that is so vague.
Mrs. P. You could not answer it if I
demeaned myself by stating it in the
clearest words.
Mr. P. Ellen, is this the faith and
trust you promised me at,the altar?
Mrs. P. Do you dare to speak to me
j of faith and trust? You, who are so false
and disloyal.
j Mr. P. If you won't tell me you won't,
| but I'll be hanged if I know what all this
is about.
Mrs. II. Go on, 6ir, go on. Use bad
language if you want to. You don't
[ respect me. but you can't impose on me.
Had you confessed all and trusted to my
love I might have forgiven you, but
your shameless protestations of ignorance
and innocence show me what I
have to expect in the future. I am
coincr to mv room, sir. and I beg you
will not disturb me. [Goes to door|.
If you want amusement this morning,
sir, you can think of Lulu Tomlinson.
i [She enters room ar.d slams door.
Mr. P. (alone). Whe-e-e-w! Lulu Tomlinson!
[Takes letters from his pocket
and looks them over]. By Jove! I've
dropped George's, and she's read it.
And she thinks Lulu is a girl! [ Laughs I.
That's the best joke I ever heard. Come
to think of it, his phrases were rather
ambiguous. Poor Ellen! it is really too
bad she should have been so worried.
But I was worried too. I shall have to
give her a little lesson. [Goes to door,
opens it a little and callsj. Mrs. Pedder!
Mrs. P.'s voice. I asked you to respect
mv grief.
Mr. P. (in calmly dignified tones). I
am aware how cruelly you have mis
juugeu iue. i uuimui rust (juiuuy uhuui
a false and wicked aspersion. It will be
well for the future happiness of both of
us that you come here and listen to me.
Mrs. lVs voice. I have proofs.
Mr. P. Proofs that I shall demolish.
[Enter Mrs. P.
Mrs. P. I shall be only too delighted
if you can.
Mr. P. Kindly take a seat. Thank
you. When you left me, just now, you
hurled at me the name of Lulu Tomlinson.
What if I were to assure you that
there is no such person?
Mrs. P. (rising). Oh, Dick, darling,
isn't there really?
Mr. P. Oblige me, Mrs. Pedder, by
remaining seated.
Mrs. P. (sitting). Don't call me Mrs.
Pedder. Dick.
Mr. P. Madam, just now, on a
groundless suspicion, you called me Mr.
Pedder once, and sir five times. Had
you told me all, and trusted to my love,
I might have forgiven your want of
faith?the faith that you promised me at
the altar.
[Hides face in handkerchief.
Mrs. P. Oh, but, Dick, I didn't really
mean it! I never really doubted you.
Mr. P. Madam, your acting does not
impose on me. Your anger was too natural
to have been assumed.
Mrs. P. Don't, Dick, don't. I can't
stand it. But you haven't explained it
all yet.
Mr. P. I should have, had you not
interrupted me. You found a letter
I dropped, and you immediately proceeded
to read it.
Mrs. P. 1 saw it was from Mr. Hammond,
and you said 1 might read it.
Mr. P. "When 1 showed it to vou. But,
Mrs.
Mrs. P. Don't, Dick, don't! If you
call me Mrs. Pedder again 1 shall break
my heart.
.air. l'. l our aistrusi uas inmost,
broken mine. You found in that letter
a refcrenee to Miss Tomliuson and Lulu,
and immediately jumped to the conclusion
that Lulu was a girl to whom I had
behaved like a villain.
Mrs. P. And isn't she a girl?
Mr. P. No; Lulu is a dog.
Mrs. P. A dog!
Mr. P. A terrier of pure Skye breed.
Mrs. P. (rising. ] 01), Dick, how foolish
I have been.
Mr. P. Don't touch me; hear me out.
The first time I met you, you happened
to mention your peculiardislike to dogs.
I fell in love with you that evening, so
I determined not to spoil my changes byspeaking
of Lulu or letting you see her.
When you accepted me, the Tomlinsons
kindly took charge of Lulu, with the un
del-standing that if I didn't claim her in
six months, she was to be theirs.
Mrs. P. (kneeling before him.) Oh,
Dick, how wickedly suspicious I have
been! Can you ever forgive me?
| Mr. P. My dear, I'll try, if you will
promise never to be jealous ag.iin.
Mrs. P. Never, Dick, dear, never!
Mr. P. You see that, however strong i
appearances may be. they are not proofs. J
Mrs. P. No, Dick, 110. I will never ,
suspect you again; ana in never reaa j
any of your letters?unless you give them
to me.
Mr. P. That's my own trustful darling j
again! (They embracc.)
Mrs. P. Dick, I believe I love you
more than ever, though I didn't think
that was possible. And, oh? Dick, dear,
you may send for Lulu if you like.
Mr. P. But you can't bear dogs.
Mrs. P. Lulu can't be like any other
dog. I know I shall love her for your j
sake. Besides, I dor;'t want that Miss
Tomlinson to have anything that belonged i
to you.?Julian Magnus, in llurper.
Motto for the coat of arms of a wealth 1
ruit preserver?"I cani"
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BUFFALO AND GRIZZLIES.
WOT YET EXTINCT IN- THE WELDS OP
IDAHO.
How They Arc Killed by tlie Hunters
?And Ifloiv Tliey Sometimes Kill
iu lteturn.
A Boise City (Idaho) letter to the Cincinnati
Enquirer says: The buffalo bull
?even the solitary outcast of the herd?
never is so aggressive as a Texas steer,
and will always run rather than fight;
but when cornered during the love season
he occasionally rips up a horse and
stamps the life out of its rider. But for
all this he is not a cowardly brute at all,
when his enemies are other than human,
and will make a stand against a grizzly
bear, which would be given a wide berth
by a white hunter, unless specially prepared
for him.
While hunting in the foot-hills of the
Salmon mountains, near the source of the
Boise river, a short time since, I saw a
meeting between a group of buffaloes and
a grizzly, which vermes tne auovc siaiemcnt.
[ had taken a breech-loader,
charged with buckshot, into the bush,
thinking to knock over a deer for breakfast.
We had an abundance of bulTalomeat
in the larder, but at its best even
bulTalo-hump is coarse grained and rank,
and owes its reputation to the
sharp appetites of hunters rather than
to its own excellence. I have
yet to sec the man who does
not yearn for antelope-steak after a week
of "bulller"' diet. The woods were, iu
fact, nothing more than a coppice, dense
and impenetrable as a Kentucky canebrake,
and, after half an hour's scrambling,
I was about to give up the chase,
when I saw a suspicious movement in a
clump of manzanita bushes some rods
ahead. The movement continued, and |
presently a full-grown grizzly bear
shambled out into the open, and leisurely
made his way over rocks and dwarfed
shrubs toward a plain skirting the river,
lie had probably gorged himself with
the berries of the manzanita of which
bears are very fond, and was now making
for the Boise to wash them down with a
draught of its clear water. I was taken
aback. Grizzlies are not common in this
country, their favorite range being lurtlier
south, until winter, when they come
north to hibernate, and, armed as I was
with a shotgun alone, I would have
fallen an easy prey to ursus horribilus
had he got sight or wind of me. But
the wind was in my face, and he presentty
had other fish to fry. A bullalo
cow, bull and calf, probably straggled off
from the herd to drink at the stream,
came up out of the fringe of bushes along
its bank, and met the bear face to face.
He charged then, with a hoarse, dissyllable
roar, sounding like 4'gruff-gruff!"
and the cow threw up her tail and fled,
leaving her calf to his tender mercies.
Hut the bull met the charge like a veteran,
with his head lowered, and his
short, sharp horns standing out of the
mass of black hair like a couple of spearheads.
There was no preliminary sparring;
they closed at once, the bulfalo
conducting himself as a domestic bull
would do under like circumstanccs, relying
upon his head and horns, while the
bear threw himself forward with open
mouth, and buffeted the other on the
neck just forward of the hump, first with
the right paw, then with the left. When
it is remembered that the foot of a grizzly
is often eighteen inches long, armed with
six-inch claws, strong as steel and sharp
as a sabtr, it will not be a matter of
wonder that these two blows ended the
tight, probably by breaking the victim's
neck and tearing out a length of the
spinal cord. The buffalo went down at
once, and the bellowing calf scampered |
after the cloud ol dust wlncii marked its
mother s flight.
In forty minutes I was back to the
camp, "Grizzly!" I yelled, breaking in
on the boys, who were lying in various
attitudes about the breakfast spread on
the grass, ana rushing to the tent I
snatched up my rifle and cartridge belt,
followed by every man in the cam]),
from the doctor to "Half-breed Jim,"
the cook.
"You blame foo'.," said the doctor,
when matters were explained, "from
the way you rushed in on us I thought
the grizzly was after you."
"Not so bad as tLat; but there is no
time to lose. Unless we hurry he may
lose himself in one of the canyons, and
then we can whis'le for his hide and
claws."
The truth of the remark was acknowledged,
and leaving Jim to clear
away the remains of the breakfast, and
to look after the horses, we set off afoot
to the scene of the late battle. A pool
of blood marked the place, and a clear
truck over rocks, dust ana grass roots
showed that the grizzily had dragged
his prey back into the hills. He could
not have dragged it far in the course of
a couple of hours, hence we followed the
trail wearily, and were fully prepared for
business when we finally came upon the
quarry, crouched in a ravine and tearing
at the still warm carcass of the buffalo.
lie arose on his haunches at sight of
us with a growl, and then clapped his
bloody paws over his chest. A conical
bullet from the doctor's rifle had struck
him in the region of the heart. It was
followed by three others in quick succession
; but, although the shooters were
dead shots, and the chest, which was
fairly presented to us, is a vulnerable
pait, the beast charged us with fury. It
is useless to run from a grizzly unless
trees are near, as his speed is such that
he can often outstrip a horse, and his
weicrht carries him through an under
growth which would be a barrier to
man. So we held our ground, ejecting
shells and pushing home cartridges with
ticgers,which in the hurry ot the mo
ment, seemed all thumbs. According
to a previous agreement,one of the party
had held Ins lire, and when bruin was
only thirty yards away?coming iiKe a
steam engine, with fire in his eyes,open
mouth and nostrils?he let him have a
hollow bullet square in the right eye.
It dropped him in his tracks,and opened
a channel in his skull in which one
could insert a closed fist.
It ts not often that a single ball will
kill a grizzly, and it is absolutely dangerous
ior a solitary hunter, however
well armed he may be, to attack this
animal. A creature who can tear oil
the hide of a buffalo with two strokes I
of his paw, which will never flinch from
man, and which can drag a full-grown '
bull over uneven ground for a distance
ol half a mile, as this one did. is more
than a match for the average hunter,
and were it not for the fact that he
frequents forests,instead of treeless plains,
Vin nfAiiIrl /?Annt V*?u Itu tlm
thousarids where now they are counted
by hundreds. His inability to climb
tiees affords the one clement of safety
in hunting him.
The methods of hide hunters are iil-to
get her different from those of sportsmen.
Stalking is the hide hunter's favorite lay,
while the sportsman generally adopts
running as his mode of procedure.
When the hide-hunter locates a herd of
buffalo he works his way to the leeward
of them, secures a shelter behind a hillock
of coppice, and then fires awav,
leisurely loading or reloading until the
whole herd is either dead or wounded.
The reports and smoke from
the rifles do not alarm the animals
in the least, and, unless
the wind blows from the hunter to the
herd, or the hunter shows himself, the
animals will go on quietly feeding,
while their comrades are falling about
ai mL. V/ki...?M|.n
IIlL'Ili. 1 HC lilUU-llUllLl'ID Ui L"iii <m r\ <i
have cleared that State of buffalo by
the following means, related by a man
who knows whereof he speaks:
Streams being exceedingly scarce in
Nebraska, south of the I'latte river, buffaloes
have to travel many miles sometimes
in order to obtain water, and
when they reach it they are so desperate
from thirst that nothing except
death can prevent them from having it.
Hunters, knowing this, post themselves
along the streams and kill them as they
come to drink; but for fear their work
should not be effective enough by day,
they build fires at night, and by this
means keep the dying creatures away
frnm flip wnfj'r thrpp or four davs at a I
time. When, however, they can stand j
the pangs of thirst no longer, they rush '
for the precious fluid, preferring death i
to unbearable misery, and many sink, to |
rise no more, under the leaden hail of i
numerous rifles. Herd after herd was
frequently slaughtered in this barbarous
manner. Another favorite method was j
the driving of a herd over a precipice, '
which was made comparatively easy by j
the fact that they move with such ve- |
locity, and are so crowded together that !
the rear guard pushes the front downward,
and then follow themselves in !
the most, stupid manner, although they
may all sec the danger ahead.
A Hazclhurst, Miss., man has started
a new industry. He ships toads to
Louisville florists, who use them to rid
their plants of insects. It is said they ,
do it very effectually.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTltlAL J
Black walnut sawdust, formerly thrown
away, is now mixed with linseed gum I
and molded into heads und flower
pieces for the ornamentation of furniture.
When dried and varnished it is as hand- '
some and much stronger and more durable
than carved work.
According to the Lumberman's Gazette,
paper bottles are now largely manufactured
in Germany and Austria. They
arc made of rags, wood pulp and straw,
and are coated on both sides with defribrinated
blood, lime and alumina. They
are manufactured in tivo parts and are
submitted to high pressure. When completed
they will hold spirits, acid, etc.,
and arc not easily broken. Their cost is
very low.
According to Mr. Graham, recounting
his experiences of mountaineering in the
Himalayas to the Koyal Geographical
society, especially with reference to his
ascent of a peak 23,700 feet above the
sea, neither in that nor in any other
ascent did he feel any inconvenience in
breathing, or experience any nausea, or
bleeding at the nose, or temporary loss
of sight and hearing, but the motion of
the heart was perceptibly allectcd, as its
beating became audible and its rate was
decidedly increased.
The use of catgut sutures and chickenbone
drainage tubes is ami ng the latest
devices for mercifully healing wounds
Catgut, being an animal substance, is
absorbed, and does not have to be withdrawn
as does silk or silver wire, which
has heretofore been used for sewing up
or stitching cuts together. Wounds
drawn together with catgut, therefore,
do not have to be inflamed by taking out
the stitches, and arc in conseouence more
, likely to heal by what is kuown as the
I "first intention." The large bones of a
chicken arc decalcified and made into
transparent tubes. These arc inserted
where wounds must be drained, and,
unlike the rubber tubing formerly used,
need not be removed, thus aggravating
the wound. Being animal substances
they become dissolved.
The remarkable faculty which cats,
dogs, pigeons and other animals possess
nf mtnrnlnrrin (1 of mi flfht lijlfi tO a HOint
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of departure, has awakened much curiosity
on the part of naturalists. Some
refer it to instinct, some to intelligence
similar to that of man, some to an internal
mechanism which makes the animals
simply automata, but none of these attempted
explanations does anything
toward solving the mystery. Wallacc
supposes that when an animal is carried
a great distance in a basket its flight
makes it very attentive to the different
odors which it cncountersupon the way,
and that the return of these odors in inverse
order furnishes the needful guide.
Toussennel supposes that birds recognizes
the north as the cold quarter, the south
j as the warm, the east (in France) as the
! dry and the west as the moist. Recently,
Viguier has published, in the Jlcwtc
Philoaophiijue, an original memoir upon
the sense of orientation and its organs,
: in which he attributes the faculty to a
I linrmntinn nf mnornntic ClUTCntS.
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Scorpions and Centipedes.
Frequently though the scorpion is met
with, yet a sting from one is rare. An
instance coming within my observation
j was that of my chowkcenar, who had
been stung during the night while
asleep on his mat in the corner of the
veranda where the reptile had evidently
dropped down from above. I was
awoke by a loud"bapre-bap"and the very
laminar sapKauyia ^rumui, un,
father, a snake has bitten me!") and on
going to the spot with a light, we discovered
the assailant to be, not a snake,
but a scorpion, which was standing motionless
in the corner, still angrily curving
its tail?a discovery which afforded
unspeakable relief to the chowkeedar,
who had thought his last hours were
come, and who now with folded hands
and upturned eyes devoutly acknowledged
his excapc in the exclamation:
"Dehai Kara Ji, jan buchgais ("Mercy,
oh, liamf ray life is spared!"). He had
presseil upon the reptile, no doubt,
while turning round, and had been
stung on the arm, which rapidly swelled
to a great size, accompanied by pain so
excessive as to cause a jeeung 01 iaminess.
With his mind, however, relieved
from the "worst," lie soon set about
collecting herbs from the compound and
garden, under the application of hot
mashes of which the pain gradually subsided,
and along with the swelling, disappeared
in a couple of days.
ISeing curious to watch the habits of
the scorpion, I placed one under u glass
case along with a grasshopper two inches
long, whose sharp-spiked legs constituted
its strong natural defence. For awhile
the scorpion took no notice of the wild
leaps of his companion, though every
now and affain it struck against him in j
rebounding from the glass cover, but at
length, irritated by the continuance of
these, it assumed the olTensivc. After
several unsuccessful clutches, he managed
to seize with his toes a leg of the
grasshopper, which be held in his jaws,
while endeavoring to transfix hiin with
his sting, till he succeeded in driving it
through and through .him. The leaps
of the grasshopper now speedily grew
feebler, and soon he lay motionless and
dead. For twenty-four hours the scorpion
took no further notice of his companion,
and then, pressed by hunger, he
bethought himseif of him, and speedily
devoured him.
Like the scorpion the centipede also
erwme tinrHnl to rrrassliormers. when it
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can get them. Ail enormously magnified
copy as it is of the little home centipede,
1 he sight of one five or six inches long,
with its multitude of prehensile feet all
moving at once, and its long feelers steering
its way, causes an involuntary creeping
of the flesh. Once while reclining
on a sofa perusing a daily paper after
mid-day breakfast, preparatory to "turning
in" for the customary siesta, I was
surprised by a thump-thumping against
a newspaper which was lying in a corner
of the room, and the continuance of the
sound induced me to jump up to ascertain
the cause, suspecting, of course, a snake
and frog. The raising of the paper disclosed
a centipede of about five inches
long, holding in his jaws a large grasshopper,
which he was quietly hollowing
out without the least regard to the frantic
kicks of his victim, which had occa- :
sioned the noise against the paper. Nor
did he seem disposed to relinquish so j
choice a morsel, but allowed himself to j
be turned over and over without even
relaxing his hold; and us the grasshopper
could not physically recoup his loss,
I let his devourcr continue, till in a
quarter of an hour only the shell remained,
and only then did the diminish- ,
iug. kicks of the grasshopper cease altogether.
On another occasion, in the hot month
of May, during my morning ablutions,
while raising the sponge to my face, I ;
was met by the near view of an ugly pair
of horns, followed by a head, emerging
from one of the pores. Not an instant
too soon, I dropped it down again on
the basin stand, upon which the full ,
length of a hideous centipede gradually i
unwound itself.
Such are instances of the way these (
reptiles are come upon now and again in ,
India, generally when and where least
expected, and showing the wariness peo- j
pie require to practicc in every move- ,
ment, even in lining a oook or paper, or (
putting the hand anywhere where the
eye docs not also reach. The bite of the ,
centipede is rarely heard of, but it is !
more or less poisonous, and, iike the .
sting of the scorpion, is considered serious
to children,?.1(7 the Year liuuiul. ,
David Davis on Fat Men. <
Ex-Senator David Davis the other day j
said: "I feel very well, though some of (
my friends are it little alarmed at my
rapid loss of flesh. Some persons do not
like to tell their age or their weight, but
I weighed three years ago more than 30'1 r
pounds, and when I was last weighed, .
not many weeks ago, I weighed but 241
pounds." Said I: "Judge, your sieges t
in an arm-chair, listening to law cases, s
probably made you fat." "Xo," said j
the judge; "I inherited a large body.
Flesh is natural to me. When 1 went to
Illinois I made up my mind I would ;
neither drink nor gamble, consequently I
have survived a smtll host of men proba- ?
bly better entitled to live than myself. I j
dii not smoke a cigar until I was pretty
well advanced iu life?indeed, only a few
years ago. Perhaps roy loss of flesh is r
attributable to my stopping smoking, t
which I did for some time. I prefer a t
pipft," said the judge, "to a cigar. The t
kind of tobacco I smoke costs about $2 a
pound, and is made about Lynchburg. I j
cannot smoke Turkish tobacco at all.
Prince Krapotkin, who, in his impris- n
onment lias raaue a pet 01 a cat., says s
there is no question that a cat can see its s
reflection in a mirror, which scientists s
say is doubtful. 4
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The young lady who was blamed for allowing
her glove to be discovered in iv
young man1? pocket stated that she had
no hand in it. a
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SOME MODERN SAMSONS.
UfiST A2TD WOMEN OF BXTBAOBDXNABY
STEBSGTH.
4 French Woman That Carried
Wcig'hu XliatWerc Equal to *2,010
Pound*-Feat* of Strong iTOcn.
Tlic feats nf Lulu ITurst fall into insignificance
beside those of Mme. Gobert,
who laid claim to no other power than
uncommon physical strength. This
woman, who is described as possessing a
remarkably beautiful face and form, appeared
first before the public at St. Bartholomew
fair in London, in 1818. Her
achievements astonished all who beheld
them. She carried weights C(|uai to
2,0115 pounds, lifted u heavy table, on
which several persons were seated, with
her teeth, supported an anvil weighing
400 pounds on lier chest while a blacksmith
forged a horseshoe upon it, and
afterward tied her long hair about the
anvil and swung it about. The Georgia
girl's chair feat was a favorite one with
Mme. Gobert, and it is noteworthy that
in the case of each woman this was the
first branch of their performances attacked
by skepticism. Whether, as was
charged, her public performances were
made up largely of trickery, there appears
to be no doubt that she was extraordinarily
strong. On one occasion
while traveling, her coach sunk into the
mire and resisted all efforts of the
horses. Descending, the female Samson
easily extricated the vehicle And proceeded
on her journey amid the applause
of a large crowd of common people,
with whom her popularity continued for
years.
In 1871, JL Gregoric, claiming to be
seventy-one years old, astonished the
physicians and the public of a town
near London by carrying 700 pounds
with ease, lifting an ox, and performing
other wonderful feats. Ilis shoulders
were prodigious, and his biceps almost
incredible. Gregoric's strength, rather
than a source of pride to him, was the
nf unvintv. Although the mildest
of mcu, he lived in dread that he
should be provoked to use his strength
against a fellow-being. He was afraid
to nurse his own child lest he should
give it a fatal squeeze.
Nearly all individuals of uncommon
strength make up in bulk what they are
deficient in height. Stanley, the African
explorer,describes a strong man who
was six feet five inches, and rather disproportionately
slender. He could toss
an ordinary man ten feet in the air, and
catch him in his decent. lie would take
one of the large white Muscat donkeys
by the ears, and, with a sudden'movement
of his right foot, lay the surprised
ass on his back. He could carry a threeyear-old
bullock half way around his
master's plantation. Once he actually
bore twelve men on his back, shoulders
and chest a distance of !300 feet. Middle-aged
people who remember the dawn
of interest in muscular exercises recall
Dr. Winship, the originator of the idea
which was subsequently embodied in
lifting machines. The astonishment that
tbe doctor's performances created was
nsitiol tn fVinf nf tliA Hnrlinflra ft fnw
years ago at Jorgnery's feats. The
most wonderful of these was known
as the trapeze feat. The Frenchman
hung suspended by his legs from a
swinging bar, and by sheer muscular
strength lifted a heavy horse and
its rider off the stage, suspending them
several minutes, and then letting them
down gradually and evenly as he raised
them. llerwin Thompson's achievement
at Rochester, N. Y., last year was,
however, in the opinion of competent
judges, more surprising than this.
Thompson laid face downward on a
firmly fixed ladder and resisted the efforts
of a team of powerful horses to
pull him from that position. A newspaper
writer, in reviewing this wonderful
performance, remarks that the little mention
with which it escaped could happen
only in a nation where strong men were
common.
The same feat in 1C75 gave William
Joy the name of the English Samson.
The medical faculty of Vienna thought
the strength of Joseph Pospischilli
worthy of discussion at several special
meetings. This man held a table suspended
by his teeth while three gypsies
danced upon it. He and one of his
brothers bore upon their shoulders a
sort of wooden bridge while a horse
drawing a cart full of stones was driven
over it. Pospischilli's strength was
thought to reside in his back, and his
bones were said to be frwi:e as large as
the usual size.
Fishing parties and explorers in the
wilds of northern Wisconsin were a few
years ago familiar with Peter Panqucttc,
the Samson of the region. He was a
famous woodsman, possessed of mighty
endurance, and muscles that were like
iron. Senator Clark says: ''I have had
him bare his arm to me and crack hick
ory nuts upon the muscles. It was like
cracking them on a stone. lie could take
a handful of dried hard hickory nuts
and crush them to pieces by merely
tightening his fist." On one occasion,
while serving as a guide for a party of explorers,
a yoke of oxen drawing the boat
down the Fox gave out through fatigue.
Panquettc took their place, and hauled
the boat along, heeding the strain less
than the beasts. Sheppard, the wonder
of the Coventry volunteers, whose muscular
development answers to the description
given of Panquctte, like the latter,
wore his hair long. With the half-breed
it was a custom derived from his coppercolored
ancestors, but with the ruddy
Englishman it was in obedience to his
belief that all his strength lay in his
flowing yellow locks. Sheppard could
lift a heavy man in each hand, and hold
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Uttlli (lb ill 1I1S iUil^lU. 1XU tu UIU tuoo
normous t ables, barrcU and bags of
flour about as though they were lillcd
with feathers. He could take a pewter
pint pot and tear it into picccs with his
teeth, and he could munch large oyster
shells as a person would munch a biscuit.
Shcppard was the wonder of the country
around, but his prosperous popularity
developed enemies, and one of these,
it is related, induced the strong man to
drink deeply, and while sunk in stupor
cut olT his luxuriant hair. Sheppard
awoke, felt his bare poll, and in tones
of horror announced his strength was
gone. Whether because such was the
case, or because he wished to excite
superstitious credulity, the strong man
from that moment was weak, timid and
hesita ing until his hair grew long again.
?Inter Occan.
Fingers and Tlinmhs.
"Beware of the person whose fingers
turn backward. He is unjust, subtle,
ingenious. and the neater his finders
seein to be the more mischievous is he
unci an enemy to virtue."
Fingers which ciing to each other denote
a changeable character.
Long and large fingers betoken liberality,
true friendship, good condition.
Abraham Lincoln had these.
Fingers too short, with thick ends and
fat, will be dishonest and sly.
Fingers that stand apart from each
other, poverty, wretchedness, and much
talk about self.
Nerveless fingers denote a want of
character, trembling, twitching fingers
i drunkard.
Small taper lingers, on a woman, show
indecision of character, daintiness, and
leccit. If the nails are oblique, want of
ourage.
A largo, well-made liand inclines to n
jenerous, unselfish disposition.
Little round nails mean obstinacy and
mger and violent love.
Long, pure white nails, especially on a
woman's hand, are an indication of a deceitful
nature, with great strength and
cruel, crafty love.
Red nails signify cruelty, desperate
ovc. Spots on the edge of nails, violent
leath.
"The thumb," says Xcwton, "is to me
t convincing proaf of immortality."
iVithout it the hand is almost useless.
Hie only animal that has a thumb is the
ipe, but it is an imperfect memncr, and
Iocs not assist the animal to a more incident
use of its hand or paw. Koman
laves used to cut oil their thumbs belause
they lacked the couragc to to
var, and were considered with abhorencc.
Infants, while very young, and
diots, who cannot control thought, have
10 use of their thumbs, and keep them
:lasped loosely in the clenched hand,
n the language of the hand an authority
ays:
"People with large hands can produce
csults unnatural to them easier than
hose with small; for example, n large
h timberl mechanician mav brinir himself i
o write poetry, but a small thumbed I
>oet can never become a practical calcu- j
utor."?Detroit Free Press.
"I've just found out why lightning !
icver strikes twice in the same place," '
aid farmer Furrow to the deacon as they j
tood under a tree during a thundertorm.
"Why is it?" said the deacon, j
Because, sir, the same place is never
here after the lightning oncc hits it."?
Veto York Journal.
Love's labor lost -- Casting sly glanco
t a blind man, <
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SELECT SIFTINGS.
The first attempts to introduco gas as
ail illuminator in the United States were
made in Baltimore, between-1816 and
1820. They failed, but it was successfully
introduced into Boston in 1822.
The Giant's Castle is a famous structure
on the summit of a mountain near
Cassel, Germany. On the top of the
castle is a pyramid ninety-six feet high,
supporting a statue of Hercules (a copy
of the Farnese) thirty-one feet in height.
This castle includes a system of waterworks
connected with the grounds of
Wilhelmshohe, which is, perhaps, uncqualed.
The fountain supplied by
these water-works rises in a column
twelve inches in diameter to the height
aT 1 OA
VI li/V Ittt,
The harmonica is the name of a musical
instrument, invented by Benjamin
Franklin. There are but very few people
who know that Franklin ever invented
a musical instrument, but such is
a fact. It consisted of a number of
globular glasses set in a revolving motion
on their center, and while they
were in motion their rims were touched
with the operator's finger, when a soft
and beautiful sound was produced. A
young lady by the name of Miss Davis
became a perfect performer on the harmonica,
and appeared in Europe and
throughout America in 1705. No imJmovement
has ever been made on the
larmonicii, and it has sunk into oblivion,
while the mouth-organ hus robbed it of
its name.
All the care of the Dutch has not preserved
the islands of Zeeland. Three
centuries ago Schouwen was entirely
submerged, and everv livinir creature
was drowned. Soon after, Noordt Beveland
was submerged and remained for
several years entirely under water, only
the points of the church spires being visible.
Zuid Bcveland had been submerged
in the fourteenth century. Walcheren
was submerged us late as 1808.
and Tholen even in 1825. It has been
aptly asserted that the sea to the inhabitants
of Holland is what the Vesuvius is
to Torre del Greco. De Amicis says that
the Dutch havo three enemies?the sea,
the lakes, and the rivers; they repel the
sea, they dry the lakes, and they imprison
the rivers; but with the sea it is a
combat which never ceases.
Throughout the western isles of Scotland
timber is a rare and precious article,
most frequently the gift of the ocean.
A good log of driftwood is a prize. It
may have been a tree, tempest-torn from
its home, tossed by the waves and waftnrl
f/% on/1 fvr\ l\tr mnnv n nurPAnt. nr*? if".
drifted to these far isles, or it may he the
masts of some wrecked vessels, whatever
its story it is treasure-trove, and though
encrusted with barnacles or riddled by
pholades it can be turned to account.
TheJargc timbers become rafters, precious
heir-lonms, for a young couple cannot
wed till they have accumulated
enough to support their thatch, and
should they have occasion to "Hit," the
only part of their bothy that commands
any pecuniary compensation is the roof,
not the work only, but also the heavy
thatch saturated with thick, greasy peatreek
(in other words with a thick coating
of soot), which forms a valuable
manure.
Blushes and Lies.
"Among the unexploded fallacies must
be reckoned the popular error of making
it incumbent 011 a blush to always follow
a lie."
It was ft popular lawyer who spoke, a
man whose face may be seen almost any
time in the criminal court building when
a more than usual interesting malefactor
is on trial, a man to whom a large and
varied experienc e with liars of all sorts
must be conceded.
"Will you elucidate?" said the reporter.
"That I will, my boy. "Whenever I
hear a person testify on the witness stand
I observe two things, whether that person
is quiet, self-possessed, and glib, or
else embarrassed, easily disconcerted,
and led into contradictions. In 'lie first
case, I know that no power on earth could
make that person blush, no matter how
untruthful the testimony might be. In the
latter case, though, I am aware that blusli
will follow blush as the cross-cxamillation
gets more and more, lively. Experienced
liars, those who make lying
profitable to them, never blush. They
consider this ashjn of moral and physical
weakness below their dignity. The
fact is that no prevaricator of any magnitude
at all is ever guilty of blushing.
It is only the greenhorn in this business
who colors when he sees that his lie is
not believed?but only then, not otherwise
even with him. The smoothest
and most accomplished liars are found
not among the female sex as another
widespread error will have it, but among
the males. You see, it takes more than
ordinary strength of character, a very
good memory, and a logical mind to
carry through successfully a system of
avoiding the truth. Now, that is where
the ladies are deficient. They can tell
beautiful lies on the Spur of the moment
with all the apparent candor of
a whitc-souled priestess of Vesta, but
they cannot be consistent about it, nor
mn tVinv nvnlvi* in thf>ir Ififrifal snnuencc
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one lie after the other till a perfectly
formed pyramid of them has been built
up, on the apex of which their placidly
slumbering conscicnce may gracefully
recline."
"I think you arc rather hard on the ladies
there," said the newspaper man, who
recalled some very brilliant exploits by
women in this particular line.
"Trust me, I know whereof I am
speaking. Ae for their capacity not to
blush when disguising the facts, the
women compare very favorably with the
men, but not in the above points. And
as for blushing gencQilly, I've found that
you very rarely will meet a liar above the
age of twelve who will blush under any
consideration. In fact, the most barefaced,
cold-blooded liars, combining effrontery
with skill, are to be encountered
in the youth of this land, both sexes
sharing alike in the honor. There is
another curio-.is fact I ought to mention.
It concerns my own profession. While
a "lawyer pleading before a judge, or
when dealing with his clients or brother
attorneys, is a man justly reputed for his
judicious mendacity, he strangely enough
lacks that quality if, by chance, he is
put on the witness stand. 1 know it
happened to me that way last year in the
]) trial, and I quite astonished myself?ha!
ha! ha!"?Chicttgo JYeics.
A Good Bag; of Bears.
Not iong since I was riding toward
Cloud Peak, and had gone only three
miles, when I discovered two enormous
grizzlies down in a horseshoe canon.
1 left my pony, went to the canon wall,
and opened tire on the enemies. The
bears were five hundred yards away. My
first shot wounded one of the monsters,
and the wounded one immediately attacked
the other bear. They fought desperately
for fifteen minutes. It was a
terrible encounter. The wounded bear
was beaten by its antagonist, after which
I shot the victor. They were I <th ferocious-looking
animals, and the two
would weigh over o.OOO pounds. Their
tnol.-o tnnnciirnrl flnws fniir
inches, feet fourteen inches, and the bears
were twelve feet long.
Leaving the two bears, I walked over
a ridge not more than a mile away, and
came 011 to four more, two black and
two silver-lip bears. They did not see
me, and my position was a good one on
the lee and near a nice smooth crag of
granite. Slipping on a pair of moccasins
I was soon on top of the granite knob,
150 feet above ground. I opened lire
immediately, only *200 yards, killed two
at the first shot, and soon had them rolling
down the mountain together. It was
an exciting time; the four bears made a
terrible noise. After seeing a large eagle
swoop down among the pines, catching
a grouse, I descended from my rocky
knob and ventured up to the bears.
There they all lay in a heap, all dead and
in the gulch together. Those six bears
would weigh over 7,000 pounds.?Unit
Laic Trili'tim.
Pleasant People.
Companionable people arc those who
have a knack of making light of their
tribulations and vexations, and a lialiit
ot putting them out of sight; who do
not entertain their acquaintances with
the recital of a leaky pipe, a bad baking,
the children's measles, the shortcoming;
of the servants; who know how to keep
their melancholy, if they have any, out
of the conversation; whose nerves do
not furnish them with material for a
morning call; who are not always on
the lookout for a draught, or u change
of weather, or a slight; who do not
lament their poverty aloud, and make us
feel responsible for it and uncomfortable
amidst our plenty. The companionable
people never seek to make us dissatisfied
with ourselves or our belonging*; they
talk about the things we like to hear
and arc silent upon the subjects on which
we disagree; thev do not dilTer from us
for the sake of differing, and do not
announce their opinions as if there were
no appeal therefrom.
THE LANDJOF DREAMS.J
Oh, land of dreams! Oh, beautiful land which
borders the unknown shore?
Whose realms are filled with the loved and
lost, whom we meet on earth no more!
Land where the weary and worn may rest;
where the king and the serf lie down ;
Where the serf may walk in realms as fair as
. he who weareth the crown.
With the loving and loved of our youth we
wander by golden streams ;
We reck not of care, of wealth or loss, in that
beautiful land of dreams.
The maid whom wo loved in halcyon days,
whoso bed lies under the snow,
Flits back and forth in the land of dreams
with the beauty of ''long ago
Her bright eyes shine with the sparkling
glance of the olden happy days?
And our hearts again renew their youth
flio roHinnfio r\f haf rrn
We live whole years of joy at once as the
sunlight on us gleams.
Whole years of joy that have no night, iu the
beautiful land of dreams.
The love, the hopes and the knowledge vast
that wo yeani for in waking hours
We gather in when we enter there as the
earth drinks in the showers;
We climb the hills of the unknown land?tho
land by no mortal trod?
Behold tho palace wherein our home, who3Q
builder and maker is God !
And brightly its walls of jasper shine as the
sunlight on it gleams;
Its gates of gems and its streets of gold that
we see in tho land of dreams.
Oh, land of dreams ! Oh, mystical land ! bo
tween the known and unknown,
There reigns no king in thy vast domain, each
dream is king alone.
He knoweth naught of the mystic realm,
cares not where its confines end ;
He naketli not, for upon its shores he meeteth
his long-lost friend !
Oh, land of dreams ! Oh,beautiful land, where
the sunlight ever gleams ! *
May we enter the unknown land named
Heaven from the beautiful land of dreams.
IIUMOR OF THE DAY.
Letters of acceptance?Y-e-s.
By the weigh?The man at the scales.
The fall overcoat belongs to the clothe3
of the year.
"When I'm waiting for James, a min?
ute seems an hour; when he is with me,
an hour seems but a minute."
"Yes, judge," said the prisoner, "I
admit that the back of my trousers was
tangled in the dog's teeth, and that I
dragged the animal away, but if you call
that stealing a dog, no man on earth is
safe from committing crime."
"How do you dare eat so many
onions?" asked Gimlet of Auger. "I
don't care how many I eat," he replied.
" My wife is a long way off. She is in
Buffalo." " Yes, but 500 miles isn't very
far for an onion."?Graphic.
A Louisville man has turned out some
sort of an electrical invention, by which
a man can lie in bed and fish. There is
no demand for such a contraption, for
anybody knows that a man who will fish
can lie anywhere.?Merchant-Traveler.
Some of our exchanges seem to think
that the transmission of a message from
Melbourne to London, a distance of 18,308
miles, in 23 minutes the most remarkable
telegraphic feat on record, but
it is evident that none of them have ever
seen a messenger boy run.?Boston Post.
There is a young lady who lives next
door to Blogg's house, and while Blogg
had company the other evening she was
heard in her endeavors to extort music
from a piano. "Our neighbor's daughter
is a very good player," remarked Blogg,
* "Affably, d'i rJCg'a"psuse in the conversation.
* "Her time is a little slow," was
thn critical rcsnonse of Blocrcr's caller.
who happened to be a connoisseur in
music. "Yes," said Blogg," her young
man is there, and very likely she has set
the clock back."?Lowell Citizen.
Making Silver Spoons.
Probably there is no other article of
table or of other household use in the
production of which so little of machine
working is employed. Almost all the
work on solid silver spoons rs handwork;
the exceptions arc the rolling of the ingot
into plates, and the production of spoons
with ornamentation in relief, which is
produced by recessed patterns on the
rolls. The material for spoons is coin
silver, obtained from the government
mints in ingots, or from trade for old
silver, or from the use of current coin.
This is melted over a charcoal fire in
plumbago crucibles to a certain heat,
known to the adept by the appearance of
the surface of the molten metal. It is
poured into cast iron molds, forming bars
of about seventy ounces weight each.
These bars are heated over a forge fire of
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cnarcoai anu worscu uu iuu uuvn uy
hammer and sledge, precisely as iron or
steel is worked, or are rolled into plates
or ribbons. Occasionally annealings arc
necessary to prevent cracking?the annealing
being heated red hot and quenching
in cold water. The ribbon for the
rdinarv teaspoon is four and a* half
inches long by tlnee-cights of an inch
wide. "When rolled, a blank of two and
a quarter inches is lengthened to four
and a half inches, to thin it down to
spoon thickness. Before rolling or hammering,
silver is nearly as soft as lead;
but with these mechanical processes it
can be made hard and rigid, (jood
springs, retaining their qualities for years
can be made of silver hammered or rolled"
To form the bowl of the teaspoon,
the bar, of three-eighths of an inch wide
and less than three thirty-seconds of an
inch thick, is hammered Hat on an anvil
with a crowning face until the workman
lias spread it into an oval, which is
much thinner in the middle than at tbc
edges, as the edges are to receive the
bulk of the wear. The handles are
formed also by the hammer, and a competent
workman will so nearly produce
the form of the spoon as to leave very little
material to be removed by the file to
dress it in shape.
The curvature of the bowl is produced
by repeated "coaxing" blows by a steel
punch and a die of cast composition of
lead and tin. No file-dressing is employed
on the faces of the spoons; only
the edges are lilc-dressed to form. From
the anvil and the die the spoons come to
hand-smoothing with Scotch gray stones
and polishing by stiff brushes?generally
vmrnlifinir Krnclioa oht\rrrnrl witli iicrrif-ft"
and oil. "Grits" is a peculiar material
found in several places?the best in Wallingford,
Conn.?that has some of the
qualities of tripoli, but appears to be an
argillaceous deposit with calcareous particles
too line to be palpable. Burnishing
is the finish of spoons as of all bright
silver goods. All these are hand processes;
machinery has little to do in the
production of solid silver spoons.
Variations of Human Anatomy.
F. J. Shepherd,M. P.,says in the Popular
Science Monthly, it may not be generally
known that no two individuals
have exactly the same anatomical structure,
and that nearly every one has in
him some bony prominence, supernumerary
muscle, or abnormal blood-vessel,
which tells the talc of his descent. During
the past nine years 1 have been teaching
anatomy, ami nearly three hundred
subjects have been dissected under my
immediate supervision; in these I have
carefully noted the variations occurring,
with the result of Jiuding that scarcely
one body is perfectly normal in every
part?nay. many are very abnormal, having
as many as thirty to forty variations
in their bones, muscles, or arteries. I
have found variations to occur more frequently
in negro and Indian subjects
than in those of European descent.
When a variation in a bone, muscle, or
blood-vessel is found, the tirst question
asked is, What is its morphology? and
it ia the exception not to be able to make
it out; if one fails, it is concludcd that
our knowledge is deficient, and that the
variation has a history, if we could only
discover it.
Many variations are explained when
an appeal is made to comparative anatomy,
a science which is as yet very inknf
Jo nnlnnrinrr
i/umgHcii:, ?/i4? Miu^u I.J
its boundaries. Some animals we know
by their fossil remains, and in these
merely their bony structure can be studied;
all the soft parts are, of course, lost
forever, and can only be approximately
restored by our knowledge of allied existing
types of the same animals.
"
Women as Detcctives.
Some of tnc cleverest detectives in
New York are women. They are of the !
ditTerent types of beauty and mind calculated
to gain this or that man's conli- j
dence and learn his secrets. One is coquettish,
another has a deeply religious
exterior, yet another is a delightful musician,
sings well or sketches cleverly.
They may be sent to follow up their prey |
in Europe, and may even learn to love j
him, so dangerous is propinquity?but
then there is the Nemesis, the fateful re- j
port to be made to "the inspector" when
they return.?PhUudclphia Pre#*,
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Methods of Chinese Doctors.
The employment of acupuncture and
cauterization by Chinese doctors forms
the subject of an article in one of the
last numbers of the North China Her>ld.
A native public writer not long since
claimcd that a skillful physician in this
department of medicine could cure such
diseases as imbecility, fits, cholera, etc.
The principle of cauterization is simply
that of counter-irritation, and the English
writer bears personal testimony to
its efficacy in the case of a slight sunstroke,
although the operator was a simple
Manchu peasant and instrument a
couple of copper coins. Very extraordinary
cures are attributed to acupuncture
by the Chinese. It is first performed
in the hollow of the elbow of each arm.
If the puncture draws blood there is no
danger, but if no blood appears the case
is regarded as very grave. But before
abandoning the sufferer puncture of the
| abdomen is tried. Seizing a handful of
flesh, the operator drives the needle right
I ftivmirvK if o?i/1 fKon r\ rna'a if hflrlftPAwl
and forward a few times. If the patient
manifests any sense of pain, or if any
blood is drawn, a poultice of eggs and
buckwheat flour is applied over the puncture,
and recovery is regarded as almost
certain; but if no pain is felt and no
blood flows the case is declared hopeless,
and the sufferer is left to die. The case
is then quoted of a young Chinese, educated
abroad, who was attacked with
cholera; \ his extremities became cold,
and cramp set in in a somewhat alarming
manner. The barber surgeon who was
called in commenced by running a needle
into the pit of the patient's stomach, a
jet of very dark blood following; he
then punctured the calf, the two breasts,
nnrl thf> fnrphead of the sufferer, freeing
a certain quantity of blood each prick.
The relief is said to be instantaneous,
and in two days recovery was complete.
The Chinese explanation of this treatment
is that, when the blood is in the
poisoned condition- which induces the
choleraic symptoms, it becomes thick,
and accumulates in certain portions of
the body. A clever surgeon knows exactly
how to put his finger on the par
ticular spots, and, by skillfully " opening
the mouth of the heart," as the
operation is called, sets free the poisoned
fluid which causes all the mischief. It
is noteworthy that faith in the efficacy
of this mode of treatment is not confined
to the masses, but is shared by Chinese
who have been abroad and have had ample
experience of western medical practice.?Nature.
The March of Death.
Dr. Farr once said that if he could
watch the*march of one million people
through life, the following would be observable:
Nearly 150,000 would die the
first year, 53.000 the second year, 28,000
the third year, and' less than 4,000
in the thirteenth year. At the end of
forty-five years 500,000 would have died;
at the end of sixty years 370,000 would
still be living; at the end of eighty
years, 97,000; at eighty-five years, 31,000;
and at ninety-five years there would
be 223: at the end of 108 years there
would be one survivor.
In the United States there are 07,000
paupers. These are paupers in almsnouses.
Of the CO,000 Jews in New York city not
one is a bartender.
"Hello I" we heard on9 man say to another,
the other day. "I didn't know you at first,
why, you look ten years younger than you
did when I saw you last." I feel ten years
younger," was tne reply. "You know 1 used
to be under the weather all the time and gave
up expecting to be any better. The doctor
said I had consumption. I was terribly weak,
had night-sweats, cough, no appetite, and lost
flesh. I saw Dr. Pierce's 'Golaiwi M?dical Discovery*
advertised, aud thought it would do
no harm if it did no good. It has cured me.
1 am a new man because I am a well one."
Church bells are going out of use in every
considerable American city.
It's no secret nostrum. We speak of Dr.
Pierce's Extract of Smart-Weed, composed of
best French Brandy, Smart-weed, Jamaica
Ginger and Camphor Water. It cures cholera
morbus, colic or cramps in stomach, diarrhoea,
dysentery or bloody-flux, and breaks up
colds, fevers and inflammatory attacks.
Since 1882 France has had Ave epidemics of
cholera.
Heart Pain*.
Palpitation, Dropsical Swellings, Dizziness,
Indigestion, Headache, Sleeplessness cured by
"Wells' Health Renewer."
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They are especially pleased with the fact
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colors and their product brings highest prices
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them to healthy action and restores
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and for all Kidney diseases and other kindred
troubles it is an invaluable remedy.
"Bnchu Palba."
Quick, complete cure, all Kidney, Bladder
ana Unnaiy Diseases, Scalding, Irritation,
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Hay-Fever. I have been a great sufferer
from Hay-Fever for fifteen years and have
tried various things without aoing any good.
I read of the many wondrous cures of Ely's
Cream Balm and thought I would try once
more. In fifteen minutes after one application
I was wonderfully helped. Two weeks
ago I commenced using it and now I feel entirely
cured. It is tne greatest discovery
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To Match that Bonnet ? Feathers, ribbons,
velvet can all be colored to match that new
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He wins at last who builds his trust
In loving words and actions just,
Who's head, who's walk, his very mien,
rroclaim tlio use of Car bonne.
"Itoiiffli on Corns."
Ask for WelLs' "ltough on Corns. "15c. Complete
euro. Hard or soft corns, warts bunions.
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For impure blood the best medicine kgown,
Bcovill's Sarsaparilla, or Blood and Liver
Byrup, may be implicitly relied on when
everything else fails. Take it in the spring
time, especially for the impure secretions of
(ho blood incident to that s;ason of the year;
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liver complaints, weakness, boils, tumors,
swellings, skin diseases, malaria and the
thousand ills that come from impuro blood.
To insure a cheerful disposition tako this
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For a cold in the head, there is nothing so
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Large boils of gold ore have been found
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The purifying and vitalizing etfect which Hood's Sarsaparilla.
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"Hood's Sarsaparilla did mo an immense amount of
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ray digestion improved, and my head relieved of
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?Mart L. Pekle, Salem, Mass.
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When the Maaon ft Hamlin Company aa- l|
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because of the vast iinpnxvwranli /^H|
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'*No Physic, Sir, In Mine!?
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Virginia's crop of peanuts is estimateq|HH^H
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