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The dew that never wets the flinty mountain, j
Falls in the valley free; c
Bright verdure fringes the small desert foun. E
tain,
But barren sand the sea. <
Not in the stately oak the fragrance dwellotb, j
Which charms the ireneral wood: I
But in tho violet low, where sweetness tcl- J
leth, ]
Its unseen neighborhood. i
HIS ONE GLORIOUS NIGHT. |
Mr. Block was bald-headed. Extreme <
self-esteem hacl made him bald; for it
had prevented him from selling his pic- <
tures, except at prices which nobody '
would pay, and compelled him to make 1
etchings and sketches in the small hours
of the night to keep soul and body to- '
gether. Such severe application and the
sleeplessness which it induccd had deprived
Mr. Block of his capillary adornments.!
No lotions or magical compounds '
would restore to him the crown of beauty
which he had lost. This was a severe 1
trial to Mr. Block, not because he was (
vain, but because he was engaged, lie '
had been engaged to Miss Apollonia i
Schwingcr for nearly twenty years, and <
what is still more remarkable, Apollonia I
had been engaged to him lor nearly twice
that period. For she devoutedly believed <
that she had been expressly made for Mr.
Block, and that Mr. Block, from the
shining hour of his birth, had been expressly
destined for her. Mr. Block declared
himself in pcrfect accord with this
arrangement, although at times, when
he saw how gray Apollonia was getting,
he had doubts. But he was a loyal man,
Mr. Block was, and moreover he
had gotton so accustomed to being
engaged to Apollonia that he could not
imagine how he should feel if he were
not. Beside, Apollonia had her points;
she had been decidedly handsome in
her day, and at home in Switzerland
6he had been considered quite a catch.
After the death of both her parents she
had come to Rome, and after a few modest
exploits in art had opened a boarding-house.
It was generally understood
that an Italian prince had proposed to
her, but then there arc few flourishing
boarding-house keepers in Rome who
have not had the chancc of becoming
princesses; that is, of course, 011 condition
of boarding the prince free. Apollonia
could not afford to do this, and
therefore she declined. Her first consideration,
however, was her tenderness for
Mr. Block, from whose genius she expected
a greater distinction than that of
world lv ra-jk. |
It will 'je observed that Apollonia was j s
a trifle romantic. Art was to her a ! 1
sacred thing, in the presence of which j f
she would have taken oil her hat, if her j t
hat Jiad been detachable. When she s
visited Mr. Block's studio, as she often j ]
^td, in the company of a chaperon, she j c
T?-"walked on tiptoe and talked in whispers. t
She believed firmly that the world would 11
some day recognize Mr. Block's great- | \
ncss, and then she would be rewarded j t
V for her long and weary waiting. In the 1 t
meanwhile she could only pity the world c
for its purblind stupidity in not j t
recognizing Mr. Block. Only think e
of the splendid gallery Mr. Block
had collected of his own works?gam- c
bling peasants, shepherds from the Cam- I
pagna playing morra, ctc.?think of all s
these radiant works of genius, which c
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might be Ma lor the pairrv sura 01 any i a
or sixty thousand dollars! Of course t
Mr. Block was perfectly right in refusing v
to sell such gems for five hundred or a g
thousand francs. She would rather wait n
until the moment of recognition came, ii
when he would be able, jicrhaps, to sell s
them all together'to his native city of t
"Berne, to be preserved forever in a sepa- j t
rate building, to be called the Block ; a
museum. Apollonia wept for very joy I
when she thought of distant generations u
deriving inspiration and enjoyment from t
this museum, and blessing her name be- L
cause she had upheld and strengthened 1:
Mr. Block in his defiance of the world's li
miserable disregard. t
I am very sure that the reader will now
expect me to tell him that Mr. Block was a
a poor artist. No, my dear sir; there e
you are wide of the mark. Mr. Block 1
was, on the whole, more than a g
fair artist. He was not a great a
onfl aViininrr lirrht nfirhflns r bllt he C
'J? was far from being a charlatan, a
' He was a little old bachelor, who with v
conscientious and painstaking industry h
and respectable talent had devoted his 1
life to art. If, however, you had expressed
such an estimate of him in his e
bearing, he jwould promptly have li
knocked you down. He might be too
poor to get his dinner, but he was never ii
poor enough to pocket a profitable snub,
or to descend from the lofty pedestal on v
his artistic dicnity. He never let Apol- s
Ionia knnow that he sometimes suffered
want: and he never condescended to c
visit her in time for dinner. Moreover,
in the matter of dress he was extremely b
particular; when he pawned his waist- n
coat, he only brushed his coat the more s
carefully, buttoned it close, and allowed
a fragmentary tic of a bri?ht silk hand- l
kerchief to protrude slightly from the t
outer breast pocket, as fashion prescribed, c
He had bought this many-colored hand- ?.
kerchief twelve years ago, and had cut
it up into as many tips as its size
would allow, using only one at a time, C
^ managing by an artful division of the
pattern to give to each tip the q
effect of a different handkerchief. In
spite of all these precautions, however,
tho rumor crraduallv spread in the artis
tic colony that Block was miserably poor, p
Some discreetly ottered to help him, f nd ^
were told, with polite circumlocutions, a
to mind their own business. Others, jj
who had perhaps seen him make a din- ti
ner off a dish of broccoli and a slice of h
dry bread, tried in all sorts of under- tj
hand ways to make him their beneficiary; |,
but his sensitive pride always detected s\
disguised charities, and promptly re- w
pelled them. In fact, he suffered so $
keenly from these well-meant attempts w
to succor him that his friends would q
have done better if they had permitted gj
him to starve in peace and self-respect, p
Apollonia. as I have intimated, had p
no idea that Mr. Block was having a $
hand-to-hand fight with starvation. She
saw occasionally one of his etchings in 0
the illustrated papers, and naturally sup- f,
posed that etching was an immensely j,
profitable business. When Mr. Block }j
entered her parlor at lmlf-past eight in j?
the evening and made her the mose cere- ^
monious of bows, her old heart fluttered a
and the tears often came into her eyes at 0
p$p8 tlie thought of his staunch aud loyal de- n
Ril-IK votion. When, at the end of an hour's i.
discreet and undemonstrative conversation,
he arose to take his leave, be usu- j g
ally stooped to kiss her hand, and re- j a
marked, "Miss Schwinger, this day has j
brought us one day nearer tD our mar- j j(
riage." j t
At these words Apollonia's foolish old ; 0
. heart positively ran riot, and her faded j r
old cheeks exhibited a coy little virginal r
blush. | p
"The dear good man!" sho would say j
to herself, with a sigh, as she seated lier- 1 t
self on the sofa after his departure. And ! e
then, for some reason or other, the tears
ran silently, one by one, down her a
cheeks, while the knitting-needles click- : s
ed nimbly, and the toe of the stocking I ^
grew several inches too long, and shower, |
no signs of contracting. f
It was in the winter of 1870, I think ^
that Mr. Breitkopf, a wealthy manufac- t
turer from Berne, made his appearance j
in the lioman colony. Mr. Breitkopf, t
it was rumored, had come to Italy for c
the purpose of buying pictures for his ]
frnllprv nnrl tlir> artists snrflmbied and ,
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fought for bis acquaintance like a pack ! s
of wolves for a fat sheep. Ilis courier j r
made quite a fortune from artists' fees, \
and even his dog was made an object of a
marked attention. Brcitkopf, however, j
took his time before making his invest- j
ment. lie passed by the works of the j
most distinguished masters with a mere r
passing glance, and expressed the most j,
unorthodox opinions about everybody ' v
and everything. Ilis ta.ste, if he pos- g
sessed any such organ, was certainly ec- j
centric; and a certain obstinate and selfwilled
independence, characteristic of
the self-made man, inclined him to sub- ?
scribe to no opinion which he suspected
of being en regie. After having passed
a month in exasperating the notabilities v
of the artistic fraternity, Breitkopf one i a
. day happened to see the name Anton t
Block on the door of n rather shabby j a
studio. He inquired of his courier who j li
Anton Block was, and his courier \ t
nhriirrorAr] hi? shonlHpi-c jiq mimh as tn ! r
say that he was nothing remarkable. | f
That piqued the manufacturer's curiosity, e
He knocked at the door and entered the a
studio. Within fifteen minutes he had I
bought three pictures at five hun- v
dred dollars each. Here was actu- t
ally an artist whom no one had thought c
worth mentioning to him, and that an c
artist from Berne, his own native city. ! t
It was the blackest envy, of course, I o
which had leagued the rascals together ; li
in a conspiracy to keep this great man c
from his notice. But he would teach the t
courier-bribers a lesson; he would show r
, . them that he was not to be duped. The c
more he thought of it, the angrier he s
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jrew, and the angrier he grew, the more
ic bought. Three more "pictures were
ransferred to his possession, and two
;liecks, for fifteen hundred and one thou;and
dollars, to Block's pocket-book.
Breitkopf was in ecstasy; lie had dis:overed
a man of genius from Berne?a
nan who, so to speak, knocked the
;pots out of all his competitors. He
alked of nothing but Anton Block. All
he foreign correspondents, who had
litherto studiously ignored the little
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nun uuui i>L"ruc, suuuvuiv uuw<uvu
ivhot-a romantic cbaractcr he was, and
illed columns upon columns with the
itory of his poverty and his sudden good
fortune. Block himself, however, accepted
the latter as nothing but his due.
lie behaved with the most admirable
dignity. The only piece of indiscretion
which he committed, under the stimulus
of a pardonable elation, was to kiss
Apollonia on the forehead instead of, as
before, 011 the hand. But Apollonia
thought that was so marvelous that she
was scarcely surprised at all when he
followed it up with the announcement
that now he was at last in a
position to marry. The only
thing that troubled him (though this he
did not confess to Apollonia) was the
rumors about his former poverty, and the
ivtlront to his dignity implied in the
?ITorts of his meddlesome friends to help
him. The newspapers, particularly the
French, made him furious, and he was
consumed with a wild desire to murder
some of those romancing correspondents.
His regard for Apollonia, however, restrained
his wrath, and after some mediation
he hit upon another plan, which
:iad the merit ot being both ingenious
ind effective. He sent out supcroiv engraved
cards?all strictly comme il faut
?inviting everybody he knew to a grand
aanquct at the hotel Constanzi to celcjrate
his engagement with Apollonia
>chwinger. lie gave the proprietor of
he hotel carte blaucho, and only told
lim to get up some thiuir in the best
style he knew, regardless of expense.
It was a very grand assembly which
greeted Mr. Block that night in the parors
of the Costanzi. All his meddle- j
>omc friends and all his pet enemies
ivcrc there?Italian noblemen, French
ind German attaches of legations, artists
)f all grades of eminence and obscurity,
aalf a dozen monsignori, ladies of lofty
jirth and gorgeous toilets, and ladies of
owly birth and dowdy toilets?in fact,
jverybody who had ever done a kind
>r an unkind deed to Mr. Anton Block,
9,4l*irfTT vonro nf lnq rpsiflnnftfi
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n Rome, lie had honored with an inviation.
lie felt as happy as a king when
le took his seat with Apollonia at the
lead of the brilliantly decorated banpieting
board, and he conducted hiraelf
with a dignity which would have
>een becoming an emperor. Apollonia
elt as if ner heart would burst; it posiively
danced to the tune of Mendelsohn's
wedding niach, which the band
ilayed as she walked with an ambassalor
at the head of the proccession into
he magnificently lighted sail a' manger.
Uid when Block raised his glass and
vclcouied the company, that same exciable
heart of hers shot up into her
hroat, and remained there for the rest
if the evening. She was so jubilant
hat she feared she would die from sheer
xcess of happiness.
The banquet went off with brilliant
clat. Everybody was amiable, wellired
and amusing. Great dignitaries,
ecular and ecclesiastic, made speeches
clebrating the host's shining merits:
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UU JU. IJiUiiJVWjji, UKuiv-'Jujj ???%.** vu |
husiasm, compared him in one breath
cith Raphael,Leonardo, and Michael An[elo.
That was perhaps a little too
iuch, and Block, without conceding an
ch of what he had held to be his lc;itimate
due, deprecated his friend's exjavagance.
lie made a positive sensaion
to the dry wit, nea t conciseness,
nd admirable taste of his reply. Everylody's
face shone with delight and adniration;
and Block stood, glass in
tand, narrowly watching his would-be
icnefactors'while he ^spoke, and in his
leart he crowed over them, and sipped
lis triumph like a precious wine, with
;een relish, in small delicious sips.
There could be no doubt of it; it was
n enormous success. But all things
aust have an end.and so also a banquet,
t was long after midnight when the
quests departed; and when at last Anton
nd Apollonia stood alone in the desertd
salon, he suddenly clasped her in his
rras and kissed her. lie had to give
ent to his ecstacv in some way. If she
tad not happened to be near he might
iave embraced the waiter.
''Glory, glory, hallelujah!" he shoutd,
and waltzed round the room with her
ike a madman.
"Mr. Block! Mr. Block!" she cried,
a faint remonstrance, "let me go."
"Glory hallelujah!" cried Block, and |
whirled about with more maddening I
peed.
"I shall die, Mr. Block," she whisper- |
d, sinking into bis arms exhausted.
"Do die," exclaimed Block, with wild
ioyish abandon; "let us both die. We
nay never have another chance of dying
o gloriously."
Then flinging his arms about Apolonia's
waist he lifted her up on the
:ible, struck au attitude before her, and
leclaimed:
Oh happy he whom Death tho bloody
laurels
In victory's radiance winds about his crest, .
(r whom in rapture of swift maddening !
dances
He finds reposing on his maiden's breast;
h, would that I, before tho Spirit's power.
Had fallen stark and dead in victory's
hour!''
It was a pity, perhaps, that Mr. Block's
rayer was not fulfilled. He would then
avc left a glorious name behind him,
nd Mr. Breitkopf would perhaps have
ought in his whole collection at aucion,
and founded the Block museum in
is native city. Moreover, if Death had
iken him at his word, he would have
een absolved from the unpleasant necesity
of paying the bill for the banquet,
hich, I regret to say, amounted to
3,521.30. Block came near fainting
hen it was presented to him; but
uickly collecting himself, he seated himjlf
easilv. and without a murmur of
rotest made out a check for the amount,
t was done with such royal sang-froid
liat the caterer, who had come prepared
) haggle, and perhaps to take off thirty
r forty per cent., was completely dumbMinded.
lie was about to apologize or
ustify his charges; but Block waved
im off grandly, and seized his palette,
iut no sooner had the rascal gone than
e hastily wrapped one of his pictures in
pillow-case, ran to a pawnbroker, and
btained the fifty fraucs which were
eeded to square his account with the
ank.
Thereupon Anton Block resumed his
enteel and well-disguised fight with his j
ncient enemy poverty. lie represented I
o Apollonia that, all things considered, |
t would be rather an unwise proceeding |
o marry just now, and Apollonia, good
Id soul that she was, was tearfully and |
eluctantly persuaded that Mr. Block was i
ight, as always. What particularly im-|
iressed her was the necessity of produc- j
ng as many masterpieces as possible for j
he post-mortem museum, and it was
vident that if Mr. lilock was married, i
te could not devote his undivided zeal
,nd ambition to this sublime cause. To be
ure, there was a proposition which
rumbled on the very tip ot her tongue,
md that was that Mr. Block might oc:upy
the position in her house which
he Italian prince had vainly coveted;
g., become a free matrimonial boarder
11 return for the dignity which his illusrious
name conferred on the proprietress
>f the establishment. But the unmaideny
boldness of such a proposal presently
ose before her in nil its enormity, and
he became so flustered that there was ;
lothing left for her but meekly acquiesce \
n Mr. Block's arrangements. The last j
greement, I believe, is that as soon as
ireitkopf establishes the Block Museum ,
n Berne their wedding day is to be fixed. !
}ut up to date Mr. Breitkopf has kept I
emarkably quiet. Nevertheless, Apol- j
onia never takes up a Berne newspaper ]
without a feverish little blush and a j
trange and unaccountable agitation.? j
Ijalmarll. Boyc&cii, in llarper't Weekly.
7Iio Amount of >Vntor Trees Absor!). !
Dr. J. M. Anders, in a geological sur- j
ey report,gives the result of his inquiry |
sto the quantity of water pumped from j
he earth by trees. lie finds that the j
veragc exhalation from soft, thin- ;
i-aved plants in clear weather amounts :
0 about one and a quarter ounces troy
>er day of twelve hours for every square ;
oot of surface. Hence a moderate sized j
lm tree raises and throws oft seven and |
nd three-quarters tons of water per day. j
n the report the facts are applied to I
1 hat is going on in America, where cer- j
ain inland fertile districts are becoming '
onvcrtcd into deserts by wholesale j
learings; and in other places, such as
he plains of Colorado, where only five
r six years of irrigation and planting I
tave already produced a measurable iu- I
rease of rainfall. It is maintained that
he deserts of Syria and Africa are the
esults of cuttiug down trees, nnd that
original luxuriance may be restored by
killful planting.?Detroit Free Press.
THE STRANGLERS OF INDIA1
MEW WHO MADE MtTRDEB A BEGU- S
LAB BUSINESS.
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The Thug* and Tlicir methods of
Killing: People?<?uided by <?ood ]
and Bad Omens.
In the year 1807 a band of Indian ras- <
cals was accidcntly detected in the act
of dividing what turned out to be the ,
clothes and other property of some murI
dcred travelers, and by laboriously fol .
lowing this cluc that great mystery of
inimiit.v _ ThufjTec ? was eventually
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dragged into the light.
Some years later i)r. Sherwood, an old 1
resident in India, published a pamphlet ]
about the Thugs which sent a thrill of
horror both through the Anglo-Indian 1
and the British public. According to )
him the sect seems to have originated
ages ago in the north of India, where its (
members were called Thugs,or Deceivers, ,
and thence spread south under the name
of Phausigars or Stranglers. 1
Thuggee was not only a profession, but
a religion as well,and so close and secret 1
were its principles that little was really
known of it even among the natives 1
themselves. To speak of the Thugs, or !
even to think of them, was held to be
unlucky. No good could, and much i
| harm might, come of it. ;
The profession of Thuggee was kept
I strictly in the Thug families, descending
I from father to son. If a stranger wished
j to enter, he had to get some holy old
I Thn.r to n?'rec to become his cooroo, or
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spiritual parent. After years of apprenticeship,
aud having passed creditably ,
through the inferior olHccs of scout,
grave-digger, and holder of hands of
shamshea, he was lit to climb to the top
of the professional tree as a bhurtote or
strangles Having been ordered to purify
himself by prayer and lasting, and to '
have as much silver money about him as
possible, the candidate and his gooroo,
with a shamshea, started off disguised
as ordinary travelers. If possible, they
joined company with some solitary, poor
wayfarer, and waited patiently for the
time when, after the midday meal, he lay
down to sleep in the shade; but, before
proceeding to actual business,it was necessary
to withdraw and watch for a good
omen. If it came shortly they turned
their faces westward, and the gooroo,
oUnir tV>/? hnnrllrprnliinf- tied at one end
UlftlU6 # the
goor kliat or holy knot, with a rupee
inside it. lie then delivered it to the
disciple, who, leaving the gooroo to pray
to Davee, the goddess from whom they
[ claimed to have sprung, crept stealthily
with the shamshea to the uncon- ,
^ scious slumberer, whom they awoke,
and in an instant his hands were
pinioned, the fatal noose passed around
his neck; then came a stifled cry, a choking
gurgle, a convulsive struggle and the
sleep of the grave settled on his eyes forever!
This work being done, the murderers,
leaving the corpse to the gravediggers,
who were not far oft, returned
to "their friends, to whom the gooroo
presented his sen in triumph as a fullblown
bhurtote or strangles He then
took back his own rupee as well as getting
all his son's monej', for the purchase ,
of what was wanted for the solemn feast, !
to which ail friends were invited, and .
the chief dainty of which was the dish .
of goor or holy sugar.
A sleeper, said The Thug informers,
was always aroused before being stran- 1
gled, because their religion expressly j
forbade the killing of one who slept. '
The reason of this probably was a fear 1
'est an attempt to slip the noose around !
the neck of a person lying down might
be a failure, and result in an alarm and
detection.
In winter Thugs pretend to follow dif- 1
fercnt occupations, and in summer set '
out on their strangling expeditions. I
Sometimes they traveled in small parties,
and at other times in bauds of a hundred
or even two hundred strong. If a soli- i
tary passenger was overtaken his fate ]
was scaled. Several Thugs would creep j
up behind him, seize his arms and legs, j
twist the handkerchief round his neck, (
and throw him to the ground a corpse.
They often disguised themselves as
merchants, artisans, soldiers aud pil- ,
grims. Their scouts, going on in ad- '
vance, entered the towns, and learned ,
what travelers were on the road, their ,
numbers, apparent wealth, and whether
armed or otherwise. With them the
Thugs would mingle like harmless wayfarers;
gradually, and without exciting 1
suspicion, each traveler would be placed 1
between a shamshea and a bhurtoie,who, 1
at a given signal, would seize upon the 1
victim and draw tight the deadly noose. 1
Not infrequently a company of thirty or J
forty persons, men, women ana cnuaren,
who had banded together for mutual J
safety, has been thus in a few minutes <
destroyed. 1
In burying the dead, the Thugs first i
broke all the joints and then ripped open 1
the bodies, lest these,by swelling.should ?
crack the earth above, and be scented i
out by the jackals. If possible, they
dug the graves in the jungle; but, if the
ground was open, they would encamp
and light fires to dry the damp, freshly- i
turned earth. Nothing was ever left to ]
chance. The travelers' graves were often 1
dug beforehand in some lonely jungle. f
At the beginning of the present century 1
there were supposed to be ten thousand 1
Thugs in all India who annually murdered c
thirty thousand people. Between the i
years 1830 and 1837 more than nineteen i
hundred were hanged or imprisoned in t
Bombay, Madras and Bengal. Thuggee t
is considered then lo have become within <
ten years afterward quite extinct. ]
But ancient customs die hard in the a
East, and it is not impossible that in the ?
remote parts of India, especially in the s
native principalities, it may linger even i
yet. j]
Of the thousands of persons who dis- 1
appear annually in India, there are many t
of whom their friends only know that n
they were and are not. Wild beasts 1
they suppose have destroyed them; bat t
it may be that on some lonely road they t
have encountered a savage more crafty s
and relentless than even the man-eater r
or hooded snake.?All the Year Jlouh/. c
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General Gordon's I'aner Money. 51
A Gubnt letter to fi London paper says:
"The Muhdi, when Khartoum fell,
secured the whole of General Gordon's
papers, together with a large number of
bank notes issued by the gallant defender
of Khartoum. These, we are informed,
he is now taking steps to negotiate,
and obtain much-needed ready cash
by discounting them. As General
Gordon pledged England's word to redeem
them, it will require some ingenuity
to defeat the Mahdi's object. Indeed,
it will be next to impossible to detect
the notes which the Madia lias seized 51
and those which have been circulated
bona lidc by General Gordon himself,
especially as all documents are in the
False Prophet's hands. Many of the I
people Irom Khartoum who came here in V
Gordon's steamers hold these notes, which s
thev obtained in a perfectly legitimate 1
manner, and such claims as theirs can (
scarcely be overlooked. Many natives, *
moreover, who months ago held friendly c
and trading relations with Khartoum, v
have these pieces of paper, and they will *
ccrtainly look for their redemption. s
Many of the notes have been bought by t
the officers here at a far higher rate than t
tncir notniuui value, as u mcmcmo 01 "
the licro who is gone. Another relic of ''
the gallant defense of Khartoum, how- 1
ever, is even more sought after than the v
bank notes, and that is the leaden medals 1
which (Jeneral (Jonl on ordered to be struck J
and distributed to every man, woman and '
child in the beleaguered city, in token of f
the bravery they had displayed. Scveial '
of these medals were in possession of ^
Gordon's men, but they were so eagerly c
bought up, not only by officers but by a
the men too, that they arc now at a '
premium, and at such a premium, too, "
that an olTcr of their weight iu gold fails r
to induce the lucky owners to part with c
them." 1
A Novel Contest. r
The great sword contest on horseback 1
between Duncan G. Koss, the champion 1
all-round athlete of the world, and Sor- 1
ge-int Owen Davis of the I'nitcd States T.
army, for $300 a side, was decided at J
Central Park, San Francisco, recently. c
About :?,000 persons were present. The c
costumes of the men were those usually
worn by wieldcrs of the sword, consisting
of au iron coat of mail, and having
their htfads incased in an iron mask sup- 1
porting a helmet, on top of which a small 1
llag waved idly in the breeze. The con- t
tcsr, which was very interesting, and at i
times very exciting, was won by Davis I I
araifl tremendous chcerinir. Ross proved ^
he was a finished swordsman, but the j r
horse being a racer, was frequently un- j 1
manageable. The blows exchanged dur- j t
ing the affair must have been very severe, J 6
as the thick armors showed deep dents j ^
on the back and on several parts of the <
breast it was cut through. Both men I
looked exhausted after the battle, on ac- a
count of the bearing of their heavy armor t
and the trouble which their horses caused a
them. c
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Within the last nine years 800 churches f
have been destroyed by fire in America, t
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*EWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Miss Mary Anderson carries a life inurance
of $100,000.
There are 7.1G2 women missionaries j
md preachers in England.
There are GOO professional beauties in
London who don't work at all.
Yellow is a distinctively fashionable
:olor in the new spring millinery.
The old chine silks are revived, with
ings of a dark color on light grounds.
Tea gowns and morning gowns are
joth made with blouse fronts and long
:rains.
There is a widow in Birmingham, Ala.,
hirteen years old, and she attends the
public school.
Tulle, embroidered with daisies, cornflowers
and buttercups in chenillc, is
unong the novelties.
Susan H. Anthony began life as a
school teacher at a month, and in fifteen
years saved $300.
In Valparaiso women have obtained
their "rights1' so far as to be employed
is conductors on the horse cars.
The nine daughters of the late Bishop
Jackson, of London, were married to
nine vicars in the bishop's diocese.
The .Empress Jbugenic is sam 10 own
several houses in New York city which
yield her a handsome income for the
rents.
Now silk jerseys arc beautifully beaded
with jet in various designs, and sometimes
in patterns covering the whole garment.
The newest lace pins aro 111 the shape
of a moss rose, and arc made of red gold
set with a diamond surrounded by sapphires.
Some of the new cashmere gloves
have the long waists cmbridered in chain
stitch on the closed tops, with silk of a
paler shade.
The women of Turkey wear the same
kind of trowsers as ttie men all the year
round, save when they attend a ball or
upon state occasions.
Upright jabot bows in front of a bunch
of nodding flowers, which tower above
the high crown of the hats, arc the
features in Spring millinery.
All the trimmings of hats and bonnets
are placed directly in front over the
forehead, on the forepart of the crown,
nnrl tmrpr Ti-rrh nlinvfi the same.
v~ 15"
In the Ecole de Mcdecinc, in Paris,
there are 78 women students, of whom
40 are Russians, 14 Frenchwomen, 11
Englishwomen and 7 Americans.
Some of the new spring hats have
high Tyrolean crowns and narrow brims,
looped very high on one side with a
space in the loops for the trimmings.
Two pupils in a school in Washington
Territory were recently obliged to stay at
home and take care of the baby while
their mother attended court as a juror.
In underwear the latest craze is for
tucking. Tucks in groups and clusters,
narrow and wide, arc seen in all articles
of underclothing to the exclusion of lace
or embroidery.
The new sateens almost rival silks and
satins in beauty; the variety of styles arc
almost innumerable. Tapestry sateens
with patterns in imitation of cross-stitch
work arc new and pretty.
The most fashionable colors of the
spring season are the smoke blue and
grays, the stone shades, rock grays and
Mushroom browns. The smoke blues
and grays suggest color rather than
show it.
V>nit< ie on fnoViinnnhlr* tliflf. TCfiw
Voi k ladies arc ordering white wigs to
wear at evening entertainments, or thev
use powder to excess oil the puITs and
loops of their ever growing higher and
higher coiffures.
The colors in new silk gloves range
from dark to pale shades of modes, tan,
russet, and nut brown frcm filbert and
hazel to chestnut, golden brown, grays
from slate to pale Rxissian, and many
intermediate tints of gray, blue, amber,
ind mastic.
Gilt or silver-figured woolens are
shown again for spring; in these there
ire merely a few bars, blocks or rings of
lifferent sizes done in dark, twilled
tvoolen, and these figured parts form the
rest and trim the lower part of the front
)f the skirt.
In proposing by letter to a young lady,
iu Indianapolis lawyer borrowed a fornula
from a book on etiquette. The
young lady learned the source of the
nspiration of his pen, and by way of rer)ly
used the formula prescribed in the
;ame book for a declination.
All the managing mammas among the
English nobility are arranging to bring
>ut their debutantes simultaneously with
.he Prince of Wales' two daughters,
espectively seventeen and sixteen, who
.vill be launched on the sea of English
iocictv the coming season, which begins
a juiv.
Intelligent Seals.
Tlircc varieties of seal seek tho great
ce packs of the Newfoundland coast in
March to bring forth their young?the
lurp seal, the hood seal and the square
lipper. There is another seal which
requents this coast and is native to it,
jut differs greatly in habit from the
)thers. It is called the dotard, and does
lot whelp until the fishing season is
learly over, and as the young seals are
he most desirable portion of the catch
he dotard does not make up to any
;reat extent the cargoes of the vessels,
[t does not escape entirely, however, for
ill summer long and through the fall
ind winter months it is netted and
ipcared and shot in large numbers by the
slanders, who are natural seal hunters
ind many of whom do little else. The
lide of the native seal is valued more
han that of the three others mentioned,
is it is beautifully spotted, and is used
argely in making gloves, covering
ruuKs ana lor iur coais. ine young ui
he native seal is marked with black
.pots, and as a morsel for the epicure is
is delicious as the choicest canvasback
luck that ever swam. The dotard seal
lever leaves the island, and it will not
ssociate with any other variety of the
eal family. The female seal brings forth
ts young in the latter part of May. They
eek the isolated rocks in the bays surounding
the island, especially selecting
lie northern coast. The native seal of
Newfoundland is very iutelligcntand sagacious.
The educated seals of the mueuins
and side shows are always members
of the dotard family, and when
aken young may be taught almost any
rick. It is a saying among the Ncwoundland
salmon lishermen, if a man is
mrticularly shrewd, that "he is as smart
is a dotard."?New York Times.
Food of the Ancients.
Julius Caesar, records that the ancient
Jritons accounted it impious to eat
;oose, and Galen condemns tlie same
avory bird as fit ouly to bo put on a
evel with the ostrich. Shade of Father
.'hristmas! to call the goose no better
ban the ostrich! Who would dream of
atingan ostrich?that omnivorous biped
vhich is said to be able to digest anyhing
short of lace collars? We say
hort of lace collars, because that was
lie only item found in the stomach >f a ;
ame ostrich which mysteriously expired
iter ii hearty meal of rusty nails and
niscellaneous etceteras, among which
mppencd to be some of the family
vasliing of its proprietor. Hut Galen
vas no worse than Aristotle, who comnended
the flesh of hawks; and,
ndeed, Galen himself recommended the
l/idt r\C frtvna IFn roof riot n/I flirt CAflCnn I
Vi 1 WW I
lowcvcr, to the autumn, when they
vere busy feeding on the stolen crapes
>f the vineyards. Yet while Galen,
iloni; with Herodotus, considered the
lesh of dogs most excellent, Galen,
ilong with Pliny, repudiated horseflesh
is utterly abominable. "We have not
:otne to eating horseflesh in this country,
>ut in many parts of the continent it is
sxposed for sale as freely as beef and
nutton, and that it is quite as palatable,
he present writer can testify. Herodotus
ells that in Persia not only was liorselcsli
eaten, but also that camels were
oasted whole at times of great rejoicings,
ust as In our grandfather's time, whole
)xen used to be roasted on special oc:asions.?.1//
the Year Round.
Shop Signs.
Shop signs were introduced into Engand
from France in the reign of Edvard
III., and they became so general
hat nearly every Bhopkceper in London :
j j i .i i.:
mil one uispiaycu uuisiuu ins suujj.
jircat ingenuity was shown in the in'ention
of signs calculated to prove
nost attractive to the passer by, and
argc sums of money were expended in
his species of advertising. These
iigns were not affixed to the houses, but
vore placed on posts, or hung thereon
m hinges, at the edge of the footpath.
;o largely did these increase that they
ibsolutcly obstructed the free circulaion
of air, and are supposed to be
unong the causcs of the frequent epilemical
disorders of London. They
ilso naturally aided the spread of con- ;
lagrations, and on these grounds were af- I
crward forbidden to bo displayed. I
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LIFE'S HUMOROUS PHASES.
STOBXES TOLDCT MEBEY WAGS OF 1
THE PBESS. t
(
Kcvcnpinu Pa?A Solemn Moment? t
An AmeiTcan Fable?Typical Went- 3
crn Fertility?Subdued by Size. '
" It's a shame that Mr. Blobbs should
1 i -fofV.nT- ? 1
I1LLVC WCBICU. yuil au auuiuiuauij, auwuu.
"Yes, it is a shame, daughter. It's I
outrageous, it's scandalous."
"Is lie a bachelor, pa?"
"Yes, he's a dried up, crusty old
"bach."
"Oh, well, pa, don't worry then. I'll
get even with him for you. You shall
be avenged."
"And how?"
"I'll marry him."?Boston Times.
A Solemn moment.
After the marriacc of Miss Lillian
Sniges, of Dallas, the bridal party partook
of a sumptuous banquet, toward the
end of which a younger brother of the
bride got up, and said solemnly, raising
his glass:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I have to propose
a toast, which, however, must be
drunk standing. Please take your
glasses and rise up."
The guests, although somewhat be
wildered, did so.
"Now," said the young scapegrace, ,
"if you will remain standing for a few
minutes I'll find out who has been sitting ]
on my new stove-pipe hat."?Siftings. i
I
Fable of the Fox and Woodchuck, i
A Woodchuck who had, at great Labor J
and many Back-Aches, managed to cx- (
cavate a Hole for Himself in a Hillside, ]
was resting and congratulating Himself
when along came ?. Fox. who said: <
"Ah?urn! Just Fits me! I've been i
Looking for just such a Den the last i
three months." <
"You don't mean to Steal my Home i
away?" queried the Woodchuck. 1
"Might makes Right in this Blizzard
Country, and don't you Forget it! Take ;
yourself ofF, or I'll make you sad!" !
The Fox took Possession, and the ]
Woodchuck withdrew, but next morning i
he passed that way to find the Fox fast i
in a Trap at the mouth of the Den. ]
Some boys had Baited for Woodchuck :
and caught a Fox. As they Appeared on
the scene Reynard called out: i
"I am but a poor Fox, whilo you are :
Learned and Intelligent Human Beings.
You have no right to Sacrifice me in this .
manner!"
"Ah! Yes, but this is a Question of
Might instead of Right!" was the Re- j
ply, as he was Knocked on the Head.
Moral: "It Ceases to be Funny when
Both Sides begin to play the Same
Game.?Detroit Free Press.
Typical Western Fertility.
Tlic following story of an engineer on
a Western railway shows how fast the
country i3 growing. We do not hold j
ourselves responsible for the truth of the .
story, but we do not hesitate to say that
it is "not much of a story," compared
with that told by the Western man who
makes an eirort:
"One day I was driving my engine
over the prairie at the rate of forty miles
an hour, without a house in sight, and 1
supposing the nearest town to be thirty ]
miles distant. But as I glanced ahead ]
I was astonished to see that I was ap- ,
proaching a large city. I rubbed my .
eyes, thinking it was a mirage.
"Jim," says I to the fireman, 'what's
this place?' (
"Blamed if I know!" says Jim, staring ,
out of the cab. 'I declare, if there ain't :
a now town growed up here since we j
went over the line yesterday!'
" 'I believe you are right, Jim. Iling
the bell or we shall run over somebody!' .
l'So I slowed up and we pulled into a
large depot where more'n five hundred
people were waiting to see the first train
ctyme into the place. The conductor i
learned the name of the town, put it
down on the schedule, and we went on.
" Mini,'says I, as we pulled out, 'keep ,
your eyes open for new towns. First ^
thing you know we'll be runnin' by some ,
strange place.'
" 'That's so!' says Jim. 'An hadn't :
we better git one of the brakeraen to
watch out on the rear platform for towns
flint anrinrr nn nffnr the enfrinn w.fs hv !' "
"I o **!' ? o o ' "J ' ;
?Providence News..
Subdued by Size.
Oncc upon a time a rather overbearing
kind of a mau was driving a sleigh j
along a narrow road, when he cncount- <
ered another sleigh, also with a man in i
it, coining in the opposite direction. '
The occupant of the second sleigh did 1
not appear to be a very large man, cov- <
ered up as he was with buffalo robes. ]
Ilencc the surly, overbearing fellow, i
supposing that he could control the requi- <
site two-thirds working majority on 1
joint ballot, made up his mind not to 1
give half the road, lie only took half 1
the road, but then lie took it, like the 1
scllish boy in the bed, who took his half '
out of the middle, thereby compelling 1
his bedfellow to sleep on both sides of <
him. When the two sleighs got near (
each other there was a halt and a parley. 1
"Why dou't you give half the road?" J
asked the supposed weaker party. J
"None of your business; only I won't <
do it?that's all." The reasonable f
?n?.fiT nv?\Acf?ilnfo/] onvrtnrr fhftf nnlv (
JMMbJ J
asked what was usual and customary, i
but the overbearing party merely replied, ?
that if the other party did not make
room and get out of the way he would
run over them.
' Well, then, we might as well make
a test question of it at once," responded
the party of the second part, taking of
his gloves, throwing back the buffalo
robes and beginning to rise in his seat,
probably to make a motion. lie happened
to be a very large man, and as
foot after foot of his gigantic structure
loomed up, the astonished bully
exclaimed:
"There, stranger, that will do; don't
rise nny more, I'll turn out for you." It
was his duty and he did. After he had
got past the big man, the would-bebully,
as he touched up his off leader,
soliloquized:
"Je-e-whilikins, I wonder how much
taller that fellow would have got if I
had nor. stopped him."?Texas Siftings.
HEALTH HINTS.
A gargle of strong black tea U3ed cold
night and morning is now fashionable
in London as a preventive of sore throat.
Headache with sensation as if top of ?
the head would fly off, and all headaches
from within or outward arc readily c
relieved by moderate doses of cimicifu- 11
gaTo
cure a red nose, take of vaseline
one ounce, precipitated sulphur two
drachms. 3lix well and apply to the n
allectea part nignt nnu morning, ruuujujj in
well. Continue the application for C
one or two weeks, and the redness will
disappear. n
Infants should never be washed except
in warm water, nor their bodies exposed
to cold air. Their circulation is carried n
on more actively externally, and their J1
greatest heat is on their surface. To l'
check this is one of the most fruitful c
sourcrs of many of their ailments.
One hundred grains of fresh mullein ^
leaves or thirty grains of the dried j
leaves, brought to boil in a liter of fresh s
cow's milk and allowed to stand for ten
minutes, then filtered, sweetened and j|
drank when warm, is the usual prepara- ^
tion and dose in the mullein treatment 0
of phthisis pulmonalis. This dose is rc- s
pcated two or three times a day. t(
The compound syrup of saxifragia is d
the greatef t and best vegetable alterative s
in the materia medica. It possesses the ii
rare property of stimulating all the ex- t!
cretory glands of the body, and at the b
same time acting as an antidote or anti- v
septic to all poisons, whether germ or s
parisitic that exist in the blood. Scrofu- v
la, cancer and tubcrcula, all disappear u
under its employment. ? Health and j
llomc.
The Smallest Republic.
The little republic of San Marino is in- v
closed in the kingdom of Italy. 1
San Marino owes its foundation to a v
hermit of that name, born in Dalmatia 1'
in the fourth century, and who went u
to Italy to work as a mason at the re- li
building of the walls of Kimina. v
Its territory covers about twenty-two f<
square miles. J1
The population numbers 8,301 souls, u
and the canital, San Marino, has 1,200. 8
It is perched on the summit of a'moun- f
tain called Mount Titan, or the Giants, n
which sometimes leads to this state be- t
in^ termed the Titantic republic. c
The republic has an order of chivalry, v
created in 18:10, under the name of Or- k
der of San Mnrino.
The motto is " Libcatas."
When Italy became a kingdom Napo- "
Icon desired to preserve this small state is
intact. "It is a rare sample of a repub- tl
lie to preserve/' said the emperor. * h
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. J
A new porcelain, far superior to the
'amous old Sevres, and identical with D
;hat of China, lending itself to artistic
lecoration and taking all kinds of
jlazes, has been produced after ten T
rears' experiment, by M. Lauth, of
Sevres.
Hermann "Wohlfahct, a German instrunent
maker, has invented a substitute
'or powder, which he calls explosive pa- ,
ler, and for which he claims that it is . j
norc effective than gun-cotton, and will
loon take the place of powder altogether. ,
rho nvnnrimnnffl thliq fftr TTIfl.de hv the
nventor have been thoroughly success"ul,
and the subject is now put into the ,
lands of German government experts
for an exhaustive trial.?Register. f
It has been suggested that the dark a]
pigment cells which give the color to a t]
negro's skin are anatomically placed in ^
front of delicate nerve terminations, and t]
that the function of the black pigment t]
:ells is to lessen the intensity of nerve g
sribrations that would be caused in a 9j
naked human body by exposure to a a:
tropical sun. Thus the pigment plays ?
ibout the same part as a piece of smoked ^
Gflass held between the sun and the eye. j?
The Washington monument has already d
been turned to a scientilic use. Professor
Simon Ncwcomb has been using the a
top of the monument for measuring the fi
velocity of light, and believes that ho n
has obtained more accuratc data for csti- b
mating the distance and magnitude of u
the sun. The velocity of light is meas- si
ured with a degree of accuracy never be- h
fore obtained. Professor Newcomb tells t
i reporter of the Philadelphia Timet that a
lie tninks the error in his calculations ri
cannot exceed one four-hundred-milionth ^
part of a second. t<
Dr. J. M. Anders has reached the con- c
elusions that only flowering plants,grown P
in well-lighted places, generate ozone; h
ind that the most odorous flowers pro- a
3uce the greatest quantity. The ozone
attacks the organic matter of the air and a
by oxidation renders it inert; and Dr. I
A.ndcrs does not doubt that flowering v
plants in clear weather give off enough (
of this natural purifying agent to be of "V
hygienic value indoors. Foliage plants, 1'
nltViniKrVi piol/Hnrr nn n/nnrv nittv bo of a
advantage in contributing to the mainte- >!
nance of a healthful degree of humidity s
in the atmosphere of rooms. n
Rag disinfection is carried on in an ^
air-tight box, into which each bale of *
rags is drawn by means of five screws, Q
which at the same time make live perior- jations
from end to end of the
bale. Superheated steam is injected ?
through the screws, which are hollow ?
and perforated with holes which permits 1
jets of steam to penetrate through the v
rags in every direction. An escape in J
the upper part of the box is provided ?
with a bath intended to intercept the jj
passage of any disease germ into the air. 01
Most germs of life are killed at a heat of a
212 or 215 degrees, but the steam em- c
ployed in this process is raised to 330. ?
An exposure of four or five minutes here '
lieats the bale so that it takes two hours ?
for it to fall below the germicide point J1
Df 212. J
How lioyal Families Lire. *
England stands at the head of all Eu- 0
ropean nations in the cost of its nobility ,
!ind Germany in the expenses of main- T
taining the royal family alone. The latter
empire, with a population of not .
more than 45,000,000, has to support J
twenty-two royal, princely and ducal .
families, and the direct cost of their j1
maintenance is $1G,500,000.
In Prussia and several of the other 1
German States the reigning family, be- y
sides its public income, possesses very 8
large private estates, and* indeed, in "
3ome of the States thejprinces arc the ,
chief land-owners.
Turkey comes next to Germany in its
royal expenditures, the total amount ab- J1
sorbed by the sultan and his family be
ing about $10,250,000. The imperial f
' ** ? T-* _ i_ i-T? i. O tl
larany 01 iiussiu costs luuicuuuuji i
250,000, and the greater part which .
comes in the shape of rents from the 11
crown, domains which consist of a
more than a million square miles ?
of land, besides gold and silver- f3
mines. The Austrian imperial family :
is tolerably well off, which comes directly 11
from the public purse. ?
The sum expended on account of the
British royal family will be iucreased by 0
$30,000 a year on the coming marriage s.
of the Princess Beatrice, and it is expected
that there will shortly be a call
for an income for the oldest son of the
Prince of "Wales. Yet the sum thus
granted will be but a homccopathic dose c
compared with the annual expenditures j,
in appointments, salaries, pensions and
moneys received by the families and re- ^
lations of dukes, marquises, carls, vis- j
counts and barons, amounting to the
prodigious total of $108,014,030,divided I
is follows; Twenty-eight familes of *
iukes take $9,700,000; thirty-three j
families of marquises, $8,303,900; 200
families of earls, $48,181,203; sixty
fnmilios of viscounts. $11,241,200; 211
families of barons,$31,120,188. Of these
the Duke of Richmond heads the list
^vith $1,000,000; followed by the Duke 81
if Wellington, $1,425,500; the Duke of L1
Grafton, $1,115,850, r.ud so on. The old
Duchess of Cambridge, now eighty-eight P
fears of age, continues to draw from the ^
British treasury $30,000 a year, beside n
;njoving the royal palaces of St. James v
ind Kcwas her residences. Her son,the ?
]ueen's cousin, receives about $110,000
i year from the same source to comnen- 0
late him for the loss of the throne, which
ivould have been his had the queen died
,vithout an heir, or had never been born. "
Italy pays her royal family $3,500,000 4]
i year, which is a very large sum in pro- ^
portion to the means of the country,
vhile Spain disburses on the same ac- ?
:ount $2,000,000. This ends the list of j1
European monarchies of large populaion.
But the minor monarchies also pay c
heir royal families very large sums, h
3elgium, with about as large a populaion
as the State of New York, pays
?000,000 a year to her king, and Portu- si
jal, with three-quarters of u million less tl
)opulation, pays $030,000. Monarchy lc
:osts Sweden and Norway S587,500 an- tl
lually; Denmark, $310,000; Holland,
5315,000; Roumania, $240,000, and
Jreccc, ^210,000. But $00,000 of this 11
ast sum is paid by England, France 1<
md Russia. Republican France gives
lcr president $180,000, two-thirds of
vhich is in the form of salary and one- ai
hircl for household expenses. d
The Swiss republic pays its president n
<3,000 a year, wliiclx is j)robably the
mallest sum that the head of any civilzed
nation in the world receives. All
he expenditures of Switzerland are on a ?
orrespondingly low scale. With a'popu- *
at ion approaching 3,000,000, the entire
xpenditures of the confederation docs *
tot reach $10,000,000 annuallv. 11
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A Queer Squirrel Yarn.
Old citizens of Toledo distinctly rcicmber
the time when there was an ^
migration of squirrels in this vicinity. 2
)n a certain day a gentleman was on the
ank of the Ten Mile creek, when the
umber of quirrels moving was unusually
urge. Among the squirrels was one
hat exhibited such motherly care and
;/%? ? f ,>?* lmr f rL'rv ltfflr* rmr?a hq tn
rove a most interesting sight. !?hc
cached the back of the creek -where a
rossing was to be made. The little
(|iiirrcls were quite timid about going
ear to the water, but the mother coaxcd
licm until they seemed to be satisfied to
o ns she wished. She rati along the si
horc, and finding a piece of bark about
foot long and six inches wide, dragged
t to the water's edge and pushed it in ?
be water, so that only a small part of j,
nc end of the bark was resting on the tl
horc. She then induced her little ones o
o get on the bark and they at once cudled
closely together, when the old *
ijuirrel pushed the bark and its load
uto the steam, and, taking one end of
he bark in her teeth, pushed it ahead of J
,er until the opposite bank was reached,
rhcre the young squirrels quickly o
campered up the bank of the creek,
i-liere the mother rested for a few min- j
tcs, when the journey was resumed.?
'Mo Jilihlc. .
Imposed Upon. T
T^Anrnennfnh't'O AVllltn nf IvPntlirkv
r'hilc Speaker of the IIousc, in the ?
Venty-scvcnth Congress, was so pressed
.ith business that when lie had to de- I
iver his valedictory he pot one of those '
icn who are always on hand to make a
ittle money to write his address. It 1
,-as handed him just tj little while be- '
ore the time he had to deliver it, and
e put it into his pocket without readag.
When the time came he arose,and,
lowly unfolding the manuscript, read
lie address. It was very brilliant, but
t was Aarou Hurr's famous valedictory
a the Senate. The Speaker never reovered
from the shock. He went home,
ras taken very ill, and it is supposed lie
illed himself for shame.
Wc agree with a recent writer that
'it's all nonsense to say that eating pies t
) unhealthy." It is trying to digest t
liem that raises the mischief with ouc's t
calth.?Boston Transcript,
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HE CITY OF KHARTOUM
ESCB2PTXOV OP THE PLAGE WEEBE
OOEDOH PELL.
be Picturcsquo City on tho Nile
?Its Streets and .Surroundings?
Fatal Desert Wild*.
Khartoum is no exception to the ruinno
flonanf 4-V^of morlra oil A roll ffttPIIQ
LAO UOJiWU U l>U?*U UiUlAO Uil AAiUW vwiiww
hen seen from a distance. It needs all
le picturesqueness of the graceful palms
iat rise above it in every direction, the
hite-sailed boats that flit along its
lores like butterflies, the noble sweep
f the Blue Nile on one side and the
fhito Nile on the other, the rich blue
cy and dazzling sunlight, to counts: a:t
ic depressing effect of this mass of flat>ofed,
whity-gray, tomb-like houses
mid the dim, boundless emptiness of
ic eternal desert, along the horizon of
rhicli quivers a film of intense heat like
ic reek from a furnace mouth. During
le wet season the narrow, crooked,
Ithy streets arc mere ponds, breathing
:ench and fever. Many of the "houses"
re circular mud burrows topped with a
ointed thatch of com stalks, while the
igh, blank walls encircling the coiintiss
gardens enhance indescribably the
reary effect.
About 108 miles north of Khartoum,
nd almost midway to Berber, lies the
jrtified village of El Metemneh, conected
with Shendy, on the opposite
ank, by a clumsy native ferry-boat, on
rhich an Arab stands upright with a
trip of canvas held outstretched above
is head to do duty for - mast and sail,
r?rr\ Vtnlrlinrr 4-lua livinrr mnaf. firm
"u t, ,
nd a fourth steering. Shendy has never
scovcred its destruction by Mehemet
Ji's son-in-law in 1821, and the sole
3ken of its former greatness is the huge
rumbling fort overlooking the river, the
resent "town" being a cluster of low
ovels two miles distant, grouped around
wide, bare market-place.
In the hollow between the Upper Nile
nd its great westward bend beyond AbuIamcd
lies the Bayuda Desert, across
riiich the British marched to Metemnch
via Abu-Klea) from ICorti, General
Volseley's present headquarters. The
itter place, overhanging the Nile from
steep bank shaded by clustering trees,
3 pleasant enough, despite the perilous
hoals around its landing place. The
,ow memorable halting-place of Jebellakdul
lies a little to the north of Abu[lea.
But here, as everywhere else in the
lUUUUli, LUU lliU-^lv ouuaiu jo j/v/itv;*.2ss
to nourish anything beyond the spot
n which it flows. The waters of the
Tile itself are frequently sprinkled with
he powdery sand of the mighty deserts
/hich have pushed their borders to
within less than a mile of its edge. So,
oo, with the oasis^of Gakdul, or of Abu ea.
Before tha refreshing drops have
Iried upon your beard you are once more
mid the hot, brassy glare and the dead,
rushing silence of "the land where
11 things are forgotten." Waves of
mrning rock or lifiless sand, wearying
our aching cyc9 with their grim sameiess,
surge up one beyond another into
he dim horizon, while the bleaching
lones of a skeleton start from the drifting
sands at your feet in gloomy warning
if what your own fate may soon bo.
Here it is that the fatal " kamsin," or
lot wind of the desert, which ill-fated
Jritish troops are now encountering a
ull week before its wonted time, blows
a all its fury. In the old Arabian
egends one often finds a caliph or pasha
mnofiontlv f>Yplfuminrr nt the close of a
J 0
ong winded story, "By Allah, thy talkng
is worse than the hot blast of the
rilderness!" No one can fully apprecite
this rough hewn sarcasm who has
iot been in Arabia or the Nile valley in
he earlier weeks of March. Everything
ooks suddenly dim and blurred, as if
ccn through a wet pane of glass, and all
t once you feel a gust of stifling, pricky
heat and a qualm of overwhelming
ausea. Your eyes smart and bum, your
emple veins throb as if they would
urst, your skin seems one vast pincushon
filled with red hot needles, and in
notlicr moment you are staggering as if
tunned by a heavy blow, and groping
lindly for any support that you can find,
o the utter refutation of the polite Italin
probcrb that nothing can face the
irocco except l,un porco ed un Inglese (a
.og or an Eaglishman). Woe to any sick
r wounded European who meets its dctroying
blast in raid desert!?David
LV, in Harper's Weekly
o 1
nuputuuiui.
The following sepulchral epitaph was
opied from an old tombstone in Scotind:
[ero lies the body of Alex. McPherson,
V'ho was a very extraordinary person.
to was two yards high in his stocking feet,
ind kept his accoutrements clenn and neat,
le was slew at the battle of Waterloo?
[c was shot by a bullet plum through his
gullet;
C went at his throat and camo out at the
back of his coat.
On tho Strike.
"I wish you would give me a dime,"
lid a tramp to Parson Clippinger. "Imudent
fellow 1 you beg, and yet, you
on't ever take your hat oil to me," relied
the reverend gentleman. "I hope
ou will excuse me this time. If I take
ly hat off that policeman on the corner
rill suspect me of being a tramp and arest
me, but if I keep my hat on be will
hink that we arc two friends talking
ver our family affairs."?Texas Stftings.
A very large proportion of the suffer
ig that alilicts mankind proceeds from
1- ~t Tv.?r>f
HC Simpiu iUCLIU?? U1 UIO?.uuillgguu.uk.
Icside the misery which it inflicts, there
i the palsying effect which it exerts on
11 human effort. As long as hope reigns
i the heart, no exertion seems too great;
; is when hope sinks away and despondncy
takes its place that labor of head or
and languishes.
There is no river that presents more
idden and enormous variations than
ic Nile. For instance, fifty miles be>w
Khartoum its whole volume flows
irough a canyon just forty yards iu
'idth, but the stream is 150 deep at low
rater, A mile below, the river is three
lilcs wide, full of islands, and so shul>w
that steamboats often ground.
"Suppose we have no sugar?" suggests
a English magazine. Well, then, we
on't sec how you could successfully
in apolitical campaign.?Loicell Citizen.
A Chancellor's Opinion.
lion. James Harlan, ex-vice-chancellor
f Louisville, Ivy., a brother of Justice
Iarlan, United States supreme court,
ays of St. Jacobs Oil: "I use it, and I
now full well whereof I speak in producing
it a most extraordinary cure for
11 that is claimed for it by its proprieors.
Every family should have it."
The manufacture of artificial ivory from
ones and scraps of sheepskin is a new
ldustry.
A hnvn nil nther parthlv ills.
I hate the big, old-fashioned pills;
By slow degrees they downward wend,
And often pause, or upward tend;
"With such discomfort are they fraught,
Their good effects amount to naught
Now, Dr. Pierce prepares a pill
That just exactly fills tho bill?
A Pellet, rather, that is all?
A pleasant Purgative, and small;
Just try them as you feel their need,
You'll find that I speak truth, indeed.
Tire desire for Egyptian curiosities has asamed
the proportions of a craze in London.
Tlie .Horning Urea*.
It is said that a lady's standing in society
an easily bo determined by her dress at tho
reakfast-table; an expensive, showy costumo
ldicating that the wearer has not yet learned
tie proprieties. But no one need be afraid
f being called "shoddy" if her loveliness is
s apparent by daylight as at tho hops,
'erfect duty is never tho attendant of diseiso;
above all, of those diseases peculiar to
romcn, and which find a ready cure in Dr.
'ierce's "Favorite Prescription." Price rouced
to one dollar. By druggists.
Hf.nry Irving says much of tho mortality
f this country is duo to buckwheat cakes.
The "old reliable''?Dr. Sage's Catarrh
lemedy.
"Fhesii American oysters" is now a familtr
sign in many places in London.
If aniictcd with sore eyes uso Dr. Isaac
liompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. -5c.
Type setting is taught in Japanese prisons
bums* reMEUi
FOM. 3P^.xi\r.
furc? KUF.l'M VTISM, NKCUALUIA, SCIATICA,
Lumbago, Backachc, Hcadiicbr, Tooth holic\
lort Tbroat, Swelling. Spr*In*, ErnUf?? Burn*, hrtldt, Kr??I
RIU*, in?l otktr rain* anil Arhr*.
fifty CnUiW?>. At DragiUu ?? ! Dt?l?r?. Direction* In 11 Uafvafts*
m OUKU& A. YWIUiR CO., BftlUaer* Id., l'7ki?
f '"
DOCTORS rCBiOPS.
Shall a Physician Tell the Truth or
Not). A JVlco Point in Ethics*
A Sensible Health Official. . .,
Baltimobe, Md.?A decided atir has been *
caused here over the question as to the right
of a physician to certify to the merit* or a
remedy not in the modern pharmacopoeia
Dr. James A. Steuart, one of the most eminent
physicians in the South, and Health
Commissioner of this city, had analyzed a
newly-discovered article, and certified offL- m
daily not only to its efficacy but to the fact
?i?f <* . rsnlniwl nM-timft nrflnaratJons of a
similar character which, analyses had proved, fc
were adulterated and poisonous. The medical
ana chirurgical faculty, of which he is a
member, held that ho had violated the codo
of medical ethics, and much public interest _(
was aroused because of the confidence 6
felt both In his professional standing
and official integrity.
It was argued that to thus place a limitation
on the acta of a physician and especially ^
of a health officer, was "opposod to the spirit j
of the age; that such reasoning might nave
been logical enough when it was to the interest
of rulers or societies to invest themselves u
with a supernatural halo, but now when
thought should be free and untrammeled, such
things savored of barbarism. It was the duty ^
of a phvsician, especially of a health officer, gt
to conaemn publicly any remedy which he
knew to be injurious, but it was not right to
say that he should be debarred from testifying
to the merits of anything which he knew
to oe good. If this were so, the world would
not receive the benefit of half the discoveries ^
made in art or science. Thus the people argued,
while the faculty threatened expulsion
and talked of time-honored customs, ethics,
professional courtesy and traditions.
But the matter soon assumed a new and
surprising phase. A few days afterward a
certificate appeared in the daily papers bearing
the autograph signatures of Governor
McLane, Attorney-General Roberts, Mayor ,
Latrobe, city postmaster Adreon. chiefs of
Stato and municipal d?partments, judges and jclerks
of courts, Federal officials and Congressmen,
emphatically endorsing the action >r
of the health commissioner, and concurring j,
in his opinion ns to the efficacy of the remedy,
asserting that they did so from perjonal experience
with it and practical tests and observations.
There could be no gainsaying such evidence
as this,but,as if to cap the climax, shortly afterward
there appeared another certificate with ?
autograph signatures of leading practicing y
physicians from all parts of the State, inclua- j,
Ing the physicians of all the leading hospitals, the
physician to the city flro department, the
port physician, vaccine physician and resident .
physicians of infirmaries all endorsing the
discovery and stating that it had been tested j
by them in hospitals and private practice for j f|
we*ks with wonderful curative effect. u
and that analyses had shown no trace of |
opiates or poisons, prevalent in other S
cough mixtures. They further stated that | ?
f.hev had hwn indnefld to take this steD in i F
view of the many hurtful preparations which ?
contained narcotics and poisons and of the ' t
dangers consequent on their use. Ihereme- A
dy in question is Red Star Cough Cure. Such
a conclusive answer as this to the narrow arguments
of the few, arrayed public sentiment
on the side of the Health Commissioner, and
it is significant that Dr. Steuart has since
been appointed to office by the Mayor for a /
third term, and has had: his appointment '
unanimously confirmed by the City Council.
Owing to the high professional reputation
of the gentlemen who endorsed his action, as &
well as to the enviable standing of the owners I v
of'the remedy, The Charles A. Vogeler Com- j J
pany, of this city, wide-spread interest has j p
already been croated in the subject, not only i
here, but in Philadelphia, Washington and j
other neighboring cities. The feeling is i *1
generally expressed by professional men that ;
Red Star Cough Cure, on account of its freedom
from narcotics and poisons, inaugurates
a most desirable new departure in medicine.
This is the pronounced opinion of authorities
like Dr. Fawcett, who has been for
thirty-three years resident physician of the
Union Protestant Infirmary, in this city, and
Professor John J. Caldwell, M. D., member
of medical societies of Baltimore, New York ,
and Brooklyn, and with a long experience in
civil and military hospitals. Both of these '
gentlemen, together with 110 less than fifty
other practicing physicians of Maryland,
have publicly put themselves on record as to
the evil of narcotic medicines, and the consequent
value and importance of the new discovery
referred to. It is conceded that public
opinion has completely vindicated Dr.
Steuart in his action, and that in his whole
course, he was actuated simply by an earnest
desire to benefit the community at large.
Great Britain gave last year for its for- 1
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>1,000,000 and tho United States $335,000.
on Kntii
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For a splendid Magazine and chance for em.
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Colonel Seller's liyo Water.
The colonel never made a success of the '
Eye Water business, but Carboline struck
a bonanza with Petroleum as its base. If 1
your hair is thin and falling out, try it.
Heart Pains.
Palpitation, Dropsical Swellings, Dizziness,
Indigestion, Headache, Sleeplessness cured by
"Wells' Health Renewer."
Fraaser Axle Grease.
Use the Frazer Axle Grease, 'tis the best in
the world?will wear twice as long as any oth
er. Ask your dealer for it, and take no other j
MrosaAu's Peptonized beef toxic, the only
preparation ofbeof containingits entire nutritious
properties. It contain.} blood-making
force generating and lifo-sustaining properties-,
' invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, and all forms of general debility;
also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, overwork
or acute disease, particularly if resulting
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Quick, complete cure, all Kidney, Bid der
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Housewives, shop girls ana sales women all
suffer from Weak Back and Sideache. Apply ,
a Hop Porous Plaster and get instant relief.
A famous strengthener. 25a druggists.
"Roach on Corns."
Ask for Wells' "Hough on Corns."15c. Complete
cure. Hard or soft corns, warts bunions.
New York has 150 professional tea tasters
Important.
When yon visit or I care Now York city, savebagori,
express*** and S3 cirri ago hire, and stop at tha Qranl
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ho begah to take our favorite medicine.?mbs. Thalia
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"I consider Hood's Sarsaparilla the best blood purifier,
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I when applied into the mis-aniw?f
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Tbjjerznlfc yoaneit and family to
w<?, afAVriMH whan it can bo yrawntwl'
ad cured so easily " ' zk
Witt Hop Bitters! I!
Having experienced a great deal of
"Trouble! from indigestion^ so.mncn so
lat I came near losing my
My trouble always came after eating vaf
However light
Anctaigestioie,
For two or throo hours at a time I bad to
) through most
Excruciating pains,
"And the only way I ever got*
"Relief 1"
Was by throwing up all my stomach confined.
No one can conceive the pain that
had to go through, until , '
"At lest?"
I was taken! "So that for three weeks I
y in bed and
Could eat nothing!
My sufferings were so that I called two >
Dctorstogive me something that would
op the pain; their
Efforts were no good to ma.
At last I heard a. gooa aeai
"About your Hop Bitters I
And determined to try them.
Got a bottle?in four hours took the con*
nts of
Onel ^
Next day 1 was out of bed, and hare no*
>en a . '<
"Sick!"
Hour, from the same cause since.
I have recommended it to hundreds of ott??
rs. You hfivfi no such
"Advocate as I am."?George Kendall, Alton.
Boston, Mass.
Columbus Advocate, Texas, April 21, ^
ear Editor:?I have tried your Hop Bitten,
ad And they are good for any complaint
'be best medicine f ever used in my lam*
H. T ALEJTIB.
lyNone genuine without a bunch of
reen hops on the white labeL Shun all the
ile. poisonous stuff with "Hop" or "Hop*"
a their name.
y Y >0 -ta
iSkln of Beauty Is a Joy Forever.
DR. T. FELIX GOUBAUMI
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