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They have great respect for the American
flag at Andaman, Society Islands.
When a man dies there, his body is
painted red, white and blue.
Observant travelers say that every
country in Europe has three prices for
everything sold there. The first is for
natives, the second for Englishmen, and
the third for Americans. It is needless
to add that the latter receive the full
benefit of the highest price.
Some men don't know when they are
well off. No ancient fable ever pointed
o mnroi rrr^.afpr nfFr^fc than the
story of two murderers in Missouri.
They had been sentenced to prison for
life, but, being dissatisfied, obtained a
new trial. They will now be hanged on
the 12th of March, unless the governor
interferes.
The relative efficiency of labor in the
cotton mills throughout the world can
be seen by reference to the amount of
cotton which different workmen will
consume per year. In India the average
is 3.451 pounds per operative, in England
2,914 pounds, in Germany 1,200 to
1,500 pounds, and in the United States
4,350 pounds. The cost of gathering
.and planting the cotton crop is computed
to be $113,450,000, or thirty-six per
cent, of its gross value at nine cents per
pound.
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Uur mercantile inanue n uui 411110
"swept from the sea'' yet, as investigation
shows that in the number and quality
of our traveling ships we still stand
second among the nations of the world.
"We have G,234 seagoing sailing vessels
of 2,138,8SO tons, and 13,802 sailing
coasters of 2,100,000 tons; and we have
355 seagoing steamers, and 4,111 inland
and coasting steamers. So we are not
completely annihilated yet upon the
wave, though Britanuia is a good way
ahead of us.
A representative of the New York
Tribune has made public the fact that
some of the liquor saloons of that city
sell quinine pills to their patrons. A
bartender who was interrogated by him
on the subject said: "VVe sell lots of
quinine. If we didn't keep it our customers
would go to the drugstore for
their liquor as well as their quinine. It
would do no good to kick, so we set up
the pills. Quinine to a certain extent
' acts on the system like liquor. Men who
dnnK mucn or go in ior aay eM-iicmcm.
until the ordinary stimulants fail to
operate on their nervous system, often
, take to quinine, opium or its compounds,
chloral, absinthe, and so on,"
According to the Hong Kong daily
Press, the empress of China has caused a
great commotion among her counselors
by her liberal ideas and her conduct.
She has abated the rigor of court etiquette,
has transferred her residence
from the winter palace to the castle in
Imperial park, takes boxing lessons, and
does not conceal her opinion that reform
in social an;l religious matters are
reeded, and that China no longer can
keep up he:* isolation from the rest of the
world. The conservatives complain
that her conduct is weakening the popular
belief in the divine power of the im
perial house, and are confirmed in tneir j
belief that a womau Is unfit to rule a
country.
A singular sort of fertilizer for potato
' fields has been introduced on a Pomeranian
model farm. Hitherto herrings and
potatoes have been known as a palatable
dish in family households. The manager
of the farm in question lias hit upon
the idea of blending them from the start,
by planting his seed potatoes with a herring
placed in every heap, and with so
decided a success as to cause him to increase
the area thus planted l'rom twenty j
acres last year to sixty in the present i
one. The expense he calculates at about |
nine marks per acre, which is cheaper !
than the cost of any other kind of
manure, and amply repays the outla}-.
Of course it can only be employed near
the sea coast.
The King of Bavaria keep3 carefully
nnf nf siorht. but contrives to provide
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matter lor more stories about his private'
doings than any of the visible monarchs
of Europe. King Ludwig's latest eccentricity
is remarkable even for him;
lie has been photographed. During one
of his solitary walks in the Bavarian
Alps he encountered an amiable o.v,
which barred the way and refused to
allow his majesty to pas% For a bovine
subject to make himself so unpleasantly
conspicuous was not to be endured; i
wherefore the king seized a p'ank
which happened to be at haud. and,
placing himself in a position of attack,
as with a bayonet,he prepared tochargc.
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Then, of course, the surly ox slicercu j
off and allowed the King to pass, and he |
was so pleased with his own exploit that j
he had himself photographed in the attitude
of charging.
General Brisbin recently visited the
Rosebud Indian agency to witness an issue
of Uncle Sam's beef to the red children
of the prairie. lie found that the 1
beef was issued on the hoof, and the ,
braves were armed with repeating rifles j
and revolvers to do the butchering, j
First one v^ung warrior would shoot a !
horn off, then another would break a
leg, and so on. The poor animal would
be tortured by slow degrees, his death
bsing put off as long as possible so the
sport might last longer. "Aud this was
the government of the United States
method of issuing beef to its Indians,
encouraging them to be barbarous and
cruel, making a gala day of its meat is- i
sue, and giving the young warriors a
chance to learn to shoot well and ride
well, so that they, can kill my soldiers
more readily and kill citizens better if
they shoul:! go to war.1'
A correspondent wishes to know the
names and nativities of foreign-born i
members of Congress. In the Senate |
they are Beck (Scotland), Fair, Sewell I
and C. W. Jones (Ireland), and J. P. i
Jones (England). In the House of Representatives?Davis,
Collins, MeAdoo,
Downey and Lowry (Ireland), Ilahn and
Romeis (Bavaria), Pulitzer (Hungary),
Kelson (Norway), jVIuller (Germany), |
West (England), and Farquhur (Scotland).
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A City of Mexico letter to the Boston
Herald asserts that "the ancient volcano
Popocatepetl has got into the courts.
Not that it has been bodily transported
into the halls of litigation, but it is the
subject of a novel suit at law. For many
years General Ochoa has been the owner
of the volcano, the highest point of land in
North America, together with all its appurtences.
The crater contains a fine
quality of sulphur, which the general
has been extracting, giving employment
to Indians who cared to stay down in
the vaporous old crater. The property
was at one time fairly profitable, but
now it appears that the volcano was,
some time ago, mortgaged to Mr. Carlos
Recamier, who brings suit of foreclosure.
The papers have been joking about the
matter, some asking what Mr. Recamier
intends to do with his volcano when he
gets legal possession. He has been solemnly
warned that the law forbids the
carrying out of the country ancient monuments
and objects of historical interest.
Probably there are precedents in law for
the foreclosing of volcanic property, but
you nor I have never heard of them before.
A scheme for turning, or, rather, deflecting,
the gulf stream, which for the
present, however, is likely to exist on
paper only, has been .originated by 3Ir.
John C. Goodridge, an inventor and
engineer well known in New York. It
has for its object changing the temperature
of the Atlantic states, by obtaining
more of the benefit of the gulf stream.
Mr. Goodridge assumes that the reason
that those states do not get the benefit
of it now is, that they have between
them and it a polar current, coming
down along the coast of Labrador,
through the straits of Belle Isle, and
forming the cold western wall of the
gulf stream. The existence of this current
is well estab'ished, and, in fact, is
one of the facts on which official sailing
directions both in the United States and
England are based. What Mr. Goodridge
proposes is that it should be
stopped in the straits of Eelle
Isle by a dam at a point where
it is about ten miles wide and loO
feet deep. The dam, he says, could be
built with the adjacent rocks, and the
cost would not exceed $30,000,000. The
ofTonf nf tViio wnnlrJ hn 1m pnlnillafp.e,. to I
change the temperature of the coast from
Cape Hatteras to Newfoundland. Nova
Scotia would have a climate as mild as
!
Cape May, and Block Island and Cape
Cod would become winter wateringplaces.
Moreover, the St. Lawrence
would be open to navigation throughout
the year. Mr. Goodridge also thinks,
though not with much positiveness, that
the deflection of the Arctic current
might turn the gulf stream further
southward, and thus cut oft enough heat
from the British Isles to give them the
climate of Labrador; and then, giving
the reins to his fancy, he sees the queen
abandoning her icy kingdom and taking
refuge as Empress of India. But all
this, says the paper Iron, is too much to
expect for $10,000,000, and very thankful
we ought to be that there are not
enough insane men to raise between them
even that sum for such a wild scheme as
that of Mr. Goodridge.
A Terrible Calamity Recalled.
In the county court at Milwaukee,
Judge Mason recently made a decision
sustaining the demurrer made by the
Newhall House Stock company in the
damage suit of John Gilbert Douohue,
and the case is now thrown out of court
and at an end. This action is tlie last
act in the terrible tragedy of the burning
of the Ncwhall house three years ago.
when one hundred people lost their
lives. A few hours before the tire there
was a merry party in one of the rooms
on the fifth floor. John Gilbert, the
actor, whose real name is Donohuc, who
was a member of Minnie Palmer's company,
then playing in Milwaukee, had
been married the day before to a beautiful
girl in Chicago named Gertrude Sutton.
The actor and hi3 bride hunied
back to Milwaukee to join his
company. During the performance othe
night of the lire the bridu sat in a
box. and after the curtain ha 1 dropped
on the last act there was a midnight wadding
supper, attended by a host of theatrical
friends, at the Newhall house.
The party did not break up until nearly
o o'clock in the morning.
An hour later Mrs. Gilbert was lying
dead, with many others, on tlie sidewalk,
near the hotel. Her husband,
maimed and bleediug, was being cared
for near by, his life almost extinct, lie
was taken to a hotel, and for days lingered
between life and death, and constantly
morning and asking for his
young bride. .Mrs. Gilbert was taken
with the unidentified dead to the
morgue. Her mother came to Milwaukee,
and the scene was a heartrending one
when she visited the morgue to search
for her child. The bodies were so disfigured
that it was almost impossible to
identify them. Mrs. *,Sutton could not
find her daughter's body until John K.
Rodgers, who went to the morgue with
Mrs. Sutton, identified the body by the
underclothes, which bore the initials of
M:ss Sutton.
In time John Gilbert recovered. It
whs weeks before he was told the fate of
his bride. A few months after the firn
he brought suit for $20,000 damages
against the owners of the house, asserting
that they were criminally negligent
in the care of their guests. The suit
dragged along until a technical point
whs decided against Gilbert, and the
case has been thrown out of court.
J. F. Antisdcl, the lessee <?f the hotel,
left Milwaukee soon after the tire, lie
is now keeping a small hotel in Michigan.
The site of the hotel remained in
ruins until a few months ago, when it
was purchased by a life insurance company,
and on it a grand edifice is now
going up that will cost almost $1,000,000.
Gilbert has married again and has
played once or twice in this city sinco j
that dreadful night. I
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A SONG OF THE FOUR SEASONS.
When spring comes laughing, by vale and
hill,
By wind flower walking and daffodil?
Sing stars of morning, sing morning skies,
Sing blue of speedwell, and my love's eyes.
When comes the summer, full leaved and
strong,
And gay birds gossip, the orchard long?
Sing hid, sweet honey, that no bee sips;
Sing red, red roses, and my love's lips.
When autumn scatters the leaves again.
And piled sheaves bury the broad wheeled
wain?
Sing flutes of harvest, where men rejoioe; |
Sing rounds of reapers, and my love's voice
But when comes winter, with hail and
storm,
And red fire roaring and ingle warmSing
first sad going of friends that part;
Then sing glad meeting, and my love's
b eart.
?Austin Dobson.
PINKIE'S REVENGE.
BY IIELEN JACKSON.
' :"What a perfect shame that she got1
here to-day!"
"Sh?sb?, she might hear you!"
"Nonsense! She is down in the reception
room. I don't suppose, if she is
from the backwoods, she has got ears
that can hear through doors."
"Girls, I am ashamed of you. How
can you b2 so unfeeling toward your own j
cousin !*'
,lI don't care, mamina; she is sure to '
be awkward and dowdy. How can we i
have her at the dinner-table to-night? I
shall die of mortification to have to introduce
her to Mr. Morris as our cousin."
"Perhaps she will be too tired to come
down to d iiner after such a long ride.
It is a little awkward to add another to
a set dinner party/'
"Oh, mamma, bless you for the ;
thought! You can tell her that she is '
too tired. You can arrange it, I know." j
"Well, I )1 try." i
These weie the sentences which fell
on the ears of Priscil!a Bent as she sat j
alone, waiting to see the aunt j
and cousins whom she had come j
all the way from Kansas to New j
York to visit, of whose welcome she i
felt as sure as if she had known them all
her life. It was by a blunder of the j
servant that she had been shown directly
up stair? into the drawing-room,
which communicated by folding doors
with the room where were sitting mother
and daughters.
"Pinkie! What a name!" continued :
the first speaker. "Whoever heard of 1
such a name, except for a dog?"
"Her name is Priscilla," replied the
mother, "but Pinkie was given to her by
her father, when she was a little girl, on j
account of her pink cheeks."
"Well, I will call her Priscilla."
"And I too."
"Your father will not like it," said
Mrs. Bent-. "But we must go down."
A swift rush of three women down the
staircase, three loud exclamations of j
dismay at the sight of the empty recep- I
tion room, looks of dismay and a smoth- ]
ered whisper of vexation.
"How stupid of Bea! Do you suppose '
ehe heard if"
These were the opening scenes in the j
swift little drama which here began so
inauspiciously under Mr. Silas Bent's j
roof this morning. And next to these i
followed one which seemed almost a I
justilication of all that the Misses Bent '
had said in regard to their cousin, j
Slowly rising to her feet, grasping her |
umbrella firmly in her left hand, rose a
tall, an exceeding tall young woman,
who exclaimed in a nasnl voice, "Well,
I was jest a comin' to look ye up. I j
didn't know as that fine black gentleman
o' vourn had condescended to let you
know I was here. I'm most tired to .
death, I tell you: four days an' four
nights in the cars h enough to kiil an j
ox. But I'll be all right as soon's I g?t ;
my coffee. I reckon breakfast's all cleared
away by this time, but I don't want,
much, only a cup of couee, if the cook ;
ain't thrown it out. I'm real glad to
see you. I s'po.-e uncle got my letter, \
didn't he?" And pausing in her breath- j
less speech, pretty Prise: 11a Bent looked j
sheepishly into the faces of her equally
shame-faced relatives, it tuev naa not
been too guiltily disturbed in their own j
minds by fe.irsof having been overheard j
in their inhospitable comments, they
might have detected a stiange look on
their Kansas cousin's face, a mixture of
twinkle and terror. But they saw or
heard nothing except what so thorough- ;
ly corroborated their worst fears. Even
Mrs. Bent herself, who had resolved be- i
forehand to be thoroughly kind to the
child of her husband's favorite brother, :
was thrown oil' her balance, and, in j
spite of herself, the welcome she gave
was curt and cool.
But nothing appeared to daunt the |
terrible Pinkie. Radiant good humor '
shone in her face, her tongue ran like a
clapper, and when the aiuner party was
mentioned, Pinkie cried: '
"Not much I ain't too tired! I'll just
bunk down, and by 0 o'clock I'll be as
fresh as a rooster! We don't often get
a chance to a regular dinner party out in :
Emporia, and I don't mean to miss one
this winter. Say?shall I wear my ve y
best? I've read about the kind of i
clothes you New Workers wear to dinners.
But I've got some A No. 1 gowns, I tell
you. Now, you just show me my room
and I'll go ptraight to bed an' stay there till
dinner-time. You let your black
man bring me up a tumbler of milk, will
you, nloujj about 1 o'clock, and a
doughnut or h ud tack. I'm used to
eatin' heartily in the middle o' the
day."
When the door was finally shut upon
Pinkie her aunt and cousins exchanged
looks.
"Horiible!" criel the youngest
daughter, Carrie. "It's worse than I
over conceived. IIow could papa send
for her?"
"lie has not seen her since she was
ten years old," said Mrs. Bent, dismally.
"Of course he could not dream she
would be like this. He has always said
her mother was a charming woman, and
they lived in Europe for several years
when she was little. It is horrible,
girls!"
"Bunk down!" ejaculated the eldest
daughter, Sophia.
"Fresh as a rooster!" echocd Carrie.
"Mamma, I shall go to bed myself and
be too ill to appear to-night. I don't believe
Mr. Morris wiil ever crcs3 our
threshold again."
"Then lie is welcome to stay away,"
said Mrs. Bent, hotly.
"While this distressed consultation was
goinj; wii between Mrs. Bent and her
iln.w.'i'/iM PinL-in anIVi InoL-orl ill linr
U till 11 l \J I f i.HVlt, oiuv/ .-v/.
room, was holding one with herself?
tears sparkling in her eyes, but her fjice
was full of mirth.
"I will!" she muttered. "I will do
it! It will be good euough for them. I
know I Ciin. It will teach them a good
lesson, lint I'll have to work like a
Trojan to get the dress ready. Let me
see what I have got that will do. Ha! I
have it! That old tableaux dress will
be just the thing."
"IIow lucky I brought it!" she
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chuckled, as she shook out the folds of
the white muslin of the most antiquated
couutry fashion. "Now I can go to
sleep, and rest easy for an hour. 'Awkward
and dowdy,'?tliut is what I will
be," and in five minutes mischievous
Pinkie Bent wns sound asleep.
"Anxiety and vexation had made Carrie
ill, and it was with a most unbecoming
Hush on her harassed face that she
appeared in the drawing-room a few
moments before the dinner-hour. There
sat the cousin from Kansas? Was ever
such a figure seen in a New York drawingroom
before?
A plain while muslin, made in the
shepherdess style, very full and very
short, scarlet stockings a broad scarlet
sash, aud worst of all. on the head
a turban of white muslin, with a
scarlet poppy flaunting in front!
This is what the malicious Pinkie
had done with herself, whose trunks
were full of exquisite French gowns such
as her cousins had never owned and not
often seen. She knew at least that the
opals on her soft white neck would
command a fifirfcain sort of resnect. even
from inhospitable relatives.
"Thank heaven she wore them! That
will show people she at least has
money. That necklace couldn't have
cost less than $1,000.''
"Yes," said Pinkie, nonchalantly.
"Ma likes 'em best of all she's got.
They're ma's. I like flowers better. I'm
great on artificial flowers; always wear
'em every day."
The guests were already arriving, Mr.
Bent himself among them, he having,
according to the fashion of New York
business men, arrived home only in time
to dress for dinner. His heart was so
full of affectionate welcome for his niece,
whom he remembered well as a beautiful
child of ten, only half a dozen years a^o.i
that he did not at first note anything but!
the lovely uplifted eyes and the affection- !
ate voice.
As the dinner progressed, even unobservant
Mr. Bent became aware that his
niece's attire was not what it should be,
and that her voice was too loud. "But
the women folks can soon straighten that
all but, and the child's as pretty as a
picture."
So also thought the Hon. Mr. Morris,
who, to Carrie's vexation, on being told
by her that the young lady in white was
a cousin, who had arrived most inopportunely
from Kansas, had exclaimed:
"From Kansas! How delighted lam.
That is tli3 State of all others I am most
interested in seeing. I am going out
there in the spring. If all Kansas iadies
have so wonderful a complexion as your j
cousin, that is another reason for visiting j
the region. Pray, present me to her, I
will you? I should like to ask her many j
questions. Perhaps, ah" ?he stammered j
with ibe curious mixture of diffidence I
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men, "perhaps your mother will be so i
very good as to let me have the pleasure |
of sitting by her side at dinner?that is,
if it will not disarrange your plans."
"I am quite sure mamma will not re- i
liquish the pleasure of having you chiefly
to herself during dinner." quickly responded
Carrie, her heart full of anger {
and mortification. Nevertheless, several j
times in the course of the dinner, Mr. {
Morris heard the shrill voice, and
thought to himself, "What a pity the
American voice is so high-pitched!"
When the gentlemen joined the ladies ;
in the drawing-room Mr. Morris looked
eagcrlv for the Kansas cousin. Not see- f
ing her, he accosted Mrs. Bent with true j
English blulfness: "I do not see your,
niece from Kansas; I hope she has not j
gone; I was counting on talking with
her all the rest of the evening."
With mingled resentment an.l confu- j
sion, Mrs. He it replied: "My niece i
went up stairs immediately after dinner." j'
In truth, Mrs. Bent was in a state of
nervous bewilderment. Without for a i
moment suspecting the real reason of j
Pinkie'3 withdrawal, she had perceived !
that the girl was greatly moved as snc ;
canie quickly to her when they were en- j
tering the drawing-room.
"Aunt, I must ask you to excuse me. ]
I am going up stairs to change my |
dress; I am uotdre;scd as I should have
been."
"Never mind, child, never mind."
Pinkie was gone.
It did not take her long to finish her
transformation touches. The dainty i
while surah silk, with billowy reaches of
white lace fio:n belt to hem, the soft, j
cliuging gloves to the shoulders, the 1
opal bracelets, the white o.ilrich feather i
fan, the white satin slippers?all were in j
readiness. But at last Pinkie's heart
failed her.
"It was a shameful trick to play on
them. I shall cry, I know I shall; and
I'd rather die than cry before that Eng- ;
lishman."
At last she stole down slowly, hesitat- j
ingly. Black Ben caught sight of her
first, and reeled back with excitement, j
It was an unerring instinct that led ,
Pinkie, on entering the drawing-room. !
to glide swiftly to tier uncle's sile, and
putting both hands into his, say:
"Dear I'ncle Sila?, won't you make my i
r>eace with aunt, and ask your friends |
here to forgive me.for masquerading at I
your dinner?"
Before she had half finished speaking, !
the company had gathered close around :
her.
"I must say," began Mrs. Bent, in an
angry tone. But I'iukie went on resolutely:
"1 could not resist the temptat'on to
live up to the New Yorker's idea of a,
Kansas girl, just for an hour or two.
You know that I was exactly the sort of
person you all expected to see from the
West." She gathered courage as she
saw smiles. ''Yes, you all know it,"
embracing the group in her appealing
glance, "and we out "West all know it.
Then, forgive me. You ask them to.
forgive me. dear Uncle Silas, won't I
you?" j
But Un^le Silas was lauirhing too
heartily. He bent over and kissed her
forehead.
"I ask them a'l to forgive me for j
kissing you," he said. "A capital joke, !
Pinkie!"
"The best bit of acting I ever saw," ;
cried lion. Mr. Morris: "quite clever;;
very neal. I'p >n my word, though, Ij
do not think now, really. Miss Bent, I j
should not have seen "through it; I
don't think you could have deceived
me."
' I should not have tried, replied
Pinkie, very simply. Yet there was a i
certain indeihinb e something in the tone |
which made the Hon. Mr. Morris change
color.
There are no Avoi ds in which to despi'iix:
the embarrassment of Mrs. Bent
and her daughters.
"Had Pinkie overheard -what "they
had said about her?"
They sounded her s far as they dared.
But they never found out.
To only one person did Pinkie ever
tell the whole. That was to the Hon.
Mr. Morris, after she h^d been for some
weeks his wife.
"I thought it was so unjust in them,
Frank." she said?"so cruel. I'd just
give thein a lesson, and let them see that
; manners may be only skin deep?easily
I put on or off. But I'd never have done
| it, Frank, if I'd seen you first?never.
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I wanted to run out of the room as sjod i
as I saw you look at me."
"You needn't have done so," replied j
Hon. Mr. Morris, "for I thought as soon
as my eyes fell on you that I had never
seen so lovely a face before."
"Did you, really?" asked Pinkie.
"Really," answered the Hon. Mr.
Morris.
A Terrible Story of Mutiny.
A Dublin correspondent telegraphs the
particulars of a mutiny, and some terrible
scenes which occurred some weeks
aero on a ship belonging to the British
mercantile marine, which has been doing
duty as a Chinese transport in the Chinese
seas. Our correspondent says:
"The story is contained in a long
letter to a Dublin gentleman which
arrived yesterday. The writer is chief
steward on the vessel on which the
mutiny occurred; but as every effort has
been made by the authorities in China to
prevent the affair from becoming known,
he desires his name and that of the ship
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highly respectable man, and the truth |
of the remarkable story he tells cannot I
be doubted. The writer states that his !
steamer was chartered by the Chinese for
$10,000 to take to Hankow from Amoy, J
600 miles, 25,000 Black Flag troops who I
had been disbanded from the Tonquin
war. On their march to Amoy j
they had committed fearful
murders and atrocities, and the government
were very anxious to get them
from Amoy, where they were a terror.
At the embarkation about 1,000 were
disarmed, but they crowded on board
too fast, and the work of disarming had
to be abandoned. Many of them were
drunk, and carried liquor with them,
and were fit for any mischief. The ship
was crowded to excess, the bridge,
poop, forecastle, between decks, and
lower holds being packed. After getting
underway with great difficulty, the
Black Flags commenced gambling, havng
plenty of money about them, and
were all night quarreling, fighting, and
murdering each other. Numbers were
K *t\ r??? r\tm rl-inov/l ulivo nt* rlnnfl SnniA
were stabbed, others were strangled,
and not one of the ship's crew dared interfere.
The writer himself saw three
murdered men pitched overboard during
the night. When morning came dozens
of dead bodies were thrown overboard,
some of them having been smothered,
squeezed to death, or having died from
want of water. A party of the Black
Flags seized the water on board and
guarded it, refusing any to the crew. A
fearful crush followed on the (
other Black Flags trying to get
at the water. The heat was
fearful, and many died from thirst. The
Black Flags destroyed all the food, threw
the rice overboard, with the cooking apparatus,
and threatened to kill the cooks.
They eventually began to drink sea
water. The sailors, who were fearfully
parched, crawled down to the engineroom
and got condensed water and
drank it, though it was quite hot. Things
became still more serious,and the Black
Flags threatened to kill the crew, drawing
knives across their own throats to
omnrovr fn film snilors* their meaning.
The}' succeeded in getting hold of the
captain by the beard, aud held a knife
to his throat. Eventually the vessel was
put back to Amoy, where a British warship
was anchored. The commander of
the latter prepared to sweep the vessel's
deck wiih his gatlings, and eventually
boarded her. The mutineers were then
standing on ^eck with black flags
hoisted on spears. Two Chinese gunboats
subsequently arrived and took off
the Black Flags, those refusing to leave
being thrown overboard and left to get
to land as best they could. Six of the
mutineers were at once beheaded and
one hundred bastinadoed. Five dead j
mutineers were afterward found in the |
lower hold, having been crushed to .
death."?St. Jame^s Gazette.
Signal Revenge.
Thirty-six years ago occurred the bat- |
tie of Chillianwallah, at which the Eng- ;
lish ran an appallingly uarrow chance of j
being defeated by the courageous !
Sikhs opposed to them. Though Eng- j
land did gain the dajr, it was only by an !
enormous expenditure 01 orave men s
lives. A commemoration pillar is erected 1
to their memory, in the garden of the
Chelsea hospital. j
This battle, however, one of the severest
ever fought by the British ou the
soil of India, is also noteworthy because
of the shadow of misfortune and dis- |
grace overhanging it. The fourteenth 1
regiment of dragoons, in the midst of
the engagement, suddenly turned in retreat,
and nearly caused a panic in the
army. Its commander, Captain King,
overcome by shamj,afteiward committed
suicide.
Previous to his death he repeatedly declared
that he gave no order for retreat,
and knew no reason why his troops
should have lied. But the order was
heard by many officers and men, and the
captain's word was not believed. Public
opinion gave a verdict of cowardice
against him.
The circumstances of the battle have, |
however, been recently revived,and new
evidence has come in, which, if true,
frees both officer and men from the worst
charge which can be preferred against
soldiers. In the regiment, says this exonerating
voice, was a private who, for
some reason, bore a grudge against his
colonel. Though he had sought for an
opportunity of taking revenge, none had
presented itself. Hut the man was a
ventriloquist: and at lasl his chance
came. On the day of the battle, at the
critical moment, when it was infamy to
take one backward step, the ventriloquist
threw his voice close to the colonel
and cal ed:
''Threes about!"
It was the signid for retreat. The
regiment was a model or discipline, and
had always obeyed as one man. It did
so now with fatal promptitude, and. in
the melee of the battlefield, its retreat
was soon converted into helter-skilter
flight. The soldier had avenged his
flirt nirnnncn /"if cnmrnflfi'a
\Y run <? ut L11W Vi. ?*?w. .
honor, and at the risk of defeat to his
country's flag.? Youth's Companion.
Milk.
"Wherever milk is used plentifully,
there the children grow into robust men
and women. Wherever its plo.ee i3
usurped by tea we hare degeneracy swift
and certain. Dr. Ferguson, a factory
surgeon, who has devoted a large share
of attention to this subject, has ascertained,
from careful measurements of
numerous factory children, that between
thirteen and fourteen years of age they
i grow nearly four" times as fast on milk
! for breakfast and supper as on tea and
j coffee?a fact which iliows the benefits
, of proper diet. >'o diet is so suitable for
j growing children as well-cooked oatmeal
j porridge and milk, long the staple food
: in Scotch families, but now, in many iu'
stances, abandoned for diet very much
inferior. Owing to its easy digestibility,
it is of equal benefit to invalids, and
more especially dyspeptics, who often
j regain health and pick up llesh at
| a wonderfully rapid rate on milk, or
milk and good bread.? Chambers1
] Journal.
j THE HOME DOCTOR.
I Hovr co Treat Whooping Conyh.
"Whooping cough has three distinct
! Btages. and the treatment indicated varies
in each: 1. The preliminary state. 2.
The acute stage. 3. The stage of convalescence.
,
At first then, the symptoms will be
those of a common cold of more or less
i sevcritv. This is the time to call in a doc
tor if there be whooping cough about,
and more especially if the child has been
exposed to infection.
j Keep the patient in a quiet, clean,
warm,* well-ventilated room, and on a
lower scale of diet than usual. Do net
force food. There is far tpo mch of
i this food-forcing going ou in nurseries,
; under the impression that the strength
j must be kept up: but if there be no appetite,
there will be no power of digestj
ing what is swallowed, and matters are
' made worse, and oftentimes the door is
thm opened for tke most dangerous
complication to walk in.
j See that the child is warmly clothed,
and kept warm at night, and the chest
j covered with a piece of cotton wool,
| with oiled silk over it. If there be wheej
zing, a stimulating liniment should be
l well rubbed in, and frequently, to both
i back and front of the chest, and front of
the neck. A morsel of flannel should
i also be worn round the neck.
The diet should be low and easily digested,
and sweating should be encouraged
at night.
Some easily taken aperient will also do
good?salts and senna, castor oil, or
syrup of senna; the first is the best.
Those who live far away from a medical
man should know and remember in
all cases of bad cough, when the. chest
is choked with phlegm, and there is thus
V t 4-1.:~~ nf
mucil UirilCUlty IIJ UICUIUIU^, a, r'mm Ui
mustard in warm water.
Bathing the feet in hot water will also |
do good at this stage.
Get au ordinary cough mixture, but be |
certain to tell the chemist it is for a
child, and must contain no opium. Avoid
quack medicines and mixtures in every
shape and form, and do not give sleeping
draughts; they arshighly dangerous
at all times.
The second stage should be somewhat
differently treated. The cough mixture
may be continued unless it blunts the
appetite; the diet must be more nourishing,
but still easily digested. The
child should be kept quiet, nnd perfectly
free from annoyance or excitement of
any kiud, and from everything that
tends to irritate. As regards medicine,
it would be dangerous to suggest anything
for this sta<.re; the best plan is
either to leave the disease to nature, or
let your family physician prescribe. If
anything of the nature of a serious complication
should arise, medical aid must
be summoned as soon as possible.
Whether, when the distinctive whoop
is no more heard, danger of infection to
other children is over, is a question that
medical opinions vary on. It is better
to be sure than sorry, however, and I
I advise that the child who has had
* * 1 1 ?
wnooping cougn ue nepo uwa) u UU1 HO i
former companions until it is once again
well and strong. We may shorten the
stage of convalescence by proper treatment.
The class of medicines called antispasmodics
do good in this last stage.
Belladonna has been recommended in
persistent whooping, but it is a dangerous
drug, and should only be prescribed
j by a medical man.
A little dose of bromide of potassium,
from three to ten grains, according to
the age of the patient, will often secure
a more quiet night. It should be given
! ?under medical advice?about an hour
before sleeping time, simply mixed in a
little cold waterTonics
do great good at this time. If
! the child is pa!e and anaemic-looking,
iron in some form is good. Erom three
to ten drops of tincture of iron in half a
wine glassful of water three times a day
is an excellent tonic. But quinine also
acts as a charm, and in may be given in
conjunction with the iron. Or the citrate
of iron and quinine may be used instead.
Dose: from two to four grains in water.
Dose of quiniue: from a quarter to half a
grain thrice a day in a little drop of
sherry. A bit of biscuit to be eaten at
the same time. Cod liver oil is very
TTiinnhlp in whoonin?? couirh. Begin with
r-_ 0 _
a teaspoonfui of the brown oil three
1 times a day after food, and gradually
increase up to a dessert spoonful or more,
for cod liver oil is more of the nature of
food thau medicine.
j But cod liver oil Amalgamated with extract
of malt is better far than anything
else; it is pleasant to take, too, and so
the child will not object to it.
A change of air, as soon as the little
1 patient is able to bear it, will do much
I good.?A Family Doctor, in CanelVs.
The Biggest Medical Fee on Record.
; We complain now a days of doctors'
fees, but ye who think that doctors
charge too much, read this story of a
very ancient doctor:
! The daughters of Proetus, King of
[ Argos, were sick; they fancied they
1 were turned into cows. Melampus, a
j shepherd, had observed that when his
I sheep ate hellebore, they were violently
purged. It occurred t^ him to send
' some of their miik to the daughters of
1 the king, or, as others say, he sent the
Vw.iinJmrp it.sfllf to them. But which
! ever way it waj, Melampus succeeded in
I curing the kind's daughters of their
madness. After waiting a proper time
| he sent in his bill:
Proetus, King of Argos,
To Dr. Melampu?, Dr.
To curing daughtors of Bovins Hal.ucination,
one-third the kingdom.
Received Payment.
Aiter much and anxious deliberation,
the terms were agreed to, but the avaricious
doctor th'jn demanded another
! third for his brother Bias. This was I
I thought a little exorbitant, but was '
| nnally paid. History does not inform
j us whether sickness was common in the j
king's family.?Dio Lewis's Nwjgets
A Curious Phase or City Life.
"I fancy we loose five pounds of tea
and cotl'ee every day by people who are
j passing by dipping their hands into the
! open b'>xes at the doors and takiucr out
| what they call 'samples*' " said a Y'escy
j street jjroccr. ;'Of course, the boxes are
! rut there for that purpose, and we cannot
j very well complain, and most of tbe
persons who take the goods, no doubt,
merely want to test their quality, but
you would .1 e surprised to learn how
; many mothers of families keep their
households supplied with tea, colJeeand
: sugar, too, just in that economical way.
j' They take a little out of every box they
i pass, pretend to taste it, shake their
heads and slip it into their pockets.
Now, watch this old woman. I know
! her face well. She lays in her stores
j about twice a week." The old woman
j in question tested the grocer's tea, and
acted afterward exactly as he described.
Then she went to another grocery store a
little further down the street and repeated
the performance. '*lt is not so
easy to take sugar, as only a little can
be grasped at once, and. more stores are
to be visited, but they manage to do it/'
the grocer udded.?Kczo York Sun.
.
i "
HOW IT HAPPENED.
He held my hand?
I knew 'twas wrong,
And still I did not chide him;
He clasped my waist?
. He is so strong,
And I so weak be3ide him I
He bent his face
# j v. '/ v
Down close to mine?
His brown eyes were so pleading t *?
And maybe, too,
He saw in mineBut
eyes are so misleading 1 (
- '
His mustache brushed
My reddening cheek?
Oh, dear! how itdidticklel
I had to smile? / I
couldn't speak?
I wonder if he's fickle!
He kissed me? Well,
* ? , k v. . . . yi
If you must know,
I'm sure I don't deny it I 1 . *
And I kissed him?
Well, maybe so?
His actions would imply it.
My foolish heart
Was throbbing so
That I could not prevent it.
He said he loved me?
I don't know?
I wonder if he meant it!
?SomervUle Journal.
DTTWAPATT PAPAQD1DU3
X tiiumil JL XlLlilU it XXI UJ(
After dinner?A hungry man.
Plays a leading part in life?The
blind man's dog.
Pleasant recollections?Collecting a
bill the second time.
It is officially reported that there are
now in England upward of 30,000 blind,
persons?but to which party they belong
is not stated.
O' > 1 -v
The Piegan Indians are making trouble .
out in Wyoming. The firjt syllable of
their name is probably the cause of it.?
JV. Y. Journal. . - \
'? r<
The war articles in the Century are '
rapidly bringing that esteemed publication
down to the level of a Powder.Magazine.?Life.
The whale is said to be capable of liv- {
ing a thousand years. Ho doesn't have
to read the dizzy old jokes in the funny
papers.?Fall liicer -Advance.
The title to a dead whale is in dis- ^/' [ ]
puteinthe Monterey, Cal., courts. But ' '
the title to a live wha'e is never in dis- '
putu amuug auuuuiuuyo.
Take up the fidille and the bow
Aiid play "Let the Eagle Scream;"
Lay down the shovel and the hoe. . ' ' /
Potatoes are dug by steam.
?Boston Courier.,
"One at a dime, bftase," remarked a '
German saloon-kefeper to a crowd tbat
was scrambling for a tcn-cent piece on
the floor.?St. Faul Herald.
John Boyle O'Reilly says that if women
ruled the world it would be a poem. .
Perhaps so, but the average man don't ' /
want a poem. Hs wants pie. ?New Jkdr '
ford Mercury.
The average housewife will take more
pains to keep a sickly fifteen-cent plant
through four months of winter than'sbe
will to keep butter on ice in summer.?
Siftings.
Supposing a man lost both his arms in
the war, what is he going to do in case a
mosquito alights on his nose??Maverick? :
Call the first man he meets a liar.?Gorham
Mountaineer.
An exchange says that if clothes are
brushed up, that is* the wrong way, they
will not get shiny. We have tried this
rule on a silk hat and can testify that it
works like a charm.?uau.
English entomologists are excited over
the addition of a new butterfly to the
British fauna, making a total of sixty- !
five species. What American belle is
over there now??Boston Post.
A remedy for cold feet is announced.
Any improvement on the present style of
wrapping them in the husband's undershirt
and warming them against his spine '
will find a ready sale.?(Jermantoicn Independent.
"You do get your daughters up most
beautifully, Mrs. Hebe." "Yes; that is
art." "And you get them into society
so early. "That is mart." "And you
find rich husbauas for them." "That is,
smart."?Burdelte.
St. Louis Matron: "Xow, young man,
I tell you, you must not come fooling;
'round my daughter, Jeru3ha,any longer.'
v>..~ .yitt frtrtf " Younf? Gilli
A V U 4; xuj ivw %?w ^ _
pod: "All right, madam, that covers .
the ground."?Rambler.
"Tommy, is your sister Clarinda in?"
"Mebby she is, and mebby she ain't.
What's your Lame?" "Why do you ask?"
"Waal, ye see, she said if Mr. Tampkins
called she'd he iu, but if old Cruikshank
came she'd be out. Which be you?" Mr.
Cruikshauk departed.
There is a man in Buffalo, who is provided
with a silver wind pipe. Very
few persons are so well fixed. Whenever
he meets with financial reverses, he can
soak his wind pipe, and raise the wind.
As a general thing, the more a man soaks
his wind pipe the less money he haa.?
Siftings.
?
About the most startling piece vi mieign
news that has reached this country
since the war is the announcement that
more than 3,000 people in one province
I of Kussia are employed in making accordeons.
What makes this news so de|
pressing is the fact that a great many of
| the accordeons manufactured by these
misguided Russians will be played in
| America.?Norrislown lli-rald.
j Fannie is a little girl who has a big
| wax doll as a companion. A few days
I ago a new sister came to her house, and
! after a few days she went over to a
J neighbor's. '-Well, Fannie," said the
i lady, "where's your wax doll?" "Oh,"
she answered, turning up her nose, "I
don't have nothiu' to do with wax babies
any more. We've got a meat baby
at our house now, and that takes up all
my time."?Merchant-Traveler.
| THE LATEST CRAZE.
We're not so fond o:f England,
Or her pretty little wavs,
As once we werj, and fur heliind
We've left the British craza.
'Tis not the dainty French we love,
Nor yet the dash of Spain,
For Italy we never rav?, f
They're all upon the wane.
But now wo look for fashions to
Celestials. anJ we clap
I Our hands with joy whene'er we see
An lb-carat Jap. ?Life.
Vegetation on Coins.
The microscopists have warned us
against coin3 in whose interstices varii
ous species of algaj flourish. A microi
scopic examination ol batik notes, even
the newest and crispest, show that they
are hot-beds for the growth of cryptogainio
vegetation. One Hungarian proI
fessor has discovered on bank notes at
j least seventeen species of parasitic plants
i whose names alone really frighten one.
Let us l?astcn to congratulate all who
have no bank notes in their pockets.?
Dio Lewis.
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