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reyeNminem a manto-da
ay s-y TMtwenty-one;
Stw 'iago last May,
My mother had a son;
They tell me that my boyhood's days
Have mt 4itbe pMt
They Wk $4 ach,u TJ6pl RY,
T oo~g, and suMeh
And lead old profligacy in,
T f
Fm told to leave thes here
OUr chateaux-en-Espagne.
With wisdom's dignity and frown,
Remember i'm a man;
IM st-O adA ,,
d
d ta
A man -how strange it seems.
I met a friend just then,
Who greeted me wihreary shake,
He smiled and asked, "Of -shirt?"
$ age;
I dropped his hand and.turned away,
L ha~~dsed;
I e
And slap his rigid fae.
In one to phek life's P'4asures born,
T4here's Hi tate.e
A s o m e o uee _ e 1 1nU r &;
a to-dy
A cor rponder of the Capital
thus writsf, an incident on the
ANWaii d Albany railway, not
"ITan across what:at first struck
me as aveq Wiglar genius on my
road fo otn
ma9ehrsinseiaesimont
of me, and who indulged, from time
* ?ing SIst eiigian4i
accountable manceuvers. E v e r y
naw and-then he would get up and
hurrjy-tb the'narrow pissage
whpdjsQ24td a.er ijhse
aijping-room ears, and, when he
EYught himself secure froia obser
vM ,.wouldfalk ogsagin the
most violent manner, and continue
tl14 tager ud~ longer 'rani
ga e (epthjit sea
dn. huckled to himself with his
e@h dep J5wn in his shirt collar.
.Bat the dhanges that those portr
AnWs~' diiMerwent ! He moved
them here, there, everywhere ; he
him, on each side.of him. He wa
Eietijge#insgredy to.leave, but,
*id we*ere yet twenty-five miles
from Boston, the idea of such ear
we had entered the city then, the
in'sterymuihaye. re.maained un
solved, but the stranger at last be
clie so exsits3 that h'e could keen
' eato onggr. Some one musi
he selected me. Suddenly turning
as oalmag - miito agid fro in
1;is chair in the meantime, and slap
piig his legs and breathing hard;
"Been gone three years !"
'Yes, been in Europe. Folk!
don't expect me for six months yet,
but I got through and started ; J
tasfagfedthin at:the last sta
As he said this, he rubbed his
hands and changed the portmanta&
on his,-eft4 doteright,sand the on<
on th righMto th Tefam.
?- Go'ta wife fsaidlI..
'Yee and three children,' he re
turned, and he got up and foldei
his overcoat anew, and hung it ovei
the back of the seat.
"dou are pretty nervous ovei
the matter, ain't you?' I said watch
ingliis~fidgity movements.
" 'Well, I should think so,' he re
plied 'T hain't slept soundly for
weelp And do you know,' he went
on, glancing round at the passen
gers and speakingin a lower tone,
'1 am almost certain this train will
run off the track and break my neck
before I get to Boston. Well, the
factis I have had too much -good
innk for .nnaman lately.-Thahing
can't Jat;. taini't- @tu;al that it
should, you know. I've watched it.
i then it 8li, tei
think it's never going to stop; then
it shinj4 ig u t~hin it's al
ways going to shine; and just as
te'le d either belief,
b&ire i eover by a cha, ii
show you that .you know nothing
aboutnit.' -a -
" 'QlI,.according.to the philoso
pI; i I,'iou will continue to
have sunshine, because you are ex
pecting a storm."
YT EtV reWe''Et
I will get through safe, is because I
think I won't.
6"Wel that iscurious,'said I.
" ord;es,' he replied, Tm a
mwinist -made- a diso.very-no
bbil beReved i, it ; spent all my
riioney trying to bring it out-mort
gaged my home-all went. Every
me--verybody but
I 14i rli 0 Aiewomin
she would.work her fingers off be
ie I should give it up. Went to
Enigland--no better there; came
within an ace of jumping off Lon
don B4dge W9%tinto a. shop to
earn money enough to come home
iviWh; there I met the man I want
ed. To make a long story short,
I've ght ?30,000 home with
~I4.93f00 ind the
lt bff is, she don't know any
thing about it. Ive fooled her so
often, and disappointed her so
say nothiafighW this. *'When I
got my money through, you better
b*ts% I -*O0&2a bee4iins i,
home.
"'And now you will make her
appy,'saidI. "Sappy!' he re.!
replied, 'why, you don't know any
thing about it She's worked like
a dog while I have been gone, try
iano suppdi-t'herself and the clil
dren decently. They* payed her
thirteen cents apiece for* making
coarse shirts ; and that's the way
she lived half the time. She'll come
down there to the depot to meet
me in a ginghamn dress, and a shawl
a hundred years old, and she'll
think she's dressed up. Oh, won't
she have no clothes after this
oh, no, I guess not !'
~"And with these words he, which
implied that his -wife's wardrobe
would soon rival Queen Victoria's,
the stranger tore down the passage
w~ay again, and getting in his old
corner where he thought himself
o4: of sight wenit; throingh the
stret antomine, lauginng, put
tinzg his mouth into the drollest
shapes, and then swinging himself
back and forth in the limited space
as if he were 'Walking down Broad
way' a f[ull-rigged metropolitan belle.
And so on till we rolled into the
depot, and I placed myself on the
other car, opposite the stranger
who with a portmantau in each
hand, had descended and was stand
ing on the lowest step, ready to jump
to the platform.' I looked from his
Iface to the faces of the people be
fore us, but saw no sign of recog
nition. Suddenly he cried, 'there
they are!' and laughed outright,
but in a hysterical sort of a way,
as he looked over the crowd. I fol
lowed Bis eyes and saw, some dis
tance back, as if crowded out and
shouldered away by the well-dress
ed and elbowing throng, a little
woman in a faded dress and well
worn hat, with a face almost painful
in its intense but hop'eftl expres
sion, glancing rapidly from window
to window as the coaches glided in.
She had not yet seen the stranger;
but a moment after she caught his
eye, and in another instant he had
jumped to the platform with two
portmantaus; and making a hole in
the crowd, pushin~g one'here and
there, and running one of his bun
dies plump into the well developed
stomach of a venerable-looking old
gentleman in spectacles, he rushed
toward the place where she was
standing. I think I never saw a
L ace assume so many difernt ex
pressions in so short a time as di4
that of the little woman while he
husband was on his way to her
She didn't look pretty. On the con
trary, she looked very plain, bu
someway I felt a big lump rise it
my throat as I watched her. Shi
was trying to laugh; but God1 blesi
her, how completely she failed it
the atbempt! Her mouth got int<
the position; but it never movei
after that, save to draw down a
the corners and quiver while sh
bmiked her eyes so fast, that I sue
pect she only caught occasiona
glimpses of the broad-shouldered fe]
low who elbowed his way so rapid
ly toward- her. And then, as h
drew-close and dropped those ev
04ating portmantaus, she jus
turned completely round, with he
back towards him, and covered he
face with her hands. And thus sh
was when the strong man gathere<
her up in his arms as if she had beei
a baby,'and held her sobbing to hi
breaat. There was enough gapinj
at them, Heaven knows, and I turr
ed my eyes away a moment, and
saw two boys in threadbare round
abouts standing near, wiping thei:
eyes and noses on their little coai
sleeves, and bursting out anew a1
every fresh demonstration on th
part of the mother. When I looke<
at the stranger again he had hi
hat drawn down over his eyes ; bu
his wife was looking up at him, an
it seemed as if the pent-up tears c
those weary mhonths of waitini
were streaming through her ey(
lids."
A-3R0ME&.IGH'TER TURNE]
?: f>PRACHER.
HISTORY OF WILLIAM THOMPsON ALIA
"BENDIGo"--THE STORY OF HIS CO
VESION AS TOLD To LoNDON CONR
GATIONS.
A "converted" prize- fi g h t e r
known as "Bendigo," has recentl
attracted imuch attention in Londo:
as a speaker at religious meetingi
Heis now sixty-two years old,havini
spent nearly a quarter of a centur
of. his life in the "ring." He enjoy
the distinction of having "whippei
Tom Paddock," and of having fough
twenty-one matched fights up to hi
fort her every'onieof which b
word He now holds in his possei
sisa tree belts, including the chan
pion's and several prizes and test
monials in the shape of silver cup:
efc.2In addition to his success as
fighter, hie has become famous as
skillful fisherman, and his recor
shows that he has served twenta
eight terms in jail for drunkennes
and disorderly conduct. He is
broad-shouldered man, light of foo
and exceedingly "active -with h.
arms." As he tells his story, I
was the youngest of a family<
twenty-one children, all of whoi
are now dead save himself. He wa
early in life forced to exert himse:
to secure the necessities of lif<
He does not think he "took t
fighting" because he liked it, bi
he had a mother to support an
could get a living easier in.-thi
way than in any other. His moth4
encouraged him, and he easily fe
into the business.
He began life in Nottinghan
where most of'his exploits wez
performed. He was the most not<
rious man in the town, and a fr<
quent line in the papers was "e
digo in trouble again." His a<
count of his last term in Notting
ham jail and of his conversioni
rather striking. His last imprisoi
ment was not, he says, for thievini
To use his own lauguage :
"I was never as bad as tha
When I was a boy, and up to th
time when I was a young fe
low, my life was a rough 'un, and:
I saw any chap eating, and I wa~
hungry, I'd take his grub away froi
him. O, yes,ITd do that ; or, if
was dry~ and had no money for
dink,ITd think nothing of makin
free with somebody else's ; but, d'y
understand me, I never would whn
you might call steal anything
Well, this twenty-eighth time wa
for the old game. It was at one <
the public-houses where they wei
set against me, and wouldn't serv
me with any strong drink, eve
though I hard the money to pay ft
I it. So, somebody got a pint of al
r for me, and just as I was going tA
. drink it the landlord come alonj
- and knocks the jug clean out of in
t hand. Well, no sooner was hi
L knocked down himself than in comi
3 the policeman and there was i
3 row.'
i He was taken before the bencl
> of magistrates, who knew him we]
I and who had often dealt wit]
t him.
s "There was one of them," contin
ues Bendigo, "a hearty John Bul
1 kind of a man, that I took a lkir
to, and I used always try and ge
- round and generally managed ii
a putting the matter to him in a man
to-man kind of way, d'ye see; bu
t there was another, a vinegar-look
ing, narrow-jawed cove, who wa
e always hard on me. Well, I madi
3 my story out pretty well, and madi
I 'em laugh a bit, and, thought I,
x I shall get off light this time ; but
s din't. Said my'friend on the beneb
'Bendigo, when you're sober yon ar<
one of the nicest men in Notting
E ham, but when you're drunk yoi
ain't; therefore you will go to priE
e on for two months, and afterwar<
give bail to keep the peace for thre
b months longer.' Well, somehoi
e that sentence seemed to knock m,
I over more than any of the twenty
s seven I had served before, and :
t took to thinkirg what a fool I wa
3 not to live quiet and comfortabli
I on my pound a week like anothe
man. Yes; a pound a week-that
- what I've got to live on. Did
save it up? Not I; Icouldn't sav(
r No; what I did when I was makini
a heap of money in the ring wa
to hand it over to my brother, 01
condition that- he always give me ,
pound a week, and that's' how i
comes."
8 While in prison he attended th
regular service dvery Sunday, an
first had his attention attracted b;
the minister's account "of the set-t
between David and Goliath." H
became so absorbed in hearing hol
"David, the little un, floored th
Y giant and killed him," that he forgo
a where he. was, and shouted oul
- "Brayvo! Im glad the little ":
Swon."~ When he got to his cell h
Y began- to think seriously abou
s what he had heard, and could no
a void theconclusionthat "somebod
*t must have helped David to lick th
s giant."
e "Well," le continues, "it was a
~singular as though it was done o:
~purpose'? The very next -Sunda;
the parson preached another sea
*mon, which seemed hitting at mn
aharder than the one the week befort
aIt was all about the three men Shad
arach, Meshach, and Bendigo, wh
was- cast into the fiery furnace, an
s who was saved by the Lord fror
abeing burnt Oh, yes, I've hear
about that since; it wasn't exact]
s Bendigo who was the third inar
e but the name sounded like it to mi
and I took it as such, though
ndidn't say anything to anybody.]
sone Bendigo can be saved why nc
Lanother ?" I said to myself, and
Sthought about it a .great dea
Sunday after Sunday I looked ot
t for something about me in the se:
amon, and there it always was. A
ster the one about the fiery furnac
rcame one about the twelve fishe:
men. Now, rm a fisherman mysel
Bless you? I should rather think
4was, one of the best in Englani
e Well, after that ec,me another se:
mon about the seven hundred lef;
Shanded men in the Book of Judge:
1and I am a left-handed man. C
-course I am. It was that what bea
- the knowing ones I have had t
a stand up against. 'Well, it wa
Sthis always going on that made in
-. make upnmy mind to turn as soo:
as ever I got out. It was on
b Thursday, and in the winter, an<
e when I was det out at the gaol doo
1- there was my old friends kindi
if come to meet me. 'Come alone
, Bendy, old boy,' they said, 'we'v
n got something to eat and somethin;
I to drink for you already. Comn
a along.' ButIlhad made uip myinn
g and wasn't to be shook ; so 1 tur'
e ed round, and I sez, 'Look here,
t never will eat or drink along wit
f you or along with any man in a pul
's lic-house again as long as I livi
>f ITm done with it.' They looked a
e each other I can tell you. The
e couldn't make it out. But ther
n was one man amongst 'em name
you come along with me ? I'm going
> to Beeston.'
"And I knew if I went with hin
r I should be all right, and I went
1 And there*I met another friend whc
a wished me well, and said he, 'Ben.
e dy, what do you say to coming t(
the Hall to-night to hear Undaunt
i ed Dick ?" 'Who's heT' says I, 'l
I never heard of him.' 'It's Dick Weav
I er,' says he, 'a collier chap, that wa.
once in a bad way, but who is nom
. converted and turned preacher.
1 'Ay,' said I, 'I'll go' and hear him
he's one of my own sort;' and ]
b went, and I sat on the platform
and there I could hear 'em; 'Why
- how's this ? there's Bendigo up
t there;' 'Look, look, there's old Ben
- dy.' Bat I took no notice; only
3 sat quiet and listened. Well, nexi
a night I was there again, and heard
a what did me good more than ever
[ It was bad weather, and snowine
[ hard, ard I had to make my wa
home late at night across a park
3 and when I was half way across ]
couldn't hold. out any longer. So
i in the dark, and with the snow com
- ing.down, I went on my knees ani
I prayed as well as I knowed how
a and when I got up I felt a nem
r man. I didn't quite go without ale
a I had one half pint between them
. and Sunday, and then I went to th4
[ chapel again and on the platform
3 and in the face of everybody wh<
3 was there, I knelt down and told 'en
r how I was.changed, and how tha
s nothing should tempt me to gc
[ wrong again, and rve kept my word
and I mean to go on keeping it
Ever since that time not a drop ol
a beer or spirits has passed my lips
i and I never felt healthier, or strong
i er, or more lively than I do now.
Bendigo is not an orator; he can
not even read, but . his meetingi
have been largely attended, espe
cially by persons of his own class
who listen with rapt attention t<
his story of h:s conversion and hii
evidently sincere exhortation. H<
announces his willingness to spen<
e the rest of his days on the platform
t persuading men to embrace religion
His proper name is William Thomp
son. He is now at work upon hil
e primer trying-to leain his A].
SC's.
y A BEE STORY.-A lady relates th
e following story: Her father onc<
brought home a molasses hogshead]
sto be used as a water tank. Oi
Swashing day her mother said
"Let's throw the suds into it, tV
soak the molasses from the bottom.
The instant she had done so she es
claimed: "Oh! I have drowne<
Lhundreds of our neighbors' bees.
The hogshead was bakwithbees
that were busily appropriating th
sweets from what they must havy
considered an enormous blossom
The good lady made haste with he:
skimmer to skim the bees from th
top of the water, and spread then
on a board in the sunshine ; bu
- they seemed drowned ;and nearl;
t dead ; and she was very sorry.
SAll the bees that were aroun<
L the hogshead had flown away a
tthe dash of the water, but in a fes
Sminutes they returned, accompanie<
Sby scores of others. They began
e curious work. They immediatel;
..went to work upon the unfortu.nat<
rbees turning them over and ove:
I and working upon them constantl:
L with their heads, feet, and antenna
the result of thaeir busy labor wa,
that one after another gave sign.
.; of life, stretched its limbs and wings
Scrawled about and dried itself ii
,t the sun and flew away. The lad:
a said that there was half a pint a
s first, and that there remained onl3
e about a dozen hopeless cases be
Syond the.humane efforts of theia
a, brothers.
r An energetic woman who hai
ybeen married four times had man
, aged by doubling and tripling t
e add to the population of our belov
,ed country to the extent of twenty
e four souls. When we expressed
,little natural surprise and admnira
.tion at the number, she sadly re
I marked: "Stranger, I could a' bea
b that-I'd a' made the other dozer
e oef I hadn't lost so much time
Scourtin'. Men folks is so slow."
I -
y' "Sambo, (is am a magnificen'
e day for de race." "What race, To
a by?" "Why de colored race yoi
1 Istnnid nigga."
FASHIONABLE B L OD -
DRINKERS.
HOW.NEW YORK LADIES VISIT THE SLAUGH
TER HOUSES AND QUAFF BUMPERS OF
HOT BLOOD.
I have read occasional scraps in
the press, and listened to conversa
tions in private circles of remarkable
cures having been effected by means
of the .transfusion of blood from
the veins of healthy persons or ani
mals to those of patients dying from
consumption,. or for the want of
the life-giving fluid, but have
never paid any attention to it, and
left it for the doctors to cogitate up- 1
on. Yet within a few days the
subject was presented -to me in such
a form that I could. no longer ig
nore it. I was making an exaImina
tion of a number of the leading
slaughter houses of the city with
a view of learning how nearly a
million and a half of population are
fed on animal food, when 1 observ
ed private carriages draw up on
Second avenue, in the neighbor
h6od of 'East Forty-seventh street,
andfrom them ladies alight whose
dress and manner too plainly assur
ed me they were -members of the
bon ton. Some of them were ac
companied b y delicately-formed
children, and others had gentlemen
escorts. "What can brng these
ladies into this district, 'lled with
rough and uncouth butchers and
fat-boilers?" I naturally asked my
self. I had not long to wonder, as
I followed a bevy of beauties into
the slaughter-house of Henry Eis
ner, corner of Second avenue and
Forty-seventh.street, and, halting
at the door, saw them extend lit
tle silver cups under the necks of
the suspended animals and filling
ther& with fresh, warm blood, drink
it with the avidity a hungry child
shows when glas of'tilk or cream
is given to it. As the men cut the
throats of the bellowing beeves
these ladies, reared in the lap of
luxury, w'ould without any outward
sign of fear, either collect the blood
themselves, or stand by while the
3 butchers did it for them. Some
Sdrank of it bnt sparingly, while
others passed the cup for a second
draught. These were the blood
drinkers of Gotham, of whom I had
Sheard traditions but who, until then,
I had supposed existed only in the
1 imagination of the city Bohemian
who exercises his inventive genius
to earn a few dollars per week to
pay his washerwoman and keep soul
and body together. One thing struck
Ime as singular-that some fifteen
persons who entered the slaughter
Shouses in the half hour I was
a there only the females partook of
a the red 'draught. A few remain
-ed in their carriages and had the
1 blood carried out in silver cups
Sor glasses from which they par
1 took. I ventured to ask one la
b dy why she drank of the blood,
r when she replied: "On the recom
mendation of my physician. 1~ am
I suffering from a lung affection that
b he reports is likely to result in con
r sumption, and he says this is The
I only certainty of recovery-that I
i must partake of it freely." "And
r how long, madam, have you follow
Sed this singular treatment?" I ask
e ed. "For nearly four months. At
r first my stomach rebelled at the
,sight and taste of it, and I could
3 only barely taste it, but I remem
a bered that we ate blood in our beef
,steaks and roasts, and I gradually
tbecame resigned to it, until now I
r can drink a quart." " ow often
b do you come here?" was the next
question. "Well, not at any regu
lar time. I usually come every
Friday, which is the principal day
for cattle killing. Others do not
drink the blood of cattle, but pre
lfer that of lambs." "And do you
-fnd that your health is improving?"
"0, yes, sir ; rapidly. When .1 first
-began the treatment I was very
-much reduced; was pale, weak and
emaciated, so that it was with diffi
culty I could get out to the carri
age. I weighed but ninety-six1
pounds. Now, as you will see,
I have considerable color in my face.
1 feel quite strong, and I weigh one
hundred and fourteen pounds
quite again younwill say in four
months. My physician expresses
the hope that if I persevere a month
or two more a complete cure will
ha been experienced. The diffi- j
ulty about it is the annoyance of
,oming here where we are ex
?osed to the gaze of these rough
nen and the children of the tene
nent houses around us, who crowd
nto the doors and look at us with
,s much astonishment as if we were
ircus riders in a street parade. It
s not pleasant for ladies but we
nust come here, as the blood must
)e drank fresh fjom the veins before
1oagulation takes place."-N. Y.
orrespondence of the Cincinnati
Onquirer.
DFATH.-We shall come down to
he time when we shall have but
,en days left, then nine days, eight
lays, seven days, six days, five
lays, four days, three days, two
lays, one day. ~Then hours; three
iours, two hours, one hour. Then
)nly minutes left; five minutes,
our minutes, three minutes, two
ninutes, one minute. Then only
ieconds, left; three seconds, two
econds, one second.! Gone! The
hapter of life ended! The book
-losed ! The pulse at rest! The feet
,brough with the journey! The
iands closed from all work! No
Prord on the lip. No breath
n the nostril. The muscles still.
rhe lungs still. The tongue still.
he nerves still. All still. You
night put the stethoscope to- the
breast, and hear no sound. You
night put a speaking trumpet to
he ear, but not break the deafness.
NTo motion. No throb. No life.
still! Still!
SuGGEsTIoNs-Young den and
young women learn to use your
)wn hands skillfully, and your
)wn brain freely; and you will
be independent, happy and ioble
Ef you can't work you are to be pit
ied, if you won't you are to be des
pised, for you are then mere human
qponges. Life can haveo meaning
without some noble, earnest work
f hand, head or heart. Living
earnest individuals, men and wo
men are always in demand.
Young man, defend the dignity
f labor- by doing noble work.
Young women do not scorn indus
try, but ennoble-it by your example,
for a true woman "looketh well to
the ways of her household, and
eateth not the bread of idleness!"
(Farmer's Vindicator.
POsTAGE ON POSTAL Cians.-A
Boston paper says: We have just
aid six cents postage on a ,postal
card sent us, because the sender
had thoughtlessly written a date
on the side designed for the address
alone. Pasting any printed or
written matter on either face of the
card subjects it to double letter post
age. The directions* are explicit
that nothing but the name and ad
dress must be written on one side
of the card, and that nothing must
be attached to the other, any
way.
An advertisement reads: "When
you travel, take the Pan-Handle
Route." Many a man has been ut
herly routed by a pan-handle-.with
a mad and lively woman having
Eold of it."
"I1 would advise you to put -your
iead into a dye tub, it's rather red,"
aid a joker to a sandy-haired girl.
I would advise you to put yours
to an oven, it is rather soft," said
ancy.
Lying is trying to hide in a fog;
I you move about you sre in dan
~er of bumping your head agginst
he truth; as soon as the fog blows
ip you are gone anyhow.
"Bless you," said John Henry,
vith tears in his eyes, "she takes
ier own hair off so easy that per
iaps she doesn't know how it hurts
Q have mine pulled out."
A young lady asked a book store
lerk the other day if he had "Fes
s." "No," replied the clerk, "but
:'m afraid a boil is coming on the
ack of my neck."
Ayouth called at the West Alabam
an office one day, and after watch
ng them set type awhile, said to one
f the typos: "You use a heap o'
our-penny nails."
A grave subject to discuss in
ntm1-the Guibord case.
Of the 1,300,000,000 human be
ings inhabiting the globe,370,000,
000 have no paper or writing mate
rial of any kind; 500,000,000 of the
Mongolian race use a paper made
from the stalks and leaves of plants;
10,000,000 employ for graphic par
poses tablets of wood; 130,000,000
-thePersians, Hindoos,Armenians,
[and Syrians-have paper made
from cotton, while the remaining
300,000,000 use the ordinary staple.
The annual consumption of this lat
ter number is estimated at 1,800,
000,000 pounds, an average of six
pounds to-a person, which has in
creased from two ond a half pounds
during the last fifty years. To pro
duce this amount of paper, 200,
000,000 pounds of~ woolen rags,
800,000,000 pounds of cotton rags,
besides 'great. quantities of linen
rags; straw, wood, and other mate
rials are yearly consumed. The pa
per is manufactured in 3,960 paper
mills, employing 90,000 male and
180,000 female laborers. The pro
portionate amounts manufactured
of the different kinds of papers are
stated to be: of writing paper,
300,000,000 pounds; of printing
paper, 900,000,000 pounds; of wall
papers, 400,000,000 pounds, and
200,000,000 pounds of cartoons,
blotting paper; etc.
A TzL Vnmza's Max.-Agood
story is told of a certain tea ped
dler, who lives not a hund:red
miles from Napanee, Canada, and
who was pushing his vocation
in the back country. Having -all
ed on a poor woman and asked her
to purchase a box of tea, she told
him she was not able to paTfor it,
whereupoi he ProPosea to take the
baby that la" in the r&" ii ex
ehange-foik; and she at bnce con
senting, he took the baby and left
the tea Udnking the woman would
soon follow. When he came to the
next house he told what he had
done, and was informed that the
baby did not belong to the woman,
but had only been left with her the
night before. He then concluded
to return the child, but had to give
the woman another box of tea to get
her to take it back. He says he'll
not buy any more babies.
"THArr BrasED Bo.- "And that's
a blessed baby," remarked one wo
man to another in a Detroit street
ear.
"Yes; he is, but he's dreadful on
easy."
"Wuss nor ailing-he's most.sick.
He began at eight o'clock lastnight,
and for thirty-four hours by the
clock, or till just At daybreak, I
had to trot himn on my knee and
keep singing: Yum-yum - high.
dum."
A Milwaukie paper says of the air,
in itsarelations to man; "It kisses
and blesses him, but will not obey
him." Blobbs says that description
suits his wife exactly.
A Pennsylvania man captured
a rattlesnake and set about teach
ing it some tricks. He was on the
high road to success when they
had to bury him..
Success is full of promise till
men get it, and then it is a last
year's nest, from which the bird
has flown.
"I'm particularly uneasy on this
point," said the* fy to the young
gentlman who stuck him on the
end of aneedle.
The cable says the Montana has
her forecastle deck stove in. That
must make it warm for the occu
pants._________
* The-boy who was kicked out of
time by a gun said he fired and fell
back in good order.
"Oh, mamma !" said the youngest
darling yesterday, '1 tried to read,
and I rode."
None talk so loudly of benevo
lence as those who subsist on it.
A lofty position-the top of an
editorial staff
A useful thing in the long run
Breath.
Staving business-making bar
rels