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Mr ,r ? ' .* W.* V ~xtt HL lof. uJillfiotion ; KnBg ? "''iKv ?3 . ~rWfV*iA\ Judor-vltoh, dot miss ?? nefor ru ?o sottlnM I thuu around j dor ktoa ?'? $ y#t8S25llrour<eee teSSfliK&Svfel0'4* sssa ML ^roekin*. E* K& A HttATTJEBED 1NTELJLEOT. 'Help! holp! holpl" ., Btartod to my foot In a tromor of ;ht m this cry rang through my tho Partition wall - rjb to Jffa ??? Ihen I bethought me of tho hall, and ratktog out thoro I knockod on the door juoxt to mino. ttc*J1ulSj!,0llOWOd by ft l0W domoiU I oalled. t "Qpon the dooi If you need help." V0,00? ,?,vIdently that of on aged ?yiioWNo. 87P? ^ sis^rF2"-' f f ankind to me. I had improro my own mind, ? ? my?elf toto-a-teto with Idloqy. I could movo out, but I had Sft&S mo\od ,ln' duoats - wsoaroo as hen's tooth.:V.I wai VkA^fviM Jam J iw 1,, 'i b;v ivmnHVU mm UOU J VOOtQ. I Wai pPO >aring myself for dramatio reading*, Ad spent the most of my timo In tho Irlll wn*fc of my profession, with intor ted to the rendoring of olas lUr tho belle? that however poor domeptodwnflghbor and rtiT*d v in : hor ; insane C I could drown-her out with rppogitiott bodlnni, and I dooldod to whoro I was and attend to my own x* ad only dono sot d your own bttslnosp'V^W A ? formula, but it is aJUttlo classic ; of sensible, pertinent ndvioo, which wo would do Well to ongravo on the ritual of onr dally lives lnlettors of gold. So IMMhftr parenthesis. idled aloud. X raved and. ranted elop tuy voioo. I paood my oham . a long whlto gown and holding low oandlo in m* .right hand, I strode up and down, repottM rolohorlal tonos: ii' "y~ I9i why thon tis time to? saw a pale, still woman with j a resolute faoe,* oomlng-out of number ??How is your patient^' I askod hur riodly as sho passed mo on tho land fat, ."si'-fi1.. '>? i'.-'"-ir ' " 10 woman stated at mo a momont shir did not qnlto understand. ;ho?tho lnsano woman," I ex icd. )h, yes, muoh bottor, but I oannofr , totalk,"and she hastonod away le X wondorod whether she was *; nnrso to tho mysterious woman shut up there, or a rolatlvo, possibly a ? " daughter.vm*' ?. . ??. ? f Oddod on tho latter when I ovof tho fon({,'Janguago Sho Jtsod to 'tho poor iwteionted. eroature^:. ovor a harsh or roprosohful word, | it the tender endoarmeftts of an affoo- | t>n that was solMnorifiolng as only e strongost filial lovo oan 3>o. And > twrtvtiA and oareful of tho unoonsolous that no eye wa^ allowed to a her in that wretched state. ? Kron in iny^own^wav0!1longTto ie sad and silent woman, who j Mutant. Ai ? - ? am I of taw , th 'V -- t.?WoliowMa<,.of jSSL*ni ? tho p.tlont Sow "Slni to hrtranl# anA / jJJJ tho | iewP ouro^ r think m?r was strange?nothing wu mine. I had mado a mistake and walked Into No. 27. Tho -woman who sat there alono roso as ii ashamed and stepped baok. "I beg your pardon," I said as I ro oovored myself, "but it seems I have mado a mistake. I was thinking so busily, I did not notice." "Won't you sit down! X:iko this?" "I'll kill you I Holp! Holpi" shrieked a discordant voico?tho roioo that haunted me. I started In sadden (right; ovory nook and oorner was visiblo to the oyo; the bed was there, white and .unoccu pied; no ouo was pfosont oxoopt wo two. ? "Who is UP What is It?" I gasped, tnrning pale and siok. ,rMy parrot," said the woman, oalm ly, pointing to a gray African parrot sitting sleopily in a cago in tho oorner. "I dsto say shr. Mton amuses you with her noise. Bhe is a vory tragic bird. I iun yory ehoioe of her, but some day you tnay borrow her, if you liko her for company." "I would liko to wring hor nock," I said and wont home. 3%e next time I knot tho janitor I asked him how ho datoji to tell me thero was a orazy woman in that room. "Alevimmlns cos crazy," ho said, with a cynical Smile. "I tolls her yon vaa orazy mit your own selluf." "Told her I was crazy P" "IToos, and sho vos afrioet, toa" Tbon I was a mad woman. I had booh fooled and outwitted by a lout of I a boy, and that bird 1 most desplsod, a poll parrot.?Mrs. M. L. liaync. Plantation Negroes. Plantation negroes aro, to those who boo them for the first time, most mlsor able spooimousof "mon and brothers," if they aro to be judged by tholr exter nal appehranoo, Thoy aro usually very black In color, with prononnoed nogro features, and Ignorant, In somo oases thoy aro but a low dogroos obovo tho animals. Thoy livo only in the; Sresent, know nov care nothing for tho iturc, and soom to regard freodom as only the means of deoiding for them whethor they will work or romain idle, and, as may bosupposod, if, bacon and corn broad oould be had without the labor, it Is safo to say they would ro main idle. I wis told, howover, dosplte their dejeotod, work-a-day look, they aro a very happy and oontontod people, and they are troated with muoh considera tion and.klndnoss on tho two planta tions I visited, being allowed to build hats and out all tho firo wood on tho lands, and in 111noas cured for either by " sreeer or owner, who omploys a a in urgent oases. . plantations have also stores 10 grounds wherein-tho hands y at market rates all tho neoes jf their livos, food, clothing and shoes?in fact anything that can be had at the usual or ??gonoral country atoro." And this has beon done . in order to tho "plantation hands" at home, ] ifig tho plantation season, the got off to town after a pay. is no ohanco pf tholr roturn until all tholr monoy is spont and eith er Work or starvation staroa them in tho faco. And, as most plantation (hands aro bom and ralsod in the work, ftney know no othor. Occasionally a moro ambitious or in tolUgent one will aspire to "learn to bo a barber," and lonve his "nntivo heath," but it is sold that, thoy do not as a rule take to oduoatlon, and prefer to romain ignorant tfnd work by day, and if thoy ban danoe and frolio ,by night thoy aro oontent with life as they find It. Tholr domoBtio relations and moral life is bettor loft unquestioned in many oases, although tho law oompols Tnnrrlago. It is often honored in tho broach only, but thoy havo the enthusiastic religious "revivals," and their colored proaohora aro over on tho plantations and hold services in their ohuroh at "Orton" for the religiously inollped. . Some womon seem disposod to think that the Uvos of "house servants1' are more envlablothan their own, working as they do in tho hot'fields, , but it fi not an enorgotlo longing and involvbB too miioh thought to do put into aotivo oxeoutlbn. One rather black-eyed looking young woman, to whom I spoke, asKod mo if I thought I could f>t hor a "plaoo" as oook at tho north. asked hor wiiat wages she earned as field-hand, and sho said: "Mostly $8 , a week, but they say I could get $12 for, 4: month a* obokl" ,Hor mental ' arithmotlo was a little offbutshowftsln earnest I told her I did not think aha would liko tho Northern States, it waa so muoh coldor, and sho lattghdd and said: ^"That's what thoy all say, miss; mobbo I would not" . Freodom moans to this olass of pooplo only tho l ability to onrn monoy and provide)' for thomsolvoH, instead of having ovory- I ???Kwo cic _ 'Understand how? muoh fcios been" done for thont? mington (tf V.) Oor. Troy Times, ; | i i i 11 i i O"*"" 1 Cold Ham anrt fbr Athlete*. In Dr. Sargent's recent looturo on 4<What ShallWe Do to Got Strong?" he aaid in the oourso of his remarWl "It has boonouatomary to train athlotos on lean boef and mutton, but Ha J it this a mistake, as a tissual t food should bo used in com* n with those, and tho dl?tj be so changod as to moot tigc] .jmonts of tho organism of tho n using it <or to ostablUh Ono ' ' all porsons was rldtouloul. ono f? not suporior to moal. >r other, farinacoous food, and of tho musdlos of a man is o#f to of hts strength. Farlnaoeoftte a man dow& and will i more onduiranoe* A man >strikes a blow, equal tofourbundrtd Ada wodld bo called astrong maiy] this strength oan not be kept up _ any longth of tlmo on antmal food* i It comoalrom tho baao of tho brain, endurance must boisought for In ' as of food. To reduce the a man in training loan moate m iS.'gaa'swttJSR i oarbon, such aa ham and sansagea, which should always bo eaten oold. Throe years ago this would bo oo?? sldeted ridlotrtotta by trainers, but for a diet for running, walking, and row lag it has bean found that saoeharlno food, with beaf ot mutton, Is the bast; r, and alcohol* as well aa labloj Indeod, * a person HHHV vbut tho and worked Into I Itoratd. . ii*a???'Via^f,???J lelphia l\csi m tae the has atk ? order iv; Tho Mexican Lmkk >};*?: | The lasso Itaelf Is a rope mado of the twisted libro of the maguey, or aloe, known, in Europoan markota. it Sisal hemp. Thoro Is a groat difforonco in tho quality; tho boat and strongost aro twisted so oxtromely tight thatlt is al most impossible to untwist tho strands.. One end is worked Into a loop, lined lnsido with leather, through whioh. whon about to throw tho lasso, tho other end is passod. The rope is about thirty feet long, about ono-third of it formed into a noose whioh is grasped a llttlo abovo the loop?to-wit.: where tho rope )s double: tho rest of it is ooilod round and hold in tho left hand, ready to let go, tho extrome end bolng kopt separato end of oourse rotalnedT Tho nooso should hang woll olear of tho ground when held level with the shoul der, and, whon opou, forms a oirolo of four or five foot in dlamoUjr. The las so is swung over tho head and loft shoulder, and baok over the right " ?hon lder?a' peculiar turn of the wrist as it begins to roturn keeping th6 nooao opon. It is thus made to oirolo round and round his head by tho thrower un til ho is within dlstanoo of his objeot, when it is launched and flios off at a tangot, tho nooso assuming a circular form, and Bottling quietly round tho objoot aimod at. Beforo it settles tho thrower soizos tho other end with his right hand, and gives it two ranid turns round tho oabeza of his saddle, so as to got a purchase. If ho is not quick enough at this, and tho , bull tigntons tho ropo beforo a good purchase has been effcoted, tho resnlt is that tho ilngors get oaught botwoon the ropo and the oabosa and vory much injured. It is no infrequont thing to soo a man who has lost ono or two fingers in loarning tho art. It is beantlfuf to seo the oxaetltudo with whioh an adept will throw tho lasso *"om or to any point, ovor oithor alio ' '.or, bohind or in front Thoro is no credit In catch ing a bull by the horns, for ho oannot ! bo thrown by them; but oonslderablo fcjkill Is required to pitoh tho noose Just ! in front of him, when he is at full lop, so that noxt stop ho troads into it; thon, on its oelug tlghtonod wlthnsud <don jerk* rolls oVorin tho dust Tho horso, too, has to loarn his part of tho ' businoss, and boar at tho rlgrtmomont in the oppOBltd direction, or-ho might bo thrown instead of tho bull, to wnfdh indood ho is often inferior in weight It .:1s considered, disgraceful to hav? to Joosen tho lasso, and to let the bull carry it off with him. A good hand at it will catch by either leg aiono a bull galloping past at any angle. The most <11 nioul t foat of all. is to lasso him round tho quarlorn when at full gallop at the moment whon his hind legs aro doubled -up under him. Usually tho noose dips ?oil', and nothlhg happens; 'but if ttPDO thrown precisely at the right lnstsnt his hind legs are pinned right up un do!' his holly, ana ho is brought to a standstill In tho postton of a sitting dog, looking indesorlbably silly in suoh an unwonted position. Thoso and othor foats of lassoing aro soen at tholr bost at it h&clonda, on tho oooasion of tho annual horradoro, Whon t^| young r bullB aro driven in from the plains, thrown dowii, and markod with a hot irOn with tho initials of tlioir proprie tor's n a nut. Frlonds and neighbora , oomo togcthor from afar, and vio with ono another in tho display of' doxterity and horsomanship.-?Londw Saturday Jticview. . ? " , ' Altomanon of tho Senate. Twonty-flvo or thirty yoara ago, 1 think, at Mnvvavillo, Cal., which was tutu an established, yet shantylike, town, says a, writer in Tho San Krauolsco Call, llvod Judgo Btophon Fiold, and ia his law ofiloo was a young follow named Georgo Gorham, who boardod with a plain family, and at tho tablo another guest was a florid, Wolsh-looking stranger, In tho next houfte lived an Irishtnan namod Murphy, who had a bright, Interesting daughto: but ho was fond of whipping her wf anything went yrroiie with him. whipping had beon going on somo . and one. day tho boarders held Tan indignatkm noting, and rosolvod to go next door JMteo old Murphy, and toll him that! ^riid not atop oorrooting tliniM Bfcnji nj and on all opoasi^l^^^Bcpk^^ take him down to him,$p?ho ally brave, hut th^HHrai?Voryimm front and hold thtMmjjfrtiob mooting. . Bovoral' years jt^Hwwone of thoso parties, Fiold; w?? tflod to bo justlco of the supremo ol^^KjBtlH later by Bovoral years th^raHnoahs in Cali fornia nominated GtX^K for governor, and they put on tfcd^ftfcet with him said: "Are you the littiMellow from Long Island who boardfediWlaty svlllo wr' mef Don't you know nio?^ "N# I c't think I do." "Woll, I'm Jones, ti Welsh-looking fellow Who formed Ca<j of tho posse to go in fend make old MurphjjMJtop keeping that child soroam thfe; "h6y h know ,!8i?$Ml*m Sharon." . My informant says that oonso^uontly thero mot at Washington oity Jonos and Shaton In tho United States sonato, Gorham seorotary of tho senate, and Fiold on tho Supremo bonoh-riUl brought out of that boarding-house. Mary Murphy grow up to bo aniaterost. ing woman. Aj Pel : . ,. ;? " Intorviovor?I should like. Mr. Whit* man, to hate yoiur thoory of poo try. RYdttlt Whitman?Pootry, sir, Is the soul of thought; tho upward hoavings Of divine inspiration. "But I am reforring more to the me chanical details of versification?rhyme and tythm,' for Intftanoo.". m * 4?WeU, sir, the rythm should be as undulating as tho soa, and the rhymee should be as perfect? , ^ I "But in your last poem yot? make ?glorious' rhyme with ?hodgd-foftoo.'J^' "Oht no, you aro mistaken. Glori rlous rhymos with tho word notorious." ^ "But thnro le no suoh word in your poem." "No, not in that poem; it waa In an other boom published somo tithe ago." - Philadelphia Call -*1 ^ ^n' , .. | On * window pane of the room In Mexloo in whioh John Schlosaer tho sttiolde iiiod, somo time tinee, was dls oovorod, soon after his death, the im print of a man's hand, M it in extend ed hand had beon pressed against the pane and hold thefo until its outlines had beon oloarly improssod upon the glass. Rumor says that it is really the imprint of Bohlossor's hand, and was made after he had swallowed the fatal draught. When tho pretont oooupnnt took possession <* tike premise* efiV.rts A GEKUIXB Ttoe Oowboy^Twtln* There had boon oonsiderable ; variogatei with oapool ally lujrid tratlons of tho possibilities of profanity, on the merits of the two bulls, and for govofffl&^ilghts tho smoke .hong low oyer the campfires, da if listening, too, awo-strjckou to rite, to the various etorios of their prowess in former strug gles. Muroheeon4* ? men were to the wostward of the trail, but they camo over to Zingman's roundup, two milos to tho east, every ovoning to talk over their bull, and speculate on the ohanoos if Zingman's men folt the spirit of ow nership in anything they wanted to pit against him. But Zingman's people jUositated. They had a bull, * "Texas," wliich fcad klllod ovorvtbing he had taokled, and they thougnt in an unfair advantage to turn him loose against so manifestly an inferior animal as Mbr cheson's "Wild Bill," though they couldn't call to mind any other animal they wero willing to risk money on. . This position broke np the pokor game, and give rite to some pronounced Solomlcs. If wind could havo sottled 10 dispute it would havo been decided iu favor of both sides. Bolying on tho anoodotos related of oaoh, one would suppose that a contest between them could only result in tho termination A of time. Muroheson men wero a unit in tho statement that on one ocoasion "Wild Bill" had rushed his adversary down, and, unable to stop his head way, had gono home with a Baptist churoh onhls horns. Zingman's poo Elo concodod the possibility of this, ut maintained and proved conclusive ly by tho testimony of ,eaoh other that "Toxas" had on ono occasion picked up an oarthquako on hit horns and held it thero until it agroed never to visit that section again if he would lot it go. On this statq of facts it jras obvious that nothing but a mooting could def initely dotermine the superiority, and the. duel was arranged, for, Sunday morning. The fight was to oomo off on neutrol ground, midway betwoen the two herds. Every cowboy was to loavohls woapons behind him, a Judi cious precaution, slnoo tho cowboy pis tol has a supornatural method of dis charging itsolf, without referenoo to material c&usos. Eaoh side was to re main behind its own bull, and neither to approach the fraoas closer than 800 yards, the wiunors to take all the money to bo found on tho* porsong or in tho possossion of tho losers. Bright and early Sunday morning, the grass still shining lu the dow, and tho sun coming up with ovory promise of a glorious prairie day, tho bulls were out out of their respeotlve hords and driven to the battle-ground. A man who has never seen a Texas bull doesn't knbw how muoh fight oau be tied up in one hldo. Strong and wiry* not tOo heavy in tho flank, abort of horn and quick in action, he was built to fight, and oontrivos to disohargo his mission without involving himsolf in the slightest unnecessary complication. Lashed to madnoss by tho whips of tho oowboys, laid on mercilessly to arouso their rago, tho two bulls camo in sight of each other, and their baokers with drew. By naturo a Texas bull 1b all tho timo as mad as ho can got, until ho soos anothor bull, thon tho thor mometor of his wrath goos to boiling point. :?> ?s they spied eaoh other their heads wept down and their tails went tip. Thoy approaohed slowly and with a sinuous motion, pawing the ground and moaning. "Texas- appoared a littlo larger of tho two, and ho was fully as notlvo.as his foo. A liundrod paces apart they faiti.* sprang from tho earth, and tho holloa and tho crash of mooting mingled together as tho ground tromblod bbnoath them.' "Toxas" had the blast of it, fo* "Wild lb his haunohos, but tho Samo little bull rooovorod first, and in io nox t attrfck gorod "Toxas" under tho hood, nearly roaohlng his throat, "Texas," still dazed by'the first shook. fulled to cbpntor oh' his adversary. But tho next rush found him prepared, and ho reolvod his onomy .full on tho forehead, driving him again to his haunohoB. Beforo "BUly oould rally "Toxas" had raised the flosh off his nigh foreshouldor bone. The smell of his own blood orOzod jtho little bull, and his next dash was hbt straight fie straok Texas oblique* ly, throwing up tho head as tho .-latter and thon turning, boforo ho had passod, he ripped tip the big bull's fore-log. Catching him bohind tho shoulder and tearing out tho muscles, cords and ten dons, Though badly lamod, Texas wM not vanquished, Ohoo more ho boro tho little bull dbwn, but Bill was tho lefest injured of the two, . and strug r^rhat^damage he haddono, JfkgSSS Was fToxas t Jg? wa# At him In a motaeht* but the hSd his hea/ hffih, ^^Sl^aSht him between tho forologs, ripping him hS? ;babk*??hnounoed We TOefoat. 0< tietory nbd dorlsion Murohfeson's mendasWdoi?& and drove thei* bull back to theT Three hours lator the two )bords boon seized at tho timo the duo. on his way baok to the ranoh from which ho borne. Ho couldn't go baok Mrs water. And sb alone ho wapdored 7* beaten; disgraced and griovously led, and in a lHtle while wall lost c? oont l'rovlou* t<Mh*t tlmo it wm Wo AMES'S Wonld wear a bollock otH to walk to tho slaughtor. flat with tho approaoh of the Northern Faoiflo Kniiroad a now order of thing* oamo; a eteor that wm formerly worth $25 now booamo worth HKUtttf$M. Mr, Youmaaa, of Polhi, K V.# Inlma tho following o*rd: "Within paat %lxty days I hVvo paid #9,1/50 'or indorsing. Notloe l? hereby given to the public generally thftt'fS* man wh?<ite!? me toptidotee hitf&ot*' will do well to hate his life insured for the lK>no0i, of hta family Iwforo making auoh application." ?."% ? ia? .JixC SB?,!,, i M . "i * *-1$ Ba</? IUaoallty. permitted to quote the fpl from a privato lotter roeelvod city from New York, wbioh considerable light on tho inbWo of young Eno's knavery In tho >mont of the affairs of tho National bank: Young Eqo sow that ho had wrooked tho Ix^k, and mado o olonu breast of theifrtterto his father on Sunday. Theihook to tho old man was a torn ble ono and his anger knew no bounds. He consulted with sovoral of tho dlroot ors and they examined tho seourltlos In ?ad tho books of tho bank, and found that tho presldont bad sunk Id,000,000 of the bank's assets In Wall street. Nor was this all. Ho had mado way, likowlso, with a million and ft half in seourltlos deposited in the bank by his brothers ana sisters, and ovon his llttlo nophews and nlooesl Amos B. Eno, wheel ho disooverod theso faots on Monday and Tuesday, was CQtnplotely overcomo by tho basonoss of his son's crime, and from the first was for hay lng him arrested and punished as se verely as tho law wo\ild permit It waf all tho other directors could do to <]ivcrt his mind from his son to tho bnnlr ltsolf. Tboy ploadod with him not to allow tho bank to bo closod, bo oause of tho suffering that would bo oausod to the hundreds of doposltors. Finally his anger toward his rascal of ft eorf gavo way to pity for those who liadtrustod the officers of the bank, and he consontod to make good a por tion of the sum his son had ombcuilod. His first offer was $1,600,000, but this was not enough, and again ho deelarcd that Ijo would seo his son In prison be fore ho would pay any more. But tho arguments of tho dlreotors provallod, and he contributed out of tho savings of ft long and busy lHo, onough monoy, with tho few hundrods of thousands which tho othor dlreotors supplied, to oover tho dofiolonoy and makotno.bank solvent Well, tho bank on Wodnosday morn ing was declared solvont, and the work of paying tho frightened depositors be Mr. Eno, Sr., and ono of two of va-dlreetors were in tho bank, aiid they thought that their troubles ^roro In a measure over, whon . Another dra matic Incident occurred, andfoi^tyihio tho fate of tho bank hung a&tla liktho balance. This was nothing jwforauor loss than a oheok for f9(\Q00, Vnloh John it Eno had drawn on fhe lank* and whloh he had jgot oasfed fown town, after ho had oonfessfcd to an embozzlomont of $4,600,000 to his father. This was the cli max of impndonoo, knavery, and hard-heartednoss. Think of this young scoundrol gotilng such a oheok oashed, and through the oloarlng-houso, know ing,'that Els father would have to pay it,, or. allow tho bank to olose Its doors. At first Amos It's Indignation was suoh that ho doolarod that he would no? pay a oent; this laei stab from his son, ho said, was mdt#than ho oould bear. But ono of the dlreotors of the bank offorod to sharo tho amount ovonly with htm, and aftor a time ho agreod to tho proposition. One ofch hardly conooivo of a more dosploablo aot than' that of young Eno's*?drawing on a bank of whloh ho was president, l>ut In whloh he has no funds, and after ho had confessed to an emboaalomont of $4,600,000! If Amos B. Eno had had his own way, ho wo&ld have lot the banks oloso Its doors and would have sonl.nis son to Sing Sing; and ho dosorvos all pralso for al lowing tho Interests of tho depositors to outwolgh his personal footings In tho matter, and for his unexampled gonoroslty In protecting those who, knowing that his Integrity was beyond question, supposed that tho stook had not degonoratod In his son.?JJoston Tranwrfif. Tho Gomlnft Woman, If a woman must oarn lier own liv ing thoro aro many technical pursuits for wliioh she may bo qaalifiod. Lith ography, modeling in olay or wax, bookkooping, shorthand writing, wood earring, ohaslng in gold and slivor, and many othor handicrafts, aro now considered womanly oooupations, and Any ono oI thorn is apt toprovi of moro use to the girl who has her Own way t6 girl (nil extent 4! hor ability; but sho should alto trained in some profes sion or paying employment, that sho may bo independent of hor money, and tho moro solf-respeotlng on that ao oou nt. If sho ohdosos' sho oan be ** well-informed as to tho world about hor as her brothor, and wiold as great apowor. In art, in soionoo, in the Hold of letters, woman has tho possi bility of greatnosi. Tho storohousos of knowledge open as roadily to her as .to thoao of tho othor sox. Sho should acoutately valuo tho nobility of labor and the dignity of independence. Matrimony is not tho only harbor inwhiohshe may safely anohor, and oatchlng a husbnnd ii? not tho ohlof ond'l of Ut?w If an uUoquato physloal train ing be added 10 mental oulturo, so that a woman has limbi sho Oan got along with and a stomach that wul digest her dinner, *he will join to tho vigor of prooedent gonoratlOns a xnontal broadth to ithioh thoy never attninod. This Is the coming woman droamod of by tho poot, not thoso other ttaeis noo, to thrum, -"-t- "? no less than half a doaon dOg sohooll in New York, where dog* are taught ?omo very neat trloks (or Dogs wifh diplomas vouching or graduation from this institution are worth ftbm $600 to 91,000. * Members of the Mexloan Legislature wear full dress suits Of black, with white ties and ofton gloves. Nearly Ml tho mombors Aro of mlddlo Ago, With black hair and oyos, and hardly a gray or bald head oan bo soeri. The Indian ptipUs at liampton are not qoiok In mathematics. A number of them exhibited much consternation the other day whon told thfet two add two made four. The general opinion was that two and two mado two. Ode of James ft Krone's extrava gances was a privato barber, who traveled (our mites daily to sorape the faoo and rnb the head of the dethroned Wall street king, who now owes the barber $1,000 for sorvloes ronderod. An acropolis of/Immense extent has Just been discovered at Ekhmoem, Up per Kgypi JWve great tombs, or oata~ combs, already opened hate yielded 120 mummies, and the sites of over 100 eataoombs have been verified. The fibro of silk is the longest con tinuous* fibre known. An ordinary will o< a Ooooon yielding 1,906 yards, or ? fiber nearly throo-quartcrs of a mile in > -y^ii Brooke as Sewers. Whon a natural water oourse tra voruoa a ' <vn and its baa La booomo built upon, tho eaalost way of getting rid of filth and boose wattes is to throw them into the stroam. Evorv mau'a instinctive Impulse is to get rid of what annoys him, and not to mind how his neighbor will be effected. After a while, whon the watoroourse has beoome sufficiently nasty, the pooplo eome to a realising senso of what thoy buvo brought upon thomsolves, and then they try to devUe a remedy. In this they bogln usually at the wrong end. They look on tho stroam as croat* Ing the nulsanoo, and don't oonslder that it is tholr abuse of tho stream that Is tho source of tho trouble. So they go to work and oovor tho stream up and cull it a sewor. What is tho resultP Simply that tho stenoh of tho fool matter In tho old ohaanol is bottled up somewhat, to bo vontod through every manholo, evory inlot and, evory houso drain, and probably do mOro real Injury than whon the rotting filth was exposod* to tho fcir and tho sun, and diffused its aroma through tho wholo atmosphere. The ohannol of a small natural stream through a town or village ought nevor to bo converted into a sowor for houso wastes. This will stilko a good many pooplo as an odd dootrino, but still it is a sound dootrlne. The funotions of . a natural stream and a sewer are so diversified that ono cannot bo made to do duty for tho Other. A natural wator courso sorvos for tho drainage of the land all along its course. Its banks cannot be made watertight without obstruoting tho natural pro {rross of tho wator in the soil and back ng it up and retaining it where it ought not to bo retalnod. A sower, on tho other bang, is lntondod to oarry off foul matters whloh must be gotten rid of as quickly as possible, and tho ohannol convoying them must be abso lutely Impervious, so that nothing oan soak through it to tho soil. As tho level of the water in the soil rises and falls with tho season and the amount or rain, an open*jointed or previous ohannol would sometime? admit wator from tho soil and sometimes pormlt fluids flowiug in the ohannol abovo tho lovoi of tho ground wator to flow out, and thus polluto the soil and tho air in tho soil. Again, n natural stream draining a considerable territory is subject to great variations in, its volume. A chan nel to oarry its extreme disohatge in floods must be many tlmos larger than oan ever bo nocossary for the carriage of the groatest amount of sewage that oan bo brought to it. . A large cnannol is not sultoa to the rapid romoval of a small flow of filthy fluids* and, more over, oosts a groat doal moro than a sowor of the proper "size. Even if tho largo ohannelior a fluctuating stream is built through a village the sewage from tho houses, should not bo turned into It unless tho minimum volume of the natural flow in the dryest seasons Is largo onough to keop tho ohannol thoroughly soourod. Thore aro a good many small towns whloh have for years gotten along without sowers and have arohod ovor natural watorcoursos running through tho heart of the town, but aro now impollod by tho "sanitary rovlval" to oonstruct sowers for remov ing houBohold wastes. The first im pulsois to utilizo tho covered stroams to save expenso of constructing a few hundred foot of sowor. Thoy should bo very earoful how they proceed. It is hotter to spond a little more money and be safo, than to ooonomjzo in first oost and Bpond ton times tho savings in doo tors' foes and undertakers' bills. . tantary Engine*?. Every Person a Imnatlo Now and Thon. '* Prof. David Swing saysj Tho fact that a druggist of this oity has orulod n human lifo by putting up wrong modi oino awakons much Indignation. Ho says many customors woro in tho store} ho was in a hurry; ho tout up morphlno Instoad of iomo similar drug. Tho question arises wbother t) .1 clerk is able to mi sin order only when he has no oustomors in tho shopf How empty rnuit the shop bo In ordor to seouro safety? Must fho street in front of the drug store also bo empty? . What if a ftro ongino goos byP What-if a dog fight occurs while the druggist Is reach ing for qtUnlne P Is he jusuflod }n tak ing down slryobniaP What if his mo thor-ln-lftw has oomo to visit him P Suoh quostlons oome up and proper ly} but tnore is another side to tne f not of erring druggists, and that is that most persons aro crazy part of the timo. The exceptions aro fow and raro. Eaoh ono is now and thou a fool of the most oompleto order and spooios. All the ; laWs in the world wlu not avail to make a druggist or anybody else have his full flonsea through all his lifer. Cra zy moments or seconds will come.- A wise man will step baokwards off a poroh or into a mud puddle, a great philosopher will hunt for the specs that aro in his hand or on his forehead, a barber will sometimes forget his busl ness and slioos oft a pieoo of a ohin or a nose or an ear, a hunter will some times shoot hhnielf or his dog. A girl groat oiothing kitifo for ten yoars. Last week she Watched the knife eome jttow 1i down upon her hand. Too lair she WOke out of her stupor with one hand gone. For a feW scoonds her mind had failed and sho sat by her machine a tomporary lunatic and had watohed the knife approaoh her own hand. The man reoently murdored on North Clark street of Chloago eaw tho enemy come up with murder in his faoe, ?nw him draw a revolver, and, instead of making a lightning spring at tho matt, he Stood bovrildorod and thus fell dead. His reason left him In the second of his greateit need. One of the); distinguished professors in one of our, oolleges was teaching near a oanal. Walking along one even ing in summer he walked as deliberato ly into the Oanal M ho had boon walk ing along the path a second before, He was brought to his senses by the wate* and mud and the absurdity of the situ ation. He had on' a neW suit of clothes and a new silk hat, but, though the damage was thus great, ho still laughs ovor the adventure. V vv Our mail oolleotors find in tho iron boxes all sorts of papors and artioles which hate beon put in by somo hand from whose motions the mind ha* be come detached for a sooond. A glove, a pair of spoetacles, a deed, a mort gage, a thoator tloknt goos in and on goes the perton holding on to thn rog., ular lettor that should have boon do posited. This is called ftbsont-mindod ness, but that is a brief lunaojr. A Id natio is a person whoso mind tv habitu ally out of balance. ?? '? ? wt;' t.V .>* ?? ?? ??mms' s ? ,4 Mrs. Hamniorsloy. the defendant in th6 great will case In Now York, Is described as "an extremely protty wo man, less than 96 years of age, and the possessor Of a fortuno of|5,000,00<X Bhe w*i a Miss Prioo, of Troy, and hor married life Was very brief." Music In Newsboys' Souls. 1 ? * ?>? ? ?? A reporter for tho New York Mail and Express was sauntering . the Bowory. Three little pewsboys rushed along with harmonloas in thoir mouths and molasses candy in thoir flats. An Italian was soatod at the end of his stand upon a-camp-stool. The familiar strains of "Sweet Violeto" floated from a diminutivo harmonloa in his mouth. A ragged little fellow rushed forth from a store against a fat old gontlo man. The . oboso goutloman piokod himself up with a naughty word just in timo to 900 the urohin scurrying down tho stroet with a mouth organ hold aloft triumphantly in his band. Tho reporter stepped into tho storo whenoe the boy had issuod. "What was tho causo of tho boy's excitement?" "The harmonloa," ropllod tho pro prietor. "A nowsboy that don't own a harmonloa is a small potato. Tho orazo for thom is somo thing astound ing. I soil hundreds of thom ovory week.* Newsboys, workingmon, girls, nnd womon?all buy tho mouth organ. That littlo newsboy that Just rushed out has ofton stood on tho walk look ing into my window with longing oyos. Ho has to bring homo all Ills oarnings. A gontloman handed him 10 conts this morning for picking lip a dropped handkorouiof. In loss than fivo minutos lio was hero." "Do you soil a harmonica for 10 coats?" "Oortnlnly I do. Wo havo them for $1. but a 10-oent ono is ns good n $1 ono. Wo usod to soil tho small ones for 25 cents.- Sinco tho roduotion to 10 . cents wo havo sold largo quantitios of them. Tho faot is, wo soldom soli any othor than a 10-cont mouth organ. The nowsboy8 got considorablo musio from thoso ohonp toys. Somo of tho boys will produce a distinct bass aud troblo. Last month I was walking down Chatham stroot on a moonlight night. A crowd was gathored on ono cornor. Insldo tho ring that had boen formod stoom a 12-yoar-old urchin, playing "Whou tho Loaves Bogin to I Turn"on a 10-aont harmonloa. Four couples of gamins wero tying to danoo tho Waltz. They out tho mostludiorous { antics, aocompanlod by erotosquo Simaoos that oxoltod tho hilarity of o crowd. A policeman iiovo in sight, and tho orowd, gamins and men vanished into a cellar saloon." "You havo somo jowsharps: do thoy sell*" "No. Throo yoars ago thoy woro all thorago. Now, no ono but old mon uso thom. Thoro isn't nnioh musio in a jews harp. Still, an old olergyman was in horo yosterday who got somo sweet I tonosoutun old iron jowshnrp. Ho said < ho had a silver ono ut homo. It cost him | $5. Ho plays it ovory night aftor dinner." "Aro acoordions used much?" "Tho accordiou is moro popular than is gonorally supposed. Much fun is pokod at it, but a good accordion in skilled hands will produce vory pleasant music. Indoou, tho nocordion takos tho plaoo of tho piano in poor famlllos. It is usod to sing and danoo by. It has a doublo advantago ovor tho piano. It is'ohoap, and can bo oarrlod arouud for uso at difforont partios and danoos'" "How muoh doos'an aooordion cost?' "A good ono brings from $5 to $16 I soli a splondid ono for $20. Both the aooordions and tho harmonloas that I soli aro imported from Germany. No, I do n6t tnlnk any aro mado In this country," Iittdios' Stationery. ory that one uses. Even now ono shud ders at tho rooollootlon of oortaln on ?elopes of extravagant narrowness and of a violent Bolferino hue, whioh woro usod by fashlonablo young ladios somo eighteen or twenty years ago. Hardly hotter, howovor, are tho styles of to day. Stationers have gone quite daft on tho subject of fanoy writing papora. We see not only stationery of evory color, but of ovory texture frota tho tough, thin, foreign paper to the thiok anahidoous imitation of alligator skin and pebbled leather. Sometimo ago folks laughed at enthusiastic sookors for oddities who woro writing notes upon papor, whloh had to all appear anoos boon through a fire. The edges were scorobed and irregular dashes of what scorned to bo smoko defaood tho p*ge. Now those same lovers of nov elty are rejololng In stationery whloh looks as though It had been sprinkled and amy, but now nappy are these maidens who use it. They are In the fashion. They oare.ooffiparatlvely little what they wrlto, since > they are quite oortaln thoy have the Vnowost thing" In writing paper. The oonvenlent fash ion of oorrospondonooloards is passing by, yet perhaps it is not altogether considered a pity, for, while ploasant, it was just ono of the easy fashions whloh tompt the sending of a multitude of hastyTiitle billets, and lead us to neglect more than* ovor, letter-writing as a fine and graceful art. To repeat what ha? boon said many tlmti* without effoot, eooentrloity Is never truly eltf gant, and pooplo of the finest breeding uso plain white paper of tho antique parchment, or royal Irish linon brand*. Thoy do not Jndulgo in oolorod inks, neither aro theii pages jpferfumed. Tho only addition to tfcojplain white station ery? savo tho trJillhg one of the thoughts oxprossod thoroon by the writer?is the seal, neatly mado of rod or violet wax, and olearly lmprossod by tho signot ring, with the orestof tho family arms, to conclude .with a friendly warning to thoso very youth Itil lottor-wrlters who most afleot fanoy stationery, be very sure d>f your spoil" ing and your Ohlrography boforO you osjl attention to either by tho splendor or novelty of the paper on whloh yon wrlt'o.?fiorton Courier. *4 Tho P?*t of Flloe. An Iowa lady writos to an oxohangoi ''?For throo years I have lived in town, and during that tiqao my sitting-room has Men free froittlflinff, throo only walkingu about my breakfast table, whllo all my neighbors' rooms are crowded, i often oongratulate myself on my esoapo, but nover know the reason of it until, a few days ago. 1 then bad oooasion to rcmon my goods I to another house, while I remained oh ! for A few da/* longer. Among other things removed wero the boxes of geraniums and oaloolatlss, whloh stood m my window, bolng open to its full extent., top and bottom. Tho boxes were not gone half an hour when my room was as full of flies as those of my neighbors around nio. This, to mo, was a new dlsoovery, and perhaps it may servo to onoonrage others in that whfeh is always a source of plossuro, namely, window garden tog. Mlg nonette, planted in longrsnallow box es, plieod on the window, Mil, will be found exoellont for this purpose." Chinese Cordon saya ho hs?) ? newapapor in fire yowrs. V'Vn Bottiug, next, to drinking; b l bo tho groatoat oauooof orlmo gland. Of 200 pooma ?ont to tho edit< tho Century magaaino last month onfy one waa aocjptod; >- ?. ; ? There are 419 type-eottors, besides apprentices, in tho government printing oflico at Washington. Mr. Corcoran, of Washington,, has shaken hands with eTory l'rosidont ex* coptGoorgo Washington. Tho will of Oharlos Be ado gives'to tho Harpors, "for thoir editorial-room " an oil portrait of hlmsolL Thoro aro 138,005 Froe Mason lodgoa throughout tho world, with ft total mombership of 14,160,643. Tho Europeans, or white men, in *? China numbor fowor than 10,000^ or ono to about ovory 20,000 natives. Tho total number of soparftto farms in tho United States Is 4*000,000, and thoir aggregato valuo is $19,000,000, 000. . vVt>. Tho tuost rcmarkablo known eoho is that on tho north sido of a ohuroh of > Shiploy, Snssox. It ropoats twenty ono syllables. , (' '> Tho United Status Supreme Court haa dooldod that a lifo lnsuranoo polloy holds good if tho porson insured com mits suicide whilo insano. According to Mr. Walter Bosant's - statistics, novels constitue bino-tonths of the- books road in England and ninotoon-twontioths of tho books road in tho world. Suioldos aro inoroasing in Franco. Last year's statistics show, that tho numbor of womon who dlod by thoir own hands was ono-third moro than tho numbor for 1882. Foroign landholders own in Amorloa tracts of land aggregating, an area about tho size of Indiana. Tho timo may como whon "absontcolsm" may ?moan something ovon in this country. William Hyatt and John Bush, of Marlon, Ohio, woro eating suppor alono whon a thunderbolt struck their houao. Thoy still sat oroo't* though both woro doad. Not a soar was found upon thorn. , In fivo of tho southern countioa of Alabama thoro aro largo forests of Elno suitable for lumber, bnt it is laooossible, booause thoro are no tall roads or navlgablo rivors in that part Of tho oountry. ? *????? A company in Connootiout manufao turos noarly all the llquorioe used in this country?17,000,000 pounds a yoar. Confootionory and modioinos tako about 1,600,000 pounds, altd the remainder goos into tobaooo. * Henry Ward Booohorsatdln a rooont sermon: "If some angelio roportorlal hand could wrlto the mother's fanoioa * of hor child, with all hoi imagininga and hor thoughts, it would bo fit road ing for tho library.of hoavon. JohnJi. Tolman, avotoran printer of Lynn, Tdass., has given the Young , Mon's Christian Association of ', that eity an ostato valuod at $80,00<Vstlmt? latlng that the lnoomo shall bo used' in promoting tho cause of tomporanoo. The largost county in tho United States is Custor connty, Montana, witifc an aroa of 86,000 squaro miles. It ii ? largor than the BtatoS' of .Now Hamp shire, Vormont, Massachusetts, .Con nootiout, Dolawaro and Khodo Island oombinod. ;! Vjjlllffifo ??The wholo Wostern portjbn of this . country sooms to be honey-combed with iniidolity," said Rov. J. Hyatt Smith, Of Brooklyn, Sunday, addlngt ?Livo missionarios must bo sent there, ft won't do tosond fools. I myself came baok aftol boing thoro throo woSks. Workors in ornamontal wood now. sort that yollow pino, hard finislxod In oil, is tho rival in boauty of ^flftwood that ?rows, not exooptlng tho qqstliosl.v of tho hard Bpoolos, it being suscoptlblo of roooiving and maintaining as' high - dogroo of polishes any khoVjf " It soems a little bits# man will sit it} his parlorc by books, and spend his tJ at piotures of sconory tbtot, soopo, whon he sponds his oarB roading instoad of lool clsoly tho samo klptf around him. w L , Enoch Whipplo, of Lo<j_ it sixty yonrs old, was bo dumb and is sUU 'dfeaf, spoaks and is' able to poi| with any one whon, he spoakor's mouth. audionoo of 6,000 'fl yonrs ago. / ? . It is said thfttft gonoral oxoduB of CiontlloH froth Utah oontemplatOd unless Congross takes sOsao immodiato steps for their relief/ TU& court" are in tho hands o* ' and ovon tho Logislv machinery of tho Govs* their oontrol. A"correspondent of tho New Xqrf livening Tout warns the 'reporters against "calls, lily"'OF "oallftBttr. He says that there is no suoh thing. Ho adds that "a oalla is no mors ft lily thsn iS > dandelion, and might as sonslbly bo called oallft rose or osllft cabbago as oallallly" A flno plotufo of the oxrEmpros* Eugenlo's flight from Paris in 1670/ the work of M. Henrlo Dupray, is tho groat ?feature of tho Paris Halon." The Em press is represented as sfcs 'is In tho sot of loavlng ITt. EvansK house, acobn*/ ? pan led by a gentleman and hOV lady la waiting Mmo. do Broton. (4> , There is no/jJudge pn the English, Irish, or Sootcn bench who baS attained tho distinction won by Judgo l>aly, New York, of having held the Judloial ofiloo for forty yoars. Ths nearost to it is Lord Fitzgerald, Worn 1860 to 1889 a Judge of tho Irish Quoen'S Bonoh, and since ft Lord of Appefth Ho IS sixty sovon years of afcoi' Jndge Daly la sixty-eight. > ! Washington olaims to hays reaoh'sd^ the perfection of cleottio lighting. -Looomotivo foflootors &re plsosd on the Capitol domo, and oti top o4 ths Treas ury, with an ordinary Brtiah-SWan light. Tho two illuminate Pennsyl Vanift avonurt betweon thom, Just ft > i mile and a half, so thftt oflo can ttoad ft ; newspaper at any point. The Londod Lmctl tolls why tho ent Modioinos bin did not pass Par liament Its fourth olauso dsolarod that any patent niodloino shall bs deemod to bo a poison untll an ana lysis by tho Pharmaceutical Bodiety shall show it lo be othorwlso. Tho/ Government opposfcd it beostise revenno would suffor severely " drugs should bs snbjocted to sol j* doar," said' IWt's. Wilcox, tice Ella Whooler, to htrt- new haSWl last Monday morning, "do yoir want mo to write poem to-dav while you are at' tho oitlcoP" - Not muoh," to- < plied Mr. Wilcox} ("I want you to k mend my oThor utilt of elothos and WfOStlO with Ihat witshmb for ft couplo oI hours." And then hp loft atid Mrs* < ? Wilcox said: "And *Uoh is tho fruit qf pooms of pnssloil." ? < v mUhtL * r/