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A LZOKSD OF THH SOV
It vu two rival drummers I
The merits that did blow
Of sa'es were iu St. Louis made
&nd safes from Chicago.
TKAW akonAA/l n?vtn *
*uvj vuauwu u^vu m ?uv4vm*>h?
Who fa>n a safe would buy, j
And in th? praise of their honaea' wares
The drummers twain did vie,
Each striving to see which could construct
The most colossal lie.
Up spake the St, Louis drummer:
" Once a man a cat did take
And looked the animal in a safe
Of our superior make.
" They made & bonfire round the safe
With tar and kerosene,
And for four-and-twenty hours it blazed
With raging heat, I ween.
"The fire went out, tie safe was oooled,
And I will forfeit five
Hundred good dollars if that eat
Did not come out alive."
Then mild upepske and answered him
The Chicago safe agent:
" With onr safe one day w? did essay
The samo experiment.
" We placed the safe selected on
Of ooals a fiery bed,
And pitched-pine we heaped iu eoal-oil
steeped
Till the iron glowed bright red;
And in forty-eight hours we ope'd the safe,
And, alas! the cat was dead !"
"Was dead? Ahal" his rival cried,
With a triumphant breath;
But the Chicago man relied:
" Yes, the cat was frozen to death P
No word that St. Louis drummer spoke,
But silent be stood and wan.
While the Kansas merchant an order gave
To the Chcago man.
Better Late Than Never.
His came was John Holt; and, moreover,
he looked like his name, or like
the image which the sound of his name,
in a mnsical ear, wonld call up in the
mind. Physically he was so well proportioned
that his weight could scarcely
be guessed, and 60 broad shouldered
that yea had to set him beside another
man in order to realize his superior
height. His skin was fair and his eyetblue,
but the hair, which had been towoolored
in his childhood, had deepened
to biowD. John Holt's face was not
one of those which are called expressive,
- V?In?t wore, in repose, prettj nearly alway*--tbe
same look.
Mrs. Holt had a large and valuable
farm just ou the borders of the town.
Streets had crept gradually about her
fields and surrounded them on three
sides ;on the fourth woedlands stretched
back toward the east. Why she should
-give the control of this place to John,
instead, of to one of his sharper brothers,
was a puzzle even in her own mind.
The only reason she oould give was that
John was steady and more likely to remain
at home than the others were.
John was in love with pretty Nellie
Oramer, a neighbor's daughter; but one
day when he Btarted to tell her of his
passion she stopped him short with a
lancrh and a "Nonsense. John !"
He never got angry with her. How
ooold he ? Bat sometimes a shadaw
would drop over his face, and he
wouldn't have much to say to her for a
time. Then, when she went to him with
her coaxing ways, and laid her little
hand on his arm, whispering:
"Now, don't be vexed, John; I like
you so much; but I don't want you to
talk nonsense," he would look down and
smile, though not very brightly, *and
promise to try to avoid nonsense in the
future ; ending his promise with a sigh.
" Dear me ! I do wish you wouldn't
sigh so, John !" the girl would say, pettishly.
" It makes me feel melancholy
to hear you- One would think I had
done something dreadful to you."
Then John Holt would smile again,
still less brightly, and promise to try
not to Bigh any more.
Such little scenes as this were mere
asides, however. Nellie usually paid
but little attention to John, being ohiefly
oooupied in dancing, flirting and quarreling
with his more showy brother
Frank, or with any other gay fellow who
was so unfortunate as to be taken with
her pretty face. For Nellie was an incorrigible
flirt It was only when she
had no one else to talk to, or wanted to
pique some other lover, or when she
m ^ -wanted some real servioe, that she went
toJ^n, who was Bometimee pleased and
sometomes hurt to see that she came to
him ^?ily when she wanted help or
advice.
" You are a sort of grandfather, you
know," she said one day, giving his arm
a squeeze. " I have an idea that you
are about Beventy-five years old. How
old are -ou, John ?"
"I an only one-third of that," he
said, siriling. " I am only a month past
twenty five."
^R'bsBible? Well, you must have
been very old when you was born. Besides,
twenty five is* old to me. I am
only nineteen. Now you come and hear
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lij^y awry iuju icu IUD WUOO IVMV. JL uauiu
over here on purpose to see yon."
John followed her obediently tbrongh
the garden and down to a benoh under
the shadow of the beech grove on the
lawn; and when she took her seat there
be leaned against the trunk of a tree and
waited, looking down on her.
"You see, John," she began, "I've
had an offer."
John Holt was tanned that summer,
but through the brownness one might
have seen a faint blush ran over his
face. Nellie didr't see it, for she was
. . looking down and rolling her apron tassels,
a very bright color in her own
face.
There was a moment b snenoe atter
this announcement, and seeing that he
was expected to say something, John
presently said 14 Yes ?"
44 Oh, if you don't want to adviBe me,
l I won't trouble you," the girl flung ont,
iieing in a pet.
M Comb back. Nellie," he Baid, kindly.
441 am not cro88? only toll me what
i yon want."
She seated herself again with a little
quiyar in bar lip.
" I want you tell me what you think
of James Lee. Tell me if you think I'd
better marry him. Tell me if you think
he cares enough for me to go just where
I say and live where I wish."
The oolor waved again in John Holt's
face, and he drew a quick breath. Some
impulse to speak 6eemed to come upon
him. Glanoing up for his answer, Nellie
saw the change and added a word:
" You see, John, I like Albert Leighton
better than I do James."
The oolor and light droppod out of
his face again, and a rim of even, white
teeth pressed for an instant his under
Up.
" Then why don't you marry Albert
Leighton ?" he asked, looking up into
the tree that spread over his head, and
reaching to break a slender twig.
"He never asked me to," she answered
demurely.
" I suppose he means to, doesn't he ?"
asked Jonn, looking at her with a glance
that might be called almost haughty.
" now can 1 leu r neiue pomeu.
" Men are so qneer. The most of them
would rather wait to be asked, I think."
" If you want my advice, I will give
it," John said, twisting and flinging
away the little twig in his hand. " If
you like Albert, don't keep James Lee
in suspense. You have no right to do
it. You can't seriously think of marrying
one man when you prefer another.
If Albert likes you, as I believe he
does, take him. He's a good fellow."
" You think bo ?" the girl said, looking
up suddenly.
"I think so," he repeated, turning
awav. M Now let's go up to the house."
8he rose and walked quietly up by
his side, her fair, girlish face a little
pale, her eyes downcast. At the gate
ibe stopped.
" I will not go in, now," she said, in
a low tone. " I will go home."
He merely bowed, and looking baok
after a few stops she 6aw that he had
uot entered the house, bat was stealing
off toward the barn.
The next week James Lee oommenoed
a violent flirtation with Bessie Holt,
John's sister, and in a month the two
were engaged. Nellie laughed and
turned the light of her smiles upon Albert
Leighton, a handsome, dashing fellow,
who had been crazy about Lee for
the last six months. John Holt said
nothing, bnt was rather oool about his
sister's engagement
" You see, suspense would have killed
him," Nellie whispered, mischievously.
" I hope he isn't marrying my sister
out of pique toward you," John said,
xddly. " If I didn't think Bessie loved
him too well to give him up, I'd tell
her."
" Ard betray my confidence, John
Holt," Nellie exclaimed. "I tell you,
he is like most of you men?purely selfish.
He didn't care a fur about me. I
think he seems to like Bessie."
44 When are you goiDg to get married
? " he asked abruptly.
The question came so suddenly that
for once the girl lost her compoeure. A
crimson blush swept over her face, and
she dropped her eyes without being
able to speak a word.
Of coui8e, ehe recovered herself in a
minute, and protested that she had no
thought of marryiDg. Any woman would
have done the same. Bat the blush had
oonvicted her iD John Holt's eyes, and
he scarcely heard a word that she said.
It waR winter, and while they talked
they were waiting, with half a dozen
others, for a large sleigh that was coming
to take them out to a party given by
a friend seven or eight miles off in the
country. Even before Nellie's blush
had faded, the trampling and jingling
at the gate attracted their attention, and
Albert Leighton put his bead in at the
i door to call them. Bessie and her lover
came forth from an adjoining room, another
gronp came np from a distant
window, and they allran gayly out and
and bundled into their places.
The party passed off as suoh things
usually do. All seemed to enjoy themselves
; Nellie was lovely as a pink and
full of mischief, Leighton was attentive,
and John Holt was cheerful and kind to
everybody. He was fnlly as quiet as
usual, to be sure, and rather avoided
Nellie Cramer, but it is doubtful if any
one bat herself noticed that.
It was twelve o'clock when they started
to go home, and the moon had set.
At first their gayety held out, but after
a mile or so fatigue and want of sleep
began to tell upon them, and one by one
they fell into silence.
"John," Nellie said, "there is jus'/
room for me on the seat with you. May
I come there ? It is cold here."
He made room for her in silence, and
she left her disoomfited escort and took
lier place next that strong shoulder.
Then silence fell again; but after
awhile, in the darkness, John Holt was
aware of a light pressure against his
arm, then a soft, plaintive whisper stole
into his ear.
" I am so sleepy, John!"
He turned a4UUfrr-why not? they
were old friends?and luted his arm to
the baok of the seat, took the head Bofily
and tenderly to his bosom. And so she
lay in that faithful and tender olasp till
they drew near home; then, with one
whispered word of loving gratitude,
" Nobody is so good as you I" she drew
away, and took Albert Leighton's hand
to step out at her own door.
After a stir in his own mind, John
Holt oonoluded that Nellie and Albert
ttarl rmnrralad TTa RlffVlAd nitlf.a nVlA
oonld cot hear and so be annoyed,
pitied the girl, and then went steadily
about his work. The waters of his soul
were too deep for babbling.
When spring came, for the first time
in his life John electrified his friends.
He was going to California. The announcement
was made qnietly bnt firmly,
and he stood like a rock, against
which expostulation beat itself to spray.
He gave good reasons, and absolutely
maintained his right to choose for himself.
" Ton have always said, mother, thai
yon wished I were more venturesome,"
he said. "I am going to please you
now,"
" Bnt bow is the farm to get along
withont you ?" she objected.
" Frank understands everything anc
oan manage."
Mrs. Holt took courage, and, breaking
over some little awe, which, in spite o]
her talk, she felt for her bod, spoke out
i "John, has that Nell Cramer jiltec
you?"
" Jilted me I" he said, flashed as much
with anger as with surprise. "What i
do you mean, mother ? We have always
I been good friends, but never any more. 1
I never gave her the chance to jut me."
" Then, whjr don't you give her the 1
chance ?" persisted his mother, who did
not choose to give up, now that the ice
was broken. "Nell is a good girl, if I
she does flirt a little. I always thought <
that she liked you, only that you were
too slow to see it. Then, Nell has got ?
a little money of her own that wouldn't
be amiss." (
"You are entirely mistaken, mother," '
he said decisively. Don't let us say any
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more aouut it. ?
" Oh, you great fool I" muttered the
mother, looking after him as he went 1
out. " Was there ever a man so blind! <
He is no more fit to live in the<world 1
than an angel out of heaven is."
Then, seeing Nellie Cramer passing 1
the street, she lifted her voice ana called }
her in.
The girl came in, wondering at suoh
a peremptory summons.
" Come and sit by me!" commanded
the matron, and Nellie obeyed. .
Mrs. Holt scanned her from head to
foot;- the neat, trim figure, in its snuglyfitting
paletot of dark gray, the green
bonnet, that brought out her fresh,
clear oolor with a new luster, and the
fair, bright face. /
' Did you know that our John is going
to California?" said Mrs. Holt,
abruptly, her keen eyes on the girl's *
faoeAll
the oolor faded out of it in an in- {
stant, and Nellie Cramer dropped into a ,
ohair as suddenly as if she had been y
Bhot She sat there and looked at the ,
other with her strained eyes, but said (
no word. I
" Yes," said Mrs. Holt, unable to re- j
press a slight smile of satisfaction at .
this proof of the correctness of her sur- {
mise* " yes, he's set on going, in spite
of all that I can say. He is going in a
month or six weeks. Let me see; this
is the middle of April. He says he
shall start by the first of June at farthest."
That smile of Mrs. Holt's was an unfortunate
one. Nellie had always feared
those sharp eyes, and now the thought
flashed upon her mind that John's
mother was trying to expose and mortify
her. A woman's pride will do a
great deal for her, even when her heart
is breaking. It brought the color to
her faoe again, and strengthened her
trembling limbs. It steadied her voice
and her eyes. Mrs. Holt was puzzled
and disoonoerted by the sudden change.
"I'm so sorry I" Nellie said, in atone
of fearless regret. " We can scarcely
get along without John. He seems such
a stand-by. But men ought not to be
tied at home, I think. If they choose
to go, they shotfld be'allowed their own
way. There he is now, in the garden. I
am going out to speak to him of it."
" Try to coax him to stay, Nellie,"
said the mother, in a tone of more entreaty
than perhaps she had ever nsed
in her life before. " He is a good son,
and I can't get along without him. I
tbink you can keep him if you will."
This prayer wculd have been effectual,
but for the memory of that smile
which rankled in the girl's heart. Had
sb e not given John Holt every encouragement,
if he had oared about her ?
Had she not said and done things so
affectionate toward him that shi had
blushed with shame thinking of them
afterward ? John was no fool, and if he
had cared for her, he might have understood.
He had probably been trying to
put her back.
With these thoughts burning in her
heart, Nellie Cramer went directly to
John Holt as he walked up and down
the garden. He stopped, seeing her,
and looked wistfully into her face.
Though he had denied his mother so
decidedly, her words had not been without
weight Women understand each
nther. fJnnld it be nossible ? And
there was Nellie coming down the walk. |
Her head was erect, and- her face perfectly
composed, though slightly pale.
" I am bo sorry," she began. " Your
mother has been telling me your plans.
Of course, you know be6t what is good ,
for you, and I have been telling her to (
let you have your own way. But we .
shall all be sorry to lose you, John."
That was all. He gave a last grasp .
at his self-command, and held it. There
was a short formal conversation ; both
so engaged in making a pretense of being
kind and friendly, and ;juBtas usual,
that eaoh could not peroe::ve that the
other was also making a pretense ; and
four weeks after they parted with tolerable
composure, and John Holt went
to California.
He stayed there five years, and sent
his mother her gold spoon. He stayed
three yearB longer, and then came home
himself. Nellie was Nellie Cramer still,
they told him, and was mnoh sobered.
Some way she hadn't seemed to care
mnoh abont flirting for several years.
Her father and mother were dead, and
she was keeping honse for an nnmarried
brother. There were hints that the new
minister Jrent to see her very often, but
Mrs. Holt didn't believe that Nellie
wonld look at him.
John listened, and, when evening
oame, took his hat and went ont for a
walk. No one bnt his own family as
yet knew of his retnrn, and he was resolved
to see himself the effect of his
coming on Nellie. The soft spring twilight
was settling down when he reached
her honse, and as he walked quietly up
the path a slight figure sat in a window,
looking out, siBging lowly to herself in
a mournful reverie. Sbe did not see
him; but when he came nearer he saw
her face clearly. The round outlines
and bright oolor were gone, but he was
forced to own that she had grown far
. more beautiful. The chastened luster
of the eyes, the firmer, sweeter closing
of the mouth, the purer and more perfect
outlines?all belonged to one who
had eaten of the bread of sorrow, and
. had found a blessing in the bitterness.
Something swept over his heart with
i passionate force?some regret, some
longing, he soarce knew what. If he
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; uau Buuerou ut losing uer eigut jtmxo
before, he felt that such a loss now
I would kill him. He quietly entered
the open door; paused on the threshold
of the room where she sat alone. 8ke
I still sang softly, but, a? he looked,
: stopped, sighed, and became silent. _
I " Nellie !" be would have said, but
his voioe was only a whispar,
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I.
He went forward into tL-o shadowy
room.
"Is it yoti, James?" she said, half
turning, expecting her broth?.
John took ?i step nearer, and this time
lis voice did not fail.
" Nellie I"
She started, half arose, hesitated,
then, as he took one rtep nearer, sprang
srith a glad cry into his extended arms.
"I thought you would never come,
Fohn I" she sobbed.
"Were you waiting for met" he
isked. " Did you care for me before I
vent away ?"
"Then and always, John. How
could you be no blind ?"
John Holt smoothed her hair tend?
y, for one moment of silenoe; then exclaimed.
as ithough some great truth
aad suddenly dawned upon him.
" I deserve it 1 I always thought
hem wrong, but they were right. I
ivas, indeed, u great fool."
Funer als in New York.
"Is there as much extravagance in
'unerals as there used to be?" inquired
i New York teporter of an undertaker.
" Oh, no t ][ suppose few trades suffer
nore ceverely from the hard times than
>urs. Persons who used to spare no
expense at the funerals of their dead
tow calculate every penny, and in all
cases, except, strange to say, the very
>oor, the desire for display has given
alaoe to strict eoonomy. There are exceptions,
of course, but they are few
md far between. In the past twenty
rears an almost entire ohange has been
vorked in one essential of funerals. I
nean the carriages. In old times it was
customary for families to send out
uneral invitations, and provide oar-i&ffAR
for those who came, but' now the
iractioe is for friends of the family to
lire their own carriages. This onstoxn
vas in vogue among the Irish many
rears ago, but now it is gaining ground
imong the Germans and Americans. It
9 no uncommon thing in Irish funerals
or four friends of the dead persons to
lire a carriage and attend the funeral,
ind the Germans are rapidly adopting
he same economical habit Since 1869
he falling off in the number of carriages
las been gradual, but steady. Then a
learse followed by one hundred oar*
iages was not regarded as a rarity; now
f half that number of carriages were in
ine persons would wonder who is dead,
rhe French and Italians generally like
o provide carriages for thoee invited to
unerals, bnt the former are gradually
lettling into the Irish- American custom,
" .tmc, raising uuuut puui imisuuo
tin era] s," the undertaker resumed, after
laving opened a oase and gseed for a
vhile in silent ecetacy at a group of
loiiahed caeketa, " you ought to go to a
wlored person's burying. Ton have no
dea how provident and methodical the
letter class of colored folks are as to
heir funerals. Why, in this neighborlood
alone they have established a number
of bnrial societies that are?well enplorted.
The principle of these institutions
is much like that of the building
issociatdons so popular in Philadelphia
ind other cities. The members pay'so
nuch each per month un til a certain
mm is reaohed. Should death overtake
hem before that sum is paid, the sooietv
inries them ont of its surplus funds. I
mow of oolored women who belonged to
* flAnintifla O f AflO
lUree or iuui ui iuwc nuuicuw > v?.v
iime. One that we baried last week
lad a burial fund of $200, and every
jent of it was spent on her (nneral by
die heirs. Poor things! They in*
lerited nothing. Bat in all oolored
unerals, mostly, the family hires the
jarriagee, and friends are invited pretty
nneh as they wonld be to a feast. The
mdertaker is banded a list of those who
ire to ride to the cemetery, and seats
ihe persons accordingly. Bo thoroughly
s each detail arranged, that the load
'or eaoh carriage is designated, the prererence
being given first to relatives and
dien to friends."
Results of Aerial Siavigatior .
Mr. Jit. U. Oieumau, UlU puob, wurcn
in Scribner of this subject, which he
jonfesses to be his "hobby." The paper
is in a half humorous, half serious tone,
but discusses practically the causes of
failure heretofore and the desiderata of
final suooeBS. Mr. 8 ted man speaks
thus buoyantly of some of'the ultimate
results of aerial navigation :
Not only by these processes of construction,
bat also by the power and
freedom gained through their suooess, a
delightful reflex influence will be exerted
upon the {esthetics of life. Poetry
and romance will have fresh material
and a new locale, and imagination will
take flights unknown before. Landecapee
painted between earth and
heaven must invol ve novel principles of
drawing, color, light and sliade. Music,
lilra f.Vio armors nf TjnhfliifiTiii. will be
showered from aerial galleys. In every
way the resources of social life will be
so enlarged that at last it truly may be
said, "Existence is .itself a joy."
Sports and reoreations will be
strangely multiplied. Bich and poor
alike will make of travel an every-day
delight, the former in their private
aeronons, the latter in large and multiform
structures, corresponding in use
to the excusion-boats of our rivers and
<< flrkofinrr nalnnPU" ftf fhfl
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people, and far more numerous and
splendid. The ends of the earth, its
rarest places, will be visited by all.
The sportsman can ohange at pleasure
from the woods and waters of the North,
the mnways of the deer, the haunts of
the salmon, to the pursuit of the tiger
in the jungle or the emu in the Australian
bush. An entirely new profession?that
of airmanship?will be
thoroughly organized, employing a
countless army of trained offioerB and
" airmen." The adventurous and wellto-do
will have their pleasure yachts of
the air, and take hazardous aud delightful
cruises. Their vessels will
differ from the cambrons aerobats intended
for freight and emigrant busi
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ess, Will UO UI1XJUKJ11BU ttlUll UVBUUIIU
and enprgestive rames?Iris, Aurora,
Hebe, Ganymede, Hermes, Ariel, and
the like?and will vie with one another
in grace, readiness and speed.
? When does the rain beoome too famil
iar with a lady? When it begins to patter
on her back.
A
POTATOES AND DIPHTHERIA.
Novrl Theory of a Nebraska Doctor, who
Calm* Diphtheria la Produced by Exeraslye
Use of Potatoes.
Melville C. Reiih, M. D., of Lincoln,
Neb,, writes to thu Chicago Inter-Ocean
as follows: Some seventeen years ago
the attention of my father, Dr. Alvan
Keith, late of Augusta, Me., was called
to the fact that children who were not
fond of the tnber known as Irish potatoes
were not subject to attaoksof that muchdreaded
malady diphtheria. Following
out (;his hint, he advised families of his
friei.ds to avoid the use of this vegetable
among the children, and until his
decease he was aooustomed to make the
asse?tion that rot ten potatoes prodnoe
the throat disease Known as cupntneria.
It may not be inappropriate to remark
that he was oonsiaered a very Euocessfnl
practitioner in the treatment of this
disease.
In 1866 the writer visited San Francisco,
and was there engaged in the
practice of medicine nntil 1867. Daring
that period of time he had an opportunity
of folly testing the truth of the
statement of potatoes being a produoer,
or ali least an approximate cause of the
condition known as diphtheria. In 806
oasei in and about San Francisco, the
fact was noted that every one who had
the I rue diphtheria was an eater of Irish
potatoes. The writer is Well aware of
the presumptive charge of novelty, to
say the least of the assertion, and for
this reason has hesitated to place himself
on r word. The oondition of many families
;n the West, and more especially in
this State and Kansas, urges the undersigned,
as a matter of interest to the human
family to make public a series of
observations for the past two years in
the West. During this time thirty oases
have oome under my direot supervision
and prescriptions. More than 200 have
beer carefully inquired aftsr, and in
?"??. mu if hoo Kaon nmmn that tVlfl
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diphtheritio patient had been a potato*
eater; and in a large majority of instances
the patient had been known as
an exoessive eater of the tuber. A rule
to hold good should he valid from both
sidet. The undersigned made the foregoing
statements to a very intelligent
lady of this city, now a teacher in a distant
city, and the result has been that
wheiethe diphtheria prevailed fatally
last ;/ear they have (by the influence of
this .ady) largely refrained from eating
pota'oes, or only eaten them to a very
mod' irate extent, and the disease is almost
unknown. In my praotioe in this
city ind county the offer has been to
treat any one free of compensation, if
they would avoid the use of Irish potatoes.
As a sequence not one of the patients
who was not a potato-eater has
been threatened with the disease. In
man;/ of the inland towns of. this State,
the i/riter has patients, and in some of
the infected districts the families of
those who have learned of this simple
preventive have escaped any attack of
throat disease, although the'potato-eaterr
nn either aide of them have unfor
tuna /cly had cases of diphtheria which
resul ted fatally. ?
It would not be iu accordance with the
well- known proclivities of medical men
if th e writer did not have a theory to
acooimt for these facts, and a special
treatment to correspond with the belief
of lie constitutional oanse. He has;
but' the theory, like many others, is
only, partially developed or proven, and
conic 1 easily be argued. The facts, embracing
a period of seventeen years and
a knowledge of 1,100 cases, are, in the
writer's estimation, incontrovertible, and
may be summed up as (oIIowb: The
writer maintains that the person who
does not use the tuber known as Irish
potat o can never have the diseaaa known
as diphtheria; that in every case of
diphtheria (true) will be fonnd an
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11BU1 .UM WVUi V4 A4 4MM ^
The Laundries in New York.
The manager of one of the larger
laundries of New York lately said that
there were between five and six hundred
important laundries in the city,
caunting steam laundries that do the
work of large manufacturers of white
goods and of hotels and restaurants,
and the hand laundries doing household
work. The first steam laundries
were started in Boston, in 1858. Several
steam laundries in New York employ
from 100 to 150 hands. The Empire
laundry, doing the work of fifteen hotels
and restaurants, turns out 40,000 pieces
a day, or more than 1,000,000 a month,
washed, dried and finished. These
pieces include sheets, pillow cases,
white towels, silver towels, brown
towels, brown table cloths, white table
clotks, napkins, curtains, jackets, aprons,
oonnterpanes, blankets, bed covers,
pillo w covers, ohair oovers, table oovers,
crumb cloths and dollies. In the performance
of this work there are used
$1,0* K) worth of soap, $1,000 worth of
starch, $260 worth of bluing a year,
and ;he pay roll amounts to $25,000
yearly.
Another laundry manager said that
the amount of private washing done in
the publio laundries has increased immensely
since the establishment of the
first large publio laundry, the New York,
at B?rgen, N. J., in 1866. The largest
are the St. Denis, California, Home,
Strjvesant and New York. The work
they do is mainly for persons living in
fiats, boarders, bachelors, and transient
hotel guests. Notwithstanding the
great facilities offered by the publio
laundries, most housekeepers prefer to
have their washing done at home. The |
pub jo laundries tnat ao private whhuiug
lo not use steam or any machinery
except the simple "patent wriDger"
and "housewife's washboard," becuuee
no laaohinery ever invented oould do
the lecessary fluting, puffing, scalloping,
and doing up. The oharges range
fmiti Hfiventv-flve oents to $9 a dozens
The laundry business requires very
litllo capital; the work is simple and
Ihe orms are invariably cash. No class
of business men lose so little money
front bad debts as the laundry men, and
the reason is plain ; they always have
ample seourity for their bills in the
olotiing that they wash, and clothing is
never returned until the bill is paid.
It is estimated that from one and a
half to five million dollars are invested
iu laundries in New York, giving employment
to from ten to twenty thousand
persons.
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Care of the Ejes.
The sight in most persons begins to 1
fail from forty to fifty years of age, as is <
evidenced by an instinotive preference
for large print; a seat near the window '
for reading is selected ; tnere is an euu
to plaoe the paper at a convenient distance
from the eye, or to tnrn it so as to
get a particular reflection of the light;
next the finger begins to be plaoed under
the line read, and there is a winking i
of the eye as if to dear it, or a looking ]
away at some distant object to dear it;
or the fingers are pressed over the doeed 1
lids in the direotion of the no?e, to remove
the tears caused by straining.
Favor the failing sight as much as
possible. Looking into a bright fire, j
especially a coal fire, is very injurious
to the eyes. Looking at molten iron
will soon destroy the sight; reading in
the twilight is injurious to me e/co, ? .
they are obliged to make great exertion. .
Beading or sewing with a side light injures
the eyes, as both eyes shonld be
exposed to an equal degree of light.
The reason is, the sympathy between
the eyes is so great that if the pupil of
one is dilated by being kept partially in
the shade, the one that is most exposed
cannot contract itself sufficiently for pro- (
tection, and will ultimately be injured.
Those who wish to preserve their sight
should observe the following rules, and (
preserve their general health by correct
habits: <
1st. By sitting in such a position as
will allow the light to fall obliquely t
over the shoulder upon the page or sewing.
j
2d. By not using the eyes for such
purposes by any artificial light. .
il-- ?-i?l 1
tfd, .By avoiamg mo Bpouuu uw ui
the eyes in the morning before break- (
fast
4th. By resting them for half a min- (
nte. or so while reading or sewing or 1
looking at small objects; and by looking
at things at a distance, or np to the sky; j
relief is immediately felt by so doing. \
5th. Never pick any collected matter
from the eyelashes or oorners of the c
eyes with the finger-nails; rather moist- {
en it with the saliva and rnb it away
with the ball of the finger.
6th. Frequently pass the ball ef the 1
finger over the closed eyelidB toward \
nose; this carries off an exoess of wat er :
into the nose itself by means of the little c
canal which leads into the nostril from
each inner oorner of the eye, this canal }
having a tendency to olose np in con- ;
sequenoe of the light inflammation whioh :
attends the weakness of the eyes. 1
7th. Keep the feet always dry and
warm, bo as to draw any exoess of blood <
from the other end of the body. J
8th. Use eyeglasses at first carried in 1
the vest pocket attached to the guard, for 1
they are instantly adjusted to the eye
with very little trouble, whereas, if com- f
mon spectacles are need snch a process <
is required to get them ready that to i
have trouble the eyes are often strained 1
to answer a pnrpose. <
9th. Wash the eyes abundantly every
morning. If cold water is used let it be ]
flapped against the closed eyes with the (
Angers, not striking hard against the ?
balls of the eyes. t
10th. The moment the eyes feel tired, (
the very moment yon are con scions of {
an effort to read or sew, lay aside the
book or needle, and take a walk for an .
hour, or employ yourself in some active ^
exercise not requiring the close use of <
the eyes. ,
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Theatricals in China. \
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The Celestial empire nas mucu me reaemblanoe
to an immense fair, where,
amid a perpetual flax aad reflux of bay*
ers and sellers, of brokers, loungers and
thieves, yon see in all quarters stages
and mountebanks, jokers and comedians,
laboring uninterruptedly to amuse the
public. Over the whole surface of the
oountry, in the burghs and villages, rich
and poor, mandarins and people?all, ]
without exception, are passionately fond ;
of dramatio representations. There are j
theaters everywhere; the great towns \
are full of them. There is n? little vil- j
lage but has its theater, which is usually 3
opposite to the pagoda, and sometimes }
even forms a part of it. In some cases j
the permanent theaters are not found i
sufficient, and then the Chinese con- \
struct temporary ones, with wonderful .
facility, out of bamboo. The Chinese ,
theater is extremely simple, and its ar- j
rangementa exclude all idea of soenio ;
illusion. The decorations are fixed, and 1
do not change as long as the piece lasts.
One w?uld never know what they were
intended for, if the actors did not take
care to inform the public, and correct
the motionless character of the scenes 1
by verbal explanations. The only arrangement
ever made with a view to
scenio effect is the introduction of a
trap-door in front of the stage, for the
entrances and exits of supernatural personages,
and goes by the name of the
'Gate of Demons."
r??t*a rnstoms.
Cats are not supposed to have the in
telligenoe of dogs, says on exchangei
and yet if we observe them we find that
they are capable of a great degree of
reasoning. A cat belonging to ns had a
kitten, which, when it had learned to
drink milk from the sancer with its
mother, was given to a neighbor. For
many days after the old cat never drank
more than a certain quantity of the
milk given to her, leaving the rest for
the kitten, whioh she hourly expected
to return. After a time, finding the
kitten did not come, she resumed her
habit of drinking the whole of the milk
plaoed in the saucer. We were calling
at a cottage when an old cat came in.
"Ah!" said the woman of the house,
<<oha han ha?n to see what our neish>
bor's oat has got for her. She is too
old to hunt for herself, so onr neighbor's
cat will keep a mouse or a bird
for her, and she goes regularly every
morning to see what there is for
her." Another cat we have seen
who has been taught tricks in the same
manner as a dog, and if her master
places her on the table and says " Die,"
she will lie quite motionless, and not
move a paw or her tail until he tells her
to get up, when she jumps up immediately
and is as frisky as ever.
" I walked the floor all night with the
toothache," said he; to which his unfeeling
listener replied: "You didn't
expect to walk the oeiling with it, did
you?"
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ptnied with the caah to ioeore insertion.
Quiet Llres.
[q a ralley, centuries ago,
3rew a little fern leaf, green and slender?
Yeining delicate and fiber* tender;
Waring when the wind* crept down ao km.
Bashes tall, and moss and grase grew
round it,
Playful aunbeama darted in and found It;
Drop* of dew stole down by night and crown <
edit;
3nt no foot of man e'er came that way,
Sarth waa young and keeping holiday.
Useless t Loot ? There came a thoughtful
man.
Searching nature's secrete far and deep;
From a fissure in a rooky steep
He withdrew a stone o'er which there ran
Fairy fcendlingt, a quaint design,
Leafage, reining s, fibers dear and fine,
And the fern's life lay in erery line f
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ITEMS OF 15 TE BEST.
Reigning favorites?Umbrellas.
Excellent wash for the faoe?Water.
Wanted?A life-boat that will float on
t &a of troubles.
Gloves were first worn by our handle
tors in the tenth century.
What is the size of the needle that
sarried the threads of discourse ?
Brown thinks that all-absorbing tales
ihould be printed on blotting-paper.
The onion originated in Europe. So
mportant facts leak oat one by one. ,
The eldest son of the Prince of Wales, '
Prince Albert Victor, is fifteen years
>ld.
A number of horses have been poiaon;d
in Kansas by being fed raw castor
leans.
If a word spoken in time is worth one
)icoe of money, silence in its time is
yorth two.
Toads and frogs were originally introInoed
into the Sandwich islands to'ezerminate
cockroaches.
Examination of 8,000 grammar sohool
jupils at Boston shows that abont five
>er cent of the boys are color-blind,
md only about one-half of one per oent
>f the girls.
In Egypt mommies feed the fires that
>ropel the iron horse on the railroads.
Ihese dried-op homan bodies, are said
o make a very hot fire. Their sopply
s almost inexhaustible.
"There is nothing impossible,' ex
slaimed a man who was discoursing on \
Edison's achievements. That man, to
Ind ont how egregiously he is mistaken,
ias only to attempt to ont his own hair.
A great many years ago a poor begjar
explailed his ragged appearance by
ibserving: "I have no money to buy
tew clothing, and mend I can t" And
lis class have been called mendicants
>ver since.
The Cornish folk in England are
loted as wonderfnl pie makers. They
sven serve vegetables in this manner,
md the laboring classes, in these hard
lines, are said to exist largely upon a
jurioua compound known as "turnip
.urnover."
When a snowball as hard as a door
mob hits you in the back of the head as
pou are crossing the street, no matter
low quiokly you turn, the only thing
rou can see is one boy, with the moat
nnocent face and the emptiest hands
hat ever confronted a false accusation.
?Hatokeye.
44 Will ye lore me thoa forever 7"
And ehe looked into hie eyes
With * glance that seemed a token
Of the fervor of her sighs.
" I wndn't guaranty it,"
With a smile responded Pat,
"For I'm hardly av the notion
That Til lasht as long as that !"
Burdette, in a letter to the Bawkeye,
magnanimously allows the palm to the
Bast in the matter of Revolutionary relics,
but in the next breath is inolined
io take it back. He says: " I remember
in 1876, when we had the great oentenliol
tea-party at Burlington, that I saw
more Revolutionary relics at Union hall
chan I have seen in all New England,
ind they were better looking relics,
loo. Those I saw in Old South ohureh
c?ere very old and battered and faded,
Mid altogether shabby-looking, while
the Iowa relies had a bright, fresh,
modern look to them, that wasmueh
pleasanterto contemplate."
A Remarkable FnaeraL
One of the mGst remarkable funerals
ever seen anywhere was that of the student
who was shot in Wurzburg, Bavaria,
by an officer of the city guard. He
was arrested while on a lark, and, attempting
to run from his captors, was
deliberately shot in the back at olose
A n _4. ? ? Irtl_
quarierp. uxcuit puunu wuuuuiuvu *v*lowed,
the general aversion of the German
people to the insolence of the
military being stimulated by this aot to
the highest pitch. A mass meeting was
called, at which a petition and address
to the government were adopted, demanding
the severest punishment for
the "frivolous and brutal assassination."
The funeral was attended by
nearly a thousand students and by the
entire faoulty of the university. The
body had been lying in state in the hospital
during the day, and as darkness
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Oct JLU Jll TT?o WtilV IVAVM ?AM. , ,
muflic, followed by the long procession
of students, bearing torches and flags
draped in mourning. It was carried
slowly through the main streets of the
city to the railway depot, where a special
train was waiting to convey it to the
home of the young man's parents. The
return of the procession was through
the streets along which the student had
taken his way on the fatal night. Opposite
the main garrison, to which the
officer who had shot the stndent belonged,
the procession came to a bait and
formed a hollow square, in the middle
of which the standard bearers with their
draped flags stationed themselves. Then
while the flickering torcnes cast lanrastic
shadows over the plaza, the "Gaudeamns
" was snng. With the last words
of this student song all burled their
torches simultaneously to the ground,
and in darkness and silenoe the multitude
dispersed.- The report having
spread that the commander of the garrison
to which the guilty officer belonged
had expressed his approval of the murder,
he received challenges to duels
from half a dozen students.