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OMENS AMONG SOLDIERS. SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS DURING THE CIVIL WAR. Dreams ami Other Signs of Death ?Immunity lYom Danger?Chest- i nut Horse and Crowing Hen. As to whether the ( oufederate soldier was any more superstitions than the Fed-1 eral 1 neither admit nor deny,but I think, , writes an ex-Confederate in the Detroit; Free I'rcs , the same superstitions in re- j gard to battles probably prevailed to an I equal extent on both sides. We may laugh at them now, but we once accepted and pinned our faith to them. The lirst instance to come under my observation was at Caines's Mills. I was then serving with an Alabama regiment. 1 and on the morning of the day on which ! we were making our coffee at the camp tire I heard a sort of groan from a com-\ rade, and as I turned to look at him I j noticed that he was staring into his cof- i fee pot with something like terror, while ! his face was deathly pale. "What is it?" I asked. "I shall be killed to-day!" he groaned ! out. "Fudge! We don't know that even a; > single musket will be fired." ^ "I dreamed last night," he whispered, j "that I looked down upon a sheet of j 'V water whose surface was covered with I \ bubbles, and amidst thom'T saw my own j dead face. I shall be sh#t before night." I ridi'.ul'd the idea and brought up others to assist me, but the only reply to our raillery was a sad shake of the nead. He was a believer in dreams, and he cer*' tainlv felt that his last day had come. In place of eating his breakfast he scribbled off a letter to. .his mother and intrusted it to a comrade. In a. little time we got the order to march, and before noon my regiment was thrown forward to cover a portion of the Federal line. The first missile sent at us was a solid shot from a fieid-piecc, and it struck the young soldier in the chest and cut him fairly in two . without injuring another ! man. Not another man was everi^vonuded forthe next ten minute=. The night before Burnside 'crossed at Fredericksburg a second-lieutenant in a Virginia regiment received, with hundreds of others, some mail from the regimental Dag. I carried tne pacK or twenty or thirty letters over to the offi-1 cers' quarters and handed it to this lieu- i tenant. The top letter was for him, and on one end af the envelope was a red stain. It locked like blood, but was probably ink. He no sooner saw it than he became greatly affected, and said: ^<4T shall be the first officer out of the regiment killed to-morrow." I heard a dozen officers ridiculing him, but hie became silent and serious, and finally walked away by himself. We were down on the right, where the first Federal attack was made. Our regiment was using a long and deep land furrow as a rifle pit, and the advancing line of blue h:id just conic within range, when a bullet struck the lieutenant in the head and killed him instantly. It came from the front, and was probably from some sharpshooter, but it was afterward agreed that the officer who was killed was perhaps the least exposed of any. "~-~-~Yhere was a Superstition in my regi1 ^ AM A + f 1 A lilcilt luau au> uuc w uv wcut iuiw uutuc with the foot of a rabbit tied around his neck wa9 safe. This was all right, and rabbits' feet were at a high premium for two or three weeks. My brigade was then pushed forward on a reconnoisance, bumped up against the Yanks,and we not only got severely thrashed, but we lost a good many men. Out of the * seventy men in my company I presume that thirty had the talisman. It so happened that the three killed belonged to this "lucky" set, and next day rabbits' feet took a decided fail in price. I was for a time a brigadier's orderly. ? His superstition was that he would be safe from bullets a3 long as he rode a chestnut horse. In the first battle into which I followed him his chc-tnut was shot, and, of course, I "hustled" to bring him up another. Mine was a coal black, and the only one which I could get for him was a roan. He didn't seem to notice the difference until the action was over, and then I got a terrible rating. In the second battle he had a chestnut, and even before our line came under fire a bullet crippled the horse and another hit my super-titious General in the thigh and left him to limp through life, on a short leg. I personally knew other officers who felt safe on roans, bays, blacks and even whites, but they sooner or later discovered that they had pinned their faith to a rule which had exceptions. I remember that ju9t before Grant attacked I.ee in the Wilderness, and while I wa9 at brigade headquarters, a hen, of which there wa9 a large flock about the yard, scratched up a steel button. A sergeant of cavalry at once dismounted aua secured it, and when I asked what use he could put it to he replied: "I will drop it into the ear of my Colonel's horse just before the next battle, and no harm will come to either of them." "But what fetish can there^e in a * Bteel button?7 "Oh, itian't so much in the as in the hen scratching )t up before my eyes." "But why not try it in your own horse's ear and take care of yourself^" "To be lucky it must be given to somebody else. I laughed at him. and he got so mad that we nearly came to blows. I met him a week later, having a sabre-cut on his head, and asked him how the fetish worked. "Must have been a crowing hen which scratched it up," he replied. "The Colonel and twenty of our men were killed the day after I saw you." Slightly Changed. A correspondent write# us: The storyette in a recent Argonaut of the young man who, speaking from the toast of "The Ladies," quoted from memory: " O woman, in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please;"' ?Scott. 44 But too oft seen, familiar with thy face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." ?Pope spoils one of the prettiest stories told of one of the cleverest men in New York? Manton Marble. His paraphrasing, which ^ was with malice prepense, ran as fol^ lows: 44 0 wcman, in our hours of ease $3^^ Uncertain, coy, and sure to tease." k - WISE WORDS. When Joy's day is over, Faith shines through the arctic skies like a midnight sun. The good hate evil, but not evil people; the evil abhor both good and .good [ people. The best kiud of revenge is that which j is taken by him who is so generous that j he refuses to take any revenge at all. It is always good to know, if only in ! passing, a charming human being; it re- j freshes one like flowers and woods and j clear brooks. | The finest epitaph ever carved on a j stone was a little gill's: "Her com- i panionssaid: 'It was easier to be good j when she was with us.'" In eternity it will amount to more to j have given a cup of cold water to a ; humble servant of God than to have been j flattered by a whole generation. The best of a book is not the thought | which it coutains, but the thought which j it suggests, just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones, but in the echoes of our hearts. Not a day pas-cs over the earth but I men and women of no note da great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. Of the^e obscure heroes, olii losophers and martyrs the greater part ! will never be known till that hour when many, that were great shall be small and the small great. Are Monkeys Mimics? The authority of Scripture (1 Kings, v, 22) warrants the belief that monkeys formed an article of commerce as much as twenty-eight centuries ago, so that no lack of time can have prevented us from studying the habits of our four-handed relatives; yet it would hardly be an overestimate to say that nine hundred and ninety-nine of a thousand men persist in ! the belief that monkeys have a passion j for imitating the actions of their two- j handed kinsmen; that, for instance, an ape, seeing his master shave himself, would take the first opportunity to get hold of a razor and scrape or cut his own throat. Now, how could that idea ever survive this age of zoological gardens? Marcus Aurelius held that the sum of all ethics was to "love truth and iustice, and live without anger, in the midst of I lying and unjust men." Vet the occu- | pation of a monkey-trainer would put that tolerance to a severe test. With an intelligence surpassing that of the most intelligent dog, a monkey combines an ultra-mulish degree of obstinacy, and rather than imitate the demonstrative manipulations of the kindest instructor, he will sham fear, sham lameness, sham heart-disease, and generally wind up by falling down in a sham tit of epileptic convulsions. I have owned monkeys of at least twenty different species, and have never been able to discover the slightest trace of that supposed penchant for mimicry. A boy may take off his coat and turn a thousand somersets, Jocko will watch the phenomenon only with a view to getting his fingers into the pockets of-the-pnguaided coat. Lift up your hand a hundred' 03 4 the proceeding with calm indifference, unless a more emphatic j^giilifPOfWfTlie manoeuvre -should- m'aSe him duck his head to dodge an anticipated blow. He has no desire to follow any human preoedents wh tever, and the apparent excep- | tions from that rule are, on his part, j wholly unintentional and merely a natu- ! ral result of anatomical analogies.?Pep- j ular Science Monthly. A Load of Tree-Tops. In the olden time the salary of a New ( England minister was partly payable in ! wood. Any member of |he parish might pay a part of his ministerial tax, if he saw fit, by drawing a load of cord-wood into the parson's yard. There were then, as now, all sorts of men in the parish, and some of them did not hesitate to offer the clergyman the refuse of their wood-lot. Doctor Nathan Perkins, who served tne cnurcmnJWest Harttorci tor sixty-six years, had one of these "near" parishicneis. ODe evening the man d ove into the doctor's yard, and called him out to inspect the load of wood he had brought. It was a scraggy lot of tree-tops, only fit for oven-wood. The good doctor, who could look "a gift-horse in the mouth." and yet not tell what it rerevealed, said not a word about the wood. Going to the rear end of the load and looking directly into and through the loosely piled wood, be coolly remarked: "That's a fine pair of steers you have on the load, Colonel." It'is not related whether or not the Colonel took the hint, and brought next year for the parson's use a load of wood that did not show daylight through it.? Youth's Companion. An Alliterative Chestnnt The following curious bit of versifica1 1- J 1 .1/ A uon was regaruea nan a century ago as the only perfect, and most ingenious specimen of alliteration then extant. It is comparatively unknown nowadays: I An Austrian army, awfnlly arrayed, I Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade. ' Cossack commanders cannonading come, Dealing destruction's devastating doom. S Every endeavor engineers essav I For fame, for fortune, fighting furious fray, Generals 'gainst generals grapple?gracious God! How honors heaven heroic hardihood! Infuriate, indiscriminate in ill, Kindred kill kinsmen, kinsmen kindred kilL Labor low levels longest, loftiest lines. Men march 'mid mounds, 'mid moans, 'mid murderous mines. Now noisy, noxious numbers notice naught Of outward obstacles opposing ought; Poor patriots, partly purchased, partly pressed, 1 DnItA nnorfow /innc4 y UllC ^uai\iU5 \jutviM7 k'vi? \ju?i w* VIUC3U Reason return*, religion's right redounds, Suwarow stops such sanguinary sounds. Truce to thee, Turkey, triumph to thy train Unwise, unjust, unmerciful Ukraine. Why wish we warfare! Wherefore welcome were Xerxes, Ximenes, Xanthus, Xavier? Yield! yield, ye youth, ye yeomen, yield your yell. Zerra's. Zopater's, Zoroaster's zeal Attracting all, art against arms appeal. Should Have Used Printer's Ink. There was a man in this 'ere town, Who was not wondrous wise; Ho opened up some goods for sale But did not advertise. Adversity did seize this man, Misfortune filled his cup; He opened once a store, quite fine, The sheriff shut it up. ?GoodalVs Sun. TWELVE STORY HOUSES. THE IMMENSE FLATS THAT ARE BUILT IN THE METROPOLIS. Luxurious Houses for Rich People Only?The Navarro Flats?Inside and Outside Appearance. If one has an income of $10,000 a year possibly he can afford to live in one of the ornate and commodious apartmenthouses of this city, some twelve of which have sprung up within the last five or six years. A Eat in one of these houses is essentially a luxury, and it is now a I settled conviction with tenants as well a-; with real estate agents that such a home is chiefly and only for the man of wealth. Yet, if one can afford it, the unanimous conclusion of those experienced in the matter seems to be that such a place of abode is the ideal home, particularly where the family is small. The reasons for this belief are, that the fatigue of climbing stairs is done away with, all the rooms of the family are or may be on one floor, and, what is getting more and more to be a point desired, the migratory disposition of the wealthy is especially provided for in that such a home may be shut up for six months on short notice, the family may go to the country, to Europe or to Florida, and no servant can forge keys to the wine-cellar and none run up the provision account to abnormal proportions in the absence of the employer; for the rooms are left under lock and key in the sole charge of a watchman. The Navarro Flats, at Seventh avenue and the Park, have been the greatest venture in this endeavor to form an aggregate of homes for wealthy tenants, where the rooms for each family should be ou one floor and where all the con vemences possible should be supplied and all the discomforts done away with. The scheme was conceived by .lose F. Navarro. A splendid pile of building?, which every Kew Yorker and every visitor here looking for sights find a delight for the eye. is the result. The buildings are erected around a large court-yard which is wider than an ordinary street, and tower 150 feet in the air. They are twelve stories in height and the houses are known as the Madrid, Cordova,Grenada, Valencia. Lisbon, Barcelona, Salamanca and Tolosa. There arc two fiats on each of eight floors, making a total of 12S flats ^The external structure is of brick and stone with elaborate and beautiful ornamentation. The buildings are really fireproof?having been examined and so reported by Chief Bates? with iion beams, brick arches, partitions of cement and briik roof, while the stairs are of iron and stone. A perfect ventilation has been secured, one feature being that the rooms look out on the street or the court yard. They are heated by steam and boiling water is supplied to the apartments. There are two passenger elevators in each building; the large court is lighted by electricity: there is a watchman for each house, and a special policeman L? on duty constantly. The rents ot these fiats run from $2,000 to $'1,000 a ycir. Many of the apart merits belong to memoers or rue ussuciution 1 ' / ?? A good Specimen oPthe interior of one of the best tiats may be found in the Madrid, one of the corner hous.s. At the corner fronting the two streets is a dining-room seventeen by thirty four feet; adjacent to this ou the front i9 the library, nineteen and a half by twentytwo and a half feet; nc<ct in succession are three chambers, fourteen by twentytwo and a half, fifteen by twenty-two and a half and seventeen by nineteen feet respectively. At the rear of this set of rooms are two reception halls, and just back of those the public hall and the pub- j lie and service elevators and staircase, ' Atone side i f the staircase is a chamber j mnt'ieeu uv iwcubj icct, uu mc upuu-Mic side being the billiard room, eighteen and a half by twenty-feet. At the rear of the biLi&rd room is another dining-room, sixteen by thirty-one feet; oil of this a butler's pantry, aud beyond that the kitchen, seventeen and a half by eighteen feet; off this a store-room, and still beyond are servants' and bath rooms and two more chambers, twelve by twelve and eleven by fifteen feet. This makes the area about one hundred by eighty-five feet. Although the Navarro flats are esti mated as wortn $u,uuj,uuu, .sir. iiuoert, a builder, says that they were constructed with a great deal of economy and that it is only a question of time when they will prove a profitable investment ; the rents, he thinks, are bound to increase as that part of the city grows more and more in demand as a centre of residence by people who have the means to keep up such establishments. The expense of running a flat in these apartment-hooses is about $2,500 even for members of the association.?New York Tribune. "Pigeon English." A New York policeman whose beat is in the Chinese quarter, and who has got accustomed to the Chinaman's use of English, said in course of conversation wilh a Mail arid E-xjnes* reporter: nr.. Ill UitLU^ wuiua uacu uj iuc vixiuvav there is a near approach to the English sounds. For instance. 'Mi no sabe Fo lang say,' is readily interpreted as 'I do not understand Francais of French;' for 'German' the Chinaman uses the word 'Jambola.' A good idea of their idiom is had in the story told by a teacher, who read Hamlet's soliloquy to a class of Chinamen, and was surprised to hear one of them render the lines 'To be or not to be' in this way, 'Cnn, no can.' For never mind they say 'Maskce," which is evidently borrowed from the Spanish. 'Mi ! go walkee maskee that colo,' means 'I will go no matter about the cold.' For 'what' they always say 'what thing,' for who 'who man' is used. 'What belongs what thing' is the 'pigeon' for 'what is that,' and 'that b'longs who man' is the expression for 'who is that.' 'Hap' is 'half,' 'mussee' is 'must,' and so on throughout the 'lingo,'double 'e' is used as an affix to the words ending in 'h' and the linal letter of words ending in the linguals is dropped. In spite of the seeming difficulties 'pigeon' English can be easily acquired, and in no place this side of the Pacific slope are there grcatar opportunities offered to this end than right here in New York." It ha9 been discovered that opium is smuggled from British Columbia to Portland, Ore., in spirit demijohns with false bottoms. Spirited into the country, as it were. NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Black gloves are growing in favor. The height of hats and bonnets still increases. There are 200,000 working-women in New York. Forty thousand women belong to the Granges in the I'nited States. Upright collars of colored velvet have loops of gold on the upper edge. Twenty adjoining farms in Greene County, Ohio, are owned by widows. Epnuletd and cords of tine passementeries and beads are used on woolen dresses. A recent bridal robe, imported from England, was of white plush and Jlalincs lace. There is a novelty in this season's rich brocades, in the many colors used in their manufacture. Jacket bodices arc at once the prettiest and most stylish of modes for those costumes this season. Plastrons, cuffs, collars and epaulets of dark blue irise are worn over bright toilets for semi-dress vses. Mosaic patterns in hose are a novelty. A great variety of colors are shown in blocks of various shapes. GenG^Ke nuns' serge affords material for some of the traveling dresses now made for ladies in mourning. A charming promenade costume of mulberry-colored cloth has a yoke, cuffs, collar and panels of black fur. A newly married couple in Washington have built a cottage six feet eight inches wide and twenty feet loDg. Guipure work is the most popular fancy work for substantial purposes, such as valences, piano covers and the like. Second mourning affords an opportuuity for some very dressy effects. Lavender, heliotrope, gray ana silver are used. The Princess of Wales continues to favor the wearing of black silk stockings, although her feet are exceptionally small. Misses'hats are shown in styles simi'? i? luno most worn uy yuuug wuim, with no perceptible difference in the trimmings. A pretty Paris fashion in hats is to have the brim of ooe material, the crown of another, and the under-facing of a third. Corduroy velvet is a new English material for fancy table covers. It is worked with the new tapestry wool in Gothic designs. Barred plaids are very stylish for underskirts, and are made perfectly plain, with an overdress in some soft woolen labric or neutral tint. The rich stuffs from which the most stylish aqd elegant wraps are made are quite sufficient unto themselves,and need little or no trimming. Fur is much used for waistcoats, sleeve capes, panels and borders of cloth dresses. Leopard and tiger ikins take the lead for this purpose. Bjtatiful black Honiton is to be used ii^flhuing velvet mantles as in djtya of yore. ageiTTadies nothing can be more appropriate. Lace hoods are for the purpose of a substitute to the inevitable knitted or crochetted hood. They are ornamental with a full bow of ribbon. Wn?1rl<>d rlnaks p. not now thoufrht to fall so gracefully as thvse having an interlining of flannel. The silk lining is always in some bright color. Very fashionable but silly ladies are accused of hypodermically injecting coloring matter in order to produce a bright complexion. It is a dangerous skin game. Suitings similar to those worn by gentlemen are shown in great variety for ladies' use. Stripcj, bars, checks, plaids, blocks, hair-line stripes, basket weaves and shaded effects arc all favored. An Arkansas girl who was bitten on the fing r by a venomous snake immediately seized an axe and chopped the finger off. Jt is believed that she saved her life by this heroic treatment. Mahatance Surnomoyce, a generous Hindoo lady in Calcutta, has given $?5,000 to fouud a hall of residence for na tive women students 01 mcaicine. xae Government has contributed ground for the building. The hair is no longer massed over the forehead, but a few light curls or waves fall on each side. It is still piled up at the top of the head and well brushed up from the nape of the neck. It is well off the temples and leaves the ears quite free. Very pretty peasant waists arc made of velvet, velvetoen, plush or satin, to be worn with dark skirts and blouse waists of surah the color of the skirt. They are round in the back and pointed in front, and may have shoulder straps to be tied over the shoulder with a bow of ribbon. Ladies of wealth are beginning to consider their duty in regard to the education of their sex, and are apportioning some of their possessions to this purpose. I.atcly a Miss Gamble, in England, left nearly one hundred thousand dollars to t^irton College, the most conspicuous women's college in Great Britain. Straw Shoes from China. Consul-General Kennedy at Shanghai, at the request of Dr. D. J. McGowac, an American at Wcnchow, lias sent to the Commissioner of Agriculture a collection of the various styles of shoes manufactured by the Chinese of rice straw, together with samples of the material used in their manufacture. A letter to the Consul-General from Dr. McGowan is rnrlosed. in which he savs it has oc curred to him that the poor in the southern portion of the Union might find these shoes, which arc used by the laboring people of Southern China, a cheap ana sufficient protection for their feet. In China, he says, they are made by people who are too old or feeble for active work, the specimens costing from one to twelve cents a pair. The samples of material comprise wild grass or sedge, from which the uppers are made, something similar to which, he believes, will be found in American rice regions. Rice grass is used for soles and mat grass used to sew the parts together. With regard to the last named lie suggosts its acclimatization in the rice region, and says he does see why such an extensive industry as mat making should not be taken up by Americans. ! Catarrh i i 1 By scrofulous taint in tho blood. Therefore, to euro I catarrh, purify the blood. Thousands who have been troubled with the disagreeable symptoms oI I catarrh, have been entirely cured by Hood's Sarsa; parllla, the best blood pdrlfylnz medicine before j the public. It oxpels every taint of Impurity from ; the blood, and vitalizes and enriches it. If you suffer from catarrh, rIvo Hood's Sorsaparllla a trial. | A remedy so cordially endorsed as this, Is certainly j worthy your confidence. Do not delay taking It till I too late. 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