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Ode to tlie Bmfffeto Girl.
'Will the Buffeln rlrl oome out to-nlfht
And dancr by the light of the mooof
On the eleratnr tower It fllokcre bright.
The lunar orb of Juno—
And an underfed poet can danee aa light
Aa a fay In ailver ahoon.
0 Buffalo girl with the wealthy
And the flour-wills huge and _ _
There’s a wonderful charm to which poets drop
In your tender asure eye;
l oould rhyme for you with never a stop
To the saccharine by-and-by.
0 Buffalo girl, your great big lake
Is a duck-pond beside my heart.
That throbs and throbs till It’s nigh to break—
And ’tls you that hare caused It smart.
0 rise and giro the eternal shake
To the fate that keeps us apart!
0 Buffalo glii oome out to-night.
And elo|>o by the light of the moon I
And a Wagner oar ahall aid our flight,
Aa we skip ’neath the sky of June—
And your ptarenta will probably do what’s
right.
And oome down With the scads full soon.
—Puck’s Annual.
nfe-ftf* yon hurtl”
“I think not,” replied the girl; “nay;
good madam, I am sore not, 1 ’ steadily
raising her arm: “bat look,” and she
shook rack the loose sleeve, “you seo I
had a narrow-escape"; and in fact the
sleeve was pierced and torn by some
sharp instrument
“In
IN SILENT DREAD.
A clear, soft warm summer night
fragrant with the odors'of honeysuckles,
rosce. and heliotropes, and silent save
for the singing of the locusts in the
grass.
Suddenly the silence was broken by
wild and hurrying footsteps along the
principal street. A flying figure cloeely
pursued by another figure vanished into
the deep shadow caused by a half-doxen
large, leafy trees about midway the die*
tance of the street and from out the
darkness came a terrified and piercing
cry:
“Help! Murder! Oh, help—help!
Murder!”
A few seconds of breathless •Hence,
and then the silence was broken again
by the sound of hurrying footsteps,
growing fainter and fainter in the dis
tance, while several persons who had
been aroused by the cry for help hast
ily drew on clothing and shoes and
rushed toward the spot whence the cries
had proceeded.
It was 1 o’clock In the morning and
naturally the inhabitants of the street
were all in bed and most of them asleep.
Of those who had been awakened many
stopped after the first alarm, rushed into
the street, questioning one another and
awaiting for some repetition of the cries;
but the xtreet was silent again—even
more silent than it seemed before tlie
outcry. Of all who had gone so far
to rush in frantic haste at first only two
actually proceeded far enough to leant
the cause of the alarm.
“I think the cries came from this di
rection,” called out William Korney,
running in the direction indicated by
his outstretched arm.
“1 think so, too,” answered Charles
Lemon, following him.
The first speaker ran so fast and head
long that he nearly stumbled over a
prostrate body, amt while bfl recovered
himself his companion stooped
rawed the insensible fignrs.
“Why. it’s a woman!" be eiclaimvd;
~a girl, I should say, she is so slight and
slender.” '
“Of course, 1 knew It was s woman's
voice. Can you carry her, Charley?
Let me help you. Bring her to our
house. Mother is the most kind and
thoughtful, dear, good mother that was
ever known," he added, lending his as
sistance.
— "She is either dead or in a faint,” said
Lecson.
Ami then the two young men lapsed
into silence, and did not speak again
till they had entered Mrs. Forney’s par
lor, where they laid their iniHnisi r ble Dur
den on the lounge.
"Now Charley, do you light the gaa,
and I will go and bring mother here,
and we’ll see what can be done."
And he left the room as he spoke,
while Charley Lesson proceeded to obey
bis orders.
After- groping about the mantel-piece
bs soon found, by the uid of the moon
light which streamed in, the match-safe,
and having lighted two gas-jeta. he
gave his attention to the still inaensible
Her hat had fallen off, awl her rich
dark hair, loosened and disheveled,
flowed back from her death-pale face
over the sofa pillow. Her features were
delicate and regular, her mouth amall,
and tbough distorted from recent fear
wonderfully attractive, and her general
appearance betokened refinement and
grace.
“Quite pretty and interesting,”
thought Charley. “Looks very paleb ut
not dead.. Wonder what kind of eyes
she has? If they are fine the chances
are she’s quite a beauty at her best”
Young Fornqy now entered, accom
panied by his mother, and the kind lady
at onoe proceeded to the sofa.
“The young lady is only in a swoon,”
she said, at onoe taking the girl's hand,
“and, I think, far more frightened than
hart But we shall soon know, for she
is ahradj recovering. I can see the
color is returning to her face. See,
William, her eyes unclose. What a
sweet-looking creature! I wonder who
she is!”
“Ileavens! It is ”
Tbs exclamation burst from William
Forney, who, at his mother’s words, had
oeme over, to the sofa, and now saw the
stranger for the first time really, for,
notwithstanding the moonlight, he had
not caught even a glimpse of her face
while he helped Charley Leeson to oargjr
her.
Even as the words which surprise had
foreed from bhn bunt from his lips he
suppressed them, and from the expres
sion of iris mother's face he oould wot
be sure whether she had noticed his ex
clamation of not Indeed, her attend
lion was presently absorbed by the oon-
And GeiUidc promised, and she kept
her word—nor is William behindhand
in responding to her devotion; they
most truly live for eaclt other.
She Was No Friend ol'Labor.
was so frightened,” the girl went
on, “when he struck at me with the
knife that I thought I was killed. Oh,
dear! what trouble I must be giving to
you all”
Bin. Formey disclaimed all idea of
trouble and led the young girl up-stairs
to her own room.
“When we are all alone she will
doubtless explsin all this mystery,”
thought the good lady, for she guessed
at race that there was something unus-
uaibetween her son and this stranger,
judging from their glances and excla
mations. „
But she was disappointed in her ex
pectations. The stranger was lovely,
she was charming. She was exquisitely
f rateful for the kindness shown to her,
ut she was dumb in regard to the
strange events of the night. She neither
explained nor referred td the mystery of
her sudden and extraordinary -entrance
on the soefle, and she oftereu no solu
tion of the looks and words which had
passed between her and William For
ney, and Mrs. Forney began to think
that she was not treated with a proper
degree of ooulidance by either of these
young people.
After making the young stranger as
comfortable as possible for the night she
bade her a rather cold “adieu," and
added:
“You shall tell me who you arc and
where I am to send for your friends in
the morning, my dear. You are too
weak and too much alarmed for further
afforts of any kind to-uight.”
And, indeed, the mysterious young
lady did look pale and wan, so tbat a
harder heart man gentle Mrs. Forney’s
might have been touched with pity for
her. But it was not in human nature
not to wonder at those things, and Mrs.
Forney was, in truth, consumed with
curiosity, and this feeling on her part
she at once communicated to her son.
“You wish for an explanation, mother,
dear, and you shall have it so far as I
have the power to give it to you. But
I must begin by tolling you that all this
affair is almost as mysterious to me as
to you. I know the young lady—that is
nearly all I can say by way of gratify
ing your very natural desire for Knowl
edge. Shu is the step-daughter of the
O rip an gentleman from whom 1 was
taking lessons in that language last
spring. Her name is Gertrude Steiu-
weU. Having seen her it will not sur
prise you to know that I wax, and still
am. passionately attached to her. I had
hoped to make her my wife before now,
and proceeded so far as to tell her so,
and «riu iVj. CCS —- ’nt the
next day to arrange with her as to when .
I might bring you to call on her, when,
instead of being met by the lovely und
blushing girl who had the day before
promised to be my wife, a note from her I
was placed in my hand containing these.
words:
We meet no more in Ibis world. Ask no ex-!
plaoatlon. Do not attempt to see me. Fare
well forevt*. GKBTHCDE.
"Of course I did not obey. I did ask
for explanations. I did seek to sec her
again and again. But all in vain
From that hour until to-night I never
set eyes upon her; and the events of this
nigkt—the attempt upon her life, her
presence here, her terror—arc all part
of the mystery which has surrounded
her since 1 received that note, and
which is as incomprehensible to me as
to you.” .
Mrs. Forney warmly pressed her son's
hand. Her sympathies, bofh as a wo
man and a mother, were thoroughly
roused, and for William's sake she do-
A very fat, red-faced woman, with
two big sachels and a hand-bag, got off
a train at the Lake Shore depot yester-
wipe
Inters*ling History of a Famous Brilliant.
I and began,
to* to^implor* the pfotodfaB
“Don’t tot him kill me—he will do it
he ewore he would kill me, and he
Wurin keep Me word, for be ia terrible—
F' tarribtor efee said, wildly ; and then, as
her cane wandered from face to faea,
she alarted to her Met eta recognising
Wilhelm! h is. then,
yen who knee raved me?” and over-
earae with emotion, and perhaps shame
nt haring betrayed herself, she covered
her evimeoning face with her hands and
knot totn teem
Mi oome, my child, you are sate
Ho one will hart yon ia - my
Mrs Forney, wondering
the
i
term i nod to penetrate the raysterv.
But this was a far more difficult mat
ter than she anticipated, and had not
circumstances favored her there is little
reason to suppose that sho would have
ever overcome Gertrude's obstinate si
lence.
The girl was, however, completely
prostrated by the nervous shock and
unable on the next day to leave her
room.
Mrs. Forney, therefore, felt herself
justified in sending for Gertrude's moth
er, who came as rapidly as the train
could bring her, for she had been quite
terrified by Gertrude’s disappearance,
and only needed a clew to her where
abouts in order to fly to her. An evil
'fate, she seemed to wink, had overtaken
her household, for her husband’s son
had been drowned the night before, and
his dead body had just been brought
home a few minutes before she received
the telegram from the Forneys.
“Albrecht dead!” exclaimed Gertrude,
joyously. “Then I am released. My
oath binds me no longer. Ah! do not
think me heartless, Wilhelm—mother; I
am only so overjoyed from the pressure
of silent dread now removed. Albrecht
was a terrible man. I do think he was
not in hia right mind. He loved me,
and strove to marry me, and when he
knew that I loved Wilhelm his rnge was
too fearful. He made me swear a terri
ble oath never to marry while he lived,
and he swore that he would kill Wil
helm if ever I spoke to 1dm qr let him
ago me.
"Oh, I wae horribly frightened! I
oould not resist his rage, his wildness. I
was sure he would kin Wilhelm, and
that only gave me strength keep my
tihfh- Last night he w* In «a fearful
t’affe. He threatened a score df times to
kin Wilhelm, and w hen at a late hour
he left the house I followed him. Hither
and thither he led me, trU at lost he
took the train that brought us- here;
and still I followed, not daring to let
him out of my sight Just as we entered
this street—he must have found out in
•ome way that you lived here, Wit-
halm—he turned suddenly and met me
face to face close at his heels. He knew
BM rad in a moment a knife gleamed
above my head. I flew past and fled
for my life, but he pursued roe, and
gained on me, and then, as I felt the
oold steel graze my flesh, I shrieked
aloud, ana I mast have fallen in a faint
No doubt he thought he had killed me,
hut 1 was only terrified out of all sense
rad reason."
"And it wae to save me that you suf-
' this torture my darling?” William
Jepot
day morning. Sho had hardly reached
the main entrance, accomplished after a
terrific struggle witli two sachols and
the hand-bag, when she was accosted by
a vigorous urchin.
“Say, ma’am, don’t ycr want <yer
valises packed ?” •
“They are packed, sonny,” replied
the fat lady, stopping to rest and
the perspiration from her face.
“Ob, you don’t catch on. I mean
don’t yer want me ter carry the grips?”
“Well, you are a real good boy. You
can carry the sachels and show me
where the nortli side cars run.”
“Terwentv-tive cents is what it’ll cost
yer,” replied the youngster, in a busi
ness-like way."
“Mercy! What are you going to do
with all that money? I’m not rich, lit
tle boy.”
“it's nearly a mile to dcr north side
cars,” responded the youth, with a blush.
“I’ll give you 15 cents,” said the
plump lady, in a coaxing tone. "That’s
alt the change I've got.’ r
“I s'iiosc I gutter take that, but ’taint
ernuff for two such big fellers as them
grips be'*.”
After a little more, parleying the boy
shouldered the baggage and was soon
sailing alongside the fleshy lady down
the street. At the corner of Jackson
and Clark streets he came to a sudden
halt, deposited ids burdens on tlie side
walk, ami put his, hands in his pockets.
“Are you tired, sonny?" inquired the
lady anxiously.
"Naw.”
“What is the matter? I think you
are a bad bov.”
“Well’ I’lf toll yer, ma'am. I’m a’
goin’t’ strike on yer fer 20 cents more.
An’ I can’t move till 1 gets it, aither.”
The fat lady was evidently very much
disconcerted. She tried to speak several
times, but her tongue failed her. The
horriEle youngster took a seat on one of
the sachels.
“You only wijnt 10 cents more," sho
finally said, fumbling in her pocket-
book and producing a dime. “You on
ly asked 25 cents at first.
"Can'^ help dat now,” coolly re
sponded the striker, “Tve lost time go
in’ out ou dis strike, an’ 1 needs do 10
cents ter git square. You better give
in; I kin hold out f rover an’ ever.”
He looked as though he could. An
other bright new dime came out of the
pocket-book, aud as the two pieces of
silver jingled in the urchin's band he
arose amt grappled with the big dusty
sacbi-ls again.
"Ycr see, I couldn't ‘rat,’ marm. I’m
a uniou rren,” he said, apologetically,
as be marched Uow^.tbe street; “an’
when I took der load I seed y - -.*
no frien’ of labor; country people never
is.”—Chicago Scwi.
Increase of IttMtitif)'.
4 —*■ -
Tlie stffti-tica of insanity show that,
in general, tlie proportion of insane is
jrtater in the older States, where the
orelgn population is most numerons,
and it is less where thtrcnniTmTniries are
new, as, for instance, in the pioneer
counties of Wisconsin, Tlie Sotlth,
whidi baa draw n comparatively little
from immigration, suffers from insanity
to much less extent than New Kngland
and New York: and it is an established
fact that the negro race is much less
liable to insanity than the white. The
average of insanity in New iuigland is
JL to every 359 of thepopulatiop; in New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, 1
to every 424; while in the extheme
Southern States the average is only 1 to
935.
ThOfcWeflt, like the South, is more free
from insanity than the Northern sea
board States, the average being 1 to
every 610 in the interior States, and 1
to 750 for the Northwestern States. In
the far Western States and Territories it
is only 1 out of 1,263, they being settled
by a picked population, whose energy
and soundness make them pioneers. It
is noteworthy, however, that insanity
is about as freauent in the Pacific States
as in New England, the explanation be
ing that vice an«I indulgence prevail to
an exceptional extent among the popu
lation drawn to the Pacific by the mania
for gold. The average in Massachu
setts, for instance, is f to 84S, in Cali
fornia 1 to 345. It is also remarkable
that the ratio of insanity decreases as
we go west and south of New England,
as these averages will show: New En
gland, 1 to 359; Middle States, 1 to 424;
Interior States, 1 to 610; Northwestern
States, l to 750; Southern States, 1 to
629.
The State where the proportion is
highest is Vermont, 1 to 327; and New
Hampshire comes next, with 1 to 329.
We are at a loss to understand why in
sanity is so frequent in the District of
Columbia, the average given being 1 to
189; but perhaps the large average in
Vermont and New Hampshire may in
part be due to the circumstances that
those States receive the refuse of Ca
nadian poor-houses, they having a
much better organized system of charit
able relief than the Dominion cap boas!
of; and it is undeniable that some of
the very worst of our immigration comes
from over the Canadian border. That
immigration, too, is now great, and
there are factory towns in New England
where the population is largely made
up of French Canadians.—New York
Sun.
One of the best-known diamonds in
Europe down to the close of the last
century was the famous Sancy. As ia
the case with all prominent gems of this
species, many legends, some of pleasant
some of a painful character, arc con
nected with it. One legend of the
Sancy is thus narrated:
The beautiful diamond inventoried as
the’ Sancy, and of the weight of 33 12-16
carats, and valued at 1,000,000 francs,
was stolen and never recovered. This
gem has been associated with the for
tunes of the redoubtable Burgundian
Charles the Bold, ami its his-
warrior,
tory has done more to perpetuate his
name than the record of all his misdeeds
and his desperate battles. To prove,
however, that this is the identical gem
lost by the Swiss will bo a difficult task,
for the antiquaries have unearthed more
Sancy diamonds than there were Rich
monds in the field. The name of Sancy
has, indeed, become famous by em
bracing in one story the fortunes of
three distinct gems. The erudite King
has patiently traced out the traditions
connected with the name Sancy, and
appears to prove that throe stories in
stead of one are included in the history
of Baron Sancy. But the stone that
was stolen from the French casket ia
1792 is inventoried at the weight of 83
12-16 carats, while the gem that has
lately gone back to India, and is sup
posed to be the stolen gem, weighs
quitc.64 carats. Here is a new mystery
for the antiquaries to clear away or
did Belattre and ids associates, who
made out this inventory with exceeding
care, write thirty instead of fifty-three?
^
Leading pigeon-fanciers say that there
increased interest in the raising of
pigeons, particularly among the ladies,
wuo caro*for them at odd n
irtv
The histories of these diamonds are so
interesting that we will attempt to re
peat them here, following, in part, the
views of King. Not long after the in
vention, by Bcrqucn, of diamond-cut
ting by the process of abrasion, Charles
the Bold, then in the full blaze of mar
tial glory, submitted to him three large
rough diamonds. The native of Bruges
succeeded so well in polishing them
that Charles presented him with the
princely sum of 3,000 ducats. One of
tb(*9e gems Charles gave to Tope Sextus
IV., and it was mounted in the tiara,
where it is said to remain. The second
was presented to ^tiis XL of France;
while the third was reserved by the
Burgundian hero, and set in grotesque
manner to be worn as a personal orna
ment. This jewel, of true barbaric de
sign, was formed of a triangular shape,
with the newly-eut diamond in the
center. This diamond was five-eighths
of an inch in its widest diameter, and
was shaped as a pyramid, with the apex
cut into a four-rayed, star in relief.
Around the gem was set three largo
Balais rubies and four magnificent
pearls, each more than half an inch in
diameter. One of the Fugger family, in
1555, made a careful drawing of the
jewel, with a written description of it,
and these were afterward published by
:ci“ ir. “Bibliotheca Csrsa-
rea;” so there can be no doubt about
the appearance of the original diamond
of Charles the Bold in its early days.
When the duko led his band of free
booters into {Switzerland on his long-
projected foray, he took most of his
5 ems along with him, not dreaming of
isaster, and probably loving to view
his treasures even amid the hardships
of the
sometimes
art and nature as more delicate and re
fined organizations, and Charles the
BoUl anil Souvaroff are not the only
examples. The terrific onslaught of the
Swiss at Grandson crushed the Burgun
dian ranks so quickly that Charles had
ottty time to escape with his sword,
leaving all his cherished treasures in
the hands of # the dauntless moun
taineers.
“In the sack of the camp which
speedily followed the rout, a soldier
found the golden box fn which the
famous pendant was kept, but regard
ing the jewel as a gaudy and worthless
bauble, he tossed it away under a wagon
and retained the box only. Shortly
afterward he began to suspect thatHh*
contents of so beautiful a box must have
some value, and, returning to the place,
he recovered the despised jewel. He
did not long after retain his treasure,
but sold it to a priest for 1 florin. The
priest also did not appear to have a
nigh regard for his purchase, for ho dis
posed of it to the magistrates of his own
canton for 3 francs. When it became
known that the Bernese government
had possession of the duke’s famous
jewels, Jacob Fugger, one of the mem-
moments at
home and obtain from the sale of the
birds considerable pin-money. A resi
dent of New Jersey, who is one of the
best-known pigeon-fanciers of this coun
try, and whose lofts of Hearly five hun
dred birds includes some of the hand
somest and most valuable in the world,
sky s:
“Every one of my birds knows me,
and whenever I enter the loft they flock
around. Most people have the idea that
pigeons must ba bred in the dark. This
is not tlie case, for it makes them wild.
All mine are bred in the light, in glass
boxes painted white, about six by eight
inches in size, and with hay inside for
the nest. A curious fact I have noticed
about pigeons is their loyalty to each,
last a pair bo once mated anil they will
never forsake one another while alive.
How long do they live? Twelve years,
and keep up their full vigor for that
period. We feed them on Canada peas,
wheat, cracked corn, and occasionally
a little hempsoed. The weight of k
pigeon varies from three or four ounces
to several pounds. The biggest figure I
have heard that was paid for a pair of
pigeons in this country was $500. It
was given for a pair of carrier pigeons.”
“Will you tell me something about
the different kinds of pigeons?” Dr. Mo-
Cook, a lover of the bird, was asked.
"Anyone having owned pigeons of
any kind will know what is meant by
common pigeons. They are not of any
distinct breed or color. There are but
very few common pigeons now in
which some traces of the higher classes
can not lie detected. At the same time
1 believe that were a flock of the so-
called common pigeons kept entirely to
themselves for a number of years color-
markings and other characteristics of
the higher classes would entirely disap
pear and the birds would be more like
ly to resemble in color and shape those
they originally came from—the Blue
Rocks. Next to a common pigeon, |>er
pige
st by
difficult to breed ami good ones i
? campaign. Rough soldiers -are coranian(1 p r iees. Fiftv dofl
imcs as fond of he beautiful in , o( first-clasa birds wduld .
dearest?”
“4 vu terras, Gsrttafe’
“The Duchess of Edinburgh is said to
be more than ordinarily clever and cul
tivated,” writes Adam Badeau in tbs
last of his papers on aristocracy in En
gland. “From those admitted to her
intimate society I have heard that she is
better informed in politics than many
women in Europe in any sphere. She
reads the newspapers of all countries,
inclodiite those of America; she is ac-
a uaintedwith the position of parties in
ie United States, knows the names and
histoty of our public men, and can dis-.
cuss the measures important here with
greater facility than many of our own
ooantry-women who think themselves
well informed. If this is so with re-
r rd to democratic America, of course
is so with reference to European
with refei
8te**s and Uwln"
r
be
era of the celebrated Nuremberg fami
ly, went to Berne and negotiated for
their purchase. The iambus pendant,
together with the duke’s cap, which was
made of silk covered with pearls and
Balais rubies, and a plume case set with
diamonds, pearls, and Balais rubies
were bought for the sum of 47,000
francs. Fugger retained tlie pendant
in his possession at Nuremberg for
many years, indulging in tlie hope, it
has been said, that the duke’s great
grandson, the Emperor Charles V.,
would purchase it as a family relic.
When the celebrated capitalist died the
ornament was still in his possession,
but his great-nephew, who inherited the
jewel, sold it to Henry VIII. of England.
After the death of this monarch his
danghtejr presented the diamond |o her
brioegroom, and thus, by a remarkable
coincidence, and after an absence of
seventy-six years, the royal gem was
again restored to the rightful heir of its
original owner.—St. Louis Qlobc-Dan-
ocrat.
A large publishing house states that
it generally employs as readers men and
women of culture who themselves have
done literary work; sometimes a lawyer
who finds time from his professional
duties to give attention to literary pur
suits, or a doctor similarly situated, find
sometimes a woman of refined educa
tion qualified to do the work. When
any manuscript on a scientific, medical
or special subject is handed in, some re
cognized professional man in that par
ticular is engaged. Nearly all writers
bear a part oLthe expenses of the tint
edition; all new writers do. It is a fact
not generally known that Longfellow
paid within a small amount of the total
cost of production of his first volume of
poems, and James Russell Lowell paid
all the expense of bis first work.
Of the 4,080 works published ia
oomtiy Irat jura wrau Dovflk
haps the best known, at least by name,
is the homing Antwerp, which is the
carrier pigeon, so called. It is the bird
known to make long flights. The fan-
tails are special favorites. The white
ones are me most common and easiest
to breed, hut they arc. also to be had in
black, brown, blue, ml and yellow
The two hitter are rare, and easily
bring from $10 to $3<) a pair. Fans,
with fowl feathers, mottled or checker-
oil. arc not of much value. No breed of
pigeons has so many varieties ami sub
varieties as the tumbler pigeons, nor is
there a variety so well-known that is as
yet so little understood by pigeon-breed
ers. Many who own them expect them
to perform, whether the birds are given
a chance or not. Usually they are kept
with a lot of other birds and are flown
with them. There are also many tum
blers who do not tumble at all. All oi
the short-faced varieties are not sup-
jiosod to be performers, although I have
seen some tumble very well. Pouters
are the first selection of many promineut
pigcoti-fancicrs, and rarely is this bird
entirely abar.-Qnpd for other varieties.
A Baltimore citizen who i* an enthusi
astic breeder of pouters has at present
probably the best birds of that variety
in the country. They are somewhat
difficult to breed, and good ones always
“ars for
pair of first-class birds would not be
extravagant in this country, and in En-
f land perhaps the same birds would
ring twice that amount and more. 1
remember that Mr. Schell, of Brooklyn,
had one he refused $250 for. They can
be had in pure white, black, red, yel
low and Isabella.”—N. Y. Mail and
Express.
Lord DeaconsfleltL
Singular Abnormal Growths Obsorrod-A
Study la Morbid Anatomy.
We think the most careless man has
not failed to observe that women have
become subject to a curious deformity
within the last few years. The matter
is a delicate one to discuss, but realW
the evil is getting to lie so general that
public attention ought to be called to it
and methods of counteracting it ought
to be considered. We allude to the ugly
and abnormal development Inst where
the dress begins to set out behind.
There is something strange abont this
deformity, inasmuch as the victims of it
do not seem in any 'n ay ashamed of Jt,
nor does it appear to affect their gener
al health gmu spirits. Indeed theta is
nothing commoner than to meet a pretty
creature with smiling tips and sparkling
eyes tripping along as gayly and grace
fully us Diana on the borders of Euro-
tas; and yet when she passes, you ar#
shocked to observe an immense hump
bobbing up and down on her back witn
every movement. The dear afflicted
creatures chat with each other cheer
fully, go about their shopping with the
same conscientious punctuality as of
old, and even appear to take pleasure in
the society of the male sex; but while
admiring their heroic endurance we
can not help svmpathizing with their
misfortune ami sighing over their de
parted grace of form. With feminine
skill they have contrived a kind of cloak
which is cut uwav at the buck aad has
pieces hanging down at each side like
the flaps of a saddle, and in such a gar
ment the hump )>uts on a jaunty appear
ance. and even suggests the |>ossibility
that it had been develo|>ed to tit the new-
fashioned eloak, but not infrequently,
when an old-fashioned clonk or circular
is worn, the protuberance is thrust out
through the folds of the overflowing
clotji Tike a rock among the ripples of a
stream, in such cases the effect, if not
grand, is at least gloomy and peculiar.
If there be any truth in the modern
theory of evolution or in the old saying
that the back is fitted to the burden,
there may lie some punsiee in the devel
opment of this curious ntuup. It would
certainly afford a flue resting-place for
a market basket or a carpet bag, and a
baby might be set astride of it with
great advantage: but, curiously enough,
the women who carry loads off any kind
in the street !M“cm scarcely ever afflicted
with this deformity, while those who ap
pear to be out for no other purpose than
to exhibit themselves are the most sadly
misshapen.
What the character of the growth is wu
have had no opiiortunitica to investigate-,
but there has been not a little discussion
on the subject among the scientists.
The opinion long prevailed that the
bump is a mere fungoid growth, a cha
otic am) incongruous bulk, but there is
now good reason to suppose that in
majority of raws it is a highly complex
organism built up about a regular skele
ton, and some* hut resembling in form
and action tjic jointed mechanism of
lobster's tail. Possibly the hump of this
character is a later development and the
fungoid growth is a mere survival; but
at any rate its existence can not be de
nied, as instances have been known in
which the hump has Urn squeezed out
Of shape in a crowded street-car and rw-
mainerl-twisted, distorted and limp as if
it were a mere mass o* or old
newspapers. The fact that in'sucfc-Cfift-
es the woman has been known to atop
out of the car unconscious of injury,
may bo regarded as positive proof that
the hump can not t>c very sensitive or
else that it can not be vitafiy connected
with the person to whom it is attached
rufessor Huxley after a scries of care-
eul experiments declared that in twenty-
five crises out of twenty-six he foond
Germany sent oat 101,667
last year.
Ex-King Theetraa’s nominal ]
Madras is next door to • F
Congressman Springer invariably ap-
E ears with a yellow rose in the lapel of
is coat - '.itjijgw
The thawing breeze that follows the
blizzard Is known In the northwest na a
“chinook.”
The death rate from chloroform is,
according to a recent estimate, one in
one thousand. > .
The average age of those who enter
college in this ooan try is seventeen; a
century ago it wu fourteen.
Mias Sweet says she to happier eat of
the Chicago pension office than she
wu in it, and ta “making more raaney,
too.”
Quids rays if the Venns de Medici
could be animated into Ufa, women
would only remark that her wotot woo
Urge.
The late Joshna B. Lippineott Waj
probably the rioliest of* American
ushers. He was a shrewd iaveotor in
railroad securities.
There are still public Unds open to
settlement in nineteen states .rata eight
territories at prices ranging from 91.26
to $2.60 per acre.
Mrs. Mary Grant Cramer, sister ’of
Gen. Grant, to lecturing in Mateenho
setts under the auspious of the Wc
en’s Christian Temperance Union.
' Haller, the scientist, has kept
perfumed with a single grata df
Dcrgis for forty years, and mere i
ipreciable diminution ia
the odor.
The ear of Weber, the oompoesr. to
•aid to have been so sensitive that ha
oould tell the diffcreace of a thoaeandth
part, or one vibration more or Iras la
the thousand.
Billy Cook, who to ninety yean did
and Uvea at HpcUsyUaara, Va.,
Uken for bto thud wifa Nellie
hae
of roller
boxwodd.
Is ranch
-a year
a colored woman, twenty-five yeers old.
Mr. Cook to also colored.
('rowfoot, chief of the Blinktest, has
accepted with thanks a peapetoal para
Over the Canadian Paoifle Railroad, and
Chief Kahkewaononaby thraatons the
Toronto Ulobs with a libel soli
As an evidence of the
skating an exchange cites that I
of which the rollers are made,
cheaper now than at thto
ago, and it to likely to go
Some of the money
Northern c>t > by aieetric
went to bt v Jersey cattle for Father
Hurst's farm, aad now ho to I
Georgians an exoaUent quality of I
Dr. Salvia, aa Italian surgeon, rap It
is always possible to transplant a por
tion of muscular tissue from one animal
to another, differences of speeira having
no effect upon the definite ronlt of the
operation.
Edison's patents have now 1
numerous that they have a i
of index or reference numbers in the
patent office—the only enae in which
sucb separation from the general index
bits been thonght necessary. &*•=—
An order for a farm In Washington
County, Ind, wu reetfeed by a local
rqal estate ageat there from an Ohio
maVwtffi wiSt&S, aJ*>r H poesiUe, '“a
wife between the agea of tweaty and
forty-live years,” to go with the farm.
When a fair maid wu wed by Ctdiraal
Gough, of the Hussars, in London, the
other day, his deep-voiced, hearty *T
will,” made the bride jump ao notice
smiled. Ba wu »
talked ta tona^of
ably that ovary
man of Man
Lord Beaconslield may be fairly called
a great man on his own definition of a
great man—as “one who affects the
minds of his generation, whether ho be
a monk in his cloister agitating ChrisL
endom or a monarch crossing the Gran-
icus and giving a new character to the
pagan world." iiord Bcaconsfield cer
tainly affected the minds of his genera
tion, and the part he chose to play in
doing so was more akin to that of Alex
anjjer than that of a Jerome or a Mar-
thr Lother. Indeed, the difficulties that
the young Disraeli had to encounter in
his career were scarcely less imposing
than those which opposed, but did not
retard, the progress of the Macedonian
king; nor were the victories of the one
less splendid than the triumphs of the
other. The young Disraeli began life u
a Jew, when to be a Jew meant to be
deprived of every social and civil ad
vantage that makes a public career
worth striving for. The position of a
conquered Samnite in a world of Roman
citizens was scarcely more galling than
the position of a Jew in England in the
early part of the present century. He
was not, it is true, any longer tortured
at the pleasure of prince or noble; he
was no longer condemned to dwell in a
ghetto or wear garments of a peculiar
cut or color; but all, or almost all,
chances <>f political promotion were
ctos u against him in his adopted coun
try. He might amass a fortune; he
might win distinction in letters and the
arts, but he oould not place hto - foot on
the lowest round of the ladder that led
to political distinction. These difficul
ties did not long restrain and impede
the vonng Disraeli. He bad been
brought up a Christian. As a Christian
he oould enter the parliament, which it
was then impossible for a Jew to enter,
and once in parliament, he felt that hie
career was etear before him and his suc
cess certain. But though he never pro
fessed the religion of his race, Disraeli
never forgot his reverence for that race
nor bis love for the people from whom
he sprang. In his writings, in hto
speeches. In all the action* of hto life
he was the champion, and a most
S owerful and effective champion, c3 the
ewish people. Into the month of hto
favorite character, Sidonia, he pots an
eloquent tribute to the genius and the
glory of the Jewtoh race, which repre
sents hto own convictions and the prin
ciples which governed him daring the
whole of a career that was in iteeu
moat eloquent tribute To the feniiu
hto people.—''England Under Glad
stone," Justin U. McCarthy, Member of
ParUamenl. ^
The people of the Congo have no
ception of a Godof ray kind, and
fhip nothing. They believe In oh
■ cases out
that the protuberance was not sensitive I thunder,
to a darning neiAile, and yet in every '
instance he was convinced that it wae [
subject to the volition of the wearer. He I atup nothing,
is of opinion that as wo can know noth- to keep off all evils.’ They do
ing clearly and comprehensively on the Ifeto in sicknera or deotk M natural,
subject, it is outside of the sphere of and seek oat the ranee when any tern
scientific investigation, and that any I dies or to token ill Manv oeraone ore
man who tries to find out why modern thus killed in pantohmeatT and wen it
women have this deformity imposed up- not for thto the populace would!
on them might better be engaged in I very rapidly.
ehamne
not W
twisting ropes of sand.
But the prevailing opinion seems to
>e that something ought to be done to
retard or modify the unsightly growth.
For our own part we confess that our
axiety is not confined altogether to the
evolution that ha* taken place. If a
•ingle hump had been developed within
brief period, why may not another
flump be added to it in obedience to
some curious hump-producing tendency
in feminine nature? And a* a result,
may it not come to pass thatour women
will in time be backed like camels? For
the production of such monstrosities it
is clear that this is a hustling world.—
Rochester Rost-Express.
Two Gentlemen.
Mine. Adam to rick and
dialikee to be disturbed w
It to told that one day a
her sanctum eaUattrag old for a
school. “Put me down for SO frrara”
(94). she said, without looking up.
“But, mednme,” raid tin other, “think!
It to for the higher eduoataon of .girto!”
•Twenty francs,” repeated aha, “and
now excuse me; I mnet go on with my
work.” The canvasser left in despair;
but the next day received from Man
Adorn a cheek Mr 9LM9. ♦» *. <»■
The qneetion is i
the significance o! the display! aft* ol
the Government
rhyming <
(dated &
entire flog code mUkmm,
A sun of bine tar
A encoent ved is i
A oreeowt muc h
A star of red no el
A blue war loeal etod
A square of btaek on I
AcdMvnvscsertatt
“Lord Jostles deck
Chambers' Journal, **i
words rad of
rad.
out
I saw two gentlemen on a street-oar
lately. One of them was grown np. He
was handsomely dressed in a gray busi
ness suit, and bad very neat kid gloves
and fine boots. The other was about 12
years old. His jacket had several
patches and needed more, and hto shirt
was of Srown cotton and not very
clean. Do you wonder how I knew he
was a gentleman? I will tell you.
The boy went throogh the car to give
some message to the driver. A* he ro-i
turned, he gave a little jump through
the door, and aa he did ao hto bare foot
touched the grown’e gentleman’s knee,
and left a little mud on it Turning
around on tlm'platform, he raised h5
straw hat and said very politely, in a
clear tone, “Please excuse me.” - Theta
the other gentleman bowed in hto turn, i . .
just as he would have done to one oi hto] «
own age, and said with a pleasant'
smile, “Certainly.”
looking
^oa just
day
after 1
i’e eonttoural i
BfA
tt!
the
No less than 926,000 hae been epent]
by the German Government in boring a
hale. Thto costly hole was maf
Bchladebock, near Lei pete, and
mode with diamond dzilla to the,
of 4,660 feet—the deepest
done. The object woe to i
timate of coal deooslte i
Senator 8a
the richest
ate, usually
goia^to an
lawyer,
and sin
I Canal has 109.0001
whom 16.000
l ta