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P : m-.. ? There appears to bo an agreeinen among recent medical writers tha water is fattening, or at least favor a fulness and roundness of the bod} It should be drunk at its natural teni perature and in considerable quantity Copious rains in California giv promise of a very prosperous year fc \ the farmers while they have imparte increased activity to mining operf tions throughout the State. Everj thing is auspicious for a prosperou season the coming winter, and a he! ter feeling pervades all classes c business. A decided boom in trad ana industry is Jookea lor. , , The Antwerp International Exhi bition has been a big success. The; have cleared over $200,000 net. Thi Phtts been largely owing to the chea] transportation. The railways of 15el V* ?/uuuv*\.0 v/j/puoiuo iuumjjllis. The Courts have piled up stacks of .. / Indictments against him as a moonBblner. He bus figured as a highway robber and a red-handed murderer. He is known far and wide as the a "Swamp Angel," and the story of his ' i 1 deeds and miraculous escapes would fill a volume. "The Japanese have proved themselves such apt learners," says the St. Tames' Gazette, "that they are already beginning to improve on the methods of their instructors. To people of their artistic temperament the old European plan of christening a ship by breaking a bottle of wine against her sides is distasteful; and so, when late ly a name was given to H. I. M.'s ?hip Katsuragi, an imperial princess J jcun; wiutvo <% iiiigne cuge against tne | ,"rf. steel plates and by so doing liberated | ft pair of doves. At first sight the metaphor seems rather 'mixed'; but possibly an explanation may be found for it in the fact that in the popular Chino-Japanese mythology doves are occasionally metamorphosed into tfeiwks; and the emblem may therefore have been intended to signify that, i ' ? though in piping times of peace the ? Katvtrayi would be as harmless as a Jove, she yet contained within herself / the potentiality of a hawk." The New York Cook observes that "the fate of the Boston lady who died recently as a consequence of swallow Ing a sharp piece of chicken bone should have the effect of calling atten. Hon to a very common and reprehensible practice by cooks?that of chopping bone1- of fowls and meats. Chickens are' rarely divided into fragments for frica*ses in hotels and restaurants in any other way; but the method is It dangerous ona (Slopping is certqjn to make splintem and slivers of bone, > ilways with sharp points and ragged edges, and cooks, even the most painsm fckiug ones, are too apt, if in haste, to , teglect careful search for and removal & \ |? such particles. A much better way wuiuu Km iu uivjuo luwiB ui> ine joints, ?nd, where the bones are too large, to remove them entirely, which is not at |v ill difficult. AVhen this has not hpen k:-- lone much care should be exercised in t mastication of food that may possibly sontaln fragments of chopped bone, to injure the detection and removal of the smallest particle*." . . gium aro the cheapest in the world, a . far as traveling is concerned, llemark ably low rates were offered from Lon r. don and other large cities. The ma ' V . chinery part of the exhibit was mucl ahead of that in the Inventions Shov at London. One of the largest items of expens in running the express steamship across the Atlantic is that of coal y-. The Cunarders, Etruria, Umbria am l~- Oregon burn between 300 and 35' tons each daily. Some of our nev I'."-. New Orleans steamships, having ; ' speed within 18 per cent of that of th' v fast transatlantic vessels and carryinj more freight, will make the rouno trip from New York, ten days o steaming, with the same amount o. coal as is consumed in a single day bj any one of the big Cunarders. , ..The most extensive cabbage farn in the world is near Chicago. It con sists of 190 acres in the "cabbage district," as it is called, which comprises 2,500 acres of rich, heavy soil, especial ly adapted to cabbage culture. It re quires 1,114,000 plants to set the 190 acres, and, counting those used in re- I setting. 30.000.000 for ths whnl? rlis I trict under cultivation. The bulk ol | the crop is sent south iu box cars tc ;;-r l supply a demand which exists aftei jj: the consumption of the southern crop, which, owing to the climate, cannol :' be stored for future use. ffl = Since the days when Robin Ilood and his bold followers terrorized the X, rural Britons there has not been n more daring desperudo than Mar tic V Mitchell, the Arkansas outlaw. II rjft 9 would be impossible to give a list oi > % Mitchell's crimes. For years he has ; roamed the St. Francis bottoms and t.VlP rivpi* /*Alinflna /vrvrvno? f rv I yi f ' Gold. Man's evil passions gave to gold 1 The mighty chnrm it claims to hold< Vice and gold both hand in hand j Heceive llio homage oV the land, While simple virtuo's honest face Can find on earth no resting place. Saints and sinners fight and pray, The prize is gold?gold nlway; They ask a bles-ing from abovo, And 3'et tlioy make their god of love Pave the streets of his abode With sordid, vile, accursed gold. Gold that crowds tho church's aisles, Gold that builds sin's stately piles, Gold for love, gold for hate, Gold for pride, gold for state, Gold for sickness, gold for health Gold for life, gold lor death! Gold that fires the murderer's brain, Gold that breaks tho captive's chain, j (iOkl flint turn* vniincr hnortu tr* cfonn Gold tlmt blights whoro 'tis known, Gold to barter, Kold to soli, ^ Gold lor Heaven, gold for hull! S ?J. 11. Hollius, hi JJclioit Free Press. 1 : ? C THE CANDELABRA. J C A BIIIT1IDAY STORY. r I It is surely more blessed to trivo * than to receive. Arthur is decidedly not of that opinion. I would give you his entire name and the name of his g friend, the general, but you will readi- c ly see why 1 had belter omit them, t Arthur is highly discontented. Poor j Arthur! The general and the gener- r al's wife and Arthur are as much one as the fingers of the hand. Whoever sees one invariably sees one of the other two almost immediately after. t] The general's wife is 28. Such a E beautiful age! With her intimate acquaintances she answers to the charming name of Genevieve. As her t birthday was near at hand the general j took his friend Arthur aside and said to him: "My young friend, if I do not s Drevent it von mav nprn#U.r:?t? fho f J I fwv.ww W,*W same folly this year that you did last year, by remembering my wife in a senseless, extravagant manner. That would be highly disagreeable to me. \ I We are on too friendly terms for me j I to hesitate to spealc my mind plainly to you, are we not? Last year ycu gave my wife a magnificent vase, set c with rubies, valued by connoisseurs at f 2,500 francs, at the leaSfc" That is too ^ much." f "But my means warrant " r "Something handsome, but not ex- t travagance." "I assure you " "As an intimate friend of the house 1 you have a right to remember a birthday with the usual conventional polite- n ness by some substantial gift. I con- f sent to that willingly. But I do not understand how it comes that you should repay tenfold the little dinners ^ and suppers you have received at our t house." s "And the kindness and affectionate consideration that surround one in s your house ! Do they count for nothing?" 1 "My that is given freely, a You wo^mfot want to pay us for fi that? But, in a word, I do not wish I you to spend more than 300 francs for | my wife. That is a reasonable I amount." "You put me in a very embarrassing position. Nothing respectable can be a had for that amount. It is a beggarly 4 sum." t Bah ! I never spend more for my 1 sister, and what, is good enough for her will do for my wife." Let me go as high as 600 francs, at least." t "No?" ( "Five hundred then?" 1 "No! No!" 4 "Four hundred and fifty?" y "Four hundred; that is the utmost; ( if your present conts 450 francs 1 will ] return it. If it costs 500 francs, I < shall be angry. If it costs more than j tiuu, ib win ue tae eaa 01 our iriend- ] ship." < * ** t Genevieve continually discovered < new failings in her husband. She .had 1 lonqp had a consuming desire to pos- I at'ss a beautif ul little bronze candela- i bra that cost 1,800 franc*.' Indeed, her husband carried his authority a I little too far. What right had he to ] meddle with her private matters? I Did she trouble herself about the pay- 1 Mient qf the soldiers in his brigade? NTu! Theh why did he not observe a i similar discretion in regard to her i affairs? Tas she not old enough to ' decide ~b<it she should receive and refuseV On this ground she paid no attention, but dealt with her friend as 1 if her husband luui treated her wishes | tn the most congenial .spirit. ' Do you remember what I said to I you last year when you gave me that >xquialte lit tie present? 'Dear Arthur, you go beyond all reason.' Those were ray very words, were they not? I have been afraid you would repeat that folly, and so I have in view something more modest, that you might present to me if you are bent upon doing something." "This thoughtfulness was entirely J mnecessury. My friendship " "Your friendship needs no proof of hut kind." "Genevieve, O Genevieve!" "Arthur." "Tell me what you have in view." "Well, my friend, atter long search, [ found at last a little candelabrum at Barhizou's; a candelabrum, mind, and t is a superb piece, Louis XV. style. \nd, just think, it costs only 1,800 rancs. You see my husband's interference was unnecessary. I am reas>nable myself; but, if I do not mistake, he general went still further. Lie 5xed the limit for you, did he not?" "Yes, 400 francs." "That is certainly modest, but? nore than enough." Arthur declared that he would revolt against the general's order, but ihe would not hear to it. However, le held to his lesolution in spite of her >pposition. Finally they came to an tgreement. It was settled that he hould send the candelabrum to his ! lear Genevieve, but should assert and naintain to the general that it did not :ost over 400 fiancs. *** When Arthur made his call of congratulation 011 the birthday of the genral's wife he "was angrily received by he general. "You seem to have forgotten our ecent conversation entirely." "Why, what is the matter, general?" "Ah! And this candelabrum?" "Well, what of it? Perhaps you lon't believe?This candelabrum did lot cost a sou over 400 francs." "Nonsense." "It is as I tell you. It cost me rouble enough, though, to find them; . swore at you not a little." "Impossible; where did you rake up ucli a fabulously cheap thing?" "At?but it is of no importance." "It is pure curiosity?where?" "At Barbizon's." "And yet people say that Barbizon s the dearest bronze-dealer in Paris, rour hundred francs ' Incredible I" "You could not doubt my words?" "So little that within an hour I shall irder one like it at Barbizon's. For our weeks I have nearly split my head rying to think of something to buy or my sister's christening anniversay. Now I have it. She will dote on he candelabrum." V Arthur entered Barbizon's breathess. "Sir, yesterday morning you sold me i Louis XV. candelabrum for 1,800 ratios. Do you remember me?" "Certainly, Ilerr Baron." "A gentleman is coming to you who vishes to order one like it. You must ell him that you have no more in the tore.'" "Impossible, sir; we have three for ale." "How unfortunate! But listen. 1 iave a request. You must render me t little service. A singular circumtance, which I have no time to ex )lain, compelled me to declare to this )orson that the candelabrum bought lere cost only 400 francs. "And he believed it?" "Strong reasons?you hear?very itrong reasons force me to conceal the ruth. If he wishes a r'.nilar candelairum do not charge him more than 20 ouis d'or; I will pay the difference." "That is satisfactory." V Ten minutes later a gentleman en,ered the store and wished to buy one >f the three candelabra. Faithful to lis agreement, Barbizon asked only 100 francs. The purchaser looked rery much astonished. "Four hunlred francs! Please send me two." Barbizon trembled at this unexpected irder, but he remembered Arthur's \nxiety, and wrote down the order in lis book. Fifteen minutes later the ;cnernl entered the shop with his sis;er. "One of cay friends bought a canielabrum of you yesterday. I see you iave more of the same kind. My friend told me he paid 400 francs for it. J? that tight?" "Saperlot!" thought the dealer, "I lave got myself into a nice fix. The purchaser who was just here was not the baron's man. So much the wowe for him. How could I know?!' "Yes, sir," turning to the general after this brief monologue. "It is | right The candelabrum cost 409 francs." Wonderful! Very wonderful 1 Will you have the g*>odnes3 to send one of them to n\y sister ? She will give you her address." Yes," said the lady, much pleased, and 1 will take the other two with me into the country." The other two, madame? They are sold," replied Barbizon. There is no hurry. I have time* If you can have them in five months it will da By that time you can get some more." "We wifh to present them to our friends, Herr Barbizon," added the I general. 4,The French industry must be encouraged. You can safely order five or six. I pledge myself to takei thein." "But?at that rate the order stands seven candelabra for the Ilerr General and two for madame. Have I under- | stood you correctly ?" "To make an even amount I will say . ten; that makes only 4,000 francs'" i *** oor Arthur! During thu following weeks he went back and forth between the general's hotel and Barbuon's shop ofteuer than ever. The orders fairly poured down. The story eost hira not loss than 35,000 franca.? j From the German. ! ?> I A Singular Motor for Vessels. A 100-foot boat with a singular motive power is building in a Brooklyn j ship-yard, the design of Mr. Tovvnsend, 1 foreman of the yard. A little ten horse power steel engine will be placed in her hull and used to compress air, 500 pounds to the square Inch, which will then be stored in a vessel similar to those used In soda-water fountain*. j It will then bo mixed with vaporized crude petroleum, which forms an ox- j plosive to be fired by an electric spark through cylinders leading to holes in the side of the vessel. This causes a nOWf'rfill fVin/Mlseiiin r\n tliu wiifur nm) jt v4,v ,f wuu gives the motive power. There are i two holes on either side, twelve feet from the stern, which run almost par- ] allel with the sides. These are used 1 I for forward propulsion. Two more, ! nine feet further forward, at right angles with the sides, will stop the boat by a simultaneous discharge or turn her by a single discharge. By experiments already tried it has been demonstrated that seventy-five explosions a minute can be obtained, each one with force enough to blow an ordinary ll.igstone eighty or ninety feet. It is said that any kind of vessel afloat, < either sailing or steam, can be altered j in a very short time and the necessary > engines put in. The boat when launch- j ed will be rigged as a schooner and the trial will then take place. Calclinx A NflW Stimnlnnf "Do vou seo that pale, emaciated j young man leaning in a half-dazed : condition against the lamp-post ovei . there?" said a prominent physician ta a reporter, in answer to the query, ! "Any thing new?" "Why, yes; ho seems to bo recovering from a prolonged spree. Is he much addicted to it?" "Nothing of the kind. I doubt if he ever touched a drop in his life. He . is a calchax-root eater." "A what?" "Why, an eater of the root of the calchax, a small shrub that grows on ! the tablelands of Mexico, and is found j nowhere else. It Is a species of ooium, and almost unknown, at least to the medical profession, until a short time ago. It is u deadly poison, and prolonged indulgence is certain extermination. The effects are something like that of an opiate, except that it ia by far more powerful, half a grain being sufficient to cast one into a sleep that bears the closest resemblance to death. A pallor bpreads over the reatures,.ana tne heart beats Imperceptibly. The limbs grow stiff and cold, and the whole body assumes the appearance of a corpse. It beats cigarette-smoking, don't you think?" A Woman's S *arch for Gold. Mrs. Mallen lives all alone in a little cabin on the top of a mountain in Colorado. The house is 10,000 feet above the level of the sea and over 3,000 feet above the nearest town of Buena | Vista. They call the mountain Gold Hill because there are veins of gold in it, and Mrs. Mallen works with pick and shovel to get the gold out. She bu It the house herself, cut the timber with her own brown hands and made the furniture from designs of her own. Two soap-boxes cut into the shape of chairs serve as a seat; the bed is made of a swinging interlacing of pine branches. Mrs. Mallen has lived all alone in this cabin for two years, and iiercely resents any Intrusion on her privacy. She carries water from a spring nearly a nu.i< away, and on Saturdays carries up the steep moun tain path a load of supplies that would stagger the strongest man. Shi supports herself by doing odd jobs about the village, aDd when she has earned enough to live for a week she goes back to her cabin and makes sallies from there, pick in han>l, to search for gold. Mrs. Mullen is a robust, but not particularly handsome woman.?Cincinnati Enquirer. Not Much of a Job. Bagley?Don't try to bully me, sirl I won't have it! Who aro you, anyhow, to put on airs around me? Blowhard?I, sir? I am a self-made man, sir and I want everhody to know it. Bagley?Everybody does know it, air, and everybody considers you a very poor workman MADE HIS PILE QUICKLY. A. Story of the Pennsylvania Oil Fields. A Transaction by Which One Man Became Wealthy in a Minute. The man who grew rich in an hour is not for an instant to be compared with tho Western chap who accumulated a handsome fortune in the short and fleeting period of sixty seconds, says a Bradford (Penn.) correspondent who continues: Two hours after he struck the oil country h^ was hurrying out of it as fast as the lumbering stage would take him, and ho never came back again either, lie was not at all piggish. lie simply knew when he had enough. It was in the early days, when the great petroleum industry was still in long dresses, that the incident in question happened. Tho year was 1SG5, andihe theatre of operations tho then red hot city of Pi thole. With the simple aid of a twig of witch ha/.el, Thomas IT. Brown, whose ancestors were among the early settlors of New York city, located tho well which ushered into its brief but exciting career of oleaginous existence the phenomenal JL'ithole oil district. Mr. Brown's rod of witch ha/.ol made Thomas Ilolnuleu, tho owner of a bleak and sterilo farm, ono of the richest men in the State. The Frazier well, which was the'Pithole pioneer, was finished on Jan. 8, 13(55. Tho 250 barrels of oil it poured into tanks during the first and subsequent days of its existence was worth $8 a barrel at the well, but in those days it cost the consumer ojxly $5.55 a barrel to place the stuff in the New York market. Every commercial traveller who has ever visitutl Erie, Pti, knows the sneeze and the patriarchal white beard and bald head and suave manners of Col. F. II. Ellsworth, for many years proprietor of the Ellsworth House and later of t he Reed House. The Colonel was not always a hotel man. He was one of the earliest operators in the region, and at several periods in his career was worth a great deal of money. It happened that the Colonel, who was ono of the early birds, came into possession of a snug slice of the famous Ilolmden farm. Several wells had been drilled on the track, and all came in as money makers. The Colonel's patch was not considered as choice as the rest. A well was started, and the drill began its search for oil. At this time hundreds of strangers, with fat pneketbooks or big hank accounts, roamed over the lield in quest of desirable locations. Thus the land, once valueless, became immensely valuable. Landowners exacted a fearful big bonus, and, besides, got one-eighth of all the oil the wells produced. The average bonus on leases was $4,000 an acre, although tho price in several instances ran up to $7,000. Among the adventurers who flooded the country was a tall, lean, lank, and hungry looking chap from Illinois. He had heard that fortunes could be made in a day, but the thought never for a moment entered his noddle that he was destined to grow rich in a minute. While looking around he ran across Col. Ellsworth, who was watching the drillers at his well, which was about 400 feet deep. Tho stranger entered into an animated conversation with him. When he went away he carried a slip of book paper upon which the Colonel had written in pencil this: I hereby agree to sell three-fourth of well No Holiuden Farm, for $18,000, payable within three dayd. F. H. Ellsworth. The tall Westerner was not yet out t* A. I /I - I If? 1 5 * 01 me ^oiouei a ne.tnng wnen ne was accosted by a well-dressed stranger, upon whose spotless piece of linen Hashed a diamond as big as a horsechestnut. "Do you know where I can buy a good piece of oil property?" eagerly inqured the man of the diamond. "I'm your huckleberry, stranger," said the Westerner, adjusting his slouch hat rakishly on the side of his head. "I've got an immense bargain here for the right kind of a man. You Bee that well over there? Well, I own a three-fourth interest in it and also in the land surrounding it. The well is 400 feet deep, and is within a few rods of all the gushers. It will be a big well, no doubt." "What will you sell out for?" Seventy-ftve thousaud dollars will bviy me out slick and clean and put you in possession." "It's a bargain," said the stranger, >ind htt nulled out a Ion or nonknthnnlr which .wa* nearly bursting with its load of grt?>?nba2ks. A neighboring stump served as a desk. There you are, now give me the papern," he remarked, as he hauded over a stark of bills. The Westener counted the money, and found that there were seventy-five $1,000 bills. All this time CoL Ellsworth stood not ton fact away. Ilacl he strained his ears be could have heard the shrewd Westerner drive his bargain, but he did not know what was happening, and the chances are that ho was not enlightened until several years afterward. The Colonel was somewhat surprised when the man from the West placed in his hands the purchase money. This done, the stranger was introduced and the bargain was settled. The well turned out only a moderate producer, and the stranger lo3t money. In one minute the Western adventurer had cleared $57,000 in hard cash. a The next stage carried him out of the country. He was never seen again in Pithole or any other oil town. lie had made his pile and was satisfied. A Formal Call in Persia. '-"roin the paper in the Century by S. (J. W. Benjamin, who has just returned from the court of Persia, where he was U. ?S. minister, we quote the following: "The manners of the courtly occupant of this Teheran man. sion are guided by an etiquette that is j iiiukcu ?i itv>v ui tin; iueuu.1 nnu x'er- * sians, which changeth not.' The visitor sends notice an hour or two previous to calling. If the visit is one of importance, notice is sent tho peviousday. You will go in a fashion suited to your social position and the rank of the host. Whether on horseback or in a carriage, you will be accompanied by a number of mounted attendants. As you approach the house, servants, mounted or on foot, come forth to meet you, and one returns with speed to announce your coming. A dozen attendants escort you to tho receptionroom. According to your relative rank, the host meets you at the foot of the staircase, at the door, or at the up per part ol the room. The question ol seats is one also requiring the utmost circumspection in observing the various shades of rank. If your rank is superior to that of the host, you are invited to occupy a sofa alone, at the * upper corner, while the host sits on a chair or on the lloor at your right. The left is more honorable than the right in Persia. If of equal rank, he occupies the sofa with you; but if you are inferior, then the positions are reversed. The upper corner of the room is in any cas9 the most honorable position. If a number are present of various rank, each one knowns his place at a glance. The passing of refreshments is also a matter of undeviating strictness, the number and quality depending upon the time of day and the character of the guest. The kalian? or water-pipe, offers a fine opportunity for a display of Persian manners. According to precept and custom, a Mohammedan cannot smoke the same pipe with a Christian, and, except on rare occasions when the host is a man of progressive views, a separate pipe is furnished for a European visitor. But among Persians it is the custom 1 for the highest in rank to receive the pipe first, offering it to each in turn before smoking himself. For an inferior to accept the offer is an incredible offense against good manrers. But each in turn after this ceremony takes a few whiffs at the pips, all taking care to eject the smoke from the bowl before offering it to the next. The attendants on such an occasion leave their shoes at the door and retire backwards." No Beggars iu Bavaria. The kingdom of Bavaria, which next to Prussia is the largest constituent part of the German Empire, has, says a Boston Transcript correspond* ent, an area about equal to the principal part of the State of Michigan, known as the Lower Peninsular; and on this a population subsists without distress, numbering as many as that of the whole State of New York, the city. Long Island and all, but setting aside only the city of Brooklyn. This statement of the urea and population Bavaria leaves out of account that detached fragment of the kingdom known as the Rheinpfalz, separated from the main body of the country by 100 miles and lying on the Rhine. The. soil of Bavaria is made productive only by coi^tant attention to its chemical needs and by careful cultivation; but wherever in the country you see ' them, the people appear to be well fed, well clothed and contented. Threetimes in my life I have gone through the length or breadth of Bavaria, and ' I have never seen a beggar anywhere tvtrhin Ifu liaPilaru In fnurn #ir nnnnf?t? If < VU>U ?IM VWIUVIU, VVff u w? VUUUVIJ* Outside the cities, the land of Isavaria . is divided among half a million proprii etors, in lots of from five to thirty acres, though a very few have forty to i fifty. Around the cities the holdings do not average over an acre or two; but these afford a living lor a family in the growing of vegetables for market, its in??m'jers finding time for i labor elsewhere, aUo; and no matter how small the holding it is a freenold. tMii ... - .i ,:V : jfe