The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, April 13, 1886, Image 1
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The 1other's Vigil.
wakeful anlit with tealthy treo,
Q'er weary day had crept.
As near her dying infant's bed
A inother watohed and wept,
She siw the dews'ef death o'eripreao
, That brow so white au4 fair;
And bowing down her acling head
She breathed a fervent prayer:
'0 Thou," ahe erled, 0 a mother's love
Hast known-a mother's grief
Bend down ftom starry heights above,
And send my heart relief. -
Sweet lips that smile are drawn In paing
Yet rest his lie may keep,
AU4 give him to my arms again:
"Oh, let my baby sleep?"
W4en sicklo dawp 4glqam e. cast
Otlight on night's Wack pall.
Through gates of heaven in 'Meroy passed
An answer to her call,
On soiber wings, through gloomy skies,
Death's angel darkly swept
He softly kissed those troubled eyes,
And lot the Infant slet:.
MANETTA'S REVENGE.
- -wo men were seated some few years
ago on a fallen oak in the woods near
where the flourishing city of Puebla,
Mexico, now' stands, One, Emanuel
Blanco, was young, handsome and in
telligent. The other, Pedro, as lie was
ogaled, was far advanced. In. years,
though 'of a very observing nature and
possessed of considerable practical com
mon sense. Emanuel had been sent to
this locality by a company to survey the
place with avlew of subsequently build
ing a town on the site. Pedro was an
old axbman, thoroughly acqualutel with
the country, and of great value to
Emanuel in his present enterprise.
"If you marry that girl you'll, repent
it the longest day you live," earnestly
remarked Pedro, during a lull in the
conversation.
"Why should I repent my mar
riage?" asked Emanuel, somowhat not
tied at his companion's remark.
"Don't consider it prejudice on my
part when Lexplain the reason to you.
Now you don't intend to live here
always in this uncivilized region, and
you would be ashamed to.take her back
home. It wouldn't do at all. You
probably haven't thought of that.
Better leave the girl alone. She
doesn't know any better and is happy
here. You couldn't civilize her any
more than you could a wolfor. a wild
Deprivedof all home associations and
soolety, 'Emanuel naturally enough
sought and enjoyed such as could be
found; the accidental falling of a tree
upon one of his legs had rendered him
for a time unable to petform his
arduous duties, and he had found shel
ter ti the home of a redeman-not 'one
of the normal savages who live in mis
erable wigwams and carry their house
hold goods around with them In their
wanderIngs-but in the log-cabin of a
semi-civilized and Christianized Indian.
There he had been kindly treated, not
only by the parents, but by their daugh
ter, a young, black-eyed and -raten
haired girl of eighteen. - In her society,
while the elders were hunting, fishing.,
or cultivating theIr little patch 6f.
ground, he had spent his time, and
before he was aware of the fact his~
heart had been touched by her artlemss
manner and tenderness for his suffer
tngs. -
In every respect the girl was pure In
dian-one of unmixed blood, though
freedom from the usual tolls of her race
in a great measure had softened. her
features, and the little education she
had receIved lightedl up her .nature.
Still she was emphatically Indian in
pride, love and dress, and passions.
She would, when once loving, love to
the end-$f injured, seek revenge to the
death. Amid the unpleasant sur
F oundings of ordinary Indian life,
'nanuel would not have noticed her.
FOI her neat home and picturesque at
r h.asutgned after the models -of her
*.h~t sisteri,>tbough exhibiting the
high colors that e'er-gratify the savage,
It was etherwise,; She was tall, lithe,
more than ordinarily handsome--was
even niore thgn attentive to his wants,
and It was pleasant to listen to tier bro
kenEnglieshduringL~lholong, lonelyhours
of his confinement Thus lie became
interested In her-thus, without rellec
tion, he won her love and gave her-his
own.
For a time after his . conversation
with old Pedro he sat In deep thought.
The truth of the timely warning he had
received staggered him in his r'esolution
to make the gi'l is wife. But' he was
young, ardent, Impulsive, and when, a
few mornents later, he saw the girl
coming froni the woods with a basket
filed with berries, witti her stop light
-amid proud as a fawn, with', her black
eyes daucing wlth health and happigess,
with her olive cheeks dlushed, and her
long, black hair woveh with and
lighted up by crinson flowers, and ther
full lips parted as she sang, so as to re-.
veal the white. line of pearl within,. al
his stropg .resolutioul vanispied like
nmist le ~uele ani stream
weregripp.11 in pilver alhadps,--Eniin
peI ..gund th onigh ethp fragrant
pitips rbi spefathtloclks, wth
teandaa;t Mnetta ljfhis side. Bly
a2littte A2elcc her#'. the ortajhson
spot4ed stroiW leftbed lin th' mo'onlight,
they seated themselves, $ nd t4led
-long, tow and earnestly.
At Was not in the nature of the child'
Ohe hear4 apy a tale from the elders
of her tribe 6 the white man's woog
and, desertipn. She could look around
her and *de half-breed hil4 en who
know no father9 and she could not give
herself Into his keeping Withotit quos.
tioning.
"The sons of the white man have not
been true to the daughters of the red
one," she said; sorrowf11y, when he
palnted his love In glowing words and
urged her to be his we
"deMas eta o W~o9,,
- t h hbe no
replied. ""All are not alike In
nation. Some are good, some bad in
every one."
"But you would be ashamed to take
me-me, a poor. Indian girl- to the
wigwamsof your fathers."
"AshamedI By heaven, no!"
"But' I would not be happy there. 3
should long to see thq green woods and
flbat In My c6oe over the spariling
,*aters."
"Then we will live liere.
"And you will always'stay with me?"
she asked, looking him full in the face.
- "Yes, yes, except when called afay by
business."
"Atd would you com eback again?"
Lover like he was not long in con
vinoing her, and before the midnight
hour theyhad,plighted $heir troth. On
the Meorrow Eimanuel obtained the con
sent of the fither, though the stera old
ex-warrior questioned still more severe
ly than his daughter. His heart was
not wild with love.
"My child has chosen; may it be well
with her," he said when he could
no longer resist the importunities of
Emanuel.
"If it is In my power, it shall be," re
plied Emanuel.
"The promises of the young are like
the green bow-they easily bend and
spring not back again, As you deal
with her, so let the Great Manitou deal
with you."
For a time after their marriage the
young couple were exceeding happy.
But-soon Emanuel began to realize the
great mistake he had made.. Manetta
was not society for him-not of the
kind to.which he had been accystomed.
It was not the life for which he had
been educated. Father, mother and
sisters began to clamor for his return.
He had not written them of his mar
riage-dared not do so. He could not
re t@~wita-to.,their. levelrand. t1.
warning words ok old Pedro rang. again
in his ears like a death kufell.
Still on through tlie dreary winter he
dragged himself, often seeking compan
ionship at a tavern, and returning home
-home? what a mookery the word was
to his earsi-only when. compelled so.to
do, and then like one-going to prison.
'He was gathering the nettles his own
band had planted.
Patiently his wife bore his ill humor
-cheerfully she submitted to every,
exaction. It was the lot"of her sex and
race to do so. Constantly dhe exerted
herself to make him happy and to keep
him with her. She was contented with
a smile, and a kind word was considered
recompense enoughi for a day of toll.
h4~ 44owger,N -M et~o nature
pv <d , f 6was truly
rly the case
n' hess
- ostof
-A and com
for'j d making
pro tien odr t ure 1jp longer
he C6iired to mou fo t of
his youth, for a mog&O Iza
tion and its luxuries. ather,
motilet, Wife were all. rejoice dd fear
was driven from their hearts. Old
Pedr.- alone, -appeated to distrusti
Emanael's attehti'I:'a.
' "Maybe he is going 'to, settle down
and maybe he ain't." heremarked to
himself when -he witnessed -Emanuel's
new change of base.. "Ihave seen jitt
such. things done before. It is not In
the nature of things that he shotild be
happy wvith Mtenetta fNr a wife, andi
doh't believe he is. I suppose he feels
hind of sorry for the .ypig girl, and
wants to leave her kind ofnoomfortable;
-bit I'll miss my guess, if h'g oesn'
desert her at-the very first oppoerttinity."
Time, hoWever, proved in .this In
stanute that Etnanuel did Intend. to
remain, Hie 'engaged in tiow pursuits,
and though he was, often away .from
home fer days, yet he always returned,
greatly to th'e joy of'his wife, who could
not'baut tremble in his absence.,
The- summer brought with It gay par
ties making a tour of the places of in
terest in that locality. .. Emanuel often
met these touriats, and his profession of
a surveyor *readily accounted .for his
living in that part of the counjy.~ At
his own home proper,. hoWever, lie
avoided them, but not always with sue
ceis, for prying atound' as strangera
take the -liberty of. doiag In an Indian'
country, with little delicacy, -he -was
tflely surpris4d, Still (198 inary
rjeg0, ixad. n ot b dt11.scovered, and
thoug restless anid fearful, he yet!
retui hxtes ,reg414*ly updl. made
It plinit
jMutubis oul44not last. There canlg
a time When it ended, and endefl Mid.
delyok As jlive,4here Is Ewanpel
BlancoP' came ringing, upon his ears
oiie iporning as he was a d~i his
blroey4 ba1 in his ars e."
reply.
QiYinethe chid inta thea arm at te
Nrlo.
swor'denail V sser
tions e he woo'
the f ot erb his
words he aco . thel
rendezvous some Wa'4iie
amid 0N~li 46% 06ofiiad
long been a strafir, eo6t for '.
tio'his data-browed wire and child.
Buti did Ue fokget binm? 'tealing
throughdtJ ogep; fi her chd
pressed to ber bo8o h she- hea ho
~Jte ~ na, ~her
shewatched him, herself unseen, aid.
when, at a late hour.the-party staied,
and sheo knew that 'ef husband V4
going-knew thai she was to
deserted-she hid herself and bided HOF
teoeVenge.,.
urist er ure, Br gilt
the group on a grassy promontoty,
watching nature smiling in the sun.
light, and, as if perfectly relieved fropil
thraldom, the gayest 'of any was
Emanuel. To a fair young, girl at his
s!de he was pointing out the objects of
interest.
"There is the mountain of good. it
is called in the Indian language,
*Death's Door,' said Emanuel.
"A strange name, is it not?"
No, It waslgitly Pnodr Tears
:ago a very large, -umbr56f Indians
ere butchered there, and-"'
The sentence stoppedesuddenly, and ie
became pale as ashes. Standing di
rectly before him was'his wife, holding
her child in her arms. With a brutal'
gesture he motioned her away and
offered his arm to his companion. A
kind word would have been life-saving.
for him-that gesture was death.
With a cry of revenge-of utter' des.
pair-the. woman sprang upo4 him and
buried a long knife in his breast. Then,
before any could sufficiently recover
from their astonishment to interfere,
Manetta, clasping her imiocent -child
tightly to her :heart, leaped from the'
mountain Into the precipice below.
They gradually disappeared beneath
the seething waters, * and at the same
moment husband, wife and child passed
through the gate of death to eternity
and to Judgment.
A Curious Dream.
-.Agassl bad been two weks trying
-to decipher the somewhat obsctire im
pression of a fossil fish on the stone slab
in which it was preserved. Weary and
perplexed, be put his work asideiat last,
and tried to dismiss it from his- mind,
Shortly after he waked one night' per.
suaded that while asleep .he had seen
his fish with all the missing features
perfectly restored,'' But when he' tried
to bold and make fast the image it
escaped . him, Nevertheless, he. went
early to the Jardin des 1laates, think
ing that on looking anew at, the impres
sion he should' see something which
would put him on the track of his
vision. In vain-the blurred record
was as blank as ever. The next night
he saw the fish again, but with no more
satisfactory .result. When lhe awoke it
dlsakpeared'from his memory, as before.
Hoping that ithg same oxperience might
be repeated, oni the third night he'
placed a liencil 'and paper beside his
bed - before going -to - sleep; Accord
ingly, toward morning the fish reap
peared in his dream,.confusedI at first,
but at last'auith such distin'ctness that
he had no 'longer any doubt as to its
zoological character. Still half dream
ing, in perfect darkness, he traced these
characters on the sheet of paper at the
bedlside. 'In the 'lornit ie was sur
prised to~ see in his nocturnal sketphi
features which he thought it possible
the fossil itself. should reveal. He has
tened to the Jar~din des Plantes anid,
withi his drawing' as a guide, succeeded
in chiseling. away the surface of'. the
etone, under which portions of the fish
proved to be hidden. When'wholi ex
p6sed it. cerresponded with his dream
and his drawing, and he succeeded in
classifying it *Ithi ease.
SwIss: papers report'ithe fall of an
avalanche on the atossi Alp, near
Amisteg, in' the' Canton of Url, o1,04'to
the St. Gothard road, by which a fathe
and his three sons, all yo'npg ien, wer
buried. They had gone dp from the
village to secure aqme hay -they had.
been oblige'd tola on (fie mountal -
last autumn.'- The foin .arose, .and a.
great avalanche fell 'on the Brieitocek,
in which they .wfere - verwhelmned.
Late In the .evening f~he danghte
alarmed at th'eir lorfg absence, went It
search of tlpim, and touna a dog bow"
ling ibeside a hat at the spot where it
is supposa 'they were entombed. 'Ihe
villagers seatrched for the adissing men,
but withou6 sucess. Thiey had taken
that-, therdisasterdmust have been suds'
den, fo1 s81lly1tl1be sagacious anitgals
deteti .befor'oband te signs ofeali
proaohine -atmospherij -change, An
-All marriages in 1sndlau4o het 1 e
place in thf pn~rnifig,.ttsaryggIe
majorityfoi them dg..ttho hoirsif;o4g.
h~ylybetng frosi gt (2 $5f
W1eh16is desifra Abat the4s4ngdfk
stibuld -be in the afternoo4 at,
lleenRO ismeear, atM 'ae
?10 or muore ektra,
V the
hand ielbd 'y' be+at
h ed
ybut .ears, ;hki
Well acos to i t
MU- 'W64e oi
ironn -4
pg icer
and principal gbstag,1e I C
his littleiboy in theh c6igt (t rc*,u
wlth a prb.l linib; a si6
about twce. thesi o ade
lde heel, Thaezt" llig rid a
few feet from the.shIld'A A- g" ? rp.
ed 'the hilt of tlie' s*0 'nd began
bran'dishing' the weipon ~id n i the
air. -The blade wa " nely
timpered, so that .t 04n0 d be seen ,to
quiver and undtilate thr it its en'
tire length as it flashed ih the -rays of
the setting sun. suddeint the muscles
of the athlete mighli P opeti to stiffen
themsolves' a short pau . then a sud'
den and lightning like s*oop andithe
lime under the boy's heol was safey
severed .
-I do not think many, e of'the old.
est Inhabitants of the 4 bave oten
ivitnessed a performanc .quai to that
which this havildar was Wbnt to give to
conclnde his exhibition. he boy hav
ing taken- uphis* positio as before, a
small open box, about the size of those
we usd for tooth powde, was 'placed
on the ground at his feet. 3j was fll.
ed with a black powder dalled.soorna,
used by the natives for darkening the
eyelashes? Round this Utle bok,, and
about the boy's head, the sword was
now made to -play with ;vedoublod ve
locity. In the midst of t4eomost dazzl
ing . passes the weapon Would dart to
ward the little box and Athn reappear,
steadily poised at the full ittetch of the
performer's arm, in 4ont of tjie eyes of
child ; then a suddel turn oftbe Wrist,
and Oheavy rkine d# poy4wr'wps
lying on one -Of the boy's lower eyer:
lasbeb, placed 'ther bythe* sharp point:
of the sword. Tho same was then
done to the other eye. This feat was'
performed -,weekly, always with .unde..
vlating success, and wasati,> moat won
derful instance of nervo and steadiness
that. I over witnesged. .
PFAMCOVS HORSES.
Chargers That Sdimedas iuond of
Battile as their Uig rs.
'Dick," a favorite war..horse, died
ia Oswego, N. Y.,- in JaniTy, 1884
He was bokn in 1862 in Mexico, that
little village whose old academy~ has
sent many noted men. out Into the
world-tInventors, scholags, tatesmien,
poets and sgientists. Dick was as -care;.
fuilly trained as the / hild ft alfond
pent.* When, in 1861, th var broke
Qut and th a ne
Yogk was or~a -, 'OsWed ~nnty
chitens;' looked a oEfol' e horse to
send wfth Adjutatib to01ett Oliver, Jr,,
totheiront. '.otil-Jamnes Doyle and
William tI. Pheolps selected Dick.
When the* regciment bad proc'eeded as
far as Elmira, Colonel Doyle 'overtook
it and had -the patisfgetion .of seeing
Dick mounted by Edjutant' Olivei
Dick went to the front with the boy0,
who pette4'hm-asthey might's favor
ite; dogs The :horAQi speedily acquired
an understanding of the dangerous1
and ihbportant work designed to hin.
Hie showbd himdelf an intelligent, well.
disposed. animal, . sharing .othe rations
and aibnost drinkin'g ont'f th(e same
canteen with the soldierd; Wher his
hutaan friexuis stuffered he' ae'E (1 to
-know it'Aind to st'ibpathiize with then.
Great battlos ease inin their 'dr*
The-filds of'carnaget iotd';DiqIghand
his maetei At the-foreg The abredtes of
blood, the flight .f' blle,'thn rai of
balls, had no terrors for him. -Withi
mhight ~io'as gteulltif
diered t i).,n Fburth t
*lI$ %ot$ithe war he * U
9~Aum6~ted liy r.0
and o0ers of uoh ~
fl t *e of
seemed to
At an arta ypy.
Vv ~ ~ ee T"6PO :I"..A 0that
~X~44lu~tAir.Wk ajon~ I nel~~ of
V ~ aoaai e anot by Mny,eas
of Isontaging nature. Ait poeni %
ag~editat the cand1 caIt b*n' doubt
iorgex O Ipendituriteasan wre atdrab
thoughbinecessary will b abrbod; but
On the od ~eesausw0, be unit
Wb t y tuat avonly
12,- dd h o ati
9 ttu ~ h
* _rdtfihiw not"A~ _Made ,
11094Oi lb is i tihoibk ,l1is *Opor6
&1r'9O O to y 4li of the
Niet. Auilt he4oeS so'reprt M. do'
4e1sep Iti ;once be authorized' to
0ir'r- 16u6id lOttery schiele, which ywil
h nr six hliidred
r relieve it'ot present.
Arssments. Upon the report of
the French agents all depends, so far as
as Iitnuedis'te dentifiiice-bf the work
Is CQncerned.. -
It will not in any event be possible to
ol1en the canal at the date named by M.
do Lesseps, 'that In 1889i Only fifteen
-millions cubi meters out of one hund
rNO nd tligty-five raillions of dirt and
o1c have been .eicavated, and under
the inost favoralple circumstance3 the
remainder, cannot be completed in four
years. It is more likely to require ten
years. The Chagres-river problem is
now fairly in the course of settlement,
and the immense American dredges are
now at work in the soft ground which
Is found in nearly all parts of the line.
1Iow fast the hard-rock sections can be
blasted out has not been settled. ' The
work from ocean to ocean has been let
to competent and responsibles parties,
and if the needful amount of money is
forthcoming, the canal will be opened to
shipping in about ten years, always pro
viding no unforeseen obstacles present
themselves. All who have recently
visited the Isthmus Iran offlcial or rep.
resentative capacity, will it is thought,
agree In saylpg that the completion of
the canal is only a matter of 'time and
money. The people of i'rance have
gone too far to retreat and it is safe to
say that the canal will be- cqmpleted
e0etuallyjand,.that too, without any
coisidceable caiige of-the presenti co
trol of the great enterprise.
This planet is m'orning star until the
6th, When lie bhanges his role to that of
evening star,, for the samb reason that
has been illustrated in the.case of Jupi
ter. He comes into opposition with the
sun on the 6th; at,7 o'clock id the morn
Ing.. Since the last opposition in- 1884,
e-.carth wAl, op the 0th, have made
two revolutions in her orbit, and ad.
vanc'ed fifty days on her thrd revolu
tion; while Mars has beep completing
his synodic revolition of 780 days. It
requires this amount of time to bring
the sun, the earth and Mars 'into
-line. At opposition, as the word im
-plies, Mars is. "opposite" the sun, and
turns his 'ed, round face towards us,
presenting himself for terrestrial inspec
tion4 We do not, however, get the
best view -of our. ,celestial neighbor.
'his Will not occur till 1892, two oppo
.sitionis intervening 'before the much-1
de'sired epoch occurs. The bestpopposi
.Lions occur at Intervals of fifteen years.1
For-then, as-in 1877, when the Martiaun
moons wdre discovered, the eartlisbeing
fartheap from the sun and Mars nearest
to him, the two pienetsimust be at their
clOsest pointstof approach.
- Mars,' however, presents a fine ap
pearance. at his preent opposition, with
his tuddy hue and briliit face, but
his day of distmnetion.'quickly gases,
and in a moutha perceptible ~ecrease
4i.-ize and brilliancy will'. tak place.
Mars'id in godd conditiorte for telescopio
9bservationi, or he Ifresents the appiar
si4* ol lioii rislig. through a
risddy W4,. Ithrent~res ' good .,glass
$Jipratied eye to discern, the'won
derful-featiires and markings that eagle
'ed fationomers have mapped out on.
etpr ce rokain ersia.
rcha ' teristic sight in the
flh~ iethe- b#L Per.
t~ 4~dQ she0Its tlie'thick
.~~t~)pie i ;'the .b~egt quality is
5mBiat thin~ner. It is formed In the
8~'dsidst a aide Of leathier. -The
' $ 4t1iate arms dfettekously-raises
b f thi# doijhifrotm tbe'counter
A ou, thesand rolle
~V~Leftrvutiledtced to the
'p~en(by With'a -rapid fling of
'Wthi~n 'le theti spreads it over
~<~~i~r, !diie ovan. in a' few
1Ik nd spteyl"et to
ct~a(Qlonveniurkleig ini
ti.tre t dlarthe shot one ei
a eta 61deo diet Wih
1NPSTZAW' LOCTUIW ON WALI.
INMa
LIRles Ibr Gottlng Along in Sllppry
Weather--Boward-orXou. Heels.
"You've seen postnlen climbing ip
fronstOops, diving -into b" too
scooting adross Atreets fri theul -
kind of woether," the old mn ,
lit1'pa sge'dt' nover saw a pt
fall doWn, unless lie :was very young
and inexperq90dl._. Walking, you se,
is the mosimportaint port of a post.
Man'S 4 h%1ezb to ingIng door bells
8s As to li lhi girl on the flrat ring.
Ioan teli ye two m, uuq,.ii.
eiEWzmny niore.
In thi first place yod must go alohg
with-ybor feet yretty fki abart. Most'
perdons walk with thet, feet oloe 'to
.gether--very clope. That's all right In
summer, but in Winter it's all wrong.
Your- foot is, likely to land on a round
piece of ice and snow and 6l? sidewiso
towardls the other foot, which Is going
along all right. If your feet are el6sb
together, nine times out of ten the olio
that slips will knock the bthier one from
under you, and down - you go. It it
doesn't it will get so thoroughly mixed
up with it that your ankles will curl all
together, just like grape-vines, and be
fore you can get them straightened'ont
dlown you go anyhow. If your feet art,
well apart, as they should be, you hav
time to think,'reflect, and get ready bU
fore the crash comes, and perhaps swy
a bone. Another important thing, la t
land well on the ball of the foot whenl
you walk. If you can't get the ball ol
your foot down first, bring it down just
as.soon as you do the heel, anyhow.
Come down flatfooted. That, isn't fan
cy heel-and-too walking, bnt it's' busi
ness, and It's safer. - And this is why
you may slip and fali a million times,
and every time, if you notice anything,
you will notice that it was your heel'
that slipped, and not the ball of your
foot. It is always the heel that slip-'.
I don't know why, unless it is that the
sole of the shoe, being broader, gets -0
firmer hold.
These two rules, if you follow them
out carefully, will save you the price of
a good many bottles of arnica. Thiere
are some others, but they are not so im
portant. One is always to keep the
body limber as you go. along; keep the
legs limber at the knees, too. It is al
ways a stiff di inod.. Nort o 4 iaS Rhat.
o'dd himelf f
that l6 Is not prepared to lean quickly
one way or the other and save himself.
I don't want to see the nation get
round-shouldered, but to hold the shoul
ders too far back in slippery weather Is
not very good either; - It fixes one
already to fall. The best way to hold
oneself is in imitation of those Indians
that you see pictures of going along at
a sort of a dog trot, with their bodies
Stooping a little for ward. Keep your
eye on the ground .a front. of you, as
though you were following a trail, and
look for slippery spots, and ob3erve the
other rules; and if-you are a lady, you
can dispense with the humiliation of
holding your muff behind your back,
trymng to make folks believe you prefer
to carry it that way."
H~ow Chiinalfieni Bargain for Wiyes.
An Australian Chinaman, when anx
ious to have a wife of his own nation,
sendis a letter to an agent in Hong
Kong. The. following Is a condensed1
translation of the epistle : "I want a~
wife. -She must be a -maiden under
twenty yeariof a'ge, and must not have
left her father's house. She must have
never read a book, and her eye-lashes
must be half an Inch In length. Her
teeth must be as. sparkling as the pearls
of Ceyloni. -Her 'breath must b6 like
unto the gcents of the nmagnificent odor
groves of Java, and her attire moust be
from tihe silken weavers of the Ka Li
Cifing, which are on the banks of tiie
greatest river in the world--the ever
flowing Yanktse Kiang.
The price of a CQhinese woman deliv
ered in Sidlney is $88, but two Chinese
women only dost 252; thereford, the
heathen Ohinese finpot womnen in coui
ples. The importer never #bdeiwo.
men before they 'arrive, 'axicd-then lie
generally sol~ects the best-looking one.
The other Is showh around' to a numn
ber or well-to-do Chlnamen, and, aftr
they have Inepeoted her, she is submib
ted to what may be called public auc
tion, At a recent sale at Sydney -a
young gIrl aged about nineteen was
offered, and, afte'r some spirited bid
ding, she was purchased by a wealthy
Chinese storakceeper, ,whose place' of
business is in one of the leading towns
of New South Wales, for 6120. The
melancholy aspect of the Celdstial-glg
as she went awaiy in compiny with the
nan who purahised her, was deplora
Ie to the last legree.
Distress at Windsor.
Princess Chrlst1en, in liew of-the
tealvdlstres 'prevg~ing ab Witidsor,
Ior &ning cheap afuIters firs chil
cdres. As4 irited etrel believo).
it'tglE t, assIt her.- The Lord
00o0nof ftio has given athe ase~of
this Quildhak1alid will aet as t eagurer,
of thef dnd,'to' litoh the rIt bese
atea Nga
-TPri has named a stTeetAfteDar.
win.
-NeVadi is being 'drained of beef
cattle
-There are 660 baskets of peaches in
a car load.
--Steel nails, are taking the pIAce of
iron obs.
~-A'Green!indirhae'he 'fyard
in diameter.
-The iormons have sept a n*ssion
ary toeaytI.
mop.,
- C m~'en are0 grew m
ar7k ga0
for Lie an GrOely
Womn are employed inChli a con.
duotorsiof, horse caws
. -There are 580 Ie01anders in Mani.
tobao engaged as farm-r,
-,St. Petersburg was founded by
Peter the Great ln1708.
-A wooden-ldgged bicyclist whirls
around Salem, Oregon.
--The Boston postoffic4, begun in
1871. cost over $2, 0,90.
--The British war ship Devlstation
is the most powerful afoat.
-A woman in Rutland county, Yt.,
Is the mother Of 27 children,'
-Americans have $125,000,000 in.
vested in Mexican railways.
-American cutlery n6w , goes in
large quantitles all.over thke world.
-The wals.of several of. the British
war ships aro.constructqd of paper.
--From end to end the St. Gothard
Tunnel is flluminated by electricity.
-The expense of governing New
York city Is oter $30,000,000 annually.
-It has been declded to build an
underground metropolitan railway in
Paris.
-Twenty-five ypars complete the
round of a well-cared-for canary's
career.
-There has never been a hdliday,
a theatre,-or a circus on the Island of
Malta.
-Russian flourhas been offered by
sample In the New York market for $6
per barrel.
-Water is selling for $2 a barrel In
the district of Sierra Mojadaj in North
ern Mexico.,
Since 1878 a new state house has been
erected in Hartford at an expense of
$2,500,000.
-There are 250 disabled ex-Confed
erate soldiers 'in the poor-houses of
North Carolina.
-Until Andrew Jaokson's time,
oflice-seekers were not permitted,to see
ar e iniwt
Willianis College has been fnished at
the cost of -$ 3645.
-Mr. Kagan Paul, the London pub
lisher, paid $26,250 for the imanuscript
of Gordon's diary.
-The French Goyernment has asked
a credit of 101,500: frans oh account
of the Hugo funeral. - -
-A good baseball player in Rhode
Island gets a bigger salary than the
governor of that state.
-The pine tree, says an authority,
serves as a refuge for more than 400
species of insects.
-It has been calculated that the free
lunches in New York saloons cost
$11,800,000 annually.
-A professi-nal wild beast .aer
uses electricity to subdue the anml
when they are unruly.
--The water frontage . of Bostopi is
about 20,000 feet, and ships are accom
modated at.164 wharyes.
-There is no legal tender in China,
and silver Is the money metal of: that
country, passing by weigig .
-Governor Ross is the 75th~Gornor
o'f New Mexico, in an unbrokerl line
extending baok 200 years.
-Dom Pedro..of Br~azil,' Isthe oldest
living sovego. fle has reigned 58
years; or mlac he was slx yersiold.
--Suldides are daid to b ndre fro
quent -in Barbny In Geuany thaiany
wvhere else 'In tha world.
-The thhunle was i~ 200
years ak y,Nicholas van lter,
a gdnitof .Afstdari.
-it 1a estim~c thaM,~~0 o~ the
Inhabitants. -~ iiagow g t In
.toxica,~tdeevery 6aurdpy nig.ht ~4
-The Mohamm dns. have .ninety
nine names fore God bub amongethemn
all they have not Ourjather.-.
--Very small eleottic Inoaiidescent
or glowlataps ae -used as front sights
-on flreatmas for shopoting ia~ diilIght.
-The fl t ste hfnah todthe
oceapi brdfht in hiet
praflin tht aio stdo
-The eye of th a -~osooed
blind.coweddi
.-W3h&. peseni reL of Indiaii corn
mow growl. in this counr .is 400
000 acres greter than thpt plnte, . aa
. -Te Iniansoft Westernfrentier
haye -givent Genieral 8herldan the name
of " The-Qhunky-man-who-means-busi
ness."
. -aWith 4,575 miles --of navigable
rivers ande 2,000 of ,canals, the French
railways must enoonater some comipeti
tion. * A:
'M-.erIhhs moere thaflt700 2nlilin
aires, in the, Gerra sehse of thyertord, {4
re ning with mnarks or~itAttelof a - > ~
dollar.. - .*;
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