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MISSOURI. RIVER BOATS. Trip? of <k? Old Bld? WkttUri Im. the Early 1??? ?. In the early days thore was n regu lar lino of packets between St. I .nuts and Si. Joseph, all side wheelers, nnd the average round trip occupied eight days. A bout left St. I.ouls every day for the Missouri river, aud as thero wero fourteen boats In the line each boat made a round trip once every two weeks during the season. During the winter the boats ran between 8t. I.ouls nnd New Orleans. Coming up the river the boats ran all night, but lu going down they al ways laid up as soon as darkness set in. In going down the river flio boats usually left St. Joseph early in the afternoon aud laid up for the night at YVoston, where there was always a lot of freight to load. Tho next day they went to Lexington, the next to Itoon rille nnd the next to St. Louis. Occa sionally during high water a boat would lenvo Lexington at daylight nnd reach St. Louis In time for breakfast the next morning. The boats carried from 200 to 100 passengers on the trip up the river, counting the immigrants on the deck, but going back they only had cabin j pussougers. Tho cablu fare from St. I.ouls to St. Joseph ranged from $10 to $15, which included meals und state room. The boats were all supplied with fine cooks, and tho passengers lived on the best that money could buy. Tho average boat carried 500 to 000 tons of freight In addition to passen gers. During low water freight that now costs 20 cents a hundred cost $2.50 a hundred. Tho oxpenso of a round trip from St. Louis to St. Joseph, In cluding loading and unloading, was es timated at $4,000, and the income from cost to $7,000. Each boat carried a Crew of from 80 to 100 mou. The aver age value of the boats in the line was probably $45,000 each. The boats wero often on sund lmrs, where they sometimes remained for a day and night, but altogether the time was made surprisingly well. A pilot who had a reputation for keeping his boot off the bars commanded as high ns $500 a month. Each boat was pro vided with two pilots, aud this oxpenso usually amounted to from $900 to $1, 000 a month. All a river pilot saved he put lu big watch chain. You could tell a high priced phot by the alee of the UnkH lu hit gold watch chain. A rattling good first mate who knew bow to handle a boat after It at ck a bar received $200 a mouth. Poker was a favorite river amuse ment, aud It wna not an uncommon sight to see eight or ten games going at the same time lu tho main cabin of a steamboat. And the playing was for actual money, which was displayed In stacka on die tables. Among tho famous boats on the river at that time were the Kate Kln'ney, F. U. Aubry, Mornlug Star, John D. Per ry. Sioux City, Omaha, Carrier and the James II. Lucas. Tho last named mado the fastest run In the history of tho river?(59 hours ana 22 minutes from St. Louis to St Joseph. ArtiaoUl Byes. Ute first false eye was a metal band which gripped the head nnd was fitted with a plate to cover the blind eye, covered with leather on which an eye was painted. Then came shells, like halves of nutshells, of gold, silver or copper, enameled or painted to re semble an eye and Inserted under the eyelid. As an Improvement upon these, artificial oyes were made of porcelain and at last of glass. Um PecaHac-Mr. "Did you ever notice anything funny about his conversationY' "Funny? 1 Bhould eay not. Thore's absolutely no point to It." "That's the funny pnrt of It Having no point to it, how is it that he bores so quickly?*'?Philadelphia Press. A PImo Pt>r Him. First Floorwalker?Poor old BJonea has completely lost his hearing. Pm afraid he will lose his Job. Socond Floorwalker- Nousonno. H**8 to be transferred to the complaint desk.? Philadelphia Record. Nothing Is so good for an Ignorant man na silence, and If hs was sensible of this hs would not be ignomui.? Saadl. PITH AND POINT. A child is always surprised that you don't know tho washerwoman at its house. When you throw a friend a bouquet, don't throw It bo he will catch the thorns In his hands. Hope is a progressive game. One's children fulling to become famous, the hope progresses to the grandchildren. It is easy for a woman to he polite; all she has to do Is to smile, but a mau has to smile and raise his hat. Worrying about the future is believ ing there will be ghosts tomorrow, though you know there are none today. Parents are hard on their ehlhlron when the children are young, and when When the parents are ohl the children are hard on the parents. ? Atehlson Globe. The TlieuluKlt'itl I.nl?) rliilli. Stephen Essex, a Methodist minister, In the hero In "The Bishop's Nlcco." Ills state of mind after his early wan derings in tho theological labyrinth is thus described by tho author, Clcorgo II. IMcord: At twenty-seven Stephen Essox had not made a perfect recovery from (ho panic Into which a premature discoV ery of the plan of salvatlo.i had thrown him. He had employed the remedies which are prescribed to heal our coin niOll moral Illnesses, but their aban donee and variety as well as lfs dis position to leave none untastcd had re tarded his convalescence. Ills present condition was that of one who, though realizing that he has balled, almost miraculously, .lust Inside the end of op portunity, Is still fearful of doing something which will undo everything. Sparc MoimMifft. Chancellor D'Aguesseau, observing that his wife always delayed ten or twelvo minute.-) before she came down to dinner and reluctant to lose so much time dolly, began tho composition of a work which he prosecuted only while thus kept waiting. At tho end of fif teen yenre a book In three qtiarto vol u ??s was completed, which ran through three editions nnd was held In high repute. A Bearded 1'rmfc, One of tho earliest of the Amorlcan bearded froaka waa Louis Jasper, who lived In southern Virginia at about the timo of the close of the Revolutionary war. Ills beard was nine and a half foot long and correspondingly thick nnd heavy. Ho could take his mus tucho between his fingers and extend bis arms to their full length, and still the ends of tho mustache were over- a foot beyond his finger tips. Important Question. Tho wasp was buzzing languidly around the houso cat. "You needn't come any nearer," said tho cat. "I won't hurt you," sntd the wasp. "I'm half sick today, anyhow." "Whloh half?" asked tho cat, buck ing off.?Chicago Tribune. Too lagtgtillTt, Ilcury Hyde?You ought to bo in the workhouse. Roofless Rufus -I know it, boss, but I Jest can't boar de ideal Henry Hyde?You shouldn't be so proud. Roofless Rufus 'Taint pride, boss; it's the name o' de place I can't stand. Cleveland Leader. Most people would rather preach half u day than practice half an hour.? 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