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daily enquirer-bun, oolumbub, qkorqia, Friday morning, ootober u, i887.
HEINE’S LEGEND DREAMS.
Hie ancient legends beckon
As with s magic hand.
And sing their wondrous stories
Of on enchanted land,
Where fairest flowers languish.
In the golden sunset tide.
And look with such tender glances
As light the face of a bride.
Where all the trees are blending
Their songs in chorus sweet,
And gleeful springs make music
For merry dancing feet;
Where strains of love keep sounding,
As nowhere else are heard.
Until with wild, sweet longing,
The heart is wildly stirred.
Ah, could I reach that country,
And there forget all pain,
And cease from every sorrow,
Be blithe and free again!
Ah! in that limd of gladness,
In dreams 1 often roam,
Then comes the morning sunlight—
’Tis gone, like lightest foam.
—Albany Journal
THE QUEEN OF SALESWOMEN.
A VERY DEADLY NEEDLE.
An Artist In Who.r Hand, the Cu.tomer
Was as Helpless as an Infant.
A conversation overheard; the speakers
are feminine. “How did you come to buy
those shoes? They are very handsome,
but not at all your usual style.” “Well,
I’ve been pretending to everybody that I
changed my mind about square toes, and
that I bought them because I liked them,
but I’ll confess to yon that it was no such
thing; I bought them because the sales
woman was clever enough to make me do
it.” “She must have been clever in
deed." “Yes. I don’t wonder you say
so; I generally take pleasure in declaring
my independence of the usual sales
woman’s dictum. When she tells me
wliat is the style, and what she is buying
for herself, and what will jU3t suit me, I
wouldn’t buy what she recommends If I
wanted it so much that I went to another
shop and got identically the same thing;
but the woman that sold me these shoes
was an artist in whose hands I was hut a
helpless infant. To begin with, she was
a bright, cheery little thing, and struck
me dumb with amazement from the first
by waiting on me as if it were a pleasure
for her to do it.
. “Then she brought out these shoes with
the remark that she was so glad she had
this one pair of this kind, for she knew
they would fit me, ns they had been made
to order, so much better than the regular
stock. How did It come that shoes made
to order were for sale to me? Why the
lady who ordered them had forced the
measurer to take her measure too small,
she was so anxious to have little feet, but
when she came to try them they were im
possible. She had gotten them so Bmnll
that she simply could not stand up In
them, but then what perfection they were
on me; wouldn’t I just stand up and walk
about In them; did ever any one see such
a combination of ease and elegance? ‘Of
course,’ she went on, ‘you never could
wear a cheap shoo; they never make
cheap shoes with that high arched Instep.
Look at others? Oh, yes, certainly,’and
she came back as pleasantly as possible
with several pairs. But for them she had
nothing lu particular to say, aud she hud
by this time, by her adroit flattery of my
feet, inspired me with a respect for her
judgment—you know we do so respect
the judgment of the people that admire
us—that I quite hung my decision on her
approval.
“The flattery was of the most artistic
kind; It was all said with the simplest,
most unconscious air of stating a fact, and
when she said how these broad toes made
a small foot look smaller still, though they
were too conspicuous for a big one, I sur
rendered and bought a shoo such as I
never expected to wear. Of course, the
fact is that they were ordered, and when
they were thrown back on their hands
they were too narrow to be generally sal
able. That queen of saleswomen knew
that they were the ones above all others
to get rid of, and willy or nilly, so far as I
was concerned, she sold them to mo. But
I flatter myself there are not three others
In New York who could have dono it; and
I am willing to put up with u purchase I
don’t altogether like in consideration of
having found an agreeable woman.”—
New York Graphic.
lioetoxing Wine. In Paris.
Of the hundred and odd millions of gal
lons of wine that yearly enter Paris all is
as represented, the “doctoring” being
done after the wine has paid its duties
and passed into the hands of dealers.
The most harmless of these tricks is the
marking of ordinary vintages by the
name of some wine of much higher grade;
the next is making, say, three barrels out
of two by adding distilled water und in
creasing the color by mixing in n few
quarts of a wine grown in the department
of Loiret called “black wine,” from its
excess of natural coloring matter.
Besides all this a large proportion of
the “sherries,” and practically ail of the
“Madeiras” are made, at Cette aud else
where from rough native wines some
what doctored up to suit; these are, how
ever, principally used in cooking, are en
tered at the custom house for what they
are and so sold to dealers. In fact, the
names have come to be so well under
stood by all that the wines can hardly be
classed as deceptions. As for marking
fair ordinary wine as Chateau Lailtte or
Clos de Vougeot, it is probable that Noah
did something of the kind when he asked
friends to dine with him who were not
experts in fermented grape juice.—E. J.
Biddle in Globe-Bemocrat.
Hypodermic Injection. Which Frequently
Value Death*—A Phy.lolan’. View*.
That the drinking and smoking of lau
danum and opium are not unknown vices
in New York, any physician will affirm.
But there is a practice which is even more
deleterious—the use of the hypodermic syr
inge. To estimate the growth of this
evil it is only necessary to tako the testi
mony of druggists aud dealers iu surgical
instruments. The fact is it has become a
problem with which social reformers must
deni.
A reporter talked the other day with a
prominent physician upon this topic.
“Many medical men,” said ho, “are un
aware that the use of the hypodermic syr
inge is always attended with danger of
instant death. The cuuse of this danger
is not well understood, but the fatal acci
dents that have beeu recorded were not
duo to the taking of larger doses thun
usual by mistake, nor to the cumulative
effects of the drug. Cases have occurred
in which persons have taken large doses
for months without producing a single un
pleasant symptom, and have died in a few
minutes from the effects of a quarter of
the habitual quantity taken in the usual
manner and at the regular hour.
“There is danger of fatality against
which no vigilance can guard. The symp
toms ure not always so severe as to pro
duce coma, unless arrested. They occur
about once in 100 administrations, and
prove fatal at least once in ten. That is
to say, a man who uses the hypodermic
syringe at the rate of ten punctures aday,
which is a very moderate average, should
encounter the symptoms and their at
tendant clanger of death once in every ten
(lays on Die average, and tire probability
is that, they will prove fatal within six
months ufter the habit is formed. The
danger that he may be found dead is thus
always a real one with the habitue of the
hypodermic, a danger that may at any
moment involve a coroner’s inquest and
the imputation of suicide.”—New York
Mail and Express.
France's Pmrchaubl. Prm.
New York Herald.
In the Interviews which the Herald’s
Paris correspondent transmits over the
commercial cable in relation to the use of
government secret funds the reader will
specially notice the frankness with which
the editor of one of the leading papers of
Paris admits that the chief use of these
funds is the subsidizing of the French
newspapers It is not possible to attribute
these statements to mere partisanship, for
the Figaro’s editor does not claim that this
misuse of public money is peculiar to
the present government. Nearly
every ministry for the last century
has been tarred with the same stick.
Before tne revolution it was not, perhaps,
necessary to subsidize editors—they were
lucky not to be locked up. It appears,
therefore, that ministers iu France pay
favored newspapers not only to advocate
particular measures and policies, but even
' ministers themselves.
t o puff and praise the
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Paris’ Tenement Population.
In Pijris the tenement population in
creased from 142,671 persons in 1876 to
243,664 in 1882. One block, containing
1,800 persons, has no wuter supply what
ever. The usual drainage in such build
ings is through chutes lending from differ
ent floors into a hogshead in the cellar,
which is emptied «s occasion requires.
According to M. Naduad, there are 219,-
270 houses in France without any windows
whatever, light and air being admitted
through a hole in the door, which has to
be stopped in wet or cold weather. In
Paris, although 60,000 tenements have
been dealt with by the authorities under
the act of 1850, there are some 4,000 per
sons living in single rooms without means
of warming, and half as many others
occupy rooms with no opening for light
and air. Nearly 30,000 habitations con
sist of a single room only. This over
crowding is partly tlio result of the de
struction of small buildings to make room
for costly apartment bouses. A municipal
commission recently appointed in Paris
proposes that cheap tenements should be
built on unoccupied sites belonging to the
city.—New York Journal.
'liuling confession fora Journal
ist to make, that his oonterres are gener
ally purchasable for such contemptible
purposes. Doubtless M. Magnard hopes
for a higher standard in the future. The
surest way ofnbcuining it is to expose the
abuses of the present system, which M.
Magnard has done right well in the Her
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The tonnago moved by all tlio railroads
in 1886 equaled 482,000,000 tons; it is esti
mated that, the tonnage this year will equal
6-15,000,000 tons, a comparative incrouse of
63,000,000.
It Astonished the Public
to hear of the resignation of Dr. Pierce as
a congressman to devote himself solely to
his labors as a physician. It was because
his true constituents were the siek and
afflicted everywhere. They will find Dr.
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(juration of Responsibility.
Omaha Man—I see the beer-brewers’
unions all over the country have adopted
resolution condemning the verdict
against the anarchists, and begging Gov
ernor Oglesby to commute the sentence,
German Savant—Veil, I suppose the
American brewers feel responsible for dose
anarchists.
“Responsible?”
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country would make an anarchist out of
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A correspondent asks if there were any
coins made by the southern Confederacy.
I answer yea, however much it may havo
been denied. There were four silver half
dollars coined, and no more. The difficulty
of obtaining bullion forced the mint to
close April 80, 1861. One Is owned by
Professor Biddle, of the Louisiana univer
sity, and another is in tho possession of
Dr. Ames, of New Orlenns. I do not know
where the other two are. Copies may
have since been struck from the sumo die.
On tho obverse of the coin is a representa
tion of tho Goddess of Liberty surrounded
by thirteen stnrs, denoting tho thirteen
states from which the Confederacy sprung,
and on tho lower rim the figures 1861.
On the reverse there is a shield with seven
stars, representing the seceding stales;
above the shield is a liberty cap, and en
twined around it are stalks of sugur cane
aud cotton and “Confederate States of
America.”—“Observer” in Philadelphia
Call. -
Some Senatorial Peculiarities.
When Gen. Sam Houston, of Texas,was
in the senate of the United States the door
keeper always provided half u dozen small
sticks of white pine to be plucod on liis
desk every morning. When the senator
would come in he would first sharpen his
knife on a bone, which be kept in the
drawer of his desk, and then -whittle one
of these pieces of pine, sometimes into a
grotesque figure, and then simply cut it
into strips or chips. When one piece was
finished he would take another, and lie
generally used five a day. Mr. Reagan
tears up paper from one of the public
documents in his desk, and when lie 1ms
several of these lio tears them t mnsversely
into sinai- ..quares, which are scattered all
about him. Then he will brush small
pieces off his lap and take another page,
which in turn will be torn up into llttcf.—
Ben: Perley Poore.
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You can outlive a slander In half the
time you oan outargue it.—Law Circular.
“Say, why is everything
Either at qixes or at sevens?”
Probably, my dear nervouB sister, be
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Oas Wells Numerous.
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A Woman’s llenson.
Adam—“Eve, why did you eat that ap
pie?”
Eve (wearily)—“Cores.”
N. B.—This is one of the jokes that were
saved in the ark. For the other, vide Lon
don Punoh
Carbonic Acl<1 Gas as an Extinguisher.
The fiery, untamed soda water tank,
which ha3 chiefly distinguished itself since
the advent of hot weather this year by
bursting and killing or maiming its at
tendants, has made a new departure, and
now appears in the role of a most efficient
extinguisher of fire. Some days ago at
Louisville, Ky., a boy carried a lighted
candle into the cellar of a drug store, and
in some unexplained way set fire to a ves
sel full of varnish, which blazed up
through a grating in front of the building
as high as the second floor. Before, how
ever, the flames could gain headway in the
building, the heat had melted the lead
pipe connected with the newly charged
soda fountain, und the flames were in
stantly extinguished.—Fire and Water.
A Kemnrkable Firearm.
An astonishing firearm has liecn intro
duced in France. It is of French origin,
and is wonderful in the results obtained.
At 3,000 feet distance 98 per cent, of the
balls hit a number ot baskets representing
a company of soldiers. Col. Lebel, tho
Inventor, stood within ten feet of a tarm-l
while one of his friends fired at it 6,000
feet distant.—Chicago Times.
A Peaceful Parish.
There has been discovered in a parish
on the Louisiana coast of the gulf a place
in which no disorder is ever heard of, in
which there is a court without a criminui
on the docket und a jail used for the stor
age of cereals.—Chicago Times.
How Crackle Glass Is Made.
Crackle glass is still very fashionable.
The cracked appearance is produced by
covering the outside of the glass piece to
be crackled with a stratum of flux, or
fasile glass, mixed with fragments of
glass. In this condition it is placed in a
muffle, or open furnace, where it is
strongly heated. As soon us the liux
melts, and the glass itself lias become red
hot, it is removed from tho furnace und
rapidly cooled. The liux or fusible glass
under this treatment cracks and splits,
leaving innumerable fine lines of fracture
all over ils surface, having the appear
ance of scales or irregular crystals, which
cross and intersect each other in every
direction, producing striking and beautiful
effects when the light falls upon Its sur
face.—Clara Belle in Cincinnati Enquirer.
A Fortunate Collector.
A fortunate New Yorker who has made
money in a specialty is Charles 1.. Ritz-
matiii, who began in 1879 to collect photo
graphs of prominent persons in social,
religious, theatrical an l public life. The
first collection which hung in his show
window comprised live photographs. To
day he lias more thun 75,000, the collec
tion being worth between £50,000 and
£75,000. The market value of the photo
graphs ranges troin twenty-five cents to
£10 each. As an instance of the extensive
variety, it may be noted that lie has 850
different poses of Ellen Terry awl more
than 250 of Mrs. Langtry.—New York
Tribune.
A Mexican Door Key.
Did you ever see a Mexican door key!
It is a very appropriate looking article, j
with which to lock lovers out. It is made ;
of heavy iron and is about ten inches long, j
Being too large for the pocket, It is usually ;
carried on a chain at the waist.—Bay
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“I’m somewhat of a liar myself,” he said
“and one is enough for a small family lik
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A miraculous surgical experiment haa
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University of Niagara. Dr. Fell is an en
thusiastic vivisection 1st, and lias made a
nnmber of experiments whereby he claima
ho has discovered a means of saving hu
man life after tho patient has taken
poison Several weeks ago a man named
Patrick Burns, who had been on a de
bauch, took a large dose of morphia, and
was given up as dead. After Burns bad
boon unconscious for five hours, Dr. Fell
was called in. It had occurred to him
that If he had an artificial respiratory ap
paratus ho would be able to bring bock
the patient to life. He had often applied
artificial respiration to dogs and cats at
college during his lectures, to show the
action of tlieir hearts and lungs. Bums
was a poor patient, and tho physician had
very little hope of being successful. There
was no pulse, and only u slight flutter
around the region of tho heart, which
showed that it had not censed to beat.
There were a number of physicians pres
ent, and the experiment was considered a
chimerical one ns far as buccoss was con
cerned. An Incision was made in the
throat, and a respiratory tube was placed
lu the trachea. The blood which oozed
from the wound was a dark coffee color.
The lungs of the patient were useless, and
when air was blown into them they were
so stiff that they could not contract. Ar
tificial means was used, pressure on the
chest to expel the uir and cause tho expi
rations.
This was kept up for fifteen minutes be
fore any change was noticed. The blood
soon became more arterial In color as it
came from the wound, and the face as
sumed a lifelike expression. The mus
cles of the eyes twitched when pressed by
the linger. After a time the eyes opeued,
nml the legs and arms began to move.
Water was placed to the patient’s lips
nml he drank greedily. For two hours
the n,rti n cial breathing was kept up. The
tube was removed, and the wound was
closed with antiseptic dressing. The pa
tient, an hour after breathing was re
stored, hnd an attack of delirium tremens,
the result of drinking. It took five men
to hold him, and the wouud commenced
to bleed afresh. This was stopped, and
when tile poison passed from the system,
after three days the respiration Increased,
and it was evident that the patient would
recover. In two weeks he was able to go
out and attend to liis business. Dr. Fell
used a very crude apparatus which he
employs In vivisection. He is now per
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by an operator In such cases as tho one
described. The discovery is a valuable
one, and will bo of great use to the scien
tific world.—Demurest’b Monthly.
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Privacy In Telegraph Messages.
I never like to send a telegraph message
containing important matter, points on a
market, or orders to buy or sell, oilier
than in cipher. The telegraph companies
take every menus to secure the safety aud
privacy of messages intrusted to them,
but it is beyond their power to a great
extent. Say, for instance, that I have
special information and want to order an
agent or advise a principal to buy or sell
something. The operator kuows it’s un
inside tip, and says, “I guess I’ll go in on
that.” He tells another. That is the
way operators got ruciug tips. Then there
is another danger. So many people nowa
days understand telegraphy, and can
Btund outside of a counter and read the
tick, either sending or receiving, Just us
well ns the operator can.
I recall an amusing instance in my own
experience. 1 went into an office in the
West End one day, where there were two
Instruments. Tlio operator, a young man,
was working vigorously at one of them,
and in reply to an Inquiry of mine as to
culling up another station said tho other
wire was down and flint olio was working
bad, and he was then trying to get the
main office to order a line repnirer out.
lie was in reality talking to his girl at an
other station, and tlieir talk was very ten
der anil sweet, concluding with arrange
ments for a meeting down town that
night. At last he shut off, giving up in
despair the idea of getting a lino repairer.
1 told him I’d like to take n seat at the
table, as I thought I could straighten out
the difficulty, mid his chin fell a foot. Ha
blurted out something about not knowing
I wns an operator.”—Operator in Globe-
Democrat.
A Alary of lllshnp .Simpson.
An incidcnl showing Ids gifts is related
by his uncle. Late one Saturday night
he arrived at a town in the mountainous
region of Pennsylvania, where he wus a
total stranger. The next morning he
made Ids way to tlio Methodist church
and accosted tho pastor, telling him lie
was a brother in the ministry. Simpson
being extreme ly awkward and plain in
appearance, tho pastor was half inclined
to omit the courtesy duo » brother preach
er, of asking him to deliver a sermon.
If he inquired of the bishop us to his name
he must have failed to catch it, for he
certainly hnd no idea to whom he was
speaking. His request for the stranger
to preach was therefore expressed in the
most, formal and constrained manner.
The stranger readily agreed to fill the
pulpit, and the pastor’s elmgrln was evi
dent, as he resigned himself to his fate.
The bishop preached one of his powerful
sermons, and everybody in the audience
whispered to his neighbor, “Who is lie?”
Before he had taken his seat the pastor
had him by Hie hand, “What did you say
your name wus?” “Simpson.” “What!
Not the bishop?" "That is what they
call me.” The minister Instantly sprang
to liis feet and shouted, “You have just
had the privilege of listening to Bishop
Simpson. Let its sing ‘Praise God from
whom all blessings How.’ ”—American
Magazine.
Tlio Gus Motor Dangerous.
Tlie meters whieli gas companies intro
duce into our houses are put together
with Bolder that melts at a low degree of
heat. When a (ire originates near a gas
meter the heat very noun causes it to fall
apart, and the unchecked flow of gas from
the influent pipe quickly fills the premises
with u roaring and devastating flame.
After every fire, when there is a total loss
of the building, a blazing stream of gas
roars on beneath falling walls and debris,
until measures are taken to stop the sup
ply of gus from tlio street mains. With
these facts before everybody’s eyes il
seems strange that no attempt is made to
have meters differently constructed, or
some way devised to present the loss that
necessarily results from the present stats
of things.—The Engineer.
A Styltsli Ailment.
' “Sam, how is Tallier getting along
now?” “Oh, so. He's pulling on too
much style now to please me.” “How is
that?” “Well, he’s got a mild attack of
dyspepsia, and lie calls it ‘Bright’s dis
ease’—try in’ to make it appear as if he is
a distinguished person. It makes me siek
to see a fellow puttin' on so much style.”
—Kentucky State .Journal.