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•‘YU BA BIL L.”
TUB original of Bret Harte’s Hero.
. this ... city writes ..
There is a man m a
New York corespondent of the Troy
Times, ahatclannsto be Bret Harte s
original “Yuba Bm- «. s n. e s
Seely, his occupation, a trucK-anver,
and whether the artist has drawn on
isss?a most a score of y ears a o 0 , ana s
family, which consisted oi a wiie, a
son, who has been f0 F } e ‘
Buenos Ayres, South , America, and d , o
h Sn a f tndffl aceriain KIloon°oJ Hud
street, puffing away at a clay pipe
in an advanced state of color, and re
SfeS V„XSe Physically, of he hi, check- fine
cred career. is a
specimen of manhood. On an enor
shaped mous pair head, of with shoulder? a short rests neck, a we lhe J -
face is bronzed by exposure, and is
huge mustache is coal black and wiry.
There is a wild, at times savage, glare
in his large black eyes, which are like
those of a man accustomed to looking
'great distances in the mountains and
prairies. His gait is peculiar and awk
ward, and he explains Fisk it by saying that
until he entered Jim s service, as
master of teams he never wore any
thing on his feet but moccasins.
■ Here is a short account of his life as
given by himself: “I was born, I guess,
somewhere about old, 18-0, though which I makes don
me about 64 yeans t
look it. My birthplace was the Springfield, Cherokee
Mo. When I turned six,
Indians made a raid on our neighbor*
hood, and carried me off with them. I
was taken to the reservation of the Six
Nations, and remained there about
• eight years. Of course I learned the
six Indian dialects. Shall I give you a
specimen? ‘Toma woma to —
“Pray don t, I gasped to him.
“Well,” continued Seely, “I got tired
of Indian life after eight years were ov
er, and ran away from the reservation.
I was pretty young, but I knew how
to take Fremont’s care of myself. expeditions; . Later the on, first I
joined 1842, the Platte river, and the
in up
other that went all the way from Kan
sas to Fort Sutter, on the Sacramento,
I’m not going to tell you anything
about those expeditions, because you’ve
only got to open any history of the
United States to find out all about
them. But what you can’t find out iu
history is just this: Here, just draw
your finger this way, across my head,
so. Now, you feel that three-inch scar
running across my skull? This is how
I got that: When the Texas revolution
broke out I was the first to volunteer,
and when war on Mexico was declared,
I also volunteered. I fought under Zach
Taylor until after Bueua Vista, then I
was under old Scott. Just as we were
storming the portion of the City of
Mexico above Puerto del Rey, a bit of
shell struck me on the foot and floored
me. I felt pretty uncomfortable, and
groaned so loud that one of my pards
asked if I didn’t want to put a stop to
my misery. flask, I thought and he I was going to
give me his so brightened
up. Well, he began fumbling in his
cartridge box—a curious place for a
flask, it seemed to me. Then he hauled
out a Solitary cartridge, and he threw his last it one,
but it was wet away,
After a second or two I heard him mut
ter: “D--this business,” and before
I could give another groan I got my
skull split That’s open with what the he butt called of his
musket. put
ting me out of my misery, told but he only
made it worse, and I him so after
I came out of the. hospital.
“Did I ever drive a mail? You bet
I did, and the first one that ever ran
between Fort Leavenworth and San
Francisco. The Indians were tough
customers in those days, I can tell you,
and it’s many a time they went for the
coach, while but ‘Yuba they Bill’ never got much out of
it was on the box—
except bullets. These they reeeived
gratis in unlimited quantity. They got
square on me once, however. My home
was on a ranch six miles from Topeka,
and after each return trip I paid my old
woman and the children a few hours’
visit. One night, on nearing the home¬
stead, I heard heavy firing, and when I
reached it I found the poor children
dead and the old woman standing over
their bodies, the sight of one eye gone,
and a smoking musket in her hands.
She had just had a three hours’ fight
with half a dozen Indian cattle-lifters.
The same night I started in pursuit
with some friends, among whom was
Kit Carson, and before the sun went up
the next morning three of the fiends
were swinging from living a tree. My old
woman is still minus an eye.
After hunting, six years’ mail-coaching I took
to mining, and all sorts
of things. When the war broke out I
served as scout under Gen. Thomas.
When that was over I got into Jim
Fisk’s employ at $100 a month, board,
lodging and I pin wearing money. This belonged old vel¬
vet coat am now to
Jim; see the name in the collar-lining.
After Fisk’s death I became a truckman
with Fuller’s express, and later on with
Garner & Co. Mr. Gamer, you re¬
member, was drowned, with his wife
and child, and a number of friends, by
the capsizing of his yacht Mohawk in
New York Bay, opposite the club-house
at Staten Istand.
There, now, you’ve got it all out
of me.”
“Yuba Bill’s” daughters are.Very
comfortably the elder holding married, the husband of
The New York Daily a very Graphic, good position and
on a
right good fellow he is.
He was a dude of the extreme kind.
He couldn’t have been more so. His
overcoat was short; his undercoat long,
his collar high, his trousers so tight that
itwould seem he must have greased his
legs As he to entered get into the them, his shoes pointed. the
hotel everybody looked reading-room him, at and
at a
smile went round. There was a brindle
dog in the room at the time. As the
duae paused at tbe news stand the dog
went up to him, sniffed of him, looked
up at him once and walked away with
. dropping tail and an air of intense dis¬
gust the fact The that disgust the dude probably wasn’t arose the from
but person ani¬
the dog was looking for, the
mal's whole appearance seemed to say:
“This let’s me out. I can’t stand that
thing!” And the crowd howled with
laughter. —Boston Post.
Insomnia in Domestic Animals.
that I revel in it is sviencc. I havede
voted much o£ m t0 scientific
i scarch> aud though it hasn , t made
, much stir in tho scientific world so far,
I am positive that when I am gone the
se i ell tists of our day will miss me, and
the red-nosed theorist will come and
sp My attentl0n 6 “ ,d ** was te first " orer attracted “ to in
sonm ia as the foe of (he domestic ani
mal, by the strange appearance of a fa
gj Torlte dog named ** Lucretia Borgia. I
no ‘ a “ imal L “ oretia Bor :
gj m . Ia * hia eccentric anl ^rmal
thirst for blood bg faTOred Lucretia)
o£d «
owner sa j d Lucretia Borgia was an ar
dent lover of children, and I found that
be waS- He se emed to love them best
j n tbe S p r i n g 0 { the year when they
' tender. He would have
wer e eaten up
a favorite child of mine if the young
ster hadn’t left a rubber ball *in ins
pocket cretia till which could clogged the glottis of Lu
I get there and disen
g a g e w hat was left of the child,
Lucretia soon after this began to be
restless. He would come to my case
men t and lift up his voice and howl in¬
to tbe bosom of the silent night. At
first I thought he had found some one
; n distress or wanted to get me out of
doors and save my life. I went out
several nights in a weird costumo that
j bad made up of garments belonging
to different members.of my family. I
dressed carefully in the dark and stole
out to kill the assassin referred to by
Lu Cre ti ai but he was not there. Then
the faithful animal would run up tome
and with almost human, pleading eyes,
bark and run away toward a di istant
alley. J immediately decided that
some one was suffering there. I had
read j n books about the dogs that led
their masters away to the suffering and
saved people’s with lives, his so when honest Lucretia
came to me great, eyes
an< f took little mementoes out of the
calf of my eight leg blocks, and then I followed galloped him off
seven or
the chill air of night and my Mosaic
clothes. I wandered away to where
the dog stopped behind a livery stable,
an( j there, lying in a shuddering heap
0 n the frosty ground, lay the still,
white features of a soup bone that had
outlived its usefulness,
On the way back I met a physician
who had been up town to swear in an
American citizen who would vote twen
ty-one years later if he lived. The
physician stopped Home me and was Friendless going to
take me to the of the
when he discovered who I was.
You wrap a tall man, with a William
jj. Seward nose, in a flannel robe, cut
plain, and then put a plug hat and a
sealskin sacque and Arctic overshoes
0 n him and put him out in the street,
under the gaslight, revealing with his themselves trim, pur
pie ankles just as
be madly gallops after a hydrophobia all,
infested dog, and it is not after sur
prising that people’s curiosity should/
be a little bit excited,
After 1 had introduced myself to the
explaining physician and that asked I could him for find a cigar, in
not any
the clothes I had on, I asked him about
Lucretia Borgia. I told the doctor
how Lucretia seemed irritable reistless nights
an( j nervous and days, and
how he seemed to be almost a mental
wreck, and asked him what the troub
] e was.
He gaid it was undoubtedly “insom
n ia_” He said that it was a 'bad case
o£ it, too. I told him I thought so my
self. I said I didn’t mind the insomnia
that Lucretia had so much as I did my
own. I was getting more insomnia on
my hands than I could use.
He Lucretia. gave me He something said I to administer it in
to must put a
link of sausage and leave the sausage
where it would appear that I didn’t
want the dog to get it, and then Lucre
tia would eat It it worked greedily, well far
i did so. so as
the administration of the remedy was
concerned, but it wa3 fatal to my little,
hioffi-struncq H yearnful dog. It must
. have contained . something ,. of ... a delete¬
rious character, for the next morning a
coarse man took Lucretia Borgia by the
tail and laid him| where the violets
blow. Malignant the insomnia the is ifiddern fast be¬
coming great foe to
American dog .—Bill Nye.
Ohio River Philosophy.
Soap but don’t lots eost o’ as much don’t as dia¬
monds, ablc'to^flteriMtotlC-., people seem to
be ,
A man that needs 40 cents worth of
whisky to give him an appetite for a
15-cent dinner always has the dyspep¬
I never feel comfortable when there’s
a man around that smiles all the time.
The only dog that bit me never stop¬
ped W’en waggin’ I his tail.
see a feller siftin’ two quarts
of ashes an’ smokin’ a 10-cent cigar at
one time, 1 know he’ll get rich because
he’s so ekonomical.
You show me a man that’s alius
workin’ in politics an’ I’ll shtfW you
one that gets a darned sight more and
better to eat than his wife and children
do.
I don’t often ask riddles, but wot do
you think a family is likely to have for
dinner wen the old man earns $8 a
week, spends $4 for beer, $2 for cigars
and buys a raffle ticket?
There’s a great deal of talk about
folks killin’ themselves by overwork.
nin’. There’s Most more such people critters struck work by light- eight
hours a day, an’ dance, drink or piav
poker ten more. Then, wen they break
down, their wives put on the tombstone
Died of Overwork.
You can’t rely on signs, Lots of
folks say that a man with big eafs is
generous and stupid. Wen I a
boy I went to a cirkis, and they tad a
little male They no asked bigger than boys a ten/weeks’ fide the
calf. for to L
critter, * an’ I sez, “He’s only mule,
an’ he’s got big ears. He muft be stu¬
pid, an’ ne won’t play me fiome po mean
tricks.” Wen they took me I my
father licked me for bein’ a fool, an’
sed he’d like to give the muleVi medal.
— Walt Buel in Cleveland Sentwiel.
of Tbe mum bronze, Egyptian and ■ chariots .. had . together . lfich-pins with
and nails. were Screws, put al
pins invented. so far { known,
were not i
"WIT AND HUMOR.
Adol ! lln ,\ ? ' ls a terrible
US ’ Saui Susannah when
rparfor young man gave a yawn at
A < noiseless violin has been invented.
. T when
, ow some one discovers a noise
ess opera singer the weary soul of tho
r
~ . « - . let
ter at the 1’ostoflice from her fellow and
not read it until she got home? No,
sir; and history has no record of any
such freak of girl.
Peorge tL^vStol Eliot said that half of the wo
^,*2®of “for England an' toin
hould rifle
SST*
A Western paper, in describing an
accident recently, says, with consider¬
able candor: “Dr. -was called, and,
under his prompt and skillful treat¬
ment, the young man died on Wednes¬
day night.”
The wag on a Cincinnati paper says:
“A Walnut Hills girl is mad with” a
down-town drug clerk because, when
she asked him for something to bang
uer hair with, he told her he didn't
keep curry-combs.”
One day opposing pickets on the
brisk Rappahannock agreed not to fire. A
conversation arose between a
Texan and an Irishman on the Federal
side. “ Wh at are you doing in the Yan
kee army?” said the Texan. “What
fitin’ are you fo(*$13 fightin’ for, anyhow?” “I’m a
a month. I belave ye’r
titin’ for $11.”
A Texas Judge who is the perfection
of dignity on the Bench swore in as a
witness a rather
male. “What is your name?” asked
the do Judge. reside?” “Dolly Dimple.” “Where giggled
you The witness
and replied: “What’s the use of me
telling you where I live? You wouldn’t
call on me anyhow—would you,
Judge ?”—Texas Siftings.
Miss Daisy Greene (to Jones, who
has just been introduced): “What fun¬
ny looking only people one meets out, Mr.
Jones; look at that frightful girl
in the doorway.” Jones—“I can’t
help thinking awkward she is not so bad looklh g
as the stick who is talking to
her.” Miss G.—“The awkward stick
is my brother.” Jones—“The fright¬
ful girl is my sister. ’ ’ Tableau.
“Maria,” said Mr. Jones to his wife
you’ll one evening make last week, “I supp ose
a fuss about it, but there
is a rat-” “Oh-h-h-h-h, mercy!
Goodness!” yelled Mrs. Jones jumping
on a chair, “where is it?” “Down at
the City Hall, where ratification meet¬
ings would always wait are,” till snarled I through Jones. speak¬ “If
you without interrupting get you’d
ing know .”—Detroit Free Press. me
more
An honest farmer was invited to at¬
tend a party at the village doctor’s one
evening, vocal and where instrumental. there was On music, both fol¬
the
lowing who morning said: he “Well, met one of the
guests, farmer, how
did Were you enjoy the yourself last night?
not quartettes excellent?”
“Why‘ really, didn’t sir, I can’t ’em; say,” said
he, “for I taste but the pork
chops were the finest I ever ate.”—
Good Cheer.
A party of San Franciscans once
went to the Yosemite and took a Chi¬
nese servant liked along well with enough him. till The Chi¬
namen it they
dragged him up some of the steeps that
are so famous. When they got to the
top he was perspiring like a wet mop.
He did not even look at the scenery.
One of the party asked him how he
felt. “He! Me no likey. Melicanman
fun alle same damphoolo .”—San Fran¬
cisco Chronicle.
A premium of $30,000 has been of¬
fered by the Mexican Government to
any one who will establish in that coun¬
try a paper mill at a eost of $150,000.
As a bird in the palm is supposed to be
worth a brace on a twig, we sh ill not
risk $160,000 for the sake of adding
$30,000 to it. If the Mexican Govern.
ment will give a premium of $150,000
to any one who will establish a $30,000
paper mill endeavor in that country,—we—well, the $80,
we should to borrow
000 .—Norristown Herald.
The plumber alighted from his car¬
riage and followed his card into the
parlor. “What’s replied wrong?” he asked. of
“The gas leaks,” the master
the house, humbly. The plumber turn¬ send
ed on his heel. “You’ll have to
to the gas company about that,” he
said: “I don’t know anything about
gas. If the pipes should spring a leak
let me know.” And he was gone be¬
fore the master of the house noticed
his bill for $25 on the
Young Winks Minks, (meaningly)—Do you
think, Miss that two persons
might manage to get along small very salary, com¬
fortably nowadays how on a the necessaries
considering have become? cheap Miss Minks (in¬
of life
nocently)—Why, yes, I should think
so. Let me see. A cook and chamber¬
maid could be got for about $7 between
them, and then, you know, rents are
not very high ana provisions such are quite
low now, and I never saw bar¬
gains in silks and velvets. He didn’t
propose.
An Englishman named C. E. Parker
Rhodes says he has invented a machine
or apparatus whereby that seeming im¬
possibility—squaring the circle—can be
accomplished. mathematical The problem minds has en¬ for
gaged the best
upward of 2,000 years, and was the
cause of much domestic infelicity in
old Graeco-Roman households. If the
Englishman with the hyphenated solved this name thing
has really and truly head, and ought
he must have a great
to come over here and Peck's help us Sun. square
our election returns.—
“What £« is protection?” 45 B“?BSJ asked Miss 2
J around”you',n<? 5 K fiySS.g'you? S *
on my shoulder so.” “That’s nice,”
she remarked, “but what is free trade,
Kit!" t ^re?S C , r? “^dlh. lolmml t j“SI
Romeo, kissing her untii he
®5 0 ^ i T , .. hnt T tolnW HikS Dee trade
a trifle the best. -San trancuco News
JAU^r. ■ -
A West oupenrilenucful 01 S0B13 gas-WO", »„
out who was accustomed to vent
his ill-humor by hurling profane epl
thets at his men was one day obtaining
relief in his usual style at the expense
of a new hand whom he had just en¬
patiently gaged. ’1 he until new the hand listened to him
supply of “cuss words” Superintendent’s
Then was exhausted.
lick anybody very quietly that he said: “I generally
insults me, but I hap¬
pen to be very hard up just now, and if
you pay me §10 I’ll let you off.” Tho
money vard graduate was given him. Ho was a Har¬
temporarily “busted.”
side. A good A story comes from the other
man went to Bristol for a few
pecially days to stay with some people, and es¬
to visit a lunatic asylum in the
neighborhood, for the benetit where a large concert
of the inmates was
given. The visitor found the audience,
with very few exceptions, intelligent,
appreciative, perfectly and to all outward ap
pearance sane. The person
who sat next him conversed so delight¬
fully that he felt compelled to remark,
“I beg your pardon, but you are surely
not a—a—resident here?’’ To which
the stranger replied meekly, “Yes—I
am.” “But,” insisted thevisitor, “you
are not—you cannot bo—the least men
tal!% afflicted?” And the other re¬
plied, “Well, I In havo an inconceivabl 1
predilection. chalk. fact, you see this
piece of Wherever I go I can’t
resist the temptation to write bad lan¬
guage on the walls. My keeper has
nothing to do but walk behind me with
a wet sponge and rub It out; but he has
a hard time, for I write very rapidly
I was three ‘damns’ ahead up to half
past 7; and I havo just written ‘Hell’
five times on your back !”—New York
Graphic.
*--—
Lanham ’s Big District,
been A chippering Washington with correspondent Congressman has S.
W. T. Lanham, of Texas, and finds
that the eleventh district of the state,
which he represents, contains about
122,000 square miles. He writes “These
figures convey but a vague impression
of its magnitude. It Will be better un¬
derstood when I say that it is as large
as the combined area of Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jer¬
sey, Delaware, Maryland, and Ohio.
This seems incredible, but it is true, as
the reader may ascertain for himself.
These states are represented and in con¬ the
gress by sixty-one in Texas members by Lanham. It
same area
will be understood that this district
embraces the western and northwestern
part, nearly half of th e state, which is
but sparsely settled. The entire state
of Texas has an extent of 662,290
square miles. To realize what an em¬
pire it is, if we add to the ten New already York,
named the great states of
Pennsylvania, and Indiana, the whole
thirteen would still lack 12,000 square
miles of equaling Texas. It is larger
than the whole of France, with her 36,
000,000 people. Scotland It is larger than Wales Eng¬
land, Ireland, and
There are three cotfnties
in Mr. Lanham’s district, each of which
is larger than Massachusetts and Con¬
necticut together. The three counties
—Pecos, Presidio, and Tom Green—
have a considerably larger area than
the state of Indiana, which has 129
counties _ __
Perils of Rapid Civilization.
When, in contact however, with barbarous higher civiliza¬ people
come a
tion, they almost invariably underg o a
decay pretty of nearly proportional rather to
the intimacy the contact, or to
the readiness with whieh they eadeavor
to conform themselves to the manners
of their new neighbors. Here is an im¬
portant point. “blight,” There is caused no mysterious by civil¬
influence, no
ization. There is much loose talk about
barbarians “melting It away” do before for the the
light of speak progress. of the withering may breath
of poet civilization to blasting the child of
as
Nature, but the real cause of the de¬
pressing effect of our civilization upon
the savage lies in himself, and in his
sudden attempt to assimilate what is
foreign to the whole tenor of his per¬
sonal habits, confirmed they are The by
centuries of inherited expn iencc.
instances, plentiful enough, of race-de¬
cay following civilization, are all in
people in whom eircumstnn os haveled
to a sudden and unnatural conformity
with the manners of a si ronger and
more advanced nation. This has oc¬
curred generally brought where in contact the savages either
have been
with a conquering people or with mis¬
sionaries, the latter cause operating for
the most part only when the barbarous
tribe was small and especially the Christianizing
influence therefore strong, as
in the Sandwich Islands. In one nota¬
ble case the method of contact has been
by the barbarians C. themselves Wilhington, becoming M. D.,
conquerors— F.
in Popular Science Monthly for Decern
her.
A Word to Barbers.
A face well lathered is half shaved.
After you have thoroughly nim by soaped the
your customer’s face, seize a
nose, and begin operations, This en
ables him to breathe through his ears.
It is considered brush very his unprofessional customer’s
for a barber to
coat. If the boy happens to be absent
let the customer brush his own coat
Never fail to remind a man that his
head is full of dandruff'. A tonsorial
artist who neglects this about plain his busi¬ duty
doesn’t know any more
ness than a barber.
Always keep on your table a six
months’ old copy of the Police Gazette
and also a copy of the Fireside Com¬
panion. indispensable These two publications well regulated are
to every
barber shop.
If you have been eating onions and
drinking gin be frank with yonr cus
tomer an J tell him so. Otherwise he
“I r &
time./ou »*>nipt flud th.t jourehe.r. lcct the do come % h to
“ 8t «P- OtSerwi.se ««g S
moment. . cut
a you may
w”« . m,'» dim., iu whom vou
to P nJ£*wi)flJ&2
t,,at ho is P ! «« sed - a ™ le Doae but
bankers, ^, brokers, statesmen and edi
ton) ind ffC in the )uxnry of a privat(1
cup.—Philadelphia Call.
One Kind of Christianity.
t?B a holy-day not long since a lady
Trinity belonging church, to our “upper ten” went to
and seeing a lady alone
in a favorable pew went forward and
entered the pew. The occupant look¬
ed up from her prayer-book and said:
“This is my pew; and if others come
there will be no room for you.” I ho
lady in only question bowed directly and left, and on
seeing of the one person in front
seat she had just left stepped in¬
to the j)ew. At the same momont tho
first Christian (?) leaned lei forward and
spoke a few words to the the second, second, w'ho who
said to the stranger; “1 think friends
may come, who will require these
seats.” Upon which tho stranger left
the second pew; and while standing for
a moment in the aisle, wondering if sh
could havo made a mistake in the
church, an old friend and oue of tho
gregation most distinguished members of the con¬
opened his door, inviting her
to enter. After the service he told her
that she “would be welcome to a seat
there at any and all times.”
The two Christian women were evi¬
friendly dently surprised reception, at and the afterward stranger’s
ex¬
pressed their chagrin, particularly as
their not recognizing the thought-to-be
intruder was a reflection upon them¬
selves. Should this meet the eye of
either of those ladies it is tp be hoped
at another time they may oonsent to be
more courteous and more worthy to be
numbered among Phillips Irooks’
flock.— Boston Courier.
Arthur’s Two Hundred Wives.
We most always have some Indians
here, says a Washington letter writer.
They want to see the president once in
a while, and the president and secre¬
tary of the interior want to see them.
The Indians always have a good time.
They carefully are brought here in good style,
shown all the attractions of
the town, and lionized by the people in
a certain sort of society. They don’t
usually but they get always the thing they come for;
sometimes it get better something, than and the
seems
thing Indians, asked reoently for. Some N capital, ew Mexico
at the car¬
ried back with them ideas somewhat
more extravagant than usual. They
began the story with the remark that
President Arthur was tho wealthiest
man in the world; that in his great
treasury tiful the gold sands and silver the plains were as of plen¬
as on New
Mexico, and that in this great store¬
house the president has 200 wives, who
have nothing else to do but count out
paper money for him all day long.
Literatu re in Ar ltausaw.
An Arkansas the question: literary society recently
discussed
“ Resolved , school ’1 hat a circus civilizing is superior
to a district as a a
gent.” Tho circus packed the convention
from speak the for start. the district Only one sphool. orator He got up
to was
the teacher, and the president fined him
twicef lories and then made h)m sit down.
The Pompayee, were for saying calling there Pompeyeyo
and were more
schools in Boston than in Little Rock,
and he was made to sit down for uttei'
ing atheistic sentiments when he denied
that “Root hog or die” was to be found
in the Bible. To crown his disgrace.
the president, in summing up, referred
to his remarks as indicating to what a
low state of knowledge and morals th«
habit of attending district school would
bring a man. favor He of the then decided tho
question the fines in circus, collec¬
ting and the from society the unhappy peda¬ and
gogue, went out
spent the money for bread .—Burdette
in the Brooklyn Eagle.
New Factory Law In Russia.
Hitherto owners and managers of
mills and factories in Russia havo been
free to deal with their workpeople as
they pleased. But on the first day into of
this year a new factory law came
operation for the regulation of the work
or children. A complete staff of < in
spectors has been appointed to enforce
tne following stipulations of tho new
law: 1. Children under ten’years of
age must not be allowed to work in
factories. 2. Workers from the age of
twelve to fifteen years must not work
work more for than ohildi^n eight hours only a day. Night
can be author¬
ized in establishments where the pro¬
cess of manufacture can not havo a
bad influence on the health, liven if
allowed, the work must not exceed four
hours. 8. The work of children must
be regulated iu such a way as not to
prevent their going to school threo
hours every day. 4. The owners of
factories are obliged to admit inspect¬
ors and their assistants into their works
at any hour of the day.
She Knew Her Business.
“Oh, soma one is coming up the
steps, ma,” exclaimed Miss Pyrkins to
her mother,who kept a boardinghouse.
“Shall I go to the aoorP”
“No, indeed,” answered Mrs. Pyr
kins, bustling around. “It is a young
man who is probably looking for boardT
Go down into the parlor and be, play
ing a dreamy air or. the piano when he
comes in.”
“Yes, I know; but some one must at¬
tend to the door. There goes the bell
now.”
“Well, I will run to the kitchen and
send Jane to open the door, and whi'e
you are playing and Jane is showing
him in, I will be pounding on the table
with “But a rolling-pin.” what for, ma?”
“It will sound as if we had two ser¬
vants and —Philadelphia were going to have Cal beefsteak
for lunch. .
A Perfect Gentleman.
“Who is that man who has just gone
out?” askfc a traveler of a bar-keeper
in Deadwood City the other day.
“That,” replied tbe bartender,
“that’s a perfect gentleman—one of the
most “Indeed,” perfect gentlemen in the camp.”
said the surprised stran
ger. “Why,
the other night, over at Jack
Bowie’s game, he killed a man for
something or other, and the next day
he paid the undertaker’s bill out of his
own rel of pocket flour. and sent tho widow a bar¬
It is true ho made a big
winning do and all that, but how many
great men big heart you meet like that? nowadays He’s with a
a per¬
Home fect gentleman, Gazette. tit.”— Columbus (Ohio)
Longfellow's Last Resting Place. :
mound, Longfallow memorial, 1 “‘ u »'■ StCVf ‘ff*recent no
no
writer. Wo found hi Ho by the
number of the lot. 1 pPlj ole place is
It smoo'thly sodded T>y One side >ng coping.
ia on a terrace. runs ai
most road. porpendicular The place down fitted; to a lower
seem-t natur
ally for a vaolt, '’bt|t /oply a bank of
green met’tlie eye on; thejdeep hillside.
Unmarked as it was, it was surround¬
ed by visitors—young No anl need old, home ask,
people and ’ strangers. tell Longfellow. to
no need tb who was
There wore people there from beyond
the Rockies, and they gathered tho
grass blades to take baekwitii them; a
schoolboy that treasured a sorrel blossom
dust grew of the by carriage the way, rdmf, and* the believe, very
I
would have been prized because it had
beoo near to him, to the body that had
dwelt with “that beautiful spirit, ”
whose fame his friend Emerson in hia
feebleness had forgotten, but whose
beauty dim. even death shadows could not
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