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rum the Lad that Follows the Plow.
1 am the Is l that jollowa the plow—
liobin and thrush just whistle for me—
In a hickory suit that’s pretty well worn
1 go to the field at early morn,
Jhelp to scatter the golden corn—
liobin and thrush juat whistle for me.
Out in the meadows and woods and lanes
Robin and thrush just whistle for me—
jwatch the sheep and lambs at play;
■When the grass is high I toss the hay;
J here isn’t a boy in the world so gay—
liobin and thrush just whistle for me.
with lather to shear the sheep—
Robin and thrush just whistle for me
Jtodder the cattle, the mangers fill,
Jdrive a team, I go to the mill,
milk tho cows with a right good will—
Robin and thrush just whistle for me.
1 help the peaches and plums to save—
liobin and thrush just whistle for me —
For 1 am the boy that can climb a tree;
There isn't an apple to high lor me,
There isn’t a nut that I can’t see—
Aobin and thrush just whistle tor me.
When I am a man I’ll own a farm—
Robin and thrush just whistle for me—
Horses and sheep and many a eow,
Stacks ot wheat, and a barley mow;
I’ll be a farmer and follow the plow;
liobin and thrush shall whistle for me.
rTis better to stand in the golden corn—
liobin and thrush just whistle lor me—
To toss the hay on the breezy lea,
To pluck tho lruit on the orchard tree,
Than roam about on the restless sea;
So, sailor boy, I’ll follow the plow.
'Tin better to bear the wild birds sing,
Robin and thrush on the apple bough—
’Tis better to have a larm and a •wile,
And lead a busy, peacetnl life,
Than inarch to the noisy drum and file;
So, soldier boy, I’ll follow the plow.
GOOSEBERRY JAM.
It had been a sultry day at Fern island.
All the afternoon under the tree boughs of had the
drooped the tropic glow
sun, the birds had huddled silently in
bowery nooks, the cattle stood knee
deep in the delicious ripples of the
limpid water, and Kitty Crawford, peep¬
ing out from behind the screen of her
Madeira vines, had watched t he party of
picnickers phaetons and go huge, by in their little pony
covered wagon, not
Without a sigh.
“It’s all very well to have nothing to
do but to enjoy one’s self, but I have got
the little chickens to take care of, and
the butter to work over, and the goose¬
berry jam to make, and my own blue
muslin dress to iron, it I expect to look
decent in church next Sunday. Oh,
dear! oh, dear! how nice it would be if
people world! didn’t have to work in this
There goes Matilda Emmons,
in her new lace bunting dress with the
white Languedoc trimming—how pretty
she looks, to be sure!”
And Miss Emmons,catching a glimpse
of Kitty Crawford’s violet blue eyes
behind the Madeira vines, drew up her
horse with a scientific jerk of the reins.
tive “Kitty!” she aren’t cried, i w sweet, impera¬
“To tones, the “ you going?”
“To picnic, do you mean?”
the picnic, of course.”
“ “But Certainly I’m not!” retorted Kitty.
mons.
Kitty elevated her pretty tip-tilted
nose in the air.
“ Because,” said she, “I don’t choose
to be looked down upon by those
cavaliers.” haughty city girls and their attendant
“ Nonsense!” said Matilda.
“You may say what you please,” re
turned Kitty, “ but I know that Parke
Cameron despises me, because I have
red hands, and freckles across the bridge
of my nose, and because I am only a
farmer’s daughter. And I won’t be de¬
spised “You !” little
goose!” cried Miss Em¬
mons, with good-humored superiority.
“ Didn’t he dance with you, and no one
else, last night at the moonlight frolic?”
“ That’s because he wanted to amuse
himself,” sajd Kitty, haughtily. “Do
you suppose I don’t discriminate be¬
tween real, genuine respect, and the
supercilious patronage of a fine gentle*
man, who is laughing in his sleeve all
the time? 1 ’
And t:.e indignant dewdrops sparkled
on her long, curled eyelashes as she
spoke. “You’re
altogether mistaken!” cried
Miss Emmons, with emphasis. “ But if
you will be so wrongheaded, I can’t
stop to argue with you. Come! jump
into the pony carriage, and go with me
to the picnic!”
But Kitty resolutely shook her head.
“ No,” said she, “ 1 shall stay at home
and But, pick gooseberries for jam.”
instead of picking gooseberries,
she indulged in a hearty cry, when
Matilda and her pony were out of sight.
“He don’t care forme,” said she, to
herself, “and I’m determined I won’t
care for him! He shall find out that I’m
not one of the sentimental damsels we
read of in books who die of unrequited
love.”
And Kitty Crawford dashed the salt
spray feed off her eyelashes, and went out to
the downy little chickens, who
were peeping about animated the kitchen door
stor e like so many balls of
yellow velvet.
And there was butter to work ovei
and to pack down in huge stone jars;
and the blue muslin dress, with its mul
titudious little frills and flounces, to
ren; and then her brother Philo came
in with a linen duster that must be
mended before he could set forth on his
daily walk to the post office; and old
Mrs. Dodge sent over to see if Miss
Kitty would the make a bowl of jelly to
tempt failing appetite of her con¬
sumptive daughter; and the brood of
young wheat-fields, turkeys and wandered had be off into the
to coaxed home
again; so that it was quite dark before
Kitty remembered jam—dark the gooseberries with for
the morrow’s electric
masses of purple-black clouds piled up
against the sky, and ominous rautter
ings of thunder in the air.
“ I do believe its going to rain,” said
Kitty, despairingly, yet!” “and my goose¬
berries are not picked
And with a quick motion she caught
Philo's hat and duster from the hat-rack,
and sped down into the cool, secluded
greenery of the garden, where a neigh¬
stone-wall bor’s huge pear-tree side, drooped over ilie
on bushes one and below. the hedge of
gooseberry But the grew balls
as green of sweetness
SSpeoMciousofa rained down info her lustWfn hack** th/iS he
cam console us of a rustling m t.ie pear
IxmgUs besond, wfc««a Uug= hammock
‘Klnnf Uro s £ lty i
are_thcre’’’said I v. on t no.ice Kitty to herself; “ but
But she colored celestial rosy-red.
under the broad bum of her brother s
Mam.la hat, when she recognized the
.sound of Parke .Uamtrcn s low and
rather nmguid voice.
is it ycu, lxiiio.
Kitty without picked on,, word siiently and expediti
ously, a ot answer.
But evidently the interlocutor was not
discouraged. ;
“ So you’re like roe,” he resumed—
preferring of your own society to the gay
“Philo,” the picnic party.”
said Cameron,abruptly, “do
suppose I should find your sister at
if I were to go up to the bouse?
avoids me so systematically that I
never get an the opportunity life of to speak tell to
and, for me, I can’t
The Manilla hat dropped lower than
among fingers the gooseberry worked thickets; the
away with re
speed. wished
Kitty Crawford herself any¬
c-n earth just then but on that
particular spot. think I should the
“ Do you have
ghost of a chance with her, it I asked
her boldly to be my wife?” said Parke
heart plunging valiantly into all the the
of his subject; “for, of
girls 1 ever saw, she comes nearest to
my ideal of perfect womanhood, and I
have learned to love her deeply and
passionately! Don’t, for heaven’s sake,
be so silent, old fellow, unless you pur¬
posely wish to discourage my suit!” he
added, with something like impatience I
in his voice. “ Tell me—have any
grounds for hope?” trembling
Kitty was blue-bird all caught over, more
like a frightened in a
net- Was ever girl placed before? in such How an
embarrassing predicament let Philo’s linen
she wished she had
duster and broad-brimmed hat alone!
“Why don’t you answer me?” de¬
manded the deep voice, waxing still
more impatient in its tone.
And to add to Kitty’s perplexities, the
big drops of rain began to patter inex¬
orably down, and a zigzag streak of
lightning shot crosswise across the
threatening sky, a zone of living fire.
“ Discretion is the better part of
valorr,” said our little heroine to her¬
self, and, catching emerald up the only half-filled
basket of fruit, she prepared
for an ignominious flight.
But Mr. Cameron had no notion of
his. With a quick movement he sprang
rom the hammock acove, and placed
himsell directly across the narrow path¬
way, thus effectually barricading all
retreat.
“ Old fellow!” said he, half laughing,
half in earnest, “you shall not stir a
step from here unless you tell me whether
or not—”
“I will go!” cried Kitty Crawford,
bursting into hysterical tears. “You—
you have uo right to stop me thus!”
If the thunderbolts even then mutter¬
ing through the twilight sky had stricken
him with their electric hands, Parke
Cameron could have scarcely been more
stupefied and amazed.
“Miss Crawford!” he exclaimed.
“Kitty, can it be possible that this is
you?—that I have committed such an
awkward blunder as—”
But, in the selfsame instant, he com¬
prehended that his suit must be pleaded
now or never—that a cowardly lover is
never a successful one.
“ Kitty, ’ said he, still barricading the
way, “ 1 have told you frankly that I
love you. You must ne equally out¬
spoken with me.”
“But—but it rains!” faltered Kitty,
looking wildly this way and that for
some method of escape.
“I don’t care if it rains a deluge!”
said Parke Cameron; “ I will know my
fate!”
“ When we get up to the house,” said
Kitty, evasively.
“ Now l” insisted Cameron.
“ Please let me get by!” pleaded Kitty.
“ Not until you decide one way or the
other,” said Parke.
“But I have decided!” said Kitty,
cruelly Philo’s maltreating the buttons of
linen duster in her confusion.
“Speak out your Cameron, decision, then, at
once!” said Parke with an
imperiousness Crawford that somehow didn’t dis¬
please Miss at all.
“ I do love you,” blushingly confessed
Kitty—“ that is, I think I do.”
And then the rain came down in huge
cylinders blazed of crystal, and the lightning
overhead, and Parke and Kitty
had to run for- their lives to the piazza
of the old farm-house.
“There!” said Kitty, “I haven’t
picked my gooseberries for the jam,
after all.”
“ I’ll help you to-morrow,” said Parke
Cameron.
And, to the end of his days, he de¬
clared that gooseberry jam was his
favorite conserve.
Ah Extraordinary Creature.
The following account is given of a
remarkable dwarf who arrived with her
parents in New York on an ocean
steamer a short time ago: Bridget
Sughran is the daughter of John Sugh
ran and lii3 wife, and was born thirty
one years ago on an island off' the coast
of Kerry, Ireland. For six months after
her birth the child continued to develop
as seven brothers and sisters before her
had done. It is said to have been a re
mark ibly pretty infant. At the end of
six months, however, it suddenly ceased
to grow and all the intervening years of
the child’s life have witnessed node
velopment in its stature. Its head alone
lias grown and is now the size of the
head of an average adult woman. Its
limbs are rather more chubby than
those of an average infant of six months
but its skin is as pale and delicate in
appearance as that of a new-born babe,
Its hair is two or three inches long, but
thin and fine like that of a baby. All
attempts cessful at training have been ur.suc
in getting it to walk or talk or
even apparently to utter a cry. malformation Though there is
no of the
tongue it does not give vent to any noise
even under the influence of pain. Yet
t is by no means idiotic, for it under
stands conversation and is keenly sensi
rive to remarks that may pass concern
ing itself. It also appreciates and re
members kindnesses . it may receive, and
appears to have a very good memory for
faces. It eats but little, its food consist
ing of a very small quantity of milk with
a pinch of bread. It is very good-tem
pered, as may be presumed, and gives
its parents little trouble. For thirty
one years the parents have nursed and
cherished it, never giving it over to a
charitable institution, though often suf
fering for the necessities of life. They
speak of the child as an affliction sent in
kindness by the will of God, and do not
wish in any way to get riel of the bur
den. The account they give of the origin
of the affliction accords with the super
stitien of the country. They term it an
“overlook.” A case of “overlook,”
they say is when some witch out of
evil motive calls down calamity upon
the object of its ill-will. The father re
iates how on one occasion, about the
sixth month ot the child s age, two
women were m toe house and one said
to the other. “See what a beautiful
cuilu 1ill.at is, tDat from that time
the child ceased to grow. The father
suostantiates this theory of his affliction
by relating an instance in which a
lairv-woman ” or witch pointed to a
particularly beautiful .cow among a
ad % he immediately deems it fell dead. At
events it an affliction from
which or.l; the pleasure o! God con free
him at tile proper, time. Tne child is
partiy ba;d nnd has 3o3t many of its
teeth.
The London Graphic attributes the
scream of a woman partly to vulgarity
and bred partly to vanity. Itsajs but no well
moibidly woman screams, wish only those
who to attract attention,
The ignorance of woman’s natnre ex
hibited by our namesake is amazing, J
Try a room loose full of well-bred women 1
with a mouse, and observe the
effect.— N*w Fork Graphic.
Bl’SSISW A CIRCUS.
FitfUres Showing the Cost and the
“After a circus is fairly on the road
Washington are its Post daily expenses!” asked a
for Coup’s reporter of Mr. Tillin = ’ j
“In agent circus.
small towns between $2,000 and 1
__ per day. The I
certain extent the amount depends to
charged on sums that are
us ior licenses to show and other
privileges. In cities the expenses foot up i
to nearly bill-posting $3,000 a day. The advertising :
and is about $1,000. We i
have 300 persons employed. We feed 225
these in our cooktent and seventy
five are quartered at the hotels. Our
arrangements are admirable
we serve and everything careful the best and in a
quently dines in the way. Mr. Coup fre
“How about the other cooking tent.”
ledger?'’ side of the
“The receipts? They are generally
to make a good circus a paying
investruent. Stilly any day our receipts
may fall to nothing because of some
rain-st rm, or some costly animal may
die. There are many ways in which a
may suffer dead los3. The worst
it is! |that they cannot be guarded
against.”
“ What are the heaviest items of a
show’s expenses?”
“The salaries. The sum paid to the
Japanese troupe in our combination
would run an ordinary circus. Then
the Indians, taking the matter of board
alone at an average of but $1.50 per day
each, during the season, cost $6,600 for
a season, besides their salaries. A first
class rider, like Miss Kate Stokes, gets
$150 week.” ““
a
“Still, these are ‘ fancy ’ salaries, are
they not?”
“Yes, to a certain extent. An ordi
nary lady riders, rider gets $25 a week. For
men James Melville, perhaps,
leads with the highest salai-y—$200 a
week. The average is $40 a week,
Fryer, who has the pony circus, draws
$140 a week; Carl Anthony, the French
horse trainer, the same, while we pay
for the wonderful Broncho horses $1,000
a week. This is exactly what we got
for them in the Boston Globe Theater
and Aquarium, and was offered for them
a year’s engagement at the Westminster
aquarium, in London. Our horses are
a Mis3 study, One of them, Tom, owned by
Minnie “Stokes, a beautiful black,
of fiery disposition, is her particular pet,
follows her round like a dog and only
seems contented when in her company
With everyone else Tom is particularly
vicious, having maimed several of his
grooms, but with his mistress he is as
gentle as a kitten.”
“How sweet!” muttered our adoles
cent reporter.
Mr. Billing looked rather hard at the
quilldriver, but the latter was as sober
as lie a judge and taking notes vigorously,
so continued:
“A circus proprietor does not ol
course, pay for the wardrobes of the star
performers. These must be furnished
by them. Hence you see that, although
they are paid large salaries, they have
heavy expenses. Last season Mis
Katie Stokes bought 180 dresses. The
rosin used on the horses’backs soon
spoils a dress, and spoiled apparel is
quickiy noticed in the ring. The cos
tumes used for the opening pageant are,
of course, part of the circus properties,
each wearer being responsible for the
care and keeping of the dresses worn by
them.”
“I suppose the more enterprising a
circus is the better it pays?”
“Yes, beyond a doubt. A show that
keeps its vans new and bright and its
canvas clean is always far more liber¬
ally patronized than a show of equal,
merit which practices a false economy
in this regard; and when, in addition
a manager endeavors to continually
secure novelities to please the public,
without sparing cost, he will certainly
be successful. Take, for instance, the
conveyance of a circus by railroad. I
I believe Mr. Coup was the first naan to
build and own a railroad train for show
business. When he projected it he was
laughed at by other showmen for ex¬
travagance. When he started his new
show he employed an agent, who said:
‘ Mr. Coup, you can never make money
with a show.’ He said: ‘ Why?’ ‘ Oh ;
you run your business too aristocratic’
too when extravagantly.’ he He was surprised
found that for three seasons
Mr. Coup had exhibited in precisely
the same towns with increasing business
each year, so that now his show draws
most people where it has been oftenest.”
The United States and Europe,
We number now nearlv or quite 50,
000,000 people. A hundred million could
be sustained without increasing the area
of a single farm or adding one to their
number by merely bringing our product
up to the average standard of reasonably
good agriculture; and then there might
remain for export twice the quantity we
now send abroad to feed the hungry in
foreign lands- No longer divided by the
curse of slavery, this nation is now
united by speech, bonds of mutual interest, of
common tied by the iron band of
85,000 miles of railway, and is yet only
grandeur beginning to truly feel the national vital power and
of existence,
What may be the future of this land few
can yet conceive. Texas alone com
as much territory a 3 the German
empire, has England and Wales combined.
within now about 2,000,000 German people
her boundaries; the
England and Wales about 67,
The good land in Texas is
in area to the good land in Ger
and Great Britain. Kansas,
and Iowa combined more than
France in area and possess more
land. Only twenty-five years ago
Brown and his companions re
Kansas from slavery. Ne
was then indicated on our
maps as a part of “the
American desert.” and Iowa had
become a State. Their popu
lation may now be 2,500,000. France
47,000,OoO. The great middle section
Eastern Tennessee, Northern
Western Carolina and South
Virginia has been hemmed in by the
of slavery, and is yet almost a
incognita, in but it is replete with
minerals, in timber and in
valleys of almest unequal climate
for health and vigor. This section is
equal and to tire Austrian equal empire in
area, more than in re
Itha3 a sparse population of
one or two millions. The Austrian
has over 37,000,000. The healthy
upland Carolinas country of Georgia, Alabama
and the contains vast area of
fertile woodland, which can be bought
by tne hundred thousand acres at half a
dollar or twenty-five cents an acre, on
which sheep and cotton thrive equally
well. These sections are being slowly
occupied by white farmers, and wait for
immigrants who can bring them to use.
In a lew short years, sheep, led mainly i
upon the kernel of the cotton-seed, and ;
upon the grasses that follow the cotton,
will alternately send to occupied, market from as much the same wool fields, as |
cotlon. ibis warm section is than ; :
more
equal to Italy in area; it ha, perhaps j
2,000,000 Tbe people. Italy contains 27,000,
00- fertile lands of the Shenan- I
deal valley in Virginia, and along the
Potomac in They Maryland, move than half eqffiSl
may contain a mil
million. people. Belgium has more than
In the consideration of
problem ot productive capacity
are other factors of the greatest
What are the burdens to
borne by our people compared to
What is the mortgage on this
that we possess.— E. A. Atkinson,
Fortnightly Review.
LEE IVAN’S FUNERAL.
How a Chinaman wal Buried ill a
Brooklyn Cemetery.
A . , funeral cortege that passed up
in Brooklyn toward Eyer
greens cemetery was regarded with curi
°sity and interest by hundreds of people the
on tbe sidewalk, and many of
gamins were overheard irreverently ad
the occupants of the vehicles,
The ^ aces seen at the carriage windows
T ere tb3se of Chinamen. A consump
Gve Mongolian sat upon the hearse
throwing The slips of rice paper into the
street. handsome walnut coffin
seea hearse through the the glass doors of the
bore name Lee Wan upon a
silver plate. The deceased was a dealer
* n Chinese groceries, a native of the
flowery kingdom, but of late years a
tenant at No. 4 Mott street. New York,
He died of heart disease. The proces
sion, after turning through an avenue
°* beer saloons and marble-yards, en
tered Pid Evergreens cemetery at the same
ra pace that had been preserved all
the way lrcm the Broadway ferry. The
grave was in what may be termed the
German quarter of the cemetery. After
the Chinamen had alighted and gathered
about the narrow pit, several stalwart
drivers removed the coffin from the
hearse and laid it upon the trestle over
the grave, after which two Germansex
tons lowered it. Some of the mourners
then advanced and tossed in a few liand
this of earth, just as Christians do.
Then began the curious part of the
ceremony. hound Fagots of slow matches were
together and planted in a basin of
ashes and loose earth at the foot of the
jiiavo On being ignited they sent up a
fragrant-smoke. Red candles richly
decorated with figures in gold, blue and
green were placed in a row near the
fagots, and quickly burned down to the
httle sticks, on the end of which they
were fastened. The dead man’s clothes,
including for a white shirt, somewhat the
worse wear, a freshly laundered col
lar and handkerchief, a blue silk blouse
and a straw hat were then rolled into a
bundle and cremated near the grave,
and fche bright-colored and gilded wrap
P U1 ? S of ta e candles and slow matches
were added to the burning heap. A
cocoa-nut mat was then unrolled beside
tbe grave, and the Chinamen, coming
U P OGe after another, took a formal leave
of tbe departed. This was done by
clasping cbia the hands, lifting them to the
> and letting them drop, repeat
in 2 the operation three times. Af
ter tb- .s the mourners dropped upon
their hands and knees upon the mat, and
heads made a triple salaam, bowing their fore¬
close to the earth. Tea was
poured from a quaint little pot of blue
and white porcelain into minute cups of
egg-shell china, and each man, as he
bade farewell to the dead, sprinkled
a Three spoonful of tea upon the ground,
pans of rice, a broiled chicken
and a plate of mutton were allowed to
9 tand before the grave for sometime
that , the dead might refresh himself
man
and prepare for his long journey. It is
customary to leave these dishes beside
the grave, but just before the cortege re
turned, a Chinaman whom opium had
bleached, bleared and sallowed into the
resemblance of a corpse, gave a sus
P lc ious glance at certain of the small
b °Y s who had gathered about the place,
and shuffled them back into a tea box
whence ne had taken them. Cigars
W(re Passed around, and tben the yellow
faces were once more shut up in the
carriages, the drivers their mounted to their
seats, cracked whips, and the pro¬
cession disappeared rapidly in the dust.
Well-Paid Doctors.
Doctors with an established practice,
that pays well, do not of course,want to
be called out at night. These men make
it a rule to refuse to go out if they are
called. Some of them have a sort of
staff of younger men, to whom they
turn they overnight calls and others to which
cannot attend. But not on the
gratis principle. They have an under¬
standing they shall with the younger men that
get part of the fee, though
they do none of the work. If the fee is
three dollars, they take a third; if it is
five dollars, they expect two of the five,
and so on up the scale. But these are
small matters. # We have number of
a
doctors in New York who never go out
for less than ten dollars, and some who
demand of twenty to fifty dollars. I have
heard of cases where the fee for a single
visit was $100, and where operations are
performed it is sometimes as high as
$500, though doctors these instances are rare.
There are in New York whose
income runs from $25,000 to $40,000
every year, and they do not work very
hard either. Their hard work is ail
done before the income grows large.
Usually it takes a doctor about ten years
to build up a paying practice. He may
make a living from the start, but he can’t
lay up any money till he has spt ent a de
cade in making a place for hi mself in
the profession. When the place is once
made, all ahead is smooth and easy. On
the other hand we have scores of pretty
good doctors here in Gotham, who never
get ahead at all. They are just as poor
and just as fangbehind at fifty or sixty as
they were at thirty. But you will find
the same kind of men at every calling.
They but fill a certain place well enough,
can never rise to a higher one, and
happen though all their duties, such as they
to be, are faithfully performed,
they slip out of the world at least with¬
out ranks being missed. Ail the professional
are well supplied with such men,
and a good many are to be found even
in the church. —New York Letter to the
Detroit Free Press.
Illusive Visions.
On the occasion of the fire which de¬
stroyed winter part of the Crystal Palace in the
of 18641-7, part of the menagerie ^The
had been sacrificed to the flamer.
chimpanzee, however, was believed to
have escaped from his cage, 'endeavoring and was
presentlv save" seen on the roof
to himself by clutching in wild
despair one of the iron beams which
the fire had spared. The struggles of
the animal were watched witlT an in
tense sympathy curiosity for*the mingled wit horror and
awaited the unfortunate supposed fate which
the surprise of monkey. What
was the spectators of an
imminent tragedy to find that the object
which in the guise of a terrified ape had
excited their *fears, resolved itself into
a piece of canvas blind, so tattered,
that to the eye of the wind,” imagination and
when moved by the it presented
the exact counterpart of a struglm**
animal! Such an example is of espec
ial interest, because it proves to us that
not one person alone, but a large number
of spectators may be deceived by an ob
ject imperfectly sepn—and aided in the
illusion by a vivid imagination—into
fancying all the details of a spectacle cf
which the chief actor is entirely a myth,
A singular - case has been °iven on stri<t
medical authority of a lady, who. walk
ing from Penrhyn to Falmouth—her
mind drinking being occupied with the subject of
fountains—was certain she saw
in the road a inserfftlci: new’v-erected tTy fountain
bearing the II man
thirst, let him come unto me ana
drink.” As a matter of course, she
mentioned her interest at seeing such an
erection to the daughters of the gentle¬
man who was supposed to have placed
the founta'n in its position. They as¬
sured h^r that no such fountain was in
existence; but, convinced of the reality
of her senses, on the ground that “see¬
ing is believing,” she repaired to the
spot where she had seen the fountain,
only to find, however, a few scattered
stones in place of the expected erection.
Journal t
“Feel o’ My Pulse.”
“Feel o’ my pulse; feel o’my pulse,
quick,” looking gasped a he seedy, staggered cadaverous- into the
man as
Eagle's local room yesterday afternoon. with
The city editor eyed him sus¬
picion. and then told one of the reporters
to accommodate him.
“Find it weak, eh?” whispered like, she
thin tramp. “ Find it fluttering
eh?”
“No,” responded the reporter, “ It
seems all right.”
“Take my respiration,” moaned the
tramp. too,”
“That seems to be strong, re¬
marked the reporter, smelling at it
cautiously. Fetch of water,”
“ me two ounces
sighed the tramp. “Fetch me two
ounces Haven’t of spring water, quick.” water,”
joined “ the got any spring what’s the re¬
reporter; “ matter
with you, anyway?”
“I’m a faster. Haven’t eaten any¬
thing for forty months and forty
ni
“Well, what of it? What do you
want.”
“Hire a hall and have me watched.
I’m on my forty-first month and I’m lia¬
ble to eat at any minute unless I’m care¬
fully guarded. Watch me till my time’s
“About when will that be?” asked the
city editor.
“ I’m going a hundred months on a bet
with the chief of police. Say, you fel¬
lows want to make some money?”
“How?"
“Just bet that I don’t do it Bet
that you dassent set a meal before me
without my cleaning it up in forty
seconds, and then set up the grub.
You can win any amount you want
to.”
“ But who are we to bet with?”
“Chief of police. Bet with him if
you want to win wealth, I tell you.”
“He isn’t here.”
“That’s so; I forgot that. Bet with
me. I can afford to lose. I’ll bet you
dassent set a meal before me consisting
of steaks, and chops, and turkey, and
chicken, and eggs and ham, and mush
and milk, and bread and coffee, and
hard tack and pie, and pudding and
rolls, and bacon and clams and lob¬
sters. Bet you half a dollar. Bet you
anything I you like.”
“ reckon not. Don’t care to bet.”
“ Then I’ll bet yon five dollars I don’t
eat it. Bet you either way. I want to
lose some money somehow. ’
“ Rather not. Reckon you’d better go
away.”
“Don’t you want to have me watched
in a hall? Big gate money. Divide
square. “ No, I Only got sixty months to go.”
reckon I won’t touch it. You’d
better go somewhere else.”
“Let me have a couple o’ ounces o’
water, “ Haven’t spring water?”
“Want got it, I told you.”
to take my respiration again
before I go?”
“No, I got all I want.”
“Feel o’my pulse once more, just
once?”
“Get out, will you?”
“ Got any old papers you don’t want?”
ed “ the Somebody city put this fellow out;”howl
editor.
“ Haven’t got the San Juan Fernandez
Blo w Pipe of three weeks ago Thursday,
have you? I want to see the news from
heme.”
And then he rolled down stairs and
picked Icalled himself up in the counting-room.
“ for ilie money for that article
o’ mine,” he explained to the cashier,
“but as it ain’t printed I’ll take four
dollars on account. It’s a thing about
science, and the man upstairs said it
was worth half a hundred. Gimme four
cases and I’ll call for the balance.”
And then he fell out through the
door, and a tall man, dressed in blue,
took him up to his friend, the chief of
police .—Brooklyn Eagle.
A Curious Disease.
Under line name of narcolepsy M.
Gelineau describes, in the British Medi
cal Journal , a rare form of neurosis,
characterized by an irresistible desire to
sleep, sudden in its onset, lasting but a
short time, and occuring at more or
less prolonged intervals. Thi 3 neurosis
has some analogies with somnolence
and catalepsy. It was described for the
first time, in 1862, by Doctor Chase, who
referred it to a serious and passive con
gestion of the meninges and of the
brain. The persons suffering from it
fall asleep any moment; their sleep
lasts for a few minutes, and they then
recover their consciousness. The
patient whose case is reported by M.
Gelineau fell asleep this way four or
five times during his dinner, letting his
knife and fork fall, and breaking off in
the middle of a sentence he was utter
ing. Up to the present time the most
varied kinds of treatment have failed to
give any good result. We have encouu
tered two cases of this sleepy disea-e.
One was a lieutenant of cavalry in the
Confederate army. Before the war he was
a dry goods merchant, and since the
war he lias returned to his store. His
narcolepsy dates from childhood. He
is a very fleshy man, of more than
average mental strength, and the father
of several vigorous children. While
selling goods in the midst of a conver¬
sation, and even while drinking a
fall whisky toddy, we have known him to
asleep. he In a few seconds or mo
ment3 would awake, apparently un
conscious that he had slept. A Con¬
federate general of great intellect, an
enormously obese man, was the second
case. If talking when the sleep came on,
these gentleman would, on waking, re¬
sume, where they had left off.— Louis¬
ville Medical News.
A Stranger In America,
Nothing surprises me more tban to
see tbe parks of New York, abutting
Broadway, without a fence around the
greensward. A million unresting feet
passed delicate by them, and none trampled on
the grass—while in England,
board schools put up a prison wall
around them, so that the poor children
cannot see a flower girl go by in the
streets; and the back windows of the
houses of mechanics in Lambeth remain
blocked up, whereby no inmate can look
on a green tree in the palace grounds.
In Florence, in Northampton,where the
Holyoke mountain looks on the ever
winding Connecticut river,as elsewhere,
there are thousands of mansions to be
seen without a rail around their lawns.
Acres of plantations lie uninclosed be¬
tween the beautiful houses, where a
crowd of wanderers might rest unchal¬
lenged. sky. In and watch mountain, river and
derer England, down if an indignant wan¬
sat on house ground or way
side, the probability is a policeman
would come and demand what he
wanted, and the relieving officer would
suggest to him that he had better pass
on to his own parish. Every man in
America feels as though he owns the
country, because the charm of recog¬
nized equality and the golden chances
of . ownership have entered his mind,
He is proud of the statues and public
buildings. The great rivers, the track
ies3 praries, the regal mountains, all
seem his. In America, there is no
crown, and the people are kings, and
they know it. I had not landed on the
American shores an hour before I be
came aware that I was in a new nation,
animated by a new life which I had
never seen .—Nineteenth Century.
Our people are putting in the winter’s
supply of coal, and we observe that those
who have the greatest number of
grown-up daughters are Transciipt. buying the
most fuel.— Middletown
A Gorgeous Festival.
A gorgeous festival at Venice was
tne marriage of the city to the
Adriatic sea. It was celebrated every
year on Ascension day, and this, too,
had its origin in an historical event.
In A.D. 1170, Pope Alexander III. was
driven from Rome by the Emperor Bar
barossa, or Red-beard, and he took
refuge in Venice, where he was received
with great respect and affection. The
emperor demanded that the republic
should give him up; but the request
was refused.
Barbarossa then sent a fleet of seventy
five galleys, under the command of his
son, Otho, with orders to destroy all
that came in their way. The Doge
had only forty galleys; but he was an
expert seaman, and drove the emperor’s
fleet off the coast and took Otho
prisoner. After this battle, peace was
made, and Frederick consented to come
to Venice to be reconciled to the pope.
To reward the Venetians for their ser¬
vices the pope bestowed on them the
sovereignty of the Adriatic sea, and
presented the Doge with a ring, saying:
“Receive this as a symbol of your
sovereignty, and celebrate your espous¬
als with the sea every year.”
This fete holiday. on Ascension The day was a
universal poor and the
rich put on their gayest dresses and
went to witness the marriage of the
Doge with the sea. The bells of the
city rang from the daybreak their thronged most
joyful gondolas chimes, ornamented canals were with ban¬
with
ners. In one of the largest harbors,
called La Piazzetta. was anchored a
vessel, called the “Bucentaur,” which
belonged to the Doge. The crew were
chosen from among the strongest and
handsomest of the Venetian seamen.
The prow of the ship was gilded and
ornamented with figures, and in the
center was a crimson-velvet tent em¬
broidered wit h gold, above which floated
the flag of San Marco. When the hour
of noon sounded the door of
the church was thrown open
and a grand procession moved forth.
First came eight standard-bearers with
the flags of the republic in red, blue,
white and violet, and six men with sil¬
ver trumpets; then came the officers in
the service of the Doge, dressed in
their state robes. Next followed the
musicians, and a deacon carrying a
large wax taper sent by the pope, and
men Doge. bearing The the throne and cushions of
the city magistrates made
part of the procession, and, lastly, the
Doge mantle himself, in his ducal robes, his
of ermine fastened with gold
buttons, his robes of blue and cloth of
gold; of his Venice, head covered with the ducal
cap over which was a crown
The of gold sparkling with precious stones.
procession advanced slowly up the
quay and’embarked on the “ Bucentaur,”
with the admiral of the - Venetian fleet
at the helm. As they’ - drew up the
anchors all the bells in the city poured
forth their most joyful sounds. The
large vessel went slowly on, surrounded
by filled numerous with people barges and gondolas, After all
the fleet had advanced gayly dressed. distance
some into
the Adriatic, the Doge rose from his
throne, walked to the prow of the ves¬
sel on a raised gallery, and threw into
the blue waves a gold ring, saying:
“We espouse thee, Oh, Sea, in sign of
real and perpetual sovereignty.” Then
the Doge and his suite attended service
in the church of San Nicolas on an¬
other island, called Lido, and the fleet
returned to Venice, where the grand
personages attended a sumptuous repast
at the ducal palace.— SI. Nicholas.
A Mongol Encampment.
first A correspondent in China says: At a
glimpse a Mongol encampment ap¬
pears to be a collection of gigantic ant
hills with smoke issuing from the tops.
As we get nearer, the forms of human
beings, of a multitude of camels, dogs,
sheep and ponies are visible. The Mon
£°, ls have an Instinctive knowledge of
^ I s f° found. A pure,
moa n tain br °ok was running at
tb e ba9e of tbe u L w j ie re tbc ^. Gts were
ffitclied. ( . A . beautiful . stretch . ot pasture
} and upon winch the animals were graz
lay at our met Our approach to
tent ofths cbl f was heralded by the
deep growls and barking of the dogs,
Wli ° soon brought out the occupants to
^certain who the intruders were. Our
guide informed the man that we were
traveling to could Suchowfoo on service, and
asked if we rest ourselves Hos
being one of the few virtues a
Mongol possesses, we. were speedily
welcomed. Hie t nt into which we
f a ^® d wsa composed of a frame of light
trellis work, covered with thick felt,
madc from.goat s hair, circular in form,
a conical shaped roof. A hole in
* he roo f le t out the smoke from the argol
dre w l lC . i\ u bl ? ra ? al day ir the ceater of
’ “
the tent. At night this - aperture is . closed.
The door is about five feet high, and
cannot be entered without stooping. In
diameter the rent is fifteen feet. A piece
of felt hanging serves to close the en
trance at night. No seats were visible,
so, who squatting on the ground, our guide,
wished spoke something Tangutan, asked us if we
glimpse of the dirty to vessels eat. lying Catching a
around
us, we deemed it advisable to use our
own tin plates and cups, Their usual
which method they of cleansing their wooden cups,
carry upon their persons, is
to scrape them with their linger nails,
while the plates are cleansed with the
tongue as a dog licks a platter. A large
iron pan was over the fire,together with
a teakettle, which is boiling all day, an l
from which we drank to our host. Into
the large pan one of the women poured
some sour milk, and taking a handful o
barley meal stirred it with her finger
until the mass became the consistency
of pa3te. We, on our part, produced
some cold mutton, which, with the por
ridge, proved acceptable.
A Joke on the Custom House Officers,
A number of New York and Brooklyn
officials were nicely sold a short time
the ago. Among the cargo discharged from
nerio, steamship Gienlogan, from RioJa
were three mysterious-looking
packages. No one came to claim them,
and the custom house officer in whose
charge they were, took off the wooden
cover of one of them, when a printed
circular in Portuguese appeared, which,
with the exception of one word, was
That wholly unintelligible to the officer.
word was “ dynamite.” A thrill
of horror ran through the officer and th
persons standing near as soon as they
ascertained what the packages held, and
they soon put a safe distance between
the explosive and themselves. The
custom house persons in turn notified
the police, the police gave the dreaded
packages a wide berth, and after much
negotiation placed and trouble they were
finally on the custom house d^ek
and the fire department authorities in¬ |
formed. For two days and nights a
fireman’s guard watched the dangerous
stuff, and at last the packages were
gently carried to the nitro-giy cerine
depot off tbe Jersey flats. Witn all this
shifting of the backages no explosion
fortunately took place, and everybody
was thankful. That it did not happen
is due to the fact made plain by the eon
signee, who at last put in an appearance,
that the dangerous packages than contained’nothing quantity
more a of insect
powder, which the circular stated “ to
be as ifficacious as dynamite.” The
truth of the matter has just leaked cut,
after the “narrow escape ” of the Gien¬
logan Had been telegraphed all over the
country, and New York was in a broad
grin at the joke.
If I Were a Little Baby I
III were a little baby
I know what I’d like to do:
I'd nealle in mamma’s arms,
And dimple, and laugh, and coo;
I’d never try to bo brilliant
I’d never wish to be wise,
But I’d look at you all so fondly
With a pair of big brown eyes.
I d tumble in papa’s whiskers
With a dear little pink-tipped hand.
And speak to little sister
In a way she’d understand;
And whenever a brother came near me
With something sweet to say,
I’d show him how much I loved him
In my own little baby way.
N o matter how dark the weather,
No mattor how rain might fall
f cl be like a bit of sunshine.
lo brighten and cheer you all;
And if mamma should ever bo wean,-,
Or tired and fretted with pain,
I d help to make her forget it,
And warm her heart again.
I’d be such a perfect darling
With my innocent, smiling lace,
So dimpled, and sweet,and precious,
So full ot delight and grace,
So near God's beautiful angels
That I’d bring you near them, too—
And I think I know a baby
Who is just like this—don’t yon?
— M. E. B. in the Wideawake.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The poet Tennyson is seventy-one years
of age.
A letter goes over one post route, a
telegram over a route of many posts.
Ashland, Henry Clay’s Kentucky
homestead, has been rented at $8 pet
acre.
A London magistrate sent a man to
prison for three months for cutting off a
cat’s tail.
It is an old adage that the tongue
cannot be easily bridled. But it is
easily bit.
The Nova Scotia gold mines are said
to have produced more than $6,000,000
in eighteen years.
There are some men so talkative that
nothing but the toothache can make one
of them hold his jaw.
When a man and woman are made
one it is usually the man. Sometimes
the fight is long and severe, however.—
Rochester Express.
have Twenty-twoof less the thirty-eight States
city, and fifteen population than New York
States have a less popu¬
lation than Philadelphia.
Thomas Sherlock, of Bedford, Ind..
killed a spotted snake in his garden that
measured six feet seven inches in length
and four inches in diameter.
A murderer under sentence of death
was Texas. baptized by immersion at Dallas,
stood During the ceremony holding the sheriff
on the shore a rope at¬
tached to the prisoner.
He was sitting in the parlor with her
when a rooster crowed in the yard, and
leaning over he said: “ Chanticlear.”
“I wish to gracious you would,” she
said, “ I’m sleepy as J can be.” He took
his hat and left, and hasn’t been back
since.
A Western reporter records the fact
that the defeated candidate “ took his
way to the train, wrapped in gloom and
new store clothes. The gloom was an
elegant fit, but the store clothes were
too short in fche legs and very baggy
around the shoulders.”
Another battle was fought in South
America last week. It lasted two hours,
and then a truce was asked for and
granted to look after the wounded, be¬
cause an awkward fellow in one of th 1
armies had dropped his musket on BQ
friend’s corn .—Oil City Derrick.
ations Poker-playing ot is one of the recre¬
Americans on the ocean
steamers, and the captains not unfre
quently take a hand. Sometimes the
play is for very high stakes. Tho
gvatuituous distribution of claret on the
steamers of one of the lines cost $25,000
a year.
circus Chicago now exacts $250 for every
$50 performance given in that city,
a day for each side show, and $25
for the concert in the teat after the
regular entertainment. Thus a circus
open afternoon and evening, with say
five side shows, must pay $675 daily into
the citv treasury.
Curious are the means of self-defense
with which animals and insects are pro¬
vided. A butterfly, when apprehend¬
ing shrub danger, never lights on a green tree
or but iiies into a clump of dead
leaves, where it so adjusts its wings on a
twigs, leaf, as to look exactly like a shiveled
and defies discovery by its foe.
The death rate per thousand in foreign
cities, at last reports,is as follows: Mon¬
treal, 21.5 in 1,000: Havana, 60.9;
Queenstown, Ireland, 41.7; Dublin, 30;
Liverpool, Frankfort, 25.8; Paris, 25.5; Berlin, 52;
hagen, 18.7; Brussels, 19.8; Copen¬
29.6; Cadiz, 23.2; Rome, 26.6; Stockholm,
100.9; Calcutta, Spain, 44.3: Langier, Mo¬
rocco, 19.7.
Harris county, Georgia, contains
many 3nakes. A gentleman living near
Hamilton killed sixteen grown mocca¬
sins within a few hundred yards of one
another. Another person killed an old
moccasin and left it on the Hillside. On
his return a few minutes afterward he
counted thirty-four little snakes crawl¬
They ing around and over the large snake
one’s are supposed Lo have been the old
young.
In England the cost of raising a bushel
of wheat is in round figures $1.50
From a number of records kept in Min¬
nesota and Kansas the average cost per
bushel, counting all material, labor and
j? bve lteres cents f on per investment, bushel. was Allowing about lorty- forty
e •cents for carrying the wheat to Eng
laad , tbe ca) sc would be ninety
delivered. * Those cents
and speak for figures are significant
themselves,
An exchange drives the following
of remedy for earache: Take a small piece
cotton wool, make a depression in the
center and fill it with pepper; gather ft
into a ball and tie it up; dip it into
sweet oil and insert it in the ear. In¬
stant relief will follow. Another remedy
is to dip a Chinese firecracker in nitric
acid, put the cracker in tbe aching ear
and explode it. The acid will prepare
the ear for tue fireworks.— Picayune.
It is exactly a, half century since the
first locomotive was built in the United
States the first which were used being
imported. The locomotive in question,
a upright queer looking, trunkless affair, with
boiler, no cab, six inch inclined
cyunder of sixteen inch stroke and four
driving V wheels, was constructed at tbe
esfc Point foundry. It was named the
“ Best Friend of Charleston,” and ship¬
ped there by sea October, IS30, for use
on the Charleston and Hamburg rail¬
On the other side of Jordan is the
town of Salt, ascertained to be the
ancient Ramoth Gileand, containing a
population of about 8,000 nominal
Christians and Mohometans. There are
upwards of 1,800 vineyards Jin this
town and neighborhood, and also large
fields of corn land. It is a singular
fact, a? credibly reported, that these
people know nothing of intoxicating
dnnks, and make their grapes into
meat cabed honey and a kind of a sweet¬
milban.