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HAMILTON, G 1 Olb.fA
Tlic Jews h (Germany.
The outbreak of l< ling 'iimst. the
.Iwh in Germany non 1 >• . m to be an
anachronism. if wo had not >■ . i. sign*of
the sumo disposition in tliiH country.
Petition* have been numerously signed
to restrict the civil eighth of tho Hebrew
imputation, and to repeal the law s which
provide for its equality with the rest of
the people. An association called the
Anti-Semitic League has been formed,
nnd there have been great public meet
ings hostile to the .lews. The Hebrew
sepulchre* in tome parts of the country
have been desecrated by mobs, nml au
eminent Lutheran clergyman, a court
chaplain, supposed to be favored by tlife
court, bus openly denounced the Jew*
without reproof from the CoiiHiatorium.
There are some million and a half of He
brews in Germany, and they have be
come so substantial and important, an
element of German lite and society that
a crusade against them contemplating
their disability is an event of vital sig
nificance.
It is, indued, the fact that they have
become this important, clement of the
population which stimulates the hostile
movement. It is felt that a ]>eoplo who
control enormous capital, who influence
the trade and commercial relations of
the empire, wuose acuteness and ability
give them command of tho intellectual
nnd msthi'tic development of tho coun
try, are essentially aliens, with no natu
ral or permanent interest in the com
munity, and that, as the Turks were
said to lie merely encamped in Europe,
the Jews are but encampediu Germany.
They All the places, they carry off the
urizea, they are becoming too powerful.
The great lauded estates are passing in
to tlmir hands. They own the palaces
in the tov ns. They are the merchant
prinecH. They are the professors and
•fudges nud magistrates. In another
generation, sav the alarmists, if tho
laws reniniu unchanged, they will be the
lords of the Teutons, and do what they
will. Disraeli's “Asian mystery” re
appears. It, is certainly one of the most
striking spectacles of modern history; a
great and proud people, still flushed
with triumph after a vast war which
humbled one of tho ancient powers of
Europe, and changed the European
map—a war directed in the Cabinet by
the most renowned of modern statesmen,
and led in the field by a most sagacious
and famous soldier—recoiling with tho
apprehension that a shrewd alien people
among its population should by essential
superiority absorb tho controlling na
tional power.
For that in tho root of the feeling. It
is not concealed. Bismarck himself iu
his earlier years shared the apprehen
sion and expressed the hostility. But
it, will end probably iu this wide-spread
ebullition of feeling. Of the great mid
titudo of Hebrew people in Germany a
large proportion are undoubtedly thor
oughly Germanized. Germany is their
home and that, of their ancestors, and
will be that of their children. If they
are magistrates and governors, it is be
cause they are found to be more capa
ble. If they are great proprietors, it is
because they arc cleverer traders. If they
are professors and authors and artists, ,
it is because the Hebrew genius is not 1
extinct. Germany will not go backward
and discredit her civilization with the j
wrongs of.feudalmin. The rule of mod- |
ern times is freedom, and the tools to
him who can use than. Bismarck could
uo longer be called the greatest of mod
ern statesmen if under his sway Ger
many were forced to confess that upon
its own soil, iu its own pursuits, it could
not, compete under equal laws against
an alien and homeless race.— J/arjter's
Weekly.
' Omtlideal ions in Mia State ot
lilimle Island.
e in Rhode Island not
unlorstixvl by the geu
'lowing xplamdiivn of
<ts brief and succinct .
are two rbis/cs of
xnd, pvopcrt v and |
call \uto for all i
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A riumi. com.
A litllrKhin the qf< bard gi 9W
A Jittla ptacb of emerald line.
Jfaneas City Timu.
A lilfle Uot, be filmed |h<* fence,
And look that jiearh from beot e to thence.
—Dthnit fire /Vni,
And when he had eaten If lie had vnrh a pain
He aaid he’d never Heal a b’reen jiejich again.
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A higgUh dog (lid forward prance,
And aiiatthaj a hit* from lhat tioy'A pauta.
('ltinland Voire.
He joyful aaug In homeward frolic,
Bui later grappled with infant **ollo.
--Bloomington Aye.
The doctor came, but ha couldn’t aare,
And they plan led iht peach teed by the boy’i
glare.
—Steubenville Herald.
Bit lombatone Imre the let I ere drear;
• 4 >io more the woodahed and the tear.’
Prta Tranucripi,
lfoial: Never eat a green. gren jeach,
grewa away out tieyond ywr ewvh.
A* oku/c Gate City.
• A Pertinacious Landlord.
“Isn’t there suAh a crime as conduct
calculated to provoke a breaoh of the
peace?” asked a nervous-looking man of
a Brooklyn Police Justice.
“Of courso there is,” responded iho
Justice.
“Then gimme a warrant for my land
lord," demanded the nervous man.
“ What has ho done?” asked tho Jus
tice, eying the suitor suspiciously.
“He comes to my house when I’ve
got company, and says ho wants the
four-months’ rent I owe him, and sits
out on tho front stops and howls for his
money. If I should kick tho whole
spine out of him, IVI be arrested,
wonHn’t I?”
“Yes, l flunk you would. Why don’t
you pay him V"
“That isn’t the question. He comes
to my house at 1 o’clock in the morn
ing and yells through the key-hole, and
then ho goes up through the vacant
house next door, and gets on my roof
und shouts down the chimney. Bays lie
will have that money. If I should drop
a flat-iron on linn, or blow him up with
powder, it would go hard with me,
wouldn’t it?”
“ Pretty apt to. Can't you come to
no understanding with him?”
“It seems not. Say. has he got a
right, to climb over mv fence and have
lits in my buck yard, just because I owe
him a little money ?"'
“ Does be do that?”
“Of course ho does, and when we
haul him in the house he veils murder
nnd draws a crowd. Have I got, a right
t<> maul tho life out, of him with a club
for that ?”
“1 think not,” responded the Judge.
“ Why don’t you move?”
“ That,’h got nothing to do with it. I
want to know if he is entitled to slip up
on the ice and fall through my basement
window, and do ten dollars’ w'ortb of
tlamago to tiie *l-,™. Couldn’t T mash
the stuffing out of him lor iKt 9”
“Certainly not.”
“But, when he lays down on the side
walk and bowls that hia mother is dead,
and he can’t bury her because I won’t
pav what I owe, haven’t I got any rem
edy ?”
“ l don’t know of any. I think you'd
! better pay him."
i ■•Hut isn’t it conduct calculated to
i provoke a broach of the peace, when he
| comes around with a quart of laudanum
and a home-pistol, and threatens to take
’em both right on the premises, if 1 don’t
put up? Ain't it a crime to hang him
self to a tree in front of my house, with
m p:tjer pinned on him that I drove him
to suicide? FTiih he (jot a right to make
faces at mv children in Sunday-school ?
Won’t flic law touch him for coming to
my door at daylight ns drunk as a loud,
and claiming lie’s me, and yelling that I
want to get in and liek my wife?”
“1 don’t think you can do anything
bn( pay him or move. The man lias a
right to his money.”
“That’s all I want to know,” replied
the nervous man, appearing relieved.
“I’m the landlord, and my tenant says
iie'li have me arrested for doing these
things. Now you bet lie’ll put up that
wealth, or I’ll fall off the top of the
house ami have the inquest in the par
lor. A man can’t live tour months in
my house for nothing, without going to
some trouble, now you hear mo;” and
the nervous mail pranced .off, glowing
id! over with grim determination.—
JieouLljn Ragle.
i a— i inr r r TWWTit a*-**
Tut a Slop to It.
t Frenchman whose wife was about to
present him with the fond appellation of
“father, retired to await the happy mo
ment. uni with some friends io drink
long life, ami u noble to the first lrn.
The punch bowl scattered its inviting
fumes most prodigally amend the coui
anv, and anxiety was niaiiitrsted by all,'
>n in inn Hetty 1 .ightfoot, exelaim
joy, sir! T give you joy ”
he, Betty, vat is lie?".
oy, sir."
the young Marquis’.” t?x
<i bumpers wont u round,
ist drink von life to the
'ass to her lips, w hen
von jov!”
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man, locking
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Anecdotes of Shipwrecked Men.
fa>rd did not find the Gallipagos
islands so much to his mind as did an
Irishman, who let hia ship depart w ith
out him, and set up hia rest on one of
these volcanic islets, dwelling there for
seven years in u hovel of his own build
ing, living njam tortoises, sealsand lish,
washed down with rum obtained from
ships in exchange for the potatoes and
piuii]. kins he busied himself in raising.
In JBIB, an American sailor was taken
off a desolate rock in the South seas by
a boat’s crew belonging to H. M. S.
Queen Charlotte, whose attention had
Inieu drawn to tho sj>ot l>v the smoke of
a seaweed fire. He had three years be
fore bern left there with three com
panions, all of whom had quickly suc
cumbed, while he had lived 01), sustain
ing life by feeding on the flesh of birds and
drinking their blood.
The find of the Queen Charlot te's men
was not so surprising as that of the
Flemish seaman, Pickman, when, in
1810, his ship grounded near a small
island rock between Scotland and Ire
land. Some of his men, going in search
of eggs, came upon a black hairy creat
ure, who by signs entreated them to
come to close acquaintance, and, finding
the strange object to be really a man,
they took him on hoard with them to
tell the skipper his story. It was a
melancholy one. He and two others,
occupants of the passage boat between
Eugluml und Ireland, had been captured
and afterward cast off by a French pri
vateer. Having nothing eatable save a
little sugar with them, one of the three
soon died of starvation, tlie others lived
to he driven on the island, where they
built a hut out of what was left of the
boat, and for six weeks lived on sea
mews, sea-dogs, eggs, and water. Then
the partners in misfortune parted com
pany, one of them disappearing, leaving
his forlorn friend in utter ignorance of
his fate ; he could only surmise that he
had fallen into the sea while searching
for eggs. Months passed, and the poor
fellow lost all hope of deliverance. Win
ter came, and found him clethesless.
Compelled to keep within the hut for
days together, he only kept starvation
at bay by catching sea-mews, as hungry
as himself, by baited sticks thrust
through tho oi*enings of the hovel’s
walls. So he kept himself alive until
the accidental advent of the London
bound Flemish timber ship released him
from his dreary durance. — Chambers'
Journal.
Strength of Gibraltar.
Until you set foot ou Gibraltar you
oim form no idea of its impregnability.
Very properly its real strength cannot
be seen from a ship in the bay. Only
when you land do you find that the sea
wall bristles with heavy guns and groans
lumentli piles ot ball; only as you trav
erse its fiaulc do you see how formidable
breech-loaders peep from every availa
ble chink, and powerful mortars iuik
lieliind every convenient embankment.
Anri noi uucll yah penetrate the body of
the rock do you get any just notion of
the marvelous piece of military engin
eering exhibited in its “galleries.* 1
These are tunnels excavated from the
solid rook, puridlol to its outer side, but
some thirty foot therefrom, and large
enough to drive a carriage through.
They are in two tiers, and comprise a
total length of nearly three mile*. At
every thirty feet or so along them spa
cious embrasures are outhewn that ter
minate in commanding port-holes, which
look to a spectator outside the rock like
swallows’ nest-holes in the sand-el iff.
These embrasures contain heavy gnus,
always standing ready tor action, with
l>owcW-magazines hard by. From the
port-holes beautiful peeps of the bay
and the Spanish country are obtained.
Out of these, on the north side, you
look down upon a half-sandy, half
grassy fiat, perhaps half a mile long and
as wide or wider, connecting the rook
w ith the mainland, and separating the
bay from tlie Mediterranean. Two lines
of sentry boxes, one at the rock end,
the other at the distant end, mark the
houiukuios of British .and Spanish land,
and between these lines is the “neutral
ground.” The guns of the quarried
embrasures, and those hidden veauuon
that) stud the western and southern
slojies of the rock, cover the neighbor
ing Spanish land, the whole of the bay
and the straits, and the strengthening
work is ever going on by the fortifica
tion of new points that from time to
time appear vulnerable. The eastern
side of the rock requires no protection ;
it is a forbidding wall, w ith a great sand
slope in ofio place, but with no foothold
for anything moie than a few fishermen’s
huts near the water’s edge. —London
Telegraph.
Commercial Courtesy.
There are some merchants who regard
drummers as a nuisance, and refuse to
talk to them, or if they say anything at
all, it is only a request to look at a eou
spieuousb posted picture of a man in a
coffin, with the legend underneath,
“ Tliis man was talked to death by a
drummer.” But old Twopereent, whose
place of business is on Galveston avenue,
is not that kind of a merchant prince.
A New York drummer was passing his
place of business, when he called him
across the street and asked to look at his
samples. The drummer could hardly
believe his senses. He had never been
treated that way before in Texas. It
was hardly a minute before he had his
samples spread out in anticipation of a
$5,000 order. Old Twopereent got the
very bottom pnoe of everything in his
line, but when the New York drummer
asked him if he didn’t want to order
some of the goods the reply was :
“Not mooch. You do not sliuppose
lot is vot I called you in for ?”
• What did you call me in for, then?"
' the drummer.
wanted to see vot your nggers
'o find out if I vas not sell
xxts too low.”— Galveslon
The Catacombs of Paris.
The vast catacombs by which a large
portion of the city of Parts are under
mined were only known hv popular
tradition until the year 1774, when some
alarming accidents aroused the attention
ot' the Government. The old quarries
were then surveyed and plans of them
taken, and the result was the frightful
discovery that the churches, palaces aud
most of the southern part of Paris was
undermined, and in great danger of sink
ing into the pit below them. A special
commission was appointed, and on the
very day it met a house in one of the
streets sunk ninety-one feet below the
level of its eourt-yard. The pillars
which had been left by the quarrymen,
in their blind operations: without any
regularity, were in many place? too w eak
for the enormous weight above, aud iu
most places had themselves been under
mined, of perhaps originally stood upon
ground which had previously been hol
iowed. The aqueduct of Arcueil passed
over this treacherous ground; it had ol
ready suffered some shocks, and, if the
quarries had continued to lie neglected,
an accident must, sooner or later, have
happened to this watercourse, which
would have cut off its supply from the
fountains of Paris, aud have filled the
excavations with water. Repairs were
forthwith commenced and promptly
completed, and a portion of the old
quarries was devoted to receive the
1 Mines of the dead. This took place iu.
April, 1788; the remains of the dead
were removed at night in funeral ears,
covered with a pail, and followed by
priests chanting the service of the dead.
When they reached the catacombs the
bones were shot down a well, and the
rattling and echoing .which they made
in their till were as impiessive as any
sound ever heard by human ears. Tims
the limestone quarries tliat had supplied
the materials for building the superb
monuments, palaces and houses of Paris
became huge cliarnel-houses, which they
now remain. Calculations differ as to
the number of bones collected in the
catacombs, but it is certain that they
contain the remains of at least 3,000,000
of human beings.— Harper's Young
People,
Mechanical Progress.
It is an interesting feature of onr times
to note the rapid progress which lias been
made in manufacturing ingenuity and
scientific skill in the production of sub
stitutes for expensive or scarce raw ma
terials and articles in general demand.
It cannot be controverted that art is fast
invading the domain of nature. Chem
istry is enabling us to replace animal
and vegatable dyes, and to form artificial
gems or creditable imitations ot them,
which, as ornaments, answer every pur
pose. Mineral oils replace animal and
vegetable ones for illuminating purposes,
and the electric light is slowly super
seding (he use of noxious and costly gas.
The expensive and dangerous whale fish-
V ’ ‘ "■■ longer be pursued, nor the
Ail lean deadn *>anetrated for
ivory. The sea tortoise no longer n „„
the adventurous sailors, nor are the
ostriches of the desert hunted at the
sacrifice of health and often of life itself.
These genuine products have been so
long in universal use as to become
necessities of our civilization, unless very
similiar articles can be ingeniously sub
stituted for them.
Chemistry and science have enabled us
to manufacture our own tortoise sjiell,
ivory, and feathers, without the risk of
visiting wild jungles and arctic or tropi
cal seas for mu 1 supplies. In addition to
the above, the American Uullicatbl pFO™
ceeds to enumerate some of the fuost
successful artificial products which are
now extensively ; manufactured, and
which take the place, to a large extent,
of more expensive/genuine substances.
A half dozen available substitutes for
whalebone are rtfamifactured. Ivory, so
extensively in ruse, is superseded by
celluloid. Piano and organ keys, billiard
balls, hand mirrors, and bandies of
knives and folks, are’nearly all made of
this ingenious chemical substitute for
ivory. In the imitation of tortoise shell,
it is made into combs,card eases, napkin
rings, and the like: while the pink coral,
so popular with jewelers and ladies, is
imitated jby it to geyf§ctiqn._
Ostrich feather*, ever the court plumes
of fashion, and heli.l formerly at prices,
which only ddmitfod of their use tty the
wealthy few, are now eclipsed in beauty,
aiul durability by the ingenious hand of*
skilled manufacture. A compound, ot
silk iti* celluloid, spun glass, and othef
maierialjs is now so cunningly combined
as to be equally desivabl# with the gen
uine ostrich featimi's, and very dose ex
amination is required to doteet tlve origi
nal] from the substitute. Artificial stone
ahd nuirbldare made tf any extent, act
ually rivahng the originals in strength,
beauty, and durability. Artificial aliza
rine is now substituted for the natural
product of madder. It is not much
more than one-third the cost of madder
ns originally supplied from the dye-root.
We might, adds the editor iu closing his
article, lind plenty of other similar ex
amples to impress the fact of our sub
ject, namely, the rapid mechanical and
chemical progress of the times.—Scien
tific American.
Those Vassal* Girls.
This is the way a Vassar girl tells a
joke: “Girls! I heard the best thing
to-day. It was just too funny. I can’t
rejnember how it came about, but one of
the girls said to Trof. Mitchell—oh,
de ' I can’t remember just what she
said, but Prof. Mitchell’s answer was
just too funny for any use. I forget just
exactly what he said, but it was too
good for any thing !”
Two country fellows stop before the
window of a hat store, and view with
admiration a hat having a little mirror at
the bottom. “ Why do they put a look
ing-glass at tho bottom of the hat?”
asked one. “So the man who buys it
can see whether it fits him,” replied the
other.
Remarkable Devotion to a Utile Girl.
About tlie year 1770 au Italian lady
named Fugniaui went to London with
good introduction, and was received in
tlie first society. She was greatly ad
mired by the wits and men of fashion,
and, after a time, went bnok to her own
country, in due course of time she paid
other visits, but, by-and-by, it became a
subject of remark’that her little girl,
who bore the pet name of “ Mie-mie, ’
and not her mumma, was the object of
devotion of two celebrated men about
town, the old Duke of Queensbury, “Old
Q,” and Mr. Geo. Selwyn. The proceed
ings of the latter became, in course of
time, so extravagant and even ridiculous
as to excite the concern of his rational
friends. Ho adored this little creature ;
he wished to adopt or buy her at a great
price; lie waa wretched, almost to the
verge of melancholy madness, in her ab
sence, making vain appeals, and taking
every one into his confidence. All af
fected to sympathize and—laughed at
him. He was, however fortunate enough
* i "O’
to secure as his agentoneof the liveliest,
wittiest and, perhaps, most disreputable
of the free clergymen who then “liung
loose upon society Parson Warner, a
rollicking, boisterous person, at, the ser
vice. of any gentleman of condition. This
worthy agent was dispatched to Paris to
try and arrange matters, nnd, no doubt,
to tempt the Fngnianis with more hand
some offers. They liegnn to waver. Mtpc.
Fayninui Timl now nnotliev child, which
made the" affair easier, The deludited
Selwyn could not restrain himself any
longer, aud rushed over to Paris, really
hoping to conclude matters. But, after
tantalizing hopes and delays, tlie hapless
wit found that he was as far off as ever
from the accomplishment of his hopes.
Tlie parents would not consent. Mr.
Selwyn remained lingering in Paris, his
woes* and Jiis mournful late attracting
the attention of even the French. Hie
English friends, kept informed of all the
stages of the affair, affected to be indig
nant. The miserable man was wasting
away—had lost his appetite; and the
well-known English physician at Paris,
Dr. Genu, assured him that, if he gave
way any further to this infatuation, his
reason w ould go. The family, dreading
some outrageous step, at last thought it
better to come to t erms. Within a few
days, strange to Velate. all was happily
. settled and in a fortnight this wonderful
child was carried off in triumph to Mat
son, her floating admirer’s place in En
gland. There she was installed as queen
of the place, under care of Miss Selwyn.
Every whim of hers was gratified. She
was taken to Tunbridge, where she was
exhibited in a coquettish Spanish hat
and lace. The rollicking Warner was
often bidden there and delighted his pat
ron by his devotion to the little thing.
In every letter was a postscript ad
dressed to his “little queen” and signed
“Your Snail.” There she remained un
til gout and dropsy and old age began
to overtake Mr. Selwyn, who died
in the year 1791. Mie-mie inherited
£33.000.
A Laviug r, fr Cutter.
An Indian Rajah who was pieo.-~*oi T
disposed toward the English and had
learned their language after a fashion,
frequently visited some years ago, so the
story runs, the Viceroy of Calcutta, and
bn one occasion borrowed of the hitter a
copy of the Edinburgh Review, which he
happened to see lying on the table.
When lie returned the magazine the
Viceroy asked him if he had found any
thing interesting in it. “Oh! yes?” he
replied, “many beautiful things, but
also many disconnected articles.” “ How
so?” asked the viceroy. “Bee here,”
answered the Rajah; “this begins with
‘Hunting Orang-outang, ’ does it not?
And now turn over the page, and her*
you have the ‘History of Mary Stuart.”’
The Viceroy laughed. He perceived
that the Rajali had attempted to read
the book through without cutting the
leaves. He accordingly took from his
table a beautiful ivory paper cutter, ex
plained its use to his visitor, and made
him a present of it. The Rajah was puz
zled as fo how the leaves of books could
be printed befdTe Hh>y WCUB Tm£ open,
but thfeWffcialso explalueditb him, About
-a year after this occurrence the Viceroy
rsaw gay • icpmpany- entering the court,
and th the center of it tire Ra jah seated on
■a-young elephant., No-sooner did tho Ra
jah see the Viceroy than he cried: “Do
.you happen to ,lin ye an uncut copy of
the Edinburg Review f If so. pleas*
■tassflt to me.” Tiie Viceroy threw out
ilie maga/inc. It was eftught? by the
elephant, who plaepd it between his
tusks, which had been wrought into
elegant paper cutters, even including
carved handles, and quickly ct open
the leaves, after which the knowing ani
mal passed the Rcvtctr back to tho" sme
prised Viceroy. The Rajah then dis
mounted. and said to She, Viceroy, as ho
pointed to the elephant: “He is yours,
i return you your pai>or cutter, alive.”
The .Menagerie.
“So you enjoyed ydur visit tc the
menagerie, did you?” inquired young
Sillabub of liis adored one’s little sister.
“O, yes ! And, do yon know, wa saw
a camel there that screwed his mouth
and eyes around awfully, and sister said
it looked exactly as you do when you
are reciting poetry at the church socia
bles.” _ _ _
Insanity.
Dr. Maelaren, of Edinburgh, Scotland,
states that the types of insanity have
changed within modern times. For in
stance, delirious mania is now compara
tively rare, but mental enfceblement, at
tended with paralysis, is becoming more
and more common, anil is the result of
the overwork and worry of the struggle
for existence a* f he present dav.
Gen. Gabib Audi's health has beemen
tirely restored by his residence odX x
Genoese coast. He frequently visits the
villages along the shore in a canoe or
small boat. His friends believe that he
will live ten years longer, at least.