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CAUSED BY A MONKEY.
A Amrricmn Animal I rftip- a *enw
nun in (hr lluawmbe© Family.
They had terrible time up at Bnz m
bn>'< the other day. It seems tliat
ahum tw > weeks a (SO 15.'s brother. Cup
tain lsmnnl**, of the bark Three Kings,
had brought las niece, little Emily Buz*
endice. a Jittli* bearded n.oijkey from
South America. Tin- monkey was no
imitative as a country Congressman, and
the way he pretended to shave himself
wit ti a paper knife, thumped on the
piuuo, and uni'at*d old Bazeuiis-c failing
against the <loor with a latchkey in hand
at three A. 11., woo tu u= good as a cii
o*H.
Last Tueadny Mrs. B. was sitting at
the window, when a man drove up with
a load ol coal, which lie dumped on the
sidewalk, ami then rang the liell to col
lect the bill. While the lady of the
house w is endeavoring to explain to the
man that no coal had been ordered, a
physic an jumped out of his buggy, with
a lot of instruments in his hand, and
wanted to know whether the patient was
in great danger or not.
Mrs. Bazembee turned away from
coal driver to explain to the doctor that
he hud better apply next door, when a
grocery boy jumped off a street car and
impnred wlmt was wanted in the sugar
stid coffee line. Before Mrs. 15. could
answer this last comer a conpleof scared
looking jxilicemen came up the steps and
desired to know whether the burglar hail
gotten sway with much. Mrs. 15. was
tools wihlercd by this time to notice that
a two-footed district messenger A|oy was
pulling her apron, while n hsekman
asko ! to lie shown the passenger's trunk
and warned the lady to hurry up if she
didn’t want to miss the train.
.Inst ns the dumfounded housekeeper
was si niggling to collect her senses a
ooupl • of steam fire engines came whoop
ing around the corner, and in another
gerund had tuinmbered and wore throw
ing a four-intth stream into the third
story window.
“ I see it all,” gaßped the poor woman;
" the mental strain of getting the chil
dren off to the country and trimming
4ffriu7 new plum-colored dress and
serfq. bonnet has set me crazy. Now
I’ll have to be sent to tin- Napa Asylum; j
I'm raving maniac, and 111 go and
lock myself up before I murder the
baby.”
And ijlien Mr. Bazenibee arrived in
hot haste, a few minutes later, l.e found
his wife holding guard over herself in
the bathroom, while on the back of a
chair in the silting room lie- monkey was
perched in front of the district telegraph
Jnsinimclit still solemnly ringing for
everything on (lie dial for the eighth
time round. The !saz mboe menagerie
is iltnii.od in the woodshed now. —San
/ivoii.o,ro I'ohl.
FURNISHING A FLAT.
ltun n Drlili' .>liiiinnrit lutlo If llamlnoMii'lr
lor *.>oo.
11', Mill UlO New York Journal.]
My tinuce gave mo SIOO and told nn*
to -iiii; m \ self, and I added SIOO of my
own. Wo took a flat. It. eontniim a
parlor, kitchen, dining-room, three hod
rooms and a bath-room, with u private
hull.
I llrot bought tho carpets, for the
junior, and the bed-room off it, which
we turned into a library and music room
combined, 1 purchased a good Brussels
carpet of an obve green, chocolate nnd
dark erimKtfflflniull running pattern for
nimdv-fivKts jier yard, thirty yards
being usein The other two bed-rooms I
with pretty ingrain, one of
Mk and gray, the other of criiAson and
Tue thirty yards for both these
rwim came to $22.50. The dining-room
nn7l kitchen lloors I both had stained for
SO, and a jiretty rug for the former cost
me $lO. The bathroom oil cloth amount
ed to $1.50 as tlie space is very little,
and four mats of Brussels cost me $3.
Six ecru linen shades with patent rollers
cost me $5, thus my carpets and shades
cane to $70.50 first furnished the parlor
and library. I disbke “sets" of furni
ture rn I bought two pretty sofas, one
more of a Turkish lounge, the other a
tele-a-tele. .The first cost meslß. the
second $7. They were covered with a
sort of rawsilk in Persian design to cor
respond with tho carpet. One I placed
jn the library. Six light chairs cost me
sl2, and two lovely easy chairs just $0
h pi. ec. Two hassocks came to sl, a
mantel mirror with a very narrow frame
sf>, three pairs of curtains made of crim
en 1 and old gold canton flannel sf>, 11
'(rr: fu! leading lamp $0 and three little
brackets sl, making a total tor the two
la . ans of $55.
The two I all rooms look very cosy and
tio- . fnl. 1 jnirchosed two excellent
lie! 7 end Eastluko bedsteads, with
spring mattresses, one hair mattress
ea> h and pillows. One cost me slls,
the other S2B. Two jiretty dressing
tables to I'orivsjxuwl cost me SB, two
rockers $l5O cmli, and a half-dozen
chairs of the snr wood $3. A little
escritoire for ray private belongings 1
Insight for $5. My bedroom furniture,
therefore, cost, me exactly SBS.
The kitchen, r. cheerful little room,
with a good rung', 1 furnished first with
rocker, cost $1; an ice-box for $10; a
pine table for $1 50, a lamp for $2; two
scuttles, $2; four pine chairs for $2.50,
and tlie jiots, pans, kettles, spice, sugar
and coffee boxes, with the numberless
eMail articles necessary, cost me $5. I
Irvr a large supply, most of which I
bought at a five cent store. My kitchen
furniture entirely cost $24.
In the jiretty little dining-room I put
a mahogany bouffe which costume sls, a
good extension table, costing also sls;
six good chairs for SB, a lace curtain of
four yards, at thirty-five cents a yard,
and a*tall screen costing $1.50. Total,
$40.50.
An exquisite little china tea set, in
Crimson and gold, cost me only $0.50,
and i complete dinner-set of blue and
whits ware $14.50. A little jdateu silver
peiv ec east sl2, and a half-dozen solid
silver teaspoons, S2O; and half-dozen
5 dated knives and forks, $lO. Portable
inen I have four nice tablecloths, each
costing $1.50 each, and a extra fine one
sß;'while a half-dozen napkins cost me
$1.50, making a total of $10.50. A half
dozen sheets cost me $4. a dozen good
towels $4. a pair of blankets sls, and
three excellent comforter' BV.8 V . On add
ing up you will 11 i h ■> ii just : mounts
to $308.50. The $101.50 which I have
1 ft I intend to keep until after my wed
ding. then I will wluit presents I re
ceive. I will spend to.- money on pret
ty articles, such us j ; arcs, clocks, vases,
etc., etc.
A Pr.nsoXAii Matter. —The sale of
prince Napoleon toau at Prangim.
Prance, is alleged tc be due to the r
borhood having beeonv the head centre
of socialism. It is explained that it is
not pleasant for tlie Pr ■ when taking
a rural walk to find hintlf faco to face
with a man or woman who openly de
clares that “ the time lias come fortlis
slaughter of all priuces and bourgeois,
for when the hogs arc fattened then is
the time to kill them.”
AFTER THE tiUNBOATS.
The FlTorra .Wade to Pesaroy roofs'* Fleet
fa the .tf isefjHl|jpj Hirer.
While Commodore Foote's fleet of gun
boats lay at Island No. 10, says M.
Quad, the Confederates tried hard to de
stroy it. Three negroes were dispatched
up the river to be captured as contra
bands. Each one was gobbled up as
planned, and after a detention of a few
days two of the trio made their escape
with full reports as to the number of
mortars, gun-boats and transports. The
anchorage of each vessel wi s located, and
such other information furnished as made
,t upp. er probable that at least part of
the fleet could lie sent to the bottom or
disabled.
The first idea was to get rid of the
mortar boats. A picked body of men,
numbering not over a dozen, were se
lected for this work, and they took their
way up the river in twos and threes to
carry out their plans as circumstances
suggested or peunitted.
One night near the middle of March,
during a rain which fell steadily and
with great vigor for hours, two Confed
erates swam off to two different mortar
boats with intention to spike the pieces.
One got aboard to find the way entirely
clear, and lie drove a rat-tail file into the
piece and disabled it for several days.
The other, while making his way across
the deck, fell over some obstruction, and
the tile, which he was carrying in his
hand, entered his side and inflicted a
wound from which he died a few hours
after.
Had it been later in the war, when
torjiedoes had been invented and made
use of under like circumstances, Foote
would have lost some of his vessels. As
it was, one reckless Confederate proposed
to sacrifice his life in destroying one of
the gun-boats. One dark night he
pulled out to her in a canoe, having a
fifty pound keg of powder to strap to
her rudderpost. The keg was provided
with hooks and straps, anil the man was
furnished with a piece of fuse to explode
it. He succeeded in reaching the gun
boat, but found difficulty in attaching
the keg. While the night was dark ir j
was also still, and the sentinels were on I
the alert,.
When the Confederate discovered that
he could not attach the keg, as planned,
lie brought, the canoe square across the
stern of the gun-boat and proposed to
explode the keg from the canoe. The
match which he struck to light the fuse,
and with which he did light it, revealed
his presence ton sentinel peering over
tin- stern, and the alarm was given and
tire opened upon him. The Confederate
went overboard, wounded in the shoulder,
Imt. succeeded in reaching the shore,
while the canoe was upset anil the pow
der-keg drifted away. Strangely enough
the fuse was not extinguished, and after
drifting down about 800 feet the keg ex
ploded. I’icees of the keg were thrown
on board of vessels 000 feet away, and
the decks of vessels nearer by wet with
wah t.
Columbus's Love Story,
According to the ideas of this time
Columbus was a religious man. He dili
gently frequented a conventual church of
the city, but. though his fust attendance
there may have been prompted by disin
terested devotion, there were other rea
sons l’or the increased assiduity with which
he continued them. There was, connect
ed with the convent, ft girls’" school for
the daughters of well-to-do citizens, nnd
the pupils were in the habit of regularly
hearing mass in the church. One ol
them—would that wo could recall her
features, long moldored into dust—at
truete*l and love of the
weary mariner. There must have been
u considerable disproportion in their
ages, for he was no longer young, but ho
was convinced ho had met his fate, and
tlie inquiries he made confirmed ins ar
dor. She was the daughter of n distin
guished sailor, Bartolomeo Palcstrello,
who hud been Governor of Porto Stante.
Her father had died without leaving be
hind him any fortune ; but her mother
still survived, and must have possessed
means of her ow;:.
Columbus was accepted as a suitor
and, what to young men in tlnse times
must seem a very extraordinary course of
procedure, after his marriage lie and his
wife took uj> their abode with his mother
in-law. We would give a good deal to
know more of that love story ; how it was,
for instance, that the castaway adventur
er, reduced to earn his living by drawing
charts, managed so to ingratiate himself
with tlu' mother, whose husband’s posi
tion might, have enabled her to look
higher for her daughter. Ho must surely
have been not only a devoted lover but a
man of a good deal of tact, with great
power of adapting himself to circum
stances. At any rate, the union proved
a happy one. We fancy that the suitor
must have won the mother's heart liy
tin 1 interest he showed in her deceased
husband s achievements; for after the
marriage much of the household con
versation turned on this subject, and
Columbus heard what tired his soul with
emulation. Palcstrello had been a man
of much enterprise, and he had left be
hind him papers and maps, which proved
to he of more service to his son-in-law
than any wealthy inheritance.
Mr. Callahan Prospers.
The El Paso Texas Tones toils this
story;—“ How is ,Toe Callahan getting
along ?”
“ Tij> top," replied tno Marshal man;
“Joe’s got big rich off them niggers
around there. He's got the thing reduced
ro a science. He goes for ’em for nil
they’re worth, I tell you, and he generally
gets all that's in sight, too. Last week
Jerry Johnson, that nigger who lives on
the old Smith farm, brought in six bales
of cotton, which Joe had a dead grip on
in the shajie of a crop mortgage. After
figuring uj> tlie nigger's store account
and tl i' jirice of the cotton, Joe says to
.1 ary:
“‘Them six bales makes us just
exactly even, and I've allowed you top
prices on them.'
“He did not tell the nigger that he
had allowed him four-storv prices on the
bacon and flour lie had advanced him
in order to make it ‘.just exactly even,'
although he could have done so without
the slightest damage to the great cause
of truth.
“'Well.’ says .Terry, ‘ I reckon hit’s
mighty lucky dat 1 lef one bale at home.
Hit might have not come out "joss
zaeklyeven’’ ef I’d fetched ilat odder
bale in.’”
"‘Hold on,’ says Callahan, 'l'll be
most i mjdmtieallv busted if T didn't
make a mistake in them tiggers—a mis
take of just fortee-sevin dollars, by
Jupiter!" Bring m that other bate to
morrow and I'll give you a clear receipt—
-1 will, by Jingo !’ ”
Okan'ok Feel. —Six hundred sacks of
orange peel, valued at sl,llOO, were lately
shipped from San Eranciseo to Havre—
the first shipment of the kind. Orange
1 ) 1 is, in fact, largely imported into
New York.
AWAY DOWN south.
C P TUB MI*I**IPPI FROM ME.HPIII*.
\ eanihont lfnif wlio didn't rv#*n Sv**nr,
uiil How Well llin Work who Done.
“The Dean Adams will leave for up
river ports at 5 o'clock p. m.”
She is lying at the levee at Mem
phis, anil I go aboard an hour ahead of
time to see her finish her loading.
Since early day she has bqen receiving
mil stowing away freight of every de
scription, and yet on the hank abreast
of her is pile after pile which must go
aboard. A Mississippi River steamer is
a great cavern into which a hundred
shippers may oast their hales and boxes
and leave reom for a hundred more.
The Adams is taking on machinery,
tools, feed, dry goods, groceries, fnmi
ture, hardware, crockery, clothing,
notions, mules, horses, wagons, oil,
meat, flour and what not Up to lliis
hour the fourte -u colored deck band;
have worked steadily, hut after their
own fashion. Now look out ! The
mate suddenly appears on the scene.
I expecti and to see two or three
“niggers” knocked sti.fcv’n bar iron
lx-jure that mate was leady for solid
business, and my surprise and disgust
can be imagined when 1 heard him call
out i’t a cheery voice :
“Now hubs, pick up lively anil away
we go! ”
I hunted up the clerk and says,
says I:
“Haven’t you got a mate on this
boat?”
“We have." ,
“Where is he ? ”
“Stands there at the gang plank.”
“And he’s a mate who doesn't rip,
cuss, plunge around and feed on roast
niggar, is he? ”
“He’s a mate who can strike like a
Sullivan and swear like a trooper, hut
lie practices neither. He’s a gentle
man. He can get more work out of a
crew than any other mate on the l>ig
liver. Sit down and watch him.
How cool and easy he was! Four
teen darkies, each 011 c on a (log trot,
were bringing aboard hales, boxes anil
bundles of every description, and as
each man came over the gang-plank, a
word or a nod directed him where liis
carry was to he stowed.
“Those chnirs on the hurricane deck
—that bacon over here—flour down
there—mule on the other side—plows
■ m the bow—cart right over here, and
let’s ho lively, lads, for time's flying ! ”
Not an oath—not a cuff nor a kick nor
a threat. I wondered if that muddy
stream really was the old Mississippi,
ami if that man really could he mate.
Alas I it was too true ! Times change—
men change—but I supposed that 1
steamboat mato on a Western river had
.sumo life in him.
Work as hard as they can the crew
can hardly diminish the size of the
freight-piles. Carts come rattling down
•>ver tlie cobble-stones with boxes of
soap and canid -sand bags of groceries
wagons rush down with tables, chairs and
bedsteads hacks bring passengers—
porters bring trunks—men drive down
cattle and horses and mules.
The clerk catches everything on the
point of his pencil before it goes up the
gang-plank—the mate lnuuinuvcrs his
forces with the skill of an old soldier.
The boat must take everything, gang
ways must lie kept clear, goods for the
■ assorted, and not a foot
lost. Great side pieces
eon chink in here and
re wedged in among
me surrounded with
ns and oxen uro backed
if machinery, and there,
te or a Misfit.
Tho bell clangs loudly as a signal that
time is almost up, ml now the maty
spefcks quicker, the men move faster,
and tli‘*rc is a growling of steam from
the engine-room. Carts are still coming,
scores of negroes are streaming aboard,
and yet the groat cavern can take more
Ireigiit. Tho docile, patient cow has
scarcely set eyes on her first steamboat
la fore three or four hands whisk her
along so fast that she n aboard before
she ran wink Tho mule is mak
ing up his mind to die in tho last ditch,
when hands are laid upon his halter and
his ears, a third roustabout gives his tail
a persuading twist, nnd old obstinacy is
made fast to the rail on the port side
and left to wonder at man’s dominion
over brute creation.
The second bell clangs out. In ten
minutes we are oft. I want to bet a plug
hat against a pint of peanuts that, we
can’t get away in thirty. There is an
enormous jiile of freight ofi the levee,
and I can’t see where they can stow an
other box aboard.
"Come, lads, up with you, hearties I”
calls the mate, and now comes the
llimax. Tt is jump—-dodge—twist—skip
—fly. Not a hoop is broken nor a box
tmrsti'd. Just now, where the mule had
space to hung hack, as if about to sit
flown, rests half a ton of sacks. The
space in tlie gangway is narrowed a little
more, the men driven a little eh s >r, and
U>! I turn to look upon the levee ami
the great pile of freight has vanished !
I have seen fifty tons of freight brought
aboard without an oath or a collision or
a cent’s worth of damage ; and now
comes the last warning. Lines are east
off at a nod, the gang-j'lank rises and is
swung in board, and the Dean Adiuns
steams away up the mighty river, which
is now booming with a great flood.
“All hands!” sings the mate, and flic
fourteen blacks gather around liirn on
the bow.
“Divide nn ?”
Seven step to the right and seven to
the left.
“That’s all, my lads—all here and all
right!”
And as the twilight gathers around
ns and tlie lights of the city twiukla
afar off, the larboard watch raise tbs
song :
“I went courtin' 'toiler night,
Holly ! golly ! pollv !
1 went courtin' 'toiler night—
Went to see my Polly !"
And tlie starboard watch takes up the
chorus:
O-o-o-oli! how I luh Tat valler gal,
An’ how she ltibs her Moses !
An' how I'ze gwioe to say to her,
She’s sweeter Tail de roses.
M. Quad.
At the Brave.
The London Teh graph. in speaking
of the daiigjr of uncovering the head at
t to grow on the occasion of a funeral,
sit vs; Jinny of the distinguished and
more elderly mounters at the interment
of the Duke ef York died from bronchitis
within a few weeks ef the royal obse
quies; the Marquis of Londonderry's fun
eral in Westminster Abbey in 1822 was
equally disastrous to the aged or deli
cate among those who gat bored round
his tomb; and the funeral in Pore Laeh
aise of the (jelebratod French juriscon
sult, M. Robert de Bt. Yiueent is said to
have decimated the senior ranks of the
Paris liar, one of the victims being Bril
lat Savaiin, the author of the “Phvsi
logie du Gout,"
THE HOUSE ('LEANT>7!.
A ferx Common Trial of "Mpr-hitr lull! br lln
t’nlonminK- Ilnobßml.
At 11 o’clock started for borne, where
I arrived in good time. Ali was quiet n
a church, a light s-kining dim in tlic h ill;
with my night-key effected an entrance;
hat-rack gone, ito accustomed place va
cant; placed my hat upon the floor,
turned out the gas and started for the
stairs; knew the road well, I supposed I
did; my feet struck something
floor; I pitched-wy fnil length, striking
my head against the newel post; getting
again upon my feet, felt my way care
fully up-stairs to my bcilroo 5 ; all quiet,
not a sound to-be heard; by the dim
light of the mtqii discovered the bed; on
inspection, the pedstead was there but
no bed; furniture all turned from the
former location. I was at a loss to know
what to do. From an adjoining -room
a voice came, in a shrill tone, “ Who is
i:i that room ? If you, my dear, com
in here.” I followed the voice, and
there found a field lied, wife anl children
in full occupancy, In self-defense I dis
robed and turned in with them. I said:
“Wife, what iilheaven’s name have you
I een about toTthe house to-day.” At
that moment jjiaced my hand upon my
head, found novel; on lighting the gas
found that my head had been cut in tie
fall in the plaster fixed up
the wound. Wer sympathy was v,
great. “ WA.J said again, “v. hit
did I fall “Oh,” she replied.
“ the parlor carpet”
“ I am iuanfefc the parlor painted, (he
floor the walls and ceilings
papered the rooms of the house
jt is just want, I know it is.
You will bifjjb'SAcil with the improve
ment, I ainwh v ’Jpg it so very cheap. I
got the the parlor for §4.50
per piece, an Andy §1.25 for the hang
ing. The paprtr-hanger has measured
the room, it will only come to
§270.83; off the eighty-three
cents, so you Vi see my dear, the en
tire papering m the parlor will not be
much ; the remainder of the lion.se wilf
be §140.” 1
“ Well, whuff other cheap investment
have you madfcv”
“ I have started the painters to paint
the outside of the house, and have se
lected such a beautiful color, and tin
price only $230. lam making money
for you, that I think you can afford to
present me with a set of solitaires for my
cals.” Think of what I am going
through, and why? task myself. An
swer, simply by falling in love with a
pretty girl arumsftking her my wife.
House cleaning, indeed, is that which,
men know nothing about, and when it is
done again in our house I will endeavor
to make mye-elf scarce.
Trent in ejj t*o f the Old Folks.
Not long sinwVe were at a club house
where duck shooters were sitting around
the stove during the evening, smoking
and talking, and the subject of the treat
ment of sons toward parents come up.
Speaking of some person who had been
unkind to his father and mother, a young
man who was pitesont, who lias one of
the grandest fathers that a young man
ever hail, smoked a moment ill silence,
his eyes flushing fire and then said, “I’ll
tell you, boys, there might to lx- hanging
in this country. A yoing man who ill
treats his parents, by word or deed,
ought to he lump; till ho is dead.” Our
young friend may have expressed him
self strong, but his ivinm k will find an
echo in many nn Imnest heart. The man
!i
fiii
to feel tliat They Ale
distinguished guests, and every care that
it is possible to lift from them by a son
should be lilted willingly, and with a
teiliug that lie is doing it as ho would
play when he was a child. It should be
.1 pleasure. When the fathers and
in' ihers bee. me so old that they cannot
hike ns active a part iu the affairs of life
as tin y one.’ eon Id, they should feel that
their children*ar# not anxious for them
to die, but anxious to have them live
long without pain or cave, mol he happy
all the time. The spectacle of an old
man or woman, even with no relative on
earth, in n poor house, is sad enough,
Imt to see nn old father and mother in
Israel, who have worked hard during a
long life, in a poor house, when sons
ami daughters are liviug in luxury, is
enough to make one think of a vigilance
committee. —Pecjc * Sun.
The New Steam Schooners.
The owners of one of the new line of
steam schooners, tlie Jennie, lias been
figuring up the result of a round trip.
The length of tho Jennie over all is 215
foot, her beam 38 feet, and her gross ton
nage 1,005. She has two decks and a
jiooj). The jieonlinritv of her rig is that
she has four blasts. Each of the lower
masts is 90 feet long, and the topmasts
are 51 feet. Slio curries a squaresail
yard forward, that is lowered to the duck
when the sail is to be taken in.
The Jennie is Imilt to run with steam
as an auxiliary power. She has two lioil
ers, and a compound engine with a
stroke of 30 inches and cylinders of 20
and 34 inches diameter. Thq propeller
wheel is two-bladed. It is made of brass.
11 is ten feet in diameter. Seven tons of
coni r. day am consumed when the engine
is going. Tlie speed developed by this
power is eight miles an hour, with tho
curgo on.
The Joanie has accommodation for ten
passengers. su.Vn lade one rouuil trip in
the West and an estimate of
the value of auxiliary power euu be made.
She took coal from Baltimore to Havana,
and brought sugar to New York from
Sagua. At Havana the consignees had
to unload the coni at the rate of 200 tons
a day, while they would have taken at
the rate of only forty tons a day from a
sailing vessel. At Sagua the cargo of
sugar was loaded in three days. Three
sailing vessels under charter there did
not expect to get away for several weeks.
Tug Tails io the amount of Siso were
saved for the round trip. The time made
iu the passages is regular, and will aver
age only seven dhys out and six back
if the trip is made direct from New York.
Thus the schooner will make about
twelve round trip* a year, or double the
number made Ipv sailing vessels. Making
regular trips she arm passengers.
Gold.—A cubit inch of gold is worth
S—10; a cubic Mot, $382,5)60; a cubic
yard, 39,797,762. This is valuing it at
r?IS an onuce. Ai the commencement of
■ h ■ Christian era there was in the world
■M27,000.000 in gold. This hud
diminished to 5i7.080.00d at the time
America was iHsdfcvored, when it began
to increase. Now the amount of gold iu
use is eslimahd to be §6.009,000,000.
He Flew.—A Hudson (Wis.) lady
oeing awaken 'd a few nights ago by a
noise in the house, arose, stamped the
floor and said sca-a-a-t! whereupon
a big tramp scatted out of the pantry,
through au open door, and lied away in
the darkness. The lady was too much
frightened to ptur-sue.
THE LITTLE WHITE HEARSE.
As the little wlnte hearse went glimmeringl*v—
The man on the coal cart jerked ilia lints
And smutted the lid of either eye,
And turned and stared at the business signs
And the street car driver stopped and beat
His hamls on his and gazed up street
Till his eye on the long track reached the iky—
As the little ah te hearse went glimmering hv.
As the little white hoarse wept glimmering by -
A stranger petted a ragged child
In the crowded walk, and she knew not whv
But he gave her a coin for the way she smiled
And a bootblack thrilled with a pleasure strange
As a customer put back his change
With a kindly hand and a grateful sigh—
As the little white hearse went glimmering by.
As the little white hearse went glimmering by—
A man looked out of a window dim,
And his cheeks were wet and ids heart was drv—
For a dead child even were dear to him.
And he thought of his empty life and said;
“Loveless alive and loveless dead—
flor wife nor child in earth or sky 1”
As the little white heaise went glimmerim; by
J.W. Kuxi.
WRECKED 15 Y A SEA MONSTER.
Tlie Stranae E.xjtc-rirm-c of the Bark IHL-n
iu 01 iii-l liciui.
Captain Corneliessen, l.ite master of
the Norwegian hark Inga, in company
with iili wife mid twelve nn if, arrived 111
New York on the steamship Leerdam,
of the Nederland-American line, which
hud rescued the party from their sinking
vessel.
The Inga left Greenock on the lfith
>f April for Quebec. Before daylight
on the morning of April 30, when in
mid-ocean, all on hoard were suddenly
.startled by a violent shock, followed al
most immediately by the crash of break
ing timbers. Those on deck saw a huge
mass loom up over the hows. The cap
tain was on deck almost immediately
after the shock, and ordered the vessel
to be laid to tliat he might ascertain the
amount of damage done. He found it
to lie most serious. The cutwater had
I ((‘i'll carried away and a had hole had
been stove in the bark’s prow. A can
vas was stretched across the hole, but
the pumps indicated that the vessel was
making water through her seams. When
lay light appeared the captain found the
water stained with blood for a mile from
the scene of the collision. This fact dis
solved any doubts which might have
troubled him as to the character of the
object bis vessel had run against. Tt
was neilhir ice nor .floating wreck, lait
some kmil of marine monster. What
•ver it was the object hail disappeared,
leaving no trace behind hut the blood
upon the water. For a week the officers
tried to keep the bark afloat, imt bad to
abandon her in a pool of mire, IH-iijc
taken offbv the Eeerdmn.
Children in Russia.
A great many people have an idea that
Russia is the abode if barbarians, and
that laws anl modes of life that obtain iu
“civilized countries” have no foothold
there. No doubt some of the great, manu
facturers of New England who employ
it tie children to work for a mere pittance
fourteen hours n day 111 their faetorii.;
hare in this view of Russia, and yet a
law has just gone into operation in that
benighted country that might put to the
blush the owners and malingers of great
workshops not ouly in New England but
1 Iris entire coup try. This law regulates
the employment of minors in factories by
providing that children under twelve
must not lie hired under any pretence,
uni that children between the ages if
twelve ami fifteen must net work more
l*uleiglit hofirs i4>duv ; iandVit further*
provide- ’* esc children must attend
-e'loo] at least three lioiirsadav. There
•re thousands of little, children even in
X. Y. city who would gladly ijiehnuge
1 daces with the little children in Russia.
We are lvguitd every ilay with stories of
tho iiorrers if Rps4b’i existence, most of
ib in written to order to suit the English
market; but a government that has such
1 watchful eye for the welfare of the
Irildren of the working classes cannot
b the worst in the v. oTld.
Tlie Monstrous Prison of Europe.
The largest prison in Europe is the
House of Detention, which has just been
completed at Berlin. This enormous
edifice comprises six Sejiarate buildings,
ings. to which have been transferred
all the prisoners awaiting trial who
have hitherto been confined in
the various prisons of Berlin. The
The prison for men consists of a ground
floor and four other stories, with 782
separate cells, dormitories for 195 pris
oners, besides 10 rooms for turnkeys and
sleeping accomodation for 118 attend
ants Each of the 732 cells has a window
toil feet high. There are six cells in the
basement for prisoners who are refrac
tory .to discipline, and in the basement
lire also to he found ‘lie kitchens, the
bath rooms, and tho heating apparatus
of the prison. The internal part of the
prison is constructed of iron, and is so
built that all the corridors look out
upon a central hall, which commands u
view of every cell. The prison for men,
which is separated from the rest of the
building by a wall sixteen feet high,
also contains a chajiel and four large ex
ercise grounds. The prison for women
contains only 110 cells and 15 large
dormitories, ’the latter of which is di
vided into sections, each containing a
bed, which can be locked up every night
after its occupants have retired to rest.
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A Seizure.
A nickel-washing “plant” has been
seized in Nashville. A half bushel or
more of the newly issued “V” nickels
were lying iu a bureau drawer placed
upon the top of a deal table. A large
pot of gold and copper alloy rested upon
a furnace and the charcoal fire having
gone out the metal was congealed in the
vessel, while from wall to wall a network
of wires was suspended to which a large
number of nickels that had taken their
alloy baths were attached by wires with
click-jaws on the end of them. The half
bushel or more of nickels that were
waiting to he bathed as well as those that
had undergone that , process, with the
moulds, tools and other implements of
the business were seized by the detectives
and taken to St. Louis with them, where
th",v will be used upon the approaching
trial of the counterfeiters.
One of the clerks in the general office
of a railroad was lilessc and by the gift of a
little responsibility. Tho* boys in tin
office were in ignorance of the blissful
fact. Tho newly-made parent entered
the office, his appearance denoted some
thing unusual, but nothing was inti
mated by ttie young man. As he walked
to his desk, however, lie came upon a
dog, the pet of the establishment, and
heretofore au especial favorite with him.
Giving the dog a kick, ho explained the
whole situation in the one remark, “Gel
ut of papa’s way, confound you, sir.”
It is all right for a man to ride hia
i hobby so long as he does not ride it
over other people.
THE BAD SHILLING.
AX IRISH .SKETCH.
My brother left Oxfordshire and set
tled in a milder climate. During his
long sojourn there a vague report
reached him that bad money hail been
passed on Moore, one of his tenants, and
lie bad made tlie district ring.
When after seven years my brother
returned to his native woods, he looked
in on Scott’s Farm, and there was Moore,
the only familiar face about, which did
not seem a day older. After other
friendly inquiries my brother said:
“ But how about the bad money that
was passed on you ? Tell me all about
it”
“ Tliat I wool,” said Moore, delighted
to find a good listener to a grievance
which to him was ever new, though the
circumstance was five years old. “ 1
was at dung-cart most of that day, and
then I washed, and tried to get a minute
to milk the cow; but bless vonr heart,
they never will let me milk her afore
sunset. It’s Mo re here, and Moore
there, from half a dozen of ’em; and Mr.
Moore here, and Mr. Moore there, from
the one or two as have learned manners,
which very few cf 'em have in these
parts; and between ’em they alias con
trive to keep me from my own cow till
dusk. Well, sir, I had got leave to miik
her, hurry-scurry as usual, and night
comiDg on, when a man I had sold a fat
hog to came into the yard to pay.
‘ Wait a minute,’ says I. Bnt no, he
was like the rest, couldn’t let me milk
her in peace; wanted to settle and drive
the bacon home. So I took my head
out o’ the cow, and I went to him with
out so much as letting my smock down,
and he gave me the money, £0 17s. I
took the gold in one hand so, and the
silver in t’other hand so, and I went
across the yard to the house, and I asked
the missus to get a light, and then I told
the money before her. six sovereigns and
seventeen shillings, and left her to scratch
him a receipt, while I went back to my
cow, and I thought to milk her in peace
at last. Bnt before I had drained her as
should be, out comes my missus, and
screams fit to wake the dead: ‘ George!
George!’ ‘I be eoming,’ says I; so I
up with the milk pail and goes to her.
1 Whose cat’s dead now ?’ says I, * for
mercy’s sake. ’
“‘Come in, come ill.’ says she.
' George, whoever is that man ? He have
paid ns a bad shilling; look at that.’
Well, we tried that there shilling on the
table first, and then on the hearth: ’twas
I ad; couldn’t be wus. ‘ Run after him,’
say's she; ‘run this moment.’ ‘Lard,’
iays I, ' they be half-way fo Walling
ford by this time. Here, give me a scrap
if paper. I'll carry it about in my fob;
he goes to all the markets; lie will cluing;
it, you may be sure.’
“Well, the very next Friday as ever
was I met lihn at Wallingford market,
pulls out the paper, shows him the shil
ling, tells him it wnru’t good. He looks
at it and agreed with me. ‘ Then change
it, if you please,’ says I. ‘ What for?’
.-ays he. ‘ I don't want no bad shillings
- r
no more nor you do. ‘But,’ says I, ,
‘ price of hog was six seventeen, and you
only jiaid six sixtee" in money.’ ‘Yes,
l did.' says he. ‘ T gave you six seven- i
teen.’ ‘ No, ve didn’t.’ ‘ Yes, I did.’
' No, ye didn’t; you gave me six sixteen,
and this. Now,'my umn,’ says I, ‘act j
honest and pay me t'other abiding.’ No
he wouldn’t. Tin-re was a crowd by this
time, so I said, ‘Look here, gentlemen,
1 sold this man a hog, and he gave mo
this in part pay. which it ain't a real
shilling, nnd nunc was a genuine hog;’
so they all said it wurn’t a shilling at all.
When the man heard that he was for 1
slipping yah, >rnt I Aepp.'il nftrr him.
with ball the market fit my heels. ’ Will ‘
yon pay me mv shilling?’ ‘ I don’t owe i
you no shilling,’ says he. ‘ You do,’
says I; ‘and jiay mo ray shilling you
shall.’ ‘I won’t.’ ‘ You shall; I’ll pison
your life else.’
“Next time of asking, as the savingis,
was Reading market. Catches him
cheapening a calf. Takes out shilling.
‘Now,’ says I, ‘here’s your bad shilling
as you gave me for my hog—which it is
a warning to honest folk with calves to
sell, ’ says T. ‘Be yon going to change it ?’
‘No, I bain’t.’ ‘You liain't ?’ says I.
•You shall, then,’ sftys I. ‘Time will
show,’ says he. and bid me good-day,
ironical. I let him get a little way, anil
then I stepped after him. ‘Hv, stoji
j that gentleman.’ I halloed. ‘Ho have
I given me a bad shilling.’ You might
i hear me all over the market. Then he
threatened defamation or aummat: I
' didn't keer ; I bawled him out o’ Read
ing market that afternoon.
‘‘Met him at Henley next; commenced
operations—took out the shilling. He
crossed over directly, I after Till, and
> held nut the shilling. ‘ 'Tain’t no use,’
says I. ‘You shan't do no business in
this here county till you have changed
this here shilling. Come, my man, tis
only a shilling; what is all this here to
do about a shilling?’ says I; ‘act honest
and give me my shilling, and take this
line /.cep.octlc back.’ ‘I won't, says he.
j ‘You won’t,’ says I; ‘then I’ll hunt you
i out of every market in England. I’il
hunt ye into the wilderness and the ho
cean wave.’
“He got Very sick of me in a year or
two’s marketing, I can tell you; for I
never missed a market now,-.because of
the shilling. He had to give up trade
and go home whenever he.jiaw my shil
ling and me a-coming.” ' "
“And so vou tired him out
“That I did.”
“And got your shilling ?”
“That I did nqt. He found a way to j
cnent me after all” (with a sudden yell of
reprobation). “He went and died—and
here’s the shilling !”— Harper's Maga
zine.
A Cyclone Incident.
A vivid impression of the sudden fury
of the southern cyelone is conveyed by
this brief statement of Mr. B. F. Jones,
of Beauregard, Miss., who, the moment
he saw tlie danger coming, called his
wife and little boy into the yard and
made them lie fiat on the ground and
grasp some small shrubs which stood
within reach: “I put one arm about my
wife,” says Mr. Jones, “while with the
other I clasped a small tree, and made
my son lie close up to me, and then I
said to them, ‘Hold on, hold on. for
God’s sake ! It is for life ! ’ and then
the wind came. There was a whirl and
a roar. I was shaken, and heard the
crash of my falling house. An instant
;nd it was over. I still held my wife in
ray arms, but she was insensible, and
ray boy was still nestling close up to me,
•but bruised and bleeding.” AH three
escaped without serious injury; thanks
to Air. Jones’s presence of mind and the
prompt obedience of his wife and child.
License. -The forty saloon keepers of
Danville,EL, fought against the increase
of the annual license of S6OO. The tem
perance folks at once set to work to have
the price raised to SI,OOO, and that put
the liquor men to reflecting; the opposi
tion was soon abandoned, the S6OO li
cense accepted, and peace restored.
LIFE IN THE FAR WEST
A MPECIIIKX OF NEVADA JUSTICE.
4 Frontier I.ynrhinr. With Its Pecolias
Features Carefully Described.
Did yon ever see a lynching? A
genuine Joaquin Miller sensation,
-tripped of its unreal mountains, ini
possible trees and unimaginable rocks,
and done out in the bare browns and
reds of a sullen spring morning in the
barren, desolate gorges of the Rockies?
Just follow the crowd as it gathers at the
post-office, and, at last, in silence and
seriousness moves slowly over the hill to
the jail. Everybody knows there ia
death in the air.
The “ solid citizens ” stand at the doors
f their respective saloons and see the
mob ” go by, a mob in which are theii
-1 ms and brothers. A drunken justice
of the peace, old ’Squire O Mara, who
tried to kill himself last week, braces
blearilv up in a doorway, and calmly,
even smilingly regards tlie men who are
about to take the law into their own
band. They mount the hill and sur
round the palisades which fence in the
pen where three mardofers and many
thieves and “bums ” are confined.
One comer cf the jail is honored by a
double row of slabs along its sides, and
around this corner cluster most of the
men, according to their preconcerted
plan, while the ringleaders go around to
the wicket to interview Jailer Fish.
They know the answer they will get, for
Jim Fish is true as steel, and tolls them
they’ll ttet his prisoners after they’vu
gotten the best of him, and not before.
It’s calangerous game, but the vigilantes
play ro win at all hazards. Convinced
of the firmness of Fish’s purpose, they
leave him, gather once more around
“Murderer’s Corner,” and iu a moment
the crackling of tiny, creeping flames is
heard, heavy smoke stifles Ihe wretched
prisoners, and their cries and shouts form
a terrible accompaniment for the short,
sharp blows of deftly Wielded axes
cutting into Jim Murphy’s cell.
In ten minutes be is out, writhing ter
ror-stricken in the grasp of a half dozen
men, some of whom, possibly, asked him
only last week for a “job.” The jailer is
forced to busy himself in releasing pris
oners, and has no time to check the mob
even if lie could. But can this wretched,'
dwarfed, carrot-haired, sandy-bearded
and altogether villainous-looking ruffian
be the dapper, black-browed gambler
whose broadcloth was wont to be no
blacker and smoother than his own locks?
The transformation has indeed come,
and the king of Secret Gulch stands re
vealed as the tramp who hilled the
Frenchman on Cut-Throat Flat.
How curiously the boys stare at him as
they hurry him along to the old shaft on
the hill where once stood the windlass
mid hoist of the Mary mine, out ol
which Jim Murphy swindled the widow
of its discoverer. Tho splendid new
works yonder cannot help their miserable
owner now, for it is at the mouth of the
deserted shaft that* h" meets his fate.
The windlass chain still holds the bucket
over the sullen water forty feet below,
and a 200-poninl weight is easily and
quickly slipped into the bucket without
Murphy’s seeing in
“Have you got anything to say before
you die? ” says Big Bill, and for a mo
ment all is silent. The murderer’s coat,
hat and boots have been stripped from
him for the first time since lie went to
prison, three weeks ago. His small,
greenish eyes look eagerly about fora
chance to escape, but two six-shooters
stare him in the face. He vents a vol
ley of oaths and imprecations, but !>cgs
no mercy, make* no denial. “Jin’ Mur
! pfiyfnlias OfNitoftia Reddy,” sitys- Big
Bill, “the vigilantes of Secret Gulch con
demn you to instant death. Yon know
why, and it’s no use to take up time tell
ing you.” Half a dozen hands bind the
still struggling wretch to the bucket, in
which he is forcibly seated. Years ago he
went down this shaft at night, secretly,
when it belonged to John Rowan’s wid
ow. to see what it had at the bottom ;
! and the next day he bought its riches
1 from the widow for a song. Kow lie is
to go down it again, in broad daylight,
but never to come back.
The chain is wound up, and now, over
j the yawning shaft and its black bottom
1 of water, hangs the wrCtcli, between
; earth and heaven, an object to gods and
men. At a signal the handles of the
windlass are released from the hands
that hold them and, with its shrieking
human freight shoots downward to the
very bottom, striking the water with a
loud splash, but never staying its head
long course until the very bed-rock be
low is reached.
After ten minutes, the dripping, dis
torted, slimy body is hoisted to the sur
face and the remainder of the vigilantes’
sentence carried ouf. The remains of
the gambler king of Gulch, at
this writing, hang from the big tele
graph pole in the Placer mines. No
body is likely to cut it down soon, for on
its breast is pinned a notice, which reads
as follows:
To all the thugs, thieves, eut-fhroafs,
horse-thieves and disreputable loafers of
secret Gulch : You are hereby given six
horn's to leave the camp, and warned by
the example of Jim Murphy. We mean
business, and sbqUM6xecute the com
mands of ' 3-7-77. -.
Six hours have elapsed since tlie post
ing of this notice, winch now adorns the
church door and the saloon screen alike.
The trails down the gulches and south
ward to Idaho are already lined with
swift-fleeing men, some of whom have
diamonds and broadcloth but no hats.
A Wonderful Motor.
Coal, one of the leadftig journals of
practical science in England, makes
known a discovery that, if as represented,
will work as great a revolution in em
ployment of power as Keelv’s motor
would, were it to do all he promises.
The journal in question says : “Anew
motor has been discovered which, it is
claimed, will supersede steam. The
material from which the energy is gen
erated is bi-sulphide of carbon, which is
utilized as a motor agent in the form of
vapor, and the advantage claimed for it
over steam is that while water expands
in the ratio of one cubic inch to 1,700,
bi-sulphide of carbon has an expansion
property of one to 8,000. When the
vapor is generated it passes into the
steam chest of the engine and moves the
piston rods. <- A pipe attached to the en
gine conveys the exhaust vapor directly
through a condenser back to tlie tank in
its original liquified form to be generated.
The system of generation and condensa
tion is similar to the heat action, and,
with machinery properly constructed, it
is claimed that a single supply of bi-sul
phide of carbon can be used with reen
forceinents for an indefinite period. The
cost of fuel is trifling, it being claimed
that from the peculiar properties of the
bi-sulphide an ordinary house fire can
develop a power sufficient to run an.
ocean steamer. Water boils at 212 de
grees, and it takes 320 degrees of heat to
make steam available, while the new
agent takes the form of vapor at 108 de
grees.”