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The Bainbridge Weekly Democrat.
BEN. E. KUSSELL, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME 4.
“Here Shall the Press the People's Eights Maintain, Unawed by Influence .and Unbribed by Gain.”
TERMS: $2.00 Per Annum.
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1875.
NUMBER 42.
TIMELY topics.
roC ent Ticean flood ie swelling
-trpsm* a manner calculated to
^ ndl damage through the country.
joout and Bankey concluded not to
I I’eris, and will probably be back
. ( United Btates by the middle of
^nit. -
moRATiov to California fell off
- lv thr»e-fourths in the month of
" ’ w Uch was lucky for the stay-at-
.*■
„ F Baltimore American Bays the
.h^ppm have made their appear-
jn Frederick connty, Md., where
anti rye crops are particularly
dint.
^jjOtiine%b have, for the first time,
jfti the Formosan savages. These
Dos number 20,000 only, and yet
have kept in terror abont two
jjjnofl of Chinese settlers.
Tin: revenue officials have abandoned
, idea of placing a revenue stamp no
pry cigar, and smokers can still inhale
p dreamful vapor without the dis
tort of the burnt paper taste.
['iik inquiry into State Auditor Clin-
i’s affairs, at New Orleans, has un-
tliod Ben ham, another member of
! ring ; who is charged with bleeding
.state witli fraudulent vouchers to a
ge nraonut.
Obdeks have been sent by Gen. Terrv
t) 10 commander at Fort Randall, to
pedite the departure of a eavflry
roe at that point, under orders to
ocoed direct to the Black Hills, and
mg out all persons found there with-
it nnthority. Meantime, so far as we
i observe, the gold excitement seems
have almost entirely died out.
The monument for Edgar Allan Poe’s
herto neglected grave will be com-
>ted iu October. A small stone half
out high and three inohes square now
irks the poet’s resting place in the
dtimoro graveyard. The new monu-
mt will be surmounted by a bust of
>e, which is said to be an accurate
teness.
Is addition to the shortage in the
toted States treasury caused by the
left of the $47,500 package, there is a
1,050 shortage in the redemption di-
iion, which was discovered in January,
bis was reported by treasurer New
bra he took charge. Otherwise the
mds are all straight, and Spinner is to
1 cougratulated.
Afbopos of the recent shipment of
lorida fruit direct to Chicago, the
obile Register says that, with some
iprovcment in railroad facilities and
ruper co-operation among the ship-
'ra, prudent and industrious farmers
mid realize more from vegetable
irdens in Alabama in six weeks than
<y could make in a twelve-month
•ou an Iowa or Illinois farm.
The British government has fulfilled
s pledge to appoint a royal commission
) inquire into the subject of virisec-
onal experiments. The instructions
> the commission are to inquire into
ie practice of subjecting live animals
• experiments for scientific purposes,
ml to consider and report what, meas
les. if nuy, it may be desirable to take
1 respect to any such practice.
Mk. .John Bright writes thus sensi-
i.v to a Glasgow workingman : “A
ook, and not a small one, might be
mde up of the strange doings of the
■ade unions. Monopoly is hard to
?«eh, and I fear the workingmen will
nly learn through Buffering, and they
ifly do mischief which cannot after-
ard be repaired.” The advice applies
qnally well in this country, and the
went Pennsylvania coal troubles afford
a apt illustration of its truth.
On Ascension Day there was a horri
ble row in Jerusalem between some
Greek and Armenian priests who had
been allowed by the Latins te make
use of a chapel built over what is be
lieved to be the Savior’s footprint.
The quarrel arose on a question of
precedence, and ended ih a fight. The
priests went at it “tooth and nail,”
fighting np and down the sacred edifice
with such fury that they had to be sep
arated by Turkish soldiers. Two
Greek priests were wounded, and one
of the soldiers, in trying to restore
peace, lost his eye. The Mussulman
population look upon theae sectarian
shindies at Jerusalem as peculiar illus
trations of the brotherly love which is
the distinguishing mark of their Chris
tian fellow subjects.
The statue of Lafayette, the gift of
the French government to the city of
New York, reached that port on Wed
nesday. It m the work of Frederick
Bartholdi, a native of Alsace, and is
seven feet high exclusive of the pedi
ment. The project of its presentation
to New York originated with the Thiers
government and nearly 830,000, gold,
was appropriated for its execution in
bronze, The Tribune says the dbsign
of the scnlptor represents Gen. Lafay
ette in his twentieth year, at the time
when he joined the continental army.
He stands upon a ship as if in the act of
speaking. His right arm is extended,
and the left is thrown” across his chest,
with the hand grasping the pommel of
his sword and a mass of drapery whioh
falls at his feet. The body is firmly
posed upon the right foot, while the
left leg is extended. The head is
slightly turned to the right. The statue
will be placed in Central Bark, and the
unvailing will probably take place early
in the fall.
Mrs. Beaver is, or was, a materializ
ing spiritualistic medium. She gave se
anoes in Boston of the Eddy and Katy
King kind, and was making dollars in
great numbers. One night there was
an nnusually large audience, and the
exhibition was uncommonly startling.
In the dim light forms emerged from
the cabinet, and some of them were at
once recognized by persons present as
reanimations of dead relatives. At
length the form of a child appeared at
the doorway of the cabinet, and a woman
said that she readily recognized it as
her baby that had died«a.few weeks be
fore. Then a young fellow, full of
earthly realism, sprang forward and
grabbed the infantile form, and was
promptly knocked down by the man
who conducted the show. The investi
gator held fast to the baby, however,
which, upon examination, proved to
have een materialized with rags and a
mask.
UP AKD DOWN.
Every day is a marriage day,
Ring, bells, ring for the bride!
Toll, toll, for along the way
A funeral goes beside!
Death and birth all over the earth,
The world to so very wide-.
Ppward and downward pathways slope
From every level wherein we stand ;
Rejoice with trembling and monra with hepe
The fateful hours command.
Birth and Death in a single breath,
For the end is close at hand.
Smiles are growing in other eye*.
Wren with sighing my moments run;
Half the world iB the shadow lies,
And half the world in he snn;
I tc-raorrow may mies my sorrow,
And still the world lack none!
—Carl Spencer.
RALPH BENEDICT’S EYES.
ing George, of Greece, seems to be
u unhappy predicament. His king-
i is threatened with a revolution ; he
mpopular, and nobody takes his
off to him on the streets; the
en has been insnlted, and he is
iid to go to the Hellenic Long
inch, at Dekeleia, because he thinks
uito probable he will not be able to
back into his capital again. Two
ssian ships are ready at the Pireus
iarry him away in case of a revcln-
ay Gould intends to remain king of
11 street. He proclaims his power
allowing the New York Tribune to
ilish the facto that he owns 100,000
res of the Union Pacifio stock. The
sent value of this amount of stock is
500,000; but no doubt much of it is
lght with borrowed money, and held
a margin. Gould is of Jersey birth,
1 is now past sixty. He was brought
a leather dealer in what is called
-be Swamp.”
Fhe trial of the notorious John D
« for complicity in the Mountain
Jadow massacre of 1857 will not come
until the 15th inat The difficulty
thia case will be that ef obtaining a
oper jury, as the Mormon element is
ry strong and prejudiced in Dee 8
vor. Lee was indicted last October,
id the witnesses against him will be
irsons who witnessed xhe massacre
5en children, seventeen years ago, Lee
id his fellow-murderers having spared
lat number. The Mormons claim that
ie Indians did the killing^ but this, it
) said, can be entirely refuted.
The South American capital of Bue
nos Ayres has for many years been
troubled with a useless and unservice
able patron saint. The yellow fever
came, and St. Martin, who had long
presided over the town, was appealed to,
but the fever, nevertheless, had a ter
ribly successful run. The small-pox
came, and again St.. Martin disappointed
his constituents. Drought blighted the
fields about the city, but St. Martin
entirely neglected the order of the citi-
I zens for rain. Heie was a pretty patron
saint! The indignation of the Buenos
Ayreans knew no bounds. Martin was
at one fell blow deposed from his patron
saintehioby the aguntamiento of tte
town, and St. Ignatius Loyala officially
put in his place, according to Hoyle.
And if St. Ignatius does not attend to
his business, and protect the town from
pestilence and famine, they will kick
him out, too, and try another. But
Ignatius will probably be Loyola to the
interests of the citizens than the other.
Look out for more earthquakes. An
examination of the history of these sub
terranean disturbances shows that each
great earthquake—say of the dimen
sions of the recent one at Cucnta, m
whioh ten thousand lives were lost,
has been followed for a certain period
by innumerable lesser ones. In the
summer of 1868. the coast of Chili and
Pern were shaken by terrible earth
quakes, in which many lives and a vast
amount of property were lost, and, just
two months later, on October 21, Sim
Francisco was shaken so violently that
buildings cracked from top to founda
tion, and fissures throwing forth jets of
water opened in the streets. In the
same vear the Hawaiian volcanoes had
violent eruptions, and the subjecte of
Kamebameha were made sea sick by the
continued swaying of their i^ds. I
the same year Vesuvius opened out
"V
“dN.» tMrid. IB tbe U Li led St**
occurred just six months apart I
we are to regard these
other-great upheaval may bo expected
someth on the American continent
between this time aqd the 1st of Jm -
ary. Tice has booked us for cato
BY L. A. SMITH.
“ Take care 1 Flora, take care. You
are playing with edged toolB. You may
oflend Ralph forever.”
“ Oftond him, indeed ! Don’t talk to
me, Kate; I tell you he is perfectly
hateful. I have flirted with him till my
head aches; played with him, sang at
him, romped o<- beoD dignified, till my
wits were fairly bothered how to create
a new sensation; and yet the wretch sits
staring at me as if his eyes,were made
for nothing but to see with.”
“ Well, wbat are his eyes made for ?”
“ Bach eyes as his were made for a
thousand things; great black ones,
with snch long, silky lashes! Why, he
could make no end of a commotion in
the feminine fancy with his eyeB alone.
What are they made for ? They are
made to say unutterable things, to look
a million varying emotions, to raise
with fervor, t cast down with modesty,
to melt with feeltog, or Cash with pride.
And, upon my word, I don’t believe the
man has the slightest idea that they
were made for anything but the con
venience of seeing. And to think that
I am engaged to him I ”
“ I thought yon could break the en
gagement.”
“ Yes, and lose eveiy penny of my
property and bring the whole family
abont my ears. No, Uncle George
portioned off Glenville to us if we took
it together ; if not, it was to go to some
distant relatives who live in Philadel
phia. So, down comes my sharer of
this world’s goods, and, in a most mat
ter-of-fact way, says, ‘ I think we had
better be married in the fall, Flora.,
And I, like an idiot, said ‘very well.
He is certainly very handsome,
Flora ? ”
Yes ; so is uncle’s bust of Napoleon.
Looks like him, by-tbe-way, and one
has about as much animation as the
other. Tbe most, provoking thing
about him is, be will never do anything
that is not strictly proper and dignified.
I never saw him take a glass of .water
without a desire on my part to tip the
whole of it down his neck, and see him
jump. Though for that matter, he
wouldn’t-jiKIip ix v I did.- Phaven t done
a harem soarem thing since he came
that he has not caught me in the act.
I never scramble over a fence that he is
not on the other side with a profound
bow for my especial benefit, and as
sure as I dare to climb a tree or under
take the least bit of a frolic, his most
magnificent highness is the first object
to meet my eyes. Kate, I wonder if 1
couldn’t make him jealous ? I mean to
try. Harry Vane came home yesterday
and is all ready to fall at my feet”
ii Harry Vane is a brainless fop,
Flora.” , .
“ He knows now to use his eyes, even
if he is, and he is the best fun m the
world. M 9 t
« And yon would offend Ralph ?
“ I tell you I hate him!” and Flora
dashed out of the room, leaving her
invalid cousin and confidante aghast at
her sudden outburst. , ,
In the parlor the merry beauty found
her betrothed, his large eyelids closed
over the useless eyes, and apparently
fast asleep.
“ I wish I could play some joke and
see if it would astonish him when he
awoke," she said. . ,
“ Not in the least, if I knew it be
forehand,” said Ralph, lazily opening
his eves
Oh, Flora! such a heart as you
have thrown away. Io the homa he
has spent here trying to entertain me,
I have learned much of the nobleness
of his nature and of his love, for you.
He has so hoped that ycu would let
your own generous nature show you the
folly of your frivolous ways——”
“I have had one lecture, Kate, pray
spare me a second. Ralph Benedict
mav seek somewhere else a wife as oold
and censorious as himself.”
“ And you ?”
“Oh!”—with a nervous laugh—“he
has kindly indicated my future for me.”
“ Flora, you will not marry Harry
Vane”
“ Such a brainless flirt. No! Though
Ralph flattered me enough to think we
are well mated. Ah ! Ralph thinks to
mortify me by his rejection; he Bhall
see how gladly I acoept my ireedom.”
And Flora left the room as abruptly as
she had entered it, to fly «T hai own
chamber, lock the door, and indulge in
a long and bitter fit of weeping
That afternoon Ralph Benedict was
riding and musing. With his own hand
he had torn from his heart its one bright
spot. In the few glimpses Flora had
let him see of her generous heart, her
many secret acts of charity, her tender
care of her cousin, he had learned to
love the bright little beauty, all the
more that her vivacity so strongly con
trasted with his own rather stern nhture.
His life was one of earnest aims and
steady seeking for the highest ends of
life. He had seen in his short time of
practice such hard realities of life, such
scenes of suffering, snch calls upon his
deepest feelings that life h<*. become to
him one broad field for tb^exercise of
usefulness and self-saerific*
His one dream of happiness he had
broken that day, because he dared not
trust the hopes of his life in the hands
of a trifler. Yes, he loved her, loved
her as such a nature as his-loves the
bright loveliness of a gay little beauty
like Flora, and his heart ached solely as
he took his long, lonely ride. He had
promised his uncle to finish his pro
jected visit and remain some weeks
longer, and he was nerving himself to
think of his cousin as the wife of an
other, lost to him by his own act. As
he drew his horse up to the stable-door
one of the servants came running to
meet him.
“ Oh, Dr. Benedict, I am so glad yon
have come ! Miss Kate, sir, is very ill.
Will you come to her quick ?”
“ What is it, Nora ?”
“ Oh sir ! one of those dreadful spells
she used to have when she first hurt her
THE POOR INDIAN.
How dare you pretend to sleep ?’’
,ora indignantly; I might
^cyclones, and earthquake* a£
similar lively occurrences during the
month of October, Taking itaitegether
the prospect for the remainder of 1875
is decide* uncomfortable ^ everybody
except Elder Thurman and his fol
lowers.
A candidate for treasurer of a Mis
Isissippi county announces that,
l elected, he will pay all his debts.
cried Flora _
have talked secrets.’
“ Then I should not have listened.
“ Oh, of course not; nothing half so
naughty oould occur to you,” she said
rather sneeringly. „
“ I trust nothing dishonorable could,
was the quiet reply, though for a mo
ment his cheek crimsoned with vex-
ati “ I ask your pardon, I did not mean
to be so rude.” said the frank little
penitent, holding out her oand.
He only bowed gracefully, and
sratching away the rejected hand, she
threw herself down on the piano stool
and dashed off her pique in a stormy
polka. The polka went off into a dream-
Se waltz ; aEd one of Beethoven s son
atas followed; till, as the room grew
almost dark, the subduing Influence be
came stronger, and, as the last note
died away, she began to sing, not as he
had heard her sing before in dashing
• - Q , VtAT voio© rose closr, but
subdued, in sad melodies, old ballads,
and those longing airs of “^Id Lang
Svne,” so seldom heard now a days.
'The tea-bell broke in upon the
pleasure, and the IfchtJ
found Ralph as oigmfied and Flora as
sauev as if no music had stirred their
hearts into anew and strange com-
heard, day after day, with pain,
of tbe marked coldness between Ralph
and Flora, and of her increasing flirt*-
lion with Harry Vane.
At last the crash came.
Florathrew 1 back the door and rushed
in, with burning cheeks and flashing
6y ^I am free, Kate. My charming
cousin came to me one hour ago and
S an interview—a private one-
which I grant' d, of oourse. He in
formed me that when he girted as a
physician, with heart fullottoe
e\ory and responsibility of his pro-
Sbawsstruss
he preferred poverty to marriage with
a flirt, and withdrew his claim to my
band.’
spine. , _ , ,
The quick, firm step qf Ralph was
the first grateful sound Flora had heard
since being called to her Cousin s side.
All embarrassment was forgotten as she
sprang to meet him.
“ Oh, Ralph, help me !”
“You have seen her in these attacks
before,”, he said, gravel*; “tell me
what you did then, ana how she has
been taken now.”
Clearly and concisely, while sitting at
the bedside of the sufferer, Flora de
scribed former at acks and their treat
ment, and the probable cause of the
present one.
Quick to decide and prompt to act,
Ralph made Flora useful as nurse, while
he tried his skill with loving zeal to
ease the gentle girl before them. His
uncle came in late in the afternoon,
and, seeing how things were, refused to
send for any other advice, and, thus
free to act, Ralph was busy, faithful,
and untiring, yet his hand was not
firmer, his step quicker, or his mind
clearer than those of the pale, yet steady
little nurse. For three nights and days
she never left the sick girl’s side, and
in the whispered talks beside her when
asleep all levity was gone, all trifling
vanished. Sorrow and anxiety did what
harshness or coldness could never have
done—subdued tbe frivolity that was on
the surface of Flora’s nature, showing
the devoted love, the quiet presence of
mind, the unwearying capacity for self-
sacrifice, that dwelt under the vivacity.
At last the danger was over, and after
a fortnight of devoted watching Kate
was pronounced convalescent, and her
weary little nurse consented to leave
her for a long afternoon sleep in her
own room. . ,
“ If you please, sir, said Nora s
scared voice at Ralph’s door,” “ Miss
Flora has fainted clean dead away,
Dili
“Where?” cried Ralph, starting up.
“ In her room, sir. She is altogether
worn out with nursing.
Worn out, indeed ! Ralph thought,
as he raised the little figure m his
strong arms and looked into the pale,
very pale face. It was only the reac
tion from fatigue and anxiety, and in a
few moments Flora opened her eyes to
see Ralph bending over her, his face
full of tender, anxious iqr«-
i “ Flora, poor child, you are worn
out. I have been careless and selfish
I n ot to watch you more closely. Oh,
Flora, can you ever forgive my imper
tinent harshness, and let me tell ^you
how I respect as well as love you ?
“Ralph, I am a good for-nothing
flirt,” but if you will trust such a tor
ment once more she will try to be a
wife worthy of you. And as Flora
afterwards declared, “tbe man act-rally
began to find out what his magnificent
eves were made for.”
So she coDsent?d, and was from
yontli to age the pride and joy of his
faithful heart.
No More Needed.—The bishop of
Verdun, in France, is of opinion that
there have been a sufficient number of
appearances of the Holy Virgin An
apparition was repotted to have taken
place in Mav at Cheppy, and it was fol
lowed by the usual miraculous cures;
but the bishop has abruptly interfered,
sending the following note to the papers:
1st. The apparition of the Virgin has
bv no t eans been proved. _ 2d. The
miraculous cures are pure invention.
3d The clergy, far from encouraging
these manifestations, have done all in
their power to enlighten the people and
fortify them against a blind credulity.
The bishop of Verdnn in Article L
simply pronounces a verdict of “ not
proven;” being mindful, perhaps, of
wha< happened in the case of Monsig
nor De Bonald, who, when the miracle
of tea Sal cite, was first noised abroad,
condemned it in the most decided man
ger as an Imposture.
Letter ot Prof. Harsh to the President—
The Charges ot Corruption In Indian
Affairs—Tbe Secretary ot the Interior
Arraigned.
The New York Tribune publishes the
following letter from Prof. Marsh, of
Yale College, to President Grant:
Sir: In two interviews I had with
you on Indian affairs. I was impressed
with your earnest desire to do justioe to
the Indians, and with your broad and
philanthropic views on the whole In
dian question. This must be my ex
cuse, as a private citizen, for coming to
you to lay before you a statement of
wrongs committed on the Sioux In
dians, mainly under my own observa
tion, during a recent visit to their coun
try. My vi; it to this region was whoUy
in the interest- of science, with no in
tention cr wish to investigate Indian
affairs. The frauds I observed were
brought to my knowledge by Red
Cloud, who refused to allow my party
to enter their lands until I had prom
ised to submit his complaints to yon in
person. Since my interview with you
I have been informed by the commis
sioner of Indian affairs of the appoint
ment of a commission to investigate the
affair* at Red Cloud agency, and was
invited to lay a statement of the facts
before them/ This I am quite ready to
do whenever the commission request.
I must decline, however, to give my
statement to the interior department
alone, for the following reasons: L I
have no confidence whatever in the
secretary of the interior or commis-
soiner of Indian affairs, when they
publicly announce their wish and de
termination to correct the present
abuses in Indian management, because
1 have reason to know they have long
been aware of these abuses and have
made no sincere effort to reform them.
2 In all my intercourse with these two
officials their object has been to find
out, not so much what the frauds ac
tually were, as the extent of my infor
mation concerning them, so as to pre
vent, by all means in their power, all
publicity or exposure of them. 3. The
evidence now in my possession reflects
unfavorably on both Secretary Delano
and Commissioner Smith. For these
reasons I have thought it best to lay
before you, to whom, in accordance
with my promise to Reid Cloud, I made
my first communication of the accom
panying statement in detail, in cod6
dence that the evidence presented will
meet with the consideration its import
ance demands. In the statement which
accompanies this letter I have given the
resnlts of my investigation into the
affairs of the Red Clond agency, the
largest and most important in the west.
These results clearly indicate gross mis
management, especially in the following
particulars: 1. The agent, _ J. J.
Baville, is wholly unfitted for his posi
tion, and guilty of gross frauds upon
the Indians in his charge. 2. The
number of-Indians at this- -sqjenoy has
been systematically overstated for pur-
poses whioh can only result in fraud.
3. The last issue of annuity goods
which I witnessed was a suspicions
transaction, and part at least fraudu
lent. 4. The beef cattle given the In
dians have been inferior, and, owmg to
systematic frauds, practiced by the
agent at the beef contractors. 5. The
pork issued to Indians during my visit
was not suitable for human fare. 6.
The flour was very inferior, and evi
dence of fraud in this article was con
clusive. 7. The sugar and coffee issued
were not good, although better than
other supplies. 8. The tobacco ob
served was rotten and of little or no use.
9. In consequence of fraud and mis-
management the Indians suffered greatly
during the past winter for want of food
and clothing. 10. The contract for
freight from Cheyenne to Red Clond
agency, was fraudulent, as the true dis
tance is one hundred and fifty miles,
while contractors were paid for 212.
I would especially call your attention
to the evidence of fraud in beef cattle,
as presented in t^e accompanying state
ment. This subject I investigated with
great care, as beef is the principal ar
ticle of food of the Sioux Indians, and
the frauds I observed have caused great
pecuniary loss to the government. The
statement I have prepared is supported
in all its esssntial parts by the testimony
of officers of the army who were with me
in my expeditions, or at the Rea Cloud
agency. Among these officers are sev
eral personally known to you mid all
are gentlemen of high character. Should
any part of my statement be serioffsly
questioned I trust you will allow these
gentlemen to be heard. If the com
manding officers of all posts near Indian
ageheies or other equally trustworthy
and disinterested observers there TOuld
’ikewise testify, I think it would be
found that I have but faintly mdreried
the corruption pervading Indian affairs.
I have purposely oonfined myself in
this statement to a single agency and
mainly to the time of my nut, without
r6f6T6D06 to mucb other testimony which
has some to me incidentally in the pros
ecution of my inquiries, showing frauds
of equal magnitude at other points.
This corruption, which is a constant
source of discontent tnd hostility among
the Indians themselves, in my judg
ment, is a natural result of the present
loose and irresponsible ajatem of fur
nishing the Indians with goods and sup
plies—a system that tends directly to
invite fraud, I do not believe that any
thing but a radical change in this re
spect will prevent continued demoraliza
tion of tbe Indian service. You atone
have the will and the power to destroy
that combination of bad men, known as
the Indian Ring, who are debasing this
service and thwarting the efforts of all
who endeavor to brmg to full oonsum
motion vour noble policy of peace.
Verv respectfully your obedient ser
vant, °-. C - ^ lAES f‘
The letter is accompanied by a long
and interesting statement, corroborating
points specified in the communication
to the president.
bles, and twenty ounces of skimmed
milk or buttermilk ; on one day meat,
week fish was substituted for of the
The new diet comprises but a very spare
quantity of meat, a moderate amount of
milk being given instead. It is stated
to be no uncommon thing to find that
among the agricultural laborers of
Scotland no meat is consumed, oatmeal
and miiy formtng their staple articles
of diet.
CIRCUS LIFE.
How iknutlom are Developoil toy En-
terprUIng Sawdnit Manager*.
In reviewing a book on this subject,
by Thomas Frost, the Academy pioks
out these facts abont English circus
performers : Circus life is not very dif
ferent from the larger life outside, and
these versatile individuals often lead
but a sorry existence until they rise out
of the ruok and do something different
from- them eompamoJN* —must as-
tonio* in order to live; and those that
astonish the most wili make the best
living; so it has been with Van Am-
burgh. Carter, and other “lion kings,”
with Leotard, B'ondin, and other gym
nasts. Managers are sometimes hard
put to it for a novelty, and their at
tempts to obtain one are often laughable
enough. Wallett, the clown, and Pablo
Fanqne, the negro rope dancer (other
wise William Darby), when in partner
ship together at Glasgow, hit on the
expedient of turning an Irish postnrer
in their company, whose nom d’arena
was Vilderini, into a Chinese. The
Irishman was shaved, stained, and
dressed in Chinese costume, and had
the name of Ki-hi-chin-fan-foo conferred
upon him. His appearance was so far
a success that two veritable Chinamen,
who had witnessed his performances,
took him for a countryman of theirs,
but each time they inquired for him at
the stage door they were told he could
not be seen. These repeated rebuffs
made the honest “ Celestials” suspic
ions—not of his reality but of his treat
ment by his employers. Thinking that
he was held in durance and only re
leased in order to appear in the ring,
they went to the police court and made
an affidavit to that effect. The unfortu
nate Pablo Fanque, therefore, was called
upon for an explanation, and was obliged
to pnt the Irish postnrer into the wit
ness-box to declare that he could not
speak a word of Chinese, and had never
been in China in his life.
Circus performers congregate togeth
er and speak a language of their own,
Mr. Frost marks off a large district on
the south side of the river as the pro
fessional quarter of London. He says:
At least three-fourths of what I have
termed the amusing-classes, whether
connected with oirouses, theaters, pub
lic gardens, or music halls—actors,
singers, dancers, equestrians, clowns,
gymnasts, acrobats, jugglers, posturers
may be found in the day time at least,
within the area bounded by a line drawn
from Waterloo bridge to the Victoria
Theater, and thence all along Gibson
street and Oakley street, down Kenning-
ton road as far as the Cross, and thence
to Vauxhall bridge.
In a morning walk from Westminster
bridge to Waterloo road the acrobats
and rope dancers of the circuses and
music halls may be easily recognized by
their dress ; and a visit to Barnard’s
tavern, opposite Astley’s, or the Pheas
ant, in the rear of the theater, will show
a large percentage of circus “artistes
before the bar.
The author gives some specimens of
the circus slang, which seems to have
been drawn from many quarters. A
circus man never mentions a woman by
any other term than dona, and bono is
his ordinary word for good; but these
foreign equivalents are few.
An Unwelcome Visitor.
VaIiT-e of Meat and Vegetables as
Food—It ic found that since the em
ployment of the changed dietary in the
general prison of Scotland, involving a
very slight proportion of meat, the
health of the inmates has been striking
ly improved. For all adult male pris
oners under sentence of nine months
and not exceeding two years, the diet
formerly consisted of bread, oatmeal,
barley, one ounce of meat per day
made into soup, with suooulent vegeta-
Mr. Pate, a Chicago lumber-dealer,
recently had an unpleasant adventure
with a Texas steer, which is thus de
scribed by the Chicago Times:
«Mr. Pate, a mild-eyed lumber-
dealer, while sitting quietly at his desk
figuring up his profit and loss for the
previous month, was startled . by the
appearance at the door of his little 12x
12 establishment of a thin-legged Texas
steer, with the slenderest and longest of
horns. The animal looked in at the
door and glared at the little man on the
high stool with evident satisfaction. He
tossed his head up and down and gave
it a preliminary shake or two, then a
malicious little sniff with his nose, and
walked in to get the little man on his
horn. ,
« Mr. Pate is not a man of military
education. He does not even belong to
the 1st regiment, bnt he possesses mih-
tsrv sagacity. He took in the situation
at once. He saw at a glance that his
base of communication was cut off by
the enemy. Retreat was impossible.
Reinforcements could not possibly be
thrown into the fortress in time to re
pulse the attack. Surrender was out of
the question. Mr. Pate’s only resource
was to fortify. He took up a strong
position on top of the high safe. He
fortified it by dragging the long four
legged stool after him, making a kind
of chevalde frioe of it by pointing the
legs outward. The moment wjs full of
peril Tiia mad animal charged around
the premises, snorted, danced up and
down, and shook the little house like
an earthquake by the majesty of his
tread. The stove was tipped oyer, the
windows were crashed, the chairs were
tossed around the room, the ledgers
were trampled under foot, and the con
tents of the building were mingled in
indiscriminate chaos. Mr. Pate says he
never felt so low in his life. How long
he conld have maintained his position
no one can telL He was relieved by a
party of men with poles and whips, who
succeeded in getting the beast out of
the building without shaking it down.
What Was in the Programme -
colored man employed as a deck hand
on a propeller, was rushing around town
yesterday and enquiring where the polls
Spoils ? Polls ?” repeated a citizen,
why there’s no elect ipu going on now.”
“ There haiu’t?”
sir.”
The i"»n stood for a moment looking
greatly disappointed, and then turned to
the nver with the remark :
“And now de programme is to find
dat sleek young man who said dey was
paying six dollars apiece for votes !”—
Detroit Free Fress.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
“Gently the dues are o’er me steal
ing.” as the mau said when he had
thirteen bills presented to him in one
day.
—A darkey called at Owensboro, Ky.»
tbe other day, and wanted to know
“Does dis postorfls keep stamped ante
lopes ?”
—Perkins suggests that the racing
crews of onr boat olnbs might balance
their shells better if they parted their
hair in the middle.
—Precocious boy, munching the fruit
of the date tree: “Mamma, if I eat
dates enough, shall I grow up to be an
almanac?”
—»I go through my work,” as the
needle said to the idle boy. “But not
until you are pushed ahead, as the idle
boy said to the needle.
i—The Ooiumbus Journal, describing
an Ohio politician, says: “ He 18 *“
honest man by profession, and lie earns
qis bread by the sweat of his jaw.
—The people of Georgia were ex
cited a few days ago over the supposed
discovery of a gold mine. It was altete
ward found that the deposit consisted
of gold foil stuck around the rocks with
mucilage.
—A young man got into trouble at a
spiritualist woman’s seance last evening.
He caught hold of a “ materialised
child introduc' d 'ey the performers, and
it proved to be a rag baby. For h} 8 in
terference he went away with a bloody
nose.—Boston Traveler.
A test was recently made of the
buoyant power of a leaf of a water lily
known as the Victoria Ben*, m HJe
botanic garden at Ghent.
heaped over its entire area, and before
it was submerged in the water a weight
of 761 pounds was floated.
—The paddle wheels of » ■l«f e
steamer on tbe St. John river in Blonds
stopped suddenly, a few nights ago, »d
then came crash after crash in the wcxxl-
work. A panic followed, everybody
rolling out of his bunk and rushing for
the deck, and it was soon ascertained
that a big aligator had become en
tangled in the revolving wheel.
—Old Yankee Robinson’s circus
busted wide open last week at St. Paul,
audrthe sheriff sailed in for his nghto.
Presently twenty four fiery, untamed
Ukaraines filed out of the stable with
twenty-four fiery, untamed circus men as
outside passengers, and these witli a
cheering display of a first class arsenal,
went out of the town whooping, and
crossed the line into the next state.
«• Fred Douglas, in a fourth of July
address at Hillsdale, Fa., advised his
race to cultivate independence. me
cultivation of independence is well
enough, but they should not make it a
specialty. They should reserve a mere
garden-spot for independence, and de
vote the far greater amount of them
acreage to tbo « «* «—». •<»*-
ton, and cabbage.
- Feathers are HhootingaH overthe
toilets. The gossips Bay feather fans,
feather parasols, and feather hats are all
the go. Feather trimmings are now
arranged with so much ^
heautv that they are considered as smt-
ablewr summOT as well as winter wean
They are mounted with fringe as weB “*
bands, thongh as bands they are need
for the trimmings of bonnets and para
sols. .
—To be read by moonlight only:
“ On the Erie railroad, between 1 ort
Jervis and Buffalo, there is a conductor
known as the ‘Rosebud Conductor.
Many years ago he was engaged to a
beautiful girl, and their wedding day
was fixed. Bhe was taken ill and died
a few days before she was to *
bride. On her deathbed she said to her
lover- ‘If you will alwayB carry a rosebud
S your button-hole, no accident will ever
befall you.’ He has carried * rosebud
ever since, and no ill has befallen him.
He is still a single man.’
—Thomas Carlyle has numerons ad-
mirere on this side of the Atlantic,
bnt probably California. does not take
much stock in bis philosophy. He
blurted out to a lady of that State Jthe
other day : “ You are domg no good
service there; you are banning the
world. Cover over your mines, leave
your gold in the earth, and go to plant
ing potatoes. Every i™n who pvesa
potato to the world is the benefactor of
his race ; but you, with your gold, are
overturning society, making the ignoble
prominent, increasing everywhere the
expenses of living, and confusing all
things.”
—It has been generally supposed that
the wings of a grasshopper are grown
at a certain stage of its growth, but
this theory is now shown to be eI IP” i ?'
ous. Mr. Knight, mayor of St. Paul,
Minn., has observed a great many
grasshoppers’ skins supposed to be
dead hoppers. He caught a iidly^de
veloped hopper with wings and wfltehed
it In a little time it crawled out of its
skin, legs and all. The new hopper as
“ born ” had a full set of wings, and
was quite lively, but not enoughtofly.
Mr. Knight is of the opinion that after
this change takes place one day is tame
enough to accustom it for its new exist
ence and fit it for emigration.
Dancing a “ Survival.”—Mooeuer
D. Conway writes from London: Some
how London seems to have got tired of
dane ng. When the shah was here, no
remark he made was more relished than
his question to the prince of Wales
while the dance was going on, “ Why
do you not employ servants to do hub
for vou ?” The perspiring prince conld
hardly explain, bnt society seems to
relegate dancing to the corps de ballet.
This has been especially the case this
season when the new fashionable skirts
have gone to an extreme from the liber
ation of the ballet. A lady was recently
heard to say, with a sigh, “What with
being tied around above and tied around
below, I haven’t had a good square sit
down for three months. ” When a large
ball is given there is an apology for
dancing, a few mincing steps are taken,
but presently the company falls to ad-
miring e$cb other’s dresses, snd wl
ends in music tmd talk. Dancing bids
fair to become a “survival,” «the anti-
qoarians say. Even apart from spy
other entertainment, the great evolu
tions which have taken place in dress
make the English drawing-room far
more attractive than it formerly
