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NATURE ABHORS A VACUUM.'
I-onir u*o, when refruaDlugljr (Teen.
As at prasent—thank Fortuiia!—Fm not.
If your sweet fascinations I'd
They had touched a susceptible spot.
Suuh a figure, such hulr—lf It’s real—
Such a Taco—your whole physical plan
Makes a school-girl's complete beau-ideal,
And her utter quintessence of man.
Hut when older and wiser, how sad
Such complete disillusion to ret,
And behlud such a stately facade
To have found Just njsirfmrnfs fn tell
And you love me—don't say I'm not kind—
Find some tualdeu more easy to please,
More Indulgent to absence of mind.
And content wllh tho graces she seas.
Though you claim t have tortured your
In defense it may surely be said
That 1 never ooutd nnoe make you smart.
Since I could not re model your head.
So spare your affection to tell.
An avowal I too well divine.
For tho next girl will do Just as well,
And her heart may be softer than mine.
Scon view of the danger It brings.
There's a line when* flirtation must stop:
For the bollewest, wfudlest things
Are the likeliest always " to pop."
- “OsnCunf.
RELATIONSHIPS.
That there are minds fo constituted
is In be unable to understand any de
grees of relationship beyond the family
circle of father, mother, brothers and
listers we can gather some evidence
front our own experience. Never shall
we forget the attempts made by a party
of eollegians, many years ago, to ex
plain to a lady at a .'.upper-table the old
puzzle: " If kick’s father is John’s son,
what relation is Dick to John?” She
really tried tier best, but utterly failed
to grasp tho problem. Much assistance
was offered in the shape of a decanter
and a wine-glass to represent “Dick”
and “John, and the la ly'svoice might
have been heard, amid all the din and
clatter, exclaiming seriously, and iu a
tone of remor.st:anee: “Do you mean
to tell me that that wine-glass is the
grandfather of that decanter?" Hut it
was all in vain. ’Kie attempt to con
vince the good lady had to be aban
doned. The intricate mathematical in
vestigation was beyond her powers.
There are also persons who have nev
er given their minds to problems of this
kind, and to whom anything outside of
their own narrow experience piosents a
difficulty.
The number of people who under
stand the terms “first cousin," “sec
ond cousin,” “first cousin once re
moved,” etc., is very small. Probably
many of those who read those lines im
agine tiiat a “ tirst cousin once re
moved," etc., is the same as a “sec
ond cousin;" and .still more carry on
the transactions of life under a mistaken
notion that if “Mary" is “first cousin
once removed" to, say, “Tom," thru
Tom is also “first cousin once removed ’
to Marv. Let us hasten to dispel these
illusions.
Suppose we illustrate our remarks by
a fictitious little pedigree;
Mr. Juncft.
Mr- W. Jones. Mr. T .loom.
Mr.A Jon'it Mr. J. Junes, Mr.C.Jonr* TumJonel,
Mary ionr*. H. Junes. H. June*.
Now here it may be necessary to ex
plain, as we fear many persons "don't
undent and pedigrees.” The orininal
Mr. Jones is supposed to have had two
sons, Messrs. William and Thomas
Jones. Of these two brothers William
was the father of Alfred and John, and
Thomas was the father of Charles and
Tom. Mary is the daughter of Alfred;
Henry Is the son of John, and Richard
is the son of Charles. It will not need
any extraordinary acumen to discover
that Alfred, John, Charles and Tom are
all grandsons of the original Mr. Jones;
and that Mary. Henry and Richard are
his great-grandchildren. Those who
have taken in thus much may, by a
further stretch of intellect, comprt head
that Alfred and John are first cousins to
Charles and Tom, the father of the
former pair of brothers being brother to
tlie father of the latter pair. Rut now
comes the difficulty. What is the “re
lationship” between our old friends
"Tom” and “Mary?” Tom is first
cousin to Mary's father, Alfred. What
relation is Mary herself to Tom? Some
person -av "second cousin;" but this
Is a mistake, she is the "first cousin
once removed”—a relation-hip which
may lie defined as that of "the child of
a first cousin.”
This relationship, existing as it does
between two persons in different gen
erations—!. e. not descended by an
equal number of steps from the com
mon ancestor is not a mutual relation
ship, like “brother” or “first cousin,”
In other words, if Alfred is brother to
John. John is brother to Alfred; if Al
fred is first cousin to Charles, Charles
is first cousin to Alfrbd; because these
are in the same generation;” therefore
these relationsiiips “brother” and
“first cousin” —are “mutual.” Rut
“uncle” and “nephew’ are not mutual
relationships; for, if Alfred is uncle to
Henry, Henry is not “ uncle” to Alfred;
and if Richard is nephew to Torn. Tom
is not “nephew" to Richard. Ami
“first cousin once removed” is a rela
tionship like “nephew.” If Mary and
Henry are “first cousins once removed”
to Charles, it does not follow that
Charles is “first cousin once removed”
to them. He is often called so, but
quite as erroneously as an uncle would
be oalled his nephew’s "nephew.”
The curious fact remains that, for the
converse of the relationship “first cous
in onee removed,” i. r. for a "parent’s
first cousin,” there is no name of uni
versal acceptance.
It has been shown that a first cousin's
child is called a “ first cousin onee re
moved.” On the same principle a first
cous n’s grandchild is called a “first
cousin twice removed,” and Ills (or
her) child would be a “first cousin
three times removed,” and so on,
the number of “removes” showing
by how many generations the
two persons who are so related differ.
On the same principle that a great
grandchild is rare —i. e.. a person lin
eally removed by three generations—
a first cousin three times removed is,
speaking generally, somewhat rare, hut
fur more common, doubtless, than a
great-grandchild, because the former
means'the great-grandchild of a iter
son’s first cousin, who may be much
older than the person himself. Indeed,
it is quite conceivable that a man should
live to see his first cousin live times re
moved lor he might easily have a first
cousin tiftv or sixty years older than
him-elf. and live to see that cousin s de
scendants of the fifth generation.
And now we mav pass on to second
cousins. “Second cousins” are persons
whese nearest common ancestor is
(rreat-grandparent to each —in other
words, if two persons are first-cousins,
the children of the one are second cous
ins to the children of the other.
The children of “second cousins are.
of course, “third cousins.” Likewise,
the children of two “third cousins are
“fourth cousins.” and so on.
In fact, using algebraical symbols, we
mav sav that a person’s mth cousin n
times removed is one who is lineally de
scended from the nearest common an
cestor by n more generations than the
former, the former hiiuselt bong m- -1
generations below that ancestor.
<£l)c Cnijcttc.
VOL. IX.
Thus, for example, your fifth cousin
twice removed is eighth in descent from
your sixth ancestor (counting your pa
rent as first ancestor, your grandparent
as second, and so on).
Tremendous consequences hare re
sulted from even distant relationship,
and it has been in countless instances
all-important to preserve family records,
by means of which claims to great
wealth and high rank have beon estab
-1 shed. It is all very well to smllo at
the claim to a fifth consulship several
times removed; hut if the heir presump
tive knows that no nearer cousins—no
relatives of any kiud. removed or not
removed—stand between him and tho
chieftainship of his family, who shall
blame him for having studiod the intri
cacies of relationship? It lias not sel
dom happened that a very distant cousin
has thus succeeded to “the title and es
tates.” There was an Instance of this
in the great house of Stanley, about a
century and a half ago. When James,
the tenth Earl of Derby, died in 1736, it
was necessary to go back some two hun
dred and fifty years in order to establish
the claim of his heir, Sir Edward Stan
ley; and. in fact, this eleventh Earl was
sixth cousin to the tenth. And it is
somewhat remarkable that, although
the present Lord Derby is the fifteenth
Earl, yet he is not descended lineally
from any of the firsl ten Earls, except,
of course, the first, the Constable of
England, who died iu 1501.
The Dukedom of Somerset was con
ferred in 1547 upon tho Protector, Sir
Edward Seymour, with this peculiar
limitation—that the heirs of his second
marriage should succeed, and, failing
them, his heirs by his fir.it wife. For
several generations the Dukedom re
mained in the second family; and it
may have seemed to many a righteous
retribution that, in 1750, when the sev
enth Duke died, there was no heir to
succeed, except among the descendants
of the Protector’s first wife The head
of that branch, therefore. Sir Edward
Seymour, sixth Baronet (for the tirst
Duke’s grandson had been made a Bar
onet), became eighth Duke of Somerset,
being fifth cousin on re removed to the
seventh Duke.
Sir Edward Courtenay was created
Earl of Devon in 1485; and his great
grandson Edward, after sundry attain
ders, was created Earl of Devon in
1553 by Queen Mary, with remainder
to "heirs male general.’’ Now this
Earl died in 1566, aged thirty-nine, and
unmarried: and as there were no Cour
tenays left who were at all nearly re
lated to him. the Earldom was suppose-*
to be extinct, and was pot claimed.
More than two centuries and a half
afterward, however, in 1881, it was
proved to tlie satisfaction of the House
of Lords that William, third Viscount
Courtenay, was entitled to tho Earldom
of Devon, as heir general o tho Earl
created by Queen Mary, to whom his
relationship was tiiat of sixth cousir.
ninu times removed! The nearest com
mon ancestor, Hugh de Courtenay, sec
ond Earl of Devon, of a funner cre
ation, had died in 1377, nearly two hun
dred years before the first Earl of the
present creation. Thus it was decided
that the Earldom, during tlie 265 years
of non-claim, had been, not extinct,
hut dormant; and seven of the Cour
tenays who lived and died in that inter
val are reckoned now as righful heirs of
Devon. —London SocitUj.
Cremation In England.
The cases of cremation in England to
which allusion is made in this morn
ing's telegrams are likely to bring on
an extended and exciting dis tission.
The bodies cremated seem to have been
those of Eliza Dean I 1 at ey, second wife
of the Rev. Sir James Hanham, seventh
Baronet of the line, and of her
daughter-in-’.aw, Edith Mary, third wife
of Commander Thomas Barnabas Han
ham. The English Cremation Society,
soon after its formation in 1874, ob
tained an opinion from Dr. Tristram
and Mr. Meadows White to the eilect
that the performance of tho process of
cremation was perfectly legal in En
gland, provided that it involved no con
sequent e which could be construed by
any one as"a nuisance. Bishop Roffen,
who was first appealed to, refused to
permit tlie setting apart of a portion of
the Groat Northern Cemetery for the
ere tiou of a crematorium, ami after
the society had erected a Gorini fur
nace at. Woking so much outcry was
raised that the projectors had to aban
don the enterprise, or at least lot it fall
into abeyance for the moment. This
crematory was erected in March, 187 C,
when the Home Secretary, while ad
mitting that tho proposed practice was
unakoctod by existing law, declared
that, inasmuch as the registration of
deaths had always been associated with
burial, he was constrained to conclude
that cremation must first he approved
by Parliament. He further advised tlie
council of the society to introduce a
short bill into the House of Lords and
not rely upon the opinions of counsel.
Only a few weeks ago it was reported
that tho Cremation Society had re
ceived a more formidable set-back by
he decision of the Higli Court of
Justice in the Crookenden ca-e. Henry
Crookenden, dying, left his body to his
friend. Miss Eliza Wili ams, by whom
it was to be cremated, his executora
being charged with defraying any ex
penses she might incur. The executors
and family, notwithstanding her pro
test, buried the body, but Miss Will
iams obtained a permit to remove it to
any church-yard, where she did indeed
deposit the remt ins, but not until they
had been taken to Italy and duly cre
mated. Miss Williams sued the ex
ecutors to recover the expenses ol her
proceedings, but was defeated, the
court holding that she had obtained the
license by misrepresentation and ille
gality; that t ere could be no property
in a corpse, and that the provisions
with regard to the delivery of the body
were void, and, finally, that cremation
was illegal. The decision, however,
was regarded by very good authorities
as opposed alike to good sense and tlie
spirit and tendency of modern law in
such matters, and no concealment was
made of the intention to bring the sub
-1 ject to a test at tto distant day.— N. Y.
World.
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22. 1882.
Lodgers iu the Park.
Under tho trees in Madison Square at
eleven and one-half o’clock last night
there were at least three hundred lodg
ers. Only half a dozen of them wore
awake. Tho others were sleeping iu
almost every conceivable post tire. Tho
few who had early in the evening se
cured shares of tlie curved bancharound
tho fountain were the only ones able to
stretch out at full length, and those
rested their heads on their crossed
anus, or leaned upon an elbow, or were
fiat on their backs. The Hood of elec
tric light from the high center pole
batheu in a blaze of light the tree tops,
that were like so many mounds of ver
dure. It tipped the edges of the layer.,
of loaves as with shining silver, and
left the park beneath hair in twilight
and half in dark. Waving lace-work
patterns were seen wherever the shad
ows of tlie twigs and branches fell upon
the walks. The otleet produced by tho
/llectric light was such that every lodger
reined well dressed. There was not
light enough to show a rent, a stain, or
wrinkle in any of their garments. Even
their shirts shone white.
But the lodgers looked uncomfort
able. The high hacks of the settees
and the iron arm-rests separating tho
seats gave each man but eighteen square
inches of bedstead. One young man
who was occupying part of the settee
close to Twenty-sixth street and neai
Madison avenue, where George Francis
Train is to be found in the day-time,
was doubled up like a half-closed pock
et knife. A lodger exactly across the
way from the main entrance to tho
Fiftli Avenue Hotel kept almost drop
ping his head on the grass behind him
aud catching it in the nick of time. Tho
exertion made him snore like the snarl
ing of a tiger. Every here and there
gravitation brought two neighbors to
gether with one’s head on the other’s
breast and his head on his companion's
shoulder.
“They are not all tramps,” said the
policeman on Twenty-sixth street.
“Some of them have homes, but prefer
to sleep out in tho air. One young man
that I happen to know has a nice home,
but he has some ailment of the lungs or
chest that he believes is relieved by
sleeping out of doors. Others would bo
less comfortable in the hot and crowded
quarters where they live than they are
here. We find out about them when
we make raids mid bundle them all off
to tlie station. We cannot hold those
who have homes to go to. The others,
forming the great, majority, are simply
vagrants, who live by begging and steal
ing, though some of them toll me they
work once in a while, long enough to
get clothes and money for a spree, and
then they tramp again. On some nights
every seat in every park is occupied.
The park police do not stay on duty at
night, but we are supposed to keep the
tramps away. We let ’em alone though,
unless they get noisy. They light once
in a while, but most of tho trouble is
made by bands of young roughs wtio
roam through the parks from dark till
midnight.”
“If a decent man should fall asleep
in one of these parks would he be safe?”
“ Well, ho would, but his valm\Sles
wouldn’t. Sometimes a gentleman
comes crawling through the park late
at night full of wine alter a dinner or a
party, and drops on a ben h and falls
asleep. Then they go through him. 1
have known a man to be robbed of his
watch, money, rings, coal, vest, hat and
shoes, and have to make his way homo
in that condition in the morning, lien
erally, though, tho tramps are not so
cruet 'They often take a gentleman's
silk hat and leave him their own in ex
change.”
“But," said tho policeman, “1 must
go and drive those fellows away from
Delmonieo’s. The tramps go to Dol
monico’s when they got chilly, because
there’s a grating there and the heat of
the kitchen comes up through it. There
was a nice young fellow there last
night. He had no coat, but his shirt
was clean and good. He said his father
turned him out of doors because lie
played pool, and lie pawned his coat l'or
the price of a meal.’
There were about 500 lodgers in
Union Square, and the plashing fountain,
the embowered paths, and the sleepers,
under tlie wizard touch of the electric
light, made the scene remind one of the
fairy tale of those who slumbered in tlie
company of the Beauty in the Wood.
The f’rincc who broke the spell in
the City Hall Park half an hour later
was a policeman with a club two f et
long. The reporter had been walking
on the pla/.a between the grass and tlie
City Hall, and had not noticed a lodger.
The park was as quiet as a grave
yard. But when this guardian, whose
voice was like the roar of a fire trumpet,
banged his club and said; "Out with
you, or I’ll bag the lot of you," the
paths suddenly swarmed with sham
bling, stretching, yawning figures, some
at a dog trot and no me limping like
rheumatics. —A7. Y. Lun.
How People Die.
Miss Nightingale has pointed out how
constantly the mental state of the dying
depends on their physical conditions.
Asa rule, she tells us, in acute eases
interest in their own danger is rarely
felt. '‘lndifference, excepting with re
gard to bodily suffering, or to some
duty the dying man desires to perform,
is the far more usual state. Hut pa
tients who die of consumption very fre
quently die in a state of seraphic joy
and peace; the countenance almost ex
presses rapture. Patients who die of
cholera, peritonitis, etc., on the con
trary, often die in a state approaching
despair. In dysentery, diarrhea, or
fever, the patient oftens die in a state of
indifference.” Those who have care
fully examined the dead on a battle
field, or in the streets after an mnetiie,
are struck with the fact that while the
expression on the facet of those who
have died by gun-shot wounds is one of
agony and distress, the dead by sword
have a eaurer expression, though their
wounds often seem more painful to the
eye. Avery careful observer, who was
through the Indian Mutiny, entirely
confirms this. After giving several in
stances, he says: “A rapid death by
steel is almost painless. Saber edge
or point divides the nerves so quickly
as to give little pa'n. A bullet lacer
ates. - -London Spectator.
Pound Fishing.
Directly across the harbor from my
hotel, on tho Ixmg Point Shore, baroly
two miles away, are two largo pounds
perhaps the most efficient traps for
taking fish that the ingenuity of man
has ever invonted. Making friends
with their owners, 1 was Invited out one
afternoon to see them ‘‘take up” tho
day’s catch. At the fish-houso I am
furnished with “jumper” and overalls.
Wo embark in the dory, and iu half an
hour reacli the pound. This is made of
strong nottiug attached to posts firmly
fixed in the sand, and ” : -ing a few
inches above high water mark. There
are three posts or divisions. A line of
netting extends from the shore several
hundred feet into the bay. At its cud
the leader begins, formed of two walls
of netting that doscribo au ellipse, and
open by a narrow aperture into the
pound proper—a small, circular space,
inclosed by walls of netting, and having
no outlet except tho opening from the
leader. The fish—mackerel, soup,
flounder, ood, bluelish—coasting along
shore are stopped by the wall of netting,
follow it to get around by it, and, hav
ing a tendency to go straight ahead
when started, keop on at its end through
tho mouth of the leader, follow its walls,
and pass through tho narrow entrance
into tiio pound, where they are as effect
ually caged as though in the fisherman’s
not. Not one in a thousand has wit
enough to discover the door by which it
came in. The fishermen push their
boat through the opening in the leader
into tho pound. Within is a sight to
stir a landsman’s blood. The water is
alive witli fish, its surface lashed to foam
by their fins, wliilo the netting that
incloses it is bending and shaking with
the mad rushes of the victims.
It is not often that one finds himself
in such proximity to these rovers of tho
sea; within reach of the hand blue,
mottled mackerel course around in
schools; bluelish make wild dashes
among them; ugly flatfish and horsefeot
grovel on tho bottom, and crabs gyrate
about, attacking everything weaker than
themselves. Here, 100, are numbers of
the squid, or devil-fish. Those are the
smallest of the genus, however, about a
foot long, of a dark brown color, and
furnished with a valve-like projection in
lieu of a tail, by means of which they
dart through the water like a flash of
light. The fisherman strikes one with
his hook and throws him into the boat;
the creature lies there a palpitating,
jelly-like mass, and I can hardly believe
that beneath his fringe of tentacles there
is a beak I hat can gnaw liko a serpent’s
tooth. Wo have an instance of his
voracity after the nets are drawn; in
the drawing a small mackerel is injured
and floats helpless on the surface. “ Look
hero,” says the fisherman; and turning
we see that, four of the polyps have
fastened on tho poor creature. A blow
of the hook drives them away, and wo
find that they have eaten four gaping
holes in his back ami sides.
The fishermen secure thoir catch with
a net brought witli them in the dory.
They drop one end before the entrance,
then pull the boat, around the side of
the pound, dragging the net with them.
They allow it to slip over the squid,
flatfish, and horsefeot which lie on tho
bottom, hut drop it as they approach
the food fish, which are gathered at tho
furthest possible point from the boat.
By and by the circuit is complete, and
tho fish arc enmeshed. There are fivo
barrels of mackerel and a few bluelish
in the net, and tho landing them is au
exciting struggle. The fishermen haul
on the net—one steps overboard and
lifts it bodily; the victims struggle vio
lently as they feel the water shoal, lib
erally besprinkling their captors, but tho
not rises steadily, and at last witli a final
effort is rolled into the boat. Five bar
rels of blue beauties lie there struggling
and threshing. We row back across the
bay to tho clock and fish-house. Eight
bronzed and rugged veterans in oilskins
and top boots are awaiting our approach.
One in the dory shovels the fish into a
bushel basket, which another hoists with
pulley and blocks to the dock. Six oth
ers are stationed near by at three tubs
filled with clean water. One takes the
fish from the basket and deftly slits it
down the back, beginning at the head ;
three others clean it; two wash the fish ;
a seventh cuts a slit on each half, that
the inspector may judge of its fatness;
an eighth trundles the cleaned fish into
the fishhouse, where two men with a
wheelbarrow of salt between them are
packing the product in hogsheads. One
throws a handful of salt on the opened
fish, and hands it to his fellow, who
packs it in the hogshead with more suit,
where it remains until sufficiently
“pickled,” when it is sorted into throe
“culls” and marketed. —Provineetown
(Muss.) Cor. N. ¥. Post.
English Depredations in the Yellow
stone Park.
The magnificent Yellowstone Park is
in danger of being rapidly destroyed
and its natural beauties defaced by
wantonness and vandalism unless tbo
Government steps in to protect it- It
is said that the first thing the English
man does after registering at the Bro
voort house is lo start for the Yellow
stone Park and needlessly shoot down
scores of its large game—deer, buffa
loes, bears, antelope and mountain
sheep. Nor aro foreigners always the
chief sinners in this respect. Many of
the most ianious Yellowstone geysers
have already been ruined by people who
amuse themselves by hurling immense
trunks of pine trees into them in order
to see the water force them high in tho
air. In many eases these Jogs hare
stuck in the water apertures and have
completely stopped the spouting. In
Wyoming the people are taking steps
to put a stop to stteii vandalism and the
wholesale slaughter of buffaloes and
other game by English tonris's.
—Owing to the low prices of tobacco
in Europe, the tobacco cultivation once
so flourishing in the island of Java, is
said to be rapidly declining, tlie planters
being in eonseqneneo much distressed.
The Java Bode a Dutch local journal,
states that lately, in the eastern portion
ol that island, three ( states wero sold
collectively for tho trifling sum of 5,700
guilders, though only three years ago a
brick tobacco shed on one of them cost
400,300 guilders,
A Few Parlor Gnmes.
The games that follow are not all of
them particularly new, but they are
very pleasant, and are quite worth trying:
One player says: “Have you soon my oat?"
The next replies: “Yes, I’vo seen your
cat.” “Do you know what my oat is do
ing ?” “ Yes, I know what your cat is do
ing.’’ “Doit." And then if the player
neglects to purr or scratch she pays a
forfeit. Of course, that gaum may be
varied considerably by choosing any
other animal.
The Interrupted Reply. —The com
pany are seated in a circle, when ono
whiapors to her right hand neighbor.
Sav that she asks: “Of what use is a
book Tho answer would naturally
be: “To read.” But instead, she asks
another question of her right hand
friend, and when tho questions have
gone around tho last answer is given
aloud -of course producing much
laughter among tho party.
/‘uzzle Mimic. —One player leaves tho
room, and tho rest determine on some
thing he must do on his return. Say
lie lias to dance around the room to dis
cover a hidden person, or to touch a
particular object. When ho enters he
is informed by song or piano when lio is
near or far from his object; the singing
or playing becoming louder or softer ns
he approaches or recedes from tho solu
tion. With littlo trouble this may bo
mudo a most amusing game. It is, ill
fact, but a moderation of the old nur
sery frolic, “ Hot Boiled Beans and
Bacon.”
The Traveler. —The traveler loaves
the room, and then the company deter
mine oil the country lie is to visit, and
prepare accordingly. Say ho is to guess
Germany, you have n student w ith a long
pipe, a book and spectacles ; Turkey, a
lady in a turban, reclining on a sofa
cushion ; Lapland, a tout with natives
sitting round a fire. This may be made
by a few chairs turned upside down and
a table-cloth thrown over them, the na
tives wrapped in shawls, etc. The trav
eler comes m at a given signal, and
must guess the country show or pay a
forfeit.
The Key of the King’s Garden. —
Tho plan is for one to give a sentence :
“ I give you tho key of the King’s gar
den.” The next person repeats the
works with an addition : “ I give you
the string thnt holds the key of the
King's garden." Then the third adds :
“ I give you the scissors to cut the string
tiiat holds tho key of tlie King’s garden. ”
A fourth: “ I give you a patent file to
sharpen the scissors to cut the string
thut holds the key of the King’s gar
den,” A fifth : “I give you a box to
hold the (intent tile to sharpen the scis
sors to cut the string thut holds the key
of the King’s garden,” and so on till one
player fails and pays forfeit.
The Secret that Travels. — A game of
tho simplest character, but which among
young people will often be found to af
ford genuine amusement. It lias its ad
vantage that any child can join in it
without having previously possessed a
knowledge of tlie pastime. Tho players
sit around a table ; or at least, dispose
themselves in a circle. One (Mayor
starts the game by whispering a sentence
in tiie ear of the player on the right
hand. This sentence is the secret. The
player, to whom tho secret has been con
fided, tells it to his right-hand neighbor,
and so on, all around the table circle.
The last player repeats aloud tho sen
tence as he understand it, anil then tho
first player gives out tho sentence in i x
original form. Asa gonoral rule, it will
be found tiiat in passing from one to
another, the words havo boen so altered
at to be almost unrecognizable.
Ilovv the llc.y of Tunis Lives.
The palaces of the Bey are splendid
and incongruous; the Barilo, an hour
from tlie capital, is a line sample of
Oriental architecture and decoration,
spoiled by Parisian upholstery and vul
gar European carpets. Dar-el-Bey, his
only town residence, is magnificent and
neglected; his real abode is in a sep
arate building, walled and standing in
a garden near the Bardo. lie goes to
the Bardo once a week, to sit in judg
ment on his subjects and receive the
Ambassadors and Consuls of tlie Great
Powers; and then there is a brief stir,
and tho < 'ourt presents a stately picture.
"It is, however, only an external brill
iancy, and it cannot deceive the visitor
as to the misery reigning within tho
Moorish Empire.” Mahomed Es Sa
doek Pacha Bey is an amiable enough
Prince, by all accounts; fond of child
ren, but childless, and very simple in
his habits. He has only one wife, and
though he pays her a formal visit of an
hour’s duration at her castle every day,
he rarely sees her, as the hour of bis
visit is generally one appointed for de
votion, and on iiis arrival lie goes to a
small room in tlie palace to pray.
He is supposed to know nothing of
the management of Ins possessions; be
fore bim all is splendor, behind his
back all is desolate ruin. Whichever
of his palaces he shall die ill-will bo dis
mantled and left to decay, for a Bey
must not live in a palace in which a
predecessor has died. “None of thorn
lias hud hinmeif transported into the
street on death approaching; and there
are more than a dozen palaces in Tunis
to-day which cannot be used by tho
Beys. A melancholy example of this
absurd custom is Mahomedia, once the
magnificent residence of Achmet Bey,
who had it built thirty-live years ago
at a cost of 10,000,000 francs. This
palace, with its secondary buildings
and villas for ministers and dignitaries,
was situated two miles out of town;
and when Achmet Bey died, the furni
ture was moved, tlie lloors, glazed tiles,
doors and windows were broken out
and dragged lo another palace. The
heavy marble columns, statues, tho
curbs of the wells, etc., remained be
hind with Hie walls, and he who passes
those imposing ruins to-day might
think: thousands of years had passed
over them. The hand of the Arab de
stroys thus in our day in the midst of
peace, as his ancestors and the Vandals
did centuries ago, only in time of war.
So much for Oriental culture! —London
Spectator. _
—A certain drawing-room on l'llth
avenue, New York, lias a ceiling of
cathedral glass, said to have cost
$5,00). It is one of tlie o Idost ideas of
a very odd year.— N. Y. Graphic.
MO. 44.
Lady Ogilvy’s Escape.
Most of our readers are moro or loss
acquainted with tho story of Prince
Charles Edward, the young Pretender;
his raising tho flag of rebellion in Scot
land, his invasion of England, subse
quent retreat and defeat, his wanderings,
and final escape to the Continent. Dur
ing that episode in Soottish history, in
which he was tho principal figure, many
incidents of romantic adventure occurred
of a very interesting character. Among
others, that of tho oseapo of Margaret,
wife of Lord Ogilvy, from Edinburgh
Castle, where she was imprisoned await
ing her execution. She was a bravo,
handsome, ready-witted woman, an
enthusiastic partisan of tho Stuart cause,
willing to risk fortune and life to aid in
ititrirrajh. Sho persuaded her husband
to Join tho l’re tender's forces, and rode
with him at the bead of his clan to the
fatal field of Culloden, whore she re
mained holding a spare horse during the
whole of tho fight.
When tho battlo ended in the utter
defeat as well as rout of the Prince’s
army, her husband loaned upon his
spare horse and escaped, wliilo Lady
Ogilvy was taken prisoner. Tho Gov
ernment dele—sued to make her an
example to the t- 1 - of her sex, whose
influence had hem* very powerfully ex
erted in the lost causo; sho was there
fore condemned to be executed six
weeks after her trial, at the place where
traitors suffered in Edinburgh. Her
friends displayed great activity iu trying
to obtain a commutation of hor severe
sentence; but to every appeal tho Gov
ernment turned a deaf ear, and there
appeared no alternative but that she
must suffer death in the very Bower a ’
hor youth and beauty.
Lady Ogilvy was not so strictly coa
(ined in prison but what many gained
access to her, and they used this privi
logo to surround her with comforts, and
try to lighten the burdens of captivity.
But while her friends were making
fruitless efforts to obtain hor release shn
determined to effect it herself, and usi
as an agent for that purpose a littlo ugly,
deformed woman, with a peculiar hitch
in hor walk, who brought her ciem
linen every Saturday. As she was
leaving tho room after one of her usual
visits, the captive detained her, saying
she had a very strong desire to ascer
tain if she could walk as she did; would
she mind showing her how it was done?
Although very much surprised at tho
lady entertaining such a whim, tho old
woman readily gave the requisite lesson,
and then took hor departure. Lady
Ogilvy practiced the step until she
thought herself proficient. Sho com
municated her intentions to her friends,
wno prepared everything in readiness
to aid her Might when once outside the
Castle. When tho old, decrepit washer
woman made her appearance at sun
down on the Saturday previous to the
Monday fixed for tho execution, Lady
Ogilvy persuaded her to change clothes
with her: “Gixe mo your dress, and you
lake mine.” The exchange was made.
“Now," continued tho prisoner, “do
you remain quietly here; no one will
harm you, and you will save my life.”
Then, taking lip the basket, she assumed
the old woman’s limp, and joined the
wash-girl waiting outside tho door; to
gether they wont down the stone s ;airs
out into the yard, passed through the
gato unchallenged by (lie SMtikaai, ai.'d
quietly walked
An Arizona Sunday,
Sunday afternoon news was brought
to Contention of a shooting scrape at
Crittenden. Two Mexicans, Manuel
Lopez and Ramon Montcvorde, rode
into town on spirited chargers, one of
them leading a crippled mare. They
halted in front of a whisky shop, dis
mounted, hitched the steeds, entered tlie
sh >p and proceeded to fill themselves
wilh the material that both cheers and
inebriates. When a sufficient quantity
was punished, the caballeros became
boisterous, mounted their horses and
rode furiously through tlie town. A
number of railroad employees were
present, and did not seem inclined to
allow the boys to have their fun out.
They wore, however, deterred from in
terfering by the wiser counsels of some
friends who were present, but were still
very far from being in tove with the
proceedings. Things would doubl'ess
have gone on all right had not tho Mex
icans gone a little beyond the bounds of
reason. They reined in their steeds in
front of the railroaders, called them
gringos and other pet name’, threatened
Lo ride over them, and in other offensive
ways helped to irritate the toolings of
the crowd and bring to a climax the
breeding broil.
Just as things were beginning to get
serious, a long-bearded citizen made his
appearance on the sevne and asked the.
Mexicans which of them claimed tlie
lame mare. He was informed that she
was tlie property of botli of them joint
ly, and that she was the “host mare in
Arizona.” This, though explicit, was
not satisfactory, as tlie bearded cit
izon claimed the mare as his property,
and said site was stolen from his ranch
on the Babacomari some two weeks be
fore. The Mexicans, maddened with
drink, said the claimant was a liar, and
fortified their positions by pulling their
pistols. Almost instantaneously a
dozen pistols wero pulled, and without
unnecessary delay as many shots were
fired, and the Mexicans fell off their
horses, pierced by several bullets. When
tho smoke cleared away the Mexicans
wore piokod up and their injuries inves
tigated. It was found that Lopez was
shot through tho right arm in two places,
and had two flesh wounds in the upper
portion of his body. Monteverde had
one serious wound in hi? left breast,
the bullet having apparently passed
through his lungs. Peace was then pro
claimed, the wounded men were taken
into the saloon and tenderly cared for
by those whose ftngors touched off the
deadly missiles that wounded them.
I)r. Peters, of Calabasas, was sum
moned, and succeeded in extracting all
the bullets save that which passed
through Monteverde’s lung. He declared
both men not necessarily fatally wound
ed, but still in a very precarious condi
tion. The bearded man took the dis
puted mare to his ranch. —Tombstone
Epitaph.
WIT AND WISDOM.
—The man who tells about his fights
seldom has a black eyo.
—“Grandpa, the sun Is brighter in
summor than in winter, is it not?”
“Yea; and it’s warmer, and enjoys bet
ter health." “Why does it onjoy bet
ter health?" "Because it gels up ear
lier.”
“When are we going to get our
Gilt-Edged Tonic?” asked a prisoner in
the Austin jail of the ja ler. "What do
you want It for?” “[road in the pa
pers that persons of sedentary habits
ought lo use it.” Texas Siftint/s.
--Never let go of a good thing that
you really have for n better tiling about
which there is some doubt. The dog
in tho fable who dropped a piece of
moat to snap at a shadow wont hungry
the rest of the day.—-V- Y. Herald.
A wife wanted her husband to sym
pathize with her in a feminine quarrel;
hut he refused, saying; “I’velived long
enough lo learn that, one wrnan is just as
good as another —if not bo pr!” “And
1,” retorted his exasperated.* wife “havo
lived long enough to learn that one man
is just as had as another—if not
worse. ” — Bohemian.
-—"As you are going past tho grocery
store,” said Mrs. Brown to hot- son, "it
will save time if you step in and get a
(round of tea.” "“What do I care about
saving time?” replied young Brown,
contemptuously. “I guess 1 shall have
a 1 the time (hero is as long as I live, and
1 aint’t a-going to hoard up any for my
heirs to squander.—Boston Transcript.
—“Grandpa, does lions make their
own eggs?" "Yes, indeed they do,
Johnnie.” "An’ do they always put
the yoke ; n the middle?” “Guess they
do, Johnnie.” “An’ do they put the
starch around it to keep the yellow from
rubbing oil?” “Quito likely, my littlo
hov.” ‘‘An’ who sews tho cover on?”
‘This stumped tho old gentleman, and
he barricaded Johnnie’s mouth with a
lollipop. — London Society.
“Do you mix anything with vour
candies?” lie asked, as ho laid his
money down and picked m> the pack
age of gum drops. “Well ahem-a
little glucose, perhaps.” “Anything
else?" “Perhaps a little clay." “Any
chalk?” “Only a very little—not
enough to speak of.” “It sof no inter
est to mo, you know,” continued tho
stranger; “but I was wondering why you
didn't have your candies made at a reg
ular brick-yard, of the regular mate
rial, and havo some! liing you could war
rant to your customers.” Walt Street
Hews. ____________
" SCIENCE ANT) INDUSTRY.
—The salmon fisheries of the Paeifio
coast have increased twenty-fold within
the part ten years.
—Marble slabs for furniture aro now
being imitated in glass by an enterpris
ing firm in Pittsburgh. ,
—The codfish hatching experiments
of Professor llaird, conducted at
Gloucester last year, have resulted, it is
said, in large quantities of little codfish
being seon off the Now Hampshire coast.
—ln Rochester, $20,000 has been sub
scribed to start a school of instruction in
shoemaking, so that manufacturers can
be independent of tho shoemakers'
union, the project being literally the last
educational undertaking.— N. Y. Times.
—Governor Hawkins, of Tonnessee,
thinks tho prospects of the South as a
manufacturing section are very flatter
ing, and is especially enthusiastic about
his own State. About $2,000,000 are
now invosted in Tennessee in cotton
factories, and they aro in a prosperous
condition, paying largo profits.
—The enormous demand for paper
for use as writing and printing material
provonts tho extended employment of
papier mrtche as a substitute in buildings
for plaster and wood ; but cotton, the
production of which is unlimited, prom
ises to be largely used in this now ca
pacity. Treated wiLh certain chemicals
and compressed it can be made perfectly
fire-proof and as hard as stone.—Chico
go News.
—Tho Government of Victoria, Aus
tralia, has been empowered to expend
tho amount of more than $12,000,000 in
building additional lines of railway.
Most of the roads will be for tlie pur
pose of opening up tho agricultural
districts. They will not be costly or
intended to carry fast trains. In all
there will bo fifty-six lines built, and
their aggregate length will not exceed
827 1-2 miles.
—Frequently it is important to know
whether there is load in “tin” paper.
This is the method given for its detec
tion in a leading foreign technical jour
nal : A drop of concentrated acetic
acid is let fall upon the suspected leaf,
and a drop of a solution of potassium
iodide is addod. If there is lead pres
ent there is formed in two or three min
utes a yehowish spot of lead iodide. Dr.
Kopp moistens the leaf to be examined
with sulphuric acid. If the tin is pure
tho spot remains white, but if lead is
present there is a black spot.
—Experiments have been made in
England with a gas lamp composed of
two pipes, one of which supplies gas in
the ordinary way and the other air
slightly compressed by the weight of a
column of water. Upon the burner is
a cap of fine platinum wire gauze which,
a few seconds after the current of min
gled gas and air has been ignited, gives
forth a brilliant incandescent glow like
that of the electric lamp. Arrange
ments have been mado for lighting; a
number of London thoroughfares with
this light, which, it is assorted, is cheap
er than tho ordinary gaslight.— N. Y.
Sun. ________
(Jtieen Olga.
Queen Olga looks very Polish, al
though she resembles her aunt, the
Queen of Hanover. The Grand Duke
Constantine was Vice-Emperor of Rus
sian Poland when she was a child,
which accounts for so much in her air
and manner that reminds one of tho
Warsaw ladies. The faco is very reg
ularly proportioned, and yet not in tho
least classical. Her hair is still very
line, and curls naturally. It is drawn
back from tlie forehead with a comb
such as we see in llio pictures of “Alice
in Wonderland.” Tho face is round
in its front contour. It is lighted
up by a pair of dark, beaming eyes,
which have a soft and kindly expression.
The Queen is simple and natural. She
looks at once genile and a woman of
spirit. In giving informal audiences
she plays a good deal with her mops
dog. Like the King, she is more and
iiioi-o struck each lime she revisits
France with the vitality of the French
people, their happy activity, (for, as
busy as they are, they have time to look
around them, and seem to enjoy keep
ing their eyes open), and their extraor
dinary prosperity. Pall-Mall Gazette.
A woman near Merida, Yucatan,
saw for the first time a locomotive,
recently, and was so astonished and
terrified that she could not move, and
was barely saved from certain death by
a man who pulled her away from the
track. _ ...