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Till: ARMY OF FRANCE.
Official Number** l Men nml (Ifßrrrw and
ike Actual < andu iua .i the M bole Force.
The more or less justified war rumors
which are now c< >riii ;" from Europe add
some interest te the following figures,
condensed from the official Aununire, or
yearly record, of the slaff of tho French
army, which has just been published.
That army itself numbers 450.000 men,
rank and file. It is" commanded by
20,759 officers, as follows: Three mar
shals of France, 106 division generals,
200 brigadier-generals, 11,756 infantry
officers, from the rank of colonel to that
of sub lieutenant, 3,309 cavalry officers,
3,247 artillery ofliet is, 923 officers in
military engineering service, 389 officers
in the transport train service, 826 officers
in tho gendarmerie, a sort of half military
and half police service under the War
Secretary. Besides that, there are 5,327
officials, assimilated to the rank of of
ficers, as follows: Forty-eight control
lers of military administration, 874
quartermaster-generals, 16 engineers for
“the powder and saltp tie service,” 1,166
miliiary doctors, jtej pharmaceutists,
429 veterinary surgeons, .38 almoners or
chaplains, 158 chiefs of music, leaders of
military bauds, 588 guards of artillery,
in fortress, etc., 159 controllers of arms,
inspectors of guns, swords, etc., 550 as
sistant military engineers, 140 archivists
of the staff, 1,484 officers of administra
tion in the quartermaster department, 45
interpreters in Algeria.
Adding these 5,327 military function
aries to tho 20,759 regular officers, we
find that the penniinc’it army of France
numbers 26,086 office:-; but of these
there are 5,327 functionaries not em
ployed in actual service as combatants,
ami more titan 4,500 regular officers are
detached ou service in the military bu
reaux, prisons, recruiting stations, etc.,
which make more than 10,000 men of
the above stuff who have other employ
ments than those of commanding. In
fact, there aro no more in tho French
army than 16,000 officers who actually
:md practically are at tho head of a reg
iment, a battalion, a company, a cavalry
squadron, a battery of artillery, a section
or a platoon.
The fiti'K. Nothing is more distress
ing to a sick person, who is still not
quite ill enough to give up woolly
thoughts, than to have the doctor at his
morning call find the room disarranged
and the patient in a night-dress, not
fresh and neat in app a ranee. It should
be the first care of the one in charge of
the house to see that this state of things
shall not exist. As long as the room
must be attended to at some time dur
ing the day, why not do it when the
greatest amount of comfort wonid re
sult from it ?
How to Cook It. —Cabbage cooked
in this way makes a good entree: Shave
the cabbage very thin, then let it cook
until tender in a very little water; drain
it thoroughly. Put a lump of butter
into a clean saucepan, let it melt and
brown, then put the cabbage into it amt
let f brown; Beasnn with salt and pep-
O, , send to the table very hot.
STMMEE VI EEE. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEP'TEMUEU *>l. 1884.
••LITTLE BROWN HANDS."
They drive home the cows from tho pasture,
Up through the long shady lane,
Where the quail whistles loud in tho nTtcalfici
All yellow with ripening grain.
They find, in the thick waving grasses,
Where the scarlet-lipped strawborry grow
They gather the earliest snow-drops,
And tho first crimson buds of tho rose.
They toss tho hay in tho meadow,
Tiiey gather the elder blooms white,
They find where the dusky grapes purple
In the soft-tinted October light.
They know where the apples hang ripest,
And are sweeter titan Italy’s wines,
Titey know where the fruit is tho thickest
On the long, thorny blackberry vines.
They gather the deileato sea weeds.
And build tiny castles of sand;
They pick up tho beautiful sea shells -
fairy barks that have drifted to land.
They wave from tho tali, rooking tree-tops,
Where the oriole's hammock nest swings,
Anti at night-time are folded in slumber
By a song that a fond mother sings.
Those who toil bravely arc strongest;
The humble and poor become great;
And from those brown-lianded children
Shall grow mighty rulers of slate.
The pen of the author and statesman,
The noble and wise of our land- -
The sword and chisel and palette,
Shall be held in tho littlo brown hand.
MY LOVE.
She doth little kindnesses.
Which most leave undone or despise,
For naught that setß one heart at ease
Ami givetli happiness or peace
Is low-osloemed in her eyre.
Blessing site is : God made her so ;
And deeds of week-day holiness
Fall from her noiseless as tho snow.
Nor hath she ever chanced to know
That aught were easier titan to bless.
A MAN OF THE ROAD.
Many years ago, or, as children's
stories say, "once upon a time,” when
Hath was in all its glory, and Beau
Nash reigned as its king, two ladies
were journeying toward that fashion
able town in a postchaise. Why two
middle-aged ladies should in those un
safe times have undertaken a journey
without any male escort, I cannot say.
The result proved that they were very
ill-advised in doing so. It was broad
daylight, and not very far from Bath,
when the postboy suddenly pttllod up
tho horses, aud the chaise-door was
thrown open from without with the
usual stem command:
“Your money or your life I”
J need hardly say anything as to the
slate of terror into which tho ladies im
mediately fell; no donbt they screamed,
in spite of the uselessness of such a
proceeding, but it is not upon record
that they fainted. On the contrary, the
one nearest to tho door submissively
handed her watch purse, trinkets, etc.,
to the masked highwayman; and the
other, a Mrs. 0., was hastily preparing
to get rid of her valuables in tho same
way when the robber turned to remount
his horse, as though he had overlooked
the second occupant of the carriage.
Such an unbuciness-like proceeding
certainly did not bespeak him an ac
complished "gentleman of tho road;”
for in those days the searcli for valu
ables was usually conducted in a thor
ough and energetic manner, often ac
companied with more or less violence,
especially if the searcher had reason to
suspect that tiie notes were “sham
Abrams,” or the watches from the man
ufactory of Mr. Pinchbeck.
By the way, do any of the present
generation know the term of “Pinch
beck” for sham-gold ? and if any of
them do, aro they aware how the term
arose ? To meet violence with craft,
the travelers of those days provided
themselves very frequently with false
bank-notes and imitation gold watches,
to be given up as booty, while the gen
uine articles were carefully hidden, and
a .Mr, Pinchbeck started a manufactory
of these watches. But the “gentlemen
of the road” soon got up to this trick,
and to prevent snch mistakes, they in
sisted on their victims taking solemn
oaths as to the notes being those gen
uinely signed by “Abraham Newland,”
the cashier of the Bank of England;
anil also that the watches had not been
supplied by Mr. j*iricbbeck.
What passed through Mrs. C.’s mind
as the highwayman turned away with
only half his spoil it is impossible to say.
Perhaps it occurred to her that he might
find out his mistake, come back and take
vengeance on them for their involuntary
deception. Or perhaps she never
thought at all, but acted on a terror
struck impulse. Ido not suppose that
she herself ever knew wity she acted as
she did, but she actually called to the
highwayman to come back !
“Stop, stop!” she cried; “you have
not got my watch arid purse I”
The “gentleman of the road” came
back again to the chaise door and held
out his hand for the watch and purse
which Mrs. 0. seemed so anxious to get
rid of. But that watch and purse hail
unknowingly been the bait of something
very like a trap; at any rate the turning
back was a fatal move, for as the robber
turned quickly to relieve Mrs. 0. of her
valuables the quick movement of his
head or a passing puff of wind blew
aside his crape mask for a moment and
Mrs. G. saw his face distinctly.
When the ladies arrived at Bath they
were condoled with by their friends on
their fright, and their loss; and no dould
Mrs. C. bad to stand a good deni of jolt
ing about her kindly oalliug the high
wayman back 4o take her own watch
and purse. But, such occurrences were
too common for the condolences to he
deep or long continued, or to cause in
terference on tho part of any one whoso
duty it might have been to attend to the
peace and safety of the public; and tho
“nine days’ wonder"—if it continued so
long—certainly did uot last any longer.
I am inclined to think, however, that
Mrs. O. kept her own counsel ns to one
result of that calling hack, and told no
one of her having seen tho robber’s face
unmasked.
Some weeks had passed away, when
ono evening Mrs. (’. was at the Assem
bly Rooms, together with all “the rank
and fashion” of Bath. She was talking
to a friend—a gentleman named Mr. M.
-■-and at the same limo surveying the
ladies and gentlemen who frequent, the
Assembly,when site suddenly exclaimed:
“There’s tho man who robbed mo !’’
“Where?” asked Mr. M., In great as
-1 tonisliment.
| Mrs. 0. pointed to a fashionably
-1 dressed young man who was talking to
I si me of tho company,
i “My dear Mrs. 0.,” said Mr. M.,
| “pray he more careful. You really must
[ uot bring such an accusation against
i that gentleman. Why, ho is young H.,
son of Mr. H., of , a very wealthy
and well-known man, and young H. is
in all the best company. I know hint
well ns a friend.”
This was said in a joking manner, as
Mr. M. tin night, that Mrs. 0. was mak
ing an absurd mistake—deceived, per
haps, by some slight or even fancied re
semblance.
But Mrs. O. said, seriously:
“I do not cure who ho is or what his
father is, or even as to his being a friend
ol yours. That is the man who robbed
mo I lam quite certain about him, for
when he turned hack to take my purse
and watch his crape mask blow aside
and I saw his face. I remember it per
fectly.”
Mr. M. again tried to persuade her
that she was mistaken; but to no pur
pose. Btill trying to make a joke of her
supposed extraordinary delusiou, ho
said to Mrs. O.:
"1 will bring hire here, and introduce
him to you, and then see if you will
still assert ho is a highwayman I”
Before she could decline tho intro
duction, Mr. M. crossed tho room to
where the young man was standing, and
said with a smile: “Here’s a joke, FT.
That lady over there declares you are a
highwayman, and that you are the man
who robbed iter a few weeks since!
Come and be introduced to her.”
But young H. did not take the joke as
his friend meant it; on the contrary, ho
answered in rather an ill-tempered man
ner: “I do not want to ho introduced
to the old fool I”
“Well,” said Mr. M., “you need not
have taken it in that way, and lost your
temper about, sueli a trifle. Of course I
was only in fun. I thought you would
have enjoyed the joke, and tried to per
suade her that you were an honest man,
and slot, a gentleman of the road. I’rav,
do not he offended.” Ho saying, Mr.
M. returned to Mrs. (!., and reported
that tile young gentleman had taken the
joke in ill part, and refused to ho intro
duced to her.
Once more Mrs. 0. declared it was
neither a joke nor a mistake, hut that in
serious fact young H. was tile highway
man whom she had called hack to take
her wateh and purse. The subject wuh
then allowed to drop; and after a little
conversation on other matters, Mr. M.
took his leave of Mrs. 0., with the in
tention of smoothing the matter over
with his friend H., as lie did not want
their friendship to be interrupted, and
he had clearly seen that Mr. If. was
much annoyed. With this friendly in
tention tie looked about in the Assembly
Rooms for young Mr. 11., hut, without
success. He then inquired of Home mu
tual friends, and was told that young
Mr. If. had left the rooms almost di
rectly after lie, Mr. M., had last spoken
to him, and had seemed much annoyed
and disturbed.
This account made Mr. M. all the
more anxious to find his friend and put
the matter light with him. Leaving
tho rooms, Mr. M. looked in at their
club, and at two or threo other places
where he thought it likely he might find
Mr. H. But iris search was unsuccess
ful, and he hail to go home without see
ing his friend, comforting Jiimsolf with
the thought that he would next day call
on Mr. H. at his father’s house, where
he lived.
But the next day young H. was not at
his father’s; nor, indeed, did ho 3ver
again appear at Bath. When he left
the Assembly Rooms, ho returned home,
changed his dress, and at once left
Bath, and, it is supposed, left England
also at tho earliest opportunity.
Of the grief and agony of his father
and of his family, 1 will not speak; it
carl easily be imagined what distress arid
shame they suffered.
Mr. H., the father, was a wealthy
man, of good position and family; but
the young man, an only son, brought up
to no profession, but only to inherit his
father’s riches, hail fallen, probably
from sheer want of employment, into
bad company, had jilayed for very high
stakes—lost—played again—exhausted
his father’s patience in paying hm debts,
■"id at last had “taken to the road” to
replenish his purso—a not very uncom
mon proceeding in tlioso days—while at
tho same time keeping his plaoe in so
ciety.
From hiß uubusinesi-like haste and
want of looking after the whole of the
booty, in flic case of Mrs. 0. and tier
friend, it is to bo presumed that ho had
only lately adopted the practice of—as il
was politely called—“collecting his rents
on the road,” even if it was not his first
attempt, flow long, however, ho might
have continued tho “collection,” hut for
tho accident of tho mask being blown
aside, is another question.
If this were fiction, I might enlarge
on young H’s future career in another
land. 1 might, ou tho ono hand, make
him go from bad to worse, and end his
career by murder aud a murderer's
death. Or, ou tho other hand, I might
depict him as leading anew life in anew
country, and eventually returning to
England, to tho joy aud comfort of his
amiiy, aud worthily inheriting his
father's wealth and position. 1 might
even describe his penitent introduction
lo Mrs. C., and his deep gratitude to
her for cheeking him in his downward
career; and still further might end the
romance by his falling in lovo with and
marrying Mrs. (Vs daughter. But ro
mance is denied me, for the story is not
fiction, but fact in all its details. Mrs.
C. was an ancestress of tho writer, and
the sforv lias been handed down in the
family.
Being, therefore, obliged to keep lo
facts, lam compelled to admit that I
know nothing ns to young H’s after-life;
so I must close my truo history hy sup
posing that ho was never again heard of
in his native country for good or evil,
after his detection by Mrs. 0. ns “u
gentleman of tho road.”— Chamber*’
Journal.
The Cholera Patient.
Plow Hi* I’Yi’l* Aftff mi Altai !* of nm
nri'nilnl Klmpiim*,
The patient feels well up to within a
few hours of the attack, or, it limy ho,
goes to hud anil sleeps soundly through
tho night, and immediately oil rising in
tho morning is seized with violent purg
ing and vomiting. If judiciously treated,
many patients reoover from this, the first
stage of cholera; but if neglected, the
tendency of the, di. t use Is to gr >v . lied
ly worse. Tho patient, complains of in
tense thirst and a burning heat at the
pit of his stomach; he suffers also ex
crutiating pain from cramps in tho mus
cles of the extremities; he is terribly
restless; anil his urgent cry is for water
to quench his thirst and that, someone
might rub his limbs, and ilius relieve
the muscular spasm. The pulse is rapid
and very weak, the respirations are hnr
ried and the patient’s voice becomes
husky. His countenance is pinched,
and tho integument of his body feels in
elastic and doughy, whilo the skin of
his hands and feet become wrinkled and
purplish in color. The duration of this,
tho second stage of cholera, is very un
certain—it may last for two or three
hours only, or may continue for twelve
or fifteen hours; but so long as the pulse
can lie felt at the wrist there are still
good hopes of the sick person’s recovery.
Tho weakor tho pulse becomes, tho
nearer the patient is to tho third, or col
lapse, stage of cholera, from which prob
ably not more than thirty-five per cent,
recover. In the third stage of the dis
ease the vomiting and purging continue,
although in mitigated form; and the skin
is covered with a clammy perspiration,
especially if the cramps are still severe.
Tho patient remains terribly restless,
longing only for sleep, and that lie may
ho supplied with water. His intellect is
clear; hut he seldom expresses any anx
iety regarding worldly affairs, although
fully conscious of the dangerous con
dition ho is in. Sleep and a plentiful sup
ply of drinking-water are tho solo de
sires of a person passing through the
collapse stage of cholera. Thin con
dition seldom lasts more than twenty
four hours, and reaction either com
mences within that period or the patient
dies in collapse or passes on into the tep
id stage, which in ninety-nine oases out
of a hundred ends speedily in death. On
the other hand, the sick person having
been in the collapse stage of cholera
some twenty-four hours (it may be a
longer or shorter period), tho temper
ature of his body may begin to rise,
gradually creeping up to the normal
standard; the functions of animal lifo
are slowly restored, and the sick person
recovers his health.
Long Lived.
The longest-lived fruit tree known is
the orange. It is reported to have at
tained tho age of threo hundred years,
and it is known to have flourished and
borne fruit for moro than a hundred
years. No fruit tree will flourish anil
produce a fruit so well under rough
treatment. It commences to bear the
third or fourth year after budding, and
by the fifth year it will produce mi
abundant crop, but its yield will increase
gradually under favorable circumstances;
as the years pass it will become a very
productive tree. The early growth of
the orange is quite rapid, and by its
tenth year it will have increased more
than in the next fifty years, so far as
breadth and height are concerned, but
its age multiplies its fruits stem greatly,
and an old tree will sometimes have sev
eral thousand oranges,
NO.
TALKS WITH THE BOYS.
V I’KW VKItY INTMU STIN<; FACTS AMI)
i n;l HUS
Tlmf will Show a llov Sum imlilii* Tmwtlble
About tlio Yitrion* Trndeit tint! yyliul Cun
ho Undo In Them.
[From tho Detroit Free I’iobh.J
“I am a strong, healthy boy, 10 years
old, and have a fair common school ed
ucation. I must make my own way in
life. What trade would you advise me
to learn ?”
Advioe would do you no good. We
will give you some facts and figures re
garding a good many trades and you
cun see what they offer. In presenting
these figures we are guided by vvliat is
paid in Detroit. They may be some
what higher in Chicago nr New York
ami somewhat lower in other cities, hut,
taking the country over, the average
will ho about lite same.
If you want to become a butcher yon
must serve a three years’ apprentice
ship. The rule is to board with your
employer, and llto first year, if handy
mid willing, get $25 or s.‘lo above board.
During the first year you will drive
cart and do tho rough work. After the
third year you will get all the way from
$7 to sl4 per week. There is oue
butcher in Detroit receiving S2O per
week, but there are plenty working for
Jess than sl4. In most, eases the ap
pri ntieo sets up for himself after his
term has expired, anil few butchers
travel on the trade.
The apprentice to a harness maker
must servo the samo time. The best
boy will not get over $5 per month the
first year, and the majority only $3. It
is all shop work, and used lo be consid
ered a good trade, hut of late years so
many State Prisons have gone into tho
business, and machinery has had so
much to do with it, the harness-makers
are discouraged. Tn the average shops
journeymen can be hired for $9 or $lO
per week. It is doubtful if the very
best men, working on fancy harness,
can make over sls per week.
If yon would he a shoemaker you
must also serve three years. You wonld
get what is called “hoard and clothes”
the first rear, which means hoard and
hoot $25 in fttidi. The second year
yon wonld get hoard and S3O, ami third
year hoard and SIOO. During this ap
prenticeship, if you were the right kind
of a hoy. you would ho allowed to earn
considerable change for yourself by odd
jobs of cobbling. The wages of good
ionrnrymen shoemakers are from sl2 to
sls pier week, and a good man is never
out of work. There is no lost time, and
weather which is had for other trades is
good for the shoemaker.
Tho tinner’s apprentice serves the
same period. The wages given are SSO,
$75 and SIOO per year with hoard, but if
vonr employer is the right kind of a
man, ho will allow yon to earn a dimo
occasionally by mending a leak. Many
tinners are also plumbers, but in cities
the two trades are kept separate. Any
one of them can, however, work moro
or less with other tools. Roofing and
sheet-iron work should go with the
trade. The wages of a good journey
man arc $2 per dav, hut moro are re
ceiving $lO per week than above. La
bor-saving machinery has sadly inter
fered with I he journeyman dnring tho
Inst six years. The pans, pie-tins, cups
and several other articles he used to ent
hv pattern and polder together, are now
stamped at a blow without seams.
The halter business takes no regular
apprentice. Boys are taken to work,
and are allowed to learn how to bake,
hut there is no agreement as to time.
The greater portion of the work can ho
learned in a year, hut linkers wlio have
followed the trade for twenty years can
still learn something new. The wages
are from $7 to sl2 per week. It is a
fancy linker who gets the latter figure.
The apprenticeship tea plumber isfor
three years. A boy will got about $3
per week, without hoard, the first year,
and $5 to sfi the second. A plumber
who is also a steam-fitter can count on
from $2 to $2.50 per day and steady
work. The wages paid to either a
plumber or gas fitter will average $3 per
lay,
The apprenticeship to a cabinetmaker
is for the same term, but, owing to la
bor-saving machinery, penal labor and
other causes, it is perhaps tho poorest
trade a hoy can learn. Good cabinet
makers are working for less than $2 per
day, and the very best hands won’t aver
age over sl3 per week. An apprentice
would he paid about $2 per week the
first year, but without board.
In cities of any size a painter means a
craftsman who paints buildings. He
docs not pretend to meddle with any-
Ihing further, or at least should not. An
apprentice would servo about one year
at, say, $3 per week. After that he
could draw pretty fair wages, but tho
iverago pay is not over $2 per day, and
there is a great deal of lost time.
Paper-hanging and decorating have
come to be an art. Men with taste and
skill can earn from $2.25 to $3.50 per
day. An apprentice would have to
serve at least two years, and would not
be paid over 33 per week the first year.
What is called a locksmith in Detroit
iiii ludia dozen oilier businesses. Ho
kei ps a machine shop and a novelty
works. T know a locksmith who is a
tine gun maker. Ho can turn out any
sort of pattern wanted. Ho can mend a
clock, put in an eloetrie bell, repair any
thing in wood or iron, idmrpen razors,
file saws, out screws and holts and nuts,
run engines, and, in fact, never turns a
job of any sort away. He knows tho
soienoo of stenm, calculates friction to a
nicety, and can tell yon the variations of
n rillo ball to a hair. Ho is Indeed a
mechanical genius, but when I asked
him the other day how much wages he
could pay a journeyman as handy as
himself he replied: "Not over $2.50 per
day at the best." An apprentice would
receive about $3 per week, without
board, tho first year.
A wogonmaker's approutico serves
threo years and would got only Ills board
for the first year. The wages of the best
workmen aro uot abovo $1.75 per day,
and most of them get only $1.50. 8o
■ many vehicles are turned out by stato
prisons and great wagon works liko the
Studebnckers' that tho trade is a poor
one for any hoy to pick up.
A city blacksmith has untiling to do
with horse shoeing. Ho Irons new ve
hides and repairs old ones. An appren
tice would get from $2 to $3 per week
the first year and probably $1 a day for
tho third. Tho wages of a journeyman
will average sl2 per week.
llorso shoers tako an apprentice for
threo years, but a boy would get noth
ing beyond his board for the first. When
lie is a finished workman ho is curtain of
lie $3 (ter day, and some get more than
that. Jt is a trade which would not
flourish very well in small towns, as tho
village blacksmith connects it with his
! own.
Carpenters hind llteir apprentices for
throe years, and pay from $2 to $3 per
j week, without board, tho first year. A
stout boy can be made useful from the
; outset. Tho wages of a common car
penter run from $1.50 to $2 per day. A
carpenter aud joiner—being a workman
j who can make doors, do fine “inside
work,” etc. —gets from $2 to $2.50 per
day. There is considerable lost time in
the trade and it is a lucky mnu who av
erages his $2 per day tho year through.
Till: BUREAU HF STATISTICS.
The linmiicrnnlN Arriving nml ili Export*
Of I'I’OViNiOIIM.
Tho Chief of the Bureau of Statistics
of tho United .States reports that tho
total values of the exports of domestic
cattle and hogs and of beef, pork and
dairy products from tho United States
during tho month of June, 1884, and
during tho six months ended Juno 30,
1884; also of beef and pork products
during the eight mouths and of dairy
products during tho two months ended
Juno 30, 1884, as compared with similar
exports during tho corresponding period
of the preceding year were as follows :
ISB4. 1883.
June, total valttr-s $0,372,743 $8,803,003
Bix months ended Jane
30 43,837,410 54.307,704
Beef and pork products,
eight months dulled
June 30 57,070,538 07,670,841
Dairy products, two
months ended Juno 30, 2,662,1166 2,000,420
A statement prepared by tho Bureau
of Htatislios shows that t.’ie number of
immigrants arrived during the year
ended .Tune 30, 1884, in the customs dis
tricts of Baltimore, Boston, Detroit,
Huron, Minnesota, New Orleans, New
York, Passamaqnoddy, Philadelphia and
San Francisco was 509,834, being 82,490
less than during tho preceding fiscal
year, and 260,080 less than during tho
year ending June 80, 1882. The prin
cipal decrease was in immigrants from
England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland,'
Germany, Italy, Norway, Canada ami
Sweden. The only increase was from
Austria. During the month of June,
1884, there arrived in the customs dis
tricts above mentioned 65,770 passen
gers, of whom 65,628 were immigrants,
6,454 citizens of the United States re
turned from abroad and 3,694 aliens not
intending to remain in the United
States—a decrease of 19,406 in the num
ber of immigrants arrived ns compared
with the mouth of Juno, 1883.
A Cowboy’s Pastime.
A California letter says:—“A favorite
pastime of tlie cowboys is to saddle a
half broken mustang, and after inserting
a half dollar in each stirrup some expert
rider will mount and buck himself to
keep tiro coins there for five or ten
minutes, tho horse being incited mean
while to do his worst in tho way of rear
ing, bucking, anti jumping. Feats with
the riata or lasso are also amusing. The
skill of theso nomads with a rawhide
rope is wonderful. At a distance of forty
feet an expert is unerring in getting his
rope over the neck of any animal, anil
many of them will reach sixty feet. At
half that distance the rope will single
out any leg of a steer running at lull
speed, and throw him down in a trice.
The rope once fast, the work of the horse
comes into play. With tho tightening
of tho rope tho intelligent littlo beast
plants his forelegs and awaits tho shock
of the sudden strain on the horn of the
saddle. Tire steer may plunge and run,
but he will never get a position except
in front of the horse, the wiry littlo
beast whirling about on his forelegs as a
pivot, and retreating or advancing as is
necessary to keep the rope taut.
Cyclones to Order.
The Adrian (Mich.) Time* says:—
Prof. Douglass, of tho State Univer
sity, it is said, produces amateur oy
olones at will. He. does it by suspend
ing a large copper plate by silken cords.
This plate is charged heavily with elec
tricity, which hangs down like a bag
underneath, and is rendered visible by
the use of arsenious acid gas, which
gives it a green color. The formation
is a miniature oyeloue, us perfect as any
started in the clouds. It is funnel
shaped and whirls around rapidly. Pass
ing this plate over a table, the five-cent
cyclone snatches up copper cents, pens,
pith Dalle, and other objects and scatters
them on all sides.
The Fkontien. —Buffalo Bill rocently
saiil to an audience at the conclusion of
his exhibition: “You have seen more of
life on the frontier this afternoon than
yon would in ten years living on the
frontier.”