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KENTUCKY MIND READER
REPEATS figures and words
thought of by others.
g oED e Claim It Is An Exhibition of
lluscle Reading, While Others Re
main Firm and Maintain It Is Qen-
U ine Mind Reading.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Anew mind reader has been discovered
t Glasgow, Kv., or rather discovered him
lt accidentally, not long since. He is
Flavius Taylor, the son of Dr. F. J. Taylor,
a Glasgow physician. His age is 19 years,
and some account of his doings has been
,ent to the Courier-Journal by Dr. P. C.
gutphin, another of Glasgow’s physicians,
who is familiar with the young man’s case,
and has made a study of mind reading, as
well as what is called “mußcle reading,” by
performers who claim to be guided by the
thrills of the muscles of the subject.
Dr Sutphin gives some speculations at
length on the alleged distinction between
mind reading and muscle reading, and ar
rived at the conclusion that, though there
may be trickery and imposture used by some
people, there is such a thing as mind read
ing and no such thing as muscle reading.
He quotes from Stuart Cumberland, an
English mind reader, who claimed that he
waT guided by the muscles, and who, in a
performance before the Khedive of Egypt,
wrote a word thought of (the name of the
khedive’s son, Abbas,) on a piece of paper,
in Arabic, a language of which he knew
nothing, and this without a moment's hesi
tation.
Cumberland said this was muscle reading,
but Dr. Sutphin details a similar test with
young Taylor whioh, he claims, shows the
inicd must bear its part in such a test as
well as the muscles. Ho is willing to say
ibat some things may be done by muscle
reading, but that others cannot. Dr. Sut
phin, in his account of young Taylor’s per
formance ,says:
“We may concede all that Mr. Cumber
land says of muscle reading, may agree that
all his feats were performed by it, yet,
when it is attempted to Include all mind
reading m this, then it will be found that
this cannot be done. There is much of
mind reading, indeed, that could not be ex
plained, nor, in fact, bo accomplished by
muscle reading. This is fully proved by a
lately developed mind reader here in the
place in which I live —a young man, Fla
vius Taylor, 19 years of age, sou of Dr. F.
J. Taylor, a prominent physician and pen
sion medical examiner. It is not improba
ble that in nearly every instance the gift of
mind reading has been of accidental discov
ery on the part of the one possessing it, and
thus it was accidentally' made known to
young Taylor.
HIS FIRST ATTEMPT.
“Several months ago an itinerant mind
reader exhibited in this place, and young
Taylor attended his performance. Return
ing home, he playfully remarked to a young
man who had accompanied him that he
thought he would make a good mind reader,
and that if the other would blindfold him
and hide something he would find it for
him. To have a little amusement ho was
duly blindfolded and told to find a book that
had been hidden in an adjacent room. He
grasped the hand of the young man who
had hidden the book, but was utterly sur
prised to find that not only the book, but
also Its place of concealment, were impressed
on his mind. He readily took the young
man to the place where the book was and
handed it to him.
“After this there were more or less fro
nuent tests of his powers in finding things
thus, while all hidden artioles are always
promptly located by him. Intermingled
with these tests were others, such as willing
him to do certain things. Say, for instance,
that it was willed for him to take a particu
lar flower of a number of flowers in a vase
in the room, and to band it to a certain
young lady present; to remove the watch
from the pocket of a oertatu gentleman and
to put it into that of another certain gontlo
m ;n: to go to a library and take out some
particular volume in it, and turn to a cer
tain page and paragraph or sentence in it,
and so on of other requests of this sort.
“All these were teudily and accurately
done by him down to the minutest particu
lar of the wish. Mr. Cumberland, however,
professes to have done things quite equal to
this by muscle reading, being directed in
them by the muscular tremors of the hand
kept inclosed in his. In this wry, he says,
he only followed direction, and Knew noth
ing really of the mind, and only did as tho
tremors directed. Ho did, in other words,
precisely what the hand he was holding
would have done, direoted by the Individual.
In this, of course, there was no mind read
ing, but a guidance only by musclo signal
ing.
“Suppose,however.it was required to take
hold of the hand and next toll any particu
lar thought of the mind—not find anything
or do anything that the hand of the indi
vidual might do, but simply to take the
hand and say, not act out, what the thought
was—then this could only be gotten direct
from the mind, and in no other nay, as
mere muscle reading, in this case, would
simply bo impossible. In this case, it would
be necessary to seo thought itself, to tell
what it was. which the thrill of the muscles
would not admit of. And yet young Taylor
can do this. He has been mentally re
quested, for instance, to play a certain air
on the organ, ono of a number played by
Idm. When catching hold of tho hand to
know what it was, he would go to the organ
and play it, using both hands for the pur
pose. Had he been playing by direction only
of the muscles of the band, he could not
l ave let go the hand before beginning to
plav andplayed with both hands.
SOME OK THE TESTS.
“But he has done hotter even than this.
A j figure, or any number of figures being
thought of, he has readily announced what
it or they were, calling thorn out singly or
lu combination fes desired. For instance,
suppose that the figures 5, 8 and 8 were sep
arately thought of. Then those were
Promptly told out one by one, and announced
ein gly as thought of; or, suppose again
these were thought of as 538, then this
number, or 538, would be told. Some time
ago, knowing that he did not understand
i atin, 1 improvised a short Latin sentence
~’Est mihi voluntas ut legis meum men
tum’— and asked him to tell me what it
Was - This was made out slowly, but quite
accurately, the words being spelled out,
“tier by letter. It is proper to say, too,
that these were called out at once without
going over the alphabet and gottiug at
them in this way; one by one on the order
'f the‘table rapping.’ Nothing was said,
fcallv more than to call out the letter in
proper order.
" IV it bout mentioning other feats of this
; ’ UD S man, the question next occurs, Upon
'' hat other ground can we explain this tell
■g of -gores and calling out Latin than
"P"n tho silent impress of mind upon mind?
,s the explanation, in fact, that young
ayi .r gives of his ‘mind reading.’ as it is
Sued, or that he only interprets everything
S lm Pression. He knows nothing of mus
‘9 reading, feels otiiing ot the sort, sees
thing, hears nothing, is not aware even of
, particular exaltati uof the perception.
simply finds certain thoughts or wishes
°-auother impressed on him.
cor- is ereat difficulty, he says, is to get a
impression from one who either
concentration of the mind or allow the
into It U |? Ut i,lstrusion °f othur thoughts
L J f l ' ~ , or a good effect impressions must
mn ' Qml Btiar P-cut, and the mind
- dp kept steadily and as exclusively as
acSIH l the tub J ßOt - He thinks the hand
re ‘ as a conductor of impression, and
tmWf. n as indispensable for that
trap.m,’, “'j tbe current of impression is
co ,!ri li'M letl lu th ‘ B w “y. without which be
add thf. ■ notb 'ug. In conclusion, I may
cons.Ho “ 18 performance there is usually
b-iL @ d'ejUfbance of his physical
i.'o'j res P> ration often becomes slow
Pi
heats above normal to the min
soaktml 1 ’ “ heav >' s 'Khing at times, and
suite S ° much exhaustion as to neces
-aio .temporary rest.”
FOUND A MILLION ADRIFT.
Joe Marshall's Story at an Old-time
Mississippi Flood and Levee Fire.
From the St. Louis Republic.
In the south end of the city, commonly
called Carondelet, but which at one time
bore the very significant name of Vide
roche (empty pocket), there resides one of
the early French settlers, Joe Marshall by
name. “Old Jo?,” as he is called by every
one, is one of those unfortunate Frenchmen
who settled in Carondelet while it was yet
a burg of some six or seven houses. He
acquired a great deal of property, as did all
the old creoles, and when a more active
civilization encroached upon the district
and the property began to be worth some
thing he lost it all through carelessness and
bad management. It may not be generally
known that Joe was a millionaire for two
whole hours at one time, and the circum
stances of his rise and fall are best told in
his own words;
“It was in the summer of 1849; I was on
the river then. The river was booming,
and it was unsafe to go out on it in a small
boat. That was in the early steamboat days
when every one traveled by river, and the
wharf ia St. Louis was lined with boats,
which stuck their bows so close together, in
order to get to tho wharf at all, that they
formed a wall along the river front, and
w hen a fire broke out on one boat the
others were so tightly wedged in that escape
was impossible. It had been storming all
day, and in the evening the river was a
raging torrent, ready to tear away its
banks or to dash the huge trees that had
been uprooted by it in its mad course
through the hull of the steamer that vent
ured from the bank out in midstream.
"About 9 o’clock that evening a fire broke
out on the levee among the boats. There
was a panic. Some of the passengers who
were spending the night on tho boats in
order to make sure of their staterooms lost
their lives in the panic which followed, and
others left their valuables. The loss was
immense, both of life and of property. The
red glare of the lire was distinctly visible
in Vide Foche, and I and my partner 6at up
and kept watch on the river, expecting to
see some of the passengers of the burniug
boats drift by, and to rescue them if possi
ble. We waited long, but no victims of the
fire came. At last, as we were about to
give up the watch, we saw out in the cur
rent a dark object that appeared to be a
raft. It shot swiftly into view, and as it
passed us we could see the white face
of a man holding on to a
raft which he had constructed of four
life preservers, and on which he floated a
large chest, which, from the care he had
taken to place it in safety at the rißk of his
own life, we judged to be very valuable.
We resolved to save him if possible, and.
jumping into our skiff, we pulled toward
him. At that moment the raft was caught
in one of the whirlpools below the Elwood
street dike and was broken to pieces. The
man lost his hold and was swallowed in the
vortex, while the chest, too, went down.
We rowe l about the spot to pick up the life
preservers which had been separated, and
in picking up the second one found a rope
attached to it. My partner wanted to cut
it. Put I stopped him and told him to save
the rope, as it might be useful. He com
menced pulling it in, but before he had got
ten much of it in tho boat he called me to
his assistance, and we worked away pulling
in the dead weight at the other end of the
rope.
■‘Finally the task was finished, and, as a
reward, instead of the body of the man
whom we had just seen drown before our
eyes, we found we had the oheit which he
valued more than his life. We hauled it
ashore with many misgivings, and 1 did not
open it, but put it carelessly before my
shanty.
“The next day I had plenty to do picking
up wreckage and watching for the bodies
of those who had perished on the boats.
About 5 o’clock in the evening a gentleman
drove down to the shanty. lie seemed
greatly excited. He was accompanied by a
constable. They asked me if I had seen a
chest floating down the river. Well, to
make a long story short, the man was tho
owner of the chest, which contained his
whole fortune—more than a million. The
man who was drowned was his brother,
who had locked him in his stateroom to
perish and tried to make off with the treas
ure in the way described.
“I told him of his brother’s death, aud he
remarked; ‘Poor fellow, I forgive him, aud
shall not tell lather of his attempted crime.’
He was a member of one of the best families
of the city at the time, and after taking me
to the nearest station, where we had the
best in the house, he gave me $5,000 to
keep the whole affair quiet, and not let his
name be known. What did Ido with the
$5,000. I lived like a gentleman on it for a
year.
“ Did I ever seo the gentleman again 1 Yes,
quite often; he is one of the leading men of
St. Louis to-day."
DUEL TO THE D3ATH.
Indians Meet and fettle a Long Stand
ing Grudge With Knives.
From the San Francisco Examiner.
William Weston, a raneheman living
twenty miles north of Fishomingo, I. TANARUS.,
brings a story of a most horrible duel, which
was fought with knives by two Indians near
his ranch. There had been bad blood be
tween the two for some time, which had
started over a horse race.
The Indians were named Sewapi and
Nunechi. They Pad been restrained from
fighting several times by their friends, but
on meeting at another horse race last week
tho quarrel was renewed, and it was finally
arranged that they should end the matter
by a duel with knives. A large crowd of
Indians and half-breeds were present, and a
ring was formed. Each man had his sec
ond, who was armed with a Winchester
rifle, ready to shoot down any one who
might bo tempted to interfere.
The contestants were stripped to the
waist, and each was urmed with two sharp
knives, tho blades being about eight inches
long. W hen tho men entered tne riug it
was with the understanding that it was a
duel to the death. Both were magnificent
spe linens of manhood, and they were
equally adept in the use of the knife.
Amid breathless silence the combatants
slowly approached tho center of the ring.
There they stood for a minute gazing at
each other, while tho silence waimust pain
ful. Not a sound could be heard except the
occasional stamp of a horse on the outskirts
of the crowd. The spectators sat around
perfectly motionless while the duelists be
gan slowly to walk around each other
watching for a chance to catch the other
off guard. It was probably two minutes
before a change came, and then it was with
the rapidity of a lightning stroke.
Sewapi suddenly made a leap through tho
air toward his enemy, and for an instant the
air appeared to be full of Indians and knives,
which latter flashed in the sunshine like
streaks of light. As quickly as they came
together did they separate, and notwith
standing tho rapid play of tfie weapons it
was seen that neither had received a scratch.
Still, during the whole exciting scene not a
sound could be heard except the clashing
steel as it came together. Slowly the cir
cling began again, and the glittering eyes
alone showed that the walk meant death.
Soon the same leap was repeated, this time
by Nunechi, who seemed to fly through the
air. The fight was fast and furious, and
w hen they separated both w ere bleeding
profusely. Sewapi had a terrible cut across
his breast, while Nunechi had the muscle of
his left forearm almost severed.
The intermission was very short, and both
meu sprang simultaneously toward each
other. The struggle was fierce, and sud
denly a trip was given aud Sewapi fell on
top of his antagonist. The lightning-like
rapidity of the stroke and parry precluded
the possibility of knowing who was getting
the worst of it, untii it was noticed that
Nunechi threw up his arms, stiffened out
bis legs and was dead with a knife In his
heart. Sewapi sprang to his feet, gave an
ear-splitting yell, and then slowly sank to
tho ground, with blood gushing from a
dozen wounds. Before a friend could reao'u
him he, too, was a corpse.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1891—TWELVE PAGES.
METHODS OF MOSQUITOES
DISSERTATION UPON THE VICIOUS
HABITS OF THE LITTLE Pi! ST.
How Bhe Gets in Her Work—The Pro
noun '‘She” is Used Advisedly, for It
Is the Female Insect That Worries
Our Sleep and Stings Our Faces.
From the St. I Amis Olobe-Democrat.
“I stood on the bridge at midnight,” the
anything but genial ‘ ’mosquito," “mos
keto,” “musquetoe,” “moschito,” “mos
chetto,” “mosquetto,” “muschetto,” “mus
hetto,”or “ musquetto,” sings on these cool,
damp evenings 9t. Louis has been enjoying
during the past week. For such a very lit
tle pest the “mosquito,” has more
names and in more languages than
any other living thing. Scientists variously
call her the culex pipienft, ailex America
nus, the cousin, the maucheron and the
"humming gnat.” The Century dictionary
describes the insect of many aliases as “one
of many different kinds of gnats or midges,
the female of which bites animals and draws
blood.” Persons who are given to attribute
to the female sex all the gentleuess and
amiability there is in the world will bear
tins in mind.
AN INDOLENT INSECT.
Mr. Mosquito is an easy-going, gorgeously
arrayed creature, with neither the disposi
tion nor the ability to bite animals aud draw
blood. He is a sort of 1 urveydrop in the
insect world, who seems to have no higher
object during his brief life than “to show
himself about town.” His life, to be sure, is a
short one, but then it is full of indolence aud
luxury. He is expected to pay certain deli
cate attentions to his infinitesimal spouse,
which she rewards when tired of him by
giving him a short, sharp and fatal prod of
the remarkable lance which she carries con
cealed in her proboscis. He is not provided
with such a weapon, and is as much at her
mercy as a boxer at that of a skilled
swordsman. He is of gentle and perhaps
amiable character. He lives on a strictly
vegetable diet, which may account for the
absenoe ot the bloodthirsty and ferocious
spirit of his spouse. She can at a pinch
live the life of a vegetarian, but what she
wants is gore, piping hot gore, hu
man if she can get it; but neveroverlooking
any chance. The toughest hide that ever
covered a horse or a sseer does not intervene
between tho lady mosquito and her varnpir
ish thirst. It is even doubted that Col.
Mosquito is giveu to vocal efforts. If he
ever does join his consort iu a nerve-destroy
ing duet he sings very low, and his per
formance is entirely overlooked, when the
restless human appreciates the ease with
which my lady takes high C aud holds it
untii driven out of the room by tho exas
perated wielder of a wet towel.
Less is known about the origin of the
mosauito’s name than of his habits, and
Americans have no monopoly of informa
tion upon this latter phase of the subject.
All climates claim the mosquito as pest in
chief. On the upper waters of the Missouri
mosquitoes, after a rainy season, are the
greatest impediment to navigation met
with. They swarm by millions. Cattle are
driven in the river, and they stand with
their muzzles alone held above tho water,
which are black with the pests. Pilots on
the boats are forced to burn smudge fires.
They are of every conceivable degree of
minuteness, and no veil has fine enough
texture to exclude them. Arctio explorers
all write of sufferings at the hands or
rather stings of mosquitoes.
In England mosquitoes are called gnats
and on the continent of Europe cousins,
moucherons aud other names. " The gnat
belongs to the genus culer. It is found in
most of the temperate and tropical portions
of the globe whore man has penetrated.
About thirty species are known in the
United States.
HOW THE MOSQUITO IS BUILT.
In the human family the female is the
more ornamental as well as the more amia
blo animal. In the insect world, particu
larly among mosquitoes, the reverse is the
case. There are mosquitoes which confiue
their activities to the daylight hours, and
which lavish their caresses principally on
the tender foliage of trees and aromatic
plants. These principally inhabit woods
and marshes. The other varieties make
themselves heard and felt during the night
chiefly. The greater portion of their active
existence is passed in or near human habi
tations. These are the varieties with which
man is most intimately acquainted.
But m all the species of the mosquito
family the male apparently is the superior
being. In grace and elegance of architect
ural construction, as well as iu variety and
gorgeousness of raiment, the male mosquito
far surpasses the female. The male also
enjoys privileges and prerogatives to which
the female can never aspire—certainly can
never gain. The function which she per
forms in propagation of the species
compels her to consume more food
than ho does, and all this food she is
obliged to get herself. In evory essential
particular she has to make her own and the
family’s living without the slightest aid
from him. Such food as he requires for
himself, which is neither large in quantity
nor varied in quality, he picks up. Beyond
that ho does little except to display his
charms and enjoy life. It is the female of
the mosquito family with which the human
species comes in most intimate contact. The
female does by far the greater portion of
the biting done by the family, and tho
warblings of the mosquito are those of the
female mosquito alone.
METAMORPHOSIS ON THE MOSQUITO.
The mosquito first appears in the form of
an egg. The eggs are deposited in the
water by tho mother mosquito. Before
doing this she crosses her hind legs in the
shape of a letter X. As the eggs are dropped
they are caught by the crossed legs, the
glutinous substance attaching to the eggs
holding them together. Tho number of
eggs laid by one female before rising is very
great. These eggs are arranged in the form
of a raft and left to i ide on the water,
hallow, stagnant, fresh water usually being
selected. By the additions mado to the
number of eggs the raft is converted into a
sort of a boat, and when the laying process
is all completed the boat consists of from
300 to 850 eggs. This is the first stage in the
existence of the embryo mosquito. After
the last ogg is laid and the boat completed,
the mother’s function, so far, at least, as
regards this particular brood, ends, and the
eggs are left to shift for themselves.
A few days after the egg boat is launched
the larvae appear. These are of an elon
gated, worm-like form, and come out of the
lower e .and of the eggs, leaving the empty
shells forming the boat lying on the surface
of the water. The shell is soon destroyed
by the action of winds and water.
When the larv® appear the eggs
are hatched. Most country readers
of this article have seen these larvae
in immense numbers on the surface of stag
nant water during tho warm months They
are vulgarly called "wigglers.” Suspended
from tho surface of the water, with head
downward, they are enabled to breathe by
means of a sort of tube communicating
with tho trachea. The appearance of the
larvae may be said to complete the second
stage in the existence of the mosquito.
THE MOSQUITO BEGINS ACTIVE LIFE.
From ten to fifteen days after the appear
ance of the larva? the substance enters the
pupae state. They take on a thin skin, al
most completely covering the larva-, and
roll around in tne water, their motion’s be
ing directed by a fin-like contrivance at the
end of the tail. The quick, seemingly ir
regular movements of the pupa? give them
the name of “tumblers ” They, too, are
familiar to persons residing in the rural
districts in the spring and summer. The
change of the larvae into the pupae com
pletes the third stage iu the mosquito’s ex
istence.
Between five ana ten days after the
pupae appears the last and most critical
stage iu the entire metamorphosis of the
egg into the perfect insect arrives. About
this period the pupa skin bursts open, and
the mosquito takes its first look at day-
light. The pupa shell is in the form of a
boat, the opening appearing on the surface
of the shell which is farthest from the
water. Tho insect rises slowly aud de
liberately until at length balances itself on
its tail. A small gust of wind now or a
slight eddy and the sheil boat would tip
over, when the mosquito’s active existence
would end before it begun.
If tho gust of wind or eddy fail to appear
—and it is certain that they often do fail to
appear—the insect slowly extricates its
front pair of legs, and places them on the
surface of the water, still clinging to its
shell boat. Then it as slowly and deliber
ately spreads its wings. They at first strike
the water, but are raised above it again
and the sun—for these affairs invariably
take place sunny days—and air dry them.
The hind legs are then slowly drawn from
the shell until their ends rest on the edge of
the boat, the body is stretched out. the
wings expanded. A moment afterward the
wings flap, the shell is tipped over, the head
is turned shoreward, aud tho mosquito is
ready for business.
THE MOSQUITO’S “STIN,}.”
Entomologists are by no means agreed as
to the number of pieces in the proboscis, or
"sting,” of the common mosquito. This is
the instrument which punetur a the flush,
and serves as a sort of introduction of the
mosquito to the human family. S nne au
thorities declare that it hai four pieces,
others aver that it has six. while still others
assert that it has five. The average lay
man would be unwilling to place the num
ber below twenty The proboscis is tubular
in form. The lances attached to it, what
ever their number may be, a o sharper than
any instrument known to the surgeon. It
is not the size or depth of the wound in
flicted which makes the moquito’s “sting”
so painful, but rather the secretion which
is injected under the skin by the proboscis.
This always produces itching.
There is no unanimity among scientists
regarding the question of poison in the mos
quito’s "sting.” No poison gland has yet
been found iu the head of any of these in
sects which have been examined. The
wounds have been known to swell and be
come inflamed in many cases. In some deli
cate skins, indeed, ulcers are said to have
been produced; but on this latter
point many entomologists throw
doubts: It is certain, as mil
lions of victims will very feelingly
testify, that the wounds are often painful
and always decidedly unpleasant. The
saliva injected is believed to be slightly
acrid. This quality, aggravated with the
action of the barbed joint on one blade of
the “sucker,” causes irritation, which is
sought to be allayed by scratching, but
whiou, in reality, makes the wound the
more inflamed and painful.
THE MOSQUITO’S “SONG.”
Unhappily, the mosquito’s “sting” is not
so irritating to the victim's flesh os its
“song” is to his nerves. Concerning the
manner in which this sound is produced the
naturalist is almost as much in the dark as
the most ignorant and thoughtless non
scientist. The ordinary person, it is true, if
questioned on the subject, would unhesitat
ingly answer off-hand that it is made by
the respiratory organs, as the vocal
music of man and many of the lower
animals is made. The naturalist, however,
would not make this mistake. For what
ever produces this sound, it appears toler
ably certain that it has no necessary con
nection with the breathing apparatus.
Kirby, a well-known British entomologist,
attributed it to the friction made by the
base of the wings against the ohest in flying.
Other naturalists, equally skilled and ob
servant, ascribe it to the rapid motions of
the wingless, the motions of the poisers of
the vibrations of the thorax caused by the
contractions of the muscles of the wings.
The wings, indeed, move rapidly enough to
produce a buzz of a fairly robust and pro
nounced character. One autuority esti
mates that they vibrate fifty times every
second while flying. Let 100 or 3UO of these
songsters be flying at one time within a
dozen feet of a person’s head-and twice or
thrice as many ns that are often flying within
a space smaller thau that in a woods, beside
a brook or in a garden—and it would be
wonderful if tho air were not vocal with
sound.
LONDON'S FOUR HUNDRED.
Until 1870 ;the Clique Scarcely Ex
ceeded the MoAUtster Limit.
From the Boston Beacon.
Sir William Frazer, in his reminiscences
of Lord Beaconsfield, had occasion to com
ment on the narrowness of the limits which
circumscribed fashionable society a genera
tion or so ago. From 1847 to 1870, he says,
London society consisted of from 300 to 500
persons. These were the people to be met
at the best balls and evening parties. The
charmed circle was guarded from the in
trusion of outsiders with the utmost jeal
ousy. “Every one know every one else, at
least by sight; and you met the same part
ners night after night for three mouths.”
Recent disclosures have made it clear. If
demonstration was needed, that no suoh ex
clusive fashionable clique exists now, or, if
it still exists, that it no longer enjoys its old
prestige. Social distinction—to use a phrase
which, however clumsy, nevertheless has a
precise meaning—may be achieved by
almost any one who cares to pursue it, pro
vided he or she makes proper use of some
personal and peculiar qualification. Any
single qualification, used the right way, wiil
suffice; none is imperative. Breeding is not
essential where there is wealth; tho lack
both of breeding and money may be com
pensated by good looks or impudence.
Mrs. Ponsonby de Totnkyns may be
familiar with duchesses. Sir Georgius Midas
may entertain the highest in the laud, with
out either of them suffering tho affronts or
exciting the ridicule which Mr. Punch has
imagined. Society, which was once a
clique, has now become a crowd, and a
highly mixed crowd, in which may be met
all sorts and conditions of meu aud women.
Under the present dispensation, tho privi
leges once monopolized by rank and birth
are now within the reach of persons with
neither. Home people arc admitted only
because they are rich, others because they
are talked about; others only because they
are ih a way amusing.
KENTUCKIAN BURGCO.
A Colonel Discourses on the Proper
ties of This Rem arkable Dish.
From the Cincinnati Commercial.
“Burgoo,” explained Col. J nines Orr of
Covington, “is one of the oldest Kentucky
dishes we have, No one knows who first
made ’burgoo,” nor does any one know
where or how it got its queer name.
“ ’Burgoo’ is an out-of ioors creation, and
pots of ‘burgoo’ have simmered ovar a hot
fire in the sun at every political gathering
in the state since Henry Clay was a boy,
and years before that, too.
“It is not only an extremely palatable
dish, if you call it that, but it’s very nour
ishing. ‘Burgoo’ is a cross between a ste v
and a soup. It is always made in the open
air. The ‘burgoo’ the blaies of grass ate
to-day w as very rich.
“How was it made? Well, I took a big
caldron, put some red-pepper pods in the
bottom, added some potatoes, tomatoes and
corn; then put in half a dozen prairie
chickens, as many more tender ‘yellow
legs,’ and a o .uple dozen softshell crab?.
I’d have added some young squirrels, but
they could not be obtained.
“When everything is in readiness there is
enough water put into the caldron to just
make the contents float. Then it is put on
the fire. It must be allowed to simmer
slowly for six hours, and must be stirred
constantly with a hickory stick.
“A hickory stick is best and always used,
but another might do ns well. When it is
nearly done it raav be flavored to suit the
taste. It is ‘done’ when the meats are
thoroughly shredded, no'- bofore. When it
is done—Uml” and Col. Orr’s eye sparkled
at the prospect.
Traveler -Which is the shortest, quickest
ami tst r >ute to the west;
Ticket Agent—l don't know, sir.
“Have you do opinion on the subject’’’
“None at all They all pay the same com
missions now.— Aeu> York Weekly.
RAIL AND CROBSTIB.
Supt. H. R. Dill of the main stem divis
ion of the Central railroad and son spent
yesterday in the city.
Supt. JohnD. Williamson of the Chatta
nooga division of the Central railroa 1 spent
yesterday iu the city.
Road master C. E. Marvin. Trainmaster
E. E. Anderson and J. W. Palmer of the
Central railroad at Macon are registered at
the Pulaski.
The Tvbee railway draw bridge over St.
Augustine creek was struck by a lighter in
passing through tho draw yesterday after
noon, damaging the bridge so that it is im
possible to swiug it. The accident will not
interfere with the running of trains, as the
bridge is safe for crossing, the only damage
being to tho machinery of the draw.
j lorenoe (Ala.) disi atch says the Rich
mond Terminal railroad has assumed con
trol of tne Birmingham, Sheffield and Ten
nessee River road, and anew schedule is
announced to lake effect at once. This
gives the Termiuul a through line from the
Tennessee river to the gulf, with the excep
tion of a short distance between Jasper and
Birmingham. The Terminal is building a
line from Princeton, Ky., to Florence,
which will give it, when completed, a trunk
line from the lakes to the gulf.
8. M. Felton, president of the Cincinnati
Southern, is out in a card defending his
position in regard to perpetually leasing
that road to the Cincinnati, New Orleans &
Texas Pacific road, claiming that neither
Ctnciuuati nor the stockholders could afford
to do it, as the present lease is too burden
some to think of extending it indefinitely.
He thinks if the road adopts the rates rec
ommended by the merchants of Cincinnati
xt would bring on a freight war that would
be ruinous to the company, aud says: “An
investigation into the conditions existing
with reference to southern rates will I am
sure, lead them to change their minds on
that subject.”
The following editorial is clipped from
the Railway Review of Chicago: "It would
appear that rate cutting at the present
time is not half so funny as it formerly was.
The list of indictments of both shippers and
railway officials for violations of interstate
law is rapidly increasing in length, and it is
beginning to look as if another element
tending to promotion from the ranks was
being introduced into the railroad service.
Formerly death and resignation were the
only means of creating vacaucies, but if
Uncle Sam continues to interfere as he is
now doing, chances for promotion will be
more frequent. Seriously.however, the law
is beginning to make itself felt. A promi
nent railway official lately said
that the present maintained rates
w ere not, as was claimed, owing to the in
fluences of the various traffic associations,
but were wholly caused by the indictments
which had been found for violations of the
act to regulate commerce. (It should be
said in this connection that this particular
railway official is opposed to traffic associa
tions.) However that may be, the influence
of the law is being felt, so much so that
shippers have been known to inquire of a
higher official,if a rate quoted them by a
soliciting agent was not a violation of the
law. Very many of our railway officials
protend to believe that the law Is unconsti
tutional, but it is becoming to be apparent
that they do not care to take the personal
risk of being made to occupy the position
of defendant In a crimiual case in order
that its constitutionality may bedisproved.”
EX-KING MILAN.
Servia’a Abdicated Monarch Lives In
Paris Like a Wealthy Foreigner.
From the Berlin Post.
If one meets a rather fleshy man, with a
black, thin mustache, a dark brown skin, a
rough, unpleasant voice and “loud” man
ners, either in the Bo is, in the loge of the
theater, or in a restaurant before a heavily
laden table, his identity is easily established.
He is an exotic parvenu or the ex-King
Milan of Servia. One can find him at 5
o’clock in the evening and at 5 o’clock in the
morning playing baccarat in his club or
poker in the Rue Royal.
In Paris King Milan leads the life of a
wealthy foreigner who has retired from his
business or profession. One must acknowl
edge that there Is little that ‘s majestic in
hisoonduct. Asa rule he does not like to
lie addressed as “majesty.” He wishes to
lie treated as Count de Takova, both in the
club and in society.
His ex-majesty lives in the neighborhood
of the Bois de Boulogne. Recently be pur
chased a home there after living several
months in furnished apartments in the Av
enue d’Antin. It would, therefore, seem
that he does not expect to be recalled to
Servia by his former subjects. Asa rule
this king loves the provisional and is op
posed to binding contracts. His household
consists of a chamberlain and an adjutant.
They often leave him alone, however, ns
Milan prefers to leave tho memories of his
fi riner station in the vestibules of most of
the houses which he visits.
But he bears the golden exile from his
country easily. Ho pretends to have noth
ing to do with politics more than he should
do. He does not like to speak about the
Qiueon Natalie. When compelled to do so
against his will, he speaks with an energy
and in a manner that proves that the
founder of the Obrenovich dynasty was rot
born at the foot of a throne. Still he loves
his country and takes pleasure in recount
ing the revolutions which have flourished
in Servia duriug the lust century. Does he
do so because the Servians have recalled
their exiled princes more than once?
Milan lives in Paris as many Oriental
millionaires. He wishes to be the Parisian
in everything. He desires to be looked upon
as a leader of Parisian stylo, as one who un
derstands all Parisian eccentricities. “A
good follow,” say his friends.” His compau
ions cannot be surprised that clubmen have
nicknamed him “Le Roistaquouere.”
PRACTICAL FORTUNE TELLING.
How You Kay Correctly Foretell the
After Life of a Child.
From the Xew York Ledger.
Despicable as the practico which gees by
the name of fortune telling is,there is a kind
of fortune telling which Is not only possible
but easily practiced upon correct principles.
Thus, to begin with the young, when a child
ie obedient to his or her parents or teachers,
or any one else toward whom the subordinate
relation has become necessary, wo have no
hesitation in predicting that good fortune
will accompany such a child into early
manhood or womanhood and insure a fair
start in adult life. If the case be that of au
honest, euergetio young man, who has suc
cessively advance! from the position of ap
prentice and journeyman into that of a me
chanic or boss, we can tell his fortune
without much difficulty. So with regard to
those who have chosen a profession as the
means of livelihood.
Let us see how they conduct their busi
ness. If they do this intelligently, indus
triously and honestly at tho start, they will
be very apt to continue to do so, and success
wiil be"sure in the long run. Unprincipled
men iu the same line may get ahead of them
in tho beginning, but wiil fare worst in the
end, and so illustrate the truth of the maxim
teat honesty is the best polioy. We will
confess that we are no fortune teller if it
does not so turn out.
“So your husband is dead. What did he leave
you!"
“1 haven’t inquired. lam perfectly satisfied
so long as he has left you."— Life,
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Operating the Central Railroad of Georgia.
TO TAKE EFFECT JULY 10th, 1831.
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*9:50 a. ra 7:10 a. m.
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