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Mlstalren Identity.
Mr. Josiah Hill, employed ' at the
lower Studebaker shops, in South
Bend, Indiana, has been a resident of
this place for two years. A few
months before going there he was the
victim of % one of the most wonderful
cases of mistaken identity on record.
Mr. Hill and his family lived at 21 J
Grant Place, Chicago, and he followed
his trade of gardening in Evanstown
and adjoining villiages. He had lor- smoothed-faced miner.
much to the stranger’s surprise and disgust.
The scene attracted quite a crowd; and
as oitr meek-eyed friend drew ounce after
ounce of the yellow dust to his side of the
table low murmurs of applause rah over
tne room. The cards were again ahnffladj
dealt and the betting began.
• ‘I see your ten ounces and make it
twenty,” calmly said Sweet William.
“I call you, pard,” said the stranger,
“and if you hold'over me* I am gone, for I
am down to the hard-pan, as sure as you
live.”
“Very well, what have you?” said the
merly resided in Evanston and was
known by nearly every person in the
“Four kings.”
“Good, but not good enough,” said Sweet
village. On Sunday morning, June William,
llth, 1870, a man was run over and “What!” gasped the stranger, for once
killed at Evansville by an incoming los Jf# contro1 of handsome fotnres.
“ “-hour aces an—a queen ” said the win-
radroad tram The corpse was at once ; neI . M he 8pread out 4 on the table four ^
identified as that of Mr. Josiah Hill, an( j— an old photograph! It represented
the gardener. Word was sent to his thefeatures of a very beautiful girl; and as
family consisting 01 a wife and a the gambler’s eyes fell on it his face turned
daughter aged 16, and they went to
Evanstown to care for the body of the
unfortunate husband and lather. The
wife wept aud in her almost inconsola
ble grief frantically caressed the dead
one. The inquest was held, and there
was no lack of evidence concerning the
dead man’s identity. In fact there
was so much unimpeachable evidence
establishing the identity that it was
never once questioned. When the in
quest was over the wife took charge of
the remains, and on Tuesday, the day
appointed for the funeral, the body
was borne to the grave amid the lamen
tations of a large circle of friends.
That, apparently, was the end of Mr.
Josiah Hill, on this earth. On the jury
at the inquest was Mr. Kearney, dep
uty sheriff of Cook county, who among
others present at the time, knew Mr.
Hill very well, and swore to the iden
tity. On Tuesday, the day of the
funeral, he made an official trip to
Winnetke, a place about five miles dis
tant from Evanstown, and was fright
ened out of his senses at seeing what he
at first took to be Mr. HilPs ghost at
as pale as death, and great beads of cold
sweat stood out on his forehead.
“Do you know her?” hissed Sweet Will
“Yes; but who are you?”
“Her sister!”
The hall was silent as the grave; but in
a moment the oppressive silence was brok
en by the silveiy tones of Sweet William.
“I am the young lady’s sister; and you
ruined us both; she died, but I have lived
for revenge. I have followed you through
every State and Territory west of the Mis
sissippi ; but now botli of our piles are on
the board and the best hand wins."
The stranger sat in a kind of dazed way
through it all; his hand dropped helplessly
by his side, and the most abject fear was
written on every feature.
Sweet William looked like a devil to me
now. Gone were the old sad smile, and
half-frightened look in the eyes—the one
was now cunning, devilish and cruel, the
other steely and glaring.
“Have you anything to add to my little
speech, Mr. Jerome Tilford?” queried
Sweet William.
The stranger made no audible reply, but
shook his head, and rubbed his hand across
his brow as if to collect his scattered
thoughts.
In an instant Sweet William leveled a
work in a garden, setting out celery Pjato^at strangers breast and pulled
plants. He finally hailed the object,
and was somewhat reassured when he
heard Mr. Hill’s voice return the salu-
the trigger.
He gave a low, gurgling cry and fell
dead. Sweet William, smiling like a fiend,
gave one glance at the corpse and left the
tation. Still, he could not disabuse his hall, and was nevermore seen or heard of
mind of the idea that it was Mr. Hill’s
ghost. Mr. Hill thought the man was
crazy at first, and upon listening to a
subsequent explanation concluded that
this surmise was correct, and all the
way back to Chicago, to which city he
returned with Sheriff Kearney, he re
gretted the untimele fate of his friend’s
brain. But judge of his surprise and
astonishment upon entering his own
home to see his wife scream out and
faint before what she took to be an ap
parition. Kearney assured her It was
her husband, that he found him work
ing in a garden at Winnetka, and that
the party she had just buried and whose
identity they had all sworn to must
be somebody else. Mrs. Hill had never
doubted the identity of the dead man
lor an instant. Her husband had left
her only a few days before to do some
work at Evanstown and Winnetka. In
deed it w as some time before either she
or her disconsolate daughter could be
convinced that the husband and father
was still alive. To this day it is a mys
tery who the man was that was killed.
by the denizens of Mexican Bar.
Remarkable Clock Mechanism.
“Sweet William.”
His general appearance was that of one
who w r as sad, yet sociable; heart-broken,
yet facing the stern realities of life with
a stTtilp onrl on offrvvt . ohnprfnlnaaa
Ills name was not known, and no one took
the trouble to ask; but some genius dubbed
him Sweet William, and by that name he
was always after known.
lie appeared at Mexican Bar, on the
Feather river, California, in 1852. He was
then about twenty-five years of age, and a
more unprepossessing‘specimen of humani
ty could not be found in the whole dig
gings. He soon located a claim, built a
cabin and commenced work. He seemed
to be in some measure successful, and he
could not well avoid it, as he worked stead
ily, and gold in those days was plenty all
along the river.
His steady habits in that land of barba
rians soon attracted my attention, and I
went around to his cabin one night for the
purpose of extending to him the sociability
of the bar. I found his cabin rudely fur
nished, as all mining shanties were then
and will be until the end of time, but its
general appearance of neatness and cleanli
ness struck me as being a decided depart
ure from the general order of things on the
river. I remarken this, but he only smiled
a sad, sickly smile that had something de
cidedly effeminate in it. I at once set him
down as being “soft”—decidedly so—but
still there was something attractive about
him, and at once determined to cultivate
William’s acquaintance.
He was small and apparently weak. He
was only about five feet four inches high,
and would not have weighed over one hui£
dred and twenty pounds—probably not so
much, but not a pound more at best. His
hands were small and well shaped, but
tanned and blistered from hard work in the
broiling sun of California He feet were
encased in a pair of heavy boots, which
were evidently seveiyl numbers too large
for him; while his coarse woolen pants and
shirt fitted him equally as bad. His eyes
w r ere large, gray and melting, with a quick,
half-startled look about them that impress
ed me with the idea that there was a de
ficiency of brain above them, or that the
possessor was continually under the fear of
something—he scarcely knew what. An
other thing about him struck me as being
novel—he could blush.
As soon as I made this discovery I hast
ened down to Dutch Pete’s saloon for the
purpose of communicating the fact to the
small but choice band of spirits who con
gregated there nightly for the purpose of
enjoying a felicitous game of draw-poker,
and to sample the vile liquors dispensed to
thirsty souls by the dignified bartender
Hoogly—a man not fair to look^upon, but
who was famous for his precision with the
playful pistol, and whoso friendship was in
every way desirable.
Days came and went; and Sweet "Will
iam pursued the even tenor of his wav,
regardless of the remarks his strange con
duct excited.
In the late French horological sec
tion at the Exhibition, were two
clocks remarkable for their mechanism.
On the top of one of them is seated, a
handsomely attired Greek lady, a figure
hardly a span high, with a small barrel
organ, held by a boy, resting on her
knees. With the clock’s last stroke
the miniature organ is set in motion
and plays a tune, the boy keeping time
with his head. On the left arm of the
figure is a bright starling, which as
soon as the piece is played out repeats
the melody, accompanied by the move
ments of the lady’s head. The mech
anism of the second clock is more won
derful. The clock Is surmounted with
a figure representing a juggler in Ori
ental costume, seated behind a golden
table. To his right stands three large
silver bells on a plate. The juggler
raises himself as the clock strikes, and
gesticulates with his hands as if in pre
paration for his feat, takes up one of
the bells, shows it to the spectators to
convince them that it is empty, then
seizes another bell, and puts both on
the table. He lifts them up again and
under each lies now a golden egg,
which appears and disappears repeat-
“ U J‘ - Comolinwo botlk eggo Ulsappooi
sometimes they increase in number
and instead of two, three or four eggs
are seen. The little magician’s perfor
mance reaches its climax when he
turns up the third bell and displays a
bronze ball to the astonished au .lienee.
This bronze ball bursts immediately af
ter. and a Lilliputian bird, about the
length of a finger nail,makes its exit and
pipes a tune. The next moment all
vanishes again, and the clever perfor
mer, after a graceful bow, resumes his
Amstevr Printing Offices.
*r D. W, CCBTI3.
During the. past few years maniryouths,
tempted by advertisements of printing offi
ces for the [use of amateurs, have induced
their papas to invest in one that they might
acquire a useful trade and a plentiful sup
ply of pocket-money in a short time.
Visions of unlimited supplies of circus-
tickets, cigarettes and pop-corn dances be
fore the eyes of these deluded youths; they
would be the envied of all their companions,
to them would be imparted the mysteries of
these tiny bits of metal whose various trans
positions during the past three centuries have
revolutionized the world.
cessantly watched by two or three men
they scarcely make an effort to- escape,
but their roaring is almost deafening,
while they constantly writhe and twist
oyer and against one another like a
handful of angle worms ixt-a.saucer.
Searching a Minister.
A well-known and very popular divine
relates an incident which befell him manv
years ago in the Neosho bottoms, aud to
which he still recurs with a visible shudder.
The mistake in which it originated was no
doubt amusing/ but it presented no laugh
able features at the time, and the good man
who has spent his life in warning his fellow-
creatures to avoid the wrath to come, came
within ft hair’s hrpnHth nf anrlinn-
The youth thus suddenly and imperfectly ^ n , a ir 8 en<bn o his life in
launched into business proceeds with a zeal i ^“braces of halter. He was travel-
worthy of the art for a few months. All his j ate one Saturday evening in the direc-
friends in business are coaxed into giving i tl0n kttte city -^ eosbo > wben be
& - b was overtaken by a party of men, and,
without any ceremony, commanded to
halt. He naturally concluded that he was
in the hands of robbers, and made no un
him an order, the jobs being done for about
the cost of the paper used, the “amateur”
having the advantage over his rivals in trade,
of being set up in business, ha vine: no rent . .
to pay, no family or even himself to sup- • i uec f® 8ar 5 r resistance to the order. Indeed,
nnrt_ well hnvincr thp mn nf tho nor. felt a quiet satisfaction in believing that
port, as well as having the run of the par
ental exchequer for supplies. In time, how
ever, such establishments die out by mutual
consent, the youngster gets tired of his toy,
quiet satisfaction in believing that
his assailants would fiud themselves very
much in the condition of the' man who
sheared the hog for wool. But his surprise
and his father becomes wearied of the many ma - ima S ine( I when on reaching the
drains upon his purse. The office is then f^ 01111 .^ the men proceeded to make prepara-
sold to another boy and the business farce swing hi ai up to a tree,
is repeated. Thus they continue to flourish . j“. at 18 a - tbls about ’ niy friends?” in
to the injury of legitimate trade. The fol- the good man; “why do you wish
lowing is the experience of an afflicted fam-! t0 ™° me , V10 !f°f e . * ’ .
- - - - They laughed jeenngly.
“If this is a joke, it is very much out of
place. I am a peaceable man, a minister of
There resides in this city a respectable * be gospel, and have injured no one that I
i i „<• t : am awnrp ”
ily in the early stages of
AGRICULTURE.
A. Romantic Beggar.
While Etheiberta De Vere was sit- !
ting at the bay window reading the lat- 'x®^®sm^-Which Abe the Best.—
e« novel last week,a bronzed thick-vet ^G^^forlb"^*
man entered the gateway, walked up , Agriculture, Is engaged with'-his as-
to the window and tapped gently on sistants in making analysis of various
the pane. He was very common in kinds of grasses from various parts of
appearance; he had on a coat which country. The object of these in-
1 VOOfrirgrinno ia f/v ...1. •
had faded to an original color, his shoes
vestigations is to ascertain which
among 1,000 varieties of American
stayed on his feet by accident, and his grasses contain the greatest amount of
hat which was several sizes too small nutritive substance. If the work
for him, he kept in place by means of a
piece of hay rope, which was tied in a
hould prove successful, definite and
strictly reliable results obtained, it will
hard knot under his chin. As the lady P owe r of every farmer to
looked up from her hook he waved his h^ae™^ Thlsls
hand in inelo-dramatic style, and said: a new work, and its results will be
“I Just wish to have a few words looked for with interest. Up to this
with you. I am an extensive traveler; ^“e none of the analyses have been
yea, verily, I have been over every j P er f? cte .^’ grasses now under in-
• t r.w i • ’ vestigation are twelve varieties of na-
square inch of this glorious country on j tive * Kansa3 grass . The
foot. I have smoked cigarettes at the j first burned in order to reduce them to
Golden Gate; I have seen the buffalo a mineralstate, and these inorganic re
skip fandangos on the boundless prai- : ma’ins are then resolved into elementa-
ries; I have written my name on the r ^' bodies, which art; weighed and meas-
°itet e maje :.te Mis fi s T ; js 7 -"s
a peripatetic gazetter, and I should be tests. Subsequent tests are then made
greatly obliged to you if you will fur- for the purpose of determining the
uish me with a pair of superannuated varying proportions of sugar, starch,
moccasins, a pair that you contemplate etc., contained in the grasses.
depositing in the ash-barrel shortly.’
“We have none to-day,” she replied,
and went on reading.
These results are also carefully record
ed. From all these data tables will be
made which will demonstrate the place
and worth of each kind of grass to the
THE PRINTING FEVER.
family, the head of which becoming
amored of the “art preservative of all arts,”
am aware.
At this one of the men declared with an
“I see,” he continued, “you have farmer. If the plan succeeds, it will,
some rare exotics. I always had a vve think, remove the doubt which at
characteristic weakness for exotics P r ? sent harasses many of our practical
myself, and I should be happy to step
in, make an examination, and give you
some valuable advice. I am a skilled
dairymen and feeders.
A Stove for Farm Stock.—We have
a room in an outbuilding that has a
was seduced by an advertisement entitled “““trtrf 1 ” 6 b Pianist and floriculturist, and can teiii stove in, where we can shelter any
‘Eveiy man his own Printer,” into pur- P er }cnce that he ever heard a horse-thief
chasing an amateur arrangement for stick- c ^ a * m to be a preacher.
: ... rm.„ r : ! “A hnrsp_thif>f *’’ vton
Be Independent.
Don’t hang round and wait for somebody
else to go ahead. Break your own path.
Do what you want done yourself. Don’t
put off to-day’s work until to-morrow, in the
hope that it will be done for you. If you
want to succeed, take off your gloves and
callous your own hands on the plow-
handles. If you are a woman, and Bridget
goes off in a huff, be independent, and wash
your own dishes, and scrub your own floors,
and laugh in her face when she comes back,
expecting to be received with open arms.
There is nothing like showing fate, even if
it be fate in the shape of an ill-tempered
Bridget, that you are independent of it, and
can get on without it. When people find
you don’t want any of their help they are
always eager to help you. Things that you
do not stand in need of will be offered you
freely. When you see a duty before you,
do it, and don’t stand shivering on the
brink, for fear somebody will sav some
thing about it. What matters it if‘Mrs. A
says you are a fool, and Mr. B. expresses
the opinion that that there is something
wrong in your upper story? What she
says and what he says does not alter it.
Don’t ask everybody’s advice about every
thing. Have pluck enough to decide for
yourself. If you want to buy a bushel of
corn, don’t spend a day running about ask-
ing X., Y. and Z. where you had better buy
or if you hadn’t better wait until grain falls.
Don t be a slave as to what anybody else is
going to say about you. If you have
enemies, and of course you have, unless you
are a bom idiot, let them fling out at you.
Show the world by your daily life that your
enemies have lied; live lying slanders down.
Lift up your head and be independent of
them. Have no confidants and go-be
tweens.
Human Labor.
ing type. The fever growing stronger!.
every day, the would-be typo invested m ^ ones °f indignation. “A horse-thief!
largely in specimen books and other works Have you taken me for a horse-thief ?*’
of like nature, which he read for the edifi- The spokesman replied that they had, and
cation of his wife and children, while the furthermore that they meant to hang him
family Bible lay neglected on the shelf. tben a °d there.
Every card and hand-bill thrown into the * n 8uc ‘k circumstances, it is natural that a
house was critically examined and put away P erson should be confused. The preacher
as a “specimen,” until the premises resem- protested, begged and entreated, but to no
bled a waste paper warehouse. The dis- j ava ^- The proceedings for his execution
ease soon spread throughout the household, | went quietly on. Finally, he bethought
all becoming worshipers at the shrine of bituself of some letters and linen, which he
Guttenberg, and everything savoring of the cam ed in his saddle-bags. These were pro -
printing office. When unwell, they were duccd and shown to the men. He exhibited
“out of sorts,” when convalescent, they watch with his name engraved in it, a
were “set up, ” the dishes were “distributed” present from his congregation. The men
after being washed, and the youngest girl hesitated. Finally, the minister begged
hearing so much about “pie” and getting { hat he be rigidly searched, as he had no
none went crying every night indignantly doubt something else would turn up that
to bed. “Pearls, agates and diamonds” ; would further confirm his story. The men
were familiar words in this family of mod- assen ted and the good man’s effects were
erate means; they were peaceably disposed, subjected to a rough overhauling, and hap-
yet “shooting-sticks” were often talked of, P^y enough was found to show to his rude
they were moral, yet “hell” and the “devil” captors that he was not as they supposed,
stared them ever in the face. The head of j a horse thief, but a veritable minister. With
the family expressed himself forcibly in man y apologies he was permitted to pursue
“Italics” or “caps” whenever a “job” was way- ^ ut one °f the men remarked to him
“put up” on him, and the children showed incidently, “old fellow, you have made a
their delight in “exclamation points.” His P re tty narrow escape, for we thought we
eldest son, re-named Benjamin Franklin, had you sure.
for whose benefit the office w-as established, ^ tunied out that the pursuers had mis-
revelled in lye-eaten shirts and an inky face taken him for a noted horsethief, who re-
six days of the week. Type formed the ® em bled him in almost every particular. It
basis of conversation, and was found scat- noti °ften that a preacher makes mch a
tered in all imaginable places throughout c ^ ose shave with the halter.
the house, between the sheets and in the —^
sugar-bowl. The baby showing symptoms An Old-Fashioned Dinner,
of lead poisoning, it was discovered that it ^
too desired to be a printer and was serving . F niladelphia was never gayer than)
an apprenticeship by sucking some “leads” * n the winter of 1795-96. The city had j
under the impression that they were some ■ already a population of fifty thousand !
new variety of candy. Visiting cards and souls. Congress was in session, vis;- !
labels were printed for all the members of tors from all quarters flocked to tlie i
the family, baby included, as well as fortl.t- coramou centre, and everythin- was
neighbors and country cousins; small ac- !
counts made at surrounding stores are now to make their stay agreeable. Din- j
being settled with bill-heads and dodgers at ner8 were given by all the head fami- j
low prices to the disgust of the regular es- * ies ? ant * they were attended by all the
tablishments near by, and the whole system notable persons of the city male and
the peculiarities of any plant un- y° un S or sick farm animal. W hen our
der the sun, from the sweet-scented ar ® dropped we take them and
L„ nn . . their mothers in there, and it is sur-
hyacinth to the night-blooming cucum- prising how quickly they will get
ber. IV hat do you say, shall I step in around, and how they enjoy the fire,
and regale your sensitive soul with a
verbal history of flowers?”
“You cannot!” was the emphatic re
joinder.
etting as close to it as possible. One
night last winter when it was cold and
stormy, one of the himbs was so chilled
that it was stiff, but less than an hour
., r „ .. , , after the fire was built it was seeming-
» ell, if you won’t let me say it to : ly all right; without thorough warm-
you, will you let me come in and sing ing it could not have lived. One of
it in Italian? I have a tine baritone ^ur neighbors, who does not use a fire,
oice!”
“I don’t wish to hear it, you filthy
thing!” she screamed, angrily.
□as lost four lambs out of eight, while
we have lost only one ot seven, and
that was one of triplet that I do not
tnink could have been saved. Two
“Filthy, filthy! that’s always the years ago I had a Jersey calf that had
way. When a man travels around in the scour3 bad, One cold day it seern-
the cause of science and polite informa
tion, he is snubbed and rebuked in this
ed to be dying, but we thought we
would see what a fire would do for it,
, T . , . . and in less than an hour after we built
unseemly manner. I was just hinting che fire it was up and eating, and in
around at what you have now given me • two weeks it was well. The next Fall
the opportunity of asking. That is, it took the first prize at our county fair;
that you will leu me go up stairs and \° 1 thought it paid for the two weeks
take a bath. I’ll be satisfied with cold
water and common soap!”
“You’ll get no bath here!”
“Then will you let me lie down on
the sofa and take a nap; just a little
nap—a kind of siesta, as it were?”
“No, sir!”
tire. If farmers once got in the way
of keeping a fire for their stock at such
times they would never give it up.
Selecting Breeding Turkeys.—
While all breeders like to have and
breed “heavy weights,” and customers
buying turkeys all call for large birds,
. it is a fact that for market purposes,
‘Will you let me bring up some coal moderate sized and even small turkey
from the cellar
No, sir!”
“Will you let walk in and tune youi
piano?”
“Itdoes not need tuning!”
“Will you give me an old shirt?”
“We have no old ones!”
“Well, give me a new one!”
•oramand a more ready sale than do
arge ones. We have watched the
narket for a few days past and know
.his to be a fact. However, we do not
wish to discourage breeders from run-
DOMEST1C.
For Chopped and Rough Hands.
Take three drachms of powdered borax;'
three-eighths of on ounee of glycerine
six ounces of rosewater; mix' well to
gether .and apply .frequently. It will
make the skin smooth and white. Sec
ond—Take two ounces of glycerine and
one ounce of rosewater, mix and rub
your hands well with it before retiring
to rest. It is pleasant, agreeable and
cleanly and its effects are truly wonder
ful. Three—Our readers need not suf-
fer from having their hands affected
by water or soapsuds, if the hands are
dipped in vinegar water or lemon jniee
immediately after. The acid destroys
the corrosive effect of the alkali, and
makes the hand softand white. Fourth.
Sweet oil, one pint; Venice turpentine,
three ounces; hog’s lard, half a pound;
beeswax, three ounces. Put it all into
a pipkin, over a slow Are, and stir it
with a wooden spoon till the beewax
is all melted and the ingredients sim
mer. it is fit for use as soon as cold;
but the longer it is kept tbe better it
will be. ijpr chaps or cracks, rub on
the hands when you go to bed. Five
Five cents’ worth of gum camphor, the
same of sweet oil, and white wax:
place together in a cup thoroughly
mixed. Wash the hands clean and
wipe dry; apply before retiring. Sixth.
Apply pure glycerine in the evening,
after the hands have been thoroughly
cleansed with castile soap and rinsed
with lukewarm water. Sometimes it is
beneficial to wear kid gloves during the
night. Seven—Take three pounds of
common yellow soap, one ounce of
camphor dissolved in one ounce of rose
water and one ounce of iavendar water:
beat the above in a mortar until it be
comes a paste; make it into balls to
dry, and place it in a cool place for the.
winter. Eighth—Take equal portions
ot glycerine and alcohol; before retir
ing at night wash the hands in warm
water, and rub well with the lotion.
Xinth—A salve for chapped hands is
made of two parts fresli lard, oue part
white pioe pitch, melted together.
Floors lnd Carpets. — There Is a
trollg protest offered, in different
ways and from various sources, against
our long-established practice of making
poor floors, with the design of keeping
them covered with carpets stretched
and fitted to every part and carefully
tacked down. Carpets in daily use can
not be kept clean except by very fre
quent shaking and beating, and they do
much toward corrupting the air by re
taining impure gases, hiding the finest,
most penetrating dust in llieir meshes
and underneath them, and by giving off
particles of tine woof into the atmos
phere, with other dust, as they are
swept or walked upon. There is a de
mand for better floors, not necessarily !
inlaid or mosaics, of different kinds of.
precious wood, but made double, of I
strong seasoned wood, that will not
shrink or warp (spruce, however tveli
seasoned, is sure to warp), and then
carefully finished so as to be durable
and easily cleaned. Carpeted floors
seem a relief to the housekeeper, when
once the carpets are procured and fitted
to the rooms and tacked down, because
they do not show the dirt as the bare
floors do. But oil! When they do get
full of dust? And when housecleaniug
time comes and they must be taken up
mTMOBOTO.
Mark Tw arc’s '-Gentlemso.
this horse of mine was J#ugh-bitted,and
he went so fast that I had to guide him
by electricity—had' to haVe wire lines
and keep a battery lir tbe wagon-aH tbe
time iff order "16 stop him,-”
“ Whydidn’t you stop him by holler
ing whlPa7 Tr I lnqutceirr
“ Stop him by hoi wring whba? Why,
I couldn’t holler loud enough to make
that horse hear me, He' traveled so
last thav no sound ever reached him
from behind. He went faster than the
sound, sir. Holler who-a! and he’ll be
in the next town before the sound of
your voice reached the dash-board.
‘ Travel last ?J^ I should say he could.
Why, I once" started fTonY^Virginia
City for Meadow Creek rightin' front
of one of the most dreadful rain storms
ve ever had on .the. Pacific Coast.
Wind and rain?’ Wh^, the wind
blew eighty miles an hour, and the rain
fell in sheets. I drove right before
that storm for three hours—just on the
edge of that hurricane and rain for
torty miles.”
“ Did yon-get ffrenehetW-J’-
“ Drenched? No, sjx2 -What did I
keep a fast horse for? Why, I tell you,
t drove right in front pf that rain
storm. I could lean forward ancf let
the sun shine on me, or lean backward
and feel rain and catch hail-st9nes.
When the hurricane slacked up the
horse slacked up, too, and when it
blew faster I just said :Git up.! ’ to the
horse and touched the battery, and
away he went. ■Now, L ddn’t want to
lie about my horse, and I don’t ask you
to believe what I say, but-when I got to
Meadow Creek my linen duster was as
dry as powder. Not a drop of rain on
the wagon seat, either, while the wagon
box was level full of hailstones and
water.”
IIe Didn’t.—The woman who doubts
entered a Detroit fish store the other
day with hesitating step, and after
looking around upon various kinds of
the finny tribe, she turned to the pro
prietor and asked:
‘ Do you keep fish here? ,? »
‘ No, madam,” was his pnentpt reply.
“We keep hardware and groceries
here, hut you will.finda^fisj^itore four
doors below. Come to the door and I
will show you.”
She looked from him to the fish and
back, hesitated, and he continued:
“Can I sell you anything in the line
of stoves, to-day ?”
She shook her head and walked out.
She didn’t call at four doors below,
which is a tobacco store, but she
looked into the windtfws at the display
of pipes, then back to the fish store,and
somehow or other something puzzled
her.
ningup the weights, even it they attain i UIlc j shaken aad whipped as well as
the much desired weight of a o0 pound ., ley deserve! With warmly-made
obbler at three or four years old for
long as there is a lively demand among
She took no notice of him. hut in a , “ &
few minutes later, he whimpered :
; secure the best results in that direction,
“Can’t you give me something? I’ll select an early hutched, strong and
take anything, yes, anything. I’m not vigorous gobbler of tins year’s hatch,
“Yes,” she said, reflectively,
Sea Lions In Alaska.
What’s that,” he inquired breath
lessly.
“Why that ice around the edges of
the flower-beds!”
, Then he walked off, utterly disgusted
and crestfallen.
is unanimously voted as intolerable nuisance, female. One of a more than usual bill- j IS tk j n ^ y 0l J ma y kave *”
What the finale will be it is not hard to riant character came off in June, 1796. " ’ ’
^ Ue8S ’ The dinner hour was three and a hall
| o’clock, and a few minutes before that
• time the guests arrived and were re-
A singular method is annually em- oolv<><1 111 drawing-room on Aroi.
ployed by the natives of St. Paul’s Is- stree ^* ^ ne °f the first to arrive was
land, Alaska, for the capture of tlie Justice McKean, who was ac-
sea lion. Here is an island which, in- com panied by his lovely daughter, Miss
stead of presenting an almost unbroken McKean. They were followed
line of bold, abrupt cliffs to the sea, ^ Hobert and Mrs. Liston, and
like its fellows in the North Pacific, of- almost at Gie same moment Mr. and
fers to the landing seals a low, though ^ rs * ^H er s Fisher and Miss Francis
gradually rising ground. Taking ad- were ail l}° un ced. A moment later a
number of other guests came in to
other. Among them were Mrs. Hen-
and which is of fine proportion, long in
. i | the body and properly marked, and
ro mate him to as many two-year old liens
as you intend to keep—from two to
tive hens, if properly handled, will
produce a tine crop of young birds each
season, and you can not help but be ab
solutely satisfied with the results.
ho Croaker.
To Kill Moss on Meadow Land.—
The mossy part of tbe meadow should
ae well manured with good, well-rotted
stable dung in the autumn; and it
After he had been on the bar a couple of
months, another stranger appeared. This
person was a very different sort of charac
ter from Sweet William. He was a tall,
dashing man, with keen, villainous but
handsome eyes; a regular practitioner at
the bar (Dutch Pete’s), and a remarkably
lucky gambler, as quite a number of us
soon discovered to our cost. He had an
off-hand way of betting liis ounces that
was decidedly refreshing; and he soon ac
quired an enviable reputation as a sporting
man.
One night I entered the “Wing-and-
Wing,” onr leading gambling hall, when,
much to my surprise, I saw Sweet William
and the black-eyed stranger seated at a ta
ble together playing poker. I felt like re
monstrating with the latter, as it looked
like sheer robbery for him to win the hard
earnings of gentle Sweet William, and
I remark'fed the same to a friend, but the
latter surprised me with the rejoinder:
“No need to interfere l for Sweet William
is skinning the black-eyed pilgrim scandal
ously.”
“ vVhat! Sweet William beating him ?”
“You chance your ducats on that, pard.
Jest look at him.”
I did look, aud in all my experience I
do not think I ever, saw so skillful a poker
In the gigantic works of antiquity we
have the results of an enormous con
centration of human labor. With re
gard to some of them, as in the great
obelisks, and sphinxes of Egypt, the
highly-conventionalized art of the
times has preserved a record of the
mode in which^this labor was applied.
With regard to other, as in the case of
the megalithic walls of Tiryns or of
My cense, the question has been raised
whether they must not have been reared
by races of greater streugth and stature
than any now existing on earth. But
the most wonderful of all these eviden
ces of mighty toil, as shown in the size
and position of the enormous masses of
stone reared in the air at Baalbec, have
been the work of known tribes of men,
within historic times. The great mas
ses of mankind in Egypt, in Greece, and
in Syria, executed an amount of sheer
human toil to which modern time can
show no parallel. And yet the might
iest works of ancient times, such as
the raising of the entablatures of the
Temple of the Sun au Baalbec, are but
child’s play when compared with the
construction and fixing in place
the great tubes of the Menai Bridge.
vantage of this topography, the naiives
of St. Paul’s Island secure every season
hundreds of sea lions, with but a tithe *7 Clymer and Mrs. William Bingham
of the labor and exposure by which beautiful daughters of Thomas
their capture is attended in other places, billing and leaders in society. Mrs.
Eleven miles northeast from the village ! C1 y m er had been married two years
on St. Paul’s Island is a point upon before t0 Henry Clymer, son of George
which a large number of sea lions an- dynmr, 0 ne of the signers of the Dt-
nually repair for the purpose of breed- i clara tion of Independence. Among the
ing, &c., but as this animal is timid and otber guests were Gilbert Stuart, the
sure to take to water when brought into P ainter > Marquis d’Yrujo, the Spanish
the presence of man, it’s capture re-! Ambassador, ConntVolney, Counsellor
quires much discretion and boldness Hunn, and Colonel Rutledge, of South
on the part of their captors, who are Carolina. The dinner was superb,
hosen every season from the village The fillet of beef was served with mush-
people with especial reference to their room8 » an d the tame ducks were gar-
physical qualification for the work. u * s hed with boiled mint chopped fine.*
The “sea-ritchie,” as the natives name. delicacies of the season were
them, cannot be approached success- S ree u goose, spring chickens and a
fully by daylight; so the hunters ten hin d’quarter of lamb; the latter from
or twelve in number, rendezvous in a tbe g rass lands of Virginia. The wild
hut near by until a favorable night P^eon squabs were from the great
comes on, when the moon is partially I P^g eon roosts in Pennsylvania, and
obscured by drifting clouds and the j woodcock were brought from the low
wind blows in from the rookery. Then * an ds of New Jersey. The gentlemen
they step down to the beach at low remaned sipping their wine after the
water and proceed to creep fiat on all la dies had left the table. Soon there
fours over the surf-beaten sand and was a sound of music from the drawing-
bowlders, up to the dozing herd, and j room » a °d the Marquis d’Yrujo, at first
At Princeton a venerable granger practicable, the grass should be fed oil'
.jets on the train and sits down beside x?.® following spring w ith sheep.
Nitrate of soda sown on the mossy
me. After a few moments he opens the
conversation by informing me that the
orange crop in California is a dead fail
ure this year.
I say “ah!” and then he tells me that cwt * l )er acre
all the wheat in Illinois and Minnesc- 5=5
ta has been winter killed.
I say “indeed!” and looked concern
ed.
And in a moment or two the old
raveler goes on to assure me that the
parts of the field will soon kill the
moss, and is au excellent manure for
the grass, but this should not be sown
at the rate of more than one and a half
“Wouldst piay me false? Ah,
yes! 1 see it in thy furtive eye! How
now?—unhand me, villain!” said a
lady on a street car the other day, look
ing very hard at the young man who
sat next her.
“Great Ciesar! I ain’t a-touching
yer!” said the young man, much sur
prised.
“ Sir!”
“I say I didn’t do nothing. It’s
fearful crowded here, but I haven’t
laid hands on yer, miss.”
“Ob, do be quiet, yon rude thing!
Can’t you see I’m just going over my
part?” and the popular leading lady
hey deserve! With warmly-made got off ina huff,
doors and large warm rugs, couldn’t j °
we do Without tnese abominations even | A charmi.ng young thin- at a Xew
m winter? Certainly our rooms would | York school examination, in reading
J . e .. C °.°? r a " d . 6 " ue :® rwlt ' 0lK th<J ‘“ 1,1 ! her exercise before a large audiene of
we yj USt p arentSj changed Keats’ line, “A thing
floors and vve of beauty is a boy forever.” She is
* "" ’ younger than she looks,..b.ut feexp^efed
shortly to be engaged.
Hints.— VVhen going lroin a warm “ Come now, stupid,” said the school-
atmosphere i*ito a colder one, keep the j master, “you don’t know how much
mputh closed, so the air may be | two and five make. Now listen. In
warmed by its passage through the ' one pocket I have $2 and in the other
nose, ere it reaches the lungs. $5. Now how many dollars have I got?’
summer. But in that case vve must j
take more pains with
must have something better than the
common .unpainted ones.
How to Make a Tailless Kite.
The shape of the kite is what the boyt
all diamond. The cross-bar, which in
. tail kite of the diamond pattern is
traight, should be made of hickory and
cold snap last week killed all the peach bowed by connecting the ends with a
bud3 in southern Illinois and Michigan, aut string. It should then be placed as
I say *Sho?”
And he says, Yes, and he had exam-
j right angels with the perpendicular
tick and fastened securely, the bend of
between them and the water. In tbi
way a small body of men creepiu
inattentive to the conversation at the
table, and then uneasy, slipped away
along in Indian file may pass unnoticed au( * J oinet * tlie ladies. Miss McKean
by the sea-lion sentries, which doubt- ' vassi »gingand playing her own accom-
less, in the uncertain light confound payment, and when she had finished
the forms of their human enemies with there was no one more urgent than the
Spanish Ambassador that she should
sing again. The other gentlemen had
ined one hundred and thirty-eight treet the bow being backward from the in-
in various counties in Iowa and Kansas, tersection of the sticks. Run a string
and his part of Illinois, and there around over the end of each stick and
wasn’t enough life in the swelling bud 4 j cover the frame with light tissue paper,
to develop a bloom, let alone a health} For a four-foot kite the perpendicular
set. And lie had a letter from a iuai stick should extend three feet below tbe
in Indiana, and he said it was the sami point of Intersection with the bow and
way there. Every apple in the Stan jne foot abGveit. The bow should be
winter killed. And, he said, we were j one and one-half feet long on each side
going to have some-stinging cold weatb
er and the biggest snow storm we had
had this winter, along about the 17th
of April.
Then I became conscious of a certain
touch of familiarity in the old man’s
voice and appearance and manner. 1
looked at him more closely, and fully
recognized him.
I “Ab, ha!” I said, “I remember you
Man is made—tier upon tier—of fac
ulties, the nature of every one of which
points toward happiness.
, * , Ripe tomatoes will remove ink and
player as that same Sweet William. He other stains from white cloth, also
bet recklessly, but almost invariably won, 1 from the hands. _
those of seals. When the creeping na
tives have all reached the strip ot beach
which is left bare by ebb-tide between tb * s ^ me f° un d their way to thg
the water and the unsuspecting ani- drawing-room, aud Stuart, ever ready
rnals, at a given signal, the hunters j t0 do his part, ran his fingers lightly
leap at once to their feet, shout, yell 1 over the harpsichord, and in a fine
and brandish their arms, while the as- vo ^ ce sang an old Irish song he had
tonished and terrified lions roar and Iearne d in Dublin. Coffee was brought
flounder in all directions. If, at the ! m > an d after that the guests took their
moment of surprise, the brutes are leave * Tbe Marquis d’Yrujo handed
sleeping with their heads pointed to- McKean to her carriage. It was
ward the water, they charge straight love at first sight, and he followed it up
on in that way, directly over the men; a vigor and persistency that car-
but if their heads have been resting rie d the citadel. Ere long he led her
pointing landward, they follow that to the altar. The bride was distin i
course just as desperately, and nothing ?uished alike for her beauty and ac-l
will turn them at first, either one way . complishments, and years after herl
or the other. Those who charge for j death her portrait, preserved in Phila-|
the water, are lo9t, of course, but the j delphia, was engraved to embellish thel
natives promptly follow up the land- j “Republican Court.” |
leaders with a rare combination of hor
rible noises and demoniacal gesticula , . , . , . ,
.i a. . , . , A . An old man was leaning againt a 1 amo
tions until the first frenzied spurt and ; r*i *i , . \,l
. . , . _ , . ^ , post m Chatham square coughing himselfl
exertions of the terrified animals com- ; almost out of shape, when a young fellow
Wliat Ailed Him.
pletely exhaust them, and then, pant
in g» gasping, prone upon the earth, I
they are extended at the mercy of their j
cunning captors, who gently urge j
them along up to the hut in which they j
have been keeping watch during sev- )
eral days past, for the night in which throat?
to make this effort. Here the natives
have what they call tbeir pen or cage, I
stepped up to him and inquired
“Got consumption, mister?”
“Thank Heaven, I have not!
“Is it bronchitis that makes vou cough
so?”
“No, sir, it is not bronchitis?”
“Have you got a fish-bone stuck in your
of the point of intersection, with the
perpendmular^ stick. Xil£ Jtelly cord
sh'Tuld be united at the point of inter-
se' tion and at the same distance down
*h perpendicular stick as the arms of
e bow extend on each side of the per
pendicular stick. The band is attached
at only two points, the point of intei
section and at a point below, in the four
oot kite mentioned, one and one-half
feet below the point of intersection.
Tie these two strings together and at
tach the captive cord, balancing it so
| chat the captive cord shall be exactly
[opposite the point of intersection, or at
right angels with the perpendicular
frame. The face of the kite is then con
vex and the back, of course, concave,
if at first you don’t succeed try again,
ft is fun for all sorts of boys. This form
of k:te is sometimes very eccentric and
ris game as a wily fish.
Salt as a Preservative of Wood.
After exercise of any kind, never
ride in an open carriage nor near the
window of a. car far a moment. It is
dangerous to health and even rife.
Never take warm drinks and imme
diately go out in the cold air.
Merely warm tlie back by tbe lire and
never continue keeping tiie back ex
posed to the heat alter it has become
comfortably warm. To do otherwise is
debilitating.
Never omit regular bathing; for un
less the skin is in an active condition
cold will close the pores and favor
congestion or other diseases.
“Nary a bone!”
“Did you swallow some dust mixed up
in which the lion-like seals as they are i a March hurricane?” he went on, persis
captured from night to night, are col- ! tentl Y
» ■ * ’ • • -* — I “No, I didn’t!”
“Well, now, perhaps you have a cold?”
The man could stund his questioning no
lected and retained until sufficient
numbers or a drove of three or four
hundred has been secured. This cago ; longer, so, with a frown,‘he yelled sarcas-
is nothing more than a succession of “ ”
«mall poles stuck at wide intervals over
a circle in the ground; these poles are
decked with fluttering strips of white
cotton cloth, and light, ropes are loosely
stretched from one to the other. With
in this flimsy circle the sea-lions are
securely imprisoned, and though in-
tically:
“O, no! I have no cold; I am just cough
ing for fun—just for my own edification
and amusement. What do you suppose I’d
cough for?”
Never arrest the attention of an ac
quaintance by a touch. Speak to him.
Never answer questions in general
company that have been put to others.
In the salt mines of Poland and Hun
gary the galleries are supported by
wooden pillars, which are found to last
unimpaired for ages, in consequence of
being impregnated with the salt, while
pillars of brick and stone, used for the
same purpose, crumble away in a short
time by the decay of the mortar. It is
also found that wooden piles driven
into the mud of salt fiats and marshes,
last for an unlimited time, aad are used
for the foundations of brick and stone
edifices, and the practice of docking
timber after it has been seasoned, 1m
mersing it for some time in sea water,
is generally admitted to be promotive
of its durability. There are some ex
periments which appear to show that,
even after the dry rot has commenced,
immersion in salt water effectually
checks its progress and preserves the
remainder of the timber. We add to
this that along the sea coast of France,
Belgium, the Netherlands, Northeast
ern Germany, and Denmark, the cus
tom prevails of immersing the^ logs in
salt water before sawing, wherever
this conveniently can be done, it being
a universally acknowledged fact that
salt-water soaked lumber is harder and
uch more durable than lumber soaked
in fresh water. This is especially the
case; with hard woods, such as oaks,
elm and ash.
The character that needs law to mend
is hardly worth the tinkering.
The faith of the child is always tha
ork of its mother.
TnE Sick Room.—An invalid requires
something beside physic. Good nurs
ing and common-sense rules, gently
and pleasantly enforced, do more
toward recovery than the doctor can.
Heat the sick-room, if possible, by an
open-grate fire, or wood upon tbe
hearth; the latter is the best for all
inodes.
Royal Cream.—One quart of milk,
one-third of a box of gelatine, four ta-
blespoonsful of sugar, three eggs, van
illa. Put the gelatine into the milk,
and let it stand half an hour. Beat the
yolks well with sugar, and stir into the
milk. Set the kettle into a pan of hot
water, and stir until it begins to thicken -
like soft custard.
To Cure a Stiff Neck.—Apply over
the place affected a piece pf black oil
cloth, with right side to the skin: then
tie up the neck with a stiff handker
chief In a aLurt uEC the ^art will
grow moist, and, by leaving it thu.-* for
twelve hours,the pahi will be removed.
■
“Only Waiting;.’
Let me see them and I will tell you.”
School was dismissed.
A Western woman has lost two hus
bands by lightning. She ought to
marry a conductor.
On TnE farm hen’s cackle early and
cackle late. Yet man holds that ani
mals do not reason.
What is that which is neither flesh
nor bone, and yet has iour fingers and
a thumb—A glove.
The day after washing is one of sad
irony.
The musquito, like charity, begins to
hum.
The last thing out?—My bed-candle.
A Cat-Astrophe.
The man who was selling a decoction
for the cure of headache, sore throat and
hoarseness, left Detroit after one day’s stay.
He opened up on the Campus Martius in a
voice full of silver melody, and drew a
crowd. He grated powder from a root into
a cup of water to make liis “cure,” and to
prove to the spectators that there was noth
ing poisonous in it he drank heartily at in
tervals, and the more he drank the less in
clined seemed the audience to invest in the
remedy. People with bard colds stood
back and barked, and coughed and doubted
and the people with red rags around their
throats winked at each other in the most
solemn manner as the old man warranted a
cure in fifteen minutes. Not one salo did he
make up to noon, and when he opened up
after dinner he said:
“Great heavens! but can’t I convince
even one among you that I am not a liar
and a thief. I have drank exactly two
gallons of this decoction before your face
to-day, and yet you seem to fear a poison. ”
His speech fell upon an old man and
woman, man and wife, who had been wan
dering around in an aimless wav, and they
at once stuck to the spot. Every time the
•doctor” drank the old man chalked it down
and when the hour grew late his interest
and anxiety increased. It was a hard crowed
around the barrel, and no one could be pre
vailed upon to drink. The “doctor” talked
and sipped by turns, but it was no go. As
the shades of evening began to fall, and he
ras making one more effort the old woman
slowly turned to her husband and said:
“Come, Sam, let’s go home.”
Sam rapidly figured up his chalk-marks,
put down the total and replied:
‘Hold on just a little,-Sue. That ’ere
feller has drunk jist six gallons of that stuff
to-day, and ’twont be over five minutes
longer before he’ll make a sale or bust all
to pieces. Let’s stay an’ see her out! "
And they were there when the man sor- tion, but all at once they were renewed
rowfully stepped down, packed his roots, • • • ... - ’
and disappeared in the twilight in the direc
tion of Toledo.
The man who calls for tea at an ordi
nary eating-house, “a3 strong as the
kick of a mule,” complains he got it as
weak as a good resolution.
A queer old gentleman being asked
what he wished for dinner, replied,
“An appetite,good company, something
to eat, and a n^pkjn.” •
Organs were first introduced into
I .hurdles by Pope Vilalianas, In 1730,
Old Mr. Squilkins’ big black cat was
locked out the other night. The old
couple slept directly qnder a roof win
dow which was open a few inches by
a short stick. Old Thomas tried to get
in through the small aperture, but the
stick was too short or his taih was too
long, or the unfortunate feline got his
back up too high, either of which con
ditions would have produced the same
unhappy result. After getting his body
partly through the opening, do tv 11 came
the window with a bang, and old Tho
mas was suspended by his enuda 1 ap
pendage, a..d began to kick an<% : flaw
and howl in the inost frantip manner
possible fora cat to do under such con
ditions.
■‘Lordy massy! Father, .father!”
shrieked Mrs. S. in her shrill, croaking
voice, as she was awakened by the tu
mult, at tlie same time nudging old Mr.
S. vigorously.
The old man sprang up In bed, but
he sought his pillow again almost im
mediately, taking in the head-board
with his cranium as he went, and he
howled with pain and fright.
“There’s suthin’ over the bed,” gas
ped the old ladjj froni under the bed
clothes. * ■ I J. e t! .
“Wal, I should say ttmr was,” howl
ed the old man, as he drew his hand
across his lacerated and bleeding face;
“and I do believe its the old sarpiut
himself.”
“Oh, lordy, massy, see his eyes!”
said the old lady, quaking with terror,
as she summoned up courage to look
up; “they look est like two coals of
fire, and I ’spect every minit he’ll be
pouncin’ onto us. Oh, father, father,
what shall we do?”
“Idunno; but I ain’t goin’to get up
in bed again, jest vitYthe varmint nigh
scratched mr eyei'butr afore. But I
ain’t skeered, Hannah, an’ I never
was ” u /
“What, never, Josiah?”
“Well, hardly ever, Hannah; but {
ain’t agoin to be'skeared now,anyway,
for 1 begin to think taih’t' nothin’ that
will hurt good people, if they keep
away from it,” and the old man tried
to crawl betwern the ticks.
There had been a ^{i»rt lull in the
unearthly noises, andthe frantic vi
brations and gyrations.. had subsided
somewhat during the above conversa-
with redoubled fury, when something
gave way (either t. e cat's tail or the
window,) and the big)cat dropped upon
the bed. But he gas off again like a
flash and out of the open door, before
giving the old'fudy "timeto be ‘skeered
clean to death.’
“Oh, lordy.-siassy/what was that?”
“EPush, my-d'eaf/ tc but the cat.
I told you so. I war»St sheared; so less
ge to sleep again.” And so they did.
One should seek lor others the happi
ness one desires for one’s self, •