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ful hereafter, you had better let things stayed to dinner; still a latent spark of
' alone!” , resentment lingered underneath the
I Turning to her mamma, she said, show of good-will.
T , lor ,™ , , , “Mr. Shields always takes ray fan, if I; “Mona, dear,” said my husband when
Is dormd too early for the spring-tide j c ] ianee to j ay ; t down, and now it’s we were alone, “were you resigned to
Her cheek is’pale and on her" bosom warm I utterly ruined by the carelessness of that your fate, and would you have made no
A wind is blowing from the chill north-. tiling!” j effort to let me know your place of resi-
east. She looked daggers at me. | deuce? You did not intend to forget
In fntile search for downy shelter there Aunt Hester, I thought, might have me?
Her shiv’ring arms upon her breast are 1 given me some sympathy; she only turn-1 ‘'indeed I did not; and if yon had not
cross’d; I ed and said, “Mona, hereafter try to be come to rescue me, 1 don’t think I could
The airy veil above her golden hair careful; you have irritated Miss Ger-, have gone on living. But I am happy
is all aglow with diamonds of irost. aldine considerably. Do not vex your- now so let us forget the past. ”
And from her hands a wTeath of daisies self; I will get another for you, dear j ——
child ” she said to her daughter. j Ti.e Piecious Metals.
When they were gone, L threw mysely 7—-a ,
upon the sofa and gave vent to my pent- ^ The special report of Mr. Burchard,
up sorrow.
slips,
And at her feet, in hliglited beauty, lies;
The smile is frozen on her lovely lips;
An icy terror dims her dewy eyes.
Tjirn hack, O May! turn back and warm
tby wings
• In Time’s old cave, at Winter’s funeral
Pyre,
, u i Director of the Mint, upon the produc
No reproaches, however unjust and' 5 bI i of the precious metals in theUnited
harsh, no cutting reprimands, no scorn-: which was ordered to he printed.
- - - - - - 7 - r . by the last Congress, shows that the
yield of the mines of the United States
ful looks, could cause me to cry- in tlieir, b - v , J h « l 381 Congress shows that the next Most of these fashions originate m
. , pyre, ! Tirp^pnrp* T k#»nf rnntrol ovpr mv pmo- • yield of the mines ot the United States Europe. Ayeator two ago there were
And come not forth till Earth, thy hndc- and wmrt only when alone 7 I lor the VP;u ' 1882 was 832,500,000 in two styles—the shepherd s crook, shared
I cried and' sobbed, and longed for°! ~
most any fate that would free me from VuOM,!—a decline ot S2,200,000 of
TOST AND FOU3JD.
My Atmt Hester declared it to lie an
insufferable nuisance living in the midst
of mills and factories, having for your
neighbors workmen and mill-hands.
Indeed, her august indignation knew
no bounds when the manufactory of Mr.
Shields was erected just outside her gar
den, on the ground adjoining.
The village was a village no longer
but a town, spreading its borders over
the hills to the east and west, to the
north and south.
And down in the valley was the throb
bing heart, teeming with its busy peo
ple.
Its factories and mills were being
erected in wliat had once been the
suburbs of a village.
My aunt, Hester Stuart, and her
daughters, Geraldine and Clotilde, were
ladies of fashion, and all that the word
implies they were.
The greatest “catch” of the season
the newest opera, and the styles were the
sum total of their conversation.
It was conceded by all the household
that Miss Geraldine was the lady of the
house.
Even the mamma called her Miss
Geraldine.
It was a high misdemeanor to omit the
important prefix.
Miss Geraldine always had the first
and best of everything; and Clotilde was
obliged to submit to her, sometimes in
very humiliating manner.
1, the poor dependent orphan niece,
was chided by one and upbraided by
another, until, between them all my
“lines” were Hard ones.
1 thought if my aunt possessed such a
thing as a conscience, surely it would
say to her, “Sleep no more.”
When .Mr. Shields was building, and
my aunt was unacquainted with liis per
sonal history, this sooty manufactory,
with its smoky chimneys, was an eye
sore to her fastidious taste.
“It ought to he declared a nuisance,
this grimy old factory and those greasy
workmen!
“What a desirable view from our sit
ting-room window I'
“It is outrageous I”
Thus would my aunt comment upon
Mr. Shields’ workshop.
But very soon it began to be generally
known that Mi*. Shields was a bachelor.
Then she began to cultivate his ac
quaintance and to court his favor.
IIe r was rich.
He would he such a capital husband
for Miss Geraldine.
Siege was laid immediately, and if
cunning diplomacy was to he depended
upon, surely the citadel must surrender.
-Mr. Sliields was reported to lie per
fectly impervious to the arts and wiles
spread out for him by mammas and
daughters who were on the “look-out”
so to speak.
It was generally supposed that lie had
been through “deep waters.”
The gossips said that he had, when a
journeyman and poor, loved a lady whose
father would not consent to the match
until "lie could produce a stipulated sum.
He worked hard, and began to amass
a fortune.
But the girl was fickle, and before he
was ready had married another.
This embittered iiim.
Now he was wedded to his work.
Business was his idol; money his wife
and children.
He scarcely gave a second glance to
any woman.
My aunt and Miss Geraldine began to
lay their plans, and the distant, reserved
Mr. Shields was often invited to balls
and dinners-
Almost any afternoon you could hear
them laughing and exchanging merry
sallies from the window.
As the days went 15y I often noticed
him looking intently at me as I perform
ed my daily work.
Sometimes, when I was dusting the
siiting-room, I would chance to look
towards the mill and catch his glance.
I often wondered what he thought of
me, if he thought Of me at all.
Perhaps he was only meditating, lost
in his speculations, and his eyes happen
ed to rest on me.
I tortured my brain to find a solution
to this enigma, asking myself if I was
vain enough to suppose that Kenneth
Sliields was thinking of me.
This indifferent man was only think
ing of his gains and losses.
lie had no possible interest in a girl
who washed dishes and dusted rooms in
her mint's fine establishment.
Shall I tell you how liis appearance
struck me, and how deeply I became in
terested in him, in those days?
I cannot describe him quite as he
aupeared to me.
1 can tell you only of liis sunny blonde
hair and his deep gray eyes, of the well-
built figure, standing perhaps five feet
seven.
1 cannot tell of a beautiful Apollo,
tall and beyond all men fair; but I can
• say in pure truthfulness that this calm,
almost grave face fascinated and drew
me 011 with a powerful hold which other
fairer faces had no power to do.
I felt my poor heart fluttering when
liis eyes rested upon me.
I crept away to chide myself with re
newed vigor in the privacy of my own
apartment.
Thus I had grown familiar with him,
and his daily "appearance I began to
watch for, and when he failed to come,
I often went to my room, and cried, just
out of sheer loneliness.
His presence was a solace; although
he had never spoken tome, yet I was sad
and disconsolate when he was absent.
One evening my aunt and cousijls
were going out.
I was assisting them, when I chanced
to drop Miss Geraldine’s ivory fan and
break the'tiny mirror.
She tapped me smartly on the ear, and,
in bitter anger, said, “You awkward
little fool! Now my fan is in a nice
condition! If you cannot lie more care-
Tlie horrible habit of Americans of put
ting Ibeir bands in their pockety has led to
the popularity of canes id this country.
The Japanese gentleman shows apprecia
tion to the same feeling when his costame
is incomplete—without his shutting fan,
which he hangs at his belt, over his right
shoulder, or in the breast folds of his silken
gown. The French or English gentleman
for the same reason never attends a full-
dress party without his crush hat in his
hand.
The fashion, of carrying canes, however,
an.ong the swells and lah de-dah lads of
New York has each season its rules which
are observed with as much exquisite
punctilio as those of ladies who wear a
poke bonnet one year and Sioop hat the
tin's thraldom
"Finally I must have fallen into an un
easy slumber.
. The sense that tells ns someone is
near awoke me.
Standing motionless looking down
upon me in silent pity! was Mr. Shields.
gold and’ an increase of $3,800,000 of
silver compared with the preceding year.
The greatest relative decline was in
California, while in silver production
Idaho, Montana and New Mexico
showed the greatest increase. The ex
cess of production over consumption of
I hurriedly started up, mutteringsome I the year, added to the net imports of
kindof apology, and very much ashamed resulted in a net gain to the
of my tear-stained face and rumpled, "ntnm ofiess than $200,<W0 in gold,
, t . . * . i but by coinage and net import of com
the metallic circulation gained nearly
$39,700,000 in gold and about $27,600,-
000 in silver coin.
hair. I requested him to he seated, and
lie sat down, not on the chair near him,
hut beside me on the sofa.
I was confused, and knew not wliat
to do or say.
I suppose lie had perception enough
to notice my agitation. He was all
calmness and ease.
I wondered if it were possible he could
hear my foolish heart beat, and see the
tremor of my lips, when I tried to
answer liis questions.
“You are in trouble to-night, Mona?”
I shall remember to my dying day the
inexpressible sweetness of those sym
pathizing tones. I thought, as I always
have since, that it was the most musical
voice 1 had heard in all my troubled,
dreary life.
“Y ou were sobbing in your sleep when
I came in; wliat was it? Are you.lone
ly? Aunt and cousins are gone, aren’t
they? Well, cheer up; I will stay here
until they return. Are they unkind to
you
I could not tell an untruth now, with
the tear-stains still on my cheeks; so I
replied “Miss Geraldine scolded me lie
cause I dropped her fan and broke the
mirror, and Aunt Hester, too.
Here I completely broke down, and
criedasif I was never going to stop. He
sat awhile in silence, and let me sob un
disturbed; then lie said, laying liis hand
upon my head, “Don’t give way to your
grief; come, cheer up; you are lnjrt by
cross w«rds and reproaches, but there is
sunshine after rain. Mona, to-night you
and I are drawing very near to each
other; I too, have been stung by ingrati
tude. I have sounded the .depths of
hitter waters and by the perfidy of one
person I was sunk to the depths of des
pair. But I am out of this slough of
despond, and am now far happier than
I would have been had affaire gone dif
ferently. I am in a position which per
haps 1 should not have attained if 1 had
gained what I coveted above all tlifee at
one time. I outgrew my hitter dis
appointment, and in my work I found a
panacea.
“Now I am in a very tranquil state of
mind; and Mona, little friend, I have
observed you, and am aware you are not
happy.
We will sympathize with each other,
and in oflr mutual friendship disjiel part
of the gloom. "
His kind words, so mildly spoken, the
most gentle that it had been my good
fortune to hear since I was an inmate of
my aunt’s house, went to my lonely
heart like a soothing halm.
I rallied and soon we began to talk.
The hours flew by rapidly.
“You and I are only beginning to
know each other, Mona,” said my new
found friend at last.
“We are going to be capital friends,
and ”
No more was said, for aunt and
cousins came in, and our evening to
gether was cut short.
They were profuse in playful re
proaches, and Mr. Shields was scolded
in a pretty way for not attending the
party.
He said, “Well, you see, I was de
tained by important business until I
feared it was too late; then I dropped in
here, thinking perhaps some of you were
at home.
I found Miss Mona, and as she was
■ill alone, I thought I should he doin:
my duty by remaining with her.
“So I stayed, and we have had quite
a delightful talk. "
Aunt Hester made some reply, cal
culated to annihilate me.
They all seemed to want to box my
ears.
So I just “folded my tent like an Arab,
and as silently stole away.”
The California gold fields show
evidence of exhaustion, and Nevada
gives signs of recovery from the mis
management and stock speculation that
have affected its production. Idaho.
Montana, Utah and New Mexico fum
ish evidence of the increased importance
of mining industry in those Territories,
while Arizona maintains her large pro
duction of the precious metals.
The Derby Course.
A young American who has (raveled,
says m correspondenee about the Derby
track at Epsom, that the course is en
tirely different from anything we have
in America. Tnere are not fifty yards
of level ground anywhere. I should
say that a run oi the whole circuit must
he about two miles long. On this side
the ground slopes rapidly down into
deep valley, so that tne horses run on
ground that slants up toward the out
side rail. From the bottom of the
valley the way up on the other side
very steep, where the track runs aionj_
the crest of a ridge beyond, it must be
four or five hundred feet higher than
where we sit. Up towards the be
ginning of the home stretch is the place
which they call Tottenham corner, and
all England tells yon what terrible place
it is for a horse to come around. But
that is taffy. There are worse turns at
Jerome Park and Skeepsliead Bay.
The only difficulty about tin; one is
that it occurs where the horses are
coning down a slight slope. The
Derby races begin part way a-iund the
course, as the distance they run is
about a mile and a quarter, I believe.
oreiti of^h^dfotantTi^e, ^conre down and they are quite straight," with Jreedoftowi but what j possess of it a
around Tottenham comer, into the
The next morning I had my orders,
was given my dismissal.
I was soundly reprimanded for my
forwardness, and my aunt and cousins
took turns in taunting me.
Then I was spirited away in the
night-time to my aimt’s farm far out in
the country, exiled; abandoned, driven
away.
One evening I went to a neighbor’s to
get a hook.
The short winter day was closing in
on my return.
A wagon passed me.
It’s occupant, a man, was muffled up;
he looked at me as he passed; the ejacu
lation, “Mona!” came out in a very em
phatic manner. I looked up; it was
Kenneth Shields.
Hurriedly he jumped out.
“Mona, where are you going? Is this
where you have been all this time? I
made hold to inquire your whereabouts,
hut your aunt gave me very unsatisfac
tory answers.
“You did steal away in a dreadfully
mysterious manner.
“From standing at my elbow you fled
into the vast unknown.”
I could hardly speak for joy; for the
light in Kenneth’s eyes was clearly that
of love.'
I no longer accused myself of vanity
when I confessed with delight that he
really did think of me.
Well, it is the old, old story.
The next day I hade adieu to the
dreary farm, and with my promised
husband started for the city, on reaching
wliick we went to his sister’s where I
stayed till we were quietly married.
Then we took rail to my aunt’s, and
Kenneth introduced me as “Mrs.
Shields” to. aunt and cousins.
They were astonished and ashamed,
and I confess that the sudden transfor
mation from plain MonaNorton to Mrs..
Keuneth Shields quite star^tetlpie.
They welcomed us in aRaierably hos
pitable manner; and for form's sake \vfc
- ' % - -
straight stretch home, and end on
down hill part of the track. The
course is turfed, not turned up like
those in America. Mncli of the space
down in the valley, inside the track
and up on-the hill beyond, is taken np
with refreshment tents. Punch and
Judy shows, those machines which
send wooden horses around in a circle,
parties of men with blackened faces,
singing and d ancing without time or
tune, jugglers, acrobats and a. surging
mass of people. From the grand stand
for half a mile in each direction, out
side the track, there is the same sort of
thing, added to a tremendous crash of
carriages, from which the horses have
been taken and housed for the day. A
third of the people present want to sell
yon something that is of no earthly
use, and that you wouldn’t be found
dead with, and the other two-1 hirds
want to steal whatever you may have
around in your clothes. They are the
most accomplished thitves I ever
struck, and they will s.teal anything
they can lay hands on, no _ matter
whether it is worth anything or not.
I have seen some pretty big and some
rather promiscuous crowds in America,
but this one certainly captured the
prize in all respects. There must have
been six hundred thousand to one mil
lion people there. Nobody can convey
a notion of such a crowd with mere
figures. It was at least ten times as
large a gathering as I ever saw at a
race before.
Clouds and Sunshine.
Rainy days in the country would be
robbed of naif their terror to adults if a
little provision were made for the chil
dren. When'it is gloomy outside we
must create artificial brightness within.
Every country house has a large spare
room, an attic or at least a good corner
in the born; any of these will answer
for the purpose of a playroom, whicli,
if provided, will not only keep the little
ones still, but happy. Those dreamy
delightful days for reading are rescued
from the intolerable noise and fuss that
invariably follow the imprisonment of
juveniles. If we are going out of town
let us give up a few ruffles, if need be,
and make the fittings for the little folks.
To cover walls choose plain, coarse cotton
cloth for a foundation. The best covering
will be fonnd at the paper hanger’s, where
nursery rhymes are pictured in mo9t be
witching form, and the ‘"frog that would
a-wooing go” becomes only one of the
favorites that are followed along the
spaces. The foundation can be com
pletely covered, and should be one yard in
depth! It can be attached to the wall by
tiny steel nails. Above the dado thus
formed Japanese pictures can be placed,
and their bright, quaint grouping always
pleases children. Wall rolls can be pur
chased, or made of bright cambric, and
pictures pasted on. The tops can be
attached to a cane or old broom handle
painjed red. The file of bright pictures
will fuimap material for storiee and afford
amusement to the children, who can do all
the pasting necessary with a little help.
A small folding table is easily transported
for this room, and boxes to hold playthings
can be covered with chintz. A beautiful
room ot this kind is fitted with turkey red
made to cover the entire wall, attached to
the top of the wall by tiny hooks, the
border finished with a row of coarse
German laCh. Arranged in pretty groups
are figures from old fashioned plates, and
anything that pleases from the illustrated
papers, the arrangements should be
studied, in erder to place the large group
at the base, and when the distance of
three feet from the base is finished the
remainder can be done at random with
good effect. If the ceiling is tinted a
light blue and the floor painted chocolate
color, it gives good effect
like a fishhook, and a Zulu crook, a plain,
curved handle. The from Fans,
the shepherd from LoiimnU TheS® styles
in canes were introduced in the sprin -, a id
were preceded by the crutch. When our
fathers were lads the whalebone cane was
the proper thing. How they are so scarce
that they are worth to the dealer from $3
to $3,50. Last year the fashion -was to
carry a silver ball cane. Then there is a
style in carrying a cane, and this varies
each year. One year it was to walk with
a spring gait, with bent Knees and arras
akimbo as far forward as possible, and the
cane was held between one finder and
thumb, correctly balanced so as to swing
gracefully. Then came the esthetic style.
The cane was held in front of the body by
the first and second lingers of both hands,
A “Cnmln-*’ Hatch,
This peculiarity of the barn yard cham
pion became the subject of conversation
at a little dinner given at" Uelmonico’s,
New York, on the 8 th of last January,
the occasion being the commemoration
or the birthday ot Mr. Barry Jerome,
who asserts that he is ot the same age
as General Andrew Jackson.
“I don’t see,” said Mr. Alexander
Taylor, Jr., “why if tins is so, a rooster
cannot be trained to crow as well as to
fight. I believe that by taking one when
a mere chick and cultivating its long
power assidioosly, putting before it, from
its earliest infancy, the best and most
illustrious # crowers, a rooster could be
trained to crow a dozen times consecu
tively.”
Mr. Jerome seeing here an opportunity
for a wager—something wbi h he never
neglected—said:—“ft would ail depend
upon a man’s own training. 1 f brought
up in fhe country,, as I was, observant
eability in it, I should have made the [ Temples or the son.
ag °’ r 1 Til beGnly In FersIa - >n ancient times, they had
y LifT Pera i,i W h Uomm “" ^iples wh >ch they called “Temples of
der Cheyne, if he would give me the the Sun,” and they worshiped the sun
, « C ?rS aoe * 1 “ e by always. They felt that It was he who
explanation that the thing is possible, presided over the destinies of mankind,
To go into particulars, then, abont the who gave them the light of day and
possibility of the enterprise, the intense also warmth, who was the founder of
cola is the first great barrier. “The only their empire, and in nearly every city
good scientific point about Cbeyne’s temples dedicated to the sun were raised,
theory is that the temperature would he They acknowledged a Supreme Being
favorable for cooling down the gas, hut. a Creator of the world in fact, but he
this is only a small advantage when yon did not seem to hold the first place m
come to make an oflset of the disadvan- their hearts, for only one small" temple
tagea. The place where he proposes to | was erected to him. The grandest tern
inflate the balloon is 700 miles from the I pie of all was in the city of Cuzco and it
Foie, and the thermometer is forty de- was such a rich temple that it was called
grees below zero.” ^ “Coricanchawhich meaut “The Flace
“How would this cold-interfere with of R was built of hewn stone, s<
the enterprise?” beautifully put together, the place of join-
“In the first place, the balloonist inR could n0 * discovered, and it con-
would have to use oil-silk, because the a,s i ed , of a cblef building with chapels
objections to rubber are so numerous ad i oiniG g. and sevei^t otner inferior
that I need not say anyfhine about it bmldings, and covered quite an area.
ITT II . ® *1 r.UOrutVlill/T lnnidn th/1 n - -
NEWS IN BRIEF.
there is little doubt but that experiment
of thu kind would foe a success. 1
think, however, that you would fail,
“I'll bet you $5,000/’ said Mr. Tay
lor, promptly, “that - in six months I’ll
produce a cock that will outcrow any
thing you can show.”
‘ I’ll take that bet," said Mr. Jerome,
quietly, and the conversation diverged to
other topicB, neither party again alluding
to it, and each gentleman trusting that
the other would forget all about it so
that he might be able to claim a default
when settling day arrived.
• The next morning Mr. Taylor went
bright and early to Washington Market,
and was allowed to hang limp, while the j alld » front information there obtained, was
elbows were still further forward, and the educed zo to Rosedale, N, J., where
shoulders, if possible, more round. Then ^ -P^P Timpson resides.
there wa9 a fashion la3t year of holding the
ferule down. This year it is t*» hold it in
the middle, with the ferule to the froDt,
just as Mr. Spot Dandridge does after his
return from the east. That's the proper
“caper.*’ ^
The material is as various as can well
nigh lie conceded of. Many are of im
ported woods; some from the tiopics,
China, and the East Indies. The cele
brated Whongee canes are from China,
where tney are well known and celebrated
for the regularity of their joints, which
are the points from which the leaves are
given off, and the stems of a species of
phyllosiachys, a gigantic grass, closely
allied to the bamboo. The orange and
lemon are highly prized, they are imported
chiefly from the West Indies, and perfect
specimens command enormous prices. The
orange stick is known by its beautiful
green bark, with fiae white longitudinal
markings, and the lemon by the symmetry
of its proportions and both prominence
and regularity of its knots. Myrtle sticks
possess also a value, since their appearance
•s so peculiar that their owner would sel
dom fail to recognize them. They are im
ported from Algeria. The rajah stick is
an importation. It is the stem of a palm,
and a species of calamus. It is grown in
Borneo, and takes its name from the fact
that the rajah will not allow any to go out
of the country unless a heavy duty is paid.
These canes known as palm caDes are dis-
In giving the particulars to a reporter,
Mr, Taylor said:—“t learned that Phil
Timpso* was a most successful hatcher of
chickens by artificial process, and I went
to him and told him I wanted a lot
hatched, all cocks and of the best crowing
breeds. He said I'd have to take ’em as
they com®, cocks and hens together, and
that he had no process for hatching cock3
exclusively. He said, however, that he
would lay the world under contribution
for eggs, and that if I would agree to
take all that he would hatch there was no
doubt that among the lot 1 should be able
to secure the champion crower.
‘Bo, after signing a contract, I returned
to my place at Mamaroneck, and had a
house built 150 feet on the water-line—
sho, I don’t mean that—I thought I was
speaking of a yacht: but she’s 150 feet
ovqj; all; that is, it is that length along the
water, and I’ve bad it fitted up with
porches at different elevations, so that at
the earliest age.the young rooster wili
have a place from which to crow, and can
advance from perch to perch, raising his
notes at each elevation.”
“I’ve got over 500 fowl there already,
and Timpson is going to have 500 more
on Thursday morning. Until about a
week ago 1 thought that I had a sure
thing on Larry Jerome, but I then learned
that he had constructed a crowing nursery
at Oyster Bay, L. L, under the superin
tendence of his brother, Tom Jerome.
anguished by an angular and u -re « r Icjs j^ tlU * think I’ll beat him, after all, for
flat ap near a nee. Tlie’r eoler i» ( brownish, JQttpp^on says that there’s not a known
neither knob nor curl. They are the
petioles of leaf stalks of the date palnj.
Perhaps the most celebrated of the foreign
canes are the Malacca, being the stems of
the calamus sceptonum, a slender climbing
palm, and not growing about Malacca, as
the name would seem to indicate, but im
ported from Stak on the opposite coast of
Sumatra. Other foreign canes are of
ebony, rosewood, partridge, or hair wood,
and cactus, which, when the pith is* cut
out, presents a most novel appearance,
hollow, and full of holes.
The manufacture of canes is by no means
the simple process of cutting the sticks in
the woods, peeling off Uie bark, whittling
down the knots, sandpapering the rough
surface, .and adding a touch ot varnish, a
curiously carved handle or head, and tip
ping the end with a ferule, in the sand
flats of New Jersey whole families support
themselves by gathering nanneberry sticks,
which they gather in the swamps, straight
en with an old vise, steam over an old
kettle, and, perhaps, scrape down or whittle
into size. These are packed m large
bundles to New York city and sold to the
cane factories. Many imported sticks,
however, have to go through a process of
straightening by mechanical means, which
are a mystery to the uninitiated. They
are buried in hoi sand until they become
pliable. In front ot the heap of hot sand
which the sticks are plunged is a stout
board from five to six feet long, fixed at
an angle inclined to the workman, and
having two or more notches cut m the
edge. When the stick has become per
fectly pliable the workman places it on
one of the notches, and, bending it in the
opposite direction to which it is naturally
of the habits of the fowl from boyhood, Well, everybody knows that an oiled LTer y“n"g '“ide the temple was gorgeous
—“* surface in a temperature like that be- ^- v ° Dd d, ? acrl P tlua ' ° Q lhe western wall
comes brittle.-and almost impossible to - ! , , D , eIt - v was represented. It con-
handle. It would be easy to make the ai f s ed a i 1 ’ 1 ' na " faoc surrounded by rays
gas, if they conld get a balloon to hold 13 Th ‘ S C6 and flguure was en "
together until it wim filled.” U 00 an lm mense plate of gold,
, , ,, . .. , massive and heavy and thickly bestrewn
I i^ nd t Wb *i' d P re vent it from with diamonds, emeralds andotherpre-
holding together? ’ cions stones. When the sun rose in the
Why, it would become stiff-as a morning, the figure was so placed in the
hoard and break all up, so that the gas temple tne light fell fuU upon it,
would escape. a mosf dazzling effect, and all the gold in
buppose he conld overcome tnis ol>-1 the room (and ilie walls were adorned and
jection and furnish mateiial for the bid- inlaid and overlaid with gold) caught up
loon that would be impervions to the] the glory and reflected it, and everywhere
frobt?” | were shining plates of gold and heavy
“Well, suppose he conld. The rext ornamentsof the Drecious metal and those,
difficulty would be in the gas. As I too, sent back a flood of light as the sun-
said, it could be easily made; but then beams fell upon them. One of the
the only gas—namely, hydrogen—that smaller chapels was dedicated to the moon,
would be sufficient for inflating pur- fo e next deity of importance, styled the
poses would in that temperature eon-1 ‘‘Mother of the Incas.” All the decora-
dense almost as fast as it could be made, I tlon s of this room, as well as the figure
and consequently lose a portion of its representing the moon, and the burnished
elevating power very rapidly. It would I pfotes, etc., were of silver. Then there
become deteriorated in the ratio of the were otller chapels—one consecrated to
increase of cold.” the stars, another to the ratnDow, and ao-
“Snppose the balloon was filled in a otller ,0 thunder and lightning. All these
higher temperature?” • belonged, you must remember, to the
“Then all tbe.se objections would I empla ° f - Kre ^ thln g a3cd in
apply with equal force as soon as it ^2““.T 11th J ihe ., WOTsh i|P u ot the sun
reached the frigid regions, with the ad- n S , S “ VCr " The r re were a
ditional objection that in making that ^ o„ T, T™ r , I “ mea ? e
distance a portion of the gaa wonld be L^ fille d d ^ th ia^ eorn “he
e^nomv foLsw? W r n0 Tra m d W * h - Cb cen6ers for lhe P erfa ”'*. ewers which
£ S ‘ 1 “' I held the ““red water, the pipes which
P /-ti in conducted it through • subterranean chan
II f ,“ pp ?" e 5 heya ® should overcome nels into the buildings, the reservoir that
all the objections thus far, inflate the received it, were all of gold or silver.”
balloon, and soar heavenward at forty Then there were artificial gardens outside,
degrees below zero and within 700 miles with plants in them, curiously constructed
of the Pole, what would be the new dif- of silver and gold and precious stones;
“.' PQ? . there were animals of gold, life size, and
Ihe difficulties then, conpared with even the agricultural implements used in
the launch in an ordinary voyage are all the garden were of the precious metal,
seriously aggravated. So much so that The came of Inca was applied tj the
without something unknown to * the Sovereigns of Fern as well as to all those
scientific world they appear to be insu- males who descended from them. The
perable. To begin with, 700 miles is an Sovereign was far, above his people, even
enormous trip for a Balloon, under the the nobiest of the Inca nobility could not
most favorable circumstances. There enter into the presence of the reigning
is nothing on record, I believe, to ex- j Inca without making bare his feet and
cecd that if we except • the instance of I carrying a slight burden to signify homage,
the one that was caught in a gale during 3'tie Inca was cansidere J the sun’s repre-
tlie siege of Paris ana was blown a dis- sentative, and he claimed to be vastly
tance of 1,<500 miles to Norvfay, the two superior to all others, and lived aiid
occupants having a marvelous escape. I dressed in grand style. He had a num
Then, as I understand him, Cheyne pro- ber of wives, a great many children and
poses to go to the Pole by ea=y stages, [ devoted attendants. When an Inca died,
He ’ intends to stop, poised in mid-3ir f his weaIt!l did not descend to his heir,
occasionally, awaiting favorable breezes but 811 bia tre asures remained just as he
just as a captain would lay to at sea.’ had lefl them > and all his palaces ex-
To my mind, however, there is no snch “ pt on ' were closed up forever. They
certainty about asrial navigation as behevi;d tbe s Phlt would return some
tnis. day and would require all bis personal
“Bat suppose ail these difficulties pffecU ' ., Tbe funeral was an occasion
were overcome and that he did reach the j ^ rand dls P»ay, and sometimes thous-
Pole,” said the mronaufc, this time pnt- an ^ _amon ^ th . e “ and attead "
ting his own interrogatory, “what would ““"Were sacrificed on Ins tomb The
he do then if he did not find inhabitants m ‘ be was enbalmed, and
there? How should he get back and ? b d “ roya1 ' attIre ’ P l8csd 0D a 8 old
representative cock.
Mr. Jerome.was found immersed in
Weighty transactions at the Stock Ex
change. lie had but a moment to snare
for an Interview and said that he consid
ered it a gross breach of confidence on the
part of Sir. Taylor to have given the Ihing
away. “Since it has gone so far, how
ever,” said he, “J may say that my hen
nery at Oyster Bay is 250 feet long and
50 feet in width. My fowls, of which 1
have 2,000, represent 100 distinct breeds,
all of which have been produced by patent
process and with especial reference to
crowing. I don’t feel the least anxiety
about tbe matter, as I have no doubt but
that my bird will win.”
“Wbre will the trial take place, Mr.
Jerome?”
“We have not decided upon that a3 yet.
We of course never imagined that the
event would be of so much public interest,
and expected to have it up at Taylor’s
place at Slamaroneck, or else down at
Oyster Bay, with only a few of our
friends present; but the Interest in it
seems to have been aroused to such an
extent that I told Alec the other day that
1 thought we would have to secure the
GardeD, or else the American Institute
building in Third avenue. The judges
are Mr. Andrew Cahoon for Mr. Taylor,
and 1 have a9ked Mr. Charles Minton, the
Secretary of the Hew York yacht Club,
to act for me; they two to choose a third
if necessary. ’ *
Balloouing to the Pole.
—Chicago, it is said, lias 1000 opium
eaters.
—Missouri is sending acorns toEurope
to improve the forests.
—The Venezuela cow tree yields a
liquid with tiie flavor of cream.
—There is said to be one physician to
every thirteen families in the United
States.
—In 1704 England had over 20,000
negro slaves, and they wore collara like
dog collars.
—Of the 1,433,887,500 inhabitants on
earth about 850,000,000 are ldolators,
170,000,000 Mohammedans or Jews.
—In 1852 the United States produced
only 2,000,000 toms of coal, while last
year about 70,000,000 tons were pro
duced.
—Arrangements for the work of
Moody and Sankey in London in the
autumn are already making.
—A Jewish synagogue of the third "or
fourth century has been discovered near
Carthage and about ten miles from
Tunis.
—Miss Clara Barton has declined the
superintendency of the Massachusetts
Woman’s Prison on the plea of ill-
he'alth.
—The pension list will fill forty-eight
volumes of 000 pages each. The public"
will soon be informed who draw the
pensions.
—Isaac Quinn, a colored youth of-
Gaston County, N. C., 17 years old, is
0 feet 7 inches in height, and is still
growing.
—According to an Ayrshire paper
there is not a single copy of Burns’
poems in the Free Public Library at
Manchline.
The Australians, who wish to ex
terminate the English sparrows, paid up
to November last for 27,345 heads and
18i,212 eggs.
—A young lady of Bamberg, Germany,
has been punished by a fine and costs for
the offence of playing the piano at night
by an o^ien window.
—An English inventor has patented a
process of making straw incombustible, .
and now proposes to build cheap straw
cottages for the poor.
The town of Grinnell, Iowa, which
suffered so much by a tornado last sum
mer, has just sent $700 to the sufferers
by the cyclone in Mississippi.
—The number of umbrella m ikers in
Paris has increased from 11-7 in ISIO to
408 in 1882, and flip value of their pro
duct from $00 J,000 to $2,600,000.
■The largest vessels in the English
navy cost a million and a quarter to
build, and nearly thousand dollars a
day to keep them at sea afterward.
—Of thirty-nine female students of
medicine attending the lectures of the
Paris Faculty last year, eleven were
English, five American, and one Indian.
—A pearl worth $80,000, now in the
possession of the Princess Youssopoff,
was brought from India in 1(500 by Gon-
gibus of Calais and biuglit by Philip
Two great scientific questions are now-
agitating the minds of some of the bal
loonists in this country and Europe,
bent, straightens it. Thus, sticks appar-' One is the possibility of reaclung the
enl'y crooked, bent, warped and worthless [North Pole in a balloon, and the other
are by this simple process straightened; the practicability of getting into tbe
but the most curious part of the work is 1 eastern current two miles above the
observed in the formation of the crook or earth and crossing the Atlantic. Com-
curl for the handies, which are not natur- mander Cheyne has aroused so much
ally supphed with a hook or knob. Tbe
workman places one end of tbe cane firmly
m a vise, and pours a continuous stream of
fire from a gas pipe on the part which is to
be bent. When sufficient beat has been
applied, the cane is pulled slowly and
gradually round until the hook is complete
ly formed, and then secured with a string.
An additional application of heat serves to
bake and permanently fix the curl. The
under part of the handle is frequently
charred by the action of the gas, and this
is rubbei down with sandpaper until the
requisite degree of smoothness is attained.
Gathering and Drying Tea in Japan.
Tea gathering is commenced in May
Girls are- employed, at an average of five
cents a day, from sunrise to sunset. The
sprig of leaves is nipped off carefully
with the finger nails and deposited in a
basket, and other servants carry these
baskets, as they are filled, to the tea
planter’s house and necessary outhouses.
Here other employes spread them out on
large palm mats and here the first and
only adulteration essayed by the tea
planter is executed. Having decided the
percentage of exhausted leaves to mix
with his fresh leaves these are put also on
the mats. The drying is m the open air
and in the sunlight. That having been
completed, the next operation is tbe curl
ing. To effect this the dried leaves are
poured into open cast-iron receptacles over
a charcoal furnace beneath of accurately
graded heat. Sufficient laborers are
placed around these pans to constantly
take in their bands the leaves as they be
come heated and to roll them. When the
curling is done the leaves are packed in
coarse, cheap boxes, freighted to the
nearest tea market and* there sold to a
foreign tea dealer. Every foreigner keeps
a special variety of tea-taster, who has to
tell the quality of the fresh leaf and to
make a guess at the amount of leaves that
have already done service.
In contemplation of created things,
by steps we may ascend to God.
interest in the first question that a com
pany has been formed in London, On
tario, for the purpose of organizing a
balloon expedition to the North Foie.
A reporter had a conversation a few days
ago with Mr. Grimley, a well-known
mronaut on the subject in question.
“If Commander Clieyne had any ex
perience in ballot uing under adverse
circumstances,” said Mr. Grimley, “I
think he would see the impracticability
of his views. I have no doubt that he
may be honest enough m his intentions.
Put he is working at a thing he does not
understand.”
“Have you ever met him?” inquired
the reporter,
“No. but I know a good deal about
him. I have been following the course
of his lectures, and I wrote to him some
time ago asking him to give me au ex
planation of his proposed plan of over
coming the difficulties in the way ol
reaching the Foie in a balloon, and he
has not yet answered me. I know he
has a very persuasive manner, and is a
great enthusiast in the possibilities of
ballooning; but he has not been in the
habit of reducing his theory to practice.
If he did, I think he would talk differ
ently.”
“What, in your estimation, appears
to be the impracticable part of Cuevne’s
theory?”
“He seems to disregard every essen
tial connected with ballooning. I am
quite familiar with the whole history ot
Datioomng, besides having made over
one honored assents myself, many of
them being quite successful, and from
all my knowledge and experience I have
come to the conclusion that a Polar ex
pedition in a balloon is impracticable.”
Mr. Grimley then entered minutely
into the arguments, showing the alleged
impracticability of a Polar balloon
voyage, regretting at the same time that
the proofs were not all on Commander —An entire suite of bedroom fumi-
Cheyne’s side. ‘*1 assure yon,” said ture made of glass is the freak of a
the asronant, “if I could see any prseti- Sjianish grandee.
miloo fr™ +i,„"d„i„o , There all the dead Incas sat with their
to ™* leaaon Lands crossed and their heads inclined
^L ^} lude tbat l * ^? , ld bu eas . ler m the midst of all the eold and silver,
tnw^fTf 8fr “ m * ePo,e ‘ ban e° m R the men on the right and the queens on
toward it, if he should be able to snr- the lett 0 f the bluing effigy of the San.
mount the nnknown difficulties that may The one paiace or mansion of the Inca
intervene? 1 •
.... . . that was not closed up was kept just as if
If the Arctic expeoition is not fonnd the owner had cone for a day and was
to be practicable, balloonists need not expected to return at anf moment. The
despair, tor it seems tbat a few of tbe I guard was retained, the servants were all
most eminent of them have an enter- at their po3ts and everything went on as
prise on hand that they are convinced before. Sometimes entertainments were
will be a grand success, and of equal provided in the name of a dead Inca by
importance to science and humanity, the Captain of the guard stationed in the
This is nothing less than a trans-Atlantic unclosed house of the Inca, Then the
trip in the eastern current, and probably body of the Inca would be brought out
a voyage round the world, in so short a into the public square with great pomp
time that Piiineas Fogg, with all his and ceremony, and tbe display of gold and
imperturability, would stand aghast at silver plate and jewels was something far
tbe mere conception of it. Several of ahead of anything we can now imagine,
tbe prominent seronants on both sides i he Peruvian process of enbalming bodies
of the ocean have agreed to make an ex- was as successful as the Egyptian, but it
periment this summer that will settle 13 supposed that it was much more simple
the question as to whether the eastern an d brought abont by exposing the body
current blows steadily in the same t0 l ** e action of tbe peculiar and ranfied
direction without veering. mountain atmosphere; aad they were as
“This experiment will be rnaae,” said perfect as hfe, “and not even the hair of
Mr. Grimley, “by putting up two bal- an eye-brow lacking,” while therr counte-
100ns at the same time. One of these nances retained their natural, somewhat
will rise to the attitude of the current, swarthy hue. A portion of the body, the
while the other will remain in the at^ intestines, etc., were buried and with
mosphere below. * By tins means we
shall be able to measure the velocity of
the current, and to demonstrate the in-
rariability of its course eastward.”
“You have no doubt abont its exis
tence eastward?”
“None whatever; upon that jxiint I
am fully satisfied, having been experi
menting upon it at intervals for several
years-”
“Is it independent of storms?”
“Practically so. All the storms aris
ing from electrical phenomena, occur
in the lower atmosphere. Atgreatheight
their influence, though philosophically
appreciable, are not materially so as to
interfere with the navigation of a bal
loon.”
“Where will the experiment start?”
“From the Polo Gramms in this city,
I believe. The London and Paris 2£ro
nautic Associations have expressed their
willingness to unite with ns on this side
in the experiment, and will contribute
liberally in fitting out the balloons for
the voyage.
Lamps In Yokohama.
As the hoar approaches for the lighting
of lamps in the evening at Yokohama, the
sound of the patrol is heard, and all night
long the streets are perambulated by these
warning guardians, who beat two band-
sticks or clappers together with the regu
larity of clockwork, giving forth a sharp,
ringing sound that there is no mistaking,
and they also have a regular note of warn
ing, which they cry out at regular intervals
ot time, so that the necessity of precaution
is present to the mind of all the dwellers in
the city, throughout the hours of darkness,
whether they will or no. The incendiary
is the most depraved of criminals in the
estimation of the people, and none others
were so fesrtn'.ly punished in the past. At
present death is the penalty meted out to
one who commits arson.
them a quantity of treasure, and it was at
this lime and place their wives and attend
ants were sacrificed.
A Grand Storm Scene.
Jesse Bsrritt, County Superintendent of
Schools, in Missouri, recently, while going
from Hillsboro to Butler, a village four
miles northwest of Hillsboro, witnessed
one of the most magnificent sights be
ever saw and one which, perhaps, few
men have ever had the opportunity of
seemg. Arriving at the top of Cross
Hill, a high eminence about two miles
west of Hillsboro, he says the air sud
denly became entirely calm, producing
au oppressive, stifling sensation, which
was followed by a peculiar, sickening
smell. He then saw five distinct cyclones
in tbe west and southwest, wbich he
describes as huge balls of cloud travel
ing in a northeasterly direction at
terrific rate of speed. All were dis
tinctly outlined and appeared at tunes to
come to the ground and bound into the
air to a great height. They were in a
constant state of agitation and as they
rose from the earth they became illumi
nated; while near the earth they ap
peared to be of a greenish color. They
were accompanied by a deafening roar.
One of them passed immediately over
him, but, fortunately, did not reach low
enough to do any damage. He asserts
that he saw nothmg of the funnel shape so
often described, bat that they appeared
most oi the time perfectly round. They
were a number of miles apart apparently,
but all going in the same direction.
He says that while the display was
grand beyond description, he never wants
to witness such a sight again; bat they
were evidently stragglers belonging to
tbe army of cyclones that passed over
our State an hour or two before, and
fortunately had no time to onaheath
their devastating “funnel” and strike the
earth. Only those that appeared at a
great distance seemed to come to the
ground. They passed out of sight In
lesa than three minutes and were fol
lowed by a heavy wind and torrents of
rain.
IV.
—The Baltimore Sim states that of
the (500 tornadoes recorded since 1695
there were 164 in the Southern States,
and or these 30 were unusually destruc
tive.
—An English traveller in America
records as one result of his observations
the general sadness on the faces of our
men of affairs as they go about the
streets.
; —Bargue, a painter of exquisite little
pictures, the best of which are said to he
in the hands of Miss Wolfe and Mr.
Vanderbilt, died lately in a Paris luna
tic asylum.
—Sir Henry Maine has been elected
Corresponding Member of the French
Academy of Moral and Political
Sciences, in the place of Ralph Waldo
Emerson.
—Following the Chinese plan, the •
British Government/has conferred a title
Tipon a dead man. Tliaf is to say, it has
made the late Sir George Jessel’s sou a
baronet for his father’s sake.
—The Empress of Austria has been
writing poetry, and has had a printing
office set up in tiie palace, and is learn
ing to set type and.manage a press, so ‘ t
that she can print her own poems.
—John W. Garrett has spent $4500 in
experiments on tiie Druid Hill Park
Aquarium in Baltimore. His latest
gift is in the shape of sea lions, which
are ou their way from San Francisco.
—Mackerel are decidedly earlier this
season than last. Last year on the Cape
Cod coast the first date of catch in weirs
was as late as June 20th. The earliest
was in 1880, when they were taken April
20th.
A tree standing perpendicularly
has been discovered at a depth of 280
feet in boring an artesian well at San
Bernardino, Cal. Great pieces of wood,
which appear to be sycamore, are brought
up.
—The people of Mound City, near
Cairo, HI., have employed an engineer
to make estimates of the cost of buildin
their levees one foot higher than the
highest flood line. The work is to be
done at once. -
—More than 4000 floral crowns were
heaped around Gamljqtta’s coffin in the
Palais Bourbon, and a writer in Figaro
estimates tlieir value at $100,000. Paris
and its environs produced them all, nat
ural as well as artificial.
—The latest papers from South Aus
tralia gives an account of wheat harvest
ings and thunder storms.
—England possesses a Society for the
Preservation of Funeral Monuments and
Epitaphs, which takes record of the de
struction of memorials of the dead and
repairs inscriptions that are in danger
of being effaced. '
—A tramway is4l>out to be construct
ed for the transportation of visitors to
the summit of Pike’s Peak. The cost of
tbe work is estimated at $100,000, and
the ascent, which now requires about a
day and a half, will then be made in
three hours.
—In one of the public schpols in Bos
ton a room lias been fitted up for instruc
tion in wood-work, and two classes have
given two hours a week to manual study.
The boys are delighted with the carpen
try, and the experiment is said to be a
great success. The marks of the scliol- -
ars are ail high, averaging as well as or
better than before.
—Some very fine specimens of asbes
tos are being found in Nevada. The
fibre of the specimens shown is from
four to six inches ip length, and js soft
and silky. A strand of it can be tied
into a knot the same as flax fibre. It is
found in what, from the description
given, appears to be serpentine rock, and
not very far from tbe crater of an extinct
volcano.
