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What Is the Legal Fence I
The Indianapolis Journal lias taken
pains to gather information ns to the
law* regarding the fencing of railroads
in sister Stales. In Massachusetts the
legal fence is four feet high. A “ sulli
cient barrier” only is demanded, whether
the equivalents be furnished by streams,
ditchos, live growths, or const motions
in wood, stone or other materiel, Ver
mont and Connecticut legal fence is five
and a half feet high, with provisions es
sentially as aljovo. In Maine and Now
Hampshir the legal fonoo in four feet
high ; Rhode Island, stone or wood
fences must be four and a half fcw-t high ;
hedges and ditches are elaborately de
scribed.
New York—-The town meetings pre
scribe what shall be doomed a log 1
fenoo in each town. Assessors and
Commissioners of Highways perform
the duties of fence viewers. Four and
a half feet is the usual height pre
scribed.
Pennsylvania—Towwsand counties se
cure special legislation for fencing rail
way linos, and to prevent running of the
stock at large.
New Jersey—fences aro to he four
feet, two inches high, of wood, brick or
stone, and four and a half feet if of other
materials,
Delaware—Four feet, with a ditch
within two feet, is a lawful fence. Wood
or stone fence, or Lodge, four and a half
feet high.
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas,
Tennessee—Legal fences live feet high.
West Virginia.—Legal fences four and
a half foot high.
Bouth Carolina—Fences must he si\
feet high, of wood or hedge, or ditcln •
equivalent as harriers.
Missouri—Hedge tiro feet, fenee four
mid ono-half feet.
Kentucky—" All sound or strong
fences five feet high, so close that stock
cannot croep through,” is the definition
df (ho legal fence.
Ohio—"A fenee, of whatever mate
rial, constructed in all respects such as
good hushuudmou ought to keep.”
Statute of 18115.
Illinois—" Fences four ami one-half
feet high, of whatever material the
fence viewers shall deem sufficient.”
Michigan—" Fences four and one
half feet high of rails, timber, boards,
stouo, or otiipr things deemed equiva
lent thereto in the judgment of fence
viewers."
Wisconsin—" Fences four anil one
half feet high,” etc. By act of April,
1878, barbed-wire fenoo is defined as a
legal foeoj.
tfMurnesota—" Fences four and one
mlf feet high,” eta Barb fence defined
by tho act of 1877.
Town—■“ Four and one-half fee! high,
or fifty-four inehu Barbed-wiro fence
dekenbed as legal feueo, 1870.
Texas— VFiya foot high.” Barbed
wire defined na legal fence.
Kansas —" Worm tended four and ono
half feet ; tuif four feet with ditches:
wire fenoo. posts twelve feet apart.”
Nebnuitja—Tho legal fenoe is do
scribed as “ such fence as good hits
l*i)(linen generally keep. ”
■‘OWoni'Ya—Tho legal fence is de
scribed with groat particularity. Wire,
post and rail, brush, picket; ditch and
polo and hedge wire feuees, not less than
three sepnrutc strands, the that eighteen
inches from tho ground, tho others two
and one foot apart,
Cdldrndo, Arizona, Mon hum and Utah
—Four ami ouo-hnlf feet high.
'New Mexico, Idaho and Washington
—Four foot high.
In Washington Territory burhod-wiro
fence must carry a top rail of wood.
Indiana—Any structure in the nature
of a fence, such uu good husbandmen
generally koep.
Tile Gazc-at-tlie-birls Young Mail.
Aition/? till 1 cutiosiliob of every largo
city, is the gaze iit-tho-girls young man.
Thai lie finds bin pursuit agreeable is
evident from the way in which ho Htioks
to his business ana the rapidity with
which ho multiples. Thorn is no trou
ble in identifying him. Ho is his own
identification. From shortly before noon
until dusk the gate-at-the-giinl* young
man jnay be seen on the loadiug thor
oughfare*. livery pretty face that comes
along chums his attention and ho at *nco
proceeds to investigate its cuarins. Ho
dotn not do this quietly and tmohtru
sively; not ho. Tho gazo-at-the-gills
young imm’s chief stock in trade is tho
power of gazing long and impudently.
Then tho gaze does not go alone. With
every gaze goes a smile, a peculiar
smile, a sort of a cross betwei u the lop
sided smirk of a Quiteau and tho ios
thetio simper of a Buntliorne, Ttiis
combinat ion is bestowed lavishly. Tho
modest blush is brought to tho cheek of
virtue by tho insolent- glare of the young
man. He brushes against tho girls and
fairly forces his gaze into their faces.
The gaze-ftt-tiiogirls young nuui will
stoop and look under a hut in order to
discover what kind of u face iH hidden
beneath it. He has no hesitation in
doing all sorts of uncivil things in order
to satisfy his girl-gazing, and that is
why he is noted for impudence, impo
liteness and stupidity.
The gaze-at-tho-girls young man is
ordered to bo arrested iu Now York
whenever he is caught adding some in
sulting words to his gaze, which is unite
often. It would ho well if the same or
der were issued in •thor cities. A fow
weeks behind the bars would do the
giute-at-tho-giils young muu good. He
would be careful where and how he gazed
thereafter. —Philadelphia 'limes.
The Crater of I’opocatapctl.
In a letter to the Philadelphia Jiecord,
Mr. Nathan E. Perkins describes nt
great length the ascent, of tho Mexican
volcano Popooatapetl, having reached
the crater after a toilsome clin b, and de
scended ns for as he could without a
rope. From tin's position a good view
was obtained of tho crater-walls. Tie
bottom was hidden by ascending smoke
and steam. The lower walls were linug
with large masses of sulphur interspersed
with icicles hundreds of feet long.
44 The crater is about one mile across,
mid has the appearance of a large funnel
whoso sides are but iittlo inclined, and
tlie bottom is not visible. There seem
to be three distinct rings, which divide
it into four zones the largest, lining that
nearest the mouth. From the summit
the City of Mexico, although ever Bk)
miles away, was plainly visible, and,
surrounded by hikes us it is, seemed like
a magnificent gem set arounil with
pearl*. Tho whole great valley of Mex
ico ean bo seen ut a glance. At our fact
lay Ameca, over thirty miles distant,
with itr luxurious growth of tropical
plants, orange groves and banana plan
tations, and on the right Ptiehlo and the
old cities of Chilulo and Tascalla, with
their 365 churches and spires. ’ The dis
tant mountain of Orizaba, nearly 20ff
miles aw ay, the snowy jH-nks of Melen
clia, the White Lily and several others
iu the distauce, stood arrayed before me.
I felt tullv repaid for my toil in having
climbed the highest mountain iu Nurtti
America, whose summit is about 18,000
feet above the sea-level. **
A POLICE INISOVATION.
om.-er oh (hr Drarrr Fores
Coneorning Denver’s naturalized Chi
; none policeman, Louis Johnson, alias
| Kan Yun Yu, the fact that Johnson is
! the find Mongolian who ever wore the
1 star of a policcmmau in America, was
curly developed in tho conversation, and
is worthy of note. Johnson is married,
and more important, his wife is an
American, a lady in all semes of the
term.
"I married her,’ 1 raid Johnson, "in
Louisville, Ky., in 1873. Hhe was a
M ..> Burt, ami lived on Twouty-first
street. Ago and family. Oh, yes. First
class. She is of German descent, and
’ was a working girl, hut I assure you in
I every way an excellent woman—oh,
! ■
“ Keep* you pretty straight, doesn't
alio?”
“You bet. Hhe objects to my going
among tho Chinese, and makes me do
I just as Americans do-just tho same.”
“ How do you like that ?"
“Oh, I don't object. lon see I con
sider mysoh civilized, and my country
meu are not. Many of them are bad
people. They are envious and under
handed. When they see that a China
man I,as a good thing, they try to get it
away from him by under bidding him.”
"Are they immoral?’’
" Most of thorn are had. Ho my wife
doesn’t want me to associate with my
countrynn n here.”
“What do Chinamfcn pay for tho Chi
nese women 1”
“They aro bought first in China.
Young girls aro preferred. They are
stolen on tho streets in Chinese cities
and sold to slave dealers there, wtio
again sell them to men who ship them
to America. They are bought there for
from sllsO to $-300 by wholesale, and re
tailed in Hun Francisco for from f.'lOO to
sßoo—young girls bring the best prices.
They then belong to the men who buy
them, who keep them til! they get old
arid then sell them to Chinamen, with
whom they live as their wives. Their
owners collect all the money the women
receive, except what they steal, and feed
and clothe the women."
" Now many Chinese women uro there
in this country V”
" Well, 1 should say there are about
10,000. I’liey aye scattered pretty thick
ly over the Pacific const.”
"Why do no more decent China
women come to America?,’
"In China everything is different
from America. The women are kept
very close. Hence tho women don’t get
out much, and they don’t ixinio to this
country.”
"Do all the Chinese suioko opium ?”
“ Most of thorn.”
" Do you ?”
“ Oh,*l hit the pipe occasionally When
I have a headache.”
“ Docs your wife?”
" Not much.”
"1 tow many Chinese are there in Den
ver?”
"About 500.”
Johnson nays it if) his determination
to live the life of a respectable American
citizen, lie is a member <>f the Meth
odist Church, while liia wife belongs to
the Christian denomination. Helms do
voted most of his life to the tea Vms
inrss. lie was naturalized in Evans
ville.
Spi aking of his court, hip, he says he
met ids wife through her brother, who
wei a friend of his. Ib> courted her for
about a year, and whi n they decided
that, they each loved the other more than
tlii'V loved any ono else they were mar
ried by a Christian minister. —Denver
Xltl'H.
A Hattie between Birds.
A gentleman from Htono (V unity gives
the particulars of a remarkable incident
which ho witnessed while crossing White
Kivor on tho ferry just above the mouth
f Sycamore Creek. When nearly half
way across the stream im enormous eitglo
swooped down on ntlookof geese, winch
were swimming in tho river some eighty
rode below the boat. The fowls, upon
observing the eagle approaching, in
stinctively dived under the water just ns
tho bird struck the wave. Baffled in tho
lirst. assault the eagle ilow slowly up
ward, and when the geese came to the sur
face. darted downward again, and bury
ing its talons in one of them, attempted
to bear it sway. The goose struggled
violently, while its companions swam
around uttering shrill cries and the per
sons on the ferry boat watched tho
at range scene with koeu interest. Once
the eagle lifted its prey clear out of tho
"al r and seemed on the point of convey
ing it to the mountain cliff that rose
grandly in the air on the other side of
tho striven, but t lie struggles of the goose
f iriwd the captor downward. When
water watt again reached tho goose made
a supreme effort and plunged below the
surface, dragging the eagle after it and
causing the latter to loosen its hold and
rise upward with a tierce stream.
The eagle next attacked another goose,
but with the same result, being eom
p lad to relinipiish its hold’when its in
tended victim plunged beneath tho
waves. This strange contest lasted fully
thirty minutes, at the end of which time
the eagle gave up the fight, and, rising,
soared away to the mountains westward,
while the Hook of goose swam further
down the stream. None of the tlock
were killed, but the water in tho vicinity
was dyed with blood, and the surface of
the stream w as covered with feathers for
a conmdoruble dmtamo. —Lillie Bock
Hotter to Atlanta Constitution.
f’oln and Jewelry in the Malls.
On an avenge $200,000 in gold coin,
bullion or jewelry is sent, every day as
third-class mail matter through the San
Francisco postolfioe. IPalf of this is
shipped by the Government j the rest ie
private remittances. There is no armed
guard or other precaution against roh
bory, ami private shipments arc simply
inclosed in ordinary wooden 1 nixes. Be
fore Secretary Sherman originated the
present system of exchanges through
the postoffice, gold was charged letter
rates, or $3.00 per SI,OOO, and its trans
portation was profitable; but now the
postage and registration amount to only
70 cents, aud gold shipments are a loss
to the postal department, beside offering
temptations to criminal enterprises.—
Van Francises '"'Ai-onie/e.
restin'* Slumps.
Tho number of different kinds of post
age stamps which liavo been hitherto is
sued all over the world is estimated, iu
round nunIHTH, at 8,000. Among them
are to I* found the effigies of five Em
pc tors, eighteen Kings, three Queens,
one Grand Dnkq, six Pnnces and a
large number of Presidents, etc. Some
of the stamps bear coats of arms and
other emblems, as crowns, the papal
keys, aud tiara, anchors, eagles, lions,
horses, stars, serpents, railway trams,
horsemen, im-ssi ugers, eh', Tlie eolleo
‘ion preserved in the museum of tho
Berlin postoffioo included, on July 1,
18T9, 4,498 specimens of different post
age stain]*. Of these 2.462 were from,
Europe, 441 from Asia, 251 from Africa,
1,143 from America and 201 from Au
stralia.
Oar Government,
Tho following figures have been com
piled showing the money paid to officials
in governmental affairs :
The President £50,000
Vico President 10,000
460,000
Expenses of tho White House :
To fnirlv estimate tho exponses of tho
White House requires a earefni scru
tiny of the appropriation bills, as
the items are not classed under thia
Load, but are scattered under other
headings, nor are they the same in
any on# year; but taking them at an
average, and setting aside extraor
dinary disbursements it may be eat
en iated that a fair annual estimate
will be about 20,000
Secretary of Htate, Treasury, Interior,
War, Navy, Postmaster and At
torney-General, 48,000 each 56,000
Total 4136,000
It is not bo easy a matter to get at the
precise cost of the Hon ate and the House
of Representatives, ns tho expenses are
more elaborate from conditions which
have nothing to do with the difference
between a monarchy and a republic.
The office of a Henator and a member of
the House of Representatives carries
with it a salary, while tho membership
of the House of Lords and Commons
carries none. It must also he remem
bered that the due fulfillment of his
duties, by either Henator or Representa
tive, involves long journeys, separation
from business circles and peculiar ex
penses which do not occur in the other
cases.
RENATS.
Appropriation for the Senators 4380,000
Compensation for mileage 33,000
Salaries for officer* 100,000
HOUSE OF BZPRESENTATIVXS.
Appropriation for members 1,530,000
Salaries -Messengers, Clerks, Secreta
ries 200,000
Total 42,348,000
Bringing our totals together we find
thut the cost of representative institu
tions in the United States, with a popu
lation of 50,000,000, is $2,348,000, or a
lapitation of five cents per head. It
eems then that tho proportionate cost
t monarchical as against Republican iu
titutions is us 21 is to 1.
As wo have not included the cost of
the diplomatic service in tho foregoing
figures we will now proceed shortly to con
trast tho expenses of England and Amer
ica so far as those items are concerned,
for tho purpose of showing how much
more costly tho representatives of a
royal court aro than tho delegates of a
republic. The total cost of the diplo
matio service of Great Britain is $2,400,-
OOfi, while the total cost of the samo
service of the United States is only
$900,000.
With view of enabling the reader to
judgo for himself wo will contrast in
columns side by side tho expense of
England and Amorioa to different coun
tries.
United Htatos. Groat Britain.
Salary of Salary of
Roproxontativo. Ambassador.
Franoo 417,000 450,000
Germany V, OOO 42.000
Russia 17,000 46,000
Spain 12,000 28,000
Austria 12.000 40,000
Italy 12,000 86,000
Ih sail 12,000 23,000
Japan 12,000 20,000
China 12,000 80,000
Tho samo principle runs through the
whole expenditure of both countries.
Under the monarchy the tondenoy is to
divido up large sums among a favored
fow, while tno principle in republican
government seems to be to pay only
moderate salaries and to divide the
dutios over a large number.
THE MAN WIIO WON.
Opinion* of Tilings iKnjrlSftli l> uii Amori
vtut.
A rich American who is reported to
have won largo sums by betting on horse
races in England gives his opinion ns fol
lows : “T he English arc a very slow
people. You can't get a barber to shave
you there on a Sunday or a holiday, nor
after 7 o’clock in tho evening, and none
of the stores arc open till 9 o’clock in
the morning. You might suppose, from
their long connection with the turf, that
they would be very alert on a good horse;
but L s iw Huron Rothschild's marc Nedie
win a raoo, arid no! one cent had been
wagered <>n her. I saw tho horse some
time before the race, ami was struck w ith
her perfect form, and 1 put $52,01)j) on
her, ami won it with case. Hhe just had
a walk-away from the r fc st, After it was
over they all saw what they had missed.
Foxlmll is the great st. horse in the world
to day. Tho English must have known
that there was something in Foxhall, vet
they won next to nothing on his per
formances, and let tho Americans take
away their money.
“England is a finished country. It is
like a park in every part, with tho ex
ception of Ireland, whose hugs and dis
order arc rather repelling. You see no
nsh barrels standing around the towns of
England, no old newspapers and rubbish.
Coming home, the unfinished character
of America is very notioable—the slov
enly condition of the streets, the naked
railroads miming without fuuvs across
tlm landscape. England is completed.
We seem to he only about one-third fin
ished. You compare an English railroad
station to one in America, for instance.
Hero they are more wooden shells, with
one man, perhaps, doing all the work—
selling tickets, checking baggage, every
thing. There you sec a little army of
railroad guards, and the larger stations
are massive hotels and crystal guard
houses. 1 think that Germany and Eng
land are the superior countries in
Europe, and they stand pretty close to
each other in achievements and ability.
The Development of Taste.
In tho natural growth of tho world,
tasto has been rapidly developed, ami
tho people of all nations are now produc
ing eaoh its own peculiar and wonderful
treasures. Who can remember or de
scribe them ? Who can tell the extent
of the riches or the beauty of the golden,
jowelod ornaments now admired and
worn by a thousand million people ?
What pen can describe all that is seen
in cultivated gardens and parks adorned
with trees, shrubs, plants, and flowers ?
Where can we loam, iu books or else
where, tho names of all that is beautiful
that blossoms from the whole earth ; all
that is beautiful that the brush prodne >s
on canvas ; all that the weaver's shuttle
and loom prodnoe; all that tha skilled
hands of tho carver on wood, stone, and
marble produce ; all that the combined
colors of the rainbow have produced, ns
shown in fabrics, of silk and satin, and
cotton and wool; all that is beautiful in
architecture, and in the adornments of
tlie world’s most renowned cathedrals,
and beautiful in all its famous kingly
palaces ? But life is too short to search
out and sec all that is beautiful. We
can only get a glimpse, now and then,
at some of the world's greatest treasures.
The most favored season for such sight
seeing is Christmas.— The Independent.
Scene at a stable : Funny Freshman
(to hostler, who is rubbing down his
horse) — 44 l’at, I’m afraid you’re currying
favor with that horse. ” Hostler—
-44 Faith, no! I’m merely scrapin’ an
acquaintance. ” — Harvard ( Yimson.
A FASHIONABLE BRIDE.
now Flan Hello Ka.vi Rk dels Ready f
the Altar.
The time appointed for the marriage
ceremony in church was three o’clock in
tho afternoon. Borealis Brown, the
bridegroom, and Aurora White, the
bride were in a close carriage ten blocks
away, at six minute# before three :
"We shall get there right on time,”
said lie, looking at bis watch.
Now, it is dreadfully unfashionable to
get to the church promptly, and Aurora
would have felt jnst like dropping
through the floor don’t yon know, if she
had walked up the aisle on time.
“ Don’t you think, my dear, it would
bo better to be ten minutes late ?” said
she, leaning against him in a kind of ■
harmless hug.
"No; I pride myself on punctuality.”
"Five minutes, then?”
“ Now, my darling, don’t coax.”
"Just os you say.’
Hho put her hand carelossly on his
shoulder, and then let it drop slowly
along down over his coat to a small
pocket set in t the waist seam, whero it
lingered for a few seconds.
“You have the ring whero yon can
find it readily,” she remarked, laying
placidly back in her seat. "There is
nothing so awkward as to fumble for the
ring at the altar, you know.”
“ Oh, I’vo made sure on that point, os
I told you,” ho #aid confidently, “I
slipped the ring right into this handy
little pocket where, I—good lord in
hoavon !”
“ What Borealis—what?”
“Thoring is lost.”
He thrnsted his fingers Into the
pocket’madly, again and again, but the
ring surely was not there. He made
wild conjectures, felt in all his other
pickets, and concluded ho must have
left it at Aurora’s residence. He ordered
the coachman to turn about. When they
had gone baok almost to the house, a
public clock struok three.
"What is that?” said Aurora, point
ing to the bottom of the carriage.
The ring lay glittering in a corner.
“ I must have dropped it," said Bore
alis, picking it up, “ but I swear I
looked in that very spot two minute#
ago.”
Ho had looked there, as a matter of
fact, just before Aurora threw the ring
down.
“Well,” he remarked, looking at hi#
watch again, “you will have your wav
after all. Wo can’t get to the church
beforo ten minutes late anyhow.”
“To be sure.”
Acute presence of mind is character
istic oI brides. They may blush but they
know exactly what they are about. Their
eyes may be dim with tears, but they
can seo a misplaced thread in their dress.
Two blocks from the churoh Aurora ex
pressed a fear that she was as pale as a
ghost.
“Bay as fair as alabaster,” Handsome
suggested.
“ Now, my dear,” she rotorted, "this
is no time for compliments. Is tliero tho
least bit of color in my face ?”
"Well, no, butt-”
" 1 must look ghastly.”
" Would you like to blush as you go
in?”
“Yes.”
Be threw his arms around her, drew
her to his broast, with the grip of a
wrestier, and kissed her loud ana long.
He wis through with it just as the car
riage door was opened by an usher, and
she walked into churoh with a satisfac
tory amount of pink on her cheeks.
Mothers and Manners.
Coming home, in tho Fifth-avenue om
nilms, I met with a specimen of mother
ami manners that will amuse you, and
perhaps it will point a moral if it (loos
not adorn a tale.
The stage was full—six on each side.
A woman—observe, I do not say a lady
—entered with two children, a tou-yenr
old boy and a young girl. As she could
not finil a seat, I gave her mine, and the
two children stood at her knee. Pres
ently two persons left, and the boy sat
down opposite tho mother. Now two
ladies entered, and tho mother instanly
bent toward and said to her son : “ Keep
your seat; 1 paid for you.”
This was a lesson in politeness that
would probably determine the manners
of tho Is>y for life. Tho mother had
just before accepted my seat, compelling
me, a man, twice as old as herself, to
stand up in an omnibus; but themo
mei t when her little son had an oppor
tunity to lie kind to ladies, she interposed
and hade him keep his scat.
It offends the vanity of our people
when one says that this want of good
manners is a national vice, and I hold
that it is not American. It is Auglo-
Haxen as distinct from tho Latin races.
That softness, gentleness, ease of man
ners which portaius to France and Italy
is nit in Germany, Britain, or America.
Tiie mauners of French children are
beautiful They ore so well taught in
early childhood, that politeness seems
an instinct. No one can toll when the
child did not behave properly.
Mr. Naabv has written a letter to the
Toledo Blade on this subject, which
seems to have arrested Ins attention
while traveling in France. And his ex
perience like mine, was in a public con
veyance. ITo writes :
“I was in a compartment (of a rail
oar) with a little French boy of twelve
years, the precise ago at which American
children, as a rule, deserve killing for
their rudeness and general disagreeablo
ncss. Ho was dressed faultlessly, but
his clothes were not the chief charm. I
sat between him and the open window,
aud ho was eating pears. Now, an
American hoy of that ago would either
have dropped tho cores on the floor or
tossed them out of the window without
regard to anybody. But this small gen
tleman every time, with a ‘Permit mo,
monsieur,’ said in the mostjpleasant way,
rose and came to the w indow and drop
ped them out, and then ‘ Mcrci, mon
sieur’ (thank you, sir), as ho quietly
took his scat.
“It was a delight. I am sorry to say
that such small hoys do not travel on
American railroads to any alarming ex
tent. Would they wore more frequent.
And this boy was no exception. He was
not a show hoy out posing before the
great American Republic, or such of it
as happened to be in Frauoe at that
time; but he was a sample, a type of
the regulation of a French child.”
No, Mr. Nasby would never meet with
a boy of that pattern in England or New
Knginud, in Britain or America. They
arc not raised iu any of these kingdoms
or republics. Tho fathers and mothers
were brought up as they bring up thoir
sous and daughters. Children arc what
they arc taught to be. Just as the
twig, etc. — X'w York Observer.
Daughter (home from school)
“Now, papa, are yon satisfied? Just
look at my testimonial— 4 Political econ
omy, satisfactory; fine arts and music,
very good ; logic, excellent.’ ” Father
—‘‘Very much so, my dear—especially
as regards your future. If your husband
should understand anything of house
keeping, cooking, menciing and the usa
of the sewing-machine, perhaps your
married life will indeed be happy.”
Fallen Grandeur.
It is amazing how smart tho poorest
lady in Italy, who has any pretension# to
being such, will turn out on occasions
however dilapidated her home attire.
Two young ladies belonging to an old,
but utterly ruined family, whose parents
were too poor to keep a servant, would
dress themselves for their evening walk,
in the most fashionable of hats and cos
tumes, with their fans, smelling bottles,
lace handkerchiefs, and gloves, all com
plete. In order to obtain these dresses
tho young ladies had to condescend so
far as to work for the peasants, who paid
them for the manufacture of the smart
stays and chemisettes they wear on feast
days. The attempts to being highly
fashionable, combined with an entire ig
norance of the ways of the fashionable
world, produeo sometimes the strangest
incongruities. The lace veil is now
almost confined to the class called "ar
tists”—that is, shopkeepers and skilled
workpeople; but a lew of the old-fash
ioned ladies still keep to it. Curious
specimens of decayed nobility, are to be
found in these remote villages—peoplo
bearing grand names, and retaining con
siderable pride in their ancient lineage,
whom generations of idleness and uu
tliriftiness have reduced to extreme pov
erty. They are not educated for ahy pro
fession, and when starvation stares them
in the face, they have no resource but to
earn their bread by mutual labor. One
noble count of my noquaintanoe i# a
carpenter; another a bricklayer. I have
seen the grand-daughters of a countesg
working in the fields. With their for
tunes their manners deteriorate, until
nothing but a remnant of pride remains
to distinguish them from the peasants
between whose class and theirs, so great
a gnlf Wfts once fixed. I remember
nothing mpre melancholy, than the as
semblage of these poverty-stricken no
bles I once met, at the house of the rich
man of a village. We were at supper;
nnd as one ragged nnd dirty old man after
another came shambling in, each in turn
was, to my great surprise, introduced a#
the descendant of an ancient and noble
family, but fallen—“oadnto,” added my
host, with a gesture of compassion. Th#
old man would then bow his head in mel
ancholy acquiescence, and, casting a rue-'
fill glunce at hi# shabby oloak with the
faded green lining, would sink into •
chair, at the far end of the table. On#
of these fallen nobles, who had taken to
house-painting, wo thought it only
ohnritable to employ for the decora
tion of our ceiling. I was pre
pared w to feel quite n romantio in
terest in this unfortunate nobleman,
und to t>e enchanted with his artistio
genius, but he was *o uncommonly dirty,
nud his manners wore so little removed
from those of a peasant, that my illusion*
were dispelled at once. Neither did hi#
style of decoration exactly come up to my
ideal, although it wa# ambitious enough.
A basket of flowers soon adorned each
corner of our ceiling, and in the center,
from amid clouds and wreaths of roses,
a rather shapeless Cupid began to be de
lineated. In tho middle of the work,
the artist, whoso tempor was short, and
whoso feelings were sensitive, took
offense—a i wo suppose—at some unin
tontioned slight on our part. Without
tho slightest explanation, he departed
ono day, leaving the Cupid minus one
leg and one arm, and returned no more.
Poor Cupid ! Being in suoh a sadly mu
tilated condition, we thought best to do
away with him altogether, and my hus
band, mounting a ladder, swept aooatof
whitewash over Cupid, clouds, baskets
of flowers and all. This operation was
repented several times, but tRe Cupid
would koep reappearing in a ghastly
manner. —From Comhill Magaeine.
A Southern Type.
In tho South one soon meet* the young
man, a lawyer, or dditor, or physician,
who will talk for hours, to any one who
will listen, of the superiority of the South;
Its people and its civilization, over the
North and everything Northern. He
always talk* well, and ie usually a very
good fellow, but he proceeds entirely
upon the a priori method, and his con
clusions have little relation to the facte
of lifo. He knows little of hi* own region
of the oountry, and nothing whatever of
*ny other. Young men of this type alwayi
dwell with proud aud endless iteration
on “ the superior purity of Southern wo
men. ” Their persistence always bring*
the more fact of ohastity more nakedly
and definitely before the seem*
wholesome or desirable to persons who
have seen more of life and of the world.
These youthful eulogists appear to think
that it is a virtue which is almost unknown
except in tho Southern States. They do
not recognize the fact, which is of great
importance in any real discussion of thi*
, feature of our civilization, that the wo
men of another race, formerly helpless and
now degraded, have always formed a pro
tecting barrier between the licention*
passion* of Southern white men and the
women of their own race. I do not sup
pose the best women of the South have
any superiors on earth, but their im
munity from temptation and wrong ha*
cost other women dear.
What young men of this class most
need is a wider observation and large?
knowledge of the world, or, especially,
of their own country. They would thus,
iu time, understand how much better it
is for our young men to be penetrated
aud inspired by the idea of being Ameri
cans than to be always dwelling upon the
fact that they nr* natives of Virginia, or
Massachusetts, or Arkansas or New
Jersey. There is reallv no harm in these
young rentlemen, although their vehe
ment utteraDoes regarding subjects with
which they have but slight acquaintance
have sometimes furnished convenientma
to rial for Che use of •'Northern politician*
who were hostile to the South. — Atlantic
Monthly.
Modern Courtship.
This is a modern courtship in a nut
shell The lights were so bright that
they seemed garish, and the parlor of
the Mo Wishes was radiant in upholstery
of tho past decade. Eulalie, the pride
of the family, just making preparations
for oelebrating her nineteenth birthday.
Old Bullion making an evening call.
44 Mv dear Miss McWish. There is in
deed disparity in our ages. You havs
ronth and beauty. I, years and wealth.
3ut I trust there can be some reciproo
tv between us?” “Indeed, my dear
fir. Bullion, wealth is not to be despised,
feither is old age—and delicate health."
'he last clause in an undertone. A kiss
hat was like the rattliug of an old
parchment against a satin cushion dosed
that bargain. We’ll bet 'the old man
outlives her.—New Haven Register.
A story is told of a Jew of Tewks
bury, in 1820, who fell into a well on
Saturday—the Jewish Sabbath. Out of
reverence for the day he would not suf
fer himself to lie drawn out. Tho Earl
of Glaston, on whose land the well wap,
would not allow him to be taken out the
next day out of respect for Sunday, and
before Monday came he died.
Unbecoming forwardness oftener pro
■ oeeds from ignorance than impudence.
Paul Morphy’s Memory.
Brentano's Chets Monthly recalls this
instance of the remarkable memory of
the greatest chees-plaVer the world lias
over known: Of Morphy’s gigantic mem
ory I had iadubfh&lc proof from my own
otiservation at tne time ho was playing
his oelebrated match with Lowenthal.
Both opponents had agreed to regard
the games played as their intellectual
private property, not to be published, I
was at the time editing tne chess ool
rmlll kof the Sunday Times , and anxious
to reproduce them there. In order to
obtain the requisite information, I had
to t pply to one of the contesting parties.
I first went to Morphy, who received me
cordially, and declared his entire will
ingness to dictate for me the last partie,
played the day before. I begged nim to
repeat the game on the board, as I would
in this manner lie better able to follow
tlio progress of the contest. Morphy con
sented, and at the tenth move of black
(Lowenthal) I asked him to stop a mo
ment, sinoo it seemed to me that at this
particular point a bettor move might
have been made. “Oh, you probably
mean the move which you yourself made
in one of your contests with Dufresne ?”
answered Morphy in his simple, artless
way of speaking. I was startled. The
partie mentioned hod been played in
Berlin in 1861, seven years before, and I
had totally forgotten all its details. On
observing this, Morphy called for a sec
ond board, and began, without the least
heeitntion, to repeat that game from the
first to the last move without a single
mistake. I was speechless from surprise.
Here was a man, whose attention was
constantly distracted by oountleae de
mands on his memory, and yet be had
perfectly retained for sevon years all the
details of a game insignificant in itself,
and, moreover, printed in a language
entirely unknown to him.
The Pot-Luck Club.
At a meeting of the Pot-Luok Club
each male member, according to promise,
contributed a specimen of the handiwork
in the onlinary art, and the result was
quite novel.
“ Here,” said the artist, sketching the
twentieth letter of the alphabet, “is a
drawing of “ T.” His contribution was
highly esteamed.
“And here,” said the printer, produc
ing a handful of type, “is some *pi’ of
my own making. ” lie said this in a crusty
tone.
“And I’ve brought a hot goose,” said
the tailor, dropping his iron on the
table. He was greeted with hisses.
“And I,” said the poet, with a Milesian
accent, proffering a manuscript “have
here some tender-loins.” His offering
was voted very boefiting.
“And I hope,” said a sad and timid
looking member, presenting his wife,
“yon will relish this ‘rib.’” And then
lie added in a stage of whisper: “ I
can spare her, therefore she is a spare
rib.”
The carpenter now stepped forward
and said he had prepared “a little
piano board,” —placing the board on the
table as he spoke.
The shoemaker said he thought some
of the members needed a little brain food,
therefore he had brought a “ sole,” also
a “tongue.” Tha former was pretty
“ scaly,
“And here,” said a smart yonng man,
with a goneness in his voice, introducing
bis best girl, “is a little drunk.” He was
pronounoed “too fresh,” and his girl gave
him the cold shoulder all tho rest of the
evening.
Then a newspaper humorist cast his
eyes over the assemblage, called it a
“rare meet," poured somed gritty sub
stance out of a cone-shaped piece of
paper, and made Joe Miller turn over in
his grave bv remarking : “ The best I
can do in the culinary line is the sand—
which is here.”
The club immediately adjourned out
of respect for his gray-haired pun, say
ing that they didn’t want any “taffy”
in their dessert. —The Judge.
Take the Cake.
Mr. Jones i* very fond of oake, and
when hi* wife has oompany to tea sh<
usually instructs him beforehand not t
eat mors than one pieoe himself. On*
evening, however, company dropped
in to tea unexpectedly and Mrs. Sonet
had no time to oosoh Jones. They sat
down to the table and the first thing
Jones did when tho tea w served wm
to dip into ths <*ke basket and possess
kimself of a large slice of citron cake,
which he buttered profusely and quickly
disposed of. Then, as he went on talk
ing with the gentlemen of the party, and
remarking that he had no aympathy
with demagogues, he reached over and
secured a generous piece of fruit cake.
“Jepthal’’ said his wife wamingly.
The wretched man knew something was
amiss, and, as usual, hit on the wrong
thing.
“I don’t mean anything personal;
Mr. Brown understands me, Maria.
I am tlying to reconcile the difference
of parties;’" and he tackled the cake
basket a third time, saying, as he drew
a section of pink and gold layer cake,
that ho felt persuaded the oountry was
going to ruin.
“Pass the cake, Mr. Jones,” said his
wife in awful tone.
“I pass,” answered Jones abstractedly,
and with a full hand of coooannt jumbles
he went on reconstructing the country.
In the excitement of forming anew
administration he helped himself to a
square of hickory-nnt oake, wtfiob he
buttered on both sides. Then Mrs. Jones
rose to her full altitude and said, in her
home - brewed - bottled - for -use - domestic
voice : 4 4 Mr. Jones 1 will yon pass that
oako basket around while there is a single
piece of oake left? If you had the
government pie you talk about there
wouldn’t be even a chance at the plate
left for anybody else. ”
"He takes the cake!” murmnYed Mr.
Brown in his oompany voice, while Mrs.
Jones mentally resolved to hereafter
leave the coke on the sideboard until it
was time to pass it around.
Don’t Use Big Words.
In promulgating yonr esoteric cogita
tions, or articulating superficial senti
mentalities and philosophical or psycho
logical observations, bowaie of platitudi
nous ponderosity. Let your conversation
possess a clarified conciseness, compacted
eompreliensibleness, coalescent consist
ency and a concatenated cogency. Es
chew all conglomerations of flatulent
garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine
nffi-ctations. Let yonr extemporaneous
deeeantings and unpremeditated expa
tiations have intelligibility and veracious
vivacity, without rbodomontade or thra
sonical bombast. Sedulously avoid an
polysyllabic profundity, pompous pro
lixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloqnial
verbosity and vaniloqr.ent vapidity.
Shun double entendres, prurient jocosity
and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or
apparent. In other words, talk plainly,
naturally, sensibly, truthfully, purely.
And don’t use biz words.
The universe is but one greak city,
full of beloved ones, divine and human,
by nature endeared to eaoh other.
Sorrow is a scourge but there is heal
ing iu its stripes.
PITH AND POINT.
You can tell dog-wood by it# barb.
Possesses great healing power—the
cobbler.
Thb latest definition: A naturalist—
one who catches gnats.
Thb mean temperature is what dig.
gusts a man with every climate.
Ship Captains ought to bejgood dano
ors, because they are good skippers.
Whbn a tenant wishes to hold his
dwelling for another year he re-leases it,
The phrenologist is a man who can
not do "his work well unless he feels
right.
M crdeb on the high C is a common
occurrence among a certain class of so
prano singers.
Thb Empress of Austria wears a train
thirty feet long. There are probably
no train-robbers in Austria.
A fashionable young lady, like an
inexperienced printer, makes a great
bustle in correcting her form.
Websthb was an esthetic, because he
euthnsiastisaliy says in his dictionary
that the verb "speak” is too utter.
A haj; can get into good society in
Leadville if he hasn’t bad the jim-jams,
but he’ll have to stand being regarded
a# rather fresh.
Cassaonao, the French editor, has
fought 110 duels. He ha# therefore run
ns much risk a# a man who ho# played
three games at base-ball.
" Do not marry a widower,” said the
old lady. “A ready-made family la like
a plate of cold potatoes.” “Oh, IH
soon warm them over,” replied the dam
sel ; and she did.
Miss Swisshelm Bays: “If men wore
boots at all the boot# should reach to
the w aist and be fastened to a belt.”
Think of a man with such boots having
the jim-jams. Great snakes I
“ No," said Mrs. Goodington, casting
her eyes over specs to the silhouette of
her lamented Daniel. "I oan’t say as 1
like to see a man too stont, but just a
little inclined to potuloncy, you know,"
Xir a garb that was gaUOaas of oolors
She stood, with a doll, hstlftse sir—
▲ creature of dump* and of dolors.
But most nndeiuAbiy fir;
The folds of liar gfermeuU fell round her ,
Revealing tho curve of eeoh limb;
Well-proportioned And graceful I found her
Although (jolto alarmingly thin.
—Elia Whtder.
“Mbs. Jones has sent to borrow my
bonnet, and I don’t want to loan it to
her. Wluit message shall I return?"
said a lady to her husband. The reply
was clear and prompt : 44 Tell her she
has your good will, but cannot have
your fixtures.”
44 I’m not very preud of yonr progress
in school,” remarked a New Haven
mother to her son, who was struggling
along in grade five. “ There’s Charley
Smart is way ahead of you, and he isn’t
ns old.” “I know it. Teacher said he’d
teamed all there was to learn in my
room, and that left me without anything
to learn. ”
In a primary school, not very long
ago, the teacher undertook to convey to
her pupils an idea of the use of the hy
phen. She wrote on tho blackboard
“Bird’s-nest,” and, pointing to the hy
phen, asked the school: "What is that
for ? ” After a short pause, a young son
of the Emerald Isle piped out: 44 Plaze,
ma’am, for tho bird to roosht on.”
A gentleman called to consult a phy
sician with regard to a rheumatism
which caused him much pain. Tho
doctor immediately sat down and wroto
him a prescription. As the patient was
going away the doctor called him bock.
“By the way, sir, should my prescrip
tion happen’ to afford you any relief,
please let me know, as lum myself suf
fering from a similar affection.’ 1
HISTORICAL.
Mme. Pompadour was the originator
of h-igh heels.
The Egyptian physicians of old were
paid by the state.
Pli-ny says that four-wheeled carriage*
were invented by the Phyrgiang.
The main facts of blood circulation
have only been known 260 years.
Embalming was in use among tb
Egyptians at least 3000 ago.
fjiv Hundred lions wero killed at on*
show, given by the Roman Pompey.
The Assyrians and Greeks had tri
monthly festivals, besides annual revels,
Queen Elizabeth granted the first
royal patent conoeded to players in 1676.
Wren, the architect of St. Paul’s, de
signed more than forty public buildings
iu London.
Gibbon began to write his “Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire” in Lon
don, in 1772.
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough,
used to say she was born before.nerves
came into fashion.
The four passions of John of Franos
were said to be novel-reading, music,
chess and backgammon.
The carriage of magazines aud otbei
books by mail was introduced at ths
same time as postage stamps, by £k
Rowland Hill.
TriF, first foundling hospital estab
lished by Royal Charter in London,
don, 1739, was instituted through th
exertions of Capt. Coram, whoseportrait
was painted for the hospital by Hogarth-
Extravagance was at one time so
notorious in the matter of monuments,
among the Greeks, that I .eon forbade tbs
eroction of anv mausoleum which ooukl
not be erected by ten men in three days.
The first successful attempt at pre
serving meat, by packing in air-tight
jars, was made by M. Appart, in France,
in 1811. For his discovery the emperoi
rewarded him with a gift of 12,000 francs.
The Hebrews wore sandals made and
linen and wood, though those of the sol
diery were made of brass and iron. The
Spartans went barefoot, and Homer de
scribes them as going into battle unshod.
When Bichard went to the Holy Land
one of the laws he made for his troop*
was that if any one shonld be convicted
of theft, boiling pitch should be poured
over his head and a pillow full of feath
ers shaken over it.
On Eabtbr Monday, 1208, the wbol*
of England was laid under an interdict
bv the Pope. All the churches we
closed and no services allowed, save con
fession, absolution, baptism and admin
istration of the riaticum at the point o>
death. No marriages were to he cele
brated, bodies were buried with? 01
honor. The king retaliated by seiring
property and lands of the church. TM
Interdict remained for six years.
Mb. Marrowy at had been compl* lll 'l
ing of nervousness, and declared tn 1
of late he felt so bed that any rt- 3
citcment was distressing to him. G® f
day he asked the family physician wb* 1 -
he should take for It. 44 Is it noise tn*| 1
chiefly troubles you ? ” 44 1 think it &<. ,j
said Sir. Marrowfat. 44 Very well, them gj
resumed the astute and sympathizing
Galen, 44 put a spoonful of paregoric -
ten r wife’s coffee every morning *
breakfast,”' ~