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AND NOW COMES AUTUMN\
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As the fast*- fading leaves that rustle down
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Or ejso away with l ° dtol
\vhen at lust all * finished—hill and dal'
V, ildwood and lb 1 I—be drop, a misty Vail ’
<)\er the picture, and a lew gl m days
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And \N )ter hli, 3 it underneath the snow.
—Mat quiet hut nidi’,, m Harvey 6 Weekly.
ARAM'S EARLY HISTORY.
It is worth while, I think, togiveyoui
readers a connected and truthful ac
count, of the early years of Arabi Pasha’s
history, since so many improbable
llimgs have boon printed about him in
Jupopc. Ukh boon set down for a
native of Spain, and boon declared tc
have lived long in the Peninsula, while
lie lias even been said to have served in
the warehouse of a merchant in Liver
pool. Whence he camo and how he
rose are, however, as I shall relate iu
this letter. Arabi admits that he does
not know in what year he was born, and
although this may appeal' singular to
1 lie uninitiated, it is easily and satisfac
torily explained by Orientals or by
those acquainted with the East. In
Lg y pt and Jhirkev time is not reckoned
from or.e fixed. point, but various
events., such as a great fire, an earth
(flu. c \ or an extraordinary rising of the
A’.ie in the way that Americans often
vay that this or that took place “during
the war.” Arabi says he was born just
alter the indecent Sheik was murdered
in the mosque at Cairo, which event is
supposed to have taken place in the year
188.0, or thereabouts, so that lie is be
tween lorty-seven and fortv-eight years
old, although he maintains lliathe h only
forty-iwo. There is nothing remarka
ble about his appearance. lie resembles
llie ordinary middle class Egyptian one
meets here every day in the streets or
:lt Cairo, lie stands live feet seven
inches high, is inclined to be corpulent,
luvs very small black, bloodshot eyes
F unken deeply jntc his head, a heavy
black and eray mustache, and the high
cheek bones, wide nose and lips denot
ing the African. His father was a la
borer on a State farm at Tautah, on the
Delta of the Nile, and it was here that
Ahmed-el-Uraby was born. This farm
was managed by a Swiss gentleman
named Jean Ninet, and, curiously
enough, the only European now in
Arabi’a camp is M. Ninet, who is in
danger of being summarily dealt with
by the English if he could be caught.
Arab) received no education whatever.
Ihe little Arabic he can read and write
be taught himself after he was grown.
In lm youth, however, he had learned
to repeat many verses of the Koran,
which he now uses freely, and being a
powerful speaker he has always found
eager listeners to his discourses. He
worked upon the farm until the age of
twenty, when one day a recruiting com
pany dashed through the village, and,
ns he was not fast enough in getting
aw r ny from them, was seized, put in
irens, and taken off to Cairo, this being
the ordinary Egyptian method of filling
up the ranks.
Arabi Pasha remained a private sol
dier lor over twelve years, and was only
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant
through the intluence of M. Ninet,
whom lie met accidentally at Thebes,
Where his regiment was limiting down
some Bedouin robbers. This was the
turning-point in Arabi’s life. Gratitude
is a great virtue among Arabs, and he
became, so to speak, the slave of M.
Jean Ninet. This gentleman soon after
the event was dismissed by the late Khe
dive, Ismail Pasha, because he was
known to favor Halim Pasha, the only
surviving son of Mehemet Ali, and from
whom Ismail had practically usurped
tho throne. M. Ninet had protested
against the wrong done to Halim, and
actually went to Constantinople in hope
of persuading the Sultan to reinstate
him, but to no efleet. M. Ninet re
turned to Egypt and has ever since a t
ed as Halim Pasha’s secret agent, and
thf* eventful period through which Egypt
is now going is due very largely to his
intrigues, lie is seventy-two years old,
biit looks remarkably young for his age;
he is tall, handsome and of command
ing appearance, and having lived
all his life-time in the country, knows
the language and people well. He is
known and respected by the majority
of the natives, over whom he has an
enormous intluence, and he is, after
Arabi Pasha, the most noteworthy man
of the revolutionary party. Lieutenant
Arabi was devoted to Ninet, and tlio
latter not onlv persuaded him to espouse
llalim Pasha’s cause, but used him also
as an intermediary in getting other of
ficers to do the same. He saw that if
anything was to be done it could only
be done through the army, and the only
" ay of getting at the army was through
Arabi. Humors were ingeniously spread
that this officer was inspired by the
Prophet, and this had such an effect
upon the army and the people that the
Government thought it wise policy to
promote him. 'lie was therefore,
gazetted a Major. M. Ninet, when in
Alexandria, lived with Mr- Douglas
Gibbs, the agent of the Eastern lele
graph Company, but when in Cairo was
the guest of the Princess Toussoun,
"ho favors Halim. The Princess
palace soon became the rendezvous of
Arabi, Ninet, and their followers.
lhe great point was to enlist the
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sympathies of the l*wer classes, and
1 lIS C( |uld only be done through the
press, but how and where to print this
revolutionary paper was A matter for
nnpp nr EL I JSL ll<i . °?* 11 was attempted
once or twice it ( airo, but tne enter
prise was discovered by the secret
police, and all who were proved to have
any connection With it were severely
punished, It was then resolved to issue
the paper abroad, and the Princess
1 oussoun provideo ti, necessary funds.
1 h \ip<*r was called Aboil Ntidara, and
w-t' printed bv James Sanaa, of No. 48
A venue i\p E’hchy, Paris, and was smug
gled into Egypt, tightly packed in sar
dine boxes. Ohcft in the hands of the
ie\oiut ohary, or Young Egypt party',
and was easily distributed. It was w rit
,n common Arabic, so as to be
understood by the people, and con-
I,annul wood-cuts which to tts would ap
pear ridiculous, but which have had a
givat effect oft the multitude. One
represented the Khedive in the act of
'>emg baptized by an English clergy
man; in another he was selling the
country (a slave in chains) to England;
and in another the Khedive’s eldest son
(the present Khedive) was represented
[us falling from his horse while review
ing his troops—such an accident, being,
of course, highly disgraceful to any
Aui>, The papers Wore eagerly sought
by Arabi’s partisans, and did not Tail
to produce the desired effect; but as
mnely-niue per cent, of the villagers
could Hot Vead emissaries were sent all
over the country, traveling from village
to village, where they were surrounded
by the people, who eagerlv listened to
promises of free grants of land, exemp
tion from taxation and from the dread
ed military service* if they would only
support Arabi. The Khedive had mort
gaged every inch of Egynt and ever r
possible source of revenue' to the bond
holders. and what he did with the mon
ey will never be known. The tax-pay
ers refused to pay the extortionate sums
demanded of them; the interest on the
foreign loans could not, consequently,
be paid, and, to the delight of Arabi's
party, England and France semi-offieial
ly interfered. Pressure was put on the
Khedive, who foolishly allowed all the
high positions of trust to be filled by
men sent from the English and French
Foreign Offices. The management of
the post-oflice, custom-house, inland
revenue, Ministry of Finances, light
house, and port dues, and, in fact, ev
ery source of revenue, was handed over
to these foreigners, to the exclusion of
natives, thousands of whom were dis
missed tho service, and, as was to be
expected, joined Arabi’s party.
Up to this time Major Arabi was un
known to Europe; in fact, his name had
never been mentioned, butnowhe bold
ly asserted himself, and foreign poli
ticians found out that all was not milk
ami honey in the Valley of the Nile.
Mr. Charles Rivers Wilson, the English
Comptroller, not content with hand
ling all the revenue of the country,
made himself obnoxious to all Egyptians
by interfering with internal politics.
Representations were made to the
Khedive that this must be stopped, and
t lie British Consul-General was informed
that if Mr. Wilson did not exclusively
attend to his own business the people
would take the matter into their hands,
which they shortly afterward did. The
Sultan had by this time heard of Arabi,
and, like a keen Oriental, promoted
him to the rank of Colonel, wishing to
become popular with the popular party.
On the very day upon which lie re
ceived his commission of Colonel, which
entitled him to the rank of Bey, Arabi
held a review of the troops in Cairo,
which was attended by thousands of
the inhabitants. He told the troops
that he was inspired by the Prophet to
tul till a holy mission, the motto
of which was “Egypt for the
Egyptians,” and that lie would see
that all the Europeans who
were drawing enormous salaries
were dismissed and their places
tilled by natives, who were not?
starving. The proceedings of this event
ful day did not end here, as a few offi
cers, followed by an enthusiastic crowd,
went to the Ministry of Finances, where
they violently assaulted Mr. Charles
Rivers Wilson, his Secretary, Blum
Paslia, and other Europeans. The
officers were arrested by order of the
Khedive, but were liberated the same
day by Arabi Bey, who marched his
regiment to the prison, demanded the
release of the officers, and, upon being
refused, ordered bis men to break open
the jail. After releasing the imprisoned
officers they marched back to barracks,
the band playing: “ See the Conquering
Hero Comes.” The next day all the
world knew who Arabi Bey was, and
within a week British, French aud other
men-of-war were dispatched to Alexan
dria. Tho foreign Consuls advised the
Khedive to arrest Arabi and send him
to the Soudan. Ismail Pasha desired no
better advice, as once Arabi was in his
power he could give him the usual poi
soned cup of coffee, which he had hith
erto so successfully administered to
others. A message was sent to him
stating that the Khedive required his
advice, aud on his arrival at the palace
he was ulaced in the guard-room a pris
oner, wiiere, however, he did not long
remain as one of the soldiers
guarding him sent word to M. Ninet.
who now acted as Arabi's Lieutenant,
and in half an hour the palace was sur
rounded by a mob, who threatened to
murder the Khedive and every Eu
ropean in Cairo if their leader was not
liberated. Arabi was allowed to go.
the mob cheered, the Europeans took
refuge in their houses, and politicians
discovered for the first time that the
fellaheen was not a man of straw, but
quite a dangerous and strong element.
S The recall of Mr. Rivers \\ ilsou, who
j was knighted by the Queen, the bank
ruptcy of the Egyptian Government,
Devoted to Industrial Inter* st, the Diffe-ion of Truth, the Establishment of Justice, and the Preservation of a People’s Government.
the dismissal of the Khedive by the Slit-
Inn, the apttointiHg of his son Tewfik ill
his place, tile Riaz Pasha Ministry, th*
surrounding of the palace by four thou
sand troops with two batteries of artil
lery headed by Arabi, the Khedive’s
submission, the appointment of Arabi
to the Ministry of War, his new title of
Pasha, the two imperial Ottoman mis
sions to Egypt, the massacres at Alex
andria, Arabis defiant attitude, the
bombardment of the forts and the pres
ent war closely follow one another, and
are fre-h in the memory of the public.
—Alexandria Cor. N. Y. Times.
Writing Compositions.
The juvenile bugbear of school is
Writing compositions, putting ideas into
words by ihc use of the pen, for the in
spection bf the teacher. Were it only
to say, for private satisfaction, assured
that it would meet no other eye, the
very tilings they think and feel, it were
not so dillicult. It is the frightful spec
ter of an audience, the haunting pres
ence of a critical m lid, that stands bo
tween the pupil and his task, and robs
him of the power of expression. Were
it your good fortune to listen, unob
served, to the talk of children, when
they suppose they have only themselves
for audience, you would find them pos
sessed of a volubility that might shams
their elders, and a power of graphic de
scription not a little surprising after the
pitiful cry: “I can’t say anything; I
don’t know how to describe anything; I
Shouldn't know what to write! *
We know a youth—now, alas, no more
(a youth!)—who sat alone iu a dusty
attic, when other boys were at play or
asleep, weaving in words such dreams
as thronged through his young brain,
and carefully locking the results away
in a rude, home-made desk, sear cly
daring to trust the sacred secret to one
sympathetic soul. When the exigences
of the school made it necessary to write
a composition lie was helpless, •• A
composition! Horrid! What a thing
that is for a boy! And I must choose a
subject; what’s that? 1 never heard of
any subjects but the subjects of King
George, and thev are dead and gone; j
and I’m glad of it—and that’s all I could I
say about them! I don’t know how to 1
write a composition!” And this, sin- j
cerely felt, and uttered in a wav that i
would make a composition of itself, were |
it only written as it was spoken, is the j
attitude of every child who has not been ■
trained to social expression. What did |
Ido with that boy? J encouraged him ;
to take one of those sacred writings— !
hieroglyphs in more senses than one— |
from that mysterious desk copy it into j
something like English sivipt. and de
liver it to the “master. 1 *
“What? will that boa composition?”
Yes, and the very best, you can oiler,
for it is free from the consciousness of an
audience; it is simply thought and feel
ing verbalized, untainted by fear, or
shame, or vanity. The haunting specter
that looks over our shoulders when we
know we are writing for other eyes,
and so vitiates our best expression, will
not be discernable here.
With some trepidation, some sneak
ing desire to put a few phrases into
starched linen and patent leathe,’, but
bravely subdued, the advice was taken,
and with the marked success of the ex
periment the fiend of composition was
laid. Henceforth the way was clear of
all goblins—he was only to think
through his pen, just as betoro, and do
his selecting when called for. Aud
herein we touch the key to the first
secret of success. Bv such easy and
natural exchange of thoughts and feel
ings with the boy as to win his con
fidence; so come into unity with him
that he can as readily think into your
mind as into his lock-up, aud the
thought of your presence will not dis
turb his privacy. To do this you will
need much reticence. The prudent do
not pour their best wine into leaky
jugs. A secret judiciously shared may
be kept even better than when at
tempted alone. The two bottles of an
hour-glass, communicating only tip to
tip, are really closer than if separately
corked. They have mutual inlets which
are their only outlets. The child’s con
fidence must be respected, or it wifi be
lost; he must fed that with you lie is
alone, with the advantage of a larger
experience included with his, to give,
do and correct without exposure.
Sympathetic criticism becomes a kind
of wider self-examination, it comes not
from the judgment-seat, but from the
mercy-seat- With this sympathy estab
lished. his freedom of expression is
gained: he thinks through the pen, as
readily as through the tongue, and for
gets that he is not a recluse. A motor
nerve runs from the brain to the finger
tips, and carries the motions of the
mind to the paper, that holds the idea
as a phonograph holds talk. Writing
is only thinking through a conductor,
and use makes it just as simple as think
ing into the air.— Geo. S. Burlciah.
The Head Waiter.
Oh, no, my son, that dignified gentle-
man who looks down upon you with such !
majestic complacency, who possesses the !
grace of Apollo Belvidere, the proud
front of Jove and the equanimity of the
mummified remains of Itameses the First
—that sublime personage, my son, is not
an Emperor, King, Prince or President
of some powerful nation, neither is lie
the owner of countless millions, nor the
landlord of this caravansary. He is far
above all thrones, dominations, prince
doms, virtues, powers. He is mightiest
in the mightiest. Look at him, my son,
and tremble. Behold the head waiter,
and shrink into nothingness before his
transcendent grandeur *qd—cheek.- -
Boston Transcript. and L
JACKSON, GEORGIA.
The City Girl on Horseback
Spending her summer In a remote
•ountry place, she is tempted daily by
a thousand shady lanes ahdby-Wttys, to
learn to ride on horseback. Ob the
eventful day on which she makes her
first attempt, our young lady stands
before her glass, contemplating with
considerable satisfaction tne braid and
buttons adorning her trim figure, and
the soft felt hat, whoso long plume
tl l oops against her hair. She tiptoes
about a little, putting a curl or so into
plaee, gathering over her arm the folds
of the long skirt she wears, and lashing
the toe of her dainty gaiter boot with a
riding-wbip. She even, in the privacy
of her chamber, perches sidewise on
the arfh of a big easy-chair, and ener
getically whips up the foot-stool, view
ing the effects in the mirror from the
corner of her eye.
At last someone cries from the hall
below that the horses have come, and
she hastens down stairs. She stumbles
once or twice on the way, and at the
last step catches her foot iu her dress
and plunges headlong, only rescued from
a fall bv one of the members of the
household, who is, of course, present to
sec her off.
Regaining her balance, she advances
more cautiously and inspects her steed.
She is not wholly satisfied. It is true
that she requested a quiet animal, but
there are degrees of quietness, and she
would have been content to stop short
of absolute dejection.
She conceals her disappointment,
however, and wonders how she js to get
on the animal’s back. The good-na
tured stable-man, who is to accompany
her, has dismounted, but does not show
the slightest intention of offering his
hand for her to put her foot in, accord
ing to all traditions of the courtesies of
horsemanship.
There is a pause. Someone suggests
that she better have a stool. Her soul
revolts at the thought. Nevertheless
the stool is brought, and from its sum
mit she makes a desperate leap for the
saddle, fully expe ting to fall over the
other side. A clutch at the mane of her
stefed saves her, however, and in anoth
er moment they are off.
Her sensations are peculiar. She nev
er knew before that a horse was so tall.
How very tall the animal is! She was
not aware that he had such a longitude
of backbone, or that it heaved so when
he walked. She has not long to reflect
on those marvels, for presently her com
panion chirrups, and the animai she is
on starts into a trot. She gasps, clutches
her saddle and bids gooa-bye to earth.
When she returns to her country
home an hour later, she is pale but effu
sively cheerful, and tells her friends it
was “perfectly lovely,” but she thinks
she shall like it better when she is used
to it.
The next day she spends upon the
sofa in the house with a novel, and she
smiles a faint but bitter smile when she
reads that the heroine of the novel
“touched her black mare lightly with
the whip, and took a five-barred gate
with the fearless ease of a practised
horseman. ’’ Youth 1 s Companion.
How to Save Water.
Few towns in European Turkey—or,
for that matter, we should imagine,
elsewhere —are as fortunate as Saloniea
In the possession of a Mayor at once
enlightened and thrifty, an earnest vo
tary of science and a shining example
of economy. A short time ago, while
presiding over a meeting of the Saloniea
Town Council, he astonished that as
sembly by soliciting its authorization to
purchase a barometer for his private
room at the municipal offices, having
previously explained the nature and
u.-es of that instrument to the conscript
fathers at great length and in language
the erudition and eloquence of which
all but took away their breath. After
an animated debate, in which the
“ party of progress” gave utterance to
several stirring orations, a majority of
the Council voted in favor of grant
ing his Worship’s request, and he was
accordingly empowered to lay out mon
eys belonging to the town, amount ng
to the equivalent of seven shillings in
Turkish currency, upon the purchase of
a barometer. This he promptly did;
but his first care, after hanging up the
instrument in a couspicnous position
upon the wall of his bureau, was to
modify its internal arrangements in
such sort that the indicators should be
exclusively limited to pointing out the
words “Much rain” on the dial. Now.
when the citizens of Saloniea beseech
their Mayor, upon exceptionally hot
and dusty days, to give orders that the
streets be watered, lie shows them the
barometer, softly murmurs: “It must
rain heavily in "a few minutes,” and
sends them about their business. Thus
is the water rate of Saloniea kept down
to an abnormally low figure by the in
genuity of its astute chief magistrate.—
London Telegram.
Which is the Weaker Sex!
Females are called the weaker, but
why ? If they are not who is ?
When men must wrap themselves up in
garments, and encase the whoie in
a Btout overcoat to shut out the cold,
women in thin silk dresses, with neck
and shoulders bare, or nearly so, say
they are perfectly comfortable ! When
me n wear waterproof boots over woolen
hose and encase the whole in India-rub
ber to keep them from freezing, women
wear thin silk hose and cloth shoes, and
pretend not to feel cold. When men
cover their heads with furs, and then
oorn plain of the severity of the weather,
women hang an apology for a bonnet at
the back of their heads, and ride or walk
abroad in the northeast winds, profess
ing opt to suffer at all.
Accumulated Horrors*
Smde electrio lights have come into
use several persona in different parts of
the country have been killed by consti
tuting themselves the “missing link”
between the two poles of the battery.
We would not wish to cause unnecessary
alarm, but in seeking to warn the publio
against the wrath to come, if this thing
keeps on, we can only feel that we are
discharging a solemn duty. Accidents
have been few hitherto because this
high-pressure ninety-eight per cent, elec
tricity is only in its infancy, and the peo
ple are careful about it. But as it
comes into more general use, it will be
an old story, and people who place their
ear to a telephone are liable to have the
ear blown off and walk lop-sided the rest
of their lives. Another new thing is also
about to come into use, water gas. At
Appleton they are even now using hydro
gen gas, made out of water, and it is
only a question of time when oil, coal,
wood and coal-gas will be done away
with and every house contain a machine
by which warmth and light will be sup
plied by simply turning on the hydrant.
Water, it has long been known, is com
posed of two parts of hydrogen to one
of oxygen, and a method has now been
devised by which these elements are dis
integrated, the oxygen driven off about
its business and the hydrogen placed on
file for future reference. Now, when all
these explosive and shocking tilings are
aggregated under one mammoth pavil
ion, in a house or hotel, and a hired girl
who is a little rusty on her knowledge
of chemistry and electricity goes plung
ing around among the pots, kettles and
pans, bouncing the billowy bed and
pitching the dyspeptic biscuit on a
curve, there is going to be trouble.
"When that time comes, a house with all
the modern improvements, with sixty
four stops, will be nothing more or less
than a chamber of horrors. But that is
what it is coming to. Country people
are even now getting afraid to come to
the city, as they feel that they oan not
be sure of themselves. There are fire
bells, church bells, bridge bells, street
car bells and whistles, tug whistles, fog
horns, the street full of vehicles and
everybody on the keen scoot, and when
their heads begin to swim and they seek
the seclusion that a hotel grants, there
are telephone wires, telegraph wires,
electric light wires, gas retorts, mag
netic buttons of a half dozen kinds, and
the result is, they get lost. Reason be
gins to totter, and they grope their way
to the sample room and take a drink.
They would feel safer in a powder fact
ory smoking a burnside cigar, but the
hotel proprietor does not provide this
convenience for the comfort of his guests.
And so, fortified by an occasional drink,
they transact their business, go home,
and for years relate to their children and
grandchildren how they once passed a
whole day and night in a first-class hotel,
fitted up with all the modern improve
ments, where death seemed to be lurking
for them in every hidden spring, and got
back alive. This is no figure of speech,
no anti-fat that we are giving; it is what
we as a people are rushing on to at the
rate of 600 revolutions a minute. Since
that terrible explosion of orange peel
last week, scattering destruction far and
wide, death seems to be careening on the
gale.— Peck'8 Sun.
The Speed of Thought.
Helmholtz showed that a wave of
thought would require about a minute
to traverse a mile of nerve, and Hirscli
found that a touch on the face was recog
nized by the brain, and responded to by
a manual signal, in the seventh of a sec
ond. He also found that the speed of
sense differed for different organs, the
sense of hearing beiug responded to in a
sixth of a second; while that of sight re
quired only one-fifth second to be felt
and signaled. In all these cases the dis
tances traversed was about the same, so
the inference is that images travel more
slowly than sounds or touch. It still re
mained, however, to show the portion of
this interval taken up by the action of
the brain. Professor Ponders by very
delicate apparatus has demonstrated this
to be about seventy-five thousanths of a
second. Of the whole interval forty
thousandths are occupied in the simple
act of recognition, and thirty-five thous
andths for the aet of willing a reponse.
When two irritants were caused to oper
ate on the same sense one twenty-fifth of
a second was required for the person to
recognize which was the first; but a
slightly longer interval was required to
determine the priority in the case of the
other senses. These results were ob
tained from a middle-aged man, but in
youths the mental operations are some
what quicker than in the adult. The
average of many experiments proved
that a simple thought occupies one
fortieth of a second.
—“I declare, Julia,” exclaimed
Mrs. Marrowfat, as her eldest daughter
seated herself at the bi’eakfast table,
“ your lips are all broke out in a rash.”
“ Yes,” returned Julia, with bashful
candor, and a heightened color that
looked as if the rash was spreading all
over her face, “ Charley has begun to
let his mustache grow again.”— Brook
lyn Eagle.
—The new opera-house in Frankfort
on-the-Main illustrates the manner in
which electricity enters into the con
veniences of daily life. It there serves
as a fire alarm, a door-closer, a heat in
dicator, a life measurer for the ventila
tor, a general illuminator aud a time
beater for the orchestra.
—The richest roan in Mexico is an
Irishman named Patricio Mil mo, who
owns a 400.000 acre farm, and is repute:!
to be worth $10,00*),000. IV hen li
went to Mexico he had not a dollai. but
got a start by a fortunate marriage. -
Chicago Journal.
SUBSCRIPTION--11.60.
YOL. X. NO. a
WIT AND WISDOM.
—Good qualities are the substantial
riches of the mind; but it it u;ood
breeding that sets them off to an van
tage.
—A Nevada woman, if she happens
to be feeling just right, oan gain thirty
five feet on a bear in a race of an even
mile.
A Hartford firm nas turned out a
belt four feet wide and ninety six feet
long, ami a womau with a waist Jo fit it
can secure a bargain. —Detroit Free
Tress.
—There is not m all China a native
surgeon who can set a broken leg or
arm. People in that country are sup
posed to break their necks when thoy
meet with an accident.— Detroit Free
Tress.
—“A constant reader” makes inquiry
as to the authorship of “Patience ” As
in the case of the letters of “Junius”
anil the poem on “The Beautiful Snow,”
the author’s name is not positively
known, but it has generally bOtt* attrib
uted to Job. Courier-Journal.
—A girl from Cincinni:ah
Kept on growing' fat, unit fmiatu
Though she dieted on ballaft
For & yeah.
In vain she tried to aoattalr
All tho adiposal mattah.
Till the doctor said she’d botraW
Stop her beah.
—Baltimore American.
—A New York belle met with n sau
loss while returning from a summer re
sort the other day. By some means her
diary, containing the names of all tho
gentlemen she had become eugaged to,*
dropped out of the oar window, and now
she can’t tell which of her male friends
have a right to kiss her.
—While a tourist was in Palestine lie
took a sail on the Sea of Galilee. After
visiting the different places of interest
he returned to the landing and asked:
“ How much for the trip?” “Ten she
kels!” responded the smiling boatman.
“Ten shekels!” said the traveler, “why.
that ic on outrageous price.” “Well,’*
replied the skipper, “ tu-jt.’s what
they’ve been paying ever since the sea
was here.” “Thunderation!” growled
the voyager, “I don’t wonder that Peter
tried to walk it.”
—“How are the colored voters com
ing on, out on Onion Creek 3 ” asked an
Ail-tin candidate of a darkey with a
load of hay. “Bar’s a heap oh sick
ness out dar among do colored fo'ks.”
“What is it, malaria?” “I re :kou
dat’s de name ob de stuff. Hit am sum
fin wliat hegotfromdedruggcry-sliop.”
“ What stuff are yon talking about?”
“ De stuff a white man out dar puts in
his watermillious to keep de colored
folks from mistakin’ em from dar own
watermi 11 ions. 1 ’ — Texas Si ft ings.
—A scientist says: “ Segregation is a
process tending ever to separate unlike
units, and to bring together like units,
so serving continually to sharpen, or
make definite, differentiations which
have been otherwise caused.” This
seems plain enough, and sat isfactorily
explains why the homogeneity of tho
contaction of tho nebulosity and the ev
olutionism of tin subsequontiation and
individualism are in antipathy to the
liereforeness and primordial ism of the
(o nios in its relation to the iinseenness
of the vacuuity. And yet some persons
ma\ doubt it. —Norristown Herald.
Striking Excerpts from Emerson’s
Writings.
The publisher of the Literary Newt
recently offered prizes for the six most
striking and characteristic sentences
from Emerson’s writings, those four per
sons whose sentences were the most fre
quently quoted by all the competitors
to have a prize. There were forty-nine
competitors. The highest number of
votes given to the same sentence was
twenty-four. The following seven sen
tences received from twenty-four to
eleven votes each in their order:
1. “Character is higher than intel
lect. * * A great soul will be strong
to live as well as to think.” — The Amer
ican Scholar.
26. “His heart was as great as the
world, but there was no room in it to
hold the memory of a wrong.”— On Lin
coln.
43. “The fountain of beauty is the
heart, and every generous thought illus
trates the walls of your chamber.”—So
ciety and Solitude.
48. “The ornament of a house is the
friends who freqqent it.” — Essay on Do
mestic Life.
10. “Nothing great was ever achieved
without enthusiasm” —Essay on Circles.
7. “There is nobeautifier of complex
ion, or form, or behavior, like the wish
to scatter joy and not pain around us.”
—Essay on Behavior.
54. “The finest and noblest ground
on which people can live is truth; the
real with the real; a ground on which
nothing is assumed.” — Essay on the Su
perlative.
The Ulster,
The young men of this country, who
have been flouncing the edges of their
ulsters with the mud from their heels,
will be pained to learn that it is not a
street or walking garment at all. En
glish authority—which, in consideration
of the English origin of the ulster,
should be final—says that it is purely
and simply a traveling coat. Its place
“is not the pavement, but outside the
coach or carriage, or inside the railway
carriage when the air is nipping.” The
mortification of the glided youth of
America over this revelation will be
equal to that of the Emperor of Hayti
when he first discovered that high silk
hats were intended to be worn on the
head, and not, as he first supposed, to
break the violence of his fall, should he
be so unfortunate, as he sometimes was,
as to slip and sit down in the neighbor
hood of a broken molasses hogshead.