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VOL. I.
Fourteen thousand men and women
earn their living in London with, their
pens. ________
A comparison of the work of English,
French and American detectives shows
-the latter to be twelve per cent, ahead
all around.
A French doctor of note says th
physician who will advise a womeV to
ride on horseback for her health should
be kicked out of the profession.
r-
The greatest achievement in the history
of life insurance has been made by Mr.
John Wanamaker, the great Philadel
phia merchant, who is now paying pre
miums on §1,000,009 to twenty-nine
different companies.
Only forty per o.ent of the quantity of
pine-apples sol .? j n an y y ear Between
18G0 and 18(55 jg now disposed of. Tht
banana and ' early Southern fruits have
gone far toward driving this once fa
vorite fr aft out ol the market.
In tide gradating class of the college at
Hi'jJsdaie, Mich., this year, two members
‘of tho same family were rivals for class
honors. One was C. H. Jackson, filty
'three years of age, and the other his son
aged twenty-two. So strange a rivalry is
(unprecedented in educational history.
It won’t be ten years lienee, predict?
"the Detroit Free Press, when all build
ings piped for heat in the winter will be
.cooled in summer through the same
pipes. If ice can be artificially frozen
it would be no great trick to send down
The temperature of a ba 1, opera bouse
•or room.
It is human to err, moralizes the Phila
delphia Inquirer , and just in so far ns it
is human to err, men must be excused fot
“their occasional mistakes. A Cincinnati
'druggist has killed a patient by m iking
;a m stake in putting up a prescription,
vtlie first mistake in eight years and in
200,000 prescriptions.
Since ex-G >veruor Hubbard, of Texas
was appointed Ministei to the Court of
Japan, our trade with that co ntry ha
grown from $14,000,000 tof j.-i.oatt. (to .
$3,500,000 in excess of the total Engii-h
trade l'or the same year, li
exceeds the German-Japan trade by
$19,000,000, aud that of France by $12,
000 , 000 ._
_
A New York house which ten years
ago employed 100 traveling salesmen now
does its business entirely by illustrate i
catalogues arid correspondence, and its
is ahead of what it used to be.
Others are moving the same way, and in
few years hence, predicts the Detro t
Free Pr g% the drummer will drum les
Of that vast work, as projected, the
ship canal b tween Bordeaux on the At
lantic seaboard and Narbonuo one th ■
Mediterranean coast, it is stated that the
cost will be some $10',000,090, and
while its length would be about 300
mil s the use of it would be a saving of
nearly 700 miles by, ve-sels going from
southern France or northern Italy'to the
northern Atlantic.
It has generally been believed that the
reduction in average height of French
soldiers which followed Napoleon’s wars,
due, of course, to the immense slaughter
in those campaigns, marie all of those
soldiers the shortest in Europe. But, ac
cording to a high medical and military
autherity in Russia,the minimum height
of the Russian and t’ae French conscript
is about equal—live feet; while in most
other European countries the minimum
ranges from five feet one inch to Jive feel
three inches.
The New York Sun says: “Queen
Victoria’s attention is to be drawn to
the fact that the woman who ma le the
lining for the superb carriage in which
her Majesty rode an Jubilee Day last
year is on the verge of starvation. The
poor creature is a cripple, bent almost
double, and lias worked and lived in
the same room for thirty years. The
lining was exquisite work, but the
woman was paid only five cents per
yard, and by working from dawn till
midnight she was able to make just six
yards.”
The importation of firecrackers this
year, says the American Gultirator. will
amount to 300,000 boxes. This is 100, -
000 more than last year. The increase
is partially due to larger population, but
mostly to the fact that this year a Presi
dential election occurs. The left-over
stock on the 4th of .July will all come
available before November. Of the
more co-tly pyrotechnics large amounts
are made in this coun ry by American
manufacturers, but nobody can success
fully compete with tbe Chinese in the
firecracker manufacture.
OlUY, SATE)AY; - SEPTEMBER 15, 1888.
“BECAUSE 1 LOVE YOU."
“I cann °t bring yog wealth,” she sail;
Among cannot bring ye* fame or place
the noted of the race,
But I can love you,
"TV hen trials come to test you, sweot,
I can be sunlight to your feet;
My kiss your precious lips shall gro
Because 1 love you.
Vys dr.ylight dies along the wta.
Vvil] come homo to me to re.,t,
And I shall sleep upon your breas'
Because I love yo».
If sickness comes, beside your
I will bend low with quiet tread,
Ami pray God's blessing on your heath
Because I love you. —
“AsdCW clings to the violet,
Making the fragrant chalice
&o my Ufa into yours is set,
Because I love you.
“Only myself, my all, I bring!
But count it, sweet, a precioii
To give my life an offering,
Because I love yout,
“I bow before no other shrink
If I go first across death's lino
I will re'tiirh to claim you mint!
Because I love you.”
—Sarah K. Bolton.
CHINESE PIRATES.
Frost the year 1853 to 1854 the Chinese
■-bn, from t-hanghaiin tho north to 8ing
apore in the south, was infested with
pirate craft. As for that matter,
ea had been the cruising ground of
pirates fora score of years pieviously,
out 1 mention these two years for par
ocular reasons. One was tiiat I was cn
'_ r aged in a vigorous warfare against
them, and the other that the clo% of
the de ? lh of ; he leading
spin.,, and a broke up piracy trade.
as a
in inose far back days comparatively
nothing uas known of f liina outside of
a tew seaports Treaties wetre of little
account, and Consuls were lew and far
oetweem d defend Every merchant ship was ex
ecu to herse f, and the tap
an of every man-of-war had authority
to bomba: d any town which refused to
enev\ his water and prov.s.ons. All
• artoiis were trading with China, but,
aside from a few few seaports, all hina
■lated all other people. At the docks at
ilong hong I could drink tea with the
• hiuese merchants. Haifa mile away
sKg.^’^r,? jars
other countries, it defused ftie marfers
and shippers 1 here is no doubt that
he Chinese Government tact.ly e,i
couraged piracy and could the great
mass of the pop at,on have had its say,
allowed not a single foreigner would have been
to land on the coast.
In tlie year o4 there was an associa
tion at canton cal.ed ‘The Foreign
traders. It was composed of Atne i
cans, Englishmen, ' eimans, Flenchmen,
Spaniards and Hussians, aud numbeied
over sixty represent at ves. The capital
lepre-cnted amounted to millions, and
(he oh ect was threefold. We ha t more
power with the Chinese Government
than and any fore.gn Minister. We had
trade. rules We regulations could regarding the tea
and carry a point by pro
ests threats. Every pound of tea
from a district 500 miles square had to
pass through our hands. \v e tiled many
protest against tin- pirates and ihe laxity
of the government in hunting them
down, and were finally officially informed
that we wore at lioerty to lake any steps
we. deemed best in the matter. That
meant we could fit out a craft and go for
the rascals right and left handed. We
had been anticipating this, and had a
craft ready at Hong liong. She was an
American schooner of excellent model
and large spread of sail, aud we knew
that she could outsail anything, native
or foreign, we had ever seen in tho e
waters. We aimed her with a Long
Tom bought anti lour 1:4-pounders, having
the guns from the sale of the
salvage of a French man-of-war. Then
we picked up and a crew of fifty men—all
foreigners sailors—and -when v.e
went out of Hong hong we were pre
pared to give of the the pirates schooner, Hail which Columbia,
I was purser was
called the Revenge, and her captain was
an had Englishman commissioned named Wethernee, who
served as a officer in
the regular service. The first lieutenant
was an American, and the oiher officers
were divided up among the other nation
alities. We flew the association flag,
and while we had liberty to go for
pi.ates, we were warned that any ins
takes would be ma le to cost us de rly.
The two boss pirates of that date were
Shung-Wongand Chin-Lung. The first
had a fleet o seven or eight craft, and
haunted the sea from Singapore north to
the Tong-Kin Islands. The second
cruised from thence as far north as
Shanghai, having his headquarters
Formo.-a Island. He was reported to
have a fleet of nine craft. ’• hat both
were moi sters we had a hundred proofs,
and that bothhad grown rich and power
ful it was easy to show by ihe long list
of missing vessels hanging in tbe head
quarters office. While we had kept our
movements as secret as possible, we had
no doubt that Government officials had
given us away, and that the pirates
would he on the watch for us. To de
ceive them as far as days, possible, and spoke we ran and to
the south for three
reported to four ships bound for Can
ton. q hen we ran over toward the
1 hilippine Islands until we had a good
o i ng, when we headed up for Formosa
to get acquainted with old < hin-Lung. did
During the next three days we
not sight a sail of any sort. Then early
one morning we fell in with a lot of
wreckage which showed us that a trader
had been overhauled and burned. We
were now to the east of Formosa, and
fifty miles oS the coast. Men were set
w °rk to give ihe schooner the appear
ance of a vessel in distress, and under a
light breeze we made slow headway to
ward the island. It was about 4 o’clock
m the afternoon before anything ap
proaefted Us, although we saw a number
ot iia.ive craft at a distance. Then a
small junk came out from a bay about
fire miles oil, and headed directly for
at ns. Everything sixes aboard of us seemed to be
and sevens. A man was
lashed to the xminimftst, to repre
sent the Captain, everyth ng aloft was
and seven or eight men on
vi deck i we,e seominglv drunk and having
a high old tune. We had a man aloit
to play a part, knowing that we should
be hailed in Engl.sh. Bolh of these boss
pirates had Americans and Englishmen
with them—rascals who had deserted
their ships and voluntarily adopted the
a e of a pirate—and one of them was at
ways put forward to bail a ship. The
Wink came steadily forward to within
hailing distance before she came up into
the wind. This was proof, whether she
was honest or not, that our appearance !
deceived her. The rhen on deck yelled j
and shook their lists, as drunken men ;
Uught do. but at the first opportunity a
voice hailed us. j
“Schooner ahoy! What schooner is
that? ’
“The Hevenge, Capt. Thatcher, bound
to Shanghai,” answered the man aloft.
“What’s the matter aboard?”
“Crew in a state of mutiny for the last
three days. They have lashed the Cap*
tain to the mast and driven me aloft. ”
“Whit’s your cargo?”
“General merchandise.”
“Any a;ms aboard?”
There “Only a few muskets,”
were a do en men aboa,the
jnnk, but they dared not attempt to
hoard. They chattered away among
(ban-elves fora while, and then the
spokesman called out:
“Very well, we will headed" bring vou help.”
With that the junk back for
the buy, accompanied by the yells and
curses of the apparently drunken crew,
We had a native aboard called Shin
I-ee. lie hud been in the headquarters
for several years, and could be de
pended that the upon." He gave it as his opinion,
by the junk was a spy boat sent out
pirates, who never attacked a
vessel by daylight without taking all
due precautions. lie sari we would see
the p rate fleet come out, in case no sail
appeared on the horizon, and his words
were gradually s-eedily verified. We had been
edging in-here, and were not
over five miles from the land, when
*z
want carefully to get manipulating away very the badly, h^m but ^ we
were seven miles ott the land before tlio
fleet reached us. W e were satisfied of
their mentions long enough before I
was not to help a vessel m distress but
to take advantage of one almost help
less.
The junks kept pretty well together,
and when within ri e shot each one
raised (. hin-Lung’s flag and uttered a
cneer. Each had a cotiplu of howitzers,
wi h wh eh they opened fire upon the
schooner, but no liaim had been done
when we were ready to spring the trap.
At the. word of command every man was
on deck, the gun crews jumped to ship- their
stations, and things aloft wore
shape in a moment. the 'Then pirates tve wore and
round to get between
the bay, and opened shell. fire. A solid Chinese shot
junk is a mere One had
went through them as if they been
paper. The poor chaps were unnerved
as soon as they saw the trap into which j
they had fallen, and devoted all
their energies to getttng away. We
could quick outsail work any wi or h the lour junks, of but them. it j
was
They were sent to the bottom one after
another,, and as we came u'p with the
fifth we ran her down. Our stem struck
her lull oil the starboard broadside and
cut her almost in two. She had at least
thirty men aboaul, and there was one
down long* despairing shriek as few they went
to watery graves. A came up
to clutch'at the wreckage and beg to bo
taken aboard, but notoueof them would
the sharks Captain did lend a hold hand of to. drifted Such at the to
not get out
sea with the tide. It was a fearful retri
button, but these men were monsters,
Inside of thirty minutes from the time
we opened fire the Meet was at the bet
tom and at 1 ast a hundred pirates had
paid the penalty of their crimes,
< ur Captain was lamenting the fa t
that he had not pi'kcd up one or two in
order to secure information when there
was a row forward, and it was found an
nounced that a pirate had been
hanging to the chains. When brought
aft he was ready to do anything to save
his life. His name was Mung-Hanif, and
he had good cause to believe that we
would reverse it. He was the faptain
of the junk we had run down, and was
ready to tell us all about rendezvous, old Chin-Lung, his
The bay was his but
plunder was hidden on the coast near
Foo i how. There we re barracks for the
men up the bay, and thirty or forty
men there at that moment. They had
captured and a French brig several days be
fore, she was then at anchor in the
bay writing then for Chin-Lung’s return. He
was op among the Lioo Kioo
Islands with four junks to capture a
large ship which had drifred into shoal
water, but was not abandoned. Tf we
would spare his life he would pilot us
; anywhere and prove his gratitude in
any way. Shin-Lee too : him in hand
fora few minutes, and then announced
that we could depend upon him. We
• ran into the bay, brought up alongside
the brig, and sent forty men ashore to
cleanout the place. Not a p rate wa- to
be Everything -een, all having which boiled for the w oods,
j would burn was set
: on fire, and a prize crew was put aboard
i the brig to navigate her to Hong Kong,
She reached that port wifely, and our
j j x age money for its went outlay. far to reimburse the
company
r hen we sailed out of the bay it wad
>ok for the thought boss pirate, lie o’clock was
*er than we foe. At 8
next morning We savt iis fleet ahead,
its way back to Formosa empty
ded and by 10 we had the junks
er fire. These were a braver lot of
t. Knowing that they could not out
us, and seeming to suspect that we
e an enemy, they closed right in for
ri, It did hot hist; long; however, fall
j had one man killed by the of d
sk from aloft, and three or four
I inded by the bullets from their an
[them kt firearms, and in return not a man
escaped. In less than an hour s
ding altogether we sent nine junks
; 1 20u men to destruction. Butchery,
n’t it? Well, call it so; but remem
that in the previous twelve months
fleet of this old pirate had captured and
less than ten foieign Craft sis
lers, and that every man, murdered, woman,
1 child aboard bad been
erfi was, no sentiment about Chin
tig He thought of nothing but
fid's throat with a smile bn his face,
We wore now ready to sail in Search
Sluing Wong, who had less power,
,t was just as great a villain. These
o leaders had divided up the terri
ry, and compelled ail lesser pirates control. to
in them, and come under their
>, then, we had only two men to strike
to down the whole lot. At the close
the third day after heading
r the south we came upon the track
the piratical fleet. A trader in woods
fd dyestuffs had been overhauled about
hundred m.les north of the north
n group of Philippines, called the
ittle Philippines. The crew eon-
5*3 \t°\
aung-Wong lmd boarded her himself,
L, id although the crew were native Chi
he could not restrain his bloody
aud. He demanded a sum equal to
800 in American money. There was
nly about $10 aboard, and ho personally others
ut the Captain's throat, had the
ogged, and went on his way to the
of Luzon, wh ch is on the west side
1 f the island of that name.
he trader and received from her terri
ied crew the incidents above narrated,
«id ^ ... luc thenshaiica |; . ™ uld , h Y,f If nn fm- Aml^k the hav
called le . ^,j T.vlm L wa ahead
u \«* d . „ W iJ n the coast
w ? 8 attac ^ d it,. sevea
u about ? lie y an ,lT hour ® hore ' before 1 J\l dnyl/tM. ™C ire
as lt ! c [ lc c J , ‘ e ’ ji,.
. < Tivior
' UWer Cith'in
' than
w re range we
J A them and, seeing escape U
ff t fellows tried hard to lay
T thirty minutes from the
» j “ f fhe fight we had sunk or run
d j J ni -k had and disposed » wounci of every ed
ft „ d 0 nl four lnen
( j 0 j n<r
o„r work had been done so promptly
and wed ttl , d di 8 t ruc k; terror to tho
hearts of all evil doers in those seas,and
jt wa s several years before another a-1 ot
pj raC y was committed. The Chinese
government returned its thanks to tho
Association, ship owners sent in contri
butions of money to express their grati*
tude ai)d w hen we came to sell tha
sc hooner to the Chinese government as
a cru j scrt the company was financial y
a ; t( , ise" ad j t was probably the br.efest
c f U and attended with the greatest
resll tts recorded of an armed ves>el._
^ " y^ik Sun.
Battle Between a Horse and a l):ig.
g_ Keitor, of Detroit, Mich., recently
imported an English "its bull-dog warranted they
never ) 0 open jaws when once
bad closed on an enemy. Koiter was
very pro d of his purchase and exhibited
it frequently to a select circle of friends,
Recently tuc wheru^Mr. dog was given a corner in
the stable lveiter also kept a
fast pacing horse. Keitor one day locked
the two animals in the barn and went
avva y orl au excursion, When he re
turned and opened the ham door in the
evening he was horrified to find the horse
on the floor nearly dead, while hanging flesh
to the under jaw. from which the
bad been torn, the’bull leaving the bone almost
bare, was dog, alive but badly
bruised. Mr. Keiter caked in his friends
and , d onee s(d wor k relieving the
horse of his terr blc antagonist. The dog
was choked, kicked, wedge pounded, into burned his
-with hot irons, a driven
j awg j )U j; .pj t0 rlo purpose. F inally an
ax was procured and the dog’s head
ybopped'off. loosen the Then it was difficult to
gr p. and
The horse was got to his feet an
examination made. His skin was torn
f ro m his body in many places, to’fasten Where the
dog had evidently tried his
teeth ’ and he was scarred from head to
f 00t _ qq,,.. do „ bad evidently had one
hold on the bor e's breast, for there a
large piece of flesh was torn out. It had
been a battle royal. Probably the dog,
a f ter i irea king his rope, had wandered
j nto t j lu peer's stall and coming too
ncar hjg heels had been kicked. He re
taliated wf h his teeth and the fight
be "an. in' There was hardly a whole bone
left the do"’s body.— New York Post.
Stark Mad in an Instant.
The Duchess de Luynes returned tc
her home in Paris the other day after ?
trip into the country and found her Ital
ian waiting maid strutting about arrayed
iu her mistress’s best ball dress. Defer?
the Duchess could remonstrate an
other servant walxeti into the rocm,
and remarking that tlie millennium hac
come,began to throw bric-a-brac,alburai
and other ornamental article out of tht
window. The police were called in,anc
on examination by physicians had it stark «a:
found that both girls gone abb
mad at the same time. / e’3 one is
o
Chicago list aid.
HOUSEHOLD MVtIEBS.
A. Good! .Jcansinjr Fluid.
For removing spots from furniture
carpets and woolen good? generally, follow*;
prenarc a cleans ng fluid as
Cut fine two buncos bf white castiu
soap and dissolve' it in a p nt of hot
water over the lire, then add two quarts cold,
more of water, and, when nearly
two ouncer of ammonia and one ounc4
each of alcohol and glycerine. Put all
in a gallon jug, shake well and it is
ready for use. Ettp it closely corked
. . • us( , To ’Sash woolen or
Cilshlnere drcsa ,, 00 ds, place a teacupful
. .. , wlirm water rub the tthv
* ? w - lt h the’hands, rinse
aiul iron while it is damp,
the vvron" side. For cleaning with ear
P.'^’ ; , „ p| ot u in the fluid a
water and rub the spots
di<ml ,—Prairie Fanner.
Princess Muffins.
We had a guest over nigh\ a physician 1 be
and specialist in dietary matters,
prince-s made the breakfast muffins,
Which the doctor pronounced “the best
thing he ever saw in food.” He would
like the recipe, provided elaborate, it were neither 1 he
very expensive smiled nor and very said “not very, and
princess then and there: “Into cola
she gave it make
water 1 stirred‘graham! meal to a
medium thick batter, and dropped ready hot it
into muffin rings that were
then put the pan into an oven feat Was
at J quick. Ml heat In a tnll . over
t.fteen minutes the muffins«« °" cd
you -‘You see have them omitted ’ /J» th^east ^' 8 or * baking . .
P™ der y„‘ know how
s „ re , y to
,he heat docs,heb-wmk” The whole
secret peasant is can the make ten 'P e as "f good “ r ® d ° muffins ^^"ihe « t
princess, if she w 11 attend to tms one
bturdy Vak.
The Use of OH in Cooking.
It is said by Eleanor Bates, in Daugh
ters of America, that a lady once attend
ed a concert, at which she fell into a dis
cussion with a friend concerning divers
modes of cookery; the theme of the con
versation proved more enchanting than
the music, which came to a sudden
pause just as her unruly tongue, in spue
of herself, proclaimed in bearing of ttio
whole audience to their undisguised de
light: “We fry ours iu b itter!”
Beloved si-ters, fry no more in butter,
it is expensive, burns ea-fliy and needs
constant watching Not many of you
turn to lard, that modern American pro
duct which has been scornfully thrust
from foreign inaikets. The housewife
who nus"“ niiry on.-tlie banks of
f a raniwH|rav>euiA meal * and j ouiteuuilk
lly on sweet corn other lard with
—she and none may use
out fear and w.thout fearfully reproach, and but the
lard of the market is won
derfully made. Produced from unclean,
sometimes diseased an mills, and as
proved by recent revelations, more often
adulterated than not, it is au utiwho o
sorne arti lu of food. Let us forthwith
inaugurate a crusade against it.
What then shall we use for frying?
Clean beef drippings arc objections delightful in
tlieir w.iy, but some of the al
ways made to animal fats are in place
here, lhere is an article, however,
against which nono of these can be
urged. It is cotton-seed oil.
Vou don’t l.ke the taste of oil? I)o
you like the delicate flavor of fresh,
sweet chicken fat? The tastes arc almost
identical. The cost is less than that of
lard. A kettlefni may be used again and
again. It will cook without burning at
n much higher temperature than either
butter or lard. It being purely vegetable, form of
can carry no trichinae, no
scrofula into the human system. It
“takes up” in cooking less than lard.
Its merits have long been known to for
eign chefs, and are though proclaimed sometimes aloud dis- in
cooking schools, of olive oil.
guised under the name
They who have used it the longest, are
its warmest friends and firmest ad
hereuts.
Househohl Hints.
Vegetables are best stored in a room
by themselves.
Hweet, light, fine-grained bread,
twenty-four hours old makes the best
sandwiches.
Never send to the table the same food
for three meals in succession, unless
varied in some way.
A cool cellar aired on a warm day will
gather moisture. To avoid this open
the windowsill the evon'ngs.
Scraps are a regular savings bank for
the good cook. The greatest made possible
variety of good things can be out
of them.
Fruit that has been canned or pre
served can be dried by skimming it out
of the liquid and treating the same as
tomato figs.
After cleaning lamps and wiping them
dry, turn the wick down below the top
of the burner. This prevents oil on the
outside of the burner.
A good cook throws away inch nothing.
Every piece of bread,every of meat,
every particle of vegetable can be turned
into something palatable.
Flour shouid be bought by the barrel,
but Indian meal is so apt to become in
fested with weevils that it should not
remain much over a week on hand.
When you boil a cabbage tie abit of
dry bread in a bag and put it in the ket
tle. French cooks say that the unpleas
ant odor will be absorbed by the bread.
Mayonnaise dressing, stirred made with with the
yolks of two oil raw added eggs, the
best olive drop by drop,
is the foundation of the best salad dress
ing,
is A good way salt to distinguish the mushrooms under
side. to sprinkle it on yellow spongy the or
If turns speci
men is poisonous: if black, it is whole
some.
NO. 45.
THE OLD 3CH OL-HOOSS
On the viilage green it stood,
And a tree was at the door, \
Whose shadows broad and good
Reached far along the floor
Of the school-room when the suf
Put on his crimson host,
And bte daily labors done,
Like A monarch sank to rest.
How the threshold wood was worn,
How tho lintel port decayed;
By She tread at eve and morn
Of tho feet that o’er it strayed
By the presence of the crowd
Within the portal small—
By the joy's emerald shroud
That wrapp'd and darkened all
That schOC#house dim and old,
How ninny years have flown
Sinco in its little fcSH>
My name was kindly known?
How different it seems
From what it used to be,
When gay as morning dreams,
We play’d around the tree!
How we watched tho lengthen’d ray,
Through the dusty window pane;
How we longed to he away,
And at sport upon the plain,
To leave the weary hooks,
And the master’s careful eye,
For the flowers and the brooks,
And the cool and open sky.
Alas! where now are they—
My early comrades dear!
Departed far away,
And I alone am here;
Some arc in distant climes, ,
And some in churchyards cold,
Yet it tells of happy tones,
That school-house, dim and old.
— Penman's Art Journal.
PITH AND POINT.
Out on a fly—Noah’s dove.
In Boston the horse-fiddle is called
the “equine violin.”
The carpenter: What i sec, I seue;
What I seize, I saw.
A merchant often foots a bill twenty
times to a customer’s once.
Before making fruit cake, current ex
penses must be considered.
A tug isn’t much of a vessel but it
ranks as a sort of brig aid.
While boxing increases tbe size of a
man’s arm it doubles his list.
Oysters are now selling for $1 per gal.
Ice cream in hot weather costs more per
gal. ball ought to be ab'o to
CYunon trains
shoot the bridges and skip ’up
outs.
The man who is down at the heels
• now goes to the ward boss to get well
heeled.
Ea k on his own stamping ground— his
The post-office cleric returned from
vacation.
“Yes,” said the landlady, sadly, “ap
pearances are deceitful, but disappear
ances are more so.”
A young lady attending balls and
parties should have a female chaperon
until she is able to call some other chap
her own.— Tuledj Den.
“Dear me, how close the poor cows are
crowded together,”.she reinai kcd. “I 'A
ma’am, but we have to do it.” “Why
so?” “To get condensed milk.”
Jaggs—“Er—John, what is this?”
Attendant—“Cheese, sir.” Jaggs -
“Whew! Why didn’t you have it em
balmed before you sent it up?”— Judge.
Mr. Waldo, of Boston—“Isn’t Mr,
Wabash, of Chicago, an original young than
man, Pene ope? ’ ‘‘He is more
that, mamma; he is aboriginal .”—New
York Bun.
There is a moss-covered adage that
says a rolling stone gathers be to no it, moss.
But what use would moss any
how. It would only interfere with its
rolling.— h’i/thoj).
He was rich and ignorant, and when
he consulted a builder concerning pizarro a new
house he said: “1 want a wide
on three sides, where the children can
ride their littic cyclopedias, ami enjoy
themselves .”—Detroit Free Prm.
On the Steamer. Outward Bound.—
Mamina—“1 was reading in a paper just
before we sailed that there are 1,000,000
more women than men in Germany.”
Daughter (of uncertain age,—“Mamma, worth while
1 think it will hardly be Transcript. our
to go to Germany.”— Boalon.
Snake Catching.
The best method I have found for cap
taring snakes, says a writer in Swist
Cross, except the large black ones, is the
following. When you see one that you
want,endeavor, by all possible means, to
cover him with your net. Then grasp
his neck betw< en the thumb and fore
finger of your gloved hand On and returning put him
in one of the tin cans.
home saturate a smalt sponge with chlo
roform, which thrust into the can with
your snake. Vou can do this in a small
room to prevent the snake’s escape. In
the course of a quarter of an hour the
snake may be tak n from the can and ar
ranged in a bottle, which is then to be
filled with alcohol and tightly corked,
and your specimen is ready for the
on one of these hunts a lady who was
searching for botanical specimens I hap
pened ‘ to come along just as was putting
a snake into one 0 f the tin cans, f” She
inquired what I was going to do with it,
and I said: “Preserve it;” whereupon she
asked: “Do they make good which preserves?” he took
Goethe kept a pet snake
from the chimney corner end fondled
every night, w hich shows that he was
partial to these “noxious reptiles,” and
Dr. McCook says the sDake is the most
beautiful animal in a cation. I don’t
know but I agree with him.
