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#M ,000
E.-.,.....asei of ilia Wmw- H«u«! :
T<> ' irly estimate the expetiKC* of the
Huuee rwj.nrw « carolui #iu- :
t - t,f the approiirintiiiii hills, a«
(I, iloms arc not cls-M-d nthiei this i
hi t. .. oat ar<- «r«ltcre<l arirter ottior
le nor are thvv the same hi
nay one year; hut Ptkiog thorn at an ;
ie erauc, and setting asule extraor
itftr.ry (lisIiur-emenU il n ay he eai
cinatiVl annnoi '
that a fair estimate
wm tie about...... ...... 20 , not !
See: W Ml', iry y-Ocntrai, of Navy, .State. Postmaster Treasury, $S,UCK/ well..... and Interior, At- j
.
It not matter to get 4130,000 at the j
so easy a
jn cost of the Soiiati and the House
of rtepresentative*. hr the expenses are
ti.ui elaborate from vendition* which
ha\e, nothing to de with the diflmence
bet h'sh a monarchy and a republic.
Tin < 4 t.ee of a Senator and a member of
the House of Bcprcsentapves carries
with it a salary, while tin and mcmhersliijt
of the H'ltise of Lords Commons
carries none. It must also be remem¬
bered that the due fulfillment, of hi
duties by either .Senator or Representa¬
tive. involves long journeys, peculiar separation
from business circles and ex
penres which do not occur in the other
eaves.
BF.SATV.
Apjiropriatiou Co'iipomtition for tin Houston 1 . .. *880,WHi
for nnlfa.;....... 83,000
8 *laii. s for officer*.......... . 1UVJI00
HOC** or *BI-RK«r.XTAIIVU.
Al'p .nation for monitor*. .... 1,530,000
BaUrii- -M'woiigf-tH, (tack*, Kwret*
nci* 200,000
•loliU..... .. . *2,348,(SKI
Bringing our total* together we find
that the cost United of representative institu
tion* in the .States, with a jiopii
Intion of 50,000,000, i* *2,348,*000, or a
mpitntion of five cents per head, ft
earn* then that the proportions to cost
t monarchical as against Republican in
Aitutions is as 2 ( is to 3.
A . we have not included the cost of
the diplomatic service in the foregoing
figures we will now proceed England shortly and to con¬
trast tin- exjK-nscs of Amer¬
ica so far as these items arc concerned,
for ti e purpose of showing how much
Uluru xoyni costly, the representative# delegates of a
yurt are. than the of a
republic. Tin total cost Britain of the diplo¬
matic service of Great is $2,4(10,
000 , wiule the total cost of the same
service of the United States is only
$900,000.
With at lew of enabling the reader to
columns judge for himself we will contrast in
side by side the expense o(
England and America to different coun¬
tries.
United State*. GreatUrit&in.
Hiiluy of Snlory of
fiance.. HspriwenUtiv*. Ainl.BHHiulor.
German .......*17,00(1 17,000 *50,000
Bnssi*........t.... j ...... 42,000
Bpain............... 17,000 46,000
12,000 28,000
Austria..... ....... 12,000 40,000
ltalv................ 12.000 86,000
Japan Brazil.............. I2,o0O 28,000
Chin* 12,000 20,000
The principle 12,000 80,000
whole i.ntne expenditure of run# both through the
countries.
Under the monarchy the tendency is to
divide up large sum* *».«•»« * L^orwS
lew, while the principle in republican
moderate government salaries seems to lie to divid. pay only
amt to e lh«
duties ovur a large number.
A Sonthern Type.
In the South one soon moots the young
■tan, Who a Lawyer, or editor, or physioian,
listen, wUl talk lor hours, to any one who
VUi of thesuperiorilv of the South;
its ]H)u|)lo «ud its oivtUmtion, ovtfr tlis
North and everything Northern. H.
always gwxi fellow, talk* wellj but and he proved*'enttrolV u usually a very !
upon the <i priori method, and his coil- !
elusions linvo little relation to the fwls
of life. He know, little of hi. own region
of the country, and uething whatever ot
anyother. Young men of Mailed this Ivpeul way* i
dwell with proud and iteration
on “ the superior purity of .Southern wo
men." Theta porsistenor always bring. :
the mer. fact of ohasfitv more nakedly
snd definitely before the wind than seenis !
wholesome or desirable to persons win
have seen more ot life and of the world.
These vouthfu! eulogists appear to think
that it in.- i virtue « ha-li is almost, unknown
wcept in the South.ru Stalls. They do
not teoagnice the fact, which is of great
importanci- iu anv resUvrenteion ofthis
feature of our civilization that the wo-I
men of another race formerly he lplcssand
now dograded, have betwe.ii always- formed licentious u pro
toctmg biarisr Urn
passious of Southern white men and the !
women of their own rac., I do not sup- !«
wvxvu Iny > i) l ♦ «. . 1 , o, i,
sup dors ou eiirlh. but' their im
rouuitv from temptation and wrong has
co*t otter women dear.
what young men of this elaas most
need l a wider observation and larger
knowledge of tho world, or, would cap cially, thus,
of tlieir o’ < u country. They
iu time, c *■ -taud ’ ' 1 how much ‘ better it
is for ou young KTl idea«lielun\uieri- tC Jhj .u-fr-t-d
aud inspii- * 1 b" bv the
cans fhur t ' Uwivs dwell.....ni. -' a the
fact M.wvt.'lini.'tb tb-fh- ■* r ' "irkarsa* ' v f V'v'i. v
There’ . r or New
Jers v fa ml It no harm Vi in these
voiine eentlemen altiiouch eir vehe
ment nti li’vtav nee* ftSSJt^ce subi.xcta with
Which
have -ome*tales furnished eonvenientma
term! for the use of Northern politicians
who wt r.. hostile to tin. S ^ mtli ' itlan’i,
Modern Courtship.
This is a modern courtship in a ut ’
shell The lights were bright )
they seemed garish, and l* 1
the McVN isiies wi.s radiani V;
of the pa,it de Kn ' 1
of the lam’
for celebr&t V,
Oht Bullio : ‘ l
Mv deal Mi * LcWisk . 7
deed disparity in our ages, to -
voutii id beauty. I. r> rs and we t. th.
But 1 ust there ,'au be ivnie reciproe
tv tween us ?" “Indeed, my dear
dr. 1 illior,, wealth is not delicate to be despised. health."
r is old age—and kiss
ae iJisi ,i.\sc in &o utuiertone. A
teat was like tha rattling of an old
parchment against a s tin cushion clos 'd
that bargain. We’ll bet the old man
outlives her,— New Hanoi Register.
8,1,1 DWR ji^ ll th “* i !^ 1 Z25 iflt d«»
-nte,. .1 with two children, * 4 * a-y -ar
old b, , aud a young girl. As «b<- could
l ot find a seat, I gave her mine, and the
two children stoou at bo. knee. I c
nri;, two per oils M% acd ie -' '
do yn opposite the mother. . w
fcLTfowtdiidiat l^on ■ ' “ £2 ,
your seat. ^.tahli'ofirffopine™ I paid lor you. ’
would*
Itlnd SX’her rSomnibnHMmt°the 1 litlTi mo
.n had an oppor
tunity to be hind to ladies, she interposed
and hadh him seep his seat.
Tt offends the vanity of our people good
when one says that this want oi
manners is a national vice, and I hold
that it is not American. It is Anglo
Saxon a* distinct from the Latin races,
That Hoftriess, gentleness, case of man
iic'ru which pertains to trance and Italy
is not iu (lermany, Britain, or America
The manners of French children are
beautiful. They are so well taught in
early childhood, that politeness tell when seems the
an instinct. No one can
child did not behsve property. the
Mr. Nasby has written a letter to
Toledo IUu.dc. on tips subject, which
ecerns to have arrested hm attantwn
while traveling in I ranee. And Ins ex
perienee like mine, w, m a public con
veyance. Ho writes .
“I with HI a compartment (of a rail ..
car) with a littje French of twelve
years, the precise age at which American
children, as a rule, deserve disagreeable- killing for
their rudeness and genera
ucss. He was dressed au tlessly, but
his clothes were net the chief charm I
at between him and tlm open window
a id lie wan adiug pvais. would cither ^*4
African boy of that age
have dropped the cores on the floor or
tossed them out of the window without
regard to anybody. But this small gen
f i. man every time, with a Permit me,
monsieur, said in the most,pleasant drop- way.
r.*e and came to the window and
ped them out, and then ‘Jtfcm, nion
sieur’ (thank you, sir), as he quietly
took 1m seat
“ It was 11 delight. 1 am sorry to say
that snob small hoys do not travel on
American ranromis to any alarming ex
tent. WouM limy were more frequent,
Ami this boy was no exception He was
not a show hoy ent posing before the
great American Uepuhlie, or such of it
as happened to be 11 . France at that
1 «>«<’ = »•«* .»*•’ f^P® of
tin- v.gulHtion Of a French child.
So, Mr. Nimbv would nev.-r meet with
a b.ir of tint pattern in Lngland or New
Knglnnd, m Britain or America. They
are not raised 111 any of these kingdoms
or republics. The fathers and mothers
were brought up as they bring up their
sons and daughters. Children are what
they arc taught to be Just as the
twig, etc.— Nmp York Okmrce.r.
„ The Crater , of f ropoeatapetl. n ...
I» a letter U >tlnriPhiladelphia Ufcwd,
M. 'athan E. Verkins describes at
great length the ascent of the Mexican
volcano Popocatepetl, having reached
the crater after a toilsome clin: b, amide
seended as far as he could without a
riqie. Irom this position a good view
was obtained of the oater-walls. Ti.e
bottom was linden by ascending smoke
"'j ' 1 "team. The lower walls were hung
with lar^c masses of sulphur interspersed
* 1( ’ lC 8 ° n ^*
I hr crider a is about one nnle aeroes.
and lum thc appearancc of ulame funnel
wb.sa sides are but bit e inclined, and
h< ; is not visible. There seem
t *’. be “»r.'e distim-t, rings, which divide
“ ,,,to tour zones the argesttaung that
>■ .‘rost the mouth. From he Summit
tlu City of Mexico, allhough 'istble, over and, WO j
1«‘ "l* lake8 8 . l' uul lt .^. edh .^
8 ,UT<,nn, as w > 8eeD »
11 teagmlh-eut gimi set anmmi! with
1 bo whole valley Mex- ,
? v ri8 - great At oi
}'*«' ,M , ' 8, ‘ f ‘ u a glance. our feet
bl > Amcea, over thirty miles distant
* i,b ” ln *« r ‘°« s Krowth of tropica!
and onithr; nght Ihmblc.and l ?T the '
1 '” 1 ' 1 ''«'•? r Jb- churches " Ch ' M " ami T* spires, ■ ■ lhedis- p» "r
• mountain of Orizaba, nearli 200 |
away, the snoyyy peaks ot M, Ion
,l; ”l tla '. ” h L ,' y oth ™*
,n 'he distance, stoiHl arrayed ta'foreiue. .
1 fd1 S W l f ? r *“•' “ d m ban “? |
«’bmbed ttao highest mountain . in North '
Amerta, whose summit is about 18,000
< «»’«'ve the sea-!eveL_____ I ;
11,6 of . Taste.
Ibe natural rapidly groyvth developed, of the world,
taste has b«>n and
the people of all nations are now produo
ing each its own peculiar aud wonderful .
treasures. Who can remember or de
scribe them? Who can toll the extent
“ f the riches or the beauty of admired the golden,
jeweled ornaments thousand now million people? and
w What “ ru by a dc.-entx ail that is
cultivated pen can gardens and adorned seen
m parks and
" itb tec*®, shrub.-, learn, plants, Inioks flowers else- ?
Where can we in or
where, the names of all that is heautiful
tliat blossoms from the whole earth ; ail :
that ii beautiful all that that the the weaver's brush produoes shuttle j [
on canvas;
and loom pAvlncc; all that the skilled
hands ot the carver on wood, stone, and
marble of produce the ; all that the produced, combined
colors rainbow have as
shown in fabrics, of silk and satiu, and
cotton and wool; all that, is beautiful in
architecture, and in the adornments of
the world’s most renowned cathedmis,
and beautiful in all its famous kingly reareii
palaces ? But life is to i short to
out and see nil that is beautiful. We
«an ow\y of get the ft glimpse, now and treasures! then,
at some worUVs greatest
The most fare red season for Independent. such sight
seeing ° is Christmas .-The ^
iwTl^ A . stoky -s told of a Tew of Tewk»- 1
oury, in lff2°, ri alio Ml f i into ; , V, a well on
SSSSSiSMta fcTKSfte.oi ”!?£ 1 otM - G X
of Glast , on wh« ^ d the well — -
would n. A allow hiii uit th(
next h da\
fore Monday came lie di d,
» i. p~~4.
* howeVcr dilapidated her home
i»w* <SfeXinable cot
'* the most tesliiunat.le oi oi hate I at* Md «M om.
^“^^‘Sjf/and^glov^ali • - ‘ ' cim
. . r to obtain tlv-su dresses' ;
f b( » J(- Young ladies l ad to condescend so
f fhem ur a SrThc () wor k for the -.^asants tElGS whdiiaid
*» a J* and chemisettes they wear on. feast
almosf^nftned to the class called “ar
tis t s”-that is, shopke-Rers and skilled
'' ,,rt ‘‘ < '
,
*/' spec . m ;1 ‘ > ' . ..T '’.1 "... ' e ’ . .
■’ '
found in these remote villages—people
. bearing grand names, and retaining con
sidcrahle pride m then ancient inf ago,
w.iom gerieiations of idleness and un
thriiunesH hav, reduced to cxtrem^pov
feasion, c.r \ . and icy when are o-e<. starvation uca u.iirai^i stares them o
111 th«*aoe hey have noresorce *»£to
earn their bread by mutual labor. •>«
noble eount of my ac-|iiaiiit.aiioe ls “
carpentei , another a bricklayer. 1
Hee working “.* e in 1 the tmlds. Mijji ^ a then for
, tunes their manners dete^ate, rejtens until
| no nng m a romnan o jir ee
11 < *k ’ H 1
between .
I | ‘ ‘ j
j s^bla^ nothing more of thero melancholy, TOveity-stnckea , than H the"Ws- mi
j hies lonum^ at Hit bouse of the rich
, oi Ullage. We ai;
man a Wc 8 «lM , ,^.
and as °M ragged Mid ^rtyohlfcan after j
another enme shambling in each in turn
was, to my great surprise, introduced a*
the descendant of an arnuent and noble
i<uiiily, but lftllt.n Cfttluto, added niy
host, with a gesture of compassion,
old man would thou bow Ins head m
ancholy acquiescence and, casting a rue
fnl glance at his shabby would cloak with the
faded green lining sink into One a<
elmir, at the far end of the table.
of these fallen nobles, who had taken to*.
l.oiiNe-pamting, we thought it only
charitable to emp oy for the decora-,
of our ceiling. I was pre
paied to feel quite a romantic n
terest in thi* unfortunate nobleman,
and to l>e enchanted with his urtistio
gefims, but he was so uncommonly dirty
and his manners were so little removed
from those of a pessant, that my illusion.,
w ere dispelled at once. Neither did his
style, oi decoration exactly’come up to my
it was ambitious enough
Vbasket of flowers soon adorned each
corner of our ceiling, and 111 the center,
from amid clouds and wreaths of roses,
a rather shapeless CupidTiegan to be de
lineated. Ill the middle ot the work,
the artist, whose temper wasshot* and
whose feelings were sensitive, took
offense a* slight we suppose—at some Without umn
tontioned on our part.
the shghtest explanation, he departed
; )ue ‘ la >'> leavln e tb t minus oum
leg and one arm, and reti Wl n pW fa
l.'.Tnconditum"’^ > ' 'to!tto
away with him nltogt ther, and nir , hus
band, mounting a ladder, swept a coat of
whitewash over Cnpii1, clouds, baakets
^^"Xe^eraf 1 •’
1 I ! • h t i_ ^
’ 1 1
manner.-From ir^UMaqtmne.
Paul Morphjs Memory. M rmorv
JhixitotiOit Vfi* *<* Monthly recalls tLua
instance . of the remarkable memory ol
the greatest chess-,^ffaver the world haa
ever known: Of Morphy s g^anuc mem
ory I had indubitable pro»f from my own
otmcrvation at the time he was playing
his celebrated match wmh Lowenthnl.
Both ..pponenta had agreed to reganS
the games played as their intellectual
pn\at( property, not to tie published. T
" * of ««.• tune editing the chess col
nu.us the Sunday Innn, and iu.xious
to repna m-e them there. In order to
obtain the requisite information, I Jiad
to, ppl v to one ot the eont, stmg parties.
I ttat went to Morphy, who received me
*“ d b J ; * ? ut ? ro "? !l ‘
mgnes.s to « i.-tatc , tor me the las partie, t \
flayed the ,lay tadore. I ta gged lum to ;
repent tW game ou the ooard, as I would :
» this manner ta- better ablei to follow .
the progress,.! the contest. Morpliyoou
sen tod. and at trie tenth move of black
(Liwenthal) I asked med him testop that at a mo- this
,u< ‘“ . ” u - d h '*’ me
part- nlai- vomx . a better move might
bav. W»n made ‘Oh, you probtoy
mean the move wluoli you ysurseH Dx^resse? mndo
in aa^veml* one i»l T<»m’ contests with
Morphy in Ids simple artless
wav of k peaking I was startled. 1 lie
parim m*mt«*>ed had te^n playal m I
H Mm in IS>1, seven yr#ib. 1..re, aim >
bad totally forgotten all its details. On
ob*er?iug this, Morphy called for a sec
ond board, -and began, without the least
hesitation, to repeat that game from the
fl rst *° the last move without a single f
mistake. I was speechless fcom surprise.
B"i'e was a man, whose attention was
constantly distracted by countless de
»’-«»»•>» on his memory, and yet he had
periwtly retained for sewn years all the j
details of a game insignificant in itself, I j
end. entirely moreover, unknown printed m a language
to liim.
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Postage Stumps.
The _. mnnl^r of different ... kinds , ofjK«t- , i
HP ‘damps which have been lnthturto is- j
su etl ail over the world is estimated, in j
reniid numbers, at 6,61 1 . Among them j
1110 ot ™" i
iteror^ mghteen , Kings three Queens, I
Gnuid D ! lk £ ** r [ llu 'f a “ d a
^' L’-e number steu ps oi boar IWenta *.oats of ete arms and j j
JJ ilUr ^niblems, as crowns, tie papal 1
key*, and tiara, anchors, eagles lions,
bo,s ' s - stars ‘ f ulv ^ tn « ns »
borsemen > ‘ eU *- lbe ^ U ,^f
tion preserved in tne museum of the 1
Bv-rlin postoffice included, on duly 1, j
1879,1.498 ; spei-imens of different from, post
taja Of these 2 462 were
“«!*, I« l~m 251 «*■.
»■>
6tr;Ui:i - !
--
It is said that tlie French have no re- I
spect for the oyster because it never had
*
a Bonaparte.
>
... «X*. *"
«.^srs. church was.three ojdpcktin
ceremony m
“ We shall get there right on time,”
looking at his watch.
Now,' it i* church dreadfully promptly, unfashionable and Aurora to
to the
would have felt just like dropping
through the floor don’t you know, it slie
bad walked »P ^
^ ^Sr^be^Wuutes late?” ^ said
**“ “ “ *
“Now, my darling, don’t coax.
y on ^
shoulder, and then let it drop slowly
along down over his coat to a small
f pocket set in at the waist seam, where it
in ,? „ cred for a few seconds.
Yon have the ring where you can
fin(1 readi ] y> .» slle remarked, laying
placidly ^ back in her seat. “There is
othing B0 awkward as to fumble for the
ring ,? at the altar, you know.”
oh - r made sure on that point, i “! as
r J ’ he gaid confident y ,
s]i d the • ht into this handy
b t tle pocket where, I—good lord in
j» NAH^hat eaven Borealis—what ?”
«The ring is lost.”
tlirusted his fingers into the
p^ket madly, again and again, but the
ring surely conjectures, was not there. He made
wild felt in all his other
pockets, {gf and concluded he must have
t r a t Aurora’s residence. He ordered
the coach muf to turn about. When they
had back almost to the house, a
public clock struck three.
< Wliat is that?” said Aurora, point
| to the bottom of the carriage.
ho rf j glitterin g in B <x»rner.
.. j_ musthave dropped it,” said Bore
alis Dickiii^ it up ‘‘but I swear I
in that very spot F two minute.
„
b matter of
H e had looked there, as a
f ’ / just before Aurora threw the ring
dow n
.« Well,” he remarked, looking at his
teh .. wilJ have your way
aftei We can’t get to the shurch
before ten minutes late anyhow.”
.. Tobesure ,»
Aou te presence of mind is character
ig tic D f bndes. They may blush but Tlieir they
know exactly what th« v are about.
^ may J be dim with tears, but dress. they
Me blocks a m isplaced E thread church in their
Two f om the Aurora ex
g p resse( ] a f ear that she was as pale as a
* ho9t
„ s 4.d. „ fair a „ a]aba 8 ter,” Handsome
BUgge dear,” she retorted, “this
“ Now, ’ my £
b tim e compliments. ? Is there the
least bit of mJor face? >.
of ..w e ii no bu gTastly.” t_”
must look
„ w<mld you J like to blush as you go 0
-
oyes.”
tbrew his anB8 aronnd het drew
. Artier, hia l brea8t) wlt h the grip of a
and Kissed her loud and tb long,
I ? e W “ B fl3TOa « h with J ust 88 » car ’
riage door was opened by an usher, and
abo walker! into church with a satisfac
torv amount of pink ^ on her cheeks.
-
up a Horse.
In France, when a horse has reached
the age of twentv or thirty, it is destined
for a chomiea! factory; it is first relieved
of its hair, which serves to stuff cushions
and saddles; then it is slaughtered and
skinned; thfe boofs serre to make combs.
Next tlie carcass is pluctni in a cylinder
and cooked by steam at a pressure of
thr^ atmospheres; a cock is opened*
which allows the grease to run off: then
tht . ronil ,i, ; ^ ar> . ,. ut the leg tames
mv sold to make knife handles, etc., and
theftolirwr . the ribs . 1he head, etc.,
aro converted into animal black and
The first, are calcined in evliu
jers, and the vapors when condensed
form the chief source of carbonate of
alnmollia> which constitutes the base of
„ ear ] v all ammoniaca) salts. There is
’
an aI lilnal oj! v dded which makes a
eapita! i I18e ctcidc and-a vermifuge. To
make glue the which b,m* are dissolved m
U1 , lrjati( . takes away the
ph(Bq ,i, a te of lime: the soft residue, re
taming the shape of the bone, is dissolved
in h(>iJi water, oust into squares, and
.^,1 on nets. The glmsphate of lime. call
a ,. ka | upon by- suhihurie acid and
^ned with corbon. } >ro,luces phospl.o
rolw for hu . ifer matches. The remain
iug fles h is distilled, to obtain the carbo
lm te of ammonia; the resulting mass is
p(>mM ]ed up with potash, then mixed
0 i ( i , V1 ;! S . in .i r ].i : mn n f « vprv .]«.
seription; the ‘whole is eiddnedaml yields
magnificent yellow avystals—prussiate tissues of
wi th which are deed a
Prussian blue and iron transfeir.-d into
sb > t q. jy a j so forms-the basis of cyanide
^ potassium »*id prussic known’iu acid the two
most terrible Scientfjic poisons diem
istrv J American.
The Franking Privilege.
Tbe “franking privilege” is bv no
mfl , s ns . ome suppose, au American
'- n g t Over two hundred years ago
^ £ ^f ,,;i an d the right was claimed taken bv Hie ad
Hon of Commons, and was
v.nt-o’e of and continued till 1839. In
considered the proper
i.ton .r In the United States its first ap
pearauce was in 1776 when it was
.nant. d to all private soldiers actually in
for vmU en bv and to
tben ^ elves ysie ordiance in 1782. re
nealinw postoflice, previous legislation in regard to
made free all letters,
m i cbeta and dispatches to aud from
“h“ \ and Secretarv attendiilg. of Congress. Corn
mknder-in-Chief iriualiv t! e
and emirate armv
commauders the heads of the depart
men ta of finance, war, foreign af
Ua j te d States on public
service as well as single letters di
^ct d to any officers of the line in ac
: ' h,.* timo . 1 llr :
|" al , . re.-d4 and' , v .
^ ^ ***?■ «f“ ““ ealare-ed ^- until
th '\ .spasmodic reform of of 1 lhto. alter
S,,Srt“is3 !,w*SjSririKe^7 SiTi^SJ vaSd
m r
’
- -
Sorrow is a scourge but
° vti-pes, ^
Tb« J%tl*bL’ taken
cta^tsstau: iu sister States. In Massachusetts the
ftsSTtsartissaia in ^ood, % other material.
ston or Ver
mont and Connecticut legal fence is five es-'
and a half feet high, with provisions
gentially Hampsiiir as above. In Maine and Sw
the legal fence is lour feet
high ; Rhode Island, and stone or wood
feii.es mud be four a half feet high ;
^bed. ***** "* elaboratelj de ‘
Jibe SS5r2n ‘be^deemedT iffi
the duties of fence viewers Four and
^ ns the usual height pre
Pennsylvania—Towns and counties se
cure special legislation for fencing rail
way lines, and to prevent running of the
stock at large.
New Jersey—Felices are to be 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 8tone fence, or hedge, four and a half
feet Maryland, high
Georgia Virginia, North Carolina,
Florida, Alabama, Arkansas,
Tennessee—Legal fences ftve feet high.
West Virginia.—Legal fences four mid
it half feet high.
South Carolina—Fences must be six
feet '^valent hi^h, of wood or hedge, or ditches
a* barriers,
Missouri—Hedge five feet, fence four
;in( ' l one-half feet,
Kentucky—“All five'feet sound or strong
fence8 high, so close that stock
e nmot creep through,” is the definition
G f Qin^-A the legal fence.
fence, of whatever mate
constructed in all respects such as
’] husbandmen ought to keep.”
£ of 18b*)
0 :^-Fences four and one-half,
leet high, viewers of whatever material the
fence shall deem sufficient.”
Michigan-- Fence* four and one
half f-et high of rails, timber, boards,
stone or other things f deemed equiva
^era” t h „ reto in the udgm ont of fence
Wisconsin-'* Fences four and one
half feet high,” etc. By act of April,
137 s barbed-wire fence is defined as a
wjfe.c.
11 Lb Minnesota—“ Fences four and one
I feet high,” etc. Barb fence defined
the act of 1877.
Iowa—“ Four and one-half feet high,
or fifty-four inches.” Barbed-wire fence
described as legal fence, 1876.
T oxas-“ Five feet high.” Barbed
wire defined as legal fence. and
Kansas—“Worm fences four one
half ^ feet; ^ turf four feet with ditches;
{ te twe lesral ive feet apart.” is
mi.rasto.—The fefee L fence de
scribed “ such a good hus
bandmen generally %«.' tout keep.”
grelt Wcc is de
scribed with paRicularify. Wire,
post and raO, brush, picket; ditch and
pofe and hedge wire fences, not less than
three separate stands, the first eighteen
inches from the ground, the others two
and one foot apart.
Colorado. Arizona, Montana snd Utah
-Four and one-half Idaho feet and high. Washington
Mexico
-Four I Washington feet high....... Territory barbed-wire
11
fence must carry a tep rail of wood.
ludiana—Any structure in the nature
of a fence, such bb good husbandmen
generally keeji.
”
Take the Cake
Mr. - Jones T is . very fond of cake, , ano •
when hi. wife has company to tea sh*
u * uall J instructs him before band not t«
eat more than one piece himself. One
evening, however oompany dropped
m to tea unexpectedly and Mr " “
ba d no tune to coach Jones, iheysa
Jones down f., did the when L teb i« the aad tea was the served tjrst “ was m 8
Jo dip into the cake basket and possess
°! sh f ’
which he buttered profewely and quickly
disposed of. Then, as he went on talk
wl ? b the gentlemen o, the party,and sympathy
remarking that he nad no
wth demagogues, he reached over anil
seeded a generous piece of i™*™**
“Jeptha! said his wife wanuugly.
The wretched man knew something wa.
a “ 13s n as usual, hit on the wrong
thing. anything . personal;
“1 don’t mean
^ Bro ^ unaerstands me. Maria,
I® trying to reepnede the difference
]*^s ; and he tackled the cake
basket a third time, saving, as he drew
f. section of pink widgeid layer cake,
be persuaded tne country was
go™* to rum.
“ 1 cake, Mr. Jones, „ sain .... his
ass tue
bl awl! d tone.
“I pass,” answered Jones abstractedly,
and with a full hand of cocoanut jumbles
be went on reconstructing the country.
In the excitement of forming a new
administration he helped himself to a
square of hickory-nut cake, which he
buttered on both sides. Then Mrs. Jones
rose to her full altitude and said, in her
home-brewed- bottled- for-use-domestic
voice : “ Mr. Jones ! will yon pass that
«ai» basket around while there, is a single
piece of cake left? If you had the
government pie you talk about there
wouldn’t be even a chance at the plate
left for any body else.
“ He tabes the cake!” murmured Mr,
Brown in his company voice, while Mrs.
Jones mentally resolved to hereafter
; leave the cake on the sideboard until it
was time to pass it aronnd.
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Ihe »\f New State.
The question of annexing Northern
Idaho to Wasliingfon Territory aecom
paries the other question of
Bion to the Inou as a b ate. and bom
will ne agitated more or less vigorously
from tins on. Joined to our Territory,
' cc-Estituted. the Terri
as at present new
tory or State would have anarec ‘XC
- mi j
w ^ eqnatc ea . or great as
« at ot Now York = 0,1 Oi i mbined.
r.«»--> • a i
iff
3 ner pro
ceeoa
j HISTORICAL.
: Mme. PompadOUB was the originator
-«**-*
j The Egyptian physicians of old were
! . , haVe J HE on, “ v a 11 fac known * s of 250 J ears circukfaon
-
-
Embalming was in use among tha
| Egyptians at least 3000 years ago.
j Six hundred lions were killed at one
j , show, given Assvi/ans bv the Boman Pompey.
The and Greeks had tri
monthly festivals, besides annual revels.
£te « concS tfSy^skflW?
Weex, the architect of St. Paul’s, de¬
signed more than forty public building#
in London.
Gibbon began to write bis “Decline
and Fall of the Boman Empire” in Lon¬
don, in 1772.
Sabah, Duchess of Marlborough,
used to say she was bom before nerves
came into fashion.
The four passions of John of FVanc*
were said to be novel-reading, music,
chess and backgammon.
The carriage of magazines and other
books by mail was introduced at the
same time as postage stamps, by 8 k
Rowland Hill.
The first foundling hospital estab¬
lished by Royal Charter in London,
don, 1739, was instituted through the
exertions of Capt. Coram, whose portrait
was painted for the hospital by Hogarth.
Extravagance was at one time SO
notorious in the matter of monuments,
among the Greeks, that Leon forbade the
erection of any mausoleum which could
not be erected by ten men in tliree 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 emperor
rewarded him with a gift of 12,000 francs.
The Hebrews wore sandals made of
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 Richard went to the Holy Land
one of the laws he made for his troop#
was that if any one should be convicted
of theft, boiling pitch should be poured
over his head and a pillow full of feath¬
ers shaken over it.
On Easter Monday, 1208, the whole
of England was laid All the under an interdict
by the Pope. chnrches were
closed and no services allowed, #ave con¬
fession, absolution, baptism and admin¬
istration of the riaticum at the point of
death. No marriages were to be cele¬
brated, bodies were buried without
honor. The king retaliated by seizing
property and lands of the church. The
interdict remained for six years.
rhfldreata t-Mldren» Iamd Land League, I^ne
„ The outgrowth of the land agitation
in
is the children’s Land League,
These organizations formed upon th*
pmts»le q^esnnmterof of the, Band of Hope, exist m
parishes. Tire follow
dogged is committed to memory by
^ j® w“hf«ettfnfah ™ crules^lme, the mund •
c is the crowbar of
D is onr Davitt, a right glorious name;
E is the English who’ve robbed us of bread,
P it ror famine they’ve left us instead;
»»»«whom life is * tay
i is the jarvey, who’ll not.drive him for gold ;
K is Kilmainham, where our true men abide,
bhSkSf £h£ S
n is for no rent, ’ whieh will make our wrong. wrong*
O is right: Old Ireland, that
yet shall b* freed,
P is the oceiers^ who’ye lold her for greed;
f Kri tterZs^oXerunC thr^'
T 0 k, ig the the toll Union that that others works may gain*
bitter harm,
Xis the villain that grabs up a fsrm,
* for
Yh
. ^ is the zeal that will win the great bght
The parish priest of Kantuckread this
doggere! ^ from the altw, and denounced
it> mem bers of the congregation
expressed their dissatisfaction with ths
prie8t and - 8 b y rising from their seats
; body tramping out of the church in a
.
Home Influences Developing.
My Lady—“No, no, General. Do
not talk to me Of schoo. and college! .. ,
There s nothing take home influence for
My premous darling uas never
left my side since ho was born-just
twenty-one years ago this very day,
General-nnd he nas kept the heart of a
| child, and never given me an hours
■. anxiety m all hts innocent life !
! The General - “Ah, he’Jl soon be
-wanting to of marry that tne lady s be- i
; ?>metb t mp sort.
<n«-sn
My Lady— “Good Heavens. (To
footman, Parker?” who enters.) “Adams, whet*
; is
The Footman — “She just stepped
i <mt for a minute this monuu’, my Lady,
j to git some ’air-pins, down she said. But
. they do -ay stairs, as Master
I George were waiting for her roubd the
corner with a four-wheel cab and a small
t pork&antean. Leastwise, she never
; come home, nor Master George hasn’t
neither. Lunch is waiting, my Lady.”
Punch.
Don’t Use Big Words.
In promulgating your esoteric cogita¬
tions, or articulating superficial senti¬
mentalities and philosophical or psycho
logical observations, beware of platltudi
■ nous pone erositv. Let your conversation
pi'; tarifietl conciseness, compacted
comprehensibleness, coaiescent consist
and a concatenated cogency. Es
;ew ail conglomerations of flatulent
irrcJity, jejune ba’ .blement and asinine
antic at lens. Let your extemporaneous
bC'ii r.tings and unpremeditated expa
ns have intelligibility and veracious
without rbodomontade or thra¬
sonical itombast. Se,luloasiy avoid an
profundity, pompous pro
cec.us nd vaniloquent vacuity, ventriloquial
Shun d hie entendres, prurient vapidity, jocosity
itcrons 1 'rc-fanity, obscurant or
ut. In 2T Tror is, talk plainly,
y, truthfully, purely.