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GENERAL NEWS.
The population of Chattanooga is said
to be 20,666.
Malaga grapes are successfully grown
iu Hillsboro county, Fla.
Eighty cents per hundred,'is the price
offered for good limes in Jacksonville,
Florida.
Fifty - El VK thousand dollars worth of
sponge were sold at Key West, Fla., last
Monday.
Eight and three-quarter million dol
lors is the valuation of property in Flor¬
ida for 1883, an increase of four millions
over last year.
Vicksburg, Miss., wells sunk about
200 feet reach the gulf level and an
abundance of excellent water, with fine
sand and sea shells is found.
The Charleston, S. C., News and Cou¬
rier reports great injury to the cotton by
drouth and greater injury threatening
upland crop.
South Carolina, according to the cen¬
sus, is the most illiterate state, 48.2 per
cent of the population being unable to
read, and 55.4 per cent hi able to write.
From present indications it is probable
that. Galveston, Texas, will receive for
the season 1882-83 about 900,000 bales
«>f cotton, leaving every port except New
Orleans iu the race.
A committee is canvassing for sub¬
scriptions to a steamship line bet ween
Augusta and Savannah. It is thought
that it will be a success. When the con¬
templated improvements in the river are
made steanieis can run all the year.
The German colony located at Piek
enaville, Ala., apprehend realizing noth¬
ing from their crop, on account of the
drouth, and have entered into negotia¬
tions to furniBll staves to the Mobile
market from the timber along the upper
Bighee.
The work in the harbor at Vicksburg
will not be abandoned. Tt is confidently
believed that a sufficient depth of water
can be kept in the west pass of the lake
to allow tributary boats to land at the
city landing during the lowest stage in
the river.
The Ui aril of Directors of the Florida
Fillip canal and Transit Company adjour¬
ned at New York yesterday, after a four
days’ session. Work will probably com¬
mence on the canal within the next
ninety days. Its estimated cost is §40,
000 , 000 .
| WwtTKH North^Can jn it.....'I'Yilb;
• -a great section for fruit. In Wntmign
cunt, is nu apple tree fifty years old
which has on it about fifty bushels of
fine apples, and lias nine large branches,
which give rise to thirty-two bmnrhlets,
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covers tiventy-mne yards.
Two of the best farms in Culpepper
countv, Va., exchanged hands recently, :
One of . thorn, .. containing . . . 1,300 . acres, sit
nated on the liappanonnock river, naa
purchased by Tlionms B. Nulle for |50.
000 cash; the other, ’ containing 200
lu-res, near ... brandy Station, , n as sold , , at .
#10,000 to the County Treasurer, S.
Russell Smith.
A two thousand dollar Jersey cow,
owned in Baltimore, Md., 1ms vi'centlv
owned the refutation of being tlie best
butter producing cow in the United
States, having, in seven days’ test, given
327 pounds of milk, which made twenty
five jsuuids two and a half ounces of
butter, being one pound of butter from a
little less than thirteen jwiunda, ca six
and a half quai ts of milk.
G BORGIA, Tennessee aud other south
«ru state* eoniblaiil that- dogs kill their
sheep. In England pet dogs are hecomf
ing a serious drain upon tho edihle ne-
4 -esrities and luxuries of life. Many
pups ar»> fed 011 toast and tea and eggs,
and liunb chops. One gentleman daily
onlei-s a beefsteak and two gliusses <>f
wine for liis dog. Some ot them take
brandy and soda, cheese and piekhsl
oy^titts.
Mr. H. J. (Ui het. Bulhv'k comity.
Ala., is engagixi in unking syrup from
melons, and has already made 800 gal¬
lons. This sells fear 75 cents per gallon.
An ordinary melon will make two gallons
• of u. juice, jUH-o. ««i and it 1 . takes — twelve gullisas — to -
niak, . one oj . syrup. LstuAtmg i- j a.. the
I yield per acre l.tkK) melons, which
Ef I give 2.060 gallons of ju >>*<*. or 166; of
syrup, at 75 c< Its jhw gallon, tho pro
c*eoils will be ♦ 1 -io.
A,.haw iFla.) Argus: An irr.uieiis
f tow n is now sung built on ihi* hn< o'
* tin* SL J. A 1.. E. r uilroad. Itiomnicn
ces at Ravenswoo* I, and continues ai
o> the lino to I'nmtil . a distance of
six E lies, id which AltiK - a is the grand
1 center, geographically. Five saw-miib
make it limn for us, and if tilings
titiue this wax' for notlier vear a line of
strt*et cars and stret*t lamps will have i
lie juauguratetl j*<*r mvessitv. Wltla “
this six miles are the towns of Ravens
VO( I, Pittniaan IOW Z 1 , Al
toona, Honeywi 1 %
lliln.
A new civ< lias been disco in
North Carolina. It is located on thf
Tennessee river in Bwain county, near
the month , of „ the -- Nantihala. , ii A * 11 blast l
was put in the mouth of it and a way
opened for entrance. One large room,
bearing B beautiful stalactites, was ex
pored and a small aperture h ailing to
another room was found, but for want
of proper lights the exploring party
went no further. The railroad rims im
mediately liy it » Ufa rtor. Tim tod
is owned by Maj. J. W. Wilson, about
the largest landholder in North Carolina,
The eave is in the great marble belt of
the ,, west, . which , . , crops out , at . Marble ,, ,, gap
on Valley-river mountain.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The sum of $931,600, bequeathed by
J. B. Gardner, of Boston, to help pay
the National debt, was received at the
Treasury Department and placed to the
credit of patriotic donations.
A Reno saloon-keeper kept a Lottie of
pitch pine splinters soaked in spirits of
turpentine for the use of customers who
.......<„ h„„ K it up; but the
beverage became so popular m Reno
that it was considered too good for that
class of customers.
A gold idol weighing thirty-two and
one-half pounds was recently excavated
in Calistlahauca state of Mexico, by
some Indians. The idol was composed
of a group of figures, but it was broken
up by the Indians and divided equally
Only nine of the thirty-eight States
have furnished the country with presi¬
dents. These States are the following,
and the length of time the several States
have held the office is also indicated :
Virginia............ ......36 years
Massachusetts...... ...... 8 years
Tennessee.......... ......16 years
New York........ .... .10) years
()hio............... ...... 4j years
Louisiana......... ...... 1 year
Now Hampshire. ...... -k- — years
Pennsylvania....... ......12 ...... years
Illinois............. years
Total from 1789 to 1885.....96 years
Tn the seventy-two years prior to the
civil war, the South possessed the Presi¬
dency for forty-nine years, and as good
ns possessed it under the eight years of
Pierce, of New Hamshii'e, and Buchnn
nan, of Pennsylvania. In those days it
made no difference where a man came
from, if he was in spnipathy with the
dominating Southern element. The ex¬
traordinary contributions to the' Presi¬
dency, wore due, no't at all to her loca¬
tion, but to the unusual relations of her
strong men to flic Government during
the period of the Revolution and settle
ment of the Constitution. Virginia has
furnished in presidents since Monroe
went out in 1824.
Mr. Russcfl, a wealth* Mississipp
L ; .m-Jo is at Unclrt.i;idg.- Alun>
! Springs with his wife, has with him als >
„„ adopted el„hl, twelve years old, wh
^ R so,, of the late Gen. John B. Hood.
of the Hood children, the two eldest
dan-liters wore taken by Mr. Maury, a
ing educated m Germany with his daugh
tors. John B. Hood, Jr., the oldest boy,
is tka ouo adopted 1 into the family •' of Mr.
Russell. A pair of twin girls are mloji
t,.,l children of a Mr. Adams, of New
York; another pair of twin girls are iu
the family ' ; of Mr ‘V McKee of Mississippi;
another boy, Duncan , by name, is the
adopted child of a wealthy maiden lady
of New York, and another, Oswald, is
to.!* ,.i «*»«»»
siding near the l.inpire C ity. Unis
have the fatherless been eared for. A
singular coincidence is related in connect
tion with three of tho gentlemen
who have thus taken the place of fathers
of these ^interesting children. Messrs.
Russell, Adams and McKee were elass
mates at Yale College. They are nil
married, but have no children. Without
cons,a,f , of - ai-taon, , or even , knowing what
thcotlmre were about to do. each up
plied fur and was given the charge he
now has.
Carries Its Own Moral.
Tn in one one ol of our our tsew New Einriand tngiana cities ciue-s, n
few days ago, three wretched tramps
wore brought before the police courts us
vagrants, having lwen found iu an in
teiieatqd condition in » barn whore 6u they
! the nrevions 1 niuht e\
animation it . was found that each one had
been a former resident of the city, and
I was well known.
Ono of them had lioeu, only a few
j ago, tlie suj'eriutendont i*f the
, touuorv toundry department aeparimom o| 01 an an extensive oxieusivc and
| ivnlely-kuowu manufacturing ... eatsbl.sh- . , 1 ; 1
ment, receiving a yearly salary of §2,50 >.
and having a pleasant home occupied by
; mbs and children, and being • man ottec
i respestod and esteemed by those wl
t iv K m. Tho two others had lxx*u
vm : % n under him whom he had di--
Z bar neglect of their woik toi
111 k, and ho iumsolf was iinally ife*
in lssed for the snnie fault.
I Checks.— A device has been intro¬
duced at a Chicago hotel for the pur-
1 pose of circumventing swindlers. Each
_ . guest receives small piece of cardboard
a
on which the number of tlie room he is
to occupy i-i plainly marked. This he
is obliged to present at the office when
ever he desires his key. Another card,
on which the name of tue bearer is
i written, is a pass for the elevator, and it
is essential for a ride. Both these
I j cheeks when tke must departing lie returned visitor to tlie cashier 1_
pa vs
bill
Aphorisms of Holmes.
~
Ton may set it down as a truth . which
admits of few exceptions, that those who
ask your opinion really want your praise,
Memory is a net. One finds it full of
when he takes it from the brook,
but a dozen miles of water have run
through it without sticking.
God bless all good women ! To their
soft hands and pitying hearts we must
ail co “ e at la8t -
. ’»*
When a strong brain is weighed with a
troe heart, it see ids to ine like balancing
a against a wedge of gold.
Controversy the equalizes fools and wise
men in 8ame way _ and the fools
know it.
I find the great thing in this world is
not so much where we stand as in what
direction we are moving.
If the sense of the ridiculous is one
side of an irrepressible nature, it is
very well; but if that is all there is in
a man, he had better have been an ape
and stood at the head of his profession
at once.
Travelers change their guineas; not
their characters.
There are three wicks to the lamp of a
man’s life: brain, blood, and breath.
the heart minute all Ito?
a and out go three
of the wicks. Choke the air out of the
lungs, and presently the fluid ceases
to supply the other centers of flame,
and all is soon stagnation, cold and dark¬
ness.
The scientific study of man is the most
difficult of all branches of knowledge.
There are a good many real miseries
in life that we cannot help smiling at,
! mt they are the smiles that make wrinkles
and not dimples.
We must have a weak spot or two in a
character before we can love it much.
People that do not laugh or cry, or take
more of anything than is good for them,
or use admirable anything subjects but dictionary for biographies words,
are
But we don’t care most for those flat
pattern flowers that press best in the
herbarium.
Faith always implies the disbelief of a
lesser fact in favor of a greater.
The Broad Church, I think, will nevei
be based upon anything that requires
the use of language. Freemasonry gives
the idea of such a church The cup ol
cold water does not require to be trans¬
lated for a foreigner to understand it.
The only Broad Church possible is that
which has its creed in the heart, and not
in the head.
I would have a woman as true as death.
At the first real lie, which works from
the heart outward, she should be tender¬
ly chloroformed into a better world,
where she can have an angel for a gov¬
erness, and feed on strange fruits, which
shall make her all over again, even to
her bones and marrow.
Why can’t somebody give us a list ol
nobody tilings which and eyerybody another list thinks things nnp
says, of
that everybody says and nobody thinks 5
New England Woollen Mills.
In order to ascertain The the extent of the
lenression ndustrvThe in Bostoifri New Eiiglrn 1wool en
i of’inquirv dijertiser sent cir
c „l ar s to the 500 ti^ mills in those
Stsrt/'H and UaMAfl*UaUed 250. Tho c
the replies received from nuni
} ^number W8o”^4W
WI \ the of sets of cards was
2,922. According to the Advertiser’s
returns, the number of sets of cards now
8U mption of each set of cards is 301)
pounds of wool. This would show a re
duction in tho total consumfitioa of
oun 700 | nonnds a dav or about 7 000 00C
’ reduction
l(ou u ,| H month. The actual
ls doubtless greater than this, for the
reason that the returns made do not in
elude all of the stopped mills. Theuum
ber of sets of cards shut down in each
New England State and the total mini
her in each as returned by the census of
1880 are as follows :—
Island............ .......“~3S 138 432
ithode
Maine................. 35 201
New Hampshire.......... 33 293
W «5
_ . . ,,
The important bearing of this marked
coM^Tami^enTwhTn'TtTs^remem 1 -
^S OI Uiatmoiisiry lav. UnTe^StateT u leuoine .
A^orfmgto he census ,one
io rth sctTf of^all ^‘ t * h» n a thirf of
Hie cards are in New England g
white lift], New England mills consume more
tban of afl the wool used in the
comitev and tarn out more than half tlio
t - km i*>
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\ Happi ..... I In,light.
~~ ‘
‘While I was defending Dr. JVludd,
f! a ' HtHeXiif little thing lminiened haj \ ein d whterT w Inch Tmre' e..n n -
member though 111 t ie lapse of eightwn
years I have forgotten nluuxst all the do
tails of ilie trial. A colored woman hud
beon found with som- evidence tending
to remove a very tent impression from
1 r. Mudd, aiffi she was brought up to
^T 1 r ’ Tid' “uu JUKI Mud, >.1 A l,ro 1 ,..a. der-in ii-i.in Hw3 put
the m «nau m with us to take her down
to the court-room. As we wore about
to start the question wes asked: ‘8aBy,
naw^majmo - an A ■ bri ’^Slic saul,
to eat so ns — irii ner story
without In'ing shake: the
“>|‘« oill and r R handed m 1 man :t , , 1 .0 re-n oer. out l .mg ive her dollar to
go ana get iior i>ro :kf;ist :uui iaon come *
Laok to Lie oornasre. I don’t know j
jihrbntlor ligible to myself some I reached reason out hardly and mtel- said, I
‘ don t give her five doilars. Take
her to get lior breakowt at the hotel and
then come back and pun rue. We pro
duccil the woman in court a little later, !
and the vctt first question , ndge Holt
asked the woman was: Sally, has any
Ixxly given in you any nu y since, yon
have been this city ? ’
the woman innocently, . suppose
she had taken the five 1 .101
vou see w.-M , . a a impression . . it would j
.c ur. Aiuaa. prejudice. I
Bargaining With a l'unip.
Some thirty years ago, an in temper
ite man was reformed by being refused
one cherry. Penniless, he went to the
public house one morning, where he had
squandered maiy a shilling, to refused get a
drink “on tick.” The landlady
to trust him. Seeing a plate of luscious
ripe cherries on the bar, he asked for
but one. “Save your money and buy
your own cherries,” was the reply. “I
will,” he said, and he did. His wounded
j>ride forced him to reflect; reflection
Tjnsured amendment. reformed. From that morn¬
ing he following was story tells of flannel
The a
weaver who was induced by a surly good an
swer to reflect and then to make a
bargain This with had a pump. saved guinea for the
man a
purpose of having a whole week’s dissi
tion. He began on Monday, spending
ree shillings per day for seven days ;
on the morning of the eighth lie was
burning with thirst, but his money was
gone. Judy, the landlady, mopping the
was
passage; he stood looking at Judy, with
his cracked lips, parched tongue and
bloodshot eyes, expecting her to ask
him to take just adrop; but she did not,
and he requested her to trust him for
only one pint. and
With an indignant look of scorn
contempt she replied, “Trust thee ! thou
dirty, idle vagabond ! Set a step in this
house, and I will dash this mop in thy
face.”
* The poor wretch hung down his head
in shame. He was leaning against a
pump; and after a little study began to
talk to the pump.
“Well, Pupp,” said he, “I have not
spent a guinea with thee, Pump; will
thou trust me a drop ?”
He lifted up the handle, put his burn¬
ing mouth to the spout, and drank his
fill ; this done, he again said to the
pump— “Thank thee, Pump and hear
; now
flfe, Pump. I will not enter a public
house again for seven years; and,
Pump, thou art a witness,”
The bargain was kept, and this min
afterward became a respectable ma iu
facturer, and often said, that it was a
grand thing for him that Judy threat¬
ened to dash the mop in his face.
Preserving Berries.
Fruit Juices.— The juices of many
kinds of fruits are so extremely delicate
that they cannot be preserved by the or
dinary methods of heating, so list* re
tain the flavor, this being especially the
case with raspberries difficulty, and strawberries, advised
To meet this we are to
take perfectly ripe, dry, clean raspber
nes, ana to masli them in an earthen jar,
with a wooden pestle, so as to obtain a
homogeneous mass. To this, five to ten
per cent, of grape or cane sugar is to be
added, aud the whole then allowed to
the ■WBX- lot* the
take place, in course of which
pectine will separate completely, leaving
ssass
strawberries, two pound.
ofr fr&faspberries, berries are to be selected, as directed
and placed in a large
bathed bottle without mashing, so as
two snira half pounds ol nneiy ptuver
Sken^p^uTnriy^Tt without heating. The
temperature, will extract the moisture from the
sugar clear
berries and form a syrup possess
will keep perfectly bulk by alcohol. the addition of
one-fiftli of its of
Pickled Barberries. — Boil tno
bruised berries of a few bunches ui salt
and water; strain and put a gill of the
liquor to a quart of vinegar, with an
ounce of salt, a quarter of a pound of
loaf sugar a quarter of an ounce of
pounded ginger, and a little sliced horse
radish; boil and strain it; then pour it
hot over the barberries, the finest
bunches having been previously selected
s’ ‘“he 0 ; yx
be kept in a jar with a strong brine of
salt and water poured over them. When
au y 8C nm is observed upon the surface,
pour Off the brine and add fresh.
A Mcan „ Trl<k _ . . ’
A man who probably hailed from Buf
DetroitTridal 1 couple Niagara Falls
at
j other evening. They went to a
hoW wld ^stered, for night had supper of and tin
«hen started out a view
Mighty Roarer. They had not gone far
whe ° n ma, “ called to them and said:
“Have vou just been married?
“Weli-have, answered the growm
“Going to stay here a day or two.
“Yes.”
; “Having reg stored at my hotel you
probably intent!to remain there?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Well, I want to say a word to you.
tolon’t want any ducky-dearv- nonsense
around my house. I want no popsy
W opsy business on the verandas. I want
no squeezing Lauds on the balconies, or
feeding each other at the taVile.”
The grinim let his aim fall from liis
i, r i de ’s waist in a slow and painful man
Ler and the stranger continued:
,
',‘ TUe “uf ’’Tis W
, Ild cream or she etuis vou you uei darting,
“Y-yes, sir.”
“She’s no sweeter than ten thousand
girls, and you are uo more of a darling
than I am, and I won t stand lovesick
nonsense.”
H e walked away with that, and tue
people at the Falls who knew the bn
couple were amazed to hear them address
each other as Mr. and Mrs., aud to see
w hat precautions they took to prevent
touching hands or bet raying any synip
toms oi love. They put in two wretchevi
davs, and it was only as they were discovered upon
the point of leaving that they
how a base villain had duped them.—
[Strait Free Jbrs*.
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total assessed valuation .
y a x,ues.—T he follows: New
p{ tlie United States is as
England States. §2.652,076,586; Middle
States, $3,567,073,848; Southern States,
369.246,890: Western States, §6.180,-
504 614 ; Territories, §128,213,629. Total
$i«;897,135,567. valuation. This is about one
third the true
A Frontier Lynching Bee.
T». I—l Ijnchiug episode occurred
recently out on the scientific frontier of
Texas. Kosciusko Dalrymple was a
hard character, with a reputation as big
as a court-house, ’ but not so symmetrical,
perhaps, , and , at tunes . he , uaa ,. m . .
upon with longing, avaricious eyes by
vigilantes. One day they nabbed him
under suspicious circumstances, hurried
him out of town to a neighboring ° grove
for the , purpose of helping him x oye t e
gravelly bed of the shining river of
light. On this involuntary trip toward
etemity Kosky earnestly and eagerly
protested i ru his innocence of the express
crime charged , _ m . t ie rude . indictment, ,
and when the party arrived at the grove
and took a breathing spell Kosky got
his second wind and commenced to har
angue the multitude with all the ve
Lenience of Mark Antony over the corpse
of Caesar, if not with that .. . distinguished , ,
Roman’s eloquence and address :
“Gentlemen,” he said, “I'm a Lard
citizen.”
“The point is well taken,” said the
chairman of the committee, “but tell us
something new.”
“Yes, I’m tough. You know all about
me, I suppose ;. know my record, and
have- got me down pretty middlin’tine ?”
“We are on to you, Kosky, this time
for a fact.”
“Yes, gentlemen, you’ve got me at a
disadvantage, I’m a had man from
away back, but I just want to remove
one staiu from my reputation. I want
to say just one word before I’m swung
up, and it isn’t that I’m a-going to
glory and to play on an organette. It
isn’t one last word to my poor old
mother, for she lias been dead these
twenty years, God bless her. It isn’t to
coufess and tell the young men to let
whisky alone and never to learn the dif
a,.
lady-card. No, gentlemen, noneo. these
tliings agitate me now at this supreme
moment of my life. But what I want to
know, gentlemen, is this. They say J
stole Gabe Runnel’s horse.”
“Thai s the charge, Kcsky,” said the
. .
cnairman.
“That’s why . to do for
you are going
me now, I suppose ?”
“That’s about it.”
. < A 11 rtoht, ° gentlemen. Do any of
youwuu me off d on { f
live years believe I don t know a good
horse from a mustang, from a broncho,
|- rom a scrub colt with the glanders, an
watc h. e yed, swenied, poll-evil ani
»ilo Willi hi, shoulder tucked down
and thrushes in all four feet, mane
roached with a jack-knife and saddle
j*. *.
horse “I - Kos ?” ^’”
“Yes, I’ll say that much for you. ”
“Well, that’s all I got to say, gentle
al)gn . .ijvw, ,if J .look Jike.aman_Bhq
woU i d steal any of Gabo Rtmnil’s stock
"Ren there was plenty of good horses
not forty rods away; if I look that mean,
and low down, and insignificant, wopple
jawed and freckled, why, gentlemen, it
immauow ’ scaie J, or , mi
manity, why, pull me up to glory and
let me die like a chicken thief. ”
The chairman ordered the rope
thrown off Kosky's neck, aud, covering
him with liis Winchester rifle, said,
laconically:
“Skip !”
Aud Kosky was off like the wind.—
Texas Siftings.
A Check for Over Two Millions.
-
In April, 1881, Jay Gould, Russell
Sage, General Dodge and other New
Yorkers arrived in Philadelphia, Pa., to
attend a meeting of the directors, at the
office of the company, which it was sup
[Tsiness" 'The^ mTding 1 was 7 to take
Sage came iido AL^ sJotS'pre
LThlTgfoithepu^oseTf )jrR . e ln the Pennsvlvania Railroad
having of a pre- the
lilnilmrv talk on the future policy differ
road( there being some points Of
Puce between Messrs. Gould and Scott.
During the conversation, the difference,
which was amicable, rather widened, and
1 hi ally Col; Scott said positively he could
not agree to Mr. Gould’s policy, and that
h e would rather sell o*-.
“What will you sell for?” asked Mr.
Gould.
Col Scott promptly named his figures,
and Jay G ould wrote his check for
400 000, and became the possessor of
{be control «mrr of the Texas & Pacific Rail
‘-pbe gentlemen then went into the
r om w bere the other directors were as
r^led -;is and the resignation of Col.
g cott w tendered This was the first
uotice to tbelu tbat tbe sale had *«*«“
Sv . The whole andSer transaction ge^emen did not
one hour, that the sale would
had any * previous idea
occur
T he incident is a forcible illustration
of the a p titude 0 f yi r , Gould and Col.
Scott for business.* promptly arranging weighty
,, f There was never a
t ;nie when Col. Scott’s mind was clearer
t b au on this famous day, though he was
^ysi C al}y very weak from the diesast
which ended his life a vear later.— Phil
*
n ^ e f D h; a f> r ess.
--
g [ oi £ E —a Baitimorian has a cage
, m011 hevs. Bv way of variety he put
, in with them,* much to their de
Heht. On taking it or 1 the other day
there was terrible howling ofl both sides.
The cat refused to eat, and the monkeys
gat licking the tears out of each other's
eves ioT da ys. Finally the cat was put
back, aud then there was great-joy. It
ijckecl all the little monkeys, and the
big ones took turns hugging it till its
stack ont
How “Greasers” Live.
There is a great and marked difference,
like a caste distinction, between the
“Greaser” Mexican and the Spanish
Mexican, who boast of a descent from
pure Castilian blood. The former is
Jazy, ,j thriftless, ignorant, superstitions, usually
an unstable. The latter is
bright, active, and intelligent. As might
be expected, they, in harm, my with the
foment, Control most of Hie
wealth and commerce of the cojantry*
j n ^i ie states of old Mexico the
greatest portion of the people are of the
former class, and . hence the Govern
ments are Unstable and subject to fre
fluent revolution under the influence of
factious leaders. In Lie more southerly
g^es there is a greater diffusion of the
Castilian blood, and revolutions are
more rare and difficult. On the ranch
or village home of the “Greaser” Mexi¬
can everything bears the stamp of negli
gence and shiftlessness.
Their gaunt, sharp-nosed, long-legged, their
and tan-colored hogs share with
owners in the comforts of the family
residence. No fences except brash sur¬
round their fields. Generally there are
none. They raise just sufficient wheat,
barley, beans, and chili (red peppers) to
meet their absolute needs. They thrash
their crops upon bare, smooth ground and
by driving flocks of goats over them
-washing in the nearest stream. They
often plow with a crooked stick, and the
hoe is their scythe, sickle, and reaper,
even tlieir hay is cut with a hoe. They
as a rule live in villages and cultivate
small fields upon their outksirts. Living,
as they do, and possessing a soil which
under irrigation is wonderfully produc¬
tive, they require but little ground to
cultivate*. For this reason at points be¬
tween their villages there are large tracts
of unoccupied lands subject to entry,
which are being rapidly occupied by
Americans.
An impression prevails somewhat at
North and East that the inertia of
this people is due largely climate. to some This ener- is
vatiug influence of the
an error. The climate is superb, ann
, llld know of no climate where I can ex
e rt myself so freely with so little ex¬
liaustion. This is the universal record
of American settlers. Rarely does tho
mercury range over ninety degrees iu
the hottest summer day. and thesumnur
heats are almost invariably tempered heard by of
pleasant breezes. I have never
a case of sunstroke here. The nights
are always cool, requiring blankets for
•omfort, and free from mosquitoes, and
sleep is sweet and restful. I have nevt r
seen a mosquito-bar in New Mexico, nor
have I ever felt the need of one. As I
have said before, taken as a whole, tho
country is not beautiful nor attractive to
the eye. The mountain scenery is at
many points wonderfully beautiful and
picturesque. But apart from the moun
fains and the few river valleys the couutr v
is one vast cattle-range.— Correspond¬
ence of the Chicago Tr ibune.
Th « re hafi suddenl y developed,
Harper s Bazar a fancy for simpe .^
Jr f 8ses of P 1;1ln fal f cs “ d a e
°he°\aTdrobe . W fmd°TfomilLiT (^tiaiu^roiT am^e
A^hesejcostumesys 'grain, tlie usw opjosedto the ’ ..
udine with gros grenadines as
rich, veWet-figti red vrith
da ^'red^cTweT _i’ lapis ofThe blue or golden
bromi t jg smoothest silk
anze of a single shade, or else change
grain or taffeta silk. If the dress is
black, the material is the nmiure-fig
nred or square-meshed grenadine, and
the silk is plain gros grain or ottoman
repped. Lace is the trimming for all
such dresses, but this may be confined
to the basque, in which case only three
or four yards are required for the full
frills on the sleeves, neci' and down the
front. The ecru embroideries that are
done on a net foundation, and resemble
'nee, are used for colorec grenadines,
vhile for black dresses the French,
Spanish, and guipure laces are chosen.
At the best furnishing houses there
.ire black grenadines of nice quality
made up with the deep-pleated kilt
skirt, full apron drapery, and short
basque that constitute the popular de
sign this season for the simplest wool
dresses The grenadine kilting is in
which falls,’at theYwt upon one or two
uTrXveThe^Tg^raighT are needed
effect of the
lengthwise pleats. The patted upper draperv ifar*
is not cut out by any but
ranged in inexplicable folds on the top
of the skirt, m any way most becoming
,to the wearer. The lower edges of tin
grenadine kilt-pleating aro most often but turned under
above a if it is meant
that the front should be decidedly in
apron shape, it-is edged with lace four or
live inches wide; as this lace must not
on the back and drapery; this only two yards are
needed, heading, is put on in a gathered
frill without the edge of the
lace being passed under the wide hem
of the grenadine; is one-third extra fullness
is all that added for lace. Pleated
i ace LS not
The trimming width of laces for
basques is about three inches, while that
for aprons and for flounces bn skirts
varies from three to eight inches in
^°, diff ^ ect ^ dfbs are
used thev should have the same design. .
raid indeed the same patterns may be
had m three different, widths, the
third wiiltli being nsed for frills around
the hips, which are either laid upon the
wertugadin the pnff, where they will appear
just below Short basque, or else they
are attached to the basque itself under
the slender The scallops French that are cut along
its edge. designs laces that imitate
Chantilly are used for such
dresses in pretty patterns of shaded roses,
rose-buds, palms, and feathers; the prices
0 i these begin as low as 25 cents a yard
in the three inch widths, and increase
up to §1.50; excellent designs are sold
for 35 or 50 cents a yard.
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Katie, a person well-known to many
0 f our readers, recently said to her mis
tress: “I know a girl who has with been
keeping company three years a
young man, and was married two weeks
a c- 0 , and last night he was run over by
the cars and killed. Ain’t that discour-
