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WIT ASI> HUJVTOK. «w Maggie, to lier stepfather. who is very popular with the children “I wish you had been here when our oth er papa was alive. You would have liked each other so much." Lift. A little boy, a resident of our village, when passing our prominent undertak er was rather reticent in answering his queries; but when his mother asked him if he did not know the gentleman he answered: “Yes, that is the man who takes dead people to Heaven. Pittsburg Sentinel. Things one would rather have left unsaid: Miss Constance I’m so glad you think I’ve improved in my playing of that nocturne of yours, Herr Bemol tki; I hope to be perfect in it next time we meet Herr if. (gallantly) Ach! Miss Gonschdance, I hope ve shall meet before zat.' Bunch. At the Police Court: “Accused, you are blind?” “Yes, your honor.” “How did you become blind?” “By a lit of apoplexy.” “Why, then, this picture on your breast representing an explo sion in a mine, in which vou lost your sight?” “Please, your Honor, because to represent apoplexy painting is pow erless.” Le Francau. A scientist has discovered proof of the existence of the rhinoceros on the Western Continent “thousands of years before Barnum appeared." This will surprise many persons not that the pachydermatous animal was discovered on the Western Continent thousands of years ago, but that Harnum was not Jiving at the time. Norristown Herald. Brown “I was surprised to see you at church yesterday. Smith; I under stood that you don’t believe much in religious matters." Smith “Well er - I have been something of an inlidel all my life, but that cold that 1 caught last week has settled on my lungs, and 1 feel a little nervous about it." Urook.li/n Eagle. A 12-year old boy entered a news stand, threw down lb cents, and said: “Gimme ‘The One-Eyed Demon of the Ditches,’ ‘Crimson-llanded Bill, ortho King of the Highwaymen,’ and ‘Sal Klumpkins, the (jiieon of the Shoplift ers, of the Half-Dime Series." And yet au English review once snoeringly asked, “Who reads an American book?”- Norristown Hrrtild. “Don’t know what to do,” remarked a millionaire to his doctor. “1 want to go into the country and live quietly and without ostentation." "Why don't you do it? Your health demands a rest of that sort." “Yes,l know it,” replied the patient, "but my money gives me away. What shall I do?" “In that case," answered the physi cian, “why don’t you give your money away?" N. Y. Graphic. A gentleman went into a crowded store to buy some stockings for his wife. “1 want striped ones,” he said to tho clerk. “We huve very few stripes, sir,” tho clerk replied; “they are not much worn now." "Are you sure?" “Oh. yes. quite sure. 1 will demonstrate the fact to you." Then he leaned over the counter and shout ed: "Bats!" “See?” he asked. “Yes; givo me plain colors." Drake's Maga tine. The secret of Col. Joseph Pulitzer’s hostility to Minister Phelps is open at last, it appenrs that Phelps had bar gained to pay his yearly subscription to the New York iVorltl in Vermont ma ple syrup, and that when Pulitzer ex amined the jugs he found they contaiu ed only an inferior article of New Or leans molasses. In view of these facts wo submit that Co). Pulitzer might heat his wrath up several degrees higher without overstepping the bounds of reason. Philadelphia 'limes. It is probable that this fair land will uever be perfectly happy and truly prosperous until the management of all the railroads is turned over to tho com mercial travelers long enough at least (or the boys to adopt a universal mile age ticket and an extra baggage check. Sood forever on all roads both ways, at te companies’expense. The commer cial traveler domin't want much this year, and tho little pittance that ho does waut he ought to have, llrooklyn Nagle. Is there no way of putting a stop to this dynatnito business? Now troubles ariso every day. but the people don’t seem to heed the warnings they re ceive. Tho latest explosion is one that may happen iu any household whero there are a crawling baby,an impatient mother, and au experimenting father. It occurred in this way: The father dropped a little dynamite on tho car pet, the baby slid over it, tho mother spanked the baby. Father, mother, and baby all gone. Such lessons should give wholesome instruction, but they don’t seem to do so. New York Tribune. “The development at the back of tho head, my friends, indicates filial affec tion." explained tho phrenologist. “Now you will observe,” he wont on, feeling tho head of the boy on the plat form, “that this bump is abnormal in size, thus indicating that this lad loves and reveres his parents to an unusual degree. Is it not so, my lad?" "Naw.” “What? You do not love your par ents?” "I think well enough of mith er," replied the boy, "but l ain’t very fond of farther. That bump you’re a feelin’ of he give me last night wid a cricket-stump." Public (Opinion. The New York Urajihic says: "Tho work of establishing an art museum in Detroit is attended with peculiar diili culties. chief among which is the lack of persons competent to discern the dirterence between a chromo and an oil painting.” This is a base and un worthy libel. The people of Detroit know that a chromo can be had with a few pounds of tea.whereas an oil paint ing costs a good deal of money- Be sides. you can tell a chromo by the manufacturer’s name at the bottom, while a little close examination shows the brush marks on a painting. —De troit Free Press. The F.mperor of Germany, while re cently sittiug to a sculptor for a bust, became dissatisfied with the position of one of his deooratiou a star -on the clay model. He thereujKin erased it, and with his own hands remodeled it an inch or two higher. Though it was the old Kmperor’s first effort at sculp ture it was. of course, a very great suc cess. and the artist, obtaining permis sion to leave it exactly as it had been executed, sold thousands of clu-ap plaster replicas of the model. This •tory should suggest to all sculptors the advisability of becoming Kmperors as tending to subsequent rapid popu larity. “1 would be willing to make atlidavit that at least 100 persons come in my store every day and ask for advertising cards," said a Woodward avenue gro cer, “and the confounded things are getting to l>e an unmitigated nuisance. J'ho custom of giving away picture novelties with purchases has increased to such an extent that customers have arrived at the conclusion that they should get a Michael Angelo or a Ru bens with a bar of soap or a pound of crackers. They never seem to think that grocers have to make up the cost some way, aud if they happen to dis cover a few grains of sand iu the sugar or a chance bean in the coffee they buy we hear a bowl about adulteration of food.” Detroit Free Press. When the late Chief-Justice Chase chose to i;nbend himself he could be witty as well as wise. At a social gath ering at his house during the War, the subject of taxation having been moot ed, a distinguished naval officer pres ent said he liad paid all his taxes ex cept the income tax. “I have a little property,” said he, “which brings mo in a yearly rental, but the tax-gather ers have not spotted it. ido not know whether I ought to let the thing go that way or not. What would you do if you were in my place, Mr. Chase?” There was a merry twinkle in the eyes of Secretary < ’base as he answered arch ly: “I think it tho duty of every man to live unspotted as long as he can."— Philadelphia Jttcord. A Lonely Death. It was here in Detroit at one of the city hospitals that 1 saw the saddest funeral ceremony I ever witnessed. It was that of a woman who had lit erally died by inches. Poverty, sor row, and sick ness had been her constant companions for years, and when at last on a hospital bed she drew her last breath it seemed ax if there could be nothing left to feel the pang of dissolu tion nothing but skin and bone. She had been well eared for in her last sickness by those who gave their time and service to the work of chari ty, hut it is doubtful if sho knew it. Her mind lived in tho past, and she murmured iu delirium of ahappy home, and seemed to be always caressing a little child. Now she would talk to it in a sweet mother-tongue, using the fond, endearing langnago of love to call it to her again: she seemed todread some terrible fate for it. and besought God to save it, even to take it away from the evil to come. Always it was the child that was present with her, so that pain was naught the child that she continually addressed as “Darling Ktnma,” and she died with that name on her lips. This was all there was of tho dead woman’s history. Tho pall of a dark past had fallen upon her. It was only known that tho child about whom she had raved and prayed was still alive, anil somewhere in the city. But so far all search hail failed to find her. The brief funeral ceremonies at the expense of the city, for her’s was a pau per burial were held iu the largo par lor of the hospital. A young clergy man who had just entered upon his work, the assistants of the hospital, the undertaker, hat in hand, and one or two strangers, were all who were pres ent. The dead woman lay in a highly varnished pine coffin, from which tho metal shells were already falling in a shower of tawdry splendor, so imper fectly wore they fastened on. Her face was composed and peaceful. Life and death had ilouo their worst tho battle was now over. In the chill and tho silence the yoico of the young minister, cultured and tuneful, sounded like a strain of music. All heads bowed as he recited: I «m Hit' resurrection anil the life. There was a scream a wail of heart rending grief and the service was in terrupted. as a woman, young and hag gard. rushed into tho room and threw herself on the coffin: she was dressed gaily in silk attire. A long feather dangled from a gaudy hat everything about her bespoke death sadder than the eoffin. “Mother mother," she moaned, “why did you you not let me know? Oh, I would have come to you and worked my fingers to tho bone to save you! Oh, mother, mother! come book to me just to sav that you forgive me. Mother, it is your own little Emmy! Do you hear mo? It is Emmy! Oh, my God! lam too late! She will nev er .speak to me again!” Pitying friends drew the frenzied woman away. In a moment she had dashed them aside, and leaning again over the dead mother she pressed her lips once twice thrice to the cold lips of the dead. Then she clasped her hands and lifted her eyes to heaven, while her lips seemed to be recording a vow. The Wintry sun shone out at that moment from the western sky, and touched with golden linger the sad, sad scene of death in life, and life in death, and the minister resumed the service where he had been interrupted. 1 am tlie resurrection and the life. Detroit Free lYess. The Paris Charivari has a very clever picture of the divorce problem in au alleged toy for children. On an ordi nary stand art' figures of a man aud woman standing at either end and fac ing each other. I'hey are joined by a baud which so connects them that they can not be separated except by cutting it apart. Oh this baud are strung sev eral children, who. if the band is cut, will slip off the loose ends and fall down. The problem is to cut the bands without jeopardizing the position of the children. It points to a moral very graphically, and one worth con sidering by the community in connec tion with our frequent and’ easy divorce, —New York Mail. The Medicxnische U’ochernchrifl makes tho bold statement that the Knglish scientists are so far behind those of other nations in their study of the cau ses of infectious diseases that they are no longer in a position to make any thing bke a pertinent criticise upon such researches. The cause Is attribu ted to tho English laws practically pro hibiting experiments on animals. Samuel h'lxttc'H Offer of a Dinli of Chocolate. Macklin wax a teacher of his art,and, with a slight sprinkling of regulars, his company was made up of amateurs and pupils. Among the latter was a young fellow about town, well known at the Bedford Coffee House for his wit,named Samuel Foote, who here made his tir-t appearance upon any stage as Othello o his tutor’s lago. The future famous comedian was snort and stout, with a round, full, flat face, and his appear ance iu tragedy must have been as fun ny as a modern matinee debut. Nev ertheless, he obtained an engagement at Drury Lane for comedy parts. Here he made such a success as a mimic in the character of Bayes, in “The Re hearsal,” that, finding himself over shadowed by the genius of Garrick, ho determined to turn manager on his own account. Failing to procure a license, lie took a leaf out of Mr. Cibber’s book, ami on April 22, 1747, announced that a concert of music would on that day be performed at the theatre in the Hay market, after which would be given gratis a new entertainment called “The Diversions of the Morning,.” and a farce taken from “The Old Bachelor,” called the “Credulous Husband" — Fondlewife.Mr. Foote—and an epilogue by the B d d (Bedford) Coffee House. The diversion and the epilogue consist ed in mimicry of the best-known men of the day actors, doctors, lawyers, statesmen. Had he contented himself with this he might not have been inter fered with; but the managers of the patent houses could not tolerate such an infringement of their rights as a performance of one of the most popular comedies of the time. They appealed to the Westminster magistrates, and on the second night the constables entered the theatre aud dispersed the audience. But Foote was not so easily to le- put down. The very next morning he pub lished the following announcement in the General Advertiser: “On Saturday afternoon, exactly at 12 o’clock, at tho new theatre in the Haymarket, Mr. Foote begs the favor of his friends to come and drink a dish of chocolato with him, and ’tis hoped there will be a great deal of company and some joy ous spirits. He will endeavor to make the morning as diverting as possible. Tickets to be had for this entertain ment at George’s Coffee House, Templo Bar, without which no one will be ad mitted. N. B.—Sir Dilbury Diddle will be there, and Lady Betty Frisk has ab solutely promised.” No one knew what this advertisement meant, and a crowded house was the inevitable con sequence. When tho curtain rose, Foote came forward and informed the audience that “as he was training some young performers for the stage, he would, with their permission, while tho chocolate was getting ready, proceed with his instructions before them.” Then some young people, engaged for the purpose, were brought upon tho stage, anil under the pretense of in structing them in the art of acting ho introduced his imitations. The author ities did not again interfere with him, so he altered the time of his entertain ment from morning to evening, and tho title to “Tea;” and to drink a dish of tea with Mr. Foote, as going to his theatre came to be styled, was the rage of tho season. Next year he called liis rerformance "An Auction ol lore is one of his advertisements: “At the forty-ninth day’s sale at liis auction room in tho Haymarket, Mr. Foote will exhibit a choice collection of pictures— some entirely new lots, consisting of a poet, a beau, a Frenchman, a miser, a Taylor, a sot, two young gentlemen, and a ghost.two of which are originals, the rest copies from the best masters.” In this he mimicked the peculiarities of Justice Deveil, Cock, the auctioneer, and Orator Henley. -Belgravia. Senator Garland’s Speech. Augustus H. Garland was born in Tennessee in IS.S2. His looks are not strikingly impressive, liis frame tall, well built, compact, surmounted with a well-rounded head; bushy black hair; face eleau shaven; his mouth firm set. but pleasant, solemn one moment and twitching the next with some nascent drollery; brown eyes, small, frank and piercing; kindly withal, but changing rapidly from earnest to quizzical; in movement, easy and self-possessed; in debate, clear, cool, fair, driving directly bv strong logic to the end in view, lhe senate does not contain a more uni versal student or a more restless wag. A guilty conscience keeps him always on the lookout for some terrible retalia tion. and it is a red-letter day in the senate when this biter is bit. On one occasion, w hen an important measure was before the senate, Mr. Garland delivered a careful and ex haustive speech, to which close atten tion was given. About ten minutes af ter he bad finished, and, metaphorical ly speaking, “his brow bound with victorious wreaths,' Don t ameron went over to the Arkansas Senator s side of the chamber and said: "Garland, when arc you going to speak on this question? I want to hear vou.” "Good Lord!" remarked the surprised senator; “why 1 just got through. )\ here were you?" About five minutes later Mr. \\ hyte, of Maryland, who had not been in the senate during the speech, had the job put up on him. and asked the same question in good faith. "Why. 1 just finished. W hyte. con sult the ifecortl iu the morning." Another five minutes passed, and then Butler, of South Carolina. another sleepless wag, went meekly up to Gar land and asked him when lie was going to speak to the bill. Considering the source of this last inquiry, the remark was in the nature of au eye-opener, and Mr. Garland tartly replied: “If you have any more of 'em. But ler. bring them on iu a body; it saves time. II ashing! >» post. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Burnett, aged Germans, after a long struggle with poverty, became inmates of the poor nouso at Menzelcs, Tex. The olu woman took it to heart and said sho wanted to die, but did not like to leavt her husband. Apparently she induced him to go with her, for one morning the poor old pair were found in their bed room hanging dead, side by side, sus pended bv clothes-lines from'the rafters above. Fvervthing indicated the nios* careful and deliberate preparations for death. EARTH-MEN FROM AFRICA. 4 Strange People Who Have R*c« ntly Lauded at New York. Sitting in a waiting-room of the Cen tral railroad ferry-house a few days ago was as uncouth a collection of hu man beings as falls to the lot of New Yorkers to witness. Wrapped in coarse striped blankets, their heads covered with cloth caps two sizes too large for them, the small, peaked faces peered out of their coverings with a monkey like gaze at the crowd of inquisitive Americans who gathered around. They were African earth-men or pyg mies, recently brought here from the region of the Congo. Until lately the existence of these people has been questioned by scientific writers, but recent discoveries have proved the truth of the well-known assertion of Herodotus regarding the mysterious tribe of dwarfs who burrowed in the earth far back toward the center of tho dark continent. Uu Chaillu was the first modern traveler who investigated the matter and saw them in their own land, and described them as being small in stature, but larger than one is led to expect from the description of Herodotus, being something over three and a half feet tall, but still they are diminutive specimens of humanity. Their figures are slim and delicate, but very well formed. The woman especially is capable of posing for an artist as a bronze Venus. They are all well clad, the women wearing coats and pants of coarse but warm material, and they frequently emitted a dry, hacking cough that showed the effect which our climate and that of England, whence they came last, is having upon them. Their faces denote but little intellect, yet they are possessed of much intelligence, and the children are surprisingly bright. The baby, sitting under a can opy of cap, was a study in himself. His big, black eyes twinkled and snapped as he peered this way and that at tho crowd, and he looked the bright est and best of the lot. His father, the king—they are all kings that come here- sat enwrapped in his royal blanket, with a lonic bow in his hand, and ho appeared to notice nothing that went on around him. He wore attach ed to his hair in front, three small shells tilled with somo kind of cement or dirt to hold them on. 1 liese are royal trade-marks, none but ne being allowed to decorate bangs in that man ner, and he looked every inch a king of that sort. On their checks they ali had a ragged scar this is also a royal mark, and is made by scratching with an arrow and rubbing in coloring mat ter—a rude sort of tattooing. In ad dition to these marks each one had the joint of his right hand little finger tak en oil'. This is a general triLJ mark. They all showed their lingers and ali were alike in this disfigurement. Their skin is not black, but a sort of coppery brown, something like our indiuus, but a shade or two darker and richer in tone. They have but little hair and that is curled like pigtails. The most curious thing about them is their language. It is a series of in describable clucks, made by turning the tongue backward against the roof of the mouth and snapping it forward .—not the sound one makes when start ing a horse, but just as inarticulate ami seemingly unintelligible to a hu man being. They clicked ami clucked among themselves, and the gentleman in charge clipped in ami tired his tongue at them, and then the reporter tried it, and clucked them, “Here’s my regards.” It seemed incredible that men could converse among themselves with such an elementary form of speech, it not being elevated above the twittering of a spanow. One certainly could easiei translate the barks and whines of his dog into English. They seem to be satisfied with it, and that is certainly enough. They have quite a collection of Af rican arms and curiosities in their pos session—short and long bows, with sinew or hide strings; spears and ar rows of reed, poisoned with the juices of plants, and capable of making havoc in the ranks of an enctuv. It is, in fact, in this manner only, that they cau be formidable, as an ordinary white man could easily manage three of them. They decorate themselves in the manner usual among savages, with shells, beads, and feathers, the latter being quite ornamental and artistic. They have a collection of ostrich feath ers. heads and horns of gazelles, gems boks and elands, tiger and leopard skins, and lions’ claws —all trophies if their skill in the chase and showing what a superiority even pygmies have over the brute creation. —At 'w York World. ••riot Vhas All.” “I pelief I vhas shwindled vonce more,’' he said to the Sergeant at the Central Station yesterday as lie was asked to take a chair and report his er rand. “How?” “Vhell, 1 vlias in my blace apoudt two hours ago vhen two strangers vhalk in, and one of ’em says to me: “Shake, 1 has a bet on you. I know you vhas a great man to has confidence in human nature, und I bet S 2, oafen oup. dot von vhill lend me feety cent.” “Vhell, 1 dunno. I nefersee him pe fore, but if somepody bet $2 on me I doan' like him to lose it. und maype he also divide vhat he wins.” “And vou let him have it?” “Vhell, 1 has some confidence in hu man nature. He vhalks oft’ mit my feety cent, und mv vliife says I vhas derpigg-st fool in Detroit.” , “And what do you want of me?” “I like.to know if you pelief like my vliife?" “Yes, sir. I do! You’ll never see your money again.” “My 'on Carl says I potter soak my headt. 1 like to know if vou think dot vhav?” "1 do.”- “Und my brudder-law says I make a tine lunatic asylum all by myself. Vhas he correct?” “He is." "Vhell, dot vhas all. If I vlias right I get madt und clean oudt der shanty. If 1 vhas wrong Igo home und keep still until my headt vhas soaked enough to lose my confidence in human nature. Dot vhas all—good day."—Detroit Ertt Press. Sponges. One of tiie -jights of the Florida reef i- the sponger. He is generally a conch from Conchtown, Key West, and devotes his entire time to the business of fishing up the repulsive objects call ed sponges. This is done chiefly with hooks or spears, the boat drifting along until a sponge is sighted, when it is hooked or speared, and jerked from its stronghold upon the bottom. When the water is too deep for the hooking process, the sponger goes overboard and dives to the sponge, by main force tearing it from the bottom. The sponges taken from this section are not the delicate toilet sponges, being a dif ferent grade, and only used for coarse work. They grow to a large size.somo measuring three feet across and two high, and when active present anything but an attractive appearance. A good healthy sponge looks as it comes to the surface like a great beef’s liver, and the odor is spongy—no other word describes it. When a load of these aromatic flowers of the ocean is secured, they are taken down to Key West, or may be cured on some of the keys. This consists of allowing them to remain in the sun until thoroughly decayed, and then treating them to repeated rinsings, until the animal matter is entirely re moved. They are then placed in the sun to bleach, anil in this stare are seen covering the fences in Concutown. Later they are subjected to several processes, one of which in some cases is sanding. This is more common in the toilet sponge from the Mediterra nean. Shake one and you will find that quite a depositof fine sand escapes. This was not eaten or absorbed by the sponge when alive, as you might sup pose, but is a process by which the weight of the sponge is increased, and, as they sell by the pound, the object is evident. The tricks that the guileless sponge dealer is not up to are not worth chron icling. Some time ago a young man was sent to a sponge locality to buy sponges for a firm who was going to manufacture a new article that requir ed large quantities, and it was found that the young man paid as much for water and coral rock as he did for sponge. Better sponges are found in the Ba hamas than on tho Florida reef, and* the business, though in the hands of a few, is a valuable one. The majority of people have rather peculiar ideas re garding the sponge. Some think it an insect, others a plant. It is, however, a simple animal, composed of many cells, that are arranged in three layers, the middle one secreting the lime or silex, as the case may be, that goes to form the skeleton of the animal.—Flor ida Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer. Artemus Waial anil Tom Pepper. Tom Pepper, who is known as “tho peerless prevaricator of Nevada,” led a Bohemian life here years ago. One day, hearing of Artemus Ward’s arrival at the International Hotel, in breathless haste he rushed away to interview the great humorist. He ran at once to Ward’s room and, knocking, was in stantly admitted. “Artemus Ward, I believe!” Artemus signified that the guess was a good one. “I am delighted to meet you,” cried Tom “delighted to meet you, sir.” “And I have the pleasure of seeing? —” and the smiling Ward looked a whole line of interrogation points. “I am—l am —that is my name is”— gasped Toni—“my name is. Well, just wait a moment till I think,” and Tom ran out of the room and closed the door behind him, leaving Artemus standing in the middle of the floor. After a few moments in the hall Tom rushed back toward the astonished Ward with extended hand and glowing face, crying: “Pepper, Pepper, sir! I’m Mr. Pepper—Tom Pepper—better known as Lying Tom Pepper.” Kingston—Ward’s agent —was out at the moment. Thinking he had an in sane man to deal with. Artemus smiled the most cheerful smile then at his command. He declared he had often heard of Mr. Pepper, and was de lighted to meet him. At the moment he was about to change his sock: would Mr. Pepper be kind enough to with draw and call round again in half an hour. Mr. Pepper would, and did. When Mr. Kingston came in Arto mus had a fearful story to tell about his adventure with a crazy man. Afterward, when Ward came to know that a sense of his greatness as a humorist had so overcome poor Tom as to cause him to forget his own name, the genial lecturer declared it was the greatest compliment that had ever been paid him.— Virginal (xVen.) Enterprise. “Do you know who are the heaviest realeetate owners in the city?” “Who are they?” “The brewers.” “How do you know?” “The records show it. They're the most independent too. A few days ago a certain gentleman went to John Hauck and proposed to sell him a piece of property. He said: ‘Put a fair price on the property and I’ll buy it. 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Samples of Ready Prints sent on ap plication, and prices quoted that am surprisingly low and defy competition. All we ask is an opportunity to servs our fellow publishers, confident that we ean give satisfaction. THE PLOWBOY CO. East Poimk Gw