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mihmnoli n ks.
Roller skates are being turned into
buttons.
A New York professor tattoos 3,000
jJlrsona every year.
There are said to be 800 opium emo
fcers in the city of Boston.
Dima museums are springing into
popularity in Massachusetts towns.
A seventeen-year-old boy in Bibb
county, Alabama, is C feet and 9 inches
high.
An Irish setter at Moncton, Canada,
is said to have traveled forty miles in
three hours.
Tombstone, Arizona, merchants re
fust? to accept Mexican money in pay
ment for their (roods.
A Virginia City, Nev., man offers to
plant the American (lag on the north
pole in eighteen months.
It is claimed that within a radius of
100 miles around Ashville, N. C., every
known mineral can be found.
Colored men proviso to raise sl,-
000.000 to erect monuments at Wash
ington to the benefactors of their race.
"Chestnuts” are now called "Haw
thornes.” in Boston, a graceful allu
sion to the title of that author's short
stories.
A new mineral just found in Missou
ri outs steel, yet keeps its edge. It has
Been given an outlandish name- ndarn
soobitn.
A deaeon of a Greenville, Pa., church
fas a string of buttons half a yard long.
They have been taken out of the collec
tions during the past few years.
The English war department has
succeeded in making a camion which
oost 11.000.000 and uses SI,OOO worth
of ammunition every time it is tired.
The most modest girl in the world
resides at Syracuse. It, is said of her
that when a pupil at V linear she re
fused to work upon improper frac
tion*.
Persons who wish to avoid drowning
•re advised by an Eastern physician to
lock the hands behind the back,
fully inflate the lungs, and close the
mouth.
M. J. Smith, a reporter on the Fuels-
Jo /Vcss is a deaf mute. He says that
he has no trouble in getting news, bo
caues the people all know him and help
him out.
The night-school at Sing Sing prison
for the henctil of the prisoners, which
was started by Warden Brush in Jan
uary. 1884, la said to have accomplished
excellent results.
A talo mine has been discovered on
the Merced River, California. The
material is far superior to the foreign
article for the manufacture of china
ware, fire-proof brick, etc.
A Detroit woman bad a green water
snake two feet and a half long taken
from her stomach last week. She is said
to have swallowed it ten years ago.
when it and she were small.
Physical examinations arc deadly to
the aspirations of the small boy to Ih>-
oomo • seaman. Hundreds of fads are
rejected voarly because of their inability
to pass tlie tests successfully.
A mining company with a capital of
$3,000,000 has been formed at Hot
Spring*. Arkansas. The syndicate owns
several line mines ; n that vicinity,
and will oommciu-e work upon them at
one*.
In answer to the question: “Who was
Sir Walter Scott?” on one of the en
trance examination papers, a Parkhill,
Canada, boy wrote: "A celebrated
Moottish novelist, who was killed by
Rtel."
According to a Hebrew journal, tho
first Jew to visit this country was one of
Columbus' sailors. His name was Louis
<b> Parras, and he and Kodorijjo do
Qsret were the tirst men America's dis
coverer sent ashore.
The unhappiness that the possession
<fl a secret frequently entails on its pos
sessor is thus illustrated by the New
Orleans Picayune: "A man knows ha
la a great man; no one else knows it,
and ho is miserable in consequence.”
'The Acacia club, Buffalo, N. Y., is the
largest social organization formed
through the avelines of Masonry in the
•world. It* members must M.’s
In rood standing, and even with this
qualification tho ballot-box is the ulti
mate teal
A Pittsburg builder of cheap houses
tines matched flooring instead of lath
»nd plast<?r. On this cotton cloth is
glued, and on the doth wall paper is
pasted. This he claims is better and
cheaper than plaster, nnd thus houses
tan be built safely in cold weather.
The Concord School of Philosophy
•track a snag ‘in a paper forwarder by
• Texas professor. U was cuIUmI “Tho
Platonian Idea," and after an earnest
<uid hopeless search for tho idea, the?
achool returned the paper to the profes
sor with the simple interrogation: “Why
don't you sign the pledger’
The steamers on the Paeifie nre all
manned bv Chinese, who make very
good, willing, sturdy, good-natured
sailors so long as they are well otfieer
msi. These vessels nre built for freight,
xiot passenger service, and, consequent
ly, the speed and equipment arc dif
ferent from those of tho "Atlantic gray-
Aouuda."
John Talbot, a respectable citizen of
Cleveland. 0.. entered the station-house
oue day recently and astonished the man
In charge by asking that his own house
be raided as a disorderly resort. He had
tmoonsciously rented the building to an
unsavory tribe of females, and. unlike
many men of local prominence, wish
ed to drive them out by "pulling”
them.
Carlyle once gave up smoking because
hie doctor told him that it was not
agreeing with him. A few weeks after
ward he was walking in a wood when
he saw a pipe, a tobacco pouch, and a
box of lights lying together at the foot
of a tree- He at once concluded that
this was providential, filled the pipe and
lighted it, and became a smoker from
that honr.
A husband rending, while his wife
near him sat embroidering a pair of
slippers, remarked: "What surprises
there are in statistics. A German phy
sician affirms and proves by figures
that half of the female sex are touched
with insanity.” "lie is right.” replied
the wife, dryly, “for more thau half
the women prove it by getting mar-
Thc practice of the law, observes the
Philadelphia Record, broadens the
minds of some men and narrows the
minds of others. Those who study and
appreciate the principles upon which
laws are based belong to the first cate
gory. Those who r<-ly upon precedent
belong to the second. One tries to
make the CU“e lit the law, tiie other tries
to make tin? law lit the case.
A Birmingham, Conn., man has hit
upon a novel plan for tile destruction of
skunks that visit his hen-house. He
procured some strychnine and with it
charged several egg* which he dejiosit
ed on the ground near the opening of
the hennery. The odoriferous animals
have become scarcer since, as from
three to five dead ones have been found
every morning during the past fort
night
George Phillips, of Bmghampton, So
lano county. Cal., has just completed
an organ containing four hundred
pipes, tho longest being sixteen feet.
All the pipes are made of old newspa
pers rolled and fastened with a paste
made of glue and alum. The wood
work was made entirely of old fence
boards, jiosts, dry-goods boxes, and the
like. He was two years in building this
instrument, which is said to have an
excellent tone.
Squatters are said to make clearings
in the heavily-timliered lands of British
Columbia by boring one large hole in
the trunk slanting upward and another
from a point w.-ll up the trunk and
slanting downward, both meeting in
the heart of tho tree. Then the tqq>er
hole will be filled with any convenient
combustible and ignited. Tho long
hole acts as a chimney, and the lire
burns furiously until the tree is destroy
ed. __
litre in a riri'im Tent.
There is an individuality possessed
by the circus man, especially in the case
of the old-time showman who has jour
neyed on wagons and horseback
through the cross-roads and green lanes
of the remotest rural districts. He
comes in contact with many sorts of
people, in every condition of life, and
liis knowledge of tin? characteristics of
the inhabitants of tho different parts of
the country is extensive. A rejmrter of
the Mail and Express recently called
upon n showman at his residence in
Brooklyn, and gained much informa
tion about tho ups and downs of circus
tent life.
"I hare been out every season for
twenty-two years,” said he, “and I
believe I am able to give as manv points
about the business as any man you will
find in Brooklyn. A circus man who
follows tho calling for any length of
time has abundant opportunities for
knowing the country as well us the
habits and customs of the people lie
finds in it. Os course, there are lots of
people besides showmen who travel
constantly, but the majority of these
merely go from one large city to anoth
er. and their ideas of the country arc
such as can lie obtained by looking out
of car windows. There is little differ
ence in the routine work of a show
now-a-days, except, of course, tho man
ner of transportation from one town to
another. The first duty after unloading
the ears in the morning is to get tip the
slock and dressing tents. This is done
by the drivers and grooms. While this
work is going on the cooks and helpers
are employed putting ni> the mess tents
and preparing the breakfast. The next
act is to get ready for the street parade.
All have to take part except tho canvas
and property men, who get tin tho big
tents. The street parade lasts loss than
nil hour. One object of it is to draw
the crowd away from the grounds so
the men can have a better chance to
work. The duties of workmen who
travel with tho railroad shows are less
arduous than in former years. They
sleep on the cars and generally get in
early enough for breakfast, but their
lives are in much greater danger than
they formerly were. Last season six
circus men were killed in Michigan,
where two sections of a train collided.
Another accident, in lowa, caused tho
death of one man and wounded many j
more, and everyone knows the fate of
poor Jumbo, iu Canada. Scarcely a
season passes without fatal accidents
happening to circus trains in different
parts of the country.
“The boss hostler has about the most
responsible position in the work ins'
foreo of a show. Ho lias charge of all
the horses and wagons ns well as the
ring-horses and ponies, together with
their trapping*, lie i* held account
able when the show gets on the lots late
or misses a train through delay iti get
ting away. The press agent is always
the life of a circus, large or small. In
a big show tnerc is always one or two
cars set apart for the um> of tho press
agent and his assistants. They are
usually shrewd, wide-awake, newspaper
men who know how to hustle. 1 can’t
say who is the best.”
Custer's Characteristics.
Speaking of tho dead and gone heroes
of ti io late war with an old Army officer, \
the other day. ho remarked that in
early years lighting Joe Hooker was the
handsomest man he had ever seen. His
hearer instanced Custer as hi* ideal ota
dashing soldier, and lie told a story
about him which is curious, as an in
stance of how differently men are affect
ed by circumstances. Custer, who went
into a tight with perfect coolness, was
the victim of what sportsmen call buck
fever. which is akin to stage-fright.
••The first time Custer ever saw a
buffalo I was with him. Hi’ had been
verv anxious to get his first shot at one.
and talked of nothing else for some
days. We were in the region where the
Topeka, Atchison and Santa To Rail
wav now runs when we sighted the tirst
herd. Custer was monuted on a beauti
ful Kentucky marc, for which he had
paid $3,000. and of which he was very
proud, while I rode an Indian pony.
“There they are.’ 1 said to him, and
without a word, blit in a great state of j
excitement, he put spurs to his mare I
and was off like tho wind. 1 followed j
some distance iu tho rear, and soon lost
sight of them in a swale (a hollow.)
When I came up Custer was Ring on
the ground about twenty feet ahead of
the mare. 1 picked him np. a little
dazed by his fall, and we went back to
the mare. She was dead. Custer had
drawn his revolver and. seized with
buck-fever in his excitement nnd trepi- t
dation. instead of hitting a buffalo, had
sent his bullet crashing through the
mare's brain, shooting her just Dehind
the ear.”.
THE CORBET.
Wl*t Irr. Vtary A. Allsn ft*, to Hmy
Against Jfs Lse.
The Herald of Health is honestly en
deavoring to fulfill its mission by wag
ing war against the corset. One of the
most zealous helpers is Dr. Mary A.
Allen, who tolls her little story and fol
lows it up with a moral worthy of at
tention, to say the least.
“O, dear! I don’t know what is the
matter with me. lam so tired all the
time I can’t stand anything; I can’t
walk three blocks. I have neuralgia
every little while. I’m good for noth
ing, and yet there seems to be no dis
ease about me. I wish you'd tell me
what ails me.”
The speaker was a beautiful girl about
19 years old. Nature had inten deif her
for a magnificent specimen of woman
hood. She was not less than five feet
seven inches in height, but with shoul
ders and hips broad in proportion: she
measured but twenty-two inches around
the waist
Os course, she asserted that she did
not dress tight; but when told that in
order to have good health she must
leave off her corset she rebelled, “Why,
how would I look without a corset?”
she exclaimed; “I’d be a perfect fright.”
What rejilv was there to be made to so
convincing a statement? But by the
light of science her whole body was
illuminated, and to the understanding
vision she was a perfect fright as it was.
I never see such a figure that I am not
reminded of Hiram rowers’ query in re
gard to a fashionably-attired lady: “I
wonder where sue puts her liver?”
It is easy enough to prove that the
breathing capacity is actually lessened
by the corset, even when not worn
tight. Any one who wishes to trv tho
experiment can sit down and begin to
draw in tho deepest breath possible,
when the limit of the corset is reached
unclasp it and see how widely its clasp
can be separated by the action of the
lungs alone. Then if you bear in mind
that these muscles have been weakened
by non-use, and that with full liberty
they would increase in strength, you
will be able to imagine liow much tho
corset has lessened the vital capacity. I
saw a line illustration of this a few
days since. I called upon a lady whoso
library labors aro wonderful. She re
ceived me in a neat but loose dress, in
which every organ of the body had full
play. She rejoiced in her perfect physi
cal freedom. She ran up and down
stairs with the lightness of a child, and
felt no palpitations of heart or oppres
sion of lungs. Later in the day she
dressed to go out upon the street with
me, and put on a corset. “1 do it in
deference to the opinion of my friends,”
she explained. “They complain if I
outrage their sense of propriety by ap
pearing without one, but I do penance
all the time I wear it.”
We started oft'at her usual brisk pace,
but in a very little while she said to me:
■*l can’t walk so fast when I’ve a corset
on. 1 can’t breathe, you see.” And so
to accommodate her diminished powers
of breathing we slackened our pace,
and soon she commenced to look weary,
her cheery huigh became less frequent,
her face began to wear tin anxious look;
her vital capacity was lessened, and
her whole system felt the effects of it.
“I could accomplish nothing at all,”
said she, "if 1 wore compelled to wear a
corset at my work.”
I asked a young lady to sing for me
tho other day. With some hesitation
nnd blushes she excused herself, saying:
“Really, I shall be obliged to decline;
the fact is, I am just breaking in a new
corset, and it hurts me so 1 can hardly
live.” “Why do you wear it then?”
“O, I’d look so without a corset.”
To me she would look far better, for I
could see that her health was failing,
her cheeks paling, her nerves starving
for the vital breath of God’s pure air,
which tho corset was shutting out of her
lungs.
“We girls arc always glad to undo
our corsets and draw a long breath at
night,” said one frank girl to me. “We
don’t wear them tight, we can put our
hands up under them always, but—it
does seem so good to get them off and
breathe just as big as we can.”
New Use For Dynamite.
Dr. J. W. Greene, of ('hillicothe. Mo.,
writes to the Kansas City Journal that
for a trilling sum of a few hundred dol
lars and a little systematic work by
practical men Kansas City or any other
place can have all the rain wanted.
l ake, sav. 100 good, largo, strong toy
balloons, 100 pounds of dynamite in
one-pound packages, and 100 ounces of
powder. Attach one pound of dynamite
and one ounce of the powder to each
balloon, with fuse enough to set tho
powder off at about half-mile hight or
higher. The explosion of the powder
will explode tho dynamite. The explo
sion of tho dynamite at that altitude
will cause a displacement of the air for
about 1,000 feet and an active agitation
for a very much greater distance. These
explosions should be made from several
neighboring stations, sav two or three
miles apart, and for a general rain, of
course, at distances accordingly; and
they should take place at as regular
successive intervals as possible. in an
hour or two a terrific storm will be rag
ing in the upper elements. Aerial fric
tion will generate electricitv, which will
play its necessary part, while concus
sion and the commingling of maddened
currents and counter currents of warm
and cold atmosphere will produce con
densation of watery vapor —rainfall.
This random work will bring it. But
if the balloons could be anchored and
tho explosions made by electricity at
more regular intervals the result would
be more certain aud more effective.
This is the idea in the rough. Experi
ment and improvement will develop de
tails. But the scheme will be put into
active operation, and the man who sug
gests it will probably never get tho
credit for it
A Frenchman sent a circular to all
his friends asking why they cultivated
a beard. Among the answers nine
stated, “because I wish to avoid shav
ing:” twelve “because 1 do not wish to
catch cold;” five “because 1 wish to
conceal bad tooth:” two “because 1
wish to conceal the length of me -ose;”
six “because I am a soldier:” twenty
one “because I was a soldier:” sixty
five “because my wife likes it;” twen
ty-eight “because my love like* it;”
fi'teen answered that they w.iro no
beards. . - - _ —m
A Thin Man'* Watch.
A tall, thin man with a east in his eye
boarded a Bine Line car going east on
Baltimore recently. He looked
like a person alio would not be sur
prised if the world would suddenly
come to an end and leave him alone in
the universe. The seats of the car were
foil but nobody was standing. Most of
the passengers were ladies. The tall,
tii lii man (lulled out his Waterbary
watch and compared it with the big
chronometer near Light street. The
two lime-pieces did not agree. The tall
man proceeded to open his Waterbary
watch at liie rear. He pried open the
outer case and on the inner case saw
the ominous inscription:
••Don't remove the cap unless you are
a nraetieal watch-repairer.”
This did not scare the thin man a bit.
He got out his penknife and pried the
cam oil with the little blade.
(ireat Cii-sar! what a revelation there
was in that cap!
Tlie moment the cap came ofF a steel
spring about forty yards long popped
.mi and uncoiled itself up to the ceiling
•if ihe ear. It was like ihe devil coming
• ait of bis band-box. After touching the
roof the spring recoiled and then uncoil
ed. amt then became wound up in a
uo.st horribly confused way. it would
• lart out like a serpent's tongue all over
! he car, around the necks of the passen
gers, up their trousers’logs, under the
-eat, out the front door and around the
mvef's stool. Then it would curl
tbout the thin man and run out of
every window on that side of the car.
l’lie female passengers shrieked, and
the perspiration gathered in great beads
on the tall man’s alabaster brow.
He tried to throw the watch out of the
window, but it would not go. The
spring dragged it back and it flew into
Hie conductor’s face, and in his excite
ment he trod on a fat passenger’s pet
corn, and the fat man howled although
his liver trad struck for shorter hours
and higher wages.
The conductor tried to toss the de
moniacal watch through the door, but
it returned and went whistling through
the car like one of Kilroy's hot balls,
and hit the door so violently that it left
ihe exact time of the day indelibly
siani|s-d on the panel.
Finally the tall man, with the assist
ance of the conductor and several of
the passengers, succeeded iu gathering
Kigetner what appeared to be ten bush
els of wire springs, and the car stopped
and they gently carried it out into the
street and said; “Now, then; all to
gether!” and dropped it and ran for
their lives.
When the thin man looked at his
Waterbary watch after the excitement
had subsided lie found that there was
absolutely nothing left in it—not even
a wheel or a pivot. The spring hait
been running the watch entirely and
exclusively on its own responsibility,
and when it lied nothing but the caso
remained to tell the. mournful story. —
Halle more American.
IFs ure.
Now the propensity "or wading, which
is deeply implau d in the female bos
om, is inexplicable. Unless a girl has
the influenza or a bunion, she can not
resist the temptation to paddle about in
the salt water and trot her clothing un
comfortably wet. This is a subject full
of interest to mo from the casting aside
of the shoes and stockings to their re
sumption. It is a fact pretty generally
known in male circles that ladies prefer
sitting on the ground when pulling on
and off their stockings to occupying a
chair or bench. But having my doubts
as to the inflexibility of this rule, I had
determined to convince myself by ex
periment. After the setting of my traps,
to-wit, the benches, I had not long to
wait. A bevy of young ladies, one or
two of whom I recognized, came troop
ing down the beach, chatting and
laughing merrily. They evidently won
dered who had been kind eno' T ti to
place the benches there for their "*eom
modntion, took possession of t 11 at
once gleefully, confessed that th(_ were
just too delightful for anything, and
seemed perfectly and unrestrainedly
hatipy. 1 was rejoiced at having dis
proved a moldy theory, but, alas, my
satisfaction was short lived. When my
guests made up their minds that it was
time to wade they sprang from the
benches, sat on the beach and tugged
away at shoes and stockings in the old
fashion. On the following day, resolv
ing to give my experiment every chance,
1 had my hireling bathmnn strew a
quantity of broken bottles, empty oyster
cans, and rubbish of various kinds
along the beach and sat under my um
brella and watched. The girls came
down about the same hour, seemed a
little dismayed at first, but rallying, set
to work industriously and soon had a
clear space upon which they squatted,
not taking the least notice of the benches
this time. Then 1 put up my umbrella
and mmtnl sadly away. The habit is
an incurable one. Eve must have sat
her fair form down in the garden mold
of Eden when adjusting her lirst gar
ment from the historic tig tree, and left
tlie habit as an inheritance to her daugh
ters for all time.—-Santa Barbara Cor.
Sacramento Bee.
When the Bombs Were Flying.
Col. John R. 'lowers, principal keep
er of the penitentiary, aided and abet
ted in one of the most eruel jokes of the
war. The federals were leisurely tiring
shells into some confederate works, and
the bombs were falling and bursting in
such uncomfortable nearness that the
soldiers had dug holes in the ground
and were hiding as best they could.
The colonel anil some friends cot hold
of an unexploded shell- and stuffed it
full of fuse. When the next report was
hoard the fuse was touched off aud after
a moment the bomb was dropped into
the mouth of one of the “gopher” holes
where several soldiers were sheltered.
“Zip-zip-zip-z-z-z-zip-ziz-zipP” went the
fuse for several minutes. Howl after
howl went up as the soldiers expected
to be blown to atoms. After a time the
sputtering fuse burnt out and things
quieted down.
When Col. Towers concluded his re
cital of the above story a private who
was minus an arm remarked:
“One day a boat opened on ns with
canister, aud the boys were sorter ratt
led. until a big fellow shouted: “Stick to
’em boys; their ammunition’s gin cut
and they're shootin’ dinnerbuekets at
us!” —Atlanta Constitution.
HEMMING APRONS. ’■W
The Latent Fashionable Amnoment No*
for Women hut for Men.
In addition to the “quotation” party,
which may take the place of progres
sive euchre this winter to a large ex
tent. there is another novelty which
bids fair to be popular. It is styled tho
“rainbow” party and takes its name
from the bright hues of the ribbons
which play an important part It will
undoubtedly be popular with the ladies,
as it gives them an excellent opportuni
ty" to air their superior knowledge and
skill before the lords of creation and tc
laugh heartily at the awkwardncsi
which they are sure to exhibit to at
amusing extent. The first stage is th.
passing of bows of ribbon t<* the men
who fasten them to their buttonhole#
and proceed to find the yon g womar
whose color matches. Tins will b#
found in the strings of a pretiy and
coquettish apron, and the strings them
selves are tied about a trim waist. Tin
men having thus been provided with
partners are further provided with need
les, thread, and a thimble, wiiich they
are obliged to select from a heap on the
table. It is then explained to the men
that they are expected to hem the bot
tom m the apron and that prizes will be
the reward of good v ork. The young
woman is to keep or her apron atu 1
give no assistance whatever, either by
advice or by lending a helping hand.
Notwithstanding the restrictions M
young woman usually cannot resist help
ing her partner, especially if she ha**
pens to be the least bit interested in
him; but if she gets caught at it by h«
judges she forfeits her apron. Th«
temptation, however, is very strong,
for he is obliged to sit reasonably close,
since the apron occupies the position i
which it was intended, and it come'
very natural for skillful wnite hands tc
touch awkward brown uands when
there is such a good excuse; a.v' here i'
may be remarked that some of th«
knowing men, after being once aided in
this manner, are inexcusably stupid an<
make the same mistake over and over
again.
Even when the tyros are doing tlieir
best there is room for a vast amour t of
amusement. Nearly every man in the
room is as awkward in his general atti
tude as can be easily imagined, n 3
most of them look as though life at.d
death depended upon tlieir effort.. Here
is a chap in a high collar; he cau bare
ly see over it when his head is erect, anu
his efforts to focus his eyes on his work
without cutting his throat are decidedly
funny. Next to him sits a man who
has been trying for ten minutes to thread
his needle, and, judging by the way h»
goes at it, the merriment of the com
pany will be prolonged for some time.
On the other side of tue room is a left
handed man who is making heroic at
tempts to make progress, and working
backward as well as left-handed, to the
in time amusement of every girl within
seeing distance. The degrees and vari
eties of awkwardness are limited only
by the number of sewers. Probably out
of the whole number there will be not
more than one or two who go at the
work with auythinglike method or skill,
and even their efforts are so nearly on
a par with the little girl taking her firs«
lesson that the exhibition is usually
more amusing than the out-and-ou#
awkwardness of the others. When all
are done the aprons are handed to the
judges for inspection, aud after their
decision the prizes are awarded. Match
safes, scarfpins, etc., are the proper
thing for tiie first and second prizes,
while the booby prize is usually a treat
ise on embroidery or something equally
interesting to the masculine mind. As
souvenirs of the occasion the ladies keep
tlieir aprons and the gentlemen their
thimbles. —Chicago Tribune.
Arabi as a Candy-Maker.
“Do you know who Arabi Bey is?”
asked Mr. E., of his friend Mr. A., as
they stood on the deck of the New
Camelis. bound for Mandeville.
“Arabi Bey is no other than Dumon
tell, who used to keep a confectionary
establishment at the corner of Bourbon
and Canal streets. Dutaontell was a
major in the (Means artillery and a
gallant soldier —an adventurous, daring
fellow. After the war lie engaged in
business, succeeding Bellanger at the
corner of Bourbon and Canal. He ran
into debt for $40,000 or $50,000, and
went to France about 1809. Dumontell
fought in the Franco-Prussian war, and
was distinguished for bravery, receiving
the cross of the Legion of Honor. The
next I heard about liim, from a mutual
friend in Paris, was that he had gone
to Egypt Several years ago the vague
rumor reached me that the irresponsible
Dumontell had entered the army of tho
knedive and risen to a position of rank.
It is said that he stood in high favor
with the army, and was regarded al
most in the light of a native. I recol
lect him,” continued Mr. F., “as a tall,
swarthy fellow, with large features, but
clear brilliant eyes, and a heavy black
mustache. In fact, he had a rather
Oriental cast of countenance, and ten
years’ residence in Africa would have
certainly increased tho resemblance.
Dressed in the Egyptian garb I can im
agine that Dumontell would make a
line-looking Arab.
“The other day I saw a picture of
Arabi Bev, and was startled at his strik
ing likeness to Dumontell. Indeed, no
one who knew the latter would hesitate
in identifying the picture as that of the
quondam confectioner. There was a
peculiar expression about Dumontell’s
mouth which is closely reproduced in
the picture. This resemblance, coupled
with the fact of Dumontell’s presence
In Egypt, assures me that he is the
Egyptian leader who is just now giving
the* English so much trouble.”
The above conversation was repeated
to the writer yesterday, and is repro
duced as nearly as' possible from
memory.—A\*r Orleans Picayune.
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