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WOMAN’S WORLD. I 1 DELIGHTFUL DUEL I
FACTS Full THE CURIOUS. !
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The Nature of Lore.
Love in a fire in air.
Lore in a roue in Spring*
Love is a crystal sphere,
A melody, a mirroring.
Love is a bknrtom, love a flower.
Law is the gleaming of a shower
Of dewtlrops from aa orange bower.
I Sleeves are of medium length and some
what narrow, though not as tight a* for
merly.
Prineettn cloth is a new dress tobri:: of |
silk and wool, in light weight for sum- |
TO HIS FISGEK-TIPS.
s a golden star,
A fragrance of the night,
A rainbow In the air;
A clond, a lojtd -ligat;
-Love, ’tis tbs sense of Heaven near,
The memory of Heaven gone.
The last leaf of the lingering year,
The faint smell of the dawn.
—John Phi'.Ip Varley.
Fitting Fashionable Girls for Active
Lire.
A New York letter in the Boston
lkraid nays: There is a fashionable hoard
ing school in New York where the
“young todies” are tangbt to enter and
get out of a carriage. A vehicle with
the Mont pedal arrangements for this
sort of exercise, which determines a
lady's breeding and claim to social posi
tion, is kept in the backyard of the edu
cational establishment, and there the
.•“carriage classes'’ are put through the
most arduous training. Another accom
plishment peculiar to this gilt-edged
academy is learning to eat asparagus,
•praugc*, grapes, and other juicy and un
manageable viands in a style that shall
Represent Uh perfection, of table manners.
. <»i course these are luxuries, and like
Preach and Italian, ^ included in the “ex
tras,” but then the social creed ot to-day
sticks at nothing, not even at this expen
sive form of high education.
How to Iron a Shirt.
A Detroit Free Press subscriber has the
following: First have your irons in good
order and not too hot. Iron body,
sleeves and neckband, and lastly the
bosom. The collar band should be
ironed straight, not flat down with The
bosom. I iron it on the wrong side first,
then turn it over and iron it on the right
side till it is as dry and stiff as the bosom
should be. This vrill make the band
stnnd up and the husband will find his
collar fits much better than if it were
ironed flat down with the bos^m, as I
have seen some ironed. Now get your
ahirt on a well-layered bosom-board, pull
it lengthwise ana crosswise till it is in
proper shape, and iron. I have a soft
■white cloth for dampening the bosom
after it is ironed; then iron it all over
with a good deal of pressure; this gives
the gloss. I usually crease the plait
where the stitching is, as this gives them
anew appearance; otherwise they will
look flat.
I like cold starch <he best, because it
makes the bosoms much stiffer than
ever get them with the cooked.
Ribbon trimmings are in favor as or
naments to thin dresica for both day and
evening wear.
Some of the cashmeres arc embroid
ered with plush and chenille, and also
with open-work embroidery.
Violet and pale green combine with ex
quisite effect in silk for scarf embroid
eries and for small hangings.
A new sort of braid is cylindrical,
having gold thread run through it. It
is used for trimming dresses and jackets.
Mantles this year are cut very hi;*h in
the neck, and the sleeves are aet In full,
lace or jet epaulettes being frequently
used.
Decided novelties in reiver-trimmed
leather goods are long, narrow pocket-
books with heavy silver corners and
rims.
Too much neck dressing meets with
little favor; the neat high collar effect is
S referred by those who know how to
rcss.
The crazy cloths in wadi goods arc
among the most tasteful shown this
season, coming in both light and daik
colon.
Gathered vests, from collar to waist
line, are very stylish; they are extremely
full,yet are gathered into a narrow space
and hare pointed revera on each side.
Ribbon plays an important part in the
adornment of dresses, mantles and mil
linery. On costumes it is used in every
imaginable manner. There are bows with
« First Trout Canglit tsy an Enthtf
sia.*tlc Angler—A Vivid Descrip
tion of the Struggle Bo*
tween Man ami Fish.
ZB a Vreezy article on trout-fishing In
the Outing the writer relates the expe
rience of a novice at the sport. He saj»;
And now the neophyte is to test his
prowess and his newly purchased tackle.
Secretly trembling at the enforced com
parisons with the casts of veteran: breth
ren of the gentle craft,- conscious that
his glide waits to assign him his Tank aw
anglcr r betake* his rod in the right
hand, holding the leader, already wet r
for mm instant in the left, until the back
ward sweep- of the rod? straightens the
line, for he wisely makes but short easts
at first.
There is nothing close to-the shore,,
save, perhaps, zn intrusive chub. The
reel yields more line, and the cast grows
longer. How easy it looks,, that slight
motion of the rod which sends the line
Hying backward until it straightens out
well up into the air, returning obedient
to the i a*y forward movement of the rod,
a • » *i__ *
long ends.
A feature of the season’s millinery is
the shaded or half-concealed effect.
Masses of crushed roses, violets or yellow
daisies gleam beneath a veiling of tulle in
the same-shade.
Popi
i A Cold-Footed Liady.
Madam, allow me to prescribe for you.
I have had a long experience in the
management of delicate women, and be
lieve I can give yon some important ad
vice. For the present I prescribe only
for your feet;
First—Procure a quantity of woolen
stockings, not such as you buy at the
store under the name of lamb’s wool, that
you can icad a newspaper through, but
the kind that your Aunt Jerushainthe
* -country knits lor you, that will keep your
feet dry and warm in spite of wind and
-weather.
Second—If you want to be thorough,
•change them every morning, hanging
the fresh ones by the fire during the
aight.
Third—Procure thick calf skin boots,
-double uppers and triple soles, and wear
them from the first of October to the first
•of May. Make frequent applications of
somo good oil blacking.
'Fourth—Avoid rubbers altogether, ex
cept a pair of largo rubber boots, which
may be worn for a little time through
ranow drifts or a flood of water.
Fifth—Hold the bottoms of your feet
in cold water a quarter of on inch deep
just before going to bed two or three
* minutes, ana then rub them hard with
-rough towels and your naked hands.
Sixth—Now, madam, go out freely in
wll weathers, and, believe me, not only
■will your feet enjoy a good circulation,
but, as a consequence of the good circula
tion in the lower extremities, your head
■will be relieved of .all its fullness, and
your heart of its palpitations. Yonr com
plexion will be greatly improved, and
jour health made better in every respect.
:—Hair* Journal oj Health.
Rainbow Parties.
Tho latest society novelty- is what is
known as tho rainbow party. Already
it has assumed the propoitions of an cpi-
<lemic, although it made its first appear
ance in this city only a few weeks ago.
All tho yonng ladies in attendance wear
neat little aprons of such design and
color as the taste of the wearer may sug
gest. The bottoms are all carefully left
untrimmod. Every young lady has a
number, and duplicate number* are kept
in a box, which is generally placed in the
Neighborhood of the gent'emen’s cloak
room ia charge of two young ladies.
The gentlemen buy tickets which entitle
them to draw from the box. The pur
chaser having drawn a number at once
sets out to find the young lady wearing
the duplicate number on her apron. The
tickets are generally one dollar each,
but at a South Side party a few nights
ago they brought five dollars each.
After all the young men have found
their aprons, or rather their young ladies
wearing the proper aprons, the master of
ceremonies announces the conditions.
The young men are to hem the aprons,
and the one doing the neatest, quickest
piece of work is to receive a prize. The
young ladies supply their escort with
needle and thread, and it the call of
time the fun begins with the efforts of
the contestants to thread their needles.
Young ladies are strictly forbidden to
-thrcaa the needles of their escorts, and
a violation of the rule compels the rc-
•cipicnt of the favor to forfeit all claims
• on the prize.
After the needles are threaded and the
'young men are at work the scene is none
the less inspiring. At last time is called
. and a committee judges on the work.
The prizes .arc sometimes quite .valuable.
At a West Side party recently the young
man who was' most handy with needle
and thread carried home aa elegant
French mantel clock.
The aprons are raffled off after the
prizes are awarded, and when a jealous
young man attempts, as is of ten the case,
'to outbid a rival for the possession of a
pretty girl's apron, the prices brought by
the innocent little aprons are amazingly
large. At one rainbow party the sales
amounted to $72.— Chicago Ker~
Fashion Notes.
Bonnets are small, and the trimming is
•decreasing in height.
_ Spanish bodices are to be in favor for
light summer goods.
There are thirty-five varied weavings
Wf white wool for dress goods.
closely beaded in lengthwise rows, and
on the belt, collar and cuff, makes a
pretty Norfolk jacket with white, black
oy light-colored skirts.
A design for a bridal dress comprises
an apron and plastron, embroidered with
silk and beads, having a collar and cuffs
to correspond. Fancy silk or velvet may
take the place of the embroidery.
Mohair and cashmere dress goods come
within the reach of all, and when a ma
terial of double width and good quality
can be hod for 50 cents, there is little ex
cuse for the appearance of “dowdy” suits
upon tho street.
Rich ottoman is the foundation of a
mantle fitted gracefully and trimmed in
the back with rows of rosary and jet
beads, while the sleeves are outlined with
lace put on in two rows and decorated
with pendants of beads.
Vests of white or fancy linen or
are worn with stylish tailor-made dresses.
With these the plain linen collar and cuffs
are abitrary, and the tie of silk or satin,
notunlike those worn by gentlemen, is
worn with this very mannish costume.
Fichus for young persons are rounded
at the back. The front is fastened
tho shoulder, whence it falls down tho
front of the bodice in full folds, where it
is draped under a bow at the waist and
then forms a panlcr over the right hip.
and uncoiling above the water, until
leader and flies drop gently on the sur
face. Ti e current sweeps the flies a lit
tle downward. Then the leader straight
ens itself, and the flies, drawn easily
across tempting eddies and patches of
dark water, leave a tiny wake behind.
Then suddenly the tension of suspense
broken by a splash and a glimpse of a
dark form just behind the stretcher fly-
The ceopythe strikes somewhat ner
vously, do doubt, but flies and leader
come dancing back alone into-his very
face. His speech is plain and emphatic.
His excitement is not soothed by the
guide's “Thar’s no foot of a trout. ”■
But the guide- docs not confine him*
self to words. He- straightens out lint
and leader, marks down the exact spot of
the rise aid says: “Cast over him again,
You’ve stirred him up.” Once
the line is gradually lengthened un
til the flics skim the water over the very
place. One cast is perhaps fruitless.
It takes eight hundred full-blown xws
I to make a teaspoonful of perfume. \
I Without the express consent of his
wife, no married Austrian subject can
procure a passport for journeying beyond
the frontier.
One of the most interesting objects at
the Nice exhibition is a Chinese clock
which i» raid to <5ate back 800 years be
fore the birth of Christ.
Therein on the plantation of Captain
John L. Martin, near Washington, Ga.,
a pine tree that bests acorns and pine
burrs with great impartiality.
Some West Indian 1 negrie3 cany
snake’s poison? under their finger nails.
A single scratch from * poisoned' nail
will cause death in a few hours.
The Oxford biblc is said’ tobc the most
perfectly printed book in existence: It
is stated that only three errors have*been'
found in all the Oxford editions ot the
new version.
Thousands of Britons in times of
famine during the first century after the
Norman conquest sold themselves into 1
thralldom. Children were even sold by
their parents to escape extreme poverty.
Hawks in old times were usually
trained by being kept from sleep, it hav
ing been customary for the falconers to>
sit up by turns and watch the hawk and
keep it from sleeping, sometimes for
three successive nights. ?
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
A Peaceable Time—No “Vico Versa —
“Killing” a Salmon—He Tipped
the Waiter—An Old Tartar—
The Doctor's Horse. Etc.
The angler bitterly curses his failure to
hook his fish on the first rise.
Meantime the treat, agitated by the
appearance of these morsels just above
his head, piqued perhaps by his own fail
ure to comfort his gluttonous appetite
with a dainty tid-bit. is balancing hira-
cr a hard, sandy, bottom, his fins
slowly fanning the water, his keen eyes
turned expectantlvnpward. Once more
these luring flies dance across the water.
There is v sudden movement of the broad
tail, a quick rush upon the prey, which
gl' J
bli
ur st cannon' loumlty at irourges.
France, electricity has been successfully
applied to mechanical purposes for more
than, five years, two--large movable
cranes, each weighing over twenty tons,
having been worked by electric motors
without difficulty.
The Hungarian government deters
emigration by inducing, migration to. the
colonization of State kinds, on which
free schools and churches are given
gratis; the payment for land is spread
over fifteen years, and immunity from,
taxation granted for a similar period.
David Bell, of Peilcter’s Mills, N. C M .
found a very small pearl in an oyster
seven years ago. He wrapped in paper
and laid it in a trunk, and the New Berne
Journal says that it has grown from, the-
size of a BB shot to the size of a small
marble. During the seven years it has
not been .wet.
Before the reign of King Alfred slaves
in England could own nothin?; under
his legislation; they were permitted to
dispose by will of what was given them
or what they could- earn in their free
hours. He forbade, also, any masters
who have incurred a fine or amend from
buying off by the sale of man as well
beast.
Logger to chambermaid—“Mary, this
the stillest house I eTer was in. The
landSoril and his wife must live like angels
in kesven xtogvther; I haven’t heard oae
single round siace I’ve been here.”
Mary—“That’s all very nice just now,
Mt.Smfth,bnt wait till they make friends
again. They quarreled a fortnight ago,
and they haven’t spoke- to each other
since.’’—San Francisco Star. -
No* “Vice* Versa”
“Let me sec some of your black kid
gloves,” said Mrs. Snoggs to a clerk at a
Fifth avenue store.
“These are not thr latest style,
they?” she asked when* the gloves were
produced.
“Ye?, madam, *’ replied the clerk.
“We have had them m stock only two
days.’”
“I didn’t think they were,, because the
fashion paper says that black kids have
tan stitenes and vice versa. I see the tan
stitches, but not the vies versa."
The clerk explained-that vice versa was
French forseven buttons, andiMrs. Snaggs
bought the gloves.—Boston- Glob:.
♦‘Saccharine,” from Coal Tar.
Tho entombed forests' of by-gone’
epoch? in the world’s history hold num
berless products of immense value to the
human race. The skill of modern chem
ists has drawn from the residues left in
the distillation of gas from coal not only
a series of most beautiful colors, rivaling,
it possible, the glories of the blossoms of
tropical forests, but a scries of essences
ana aromatic oils as fragrant as the honey
of the same flowers, thus bringing back
from the grave, as it were,-by chemical
resurrection, the color and the fragrance
of blossoms which never gladdened the
senses of man. And now we have Irom
coil tar another remarkable substance re
sembling sugar, but said to be 230 times
sweeter, which promises to become an
important rival of the best cane or grape
sugar. It has received the name saccha
rine. It is a white substance which dis
solves sparingly in cold water, and i
rapidly in hot water, and crystallizes
from such solutions in short, thick
prisms. Alcohol, ether, glucose, and
glycerine are all good solvents, and
thus saccharine may be used to impart
sweetness of taste to any of them. The
taste of tins new substance is intensely
sweet. One part will impart a very tweet
taste to 10,000 parts of water. Hence,
in many preparations, it may be used to
replace sugar, and especially to heighten
the sweetness of glucose, syrups, and
cordials. It is remarkable that saccha
rine is without hurtful effects upon the
haman system. It appears to ba innocu
ous. —ludepcnden t.
The Modern Boy.
There is a vast difference between the
boys of to-day and those of fifty years
ago, more especially as regards the things
which minister to comfort and pleasure.
Perhaps it is only an old boy's partiality
for old man’s ways, but it seems to us
that the hard experience of the old boys
did more for them in many ways tlian tho
softer and easier lot of the new boys does
for them. The former were quite as
happy with the little they had as the lat
ter arc with their much; and they were
taught—what the others are noto-econ-
omy, industry, ingenuity, self-denial,
self-reliance, the value of mopey, the
necessity of labor. Probably the new
method of training boys makes more
gentlcmcn.but the old method made more
men, and the world needs men more than
it does gentlemen.—St. Louis Btjndb
lican.
The Professions.
.A dentist is a funny man.
By his profession shown;
He works on other people's teeth,
To find work for his own.
- ' _ - —Texas Figaro.
The surgeon is a funny man,
Which all of us must own;
Cats flesh from other people's bones,
To pat flesh on his own.
—SL Paul Herald.
The lawyer is a funny man.
A “shy-lock” he is Imown: .
He never fills his client's purse
instant's glimpse of dark mottled
►lack and gleaming vermillion spots at
the surface, and then the cheat betrays
itself.
The angler, every sense on the alert,
strikes quick and hard, and a heavy re
sistance to the bending, quivering rod
tells that the hook is driven home. The
palate of the trout is tickled by no choice
morsel, but instead there is a sting of
mortal agony. Downward through tho
clear water darts the fish, carrying that
burning pain, while, on the shore, the
angler’s reel sings cheerily as in derision.
“You’ve hooked him well, sir. Now
buckle yer rod to him!” exclaims the
guide.
A fair and honorablo duel has begun.
On one side an eight-ounce rod, a thread
of silk, an almost invisible strand of gut^
directed by * human brain; on the other,
tho strength and conning of a powerful
maddened trout. A little below are dan •
genus rapids. If the fish bolts into the
string current and down the rapids,
there is a chance that he may free him
self, and at best the neophyte must leap
over the rocks or flounder through the
shallows in hot pursuit.
There is reason in the guide’s advice.
“Buckle yer rod to him.” The rod is
kept up well that all the strain of its
spring may be felt by the fish. At each
wild rush there is heard the music of the
reel,but the line is reeled back whenever
a chance offers, anff the trout kept to the
stiller water as persistently as lhe angler
dares. And now there is silence.
The fish is sulking at the bottom,
shaking his head from time to time in
vicious bull-dog fashion, seeking to shake
out the wounding hook, or to rub it out
against a stone. A tarn or two of the
reel brings s harder strain to bear, and
there comes a rash which nothing seems
to check. The lengthening line cuts into
the white water, and is swept downward
as the fish is hurried away by the cur
rent.
“Snub him!” shouts the guide, and
taking in all the line he dares, the neo
phyte brings all possible strain to bear,
until the rod bends perilously and every
thing is taut A critical moment, this,
for if you “snub” your fish too suddenly
or too hard, in a strong current, his loss
may not be the greatest of your disasters.
Rather coax him firmly, yet with moder
ation,relaxing your severest strain when
the weight of water begins to tell. -
Now, aided by a friendly back set, the
trout has emerged from tLe foaming
water, and the angler’s suspense becomes
more tolerable.
_ Who can explain the exquisite fascina
tion of such a straggle? It is almost af
fection that the true fisherman feels for
his gallint victim, and yet the escape of
that victim from death'would well nigh
break the angler’s heart. The two are
in close, fairly electric communion
through this delicate tackle. The moods
of the fish are clearly read by the brain
behind the rod.
When each succeeding rash grows
shorter and feebler, when now and then
there comes a glimpse of white, as a side
flecked with gold istnrned up now. that
brain begins to compose a paean of vic
tory. Tee plucky trout __ is nearly done
for. His strength has turned to weak
ness, and his free, wild life ia the cl.-ar
Han gel ey waters is drawing to an end.
Fainter and faint?r grow his struggles,
as the line, stcidily re« lei in. draws h*m,
swaying from. side to. ride, toward the
shallow water where the guide awaitshim,
and tho meshes of the Finding net cat
short his la^t convulsive fight for life.
. Out pocket sealei now! Is it a tVcr
or four or five pjund trout, t!iisiarc!y
beautiful priro? Let. us give oar nco-
phvtc the bcne'it of every d mb*. a*-d
thus fore t ill him when he tells this fish-
Tbe plumber is a fanny nan,
AV no comes to every home;
He repairs the basted pipes,
And the house Lecomes his own.
—Cedar Jlapxds Gossip.
The milkman is a funny man,
To few he is unkn
He pumps the vrate
And claims it giv
—Decatur Review.
The auctioneer is a queer man,
Who’s seeking after pelf;
He knocks down other j>eople*s things
To get things for himself.
—Attleboro Advocate.
story in after days
The. Amateur Gardener.
When ruing Sol with brighteningrays
And waters the tomatoes.
And digs and sets in hills and rows.
The Earty Rose potatoes.
He labors for a couple of hours,
Then into break? st f as^es,
And what a pyramid devours
Of flapjacks and molasses!
His toil may never bring him wealth,
Bat 'tis a source of pleasure.
Character, as Shown by Footwear.
A Spanish shoemaker of a philosophic
turn of mind affirms that men’s charac
ters and dispositions are more accurately
read in the way they wear their boots and
shoes than in their physiognomy, or even
their handwriting. lie says: “Show me
the shoes of a man after lie has worn
them two months and I will analyze for
you his character. In your shoes, for
instance, I sec lack of energy, levity,
negligence, aud a disposition to evade
tho fulfilling.of disagreeable duties and
obligations. The even wearing away of
the heels and soles of a pair of shoes
shows that the wearer, if a man, is one of
good business habits, energetic, prudent,
of good head, and faithful in the dis
charge of his duties. If a woman’s shoes
are so worn, they indicate that she is, or
is capable of being, a good wife and an
excellent mother of a family. If the
outer edge of- tha. soles, are worn away
mnch more than the inner ones, the
wearer has an unstable, fickle character,
prone to ingratitude. If the inner edges
are the most worn, it indicates irresolu
tion and weakness in a man andmedesty
in a woman. A few months ago t
stranger entered my store wearing a pair
of shoes that were very much worn on
the outside edges and at the toes, the
latter so badly that they were quite
broken through, while the other parts of
the shoes were almost new. I took
care to watch that man while he
near my goods, and when he was gone,
said to my wife: ’‘That man is a thief.”
The very next day he was arrested by
the police for a robbery.
Messenger Boys and “Overs.”
A bright and ruddy-faced messenger
boy swung himself on to a Seventh ave
nue car at Park Place yesterday,plumped
himself in the best corner and Jjegaq to
watch proceedings around him with
much interest. A Tribune reporter ques
tioned him about his work.
“I like it pretty well.” he sa'd. “The
pay is not big, but the ‘overs’ are im
mense. Don't you know what overs are!
Why, it’s when a man gives you half a
dollar and the charge for his message is
only twenty-five. Oh, my, that’s noth
ing. I had a man give me a dollar the
other day for a thirty-five cent message.
Yon see, it was to his girl. and he told
jno particular not to give It to anybody
but her, ar.d he told me she was expect
ing me, and would wear a blue ribbon
on her neck,and if anybody came for the
message who didn’t have a blue ribbon I
was not to give it. Say, that was fanny,
though. When I got up to the girl's
house she came to the door. My, but she
was a stunner, all silk and lace, bat nary
blue ribbon. I asked her name, and she
said that was her, and I looked right
sharp at her neck and said there mu.t be
some mistake. She put her had up to
her neck and flushed. Then she said:
‘Excuse me a moment,’- and away she
went. She came back presently with
blue ribbon on, and a quarter, in hi
hand. We make about $5 to $7 on tl
straight. My ‘overs’ last week were $11.
It’s only 11 o'clock now,I guess, and I’ve
made ninety cents to-day.”—jfiew Tori
Tribune. ■ '
Imitation Batter and Tnbs.
Imitation butter must be put up
liptical tubs in Denmark. This is a singu
lar sort of rule, and one which probably
would not commend it-elf very highly to
manufacturers of thiskindof butter here.
Butter itself having been imitated, it
seems logical enough to imitate batter
tubs also, and a!l the little cloths and
papers and schemes of packing which set
off butter so. w-lL Besides, imitation
butter, which is so perfect in all its de-
dctails that it cannot be told from real
butter, can be sold much more profitably
than it could if it were packed in a tub
whose peculiar shape would amount to
open avowel of the imitation. But there
are some deeply rooted^ notions in Den
mark, and one of them is that imitation
night not to be carried too far.—Har-
“Killing” a Salmon. *
One evening W. J. Florence, the actor,
tin a New York club- roomy telling of
his exploits on a salmon; river in New
Brunswick. “How many salmon did
you catch?*’ a visitor inquired. Florence
nearly fell from his chair at the ignorance
displayed in the question; “Fishermen,
sir,” said he with freezing hauteur,
“never use the word, catch as- joa apply
it. They kill salmon. They never catch
them.” The rebuked listener turned
scarlet, but made no response. A mo
ment afterward Laurence Jerome, the
father of Lady Randolph Churchill, and
an excellent story teller, began to talkjjf
his adventures on a salmon stream,
was describing himself as standing <
bank at daybreak whipping a “Jack
Scott” over the water,, when, he hooked a
big salmon. “I was so.excited,” he said,
“that I dropped my slungshot in the
water and lost the fish.” “Drasf d
what:” Florence asked, in ope^JJMed
astonishment. “My s'ungshot,” Jerome
replied. “Why, what could you clo with
a slungshot at such a time?” Florence in
quired. “Best thing in the world to kid
salmon with,” Jerome said, going right
n with his story, while everybody
roared.—Philadelphia Press.
I must have my pay for writirg thoro
letters to you.” ■ !
“Well, I declare, Sqttite, I wasn't cal- j
dilatin' on that. I’m a pretty old man,
most eighty-two, and it was hard for ma
to get this money together to pay these |
‘ *u». I’m not prepared to pay you.” j
The old man begged the lawyer to let
him off, and after considerable talk the
lawyer said: “Look here, Mr. Graves,
you have made considerable mischieVous
tilk about ms. You have gone through
the country Calling me a big liar and
other hard names. Now, if you will go
around and see everybody to whom you
have made this talk and tell them that
what you’re said about me is false, I’ll
kaoek off the five dollars.”
After robbing his old grey head the
old man answered: “Mr. Pullen, Fm
almost efehty-two years old, and too
near eternity to tell such s ’tarnal lie as
that.
The Horn JL G. Lebroke, of Foxcroft,
once swapped an old wagon with Grave*
for four cords of wood. Graves signed
a contract written by Lcbrokc, to the
effect that Groves should deliver Lebroke
four cords of merchantablewoodv Where
the wood should be delivered- was not
^stated.
Many months went by and Lebroke
received no wood; Happening in Guil
ford, he* asked the old man about it..
“Oh, ye3,” said Graves, “I’ve cut your
wood and it’s os nice a lot of wood as
ever you saw. ^ You just come and- look
at it.*’ * .
He took: Lebroke into the wools and
showed hira four cords of excellent coxd
wood, piled up in the forest.
“There, Squire Lebroke,,’ said he,
deliver that wood to you.” Turning te
ighbor who had accompanied them
BAVAGES OF CYCLONES.
Late in tho afternoon we stopped at
Cleveland, Tenn., for dinner, ana there
incident happened the like of which
had never seen or heard. Atthetablo
where I sat were five persons., one of
whom I guessed to be the drummer of
some wholesale establishment. The spread
did not suit him, and he demanded some
cold meat of the waiter. The waiter
shot into the kitchen and reappeared, as
serting there was cone there.
“Oh, yes,” interrupted the drummer,
“there must be; hunt around; bring mo
piece of cold chicken.”
Out again went the waiter and returned
with just what ho wanted. The drum
mer was satisfied and be^an slashing into
the chicken with renewed appetite; then
he paused, dropped his knife, ran his
fingers in his vest pocket, looked around
at the smiling waiter, and then, without
changing his countenance, handed 'tho
latter a—match.
‘You see what it is?”
‘Yas, sar.”
SBT “Well, when you get a cigar, you’ll be
able to light it?’
Then he resumed his eating. It was
positively tbe meanest return for a Chris
tian-like act that I ever saw, but I had to
laugh in spite of myself. It was such a
burlesque on the habit of feeing hotel
waiters.—San Francisco Chronicle.
The Doctor’s Horse,
winter a Detroit doctor went to
the police with the complaint that some
scamp had taken his horse t.nd buggy
from in front of a patient's house and
dri ven it around town for several hours
and then left the rig in the suburbs. The
guilty pa.ty was not discovered, and one
night about a month ago the name thing
was repealed, Tljis time the doctor was
so mad that he not- only went, to the po
lice, but gave the information to all nis
friends and offered $25 for the arrest of
the scamp. Sunday last the doctor was
called to See a sick man in the
per'* Weeldy.
. A Truckee, (Cal..) dog shuts the door
after him when he enters a house. This
habit served him handsomely when he
was chased by a mad dog one day. He
was in his master’s store and up at the
-window looking at the mad dog before
the latter had recovered from his sur
prise at having the door slamnyid in his
.'ace..
he added: “And I want you to witness
that I delives this wood to>Mr. Lebroke.”
The Senator had to hire a teamster t»
haul the wood: to Foxcroft. He says it
was thd first and only time h* ever was
beaten on a contract that he wrote him
self.—Leiciston (Me.) Journal.
He Tipped the Waiter.
Rise and Fall of a Steamship Line,.
Anxious to* reap the golden fruits de
rived from the- carrying of the mails, and
to also show to the world that the United
States was as- well able to build and or
ganize a fleet of swift steamers as Great
Britain, Mr.. E. K. Collins launched his
company, the- end of which was a tragic
one. Ho was to receive a subsidy of
$19,250 per voyago to home built steam
ers carrying the mails of the United
States to and from Europe, and he began
nobly by constructing four magnificent
steamers, the Arctic, the Baltic, the At
lantic and the Pacific. These vessels
wore built of live oak planked with pitch
S ine, the hull being extremely solid, and
ivided into, compartments, so that, in
the opinion of their builders, they were
all but proof against being sunk by a
col ision or bv touching the ground.
These steamers began to carry the mails
and passengers in 1850, and very soon
Cong, ess raised Mr. Collins’ subsidy tc
$33,000 per voyage, and fixing the min
imum at $858,000 per annum.
The Collins steamers, superbly fur
nished, performed such runs across the
Atlantic as had never before been made;
and one of them, the Arctic, after doing
the voyago from west to east in a little
ovor nine days, was proudly christened
by our hurrahing countrymen “the clip
per of the seas.”
came only too s
to racing, and there was no personal
management to stop them. On the 21st
of September, 1854, “the clipper of the
seas” left Liverpool for New York with
233 passengers and a crew of 135, nearly
all of them Americans. When within
sixty miles of Cape Race the Arctic col
lided with the French steamer Vesta;
Lut deeming his ship not much injured,
the American captain made for the Cape,
Alas! the sad end
The captains took
A Distressing Picture of Death, Suf
fering and Sorrow—Tho Fatali
ties of Ten Years.
A review of the most notable cyclones
that have ravaged various portions of tho
Northwest during the past ten years
affords a most gloomy picture of deaths
suffering and sanow. In June, 1877, a
large pvt ol the little town of Hazel
Green, Lafayette County, Wisconsin,
was destroyed by a fierce hurricane,
which, in addition to the frightful work
usually wrought by such storms in the
shape of demolishing buildings, twisting
huge trees and carrying people into the
air, smote half a dozen persons with the
icy hand of death.
Mankato, Lake Crystal and the sur
rounding country were ravaged by a
storm, cyclonic in its nature, on Satur
day, June 5, 1880. A number of houses
were unroofed at Mankato, and crops
were considerably destroyed. No lives
were lost.
On the 10th and llth of June, 1881,
hurricanes swept through Faribault, Blue
Earth and Nicollet counties, Minn., and
Polk and Audubon counties, Iowa, kill
ing and maiming between twenty and
thirty people, leveling crops, destroying
buildings, etc. This was a prelude to
the memorable cyclone of July 15th,
which laid the greater part of New Ulm.
Brown county, in ruins. Three hundred
buildings were torn to- atom9, thirteen'
persons Killed, and'a score of others in
jured, some fatally.
The same terrible storm passed through
Renville and Nicollet counties. Twelve
persons were lulled and many others in
jured at West Newton and Wellington,
and several totalities occurred at other
points in the track of the storm, while
all through the devastated section numer
ous financial^losses were iuflicted, enor
mous in tho aggregate. A delegation of
citizens of New Uhn came to St. Paul
and laid the distressing state of affairs
before GovemorPillsbury, who at once
took measures for the relief of the
afflicted community, where 500 hundred
people had been made homeless by the
calamity. St. Paul and other cities of
the State responded cheerfully and
promptly to the call for help.
The next event in the series of cyclonic.’
horrors, and more calamitous than any
of its predecessors, was tho partial de
struction of Grinnell, Iowa, and Maleorn,
nine miles distant, juno 18, 1882. At
Grinnell the list of mortality embraced
fifty-one names, and at Malcorn nine men
were killed. About one hundred men
were wounded more or less severely in
tho two towns, several of the number
dying in a few days. In both places somo
of tho finest residences were completely
shattered, and tbe fragments blown
away, and several public edifices were
likewise demolisbed, the principal ones
being those of the Iowa Congregational
College, valued at $100,000. The aggre
gate value of the dwelling houses ob
literated by this tornado was placed at
$250,000. Appeals to publio charity
were immediately made on behalf of the
victims of the disaster, and generous con
tributions poured in of Chicago and.
many other cities of the Northwest.
This closed the second of notable storms
for 1882.
In 1883 there were numerous cyclones
the Northwest, the first big one being
at Racine, May 8, in which nine lives
were lost, fifteeu fatally injured and
ninety slightly hurt. The houses were
mainly small ones, belonging tolhe la
boring class, and the loss approximated
$100,000. The same storm passed through
the counties of Sangamon, Dewitt and
Sersey, Illinois, killing a score of ^ people
aud injuring many others, and annihilated
and before he had got far the water j a large number of frame buildings... The
rushed in and almost immediately the ! last serious cyclone in the Northwest
c+namoi. «r«a in ttin ! p rov ious to the Rochester disaster was on
July 21, which passed' through Dodge
and Olmstead counties ana westward
into Dakota. The number of lives lost
splendid steamer was engulfed in tho | previous to the Rochester disaster was on
waves. Only fourteen passengers were
saved, and among those who perished
were ths wife, son and daughter of Mr.
Collins. Sixteen months later came the
still more appalling disaster to the Pa
cific. She quitted Liverpool on the 23d
of January, Tfcfl, with forty-five pas
sengers, a crew of 141 persons, the mails
and a cargo insured for over $2,000,000.
The Pacific was timed to reach New
York the 2d of February, but she never
reached that port, nor any port on earth.
The loss sealed the doom of the Collins
Line.—Boston Hr aid.
Statistics of the Infirm.
Professor P. M. Smith gives the fol
lowing interesting facts and figures in an
article on tho “Statistics of Popula
tion,” printed in the Independent:
Oat ot 100,000 inhabitants there are:
Deaf
Blind. Mutes. Idiots. Insane. Total
country. He went out Woodward five- [ ’***§£ rl iS»
nue three miles ang then toned off and 1^ JaJ
drove a mile and a half further, He
hitched his horse under a free about tefi
rods from the gate, and the animal was
whisking away at "the first summer flies
when a couple of Detroiters who had
been out to see a relative on. that road
came along.
“Say, isn’t that Dr. ’s rig?” queried
one, as they drew near.
“Why, of course.”
“Some one has been running it off
again.”
They hitched the horse behind their
buggy and jogged into the city, with a
feeling that a fellow human being owed
them a debt of gratitude. When- the
doctor came out and found Iiis rig gone
he indulged in such language that the
wild plum trees shed their blossoms.
He started for the woods, and his two
friends, wfco were interviewed after he
had limped back to town, are said to be
in bed and dangerously ill of nervous
prostration.—Detroit Free Press.
An Old Tartar.
A prominent Maine journalist, for
merly editor of a Portland paper, once
practiced law in Foxcruft, and at that
time a quaint old man named Graves
lived in the neighboring town of Guil
ford. He had a little property, but was
very slow about pa\ing his bills. He
became indebted for small amounts to a
number of store-keepers in Dover and
Foxcroft. and they gave their claims to
this journalistic lawyer to collect. He
wrote several letters to the old man,
which produced no effect, till one day
he threatened to attach his farm if he
did not call and settle within forty-eight
hours. This threat^ made the old man
pull out his stocking, and on the next
morning after receiving the letter he
appeared at the lawyer’s office and an
nounced that he was prepared to pay.
“How much does it all amount to,
Squire?” he asked.
“Twenty-eight dollars,” said the law
yer. ^ •
“How’s that, Squire?” demanded the
old man.
“You owe Ferguson $6 and Snicker-
son $9 and Juggerron $8, and my charge
for collecting is $5.”
*4 did not know you had any bi!
agaixst me, Squire.”
Ranee..
U9
114 146 4u»
Wed States
The general restiii 8! this table Is
startling. In civilized cotintfktf ►nearly
one-halt of one percent of the popula
tion is thus confessedly unfitted for the
duties and burdens of life. Outside of
these there must be a large number who
either escape official observation or who
are only partly incapacitated in these re
spects. The comparison between differ
ent countries is also- startling, but
conclusions must be accepted guardedly
on account of the insufficiency of the
statistics. Italy shows an extraordinary
nnmber of blind; Germany, of' idiots,
probably due to that curse of South Ger
many and Switzerland, cretinism! In
Great Britain and the United States in
sanity appears to be very prevalent,'
which accords, I believe, with medical
experience. Some of the numbers are
inexplicable, such as the relative posi
tion of Norway and Belgium in the to
tals, and are probably due to differences
the methods of gathering the sta
tistics.
was ten, and a large number were seri
ously injured. The losses of crops were
heavy. Near Owatonna, a Chicago and
Northwestern passenger train was blown
from the track, and twenty, persons wero-
injured.
The most terrific cyclone that ever oc
curred in Minnesota visited Rochester
early in the evening of August 22 ; 1883,.,
The entire northern part Of the city was ,
laid in rains, twenty-six people killed,
outright and eighty others badly injured.
The storm was terrific, carrying every
thing before it. After leaving Rochester
it swept onward to the West through
Dodge County, carrying death and de
struction in its path. The loss in prop
erty from the effects of the storm waa
about $300,000. Ou Tuesday afternoon^
September 9, 18S4. a severe wind-stona
swept across Washington County in :»
Northeasterly direction, devastating thq.
country and partially destroying the vil
lage of Marine Mills. But one person.
$v£s killed, and less than half a
ssrioiBjfiy in lured. The storm was cyclo-'
niCj a wmepiaces, nna
strn of tt? ri to r y about eight miles vnuw
Yellow MedicinJ County suffered £«“*-■
seme etorm on Friday, June 12,
The Wind was a straight blow, not of a
cvclonic fixture, and was accompanied bj
a'heavy fall <fthail and rain. One person
was killed, n ne injured, and property ta
the amount of $fj?0;000 destroyed.-—St*
Paul Pioneer Press. j
Knew It All.
. a once lived in the town of Nor
way a man named Palmer, who was noted
for his homely looks, his mechanical in
genuity, and his witty sayings. He was
a jack-at-all-trades, and, unlike most of
his kind, a master of all. He operated a
grist mill, filed saws, and mended watches
with equal dexterity. One day a tussy
old citizen,who knew too mucb, engaged
Palmer to file his saw and stayed by
while the job was done. He volunteered
The Oldest Republic.
The general reader has no doubt sup
posed Switzerland to be the oldest re
public on the globe. It has usually been
characterized as such, and admired for
maintaining its 'freedom for centuries in
hard-fought battles, principally with
Austria, which, with an eye always to
the annexation of territory, failed to con
quer the cantons of the Alps. On the
contrary, Austria, in these conflicts, lost
some of her own possessions.
The origin of'the Swiss Confederacy
dates back to 1C03. But there is a re
public named San Marino, in Northwest
Italy, which sprung into existence in
441, of which little thought has ever
been taken. This republic is inclosed oa
all sides by Italian provinces. It is in &
flourishing condition, although it has but
one principal town? and four or five vil
lages, with an aggregate population of.
between 8,GOO and !>,000. It is 2,200
feet above tbe level ed the sea; has a Gov
ernor, schools, churches, a theatre, *
town-hall, a museum, two convents and
a couple of vast cisterns to supply tlie
public with water. Rural employment
and I know about filing a saw I know I”—
Leiciston (Me.) Journal.
Odd Names of Illinois Towns.
Frog Pond is In Fayette county.
Log City is in Knox county.
Bonn? is in Boone County.
Moonshine and Windyville are
Clarke county.
Hog Lake and Mosquito are
tiau county.
Sixteen and Goose Neck :
Donough county.—Chicago Xe\
j consists of about 1,000. As none of that
I surrounding powers seem inclined to in
terfere with tbe little republic, who can
tell, what great commercial triumphs it
will achieve whc.i its railroad is com
pleted?
. I The street stands in cur large cltie*
are in ^ are more profitable than is generally sup-
, . ! posed. One of the little peanut aix£
1 Chris- - orange stands on Park square, Boston,
I pays $1,100 a year ground rent. Thv
iceipts of so:n _* of the stands have been-
ore than $50 a dav during roach tints;
i Me-;