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JMC SUMMER’S CALL.
Frirai the lake's pebbly shore with In soft
ened roar,
li« Uw daptha of tba wood* and shadowy
Tram tin river’s jlad breast as it speeds to
Rarest, ’ . ( t
Vnm tba fields aad tbs brook* and the
"la tba smile of my sky tba broad
la tba deep cool della my fern leaves ware.
Front tbe tree tops tall my song birds call
And n»y brooklets flow with rippling stave.
Leave roar roots and corves and signs.
Leave yoor books with learning fraught;
“There's no need, I assure too, sir,"
he ssid. ‘-I cant really ask jou’in:
And my pine trees shall sine m they sleepily
swing,
And my doods shell paint yonr changing
It oT tne dawn, and the fleece of
efs gold and crimson diea
Aad for yon my waves shall call,
And my flowerets lift their eyes,
And my fleckered shadows fall.
And my glad bird chorus rise.’'
—Rochester Post-Express.
A QUEER PATIENT.
▲ DOCTOR'S STOBT.
I am a doctor. I live In New York
City, and in one of the most crowded
localities. I am not ashamed to say I
live there, because I find it a better
place for a young physician's practice
than the more fashionable afreets. 3fy
patients were little shop-keepers, poor
mechanics, laborers and even beggars.
The latter, of course, paid me nothing,
though they Hhowcrea blessings on me
by the bushel. The poorer they were
tne oftener they sent for me, and on the
smallest pretenses.
I had been in my present office two
wears, and had never had a patient from
the more aristocratic circles, when one
night I was startled by a violent ring at
mr bell, and having just composed my
self for a nap, after a hard day’s work, I
can’t say the summons was agreeable.
However, I ran to my window at once
and cried:
“Who is there ?” ;
A voice answered:
“Only I, doctor. It’s an urgent <
Please come down to the door.
The tone of the answer surprised
' The form “only I” was still more aston
ishing, for grammar was not a favorite
accomplishment in that neighborhood.
That a lady spoke I felt sure—a lady of
•education anu refinement.
I hurried down stairs and opened the
door. There stood an elderly lady
dressed in mourning. Her face, though
•wrinkled, was very fine in feature. Her
hair was arranged in elegant puffs under
a handsome bonnet.
flho put out the smallest of hands in
affine black kid glove, and said, pite-
•“Arc you the doctor?”
“Yes, \ I said.
“Then come with me,” said she.
“Don’t delay. It's life or death. Come.
I hurried on my overcoat, caught up
my umbrella, and offering my arm to the
old lady, walked down the street with
her.
“You must be my guide, mat
•aid. “I do not know where you live.”
instantly gave me a street and
;r that surprised me still r
was the most aristocratic quarter of the
city.
“Who is ill, madame,” I inquired—“a
grown person or a child!”,
“A young lady—i- laughter,’’ she
•aid.
“Suddenly?”
“Yes, suddenly.” she answered. “Do
you keep a gig?” You should have had
it out if you do. We would have been
*blo to go faster.”
“I keep no conveyance,” I said.
“Perhaps you are poor,” she said
There’s no one ill here.
Pm a better
No need of a
seethe patient, 1 . .
“Beg your pardon, I’ve orders to admit
no one,” she answered, and shut theddfir
softly in my face.
I left the house, of course, partly in
dudgeon, partly in amazement.
Could there be some plan on the part
of this old woman to keep medical assist
ance from some unhappy patient whose
death would serve her purposes?
I asked myself this question for several
days; then I forgot the matter. Two
weeks passed by, whenlo! the old lady
again.
She walked into my parlor, dressed as
before, as greatly agitated, as carefully
polite.
“Sir,” she said, “again I trouble you.
j poor, poor daughter! Come at once.”
‘•Madam," I answered, “It is the phy
sician’s duty, as it should be Jus pleas
ure, to obey such calls, but you are aware
that I have been sent from your door
twice without seeing the' patient? Allow
me to ask you a question: Are you the
mistress of thst house?”
‘Heaven knows I am,” add the old
lady. “I have lived there for forty
years. I own it I am the only person
under that roof who has the right to give
an order.”
'And the person who sent me away?”
*3iy old servant, Margaret” -
'Did she do it at your order?”
'No, sir; it was a piece of presump
tion. But Margaret means woiL She
loves us?”
“Then, madam, if I accons you 1
shall see the patient!”
“Assuredly, sir.”
I put on my hat again, and we went
out of the house together. At the door
of her mansion, the old lady paused.
“Don’t mind 3Iargarct,’’she whispered.
'She means well.”
Then she ascended the steps.
At the last one the door was opened
to us by the woman I had twice seen be
fore.
“The doctor must see my child, Mar
garet,” said the old lady.
3Iargaret stepped back. -
“Walk in, sir,” was all she said.
The old lady beckoned me to fellow
her. I did so. She went up-stairs and
opened the first door we came to. It was
bn empty bed-room. She closed it with
a sigh. The next room into which she
’’the
TUB HOME DOCTOR.
ing Just Before BeaTime. ■
b ancient prejudice against-'-eating*
just before-goinc to bed is strongly con
demned by modem science, experience
having shown it to Jbe unfounded. Thera
WOMAN’S WORLD.
led“mc vyas also empty. £o wer? all
others. In effect we visited six apart
ments, only one of which seemed to be
regularly occupied as a sleeping apart
ment; and at lost the old lady turned to
me with estrange glitter in her eyes.
“Stolen,” she said; “stolen—some
body has stolen my girl. Sir, do you
know I think it must be Satan?
Then a steady step crossed the silL
3Iargaret came in an the old lady, burst
ing into tears, suffered her to lead her
away.
As I made my way down stairs Mar
garet rejoined me.
“You understand It now," she said.
“You se.5 my mistress is not iu her right
mind?”
“Ido, indeed,”I said.
“She had a daughter once,” said Mar
garet, “and the girl—a pretty creature
of sixteen—ran away with a bad man.
She came back home one day and begged
forgiveness; her mother turned her from
the door in a fury. It was night. The
rain and hail beat down on the poor
“Certainly not rich, I said.
“Cure her and I’ll make you rich,”
she said, in a sort of suppressed shriek—
“cure her and I’ll give you anything you
ask. I don’t care for money. I’m rolling
in gold. Cure her and I’ll shower it on
you.”
“You are excited, madam,” I said.
“Pray be calm.”
“Calm!” sho said—“calm 1 but you
4on't know a mother's heart.”
Wo reached the street she had indi
cated, and wore at the door of one of its
finest mansions. The old lady ascended
the steps and opened the door with a
latch-key. A low light burned in the
hall, another in one of three parlors, the
furniture of which was draped and
Shrouded in white linen,
“Wait hero, air, if you please,” she
said, as she led m? into one of these,
“ril see if my daughter is prepared for
your visit.” -
And with a sweeping courtesy, she
glided away.
Doctors are not used to being kept
waitng long. I waited what I thought
a most unreasonable time in those gloomy
parlors, when a step, very different from
the old lady's was heard upon the stairs,
and a stout, snort, red faced woman
buslled into the parlor.
“I beg your pardon, sir,” she said, in
• singular tone; but my lady, the lady
who Drought you here, is very nervous,
and was needlessly alarmed. She begs
your acceptance of the customary fee,
and there is no ne;d of your services.”
Thus speaking, she handed me a five-
dollar gold piece, courtesied and opened
the door for me.
I bowed, expressed my pleasure that
the patient was better, sad departed.
It was a queer sort of adventure, but
rather amusing than otherwise; beside,
I had my fee. I went home and slept
soundly,
I arose early next moraing and made a
visit before b.eakfast Returning, to my
astonishment, I found sitting ia my office
the lady of the night before. She arose
as K entered.
“What must you think of me?” si
aaid. “But no matter. 3Ty daughter
•very dear to me, and I have heard of
jour skill. She is worse again. Can
you call sometime to-day, as early as
possible, at my house?”
“I will be there in an hour,” I said.
The old lady took out her purse.
“I am an English woman,” she said.
4 T retain English habits. In my day the
■doctor received Ids fees -on the spot. It
was in ordinary cases a guinea. Will
yon receive it'now?"
I did not know what to say, but she
laid the gold piece on the table and de
parted.
I cat my breakfast and made my way
to the old* lady's house. I rang the bell.
The door was opened by the stout female
who had dismissed me the night before.
“The doctor," I said, by way of ex-
“Has missus called
•wing what happened to her
that night; but tho next morning she
lay dead in the police office, ner moth
er’s address was pinned to her baby's
clothing, and they brought her home.
From that awful day, sir, my mistress—
who in her remorse and delirium, called
iu twenty doctors to bring her dead
daughter to life—has always been do
ing what she has done to you. I try to
keep the sec.'et generally, but
some find it out, ana others think
odd things of us. I thought I would
let you know the truth. Ifshc contrives
to come again to you, you can always
promise to call, and so be rid of her.
“Poor soul l She has nobody in the
world but me now. She’s punished for
her hardness, at any rate- ^pd you'll ex
cuse her conduct.”
I bowed. I could say nothing. Mar
garet opened the door for me, and I
walked out into the fresh air.
As I looked back upon the house, with
all its elegance, it seemed to me to have
a haunted air, as though the ghost of
the poor girl still hovered about it. “God
only knows how many fearful secrets
such splendid homes may at times shut
in,” I said to myself, and I turned my
back upon it gladly.
I have never seen the poor old lady
since that hour; probably Margaret has
kept too close a watch upon her.
pie are injured and many positively 1
fitted by a slight repast before retiring.
A glass of milk aad a biscuit
is better
ist case) may l
“nightmare” <
tress. Going l_
“on an empty stomach” is a good
way to invite sleeplessness and ultimate
derangement of the digestive organs and
general health. —Cultivator.
Twelve Ways of Injuring the He
L Wearing of thin shoes and stockings
on damp nights and in cool, rainy
weather: Wearing insufficient clothing,
and especially upon the limbs and ex
tremities.
Leading a life of unfeeling, stupid
ess, ana keeping the mind in an un
natural state of t excitement, by reading
trashy novels. Going to the theatres,
parties and balls, in all sorts of weather
in the thinnest dress; dancing till in a
complete perspiration, and then going
home without sufficient overgarments
through the cool, damp night air.
3. Sleeping on feather beds in seven
by nine bed rooms, without ventilation
at the top'of the window; and especially
with two "or more persons in the same
small unventilated bed room.
4 Surfeiting on hot and very stimulat
ing dinners; eating in’a hurry, without
half masticating the food, and eating
heartily before going to bed, when the
mind and body arc exhaused by the toils
of' the day and the excitement of the
evening.
5. Beginning in childhood on strong
tea and coffee, and going from one step
to another, through chewing and smok
ing tobacco and drinking intoxicating
liquors, and personal abuse, and mental
and physical excesses of other kinds.
6. Marrying in haste and getting an
uncongenial companion, and living the
remainder of life in mental dissatisfac
tion; cultivating jealousies and domestic
broils, and being always in a mentil fer
ment
7. Keeping children quiet by giving
paregoric and cordials, by teaching them
to suck candy, and by supplying them
with raisins, nuts and rich cakes; when
they are sick by giving them mercuiy,
tartar emetic and arsenic, under the mis
taken notion that they are medicines and
not irritant poisons.
8. Allowing the love of gain to absorb
our mind), so as to leave no time to at
tend to our health; following an
healthy occupation, because money
be made by it.
‘ " " • the
the stomach says no,
and by forcing food into it when nature
does not demand, and even rejects it;
gormandizing between meals.
10. Contriving to keep a continual
worry about something or nothing; giv
ing away to fits of anger.
11. Being irregular in all habits of
sleeping and eating: too much, too many
kinds of food, and that which is too
highly seasoned.
12. Neglecting to take proper care of
ourselves, and not applying early for me
dicinal advice when disease first appears,
but by taking celebrated quack medicines
to a degree of making a drug shop of the
body.
How to Tell Counterfeits.
The United States treasury department
has, of late years, adopted for Ixrads and
currency a peculiar paper described be
low, aud which is deemed a stronger
protection against counterfeiters than
that used by tne Bank of England, which
A Georgia Woman’s Fortune.
A few years ago Mrs. Rachel Francis,
of Atlanta, Ga., concluded that she could
nuke money by going into the dairy
business, and managing to get a few dol
lars together, she bought a cow and
began business. It was on a small scale,
but she prospered, and after a time she
had bought a dozen or more cows. The
work - - - —
i prepare 1
er it to hei
In two years
after Mrs. Francis engaged in the dairy
bu tineas she was known by nearly every
citizen. She was strictly business and
Bom of a Friday,
went wherever her business called her,no
matter where that was. Mrs. Francis
invested her money as fast as she made
it, and her inves menti always proved
good ones. 3Irs. Francis died a few years
ago, leaving an estate valued at $40,000,
including a dairy f*:m of seventy-five
acres, well improved and stocked, near
Atlanta.—Baltimore Sun.
Tattooed Women.
Those who think tattooing, as most
people do in this part of the world, a cus
tom of semi-civilized countries (except
in the case of sailors), will probably be
astonished to learn that there are two sis
ters belonging to one of "the most promi
nent families in Washington, socially as
well as in official circles, whose grand
parents on both sides were also for more
than a generation back similarly situated
in the National Capital, who are really
tattooed. Both the sisters are young,
and one has been married for several
yea s, and the other is betrothed. When
scarcely in their teens these girls, just for
BUDGET OF FUN.
the fun of the thing, being of a lively,
daring temperament, allowed a sailor at
thenaval station, where they were with
their parents, to tattoo their checks with
red, and it has remained in the skin ever
since, making the cheeks wear always a
peculiar brick-dust hue, that no one has
ever been deceived into believing natural,
and wonder bas often been expressed
thst these youngladies painted their
faces in so glaring and inartistic a man
ner. Few know that they are tattooed,
and that they'-have doubtless often re
gretted utterly the freak of their early
youth.—Washington Letter.
Jewelry Now W<
Bangles are now of a larger stylo than
formerly and are jeweled in rococo
style.
Little'gold mushrooms are now worn
as pendeloques on bracelets. What
next?
A pretty pin for fastening the bonnet
string is composed of a cat’s-eye*set with
diamonds.
A solitaire pearl set in a dark blue en-
Workfdryour
Born of a Sunday,
s S5S •
The idea of Friday being an unlucky
day is almost universal, ana in many civ
ilized countries it is known as hangman's
day, from the prevailing custom of set
ting it apart as a day for executions.
Yet in Scandinavia, Thursday, or the day
of Thor, or Thunder, is considered the
day of bad omen. Saint Elroy, in a ser
mon, warns his flock from keeping
Thursday as a holy day. Dean Swift, in
a letter to Sheridan, rhymes Thursday
with cursed-day. It is a well-known fact
that Thursday was an unlucky day for
the English house of Tudor.—New Tori
Hail and Express.
Fashion Notes.
Snowballs make a lovely trimming for
a tulle bonnet.
For children’s dresses canvas has no
rival in popularity.
Perfumed reticules and pockets are
among late fancy novelties.
Yellow and heliotrope are the leading
London colors this summer.
Black, white and scarlet are the pre
ferred colors for tulle bonnets.
'White frocks are not so much iu favor
this year for festivals as formerly..
The new peach color combines exquis
itely with gold shades of yellow.
Zephyr cloth, because of its good
washing properties, is much favored.
Leaf coral in a primrose tint lends
effective aid both to bonnets and hats.
The London turban is a favorite for
seaside, mountain and traveling wear.
Spangled crepe fans in iridesceut ef
fects come among other novelties in this
line.
Pon~ee combined with plaited surah
makes a pretty and inexpensives summer
dress.
Gathered panels take the place of
S laited ones on summer wash fabric
resse3.
A tulle bonnet should be the lightest,
most cloud-like piece ot head-gear ima
ginable.
The Mikado Jersey has a white or
tinted waistcoat, coverel with Japanese
designs.
There is a new and delicate shade of
peach color that takes the bloom off every
other shade.
Large Gainesborough hats are again
vogue, but they have very large, high,
conical crowns.
Elegant beaded brocade velvets are of
very light weight, and will be used for
cool day wraps,
A new silken canvas reminds one of a
shower of golden snow, dashed with pink
and blue and cream.
amel ring is tiie most fashionable engage-!
rnent ring.
Amber will be worn with rich black
costumes this season, and when it is
combined artistically it is pretty.
Garnets have again become tho fashion
in clasps, pins and buckles; for fasten
ing the corsage these stones are quite ef
fective.
Tho four-leaf clover is the most fash
ionable form for pins and pendants this
season. The wings of Mercury aro also
a favorite design in jewelry.
Among the novelties in jewelry are
gold crochet hooks and knitting needles
tipped with small stones, pearls and bril
liants being mostly used.
The fashion of wearing ornaments in
the hair is steadily becoming more pro
nounced, and many odd and beautiful
designs are now shown in jeweled combs,
spears, daggers, etc. Some pretty combs
have several large silver or gold balls at
the top. These*are arranged among the
coils of the hair with becoming effect.—
New York Mail and Express.
A Captive Child's Story,
full story of a little white girl
rescued from hostile Indians in Arizona,
by 3Iexicans. throws considerable light on
the manner in which the redskins mark
their trail. Trinidad Nerdan, aged ten
years, the rescued girl, says that during
her captivity the band was almost con
stantly traveling, but always stopped for
meals. They had plenty of tortillas,
coffee, beef, and nearly every day, beef
steak, of which she was always given
plenty. She never saw any one lulled,
but often heard firing, and was told that
it was bucks killing beef. She never saw
soldiers nor any one daring her captiv
ity. The nearest she came to seeing'
anybody was one night when the Indians
passed so near Magdalena that sho heard
the band playing in the ji’axa. FrOtn
what the cnild further states the Indians
must have carried her over a Urge region
of country. At one time they were in
the mountains, where she saw a largo
number of squaws. On another occ ision
the bind compel on the top of a high
mountain where they made a big fire and
smoke. On the following night a great
number of Indians came m and a mao in
command, evidently Goronuao, seat
them away, five and six together, in fif
teen or twenty different directions. She
thinks there were about thirty in the band
she traveled with, but sho was always
kept in the rear, and could notntoU.vcry
accurately thrir number nor what they
did. She was well treated and given
plenty to eat every day. The greatest
Hardship she experienced was bring
compelled to ride barcbick day after day
through brush aid over a rough country.
She says that when the Mexicans at
tacked the Indiansat Saracachi, the main
body had gone on ahead, and only about
seven or right of the ba^d were present.
The Indians seldom spoke to her during
her stay with them. The squaw would
not let the young men come near her.
feited in £50, £100 *
As the first issue o
were not printed on
most dangerously counterfeited^ but have
almost wholly disappeared from circula- | a “Wrinkle In Millinery."
turn, therefore receive them with great Tho dCu- girls have a new wrinkle in
caution, or refuse them if in doubt about millinery—or, perhaps, it is an old
their genuineness. wrinkle just being found out, says a New
All other genuine greenbacks, gold York letter. Bonnets trimmed at a
and silver certificates and later issues of . fashionable establishment cost Irom *10
national bank notes are printed on the ’ t0 ,00, somewhat according to the style,
government fiber paper; the first kind nn( j a good deal according to the prevail-
with the fibre distributed in short pieces, illg idea of the wcaUh 0 f the ‘ nt ol
localized with a blue tint, detected _bv j husband who has to pay the bill. On the
picking it with a pen ; the other with j Unins of each is printed or pasted a label
the fiber m two paraUd threads red and; with the name of the fashionable eitab-
bluo silk, running lengthwise through j ment . The dear girls dearly love that
the note, seen by holdmg the note up to I isbel, because it is the first thing
the light. The public are cautioned not - each of them lopks at when they inspect
to draw these threads out of the paper. ! some other girl's new bonnet. The dear
If in doubt about the genuineness of price „ hich the dear girls have to pay
.v hank note in lha r.nnrt r.f„„ ,t for these dear hats, however, breaks thO
feminine hearts along with the masculine
pocketbook3. They know they can trim
their own bonnets just os pretty as the
fashionable milliner can, and their inge
nious little heads have got around the
govern- • difficulty about the label by treasuring
any bank note in the report, refuse it
unlcst printed on government fiber paper.
All national bank notes not in this report
are genuine, whether printed on govern
ment paper or not.
The counterfeit $10 and $20 silver
certificates are not printed
raent paper. up their la't year’s headgear and wort
mT&S&PZ*!W mSo !• ‘he linings withthehigh-priccdUbel
and $500 (series of 1876) are an imita-
“Ah!’ arid she.
a in again!”
“Yea, 1 answered.
Liberties With the Alphabet.
Carious liberties are taken with thf
alphabet:
The honey-dealer robs his B.
The fisherman despoils the C.
The pugulist will black your L
The biluard player chalks has Q.
The grocer adulterates kiaT.
Best*i Bulletin.
tion distributed fiber paper. Very dan
gerous. These arc all the counterfeits on
the new greenbacks worth noticing.
Better refuse all twenties, fifties and
one hundreds on the bank) in this report
unless printed on tho government paper.
All genuine bank notes have brown
back and seal, have both kinds of the
fiber paper combined; while thecounter-
feit $10, on the Third National Bank of
Cincinnati, Ohio, and the photographic
Black Jerseys, with white corduroy
and fancy waistcoats buttoned in, are
selling at very low prices.
One of the prettiest hats for. misses
takes the name of the Priscilla. It has
a bell crown and flat, rather wide, brim.
Plain black surah is again in great
favor, made up with white and black
plaid surah, similar to the design given
for pongee.
Tulle bonnets—white, black, gray,
scarlet, all shades of red and rose color,
blue and heliotrope—are worn for full-
dress occasions.
A miscalled straw from Bahama, which
is a plait either of palm leaves or wood,
appears in shades of cedar, fcuille morte,
absinthe and crevette.
Notwithstanding the edict of the
Queen, the birds are worn more in London
than in France or this country, where
good taste is potent and there is no royal
will to bow to.
A new fancy is to have the cover of
umbrellas in some gay color, such
English Lords vs. French -Princes—
Her Age—A Trick That Failed
—Beeswax ftr a Wed
ding Fee. Etc.
A wea thy New Yorker and his lovely
daughter were seated'in their elegant
parlor and the girl was crying.
“Don’t cry, darling; that’s papa’s
dear,” he said, stroking her bandoline
tresses.
“I will cry,” she said, jerking away
from him. “You said I should marry an
English lord, and yon haven’t done it,
you mean old thing.”
“There, there,” he said, soothingly;
* ‘it was not papa’s fault, dear. But don’t
cry, baby, ana you • shall have one of
those nice French princes who have re
cently been expulsstri.”
“Oh. papa, you dear old fellow,” and
she kissed him lavishly and dried her
tears.— Washington Critic.
Her Age.
“How old would you take me to be,
Mr. Snooks?” she lisped, looking unut
terable things at him.
“I dunno," he replied, twisting ner
vously about iu his chair.
“I'm awfully old, I assure you. I've
seen twenty-three summers!”
“Then you ought to wear glasses,” he
replied, earnestly.
“Why, Mr. Snooks! glasses at twenty -
three?”
“Yes; your eyesight mu&t be bad.”
“I’m sure I don't know why you
should think ’So,” she pouted.
“Because, I'm afraid about twenty
summers have gone by that you haven’t
seen.”—Hi-Bit*.
A Trick That Failed.
If the following story is not true, the
responsibility rests with Mr. William H.
Harley, the contractor who is building
the main edifice of the new Soldiers’ ana
Sailors’ Horae at Quincy, for he vouches
for its truth. 3Ir. Kuhn, the proprietor
of Kuhn's garden, was thrifty in money
matters, but cared little for his own per
sonal appearance. He had worn the
old greasy overcoat until his sons were
ashamed of him and tried to induce him
to buy a new one.
“Oh, no,” the old gentleman would
always say; “I would rather have the
$50 that it would cost.”
One day the sons determined that he
should wear a new coat, and, believing
that if he could get one at a good bar
gain he would buy it, arranged with a
tailor to sell him a $50 one for $10, they
, to pay the difference. Then they went
. home’and told their father what a hand-
father went and looked at it, and r -after
beating the tailor down to $9, took it and
started for home.
But when he reached home he had no
coat with him.
“Didn’t you buy the coat, father?”
“Yes; got it for $9,” replied the old
gentleman.
“Where is it?”
“Oh, I was showing it to a friend in
the street car and when he offered me
$15 for it I let him have it. I cleared $6
on that transaction.”
3Ir. Harley assured us that the young
men never tried to play that trick
old father again.—Chicago News.
ura was the most complete failure ms
record, and he feels as tore as a man-who -
bas pounded Us finger with a tack ham- *
m tr.—Siftings.
Diamond Cutting.
Diamond cutting is a work which re- '
quires great skill and indomitable pa
tience on the part of the workman, and
his training is long and severe, for, de
spite the machinery which is used, much
depends on the del tness of the workman
(who . is handsomely remunerated
for his trouble). He must be able
to tell from an examination of
the rough stone what is tho
proper treatment—that is, its shape and
the number of its facets. An inferior
workman can spoil twenty or thirty
pounds’worth of property’in as many
seconds. But tho difficulty may tho
more easily be imagined when we say (on
Mr. Streeter’s authority) that even tho
Kohlnoor has faults from the connois
seur’s point of view. This famous jewel
was so clumsily cut by a Vene
tian named Hortensio Borgio that
it was reduced from 793 carats to 186,
rendered as dull as a piece of rock i
crystal. It was afterward reduced to
about 106 cants, and e ;en now still re
tains a vitreous luster. As a rule, a
rough diamond loses 75 per cent, of its
weight in cutting and polishing, if it is
to be turned out in the most effective
manner. It would be difficult to describe
with any minuteness the technicalities of;
a diamond factory. Sufficient it is to
say that the operations, though limited'
in scope, are of the most delicate na
ture. i l •
It is often necessary to split or cleave
a stone, whether to divide it into smaller
portions or to cut off excrescences which
would bo fatal to tho approved contour.
If a stone has to be divided it is care
fully marked and split by a highly tem
pered steel blade. If a stone has to be
cut it is placed in a matrix of lead at
tached to a fe.rule, which, on
cooling, holds the stone tight. An
other stone is placed iu a like manner
in another ferrule, and one diamond is
ground against the other, the tools being
held by tne workmen over a small oblong
box, in which is placed a seive, through
which the invaluable diamond dust is
sifted, to be used up os a paste in the
process of polishing. Hour after hour the
patient craftsman rubs diamond against
diamond, now moistening their heated sur
faces, now heating the matrix and turning
another angle to the top, which in its
turn becomes a perfect facet. When the
required number of facets are put on, the
stone is passed on to the polisher. Now'*
steam power comes iuto play. Every
polisher sits before a disc revolving on a
steel spindle tipped with lignum vita,
nt a rate of seventy-five miles an hour,
and resting on its smooth surface are three
or four clips; each holds a ferrule,
at the end of which is the matrix,
in whicl^ the $ ? araon4 Las agafj^
been embedded. By an adjusting screw
the facet, which is being polished, rests
at a certain angle on the lubricated disc,
and every few minutes each one is lifted 1
off and examined, in order to se j whether
it “is nearly done,” or “how it isgetting
on.” To each man U delivered a dia
mond or a number of diam rads in a small
paper parcel, and for these he is responsi
ble.—Paul Mall Odxtte.
Beeswax for a Wedding Fee.
The story about the Vermonter who
proposed to add fifty cents to the amount
which the “law allowed” the parson for
marrying him has brought a brand new
story of another wedding fee transaction
in Vermont. It is from a glen village
, away back from the Connecticut in the
bright red, blue and purple. When these j hills, where money is scarce and the ways
are removed a plain black or brown urn- are primitive, and the people frequently
brella is disclosed. J prefer to pay for their purchases in kind.
The most beautiful parasols seen this One day a young couple camc tothe par-
season have been in the retail houses dc- J son at the village to be married. They
voted to jewelry and silverware. These j hadn’t a cent of money, and it had been
have proven quite an attractive feature j arranged that the bridegroom should
with their gold or silver mounted sticks, j bring a specified quantity of beeswax
In veils there is a variety of small and i ^ ith ' vlxich to . V*/ the minister. The
larger spotted tulle in all colors, and * M **““* * ” * ‘
there is a most fairy-like fabric in flesh
color, cream, olive, etc., called poudre
de ri tulle, and another in a different pat-
Carrying Letters in Savage Lands.
Three scientific men, Emin Bey, Dr.
Junker and Signor Casati, have for two
the years been virtually prisoners in the
depths of Africa. Hemmed in on one
side by the followers of the Mahdi, they
retreated southward until they were
stopped by the hostile black) not far
from the sources of the Nile. There they
now are in the Unyoro country, waiting
sent out
counterfeit $5, on the First National
Bank of Milwaukee, Wis., have no fiber.
There two are the only counterfeits on
the brown backs.
Better refuse all pieced notes. All
United States currency hiving a brown
seal has the parallel threads or cables.
All United States currency printed since
1879 is on government fibre paper.
There are in circulation a great many
verv dangerous counterfeit greenbacks,
dated 1875. All tfce genuine of that
date are on distributed fiber paper.—
Detroit Free Press.
of 1875) and $50 | j n t 0 the new, home-made millinery. The
\ ara mn «_ result is a bonnet that even the envious
female eye cannot tell from a “bough-
ten” one, except that it generally looks
better. An incidental variation of the
scheme allows the fair one to inerca? her
supply of pin-money by collecting from
papa or hubby the old. accustomed price
f jr her “new'bonnet.” __ In justice to the
ladies, however, it is fair to say that few
of them do this. It’s* worth more to
them in the long run to be abla to refer
occasionally to “how much I saved, my
dear, by trimming my own bonnet this
spring instead of going ta that awfully
expensive Madame Blank.” It’s a poor
coaxer who doesn’t work this little plea
for three or four-times the cost of one of
Aime’s bonnets before the season is over.
Ik mac, ouu auuiuu lua uiucrcut pat
tern called spider’s web. The larger spot
is slowly taking precedence of the tiny,
dotted Niniehe net.
A Turkish Bath!
A man who has not indulged in a
Turkish bath has missed much of the
evils of this life, says Luke Sharp, in the
Detroit Free Press. I know that it is
customary to speak of a Turkish bath as
a great luxury. This is a grave mistake.
It is a luxury in the same sense that get
ting a tooth pulled or a limb sawn off is
a luxury—you feel a sense of great relief
when the operation is over.
First you are put into a room that is ounce of beeswax, ana the prospect struck
parson was thrifty—they have to be
thrifty up that way—and took good care,
before he performed the ceremony, to
weigh out the beeswax and see whether
there was enough to pay his fee. There
“Why haven’t you brought all the
beeswax you agreed to ? V asked the min
ister.
“ All I had. parson.”
“ And you haven’t got any more ? ”
“ Not another ounce.”
“ Have you got any money at all ? ”
“ Not a mite, parson.”
There was a period of uncomfortable
silence, during which the young farmer
began to grow very much alarmed. He
was afra : d tho parson wouldn't marry
him unless he produced his uttermost
insufferably hot. There you endure all i ^ e f ro ^ R> s soul. The parson was
the tortures that are popularly supposed clinea to let him “ stew.”
to be reserved for a large and influential • U Look a’ here, parson ! ” said tho
class in futurity. 'Then you go into a 1 countryman, finally, «I’ll* tell ye what
room that is still hotter. After that you j y c do ; y° u ^ke the beoswax and marry
are mauled and maltreated by a ruffian ; ~ 3
iu pre-Rapliaelite costume who twists j
your muscles and nearly wrings the flesh
off your bones and finally beats you |
black and blue. The men employed at j
the Turkish ba h) are people who are j
soured at the whole human race and who
wreak the vengeance they would like to
have oi the community at large on each
unfortunate individual who is brought
before them. When a person loses con
sciousness from the treatment he receives • r
he is sponged off, after being forced to | called on the bankrupt. He
Lucky and Unlucky Days.
The following doggerel i) a very old
Scotch rhyme that is sot often quoted
nowadays. The idea of Wednesday being
the best day for a wedding is all that
now remains, but it will be scea each
d ay has its own peculiar trait. The first
; three days of the week being of good
omen ana the last three ill-omened. The
swallow half a pound of soap in the form | dressed gentleman, but there was a gritty
of lather, and then dried and placed on j sort of look about him.
a conch in an adjoining room until he is
sufficiently recovered to have strength
enough to put on his clothes and tied a
do’lar in one of the pockets to pay the
roan at the office. He is then allowed tc
escape.
An Angler’s Paradise.
In Alaska the salmon jam the estuaries j.Uaai th us:
and inlets so that the fisucannot move at - Monday for wealth,
alk “I have seen,” says a writer in the j — Tuesday for health,
American Anj'er, “the outlet ot Lake ; -
I.orinsr, which is a rivulet two miles lorg ,
the best clay of
ater with the fresh,
livhSj salmon thst if a plank were la’d
across tfcc r protruding backs a man could
walk across dry shod. One can lift them
out with his hands until he is tired. It
is almost impossible to thrust a sp?ar or
a bost-hcok into the mass, and, of course,
a fish must come out whenever it is with
drawn. Bears take their opportunity to
scoup them out with their great paws,
and when they have regaled themselves
to satiety they retire to tire adjacent
thicket ^ior a dessert of berries, which
grow there in great abundance and va
riety. Of course, a gre..t many salmon
get into the lakes at every tide, but after
each recession multitudes are stranded,
of which the lustiest flop back to tha
ocean, while the maimed and hapless re
main dead on the denuded rocks.”
Friday for losses,
Saturday no day at all-
in Judea a rainy day has always been
considered unlucky for a wedding. The
objection to solemnize marriage in the
merry month of Bfay, however fit a sea
son for courtship, is borrowed from the
Roman pagans. The ancients have given
us the maxim. Mala: nubent 3Iaia, that
it is only bad women who marry in May.
The parties to a marriage may select the
month and day of its celebration, but it
is rather a difficult task to choose the day
of one’s biith. Yet these, too, have a
meaning:
Born of a Monday,
Fair in Face;
Born of a Tuesday,
Full of God’s grace;
Born of a Wednesday,
Merry and glad;
orn of a
Both of a Thursday,
Bov and red;
as far as it goes.”—B
An Unsuccessful Failure.
The habit of failing with full pockets
got something in the nature of a backset
not Ion j since in a small Texas town.
The unfortunate man kept a small gro
cery store. He sold oat the stock for
cash, put the money in his pocket, and
settled down to have a nice quiet timo of
His principal creditor, a Houston
huring arrived in the town.
for the succor which two parties sent c
under Drs. Fischer and Lenn are trying,
amid great difficulties, to carry to them.
Though cut off from all hope of escape
by their own exertions, they have been
able to send a letter to their friends. The
fact has been frequently illustrated
within the past year or two that tho
castaway in foreign lands can often make
his sad plight known to the friends whom
it is utterly impossible for him to reach
except by letter.
The messenger who bore the missive of
these unfortunates to Victoria Nyanza
was probably just like those who until
recently were wont to travel over the
same road from the Egyptian outposts to
the great lake—an almost naked savage,
carrying his letters in a split stick, which
he bore high above his head when walk
ing through the tall, wet grass. Postmen
like this have done a great deal of letter
carrying through African jungles, and
they have proved to be faithful and ex
peditious.
Six hundred years ago the man who
wished to send a message north from the
south end of Cochin China placed it
in the hands of a courier, who was re
lieved when about twelve to sixteen
miles on his way by a second courier, and
thus the letter was transferred from post
to post, the couriers traveling at a sharp;
trot, carrying the letter as far in one day
as the ordinary traveler could journey in
three. Exactly the same method is still
employed to carry the mails over this
route. Along the royal rood that skirts
the sea from Saigon through Annam to
Hue the couriers still hurry at an extra
ordinary pace with their mail snugly
stowed away in bamboo tubes.
The method of carrying the mall in
savage lands is here and there improving.
It is now possible, for instance, a thou
sand miles up the Congo River, to affix
to a letter a postage stamp bearing tbs
portrait of the King of Belgium and the
words “Free Congo State,” put it into
a civilized mail bag, and send it on its
journey to the sea. This is a decided
improvement on the black native with
his split stick.—Chicago Herald.
“Nairy asset.”
“I think that
think that there should be soma,
assets, and that I ought to b3 a pro
; fe red creditor.”
a n-“There are no assets, and all ray credi-
A Hairy Family. ! tor8 are dcfeired creditors. The oily
3Ir. Fanni has made us acquainted asset thst I’ve got tor my creditors is a
with strange personages.: but, assuredly, . Waterbn y watch, and it will take six
none more stn n^e than tho.se whom he is ; months to’ wind it up. You can have it,
now exhibiting in one of the chambers of if yon want it.”
the Egyptian Halt, Piccadilly. This party I “I want no humbug about this. Where
consists of “The Burme se Royal Sacred j is the money yon got from the sale of the
Hairy Family.” On the abdication or J groceries!'’
expulsion of King Theebaw his depend- ! “It*s right here in my pocket,” said
ents were scattered far and wide; and | the bankrupt,
among the deposed favorites were a j- “Well, you are a cool one.”
mother and son, who arc held to be i ‘Tvegot the money right here, and
sacred simply from the fact that they are | Pm going to keep it,” replied the bank-
covered with hair from head to foot, i rupt, tapping his pocket.
There is no possible imposture about j
this faet ? for any visitor is permitted the !
closest inspection. From the forehead
to tho feet the hair is in thick profusion,
especially over the face (which resembles
that of the Skye terrier), where it has to
be divided in order to allow the human
eyes—for human they are—to see or be
seen. On the man's face the hair is enor
mously thick, and measures in length
over seven inches. The woman, his
mother, who is sixty-three years of age,
is also completely covered with hair,
which is now growing gray.—London
Standard.
“Got it in your pocket-
“Yes, in greenbacks.”
The creditor placed his hand in
own pocket, and looking steadily at tho
bankrupt, said:
“Fvo got my pistol in my pocket—
don’t you move—and it never fails. If
yon don't give me the contents of your
pocket Til give you the contents of mine,”
and before the astonished bankrupt could
reply he was looking down the muzzle of
a pistol that seemed to be as big as a
flour barrel.
The Houston man got his money. Tho
unfortunate bankrupt says that hi* toil'
The Eighth Missouri.
‘The Eighth Missouri were good
fighters,” said Theodore-R. Davis yester
day, as be stopped making the smoke of
war with his brush long enough to whiff
the smoke of peace out of au attenuated
cigarette, “and what they wouldn't steal,
except my colors and pipe, was not down
in the articles of war. Why, once at
Vicksburg they stole- a grave. There
was really no good place there to bury a
body, except on a levee, and the ground
was SO’hard that the grave diggers had a
tough time of it. Well, it happened one
day that one of the Eighth died a natural
death, and while the boys were wonder
ing what they should do with him, a de
tail from an Ohio regiment .filed out to
dig a grave for one of their, number that
had passed over. The Eighth looked on
to some purpose, and when the Ohio
boys came out next day with their dead
they found the . grave filled up and a
cracker box lid at the head, with ‘Sacred
to the memory of of the Eighth Mo.’
But they were good fighters.”—Minneap-
lis Journal.
A Chicago jeweler has invented a self
winding watch. By an arrangement
something like the carefully balanced
lever of a pedometer,the watch is wound
by the motion of the wearer when walk
ing. A walk of raven minutes will *
the watch to go tor forty-two