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" Our First Gray Hair."
As the first big pattering drops that fall
With splash on our lattice pane,
Maker us sldver and start as they warn us all
Of a storm, or of coming rain,
So it is with life, when we are growing old,
And age steals unaware,
Wo shiver and start, If tho truth were told,
At the sight of our first gray hair.
We mark not the light of our noouday hours,
Like the first streaks of dawn doth bring;
We hall not the birth of tho summer flowers
As we do the snow-drops of spring;
On tho bleak winter wind we look not with
grief,
l'liough it howl through the branches bare,
But we sigh when we witness tho brown autumn
leaf
And behold nature’s first grey hair.
Gray hairs may come whon tho boaming ay*
Hag none of its brightness lost,
When with buoyant heart we would deny
Youth’s Rubicon has boon crossed;
But tho ivy clad tree looks young and green,
Though a sapless trunk may be thore;
And naught of decay on our cheeks may le
seen
Whon wo witness our first gray hair.
Oomo early, come late, like a knock at the gate
Is that first soft silvery thread;
And it joins with its silonco the years that await
With Uio years forovor fled;
It Hilontly tells ns wo’re Jonmoylng on—
It ■silently questions us—Whore?
h I a faithful milestone, weio the truth but
known,
Is seen In our first gray hair.
—Mrs. Charles T. Ohiekhaus.
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It was the funniest thing that 1 over
saw in my life. Cmikshank would have
gloried in it. I wish I hod him here to
illustrate that scono with the spirited
vigor that only his dancing pencil gives.
It was in Kentucky that it happened—
that pleasant land of blue-grass and to
bacco, and lino stock, with llne-teethed
girls. Mabel, my sister, had married
Dick Hucklestono, and thoy had begun
life in great contentment and a little
three-roomed bouse scarcely big enough
to hold tho bridal presents. But they
were happy, hearty, healthy. They had
two cow’s, icc-cream every day, a charm
ing baby, and Uncle Brimmer. Who
shall say that their cup was not full ?
Indeed, they thought it full before Uncle
Brimmer added himself thereto—a very
ponderous rose-leaf. He was one of our
old fninily servants, who fondly believed
that Miss Mabel and hor young husband
would never be able to get on without
him. He walked all tho way from Mis
sissippi to Kentucky, with his things
tied up in a meal saok, and presented
himself bofore Mabel, announcing af
fably that ho lmd come to “stay on.”
“But I haven’t any place for your
(Ju-ilo Brimmer,’ 1 said Mabel, divided
between hospitality and embarrassmont.
“ Lor’, lionoy, you kin jes’ tuck mo
iiroun’ anywhar. I don’t take up no
room."
Mabel looked thoughtfully upon the
big, brown, gray-whiskered' old negro,
whose proportions wore those of a Her-
oulos, and shook hor head. "You are
not a Tom Thumb, Uncle Brimmer,”
“No, ma’am,” said ho, submissively,
" but I’ve got his spirit. Couldn’t I
sleep in de kitchon, honey?” he went on,
with insinuating sweetness.
“ No, indeed," cried our young house
keeper; “ I put my foot down on auy-
»ody sleeping in the kitchen.”
Aunt Patsev, the cook, stood by, bal
arcing a pan of flour on her hand. I
juspected her of a personal interest in
the matter, and indeed she afterward
acknowledged that she thought Uncle
Brimmer’s coming would prove a “bless-
in’ to her feet.” Those feet of hors had
been saved many steps through the ser
vice of her ten-year-old daughter Nancy
Palmira Kate—called Nauky Pal, for
short. But of late Nanky’s services had
been called into requisition as a nurse,
and Aunt Patsoy, who was fat and scon
of breath, thought she had too much to
do; and so she viewed with evident de
light the stalwart proportions of our
good-natured giant from the South.
"Dar’s de loPj-Miss Mabel,” she sug
gested.
"It’s too small, and is clutterod up
with things already."
“On, eho, chile, dar ain’t nothin’in
dat lof’ ’cep’ de ’taters, an’ de peppers,
an’ de dried apples, an’ some strings o’
t whacker, an’ de broken plow, on’ some
odds an’ 'ends o', de chillen’s an' Lucy
Crittenden's pups. Lor’, dar aiu t noth-
nl ter speak of in de lof’.”
“.vgtf-qa'n’t ge t in at the window,” said
Mable,''shifting hor ground.
“Lemmo try’,” said Uncle Brimmer.
The kitohen was a small log cabin
some distance from the house-“in good
hollerin’ reach,” to quote Aunt Patsey.
Above it was a low room, or loft, crowded
with the miscellaneous'articles enumer
ated. The only way of getting into it
was from the outside. A ladder against
the side of the cabin admitted one,
through a little window, no larger, I am
sure, than that of a railway coach, into
this storehouse of treasures. Nanky
Pal, who was as slim as a snake, was
usually selected to fetoh and carry
through the small aperture. But Unole
Brimmer!
“I’m pretty sho I kin do it, hesaid,
squinting np one eye, as he took off his
coat and prepared to try.
We stood in the doorway as he cau-
ously went up the ladder; and after an
exciting moment he pushed himself
tlirough the window, and turning, smiled
triumphantly.
This settled the matter. A cot bed
was procured for Uncle Brimmer, and he
soon became the mainstay of the family.
Cheerfully avoiding all the work possible;
indifferently as an ostrich eating all he
could And in cupboards or highways
grimly playing hobgoblin for baby;
gayly twanging his banjo on moonlight
nights—memory recalls thee with a
smile, Uncle Brimmer 1 I can close my
eyes and recall him—big, sluipelesa, in
distinct in the semi-darkness, as he sat
under the mulberry tree singing.
After a time Uncle Brimmer fell ill,
and we sent for a doctor.
Dr. Trattlcs Jex was the medical man
of our county. He lived at Middlebum,
seven miles away, and he came trotting
over on a great bay horso, with a pair of
saddle-bags hanging like Gilpin's bot
tles, one on either side. He looked as
diminutive os a monkey perched on tho
tall horse’s book, and iudeed he was 11 a
wee bit pawky body,” os was Baid of
Tommy Moore. But, bless me 1 he was
as pompous and self-important as though
lie had found the plaoe to stand on, and
could move the world with his little
lever. A red liandkerohief carefully
pinned across his ehest showed that he
lmd lungs and a mothor. His boots were
polished to the last degree. His pink
and beardless face betrayed his youth ;
and his voice—ah! his voice I What a
treasure it would hove been .could ho
have let it out to masqueraders 1 Whether
it was just changing from that of youth
to that of man, or, whether like reading
and writing, it “ came by nature,” I can’$
toll. Ono instant it was deep and bass,
the next, squeaking and soprano. No
even tenor about that voice 1
ne held out his hand with, “Good-
morning, -Mrs. Hncklestone. I hope t he
baby has not lmd an attack V”
I popped into the dining-room to gig
gle, but little well-bred Mabel did not
even smilo.
“Oh, no,” sho cried; “it is Unele
Brimmer.”
Tho doctor offered to see him at once.
Mabel got up to lend tho way. Up to
♦liis moment I warrant it had not struck
her as anything out of tho way that sho
must invite Dr. Jex to climb a ladder
and crawl through a window to get at
his patient. But, as she looked at him
speckless, spotless, gloved, scented,
curled, then at tho ladder loaning against
the wall in a disreputable, rickety sor-
of way, a scene of incongruity seemod
borne in on her soul. To add to hor dis
tress and my hilarity wo saw tlmt
Undo Brimmor lmd hung out on tho
window some mysterious undor-rigging
that ho wore. Long, red and ragged, it
“flaunted in tho brooze” as picturesque
ly as the American flag on a Fourth of
July.
“I am afraid, doctor, it will be a little
awkward,” faltered Mabel, “Uncle
Brimmer is up there; ” and she waved
her lily hand.
“ An’you’ll have to dime de ladder,"
put in Nanky Pal, with a disrespect ful
chuckle.
I thought the little doctor gasped;
but he recovered himself gallantly, and
said:
" As a boy I have climbed trees, and
think I can ascend a ladder ns a man;’’
and lie smiled heroically.
Wo watched him. He was incum
bered by the saddle-bags, but he man
aged very well, and had nearly reached
the top when suddenly Unde Brimmer’s
head and shoulders protruded, giving
him the look of a snail half out of its
shell.
“ Here’s my pulse; dootor," he cried,
blandly, extending his bared arm. “ Taru’^
no place for you up here. An’ here’s my
tongue.” Then out went liis tongue
for Dr. Jex’s inspection.
The doctor settled himself on a rung
of tho ladder, quite willing to be me*
half way. Professional inquiries began,
when
“A deep sound struck like a rising knell.”
“Good gracious!” exclaimed Mabel;
“whatis that?"
Nanky Pal sprang up, with distended
eyes, almost letting the baby fall.
Again,
“ Nearer, clearer, deadlier than before.”
“ Bakes alive! Miss Mabel,” cried
Nanky, “ole Mr. Simmon’s bull’s done
broke loose 1”
She was right. A moment more and
in rushed the splendid angry beast, bel
lowing, pawing t£e ground, shaking his
evil lowered head as if Satan were contra
dicting him.
Dr. Jex turned a scared face. My
lord bull caught sight of the fluttering
red rags, and charged. The next in
stant the ladder was knocked from under
the doctor’s feet and he was clinging
frantically round the neck ol Uncle
Brimmer.
Fearful moment
"Pull him in, Uncle Brimmer—pull
him in,” shrieked Mabel, danoing about.
“ I can’t honey—I can’t," grasped the
ohoking giant; “I’m stuck.”
“Hold me up,” cried the dootor.
“ Send for help.”
Uncle Brimmer seized him by the
armpits. The saddle-bags went clattering
down and about the head of Master
Bull, a cloud of quinine, calomel, Dover’s
and divers other powder and pills broke
in blinding confusion.
Aunt Patsey, go for Mr. Hucklestono
at once,” called Mabel.
Aunt Patsey looked cautiously out
from the kitchen door. “ Yer don’t ketch
me in de yard wid ole Simmons’ bull,”
she said, with charming independence.
" Theh I shall send Nanky Pal."
“ If Nauky Pal goes outen dat house
Til break every bone in her body."
Thon Mabel began to beg: "Aunt Pat-
sey, let her go, please. I’ll give you a
whole bagful of quilt-pieces, and my
ruby rep polonaise that you begged me
for yestc lay.”
Aunt Patsey’s head came out a little
further. “An' what elne?"
, “And a ruffled pillow-sham,” said Ma
bel, almost in tears, “and some white
sugar, and I’ll make you a hat—and
that’s all. Now 1"
“ I reckon dat*ft about as much as the
chile is wuth',” said the philosophic
mother. " Let her go,!’
" Fly I fly!’’ cried Mabel.
“I ain’t skoered," said Nanky. “I
ain’t dat sort. Mammy ain’t nuther. She
was jes’ waitin’ ter sea how much you’d
give.”
Nauky's bate legs scudded quickly
across the yard. The bull took no no
tice of her. He was still stamping and
bellowing under that window. Unole
Brimmer and the doctor clung together,
and only a kick now and then testified
to the little man's agony.
“ Suppose Uncle Brimmer should let
go ?’’ I suggested, in a hollow whisper.
"Oh, hush,"cried Mabel. "Thodoc
tor’s blood would be on our heads."
“ Or the bull’s horns.”
It was not far to the tobacco field, and
in an incredibly short time brother John
came riding in, followed by half a dozen
stout negroes. With some delightful
play that gave one quite an idea of a
Spanish bull-fight, his lordship was cap
tured, and our little dootor was assisted
to tho houso.
Gone was the glory of Dr. Trattles Jex.
His coat was torn, his knees grimy, his
hands scratched, and lie looked—yes
as if he had been crying.
"Gan you ever forgive us?” said Mabel,
piteously. Sho hovered about him like a
mother. She mended his coat; she
asked liim if ho would not like to kiss
tho baby. And finally a wan smile shone
in tho countenance of Dr. Jex. For mo,
I felt my face purpling, and leaving him
(o Mabel I fled with brother John to
the smoke-house, whero we—roared.
Uncle Brimmer got well and went in
to see the doctor. Ho returned with a
now cravat, a cone, and several smart
articles of attire, from which we in
ferred that in those trying moments
when he supported the suspended doctor
that, little gentleman had offered many
inducements for him to hold fast. Whon
questioned he responded cliiofly with a
cavernous and mysterious smile, only
saying:
“Master, Dr. Jex is a gentleman;
starch in or starch out, lie’s do gentle
man straight."
And brother John, who is somewhat
acquainted with slang, said, with
great laugh: “Well, old man, you liai\ a
bully chance to judge, so yon must be
right.’’
FOR THU t'ATH SIX.
Altutor* ud Her Ouiklcn.
Every morning at nine o’clook the three
daughters of the Prinoess of Wales take
their music lesson. They have “maminn”
waked up, who, a few moments later,
appears in her dressing-gown and re
mains with them till the lesson is over-
Nothing interests the princess more than
the education of her daughters. In
muBic she can fully appreciate their
progress, being herself a consummate
musician.
The three young princesses—Louise,
Victoria and Maud—differ as greatly in
oharaoter as in phyaiognomy. The eld
est, Louise, has the fine features and the
grace of her mother. She is gentle, gay
and affable—in short, the Parisienne of
the three. Victoria, the second daugh
ter, is the image ol her father. She is
proud, rather reserved and attaches her
self little to people. When she does
grow fond of some one, however, her
affection never wavers. She unites to a
thorough consciousness of her own dig
nity a generous heart, easily moved.
Her intelleot, which is greatly devel
oped, only renders her the more engag
ing. The youngest sister, Princess Maud,
can still be called a baby. She is but
ten years of age. In appearance she
bears a striking likeness to her grand
mother, the queen. She is good-hearted,
and at times even a little serious.
Ilavenlna IVolvei In Flnlatul.
A correspondent from Finland writes
respecting a terrible evil which is now
besotting the country in which he lives
and to suggest a remedy. The woods
about fiity English miles from Hango
are tho haunts of a great number of
wolves, which of late have been so auda
cious as not to be contented with tear
ing cows and sheop but are now con
stantly attacking even human beings.
In loss than two months eleven chil
dren have been carried away and eaten
by the beasts. Very recently a little
boy aged nine years was overtaken on
the high road by a single wolf and
dragged into a neighboring field. The
lad escaped with his life only by the
approach of a stalwart peasant. An
other case of very late occurrence was
that of a man who, while driving
sledge, was attacked by a wolf, which
sprang up from the ground and tore his
arm. The animals are especially nu
merous in the southern and most popu
lous parts of the country, where they
come down to the very thresholds of the
houses; and in some instances children
have been carried off under the very
eyes of their parents. Seldom more
than one wolf is seen at a time; and the
belief is that, like the man-eating tigers
of India, these beasts are either embold
ened by hunger or have been rendered
doling by impunity and the acquired
zest for human blood. A price on the
head of each wolf killed or captured
alive has been fixed by the Finnish gov
ernment; but the peasantry appear to
be incapable of coping with the in
vaders. Hunters are now being ap
pointed and sent into the woody districts
frequented by wolves; but hitherto
with small success. Our correspondent
is of the opinion that English gentle
men fond of sport and adventure would,
if accompanied by a number of bull
dogs and shepherds' dogs, and properly
equipped lor a winter campaign, do
wonders at wolf-stalking for the Fin
landers.—London Telegraph.
UreM and Complexion.
Speaking of the colors most becoming
to women of different complexions an
expert told a New York correspondent:
The large class included in tho interme
diate and ineffective type of women gen
erally set down as plain, because they
ore not brilliant, are often endowed with
great delicacy of form, refinement of ex
pression and fine eyes; but they have
dull, ashy-brown hair and no brilliancy
of complexion. Their eyes are oftoner
gray or grayish-bine than brown or hazel.
Red is not becoming to these women,
and they should not wear fawn-color nor
gray. Brown is just as bad. Black,
particularly black velvet; white, particu
larly creamy white woolen fabrics;
water-blue, flush-rose, black and white
laces, jet, pink, cameo, delicately enam
eled jewelry—all theso are becoming to
such women. They must avoi 1 tun color,
fawns, grays, bluish-white, pronounced
blues, yellows, reds and browns. Golden
blondes, with rosy complexions, may
wear blue-white, all shades of blue, rose,
pink, all shades of green, yellow and
purple ; but of all colors red must be
avoided.
Brunottes may wear ambor and all
yellows, browns, maroons, reds, olive-
groon and very dark blue, especially in
velvet. They cannot, ns a role, wear
light or medium blue, though some who
have brilliancy of complexion can wear
pale blue. Light greens, grays, purples
and all shades of violet mnst be avoided
by the brunette. However, if she has
black hair, pale, smooth skin, and blue
or gray eyes, sho may wear both reds and
blues in all shades, croam-white and
pure wliite, bluish-gray, block and stone
color. If her eyes are dark she may add
amber, and almost all shades of yellow.
She may wear diamonds, topaz, garnet,
coral and etroscan gold jewelry. Women
who have chestnut hair, pale, smooth
skin and hazel eyes must not.indulge a
fancy for reds, brilliant yellows
medium blues, and creamy white.
Corals, turquoises and Bmall diamonds
set with other jewels in dull gold or
platinum, as well as enameled, mosaic
and cameo jewelry, are permitted to
women of this type.
Shepherd’s cheok, shaded blocks and
stripes lengthwise and across the piece of
goods appear in the stuffs prepared for
summer wear.
Dressmakers may be ingenious, buf
the best of them cannot keep a princess#
dress from looking like a wrapper with
out heavy drapery.
The bands of filagree silver which it
is the fashion to wear in tho hail- are set
with Lnbrndorite, garnet, topaz or moon
stone, or even pearls.
The very fine stripes used in organdies
last year now appear in camel’s hair'stnffs.
The border is a stripe of solid color or
is woven like chudda cloth.
The Hamburg rufilings a half a yard
wide are used for the flounces of chil
dren’s dresses, and the collars and cuffB
are cut from the same material.
BayonMuse comes in all the delicate
light tints this year, as well as in wliite
and black, so that ladies in mourning
will no longer have a monopoly of it.
High Friee*.
The highest spot on the globe inhab
ited by human beings is tho Buddhist
cloister of Hnnie, Thibet, where twenty-
one priests live at an altitude of 10,000
feet. The monks of St. Bernard, whose
monastery is 8,117 feet high, are obliged
to descend frequently to the valleys be
low in order to obtain relief from the
asthma induced by tho rarity of the at
mosphere about their mouutain eyrie.
At the end of ten years’ service in the
monastery they are compelled to change
their exalted nbodo for a permanent
residence at tho ordinary level. When
tho brothers Schlaginswoll explored
tho Glaciers of tho Ibi Gamin, in Thibet,
thoy once encamped nt 21,000 feet—the
highest altitude at whioh a European
ever passed the night. At the top of
kit. Blanc, 15,781 feet abovetbelevel of
the sen, Professor Tyndall spent anight,
and with loss discomfort then his guide,
who found it very unpleasant.
In July, 1872, Mr. Glaisher and Mr.
Coxwell ascended in a balloon to the
enormous height of 88,000 feet. Before
starting Mr. Glaisher's pulse beat
seventy-six strokes per minute, and Mr.
Coxwell’s seventy-four. At 17,000 feet
Mr. Glaisher's pulse lmd increased to
eighty-four, and Mr. Coxwell’s to 100.
At 10,000 feot the hands and lips of the
Aeronauts turned quite blue. At 26,000
feet Mr. Glashier could hear liis heart
bout, and his breathing became op
pressed. At 29,000 feet lie beeome sense
less; notwithstanding which he still as
cended another 0,000 feet, when his
hands were paralyzed, and ho had to
open the valve with his teeth. In tho
Alps, at tho height of 18,000 feet, climb-
era suffer from the rarity of the air; yot,
in the Andes, persons can dwell, as at
PotoBi, at a height of from 18,000 to 15,
000 feet without inconvenience.
n’kMjrfHf Couth.
Whooping cough, called pertnsaia by
physicians, is said to be [owing to tha
presence of bacteria under the roof of tha
tongue. The cough is so urgent that tha
breath becomes exhausted, and in tha
effort to draw in the needed air the top
of the windpipe seems to nearly cloee,
causing a whooping sound. The old
plan was to let the disease run its course,
boiug careful that the symptoms were
not aggravated by cold. Oertain medi
cines seem to act favorably in some
cases, and in others to have no noticeable
effect. The following have been recom
mended: The fluid extract of hyoocya.
mus, from one to four drops, depending
on the ago of the patient. A blister to
back of neck. Frictions to the spine
twice a day, with onion juice. Beat a
fresh egg in a pint of vinegar, nod add
half a pound of loaf sugar; take two
tablespoonfuls every four hours. The beet
treatment for the enre of whooping cough
hat has yet been discovered undoubt,
edly is to expose tho patients to the
vapors arising from the purifying boxes
in gas works. But it is not always con
veuient for the patient to visit these
places; and it has been found to answer
just as well to procure some of the liquid
hydro-carbon that is always found at tha
bottom of the [purifying boxes, and '
vaporize it in a metal dish in the closed
«oom of the little patient. It almost al
ways affords immediate relief, and the
whooping will not return for hours. This
liquid can be obtained at any gas works
at little or no cost, and no expense need
bo incurred for vaporizers. A table-
spoonful or more may be evaporated at a
time and repeated once a day or oftener.
A large iron spoon makes a good evapor-
atiug dish. It may be held over the
flame of a lamp, or a coal shovel may be
heated and the liquid poured into it and
allowed to evaporate in the room of the
patient. This treatment would probably
bo beneficial in throat and lung troubles.
It is safe, convenient and inexpensive.—
Fall's Journal gf Health.
The average time consumed by men
in buying hats is seven minutes. The
average time of the other sex is 177
minutes.—Detroit Free Frees.
Faahlon Note*.
Mourning veils are made long.
Many ot the new calico patterns imi
tate embroidery.
The coal-scuttle shape is heralded as
the coming bonnet.
Polonaises appear on many pt the pat
terns for summer suits.
Tho condor and the canary bird furnish
the rival colors in millinery.
The greens and blues for spring and
summer wear are very dark.
Round hats are in picturesque shapes,
with wide, soft brims, not wired.
Black net veils, with polka dots of
chenille, are worn in the street.
Slashed sleeves, showing a gay lining
underneath, are a promised novelty.
Sword sashes will be worn by littl
gii-js and little boys during the summer.
A great deal of red and yellow is used
in the patterns of the new woolen goods.
Yeddo crape comes in deep reds and
blues this summer as well as in soft
colors.
Steel and silver beaded laces are con
spicuous among the new millinery
fabrics.
A very handsome finish to sheer white
dresses is to have the white muslin
edged with black lace.
The orange blossoms seem to be get
ting out of favor with brides, and has
been replaced of late by white roses and
jasmine.
Fowers are arranged in large and
small bouquets, and with or without
leaves almost as one pleases, to form the
waist bouquet.
A new barege is really made of albatross
down, unlike the albatross doth, which
was pure wool. It comes in forty dif
ferent shades.
Corente Tout.
The Oorean ande or boy is very fond
of playing with little dogs. He puts a
coat on Master Puppy, teaohing him to
sit with his forepaws on his knees.
When the dog grows up ho may be
traino l to hunt the tiger. Tigers are
very large and numerous in Gores. If
you were to stop into the! parlor of a
fine Corean house you would see a tiger
skin spread out ns a rug. On this the lit
tie boy plays, rollicking with his com
panions, or beats the dram, on whioh a
dragon is painted. For a rattle the Oo
rean baby plays with the dried skin of a
round flsh filled with beans. When the
Oorean boys wish to “ play soldiers ”or
imitate the king’s procession they can
beat the dram, blow the trumpet and
march with their spear-headed flags.
These are made of silk, embroidered
with flowers and tipped with white horse
hair. In the middle there will be the
royal chariot, with a top like a fringed
umbrella, silken hangings, on brass-
bonnd wheels. In this the king rides
The big hats are as large as parasols and
have plumes of red horse-hair. One
has a flap around the edge to keep off
the sun. The state umbrella, which is
only held over men of high rank, is also
tosseled with horse-hair dyed red. Tho
Goreans are very fond of ornament, and
all their flags, banners and fine articles
of use are decorated with horse-hair,
pheasant and peacock feathers or tiger-
tails.
.lag Mould on Wall street.
No man can control Wall street, said
Jay Gould to a Herald reporter. Well
street is like tho ocean. No man eon
govern it. It is too big, too vast. No
man ought to attempt it. Wall street is
fall of eddies and currents. The thing
to do is to watch them, to exercise a
little common sense, and on the wave ol
speculation or whatever you please to
call it to come in on top. To attempt
ts direction and control wonld be aa
wild os to try to turn back the Atlantio.
Wall street is the arena in which the
most daring men of the continent, the
greatest speculators of a population of
50,000,000 of people—the majority of
whem, each in his own sphere, is a spec
ulator—meet. No one man can govern
it or them. He who tries it is lost.
Public opinion and the newspaper,whioh
to a great extent mold publio opinion,
magnify individual men in Wall street.
One-half of wliat yon read and three-
fotirtlia of what yon hear is pure ro
mance. Wall street is the business
barometer of tho country, and not only
of this country but of the world, so far
as our relations and the relations of tho
world are interdependent. Wall street
does not govern; it is governed. It does
not control; it is controlled. They say
combinations are formed, traps laid,
springs set. In this age of instantane
ous communication from San Francisco
to St. Peterburg, the latest dispatoh
will upset the most ounning combina
tion that can possibly be formed.
What le Wine Hade Off
As wine merchants are petitioning the
French government to put a stop to the
manufacture of artificial wines, the pe
titioners asserting that not one-third of
the wine used in Paris is made of
grapes, Americans will naturally won
der what the spurious French wines are
made of. An exchange says that there
are a number of large factories near
Paris in which wines are mode from
rotten apples, damaged dried fruits of
all kinds, beets and spoiled molasses.
But there are not enough of these ma
terials to make as muoh wine as is re
quired by foreign trade. Turnip juioe
has been worked over into wine, and
Amerioan oider is the basis of millions
of bottles of champagne, but good apples
and turnips are too costly to be wasted
on cheap wines, snehaa most Americans
buy. Some of the temperance socie
ties might find the returns they are
after by satisfying public curiosity about
what wines are made of.
The result of the first systematic at
tempt to ascertain the strength of Ju
daism on this continent has just been
made publio. Altogether returns re
ceived from 1,000 places show that
there are in the United States 278 con
gregations with a membership of
12,546. Making allowance for the
places not heard from the total Jewish
population is placed at 250,000 souls.
Of these about 12,000 are located in
Pennsylvania. Tho oldest congregation
in the country is the Shaary Showaym,
of Lancaster, organized in 1776, while
the Rodef Shalom, of Philadelphia, is
the next oldest, having been organized
in 1780. The riohest congregation is
-the Temple Emmanuel, of New York,
whioh, although only established in
1843, and having but 462 members,
owns real estate and other property to
the value of 9700,000. The publio in
stitutions established by the sect in the
United States include five hospitals,
eleven orphan asylums and homes, and
six free schools. Its dootrines are
enunciated by seventeen newspapers
and magazines.. The 278 congregations
in America own between them property
valued at $6,750,000, and over 13,00
children attend the religious schools.
m
A certain editor of a weekly paper
made a practice of “stopping the press to
announce,” it he had nothing of more
importance to announce than a dog-fight.
One week everything was as dull as a
patent office report, buttherulingpassion
cropped out as follows: “We stop the
press to announce that nothing has
occurred since we went to press of suffl-;
oient interest to induce us to stop the
press to announce it.”—Norristown
Herald.
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