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LES MISERABLES.
For what aro wo tkanktul? O (ago, declare.
From toot high, carren pulpits, tosuffering men:
We lixt to four iermon, yoor anthem, your prayer.
Tour soft benediction. No answer la there
To the question we ask you; the chill autumn air
Blowa the word* to our face* again,
Tou're talked cl the merchant (hips tailing the
And told of the treaturea the barreat would yield;
Of the fruit banging low on the o'erburdened
trees:
Of the odorous breath of the vino on the breeze;
but whence comes the mandate, the law that de
crees *
That we starve In the brown Stubblefield*
We battled at noonday with dust and with heat;
We sang and we jested to lighten our toil;
We hoped the drear winter with plenty to greet—
Ah, the mirage to near fainting hearts was so
sweet— —
But empty our bands, bare and bleeding our feet;
The labor was ours, not tbe spoil.
The harvests are garnered, the myriad sheaves
That pilod tbo wide fields like gold from tbe mine
Fill up tbe great barns from the floor to tho eaves;
lhe grapes tbat grew ripe amidst whispering
leaves
'Stain red, laughing ilps while a starving one
grieves
Outside for the dregs of tbo wine.
For what are we thankful* For prisons ami pain;
For our babes nuird’ring sleep with their famish
ing cries;
For the snow and tho sleet, tho wind and tho rain
Beating out tho dull lire from tho heart and tho
brain:
For the graru wo at last in potter's field galu;
For tho stono with its deeply cut lies.
—Margaret Holmes In New York World.
Tho Fuco of u Scoundrel.
Undoubtedly Cagliostro was the most
able and successful scoundrel who ever
lived. Thomas Carlyle, after carefully
inspecting his pdrtrait, describes his fuco
as follows; “Fittest of visages were
they to be worn by tbo quack of quacks I
A most portentous face of scoundrclism;
a flat, snub, abomiuable face; flat no6ed,
greasy, full of greediness, sensuality, ax
like obstinacy; a forehead impm I "it, re
fusing to be ashamed; and then two eyes
turned up seraphically languishing, as if
in diviue contemplation and adoration;
a touch of quiz, too; on the whole, per
haps tho most perfect quad; face pro
duced in tiie eighteenth century. "—De
troit Free Press.
The Indian’s Physical Emfuraneo.
How much bodily pain one of these
Crow warriors can undergo I witnessed
in 1880, near this post. It was in the
fall of that year when the Hon. Carl
Schurz (tho then secretary of the interior)
visited the captured Sioux and Chey
ennes near Fort Keogh. The honorable
gentleman desired to observe the natives
at one of their dances and feasts, and
Gen. Miles, our commanding officer, con
ducted him t£ the neighboring encamp
ment. The writer accompanied tho
party, which went on horseback. As we
neared tbe spot wo beheld several hun
dreds of Indians squatted down on the
grass, singing, shouting and drumming.
They were not dancing just then, but
wore enjoying a star performance by a
solitary warrior—a Crow Indian—some
thing of an excruciatingly humorous
character—a highly seasoned and palata
ble sido disli in the feast, so to speak.
Tho stalwart Crow stood in tho center
of the circle, entirely naked with tho ex
ception of tho proverbial breech cloth;
tho blood was streaming from a hundred
gashes which ho was self inflicting upon
chest, shoulders, alxlomcn, arms and
legs with sharp edged knives, handed to
him alternately by some of the Sioux and
Cheyenne braves.
The sight was too much for the some
what sensitive organization of tbo fastid
ious secretary, nnd giving bis horso the
spurs, lie soon escaped from tho disgust
ing spectacle. Tho attending Indians en
joyed tho performance liugelv, for they
were chatting away and laughing gayly
wliilo the horrible and certainly very
painful mutilation was going on. Tho
Interpreter informed me that it was an
atonement ceremony on tho part of tho
Crow, \ ho had in tho preceding winter
killed a bioux. From tho samo sourco I
learned afterward that tho very height of
tho festivity was readied by tho nudienco
when tiie performer finally permitted his
body to bo washed with vinegar, after
which ho Indulged in fits nnd convul
sions.—Fort Keogh (Mont.), Cor. Cincin
nati Enquirer.
STRANGE SCENES IN JAPAN.
Pint Impressions-^Tho Common People.
A Strange Festival—Japanese Women.
I SHE HATH GROWN COLD.
Sho hath grown cold whose kindness won me to
| her
. . , | Wherefore Is this*
In Yokohama is a long boulevard called Wishing them more, I find her favors fewer.
the “Bund,’’bounded at each end by a „ ** ,
• •• -,i. If. wheo we liked, to love my friendship flowered
jetty or pier called tho “Hatoba,” with a | With too fond haste,
pleasant wooded bill to the left known as | Oh. »y. snould here by cruel Fare o'erpowered,
tho .“Bluff,’’dotted with white houses. ...... . , . ,
— ’ . , . - I- . , , . , Shall 1 complaint'' “Oh. nol true love com-
The harbor or bay itself is a circle of j plains not,
water jierhaps three miles wide—big | Bping denied.”
enough nt any rate to bo so rough in l " Sh4 “ 0 , t . dl * d:lfnr “ 0h ’ no1 tru# loTa ,ll,da ' D •
windy weather that tho ships have to get j only fol*o pride."
up steam and go to sea for safety. j "Shall I less love herfor her long denlalf"
To come now to “first impressions;” 1 "Nay; year by year,
there are, of course, two kinds of these. SiDce B,le '* w ? rt 'V' thou shalt find thy trial
There are the mere sense impressions, ; Till. It may bo, the m^te “pldt to thee,
tho things which strike tlio eyo nml ear : Fresh from Love's fast,
as strange, and there aro tho “first im- ! Out of her eyes his look of looks shall win thee,
pressions,” which mean tho conclusions
springing to tho mind when tiie oxter- ]
nals aro first understood. Tho former :
class of these “first impressions’' goner- i
ally attach themselves to very trivial
Win tbceat Inst.”
—Tho Spectator.
Ill an Old English Churchyard.
urn..-., ... Not far from tho inn, down a wallixir-
mattcrsThut theyarooften not J tho" less L dered Ian * and then through a paved pas-
entertaining for all tliis. The first thing, (' Ba S° where not more than three persons
for instance. Hint I noticed in Japan was | can ,' vaIk n ^ roa f,’ ca “ a ‘o the grounds
tho .enormous hats of tiie coolies, and I c'nclostng the old church built in sixteen
next the ludicrous combinations of ! hundred and something. (Only places of
European nnd foreign dress worn by worship hero in which I3 conducted the
many young members of the middle j K ™ lco *\ ie Church of England are
class. A pot hat, a cotton wrapper or '“fled churches; all others are “dissc#
bath gown—thovukata—a pair of long * cl ' s chapels. ) It is a handsome edifice
Both Sides of tho Question.
Ethel (entering suddenly)—Jack.
I wish you to lend mo your ha- -ball
mask for—well, for six months at least.
Brother Jack—Gracious! sister mine,
what on eartli are you going to do?
Ethel—Well—if I must tell—it is this
way: You know Harry and I are engaged
now. He comes every evening and
stays—quite a while. Ho is so extremely
demonstrative, and ho has such an—ag
gressive mustache. I believe in freo
trado up to a certain point, then I am
for protection.—Pittsburg Bulletin.
Ills I*laco in Society.
According to a Now York correspond
ent, tho western man is looming up on
tho liorizou of tho New York woman iix
a most astonishing way. “Ho is just be
ginning,” lie writes, “to tako his place
hero in social life, and ho takes an aw
fully big place. Ho takes away the
breath <4 tho eastern girl by liis self
confident methods, and by tho time she
recovers it she very often finds that it is
in reality her heart that is gone.”—Chi
cago Herald.
Bremen's Statue of Liberty.
The quaintest thing in Bremen is its
statuo of liberty, tho “Boland” as it is
called. It is a colossal figure, eighteen
feet high, nnd was erected in tiie center
of tho town in 1413. In ouo huge band
tho giant holds a shield marked with an
cagio (that symbol of liberty in all ages),
in tho other a naked sword. It was tho
gauntlet thrown down to all the world
that Bremen would be free.—Chicago
Herald.
gown—tho yukata—a pair of long
stockings and boots—that was a common
mixture, tho wearer evidently and
rightly thinking that ho had adopted tiie
best points of both systems. An
hour after landing, too, a re
mark mado to mo by an educated
Japaneso gentleman on the Beigic
recurred to me. I lmd nshed him if tiio
comingfonstitution for Japan was likely
to includo trial by jury. “After you
have seen Japan,” ho replied, with a
smile, “you won’t ask that question." I
mean by this that I was struck with tho
fact that the common peoplo of Japan,
courteous and clever and civilized as
they aro in many ways—the hewers of
wood nnd drawers of water and pullers
of jerinkislias—are upon a different plane
from the common jieoplo at home. Ono
might say that they live in two dimen
sions, whereas trial by jury, not in its
origin, but in its significance today, is a
threo dimension idea. Moreover, tho
rulers of Japan see that trial by jury is
often a failure or a farce with us, and
they have no wish to educate tho peoplo.
up to it.
In Japan there are almost as many re
ligious festivals as in Spain, and ono of
these—matsuri is their generic name—
The Sound of Thunder.
One of tho most terse and succinct
descriptions of a natural phenomenon is
that recently given by M. Him, in which
he says that the sound which is known
as thunder is due simply to tho fact that
tho air traversed by nn electric spark,
that is, a flash of lightning, is suddenly
raised to a very high temperature, and
lias its volume, moreover, considerably
increased. The column of gas thus , , ,
suddenly heated and expanded is ™„- ^ being celebrated the other day m the
times several miles long, and a. the Ja -!™ ‘/T";. 1 ,' vont to lo f f or * l
duration of tho flash is not even a ' V,,ll . ,n ', <1e ec Ive tamera, and when I
millionth of n second, it. follows that j |f ct 11 I could hardly believo my eyes-
tlio noise bursts fort], at once from i corresponded more to one s idea of New
Guinea than of Japan. Upon an ordinary
bullock cart a raised platform and scaf-
| folding twenty feet high had been con-
| structed, and bullock and all covered
! with paper decorations and green houghs
i and artificial flowers. In front a girl
J with a grotesque mask danced and post-
! tired, while half a dozen musicians
| twanged impossible instruments and kept
up nn incessant tattoo ; 9a,drums. Cliil-
tho whole column, though for an obser
ver in any ono place it commences where
the lightning is at tho least distance.
In precise terms, according to M. Ilirt^
tho beginning of tho thunder clap gives
us tiie minimum distance of the light
ning, and tbo length of the thunder clap
gives us tho length of the column. Ho
also remarks that when a (Iasi, of light
ning strikes tho ground, it is not neces
sarily from tho place struck that 1ho first
noise is heard. Again, ho points out
that a bullet whistles in traversing tho
nir, so that wo can to a certain extent
follow its flight, tho samo thing also Imp-
pcnhig with e. falling meteorite just be
fore striking tiie earth. The noiso
actually heard lias been compared to tho
sound pro I in* ed when ono tears linen. It
is due, really, to tho fact that the air
rapidly pushed on one sido in front of tho
projectile, whether bullet or meteorite,
quickly rushes back to till tho gap left in
tiie rear.—Scientific American.
Singular Boss of Memory.
A recent medical journal gives tho re
port of a case of singular loss of memory
a curious method or silk manufacture in a young girl residing in New York,
is said to exist in tho Chinese province of i'bitting in he: i room one day, she
Kwangtung. where aro found wild sill: took up a pa.'..age ot letters which
worms feeding on tho camphor tree. The sho intended to answer, and jus
full grown caterpillar is cut open and the ; amazed to find .b..t she could lmtUP)-
silkis taken out in a form resembling i member l lie names or apjwaraucu of any
catgut, subjected to a hardening process, j of tie- writers, all of whom were her
nnd mado into fish lines.—Arkansaw j own personal friends.
Traveler. i She was calm and sane except upon
1 this point: In r memory of iiersons seomed
Sharks and Convicts. j to bo suddenly and wholly obliterated.
There (at Cayenne) when a convict j She hastily descended to tiie room
dies tho body is borne to tho sea and a , where tho family was gathered for
great bell is tolled. And then is the vis- dinner, and found that she could
cous, glaucous sea surface furrowed sud- net remember a single name or
denly by fins innumerable, swart, sharp, face, except that of her mother. Her
triangular—the legions of tho 'sharks
' rushing to tho hideous funeral. They
know the belli—Harper’s.
Knowlcdgo of Haitian Nature.
“And so your nico clergyman is going
to bo married, Mrs. Marigold,!. I hope
you’ll like his wifo as well as you like
him.”
“Well, ma’am, I’m sure I hope Re
but we generally find that when tho gen
tleman is haffablc, tho lady’s ’aughty!"
—London Punch.
Chiefs as Top Spinners.
An independent state in tho Malay “Pe
ninsula is Pahang. It has just been ex
amined from tho outskirts by some En
glishmen, who report it capablo of sup
porting a largo poulation if tho rulers
would cease from Bpending their time
chiefly in top spinning.—New York Sun.
father, sisters nnd brothers appeared to
her ns,strangers, nor was it possible to
recall them to her. The faculty uf mem
ory of persons ap|x*nr«l to bo paralyzed.
It was found by tiie physicians that tiiis
singular effect was produced by tho lodg
ment of a clot of blood upon a certain
part of tiie brain.
Another well known mental disorder,
which produces forgetfulness of words,
results from abnormal pressure, or soft
ening, in another part of tho brain. Tho
patient frequently takes one word, such
as "yes” or “water,” and repeats it a
1 thousand times, imagining that he is con
versing with fluency and case.—Youth's
Companion.
'llren wild with delight crowded up
among tho performers nnd clung like
flies nil over tho cart, and only that
Providenco which takes care of them, to
gether with drunkards nnd tho United
States of America, preserved them from
making a Juggernaut of it. On foot
around tho has hi, as the whole structure
is called, were twenty or thirty men,
naked ns to their legs, their faces chalked,
with straw hats a yard wide, many col
ored tunics, in which scarlet predomi
nated, deckl'd out with paper streamers
and Dowers enougli to make a Sioux
chief despair of himself, dancing along
to a very rude chant and nt every step
banging upon tiie ground a long iron bar
tilted with loose rings.
Tho colors, tiie song, tho dance, tho
music and the clanging iron formed to
gether a spectacle as barbarous in taste
as possible, something wholly different
from what ono had supposed tho gentle
culture of tho Japanese to be. At tho
timo I was greatly puzzled, but subse
quently I learned that this matsuri is not
so barbarous as it looks. . I took it to bo
a serious religious ceremony. I found
that it had just as much to do with relig
ion as an Italian carnival has—that is,
it was born of religious feeling and lias
entirely forgotten its ancestry. Bud
dhism, which is the religion of the com
mon people, has always played to tho
gallery, so to speak, and tiie priests of
today make money out of tho matsuri,
partly in tho eshapo of tho coins which
aro thrown into tho temple ponds and
partly from their share of tho subscrip
tions of tlio well to do people of tho neigh
borhood, by whom the festival is sup
ported. The affair is thus a Japaneso
carnival, where people drink fake and
play tlio fool themselves or watcli others
doing so, exactly as nt Nice or Venice.
No account of “first impressions,” too,
exteriorly, built of stone, with n steeple
whoso fine proportions have lieen much
admired by students of architecture. All
around, in tlio great churchyard, lio tho
dead of past generations—«a few of tlio
inscriptions dating back nearly threo bun
dred years. Somo of tlio graves, I was
told, contain tlio remains of n dozen per
sons—ono coffin being placed upon tiie
top of another, room ix'ing mado for tlio
new comers as the earlier tenants of tho
graves moulder into dust. Here, after
patient search, I found tho graves of an
cestors long since passed away.—William
T. Tinsley in Lyons Republican.
One's Own Lite Experiences.
What would lio tho effect upon litera
ture if every (icrson of spirit nnd tho
ability to write fairly well were to em
body in a siuglo romance the most vivid
and commanding experiences of his own
life, from tho timo when lio began to
think to his maturity, and tell faithfully
tlio most sacred emotions of his own
heart, while faithfully photographing
tho peoplo anil tho life around him? Wo
should have a flood of intimate autobio
graphies, but slightly guarded by tho
veil of fiction; heart breaking confes
sions, interspersed with broad views of
tho beauty that there is in life, and
dashed with humor; and whoso reality
would command otir attention and our
sympathies in spite of ourselves.—Boston
Transcript.
A Watch's Cain or Loss.
A ship's chronometer is so adjusted as
to remain always in ono position, no
matter what the motion of the ship may
lie, and on that account it keeps better
timo than a watch that is placed in the
pocket during the day, on a tablo at
night, and is more or less Irregularly
jarred from day to day by tho motion of
tho body. A pocket watch that gains or
loses only a second a day is considered an
excellent timepiece, but in order to ixi so
considered it must make the gain steadily
ono day after the other, or loso in tho
samo way—it must not bo a second fast
one day nnd a second slow tho next.
“B. B.” in Tlio Epoch.
Snake into anil Yellow Fcvor.
Dr. Urias da Silveira lias sent to tho
Medico-Chirurgical society of Rio do Ja
neiro a quantity of a vegetable substanco
which is very common in tho provinces-*-
Minas geraes and Barra mansa—and
which, lio say3, ho has used with great
advantage in tho bites of cobras, espe
cially during tho period in which tho
most serious symptoms—hemorrhages
and ataxo-adynamic phenomena—ap,-
peared. lie [xiints out analogies between
tho effects of snako bite and of yellow
fever, both of a symptomatic anil patbo-
Plij-dotoglcaJ Bearing of Corsets,
In the biological section the vexed
question of stays and tight lacing was
discussed hi a separate department. Tho
attendance of the fair sox was especially
large. The general expectation which
they apparently entertained- that the
pa;icr would condemn the wearing of
stays was. however, agreeably disap
pointed, * Mr. C. 8. Boy, professor of
pathology tit Cambridge, and Mr. J. 0.
Adams university administrator of
pathology, who had announced a joint
pa;«T ''On tlio Physiological Bearing of
Waist Belts anil Stays,” blessed instead
nt liaaaiii;; these articles.
They have Ini civ been making some
palhologie.il experiments, nml had found
that n good dual of thb blood stored use-
linsly in the ulxliiminal veins is, by slight
pressure, placed advantageously at the
ilisjKisal of the muscles, brain, and skin.
This explains how men, ns well ns women,
instinctively employ somo method of ab
dominal compression, wearing waistbands
or belts, or the more elaborate corsets, at
jieriods of increased activity. No doubt
fashion 1ms sometimes led to the distor
tion of tho female figure by means of
Btays, hut if not laced too tight tlio mod
ern corset, by clasping tlio waist and sup
porting the bosom and back, constitutes
a convenient combination of tho different
forms of girdle which havo been found
useful by tho women of all civilized
nations from tho remotest times. Of
course, during sleep they aro put off, but
during hours of exertion, social or other
wise, reasonable tight lacing is fitted to
increase mental and physical activity.
They, however, cautioned voting ladies
against carrying this to an injudicious
extreme.
By the way, it was suggested to train
ers of horses that if they girthed on the
racing saddle* behind tlio ribs instead of
over them they would thereby gain for
the horse tlio same advantage ns was ex
perienced by tlio long distance runner
from his broad tight leather belt.
Several physicians immediately at
tacked the paper. Dr. Wilherforco Smith
considered it a most dangerous one to bo
read to an nssembly liko that. Ho de
clared tho evils of tight lacing to bo man
ifold and terrible, and that it is perfectly
refreshing to find a girl tho muscles of
wlioso back have not been withered by
wearing stays. Miss Becker took tho
otiicr Bide, and advocated rigid and not
elastic stays, at tho samo time giving her
approval of modern fashions as hotter
than somo dress reforms.—London Tele
graph.
How to FJnlnh a Boole.
So I hold a book 13 only*just half writ
ten when i ho author nnd tho printer and
binder arc through with it. It is hardly
that. It is only when tho readers havo
annotated it that it is done. Tlio lost
edition should includo tho marks mid re
marks of reputablo readers, and then the
book would bo finished. This is tlio way
it would read: “This passage is more
eloquent than true—the facts in the case
are these;” and "this point tlio author
should rewrite in tho light of modern
psychology,” and “hero wo havo a noble
illustration of how a great mind grap
ples with delicate questions often in
vain,” or “this passage is written under
tlio influence of tiie bigotry that the
author supposes lie lias escaped."
So a running commentary is made, and
tho reader gets tho advantage of both
what ho reads and what ho writes. Hcfw
is that? you say. I will tell you. You
will novor think a matter through and
through until you write it down, and
ns you writo j-ou are compelled to sift
your general notions and mako them par
ticular and accurate. So that when you
are- well through a volume you havo
written n hook if you aro a good anno
tator. Really, there aro many of our
best authors who never wrote any other
Bort of book.—“E. P. P.” in Globe-Dem
ocrat.
Supentltlmu Concerning Her Jewels.
Jewels havo at all periods of history
, . , . - - - , i formed the most common nnd diverse
foundations for peculiar supsrstitions.
r " r ” " There is a lady of wealth and position in
drug lie sent should lie tried in eases of
yellow fever.—Scientific American.
Bather*Tlinn Go Bad:.
Yes,” said she, "I will accept your
proposal this time, and wo will ho mar
ried lxjfore winter.”
O, delight!” exclaimed lie. "Your
sudden chango bewilders me."
I know it must,” continued the sweet
tiling, “but tlio fact is I havo just learned
that I didn't pass in my examination last
spring, and rather than go back to the
seminary and stand the disgrace of being-
put down I’ll—I’ll even marry you.”
No cards.—Chicago Tribune.
New York who is tlio liappy possessor of
an exquisite pair of diamond earrings.
They were given to her by her father on
tlio occasion of her marriage. In any
general sense of tho word nobody would
ever think of declaring this woman to be
superstitious. Sho would probably in
dignantly deny such on imputation. Yet,
Binco those solitaires were presented to
her, more than twouty years ago, they
have never been removed from her cars,
not because of their great value, but ow
ing to the fact that she is confident somo
horrible disaster will overtako lier should
she take them out. Night and day,
therefore, with an utter disregard for tho
fitness of things, whether she bo clad in
calico or arrayed like Solomon in purple
and fine linen and glorious apparel, these
immense white stones, brilliant as min
iature suns, gleam in her ears. At tbo
A Truth Well Expressed.
“Many persona criticise in order nos. to
seem ignorant; they do not know that
indulgenco is a mark of the highest cui-
would lie complete without an illusion to tore, ” says Carmen Sylva in the current __
tho grace and charm of the Japanese number of Tho Woman’s World, and l. more mention of their possible removal
women. The first timo one sees a couple is a truth well expressed. It is the hltlc sho turns palo and immediately changes
of pretty and prettily dressed Japaneso learning, the narrow .culture, that is tho subject. I verily believe sho would
girls walking abroad under their huge carping and censorious, and mistakes flio of fright if by any chance some one
variegated pajier umbrella, with tlidir fault finding for criticism. Tlio highest should surreptitiously tako them out.—
elaborately dressed black hair, their jxir- and most liberal culture i3 generous and Clara Lanza.
! feet tiny hands and feet, their large believing.—Boston Traveller.
| brown eyes—set obliquely if they are j
beauties;" with their delicate, soft ! Elcctrlo Light fn War.
Tho Ideal Battlo Ship.
The ideal battle ship, according to Ad
miral Sir Georgo Elliott, possesses quali
fications ranking in this order; 1. Sea
worthiness; 2. Guns tfhd armor; X
Handiness; 4. Coal eudurance; 0. Speed;
0. Light draught of water.—New York
Sun.
On a Pcaco Footing.
At 200 yards tho Lepel riflo would go
through two men. Tho French arsenals
T2rt> Sons of Malta.
These Maltese are a curious mixture of
Moor, Italian, Greek and Aral), and I . „„„ . „
know not what else. They speak a i>ecu- ! toned rv:^ : garments, and tho heavy flat J Tho German military authorities liavo
liar language, which has no grammar, silk ohi twisted round mill round their ' experimented successfully with night at-
btit since tho British occupation every | waist and ending in a colossal bow he- tacks by the aid of electrio light. Tho
shopkeeper sjeaks English, and lie lies in hind; with their funny motion on their Ix-am of light is reflected from a mirror
wait for the innocent tourist as tlio clip-clapping pattens, half undulating 200 yards distant from tho lamp, so that
spider did for tho fly. He does not lies!- .run and half waddle, and their merry
tatu to implore you “just to enter and laughter and chatter—when one sees
look nt his goods;" but beware of liisal- them fur the first time, I say, one is i
hircmeuts if you would onca;*) with a [ usually delighted enough to follow them I Wantrd to Know.
up and down for half an hour under a I . He—My darling, you must bo mine,
fine pretense of losi:: 0 one's way or look- I yearn for you every day.
ing into the shops. At least I did, till I She—That’s all right; butwhat I want
succeeded in getting a snap photograph to know is, will you cam for mo every
of them. —Yokohama Cor. New York day after we aro married?—New Yori.
I Tribune.
the enemy cannot tell where tho battery
is.—Now York Sun.
full purse, for lie lias a truly tempting
display. —Malta Cor. San Francisco
Chronicle.
If a nolo is lost or stolen it does not
have enough ammunition to supply each re * eas *' ma J* er > joy it, if the \\ orld.
soldier with 2,500 cartridges.—New York consideration for which it was given and
Onn , the account can bo proven.
Waterproofing Process for Leather.
Ii) will not ho long before tho shoe
maker can add to ilia stock of raw mate
rials a waterproof leather. Tho process,
which lias been recently perfected, is not
only of service on tho uncut leather, but
can bo used in rendering worthless leather
valuable by plumping, stiffening nnd
waterproofing it for insoles, counters,
box toes, etc. Every part of a hoot or
slioe can be ‘‘waterproofed" either be
fore or after it is finished.—Chicago
News.
It is asserted that, under certain con
ditions. the bark of tho qailla tre:- * f
Chili possesses cleansing properties -a-
perior to those of tho best soap.—
sav.' Traveler.