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flSNIiliNT. or A. VV. Li .11.MLR,
THE FEET AND THE HEAD.
A DOCTOR GIVES SOME HINTS THAT
MAY BE USEFUL TO HUMANITY.
Cold Foot and ilcaiiaclirg Said to go
Hand in Hand, ko to Speak~>The Rer¬
un u IVlij'-llemody for tlie Trouble,
Panful Hints.
Tlie days of cold feet and headaches
have come. Medicine, unfortunately,
can do very little for these troubles, and
persons afflicted in this way must make
tip their minds to suffer or else give over
the habit of dressing tlie feet after the
conventional mode. If headaches ami
cold feet were all the ills that arise from
the improper treatment of tlie feet and
lack of attention to their needs, tlie
foibles of fashion might be followed at
perhaps the expense of a few hours’ dis¬
comfort, but unluckily those troubles are
but the beginning of other disorders and
many terrible nervous affections.
“Cold feet ami headaches go hand in
band, as it ware,” said a physician con¬
nected with one of th? city hospitals to i
reporter. The person who has cold feet is
almost sure to have violent nervous head¬
aches. Why? Because tlio blood not cir¬
culating in the extremities, is crowded
into tlie upper portion of the body anil
exerts an undue pressure upon the blood
vessels of Hie brain. Nothing causes con¬
gestion of tho internal organs more quick¬
ly than this crowding of the blood into tlie
body that should circulate freely to and
through tho extremities.
PERPSTUATIXG THE DIFFICULTY.
“Tlio trouble increases in proportion to
tho continuance of the practice of ignor¬
ing the needs of the feet. Tlie blood ves¬
sels of the extremities become thickened
and narrowed by tlie lack of flow of the
vital fluid, and thus tlio difficulties aro
perpetuated. Persons suffering in this
way—and who is not to a greater or less
extent—should soak their feet every
night in warm water and take plenty of
out door exorcise. This counteracts the
tendency to congestion, enlarges the ves¬
sels and helps permanently to relieve the
feet of their special tendency to coldness.
“The conventional shoe, perhaps, does
move to keep the feet cold than any other
thing. A loose shoe, I know, is quite as
uncomfortable as a tight one. I know,
also, tliat a shoe should fit as closely as a
stocking. But where it should bo tight is
orouuil the ankle, across tlie instep aud
around the arch of the foot ami heel. Jt
should have, however, a looso upper and
a largo sole. The bones of the foot need
plenty of room for tlie movement. A
loose shoe is quite as productive of ■
and other discomforts as the one that
pinches; but if it pulls the muscles of tho
feet awry, pinches up the bones in one
placo anil lets tlicra spread out in another
Until they can liave lio natural action tho
circulation must he interfered with.
Women are more troubled with cold feet
than men. In fact, they aro more gener¬
ally afflicted with diseases of tho feet than
men. There are vory few women that do
not have corrugated nails, and yet there
is no more need of it than that they should
have misshapen nails on their fingers.
RESULTS OF BAD TREATMENT.
“Have you ever noticed at the seashore
that occasionally you see a woman with
every nail ou her feet threaded by rough
linos, and’the color instead of being a
bright, healthy pink, is yellow anil un¬
healthy? Then you have seen the results
of improperly dressing the feet. Again,
you see the same disease manifest itself
in little holes that loo.k as if the nail had
been worm eaten and was full of little
hollow pits. A poor circulation of the
blood, resulting from indigestion, malaria
or squeezing the feet is the causo of all
this.
“Almost all the troubles of the feet aro
unnecessary. Caution and common sense
will prevent them. Of course there are
some forms of joint disease, gouty and
rheumatic inflammations, foT instance,
which the possessor is not directly respon¬
sible for, but even these if taken in time
can be cured. Feet that perspire should
be washed every night anil rubbed with
a weak solution of carbolic acid. The
stockings should be changed daily and tho
shoes should have insoles that can be
chnugcd as often as the stockings. The
soldiers of the Bavarian army are required
to bathe their feet every day and anoint
them with a pomade made of mutton tal¬
low and salicylic acid. This prevents
undue perspiration and keeps the feet
from becoming diseased. Most feet can
1 w-MJ-'Lff re’retirhm murusing
In hot
ammonia anil soap freely. Then they
should he rubbed brisklv with a rough
bath towel and have a small portion of
glycerine spread over them. Care must bo
token however to use good soap. Bad
soan is the beginning of many evils.
■Mnidi of the most hicriilv is nerfumed nrtt
clos known to the trade mule from the
refuse of rendering houses and is full of
alkali. Such soaps are positively injuri
©ns. Plenty of good soap, warm water, a
frequent change of dressing and shoes
that fit the foot will prevent any firouhle
of a local character, cure corns nnd huu
ions and prevent headaches and cold feet,
and sensible shoes and care of tho feet
will oftentimes do in a week what medi
dues and the doctor could never accom
jillsli.—N?vv York Mail un"! Express.
LUMPKIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1887.
TO FAME.
'“Bright fairy of the morn, with flowers arfayed,
Whose beauties to thy young puisuer seem
Beyond the ecstasy of poet's dream—
Shall I o’artatie thee, ero thy lustre fade?
•‘Ripe glory of the noon, to dazzled eyes
A pageant of delight and power and gold,
Dissolving into mirage manifold—
Do I o'ertakc than, or mistake my prize?
“Dull shadow of the evening, gaunt and gray,
At random thrown, beyond mo or ahovo,
Aud cold as memory in the arms of iovo—
Have I o'ertakoa thee, but to east away?”
“No morn, or coon, or ove, am I," 1 sho said,
“But night, tho depth of night behind tho sun;
By oil mankind pursued, but never won,
Uircil my shadow fails upon a shade.“
—It. D. Blackmoro in Ilarpor’s Magasino.
JEANNE’S SMILE.
A young man and a fair young girl
were sitting in tho Park Mouccau talk
'i 1 ibe shade. !
“You say you have found me very nice; :
well tuat is all right, but after ward"-i
Well, afterward, my dear Jeanue, I
what else could 1 think except that I \
iovo you and you will return my
lo . r
y® That ~ all well,” slio inter- i
• 13 very j
rupte.l; “but so far 1 have lived an honest
girl and J intend to continue so.” |
All tins was said with tlio utmost good
humor and good faith, wif.iont the least
prudery or affectation and with a smilo \
that disclosed the most adorable teeth. ;
Antotuo I have not. yet told you los
uame was too neighbor of Jeanne. lie
was very much in love with her, which
was not astonishing, as she was very at
tractive, with the most irresistible smile j
and teeth so beautiful, indeed, tliat An- j
tome had never forgotten them since tho
first frugal breakfast when lie had seen
same I lie young time girl I am biting obliged a peach. to tliat At tlio lie ]
say i
had over thought of marrying her, for he 1
was somewhat ambitious, young, inde- j
pendent and counted upon marriage in.
the future accompanied by a good round •
dot, which Jeanne could not bring him. |
She was a line workwoman, earning good
wages in a fashionable store, but nothing
more.
After the interview which I have re
lated Antoine, although always obliging
and amiable, became more reserved in Lis
intercourse with the young girl. Both of
them, in fact, held themselves on tlie lie
tensive; cho did not appear to wish to
marry anymore than he, so they remained
simply good friends.
One day,however, she announced to him
that she was gojiig to leave Paris. 8he
had a brother who had long been estab
bribed in America and he wished her to
come out and join him. Antoine was
somewhat annoyed at this intelligence,
as lie bad become so accustomed to their
Sunday talks.
\\ hen tlie day of departure came lie nc
corapanicd her to the railroad station and
then returned, not without a feeling
regret, though at tho same time he
her departure very coolly, saying to him
seif: “Perhaps it is all for tiro lies!;” that
a little romance begun like this rarely
had a serious denouement.
But one never knows when lie is really
involved, and ho consoled himself for the
past by dreaming of tlio future. Never
tiieiess, lie could not so easily forget bis
first fancy.
More than n year liad passed since the
departure of .Jeanne, and her old
bor thought lie was on tlie point of sue
cess, for lie had been introduced into an
honorable family, authorized to pay his
court to tlie daughter of the house. Slio
was dark and did not resemble Jeanne in
the least. However, ns to that, lie had
not thought of it or dreamed of making
the comparison, the pust seemed so far
owoy. .
This was the way matters stood when
one flno morning ho stopped astounded
before a wall on which was stuck a great
beautiful bill, upon which a good
draughtsman had drawn tlio charming
head of a young girl with an enchanting
smilo and exquisito pearly teeth. It was
the bead of Jeanne—there could be no
doubt of it—and above it in great red
letters ono could read:
ITiie Best Dentrifice in tiie World :
; The Tooth Powdkb of :
I Robinson, Jn. ;
Antoine went nearer—the bill bore the
name ■ct a New York printing house.
Then it woo over therein America that
they hod taxon Jeanne s portrait, and
thi3 portrait was uson to advertise the
ducts of an industrial exotic.
“It is very stupid,” said Antoine
himself; but lie could not keep from gaz
ins at the portrait and saying Bhe was
very pretty.
As the new bill attracted a great deal
of attention, Antoine was compelled to
listen to the comments upon her beauty,
as if the opinion of such boobies amounted
to anything.
This day liis fiancee did not appear so
attractive, and he discovered tliat she had
two erooked teeth, which he had
noticed before; however he would give it
no attention, as incisors did not constitute
happiness. Iio even reproached himself
for tho impression Jeanne’s portrait had
made upon him, saying “It would pass
off next day.” But the next cl ly and
many days following it It was the samo
thing. _0
Tlie firm of Robinson, Jr, advertised !
“ l’Amerieaine”—incessant, persistent
advertising, taking all shapes and cover
Ing ail places. Tlie most careless eye
could not avoid seeing them.
At the iloor of tlio tobbaco shops, in all
tlie omnibus bureaus anil wino shops was
tho same smiling head anil tlio same bill
stretched out. Then it was the turn of
tlie papers; on all tlio fourth pages a plato
appeared, an imperfect reproduction, it
was true, of tho colored bill, still sufil
ciently strong to more than recall the
memory of Jeanne. It became a perfect
| craze—an aggravation—-and at last an in
cident occurred which heaped to the full
j Antoine’s measure of irritation, j
! One evening at the house of his fiancee,
a little nephew, the spoiled darling of tho
I house, amused himself playing with some
empty boxes covered with the brilliant
P^res, “The best «'> Dentifrice d these boxes in tlie had World-tho contained j
1
| Dentifrice of Robinson, Jr., the portrait
i ?t the Jeanne beautiful with ornament that eternal on the smile top. always An
t °m e could control himself no longer;
I vvitn a movement of impatience lie sent the
boxes here and there, llic child began
tocry; the young girl took the part of tho
child; the father took tho part of the
SB«“3 as Automg, bis nerves
_
A Weekly Newspaper, Published ia the Political, Social and Agricultural Interests of Stewart County.
nil on edge, promptly replied to this
weeping family, the discussion grew hot
and ended in a grand quarrel.
There was no marriage, and, thinking
it over, Antoine, though a littlo vexed,
could not prevent himself from saying:
“These peoplo were bad tempered, and
doubtless lie had made a happy escape.”
Under the influence of all these inci¬
dents ho finally determined to leave Faris.
lie would go and rent a little hut in the
o itskirts of the city; there lie would re¬
gain his tranquillity and at least avoid
seeing tlie papers. Ho would walk in the
fields or the woods and for intellectual
amusement piny “gup and hall.”
Just iu front of tlio house which lie
rented Hie re. was a great white wall
whose reflections had frequently annoyed
I’ir.t. One day ho saw some workmen
suspend from it a scaffold and begin to
cover tho wail with'a coat ef blue. This
did not distress Antoine in the least—il
would lie softer for the eyes. Then after
they laid worked some time, ascending
and descending tlie movable bridges of
the scaffolding, they outlined with chalk
something very difficult to distinguish at
sued a distance,
At last, however, a painter came with
his potsof colors, and Antoine, interested
and curious, saw him littlo by littlo ilo
sign a gigantic head; this head became
blonde, witli si.filing mouth and pearly
teeth, and above it in golden letters the
name of Bobinson, Jr., shone forth to all
observers. It was Jeanne again—always
Jeanne! Antoine renounced the struggle
and returned to Paris resigned and sub
jn ated. There, surrounded by these piet
ures, that sometimes stretched in dozens
along tlie walls, lie began to ask himself
j f it would not he bettor to marry—even if
it had not been hotter to marry Jeanne
than to liave let her go so far away,
But could lie find her now? Aud if sc
yvas she still free?
This idea taking possession of him, bo
wrote to Robinson, Jr., and asked him for
the address of tlie young girl who had
been tlie model for his advertisements,
Twenty days after ho received an answer,
and at the top of the paper the inevitable
head, finely engraved. We will translate
the letter for you:
“Dear Sir—I thank you for your lot
ter, which added much to the interest of
my publicity. It will be printed in thirty
eight of the papers of the new world. If
yo „ will send me vonr card photograph
and tho authority to roprodueo it I will
gladly forward to you $100. As to the
obliging child whoso smiling head is from
this time forth inseparably connected with
r .iy business, I do not know what 1ms bo
CO mc oflier. One tiny I bought her photo
graph, which appeared to me altogether
suitable for the end for which I desired it,
R „ d reproduced it with the consent of the
model, to whom I paid $200 but whom I
never saw. With much respect, etc.,
“Robinson Jn."
Antoine was forced to givoit up, though
hf, hoped that tlio publicity given to his
letter in tlie American papers would at
tract, tho attention of Jeanne, and she
would write to him; but nothing came,
Months passed by in anxiety and fever
ish excitement. At last one day he saw
again in the Hue Batignolles the heu.il of
Jeanne, living, smiling, speaking in the
same well remembered voice, aud slio was
holding out a hand to greet him Was
i, c crazy? No, it was no hallucination, it
ass Jeanne, Jeanne herself, returned to
France and who was there before him.
Forgetting that they were in tlie street,
lie embraced her then anil there and, put
ting her iti a carriage, anxious and ex¬
cited, he made her relate her story and
then ho told ins.
She hail lost her brother in America;
he had left her a lit tle legacy and she had
returned to Paris.
It was she—really and truly herself;
only after the first emotion had passed it
seemed to Antoine that Iter smile was »ot
quite the same; and, looking still closer,
It seemed to him that her beautiful teeth
had not the brilliancy of other days, lie
spoke of it to her.
“Ah, yes,” she replied, “you doubtless
have heard them speak of Robinson, Jr.”
“Robinson, Jr. I 1 was in corrcspond
enco with him; ho paid you $200 for your
photograph.”
“Indeed! You know that? Well, it is
true, and lie also made me a present of a
grout box of his powder, 1 was wroi rig to
use it, for see how it has served me!’
All the same, Antoine married Jeanne,
who no longer recommended the incoui
parable powder.
Little by littlo tho bills of Robinson,
Jr., have been replaced by others, but our
lovers are no less happy, Jeanne’s Smilo
no loss enchanting and her teeth almost
as brilliant as in other days, hut she no
longer uses tho “Best Dentifrice in the
World—the Powder of Robinson, Jr.” —
Translated for The Cincinnati Enquirer
from the French of Charles Nutter by E.
G. Wagoner,
What Your Hand Meant*.
A soft hand, said Mr. Heron-Alien, in
his lecture, indicated a fervent but ficklo
lover, while a hard hand denoted a long
enduring, though possibly smoldering,
love. A spatula hand, wherein tho tips of
tho lingers were broad and the teps flat,
denoted Inconstancy, desire for change and
love of locomotion. It was found in
jockeys and colonists. A hand with
conically tipped lingers indicated iuspira
lion, instinct, Bohemianism and gener
off ty.
A hand with squarely built linger tips
showed order anil arrangement, particu
larly when the joints throughout wero
prominent. A scientific hand wesirrogu
lar to a marked degree, the joints lumpy
and highly developed—altogether a mal
formed conglomeration ha:ni of knots and
twists. This sort of is invariably
small, while the analytic hand is large,
The hand of the idealist is the most sym
metrical of all aud the most useless in
every sense.
A supply hand indicates generosity.
A hand the fingers of which when placed
together and held to tho light exhibit
transparency, anil between which no rays
of light penetrate, shows avarice, or, in
other words, closeness. Fingers which
submitted to tho samo test will not lit
alongside each other without openings,
and which are denser, Indicate curiosity
and loquacity. People with hands that
aro always white are egotistical and have
no sympathy.-Now York Sun.
Tho Plothy.mograph.
An instrument lias been invented called
a pletliysmograph, which measures the
expenditure of mental forco in thinking,
\ man in financial difficulties who has a
n , to t0 nicpt will, it is estimated, wear
out two plctliysmograplis a day.—Boston
Courier. . „ __________
TO A BOY PIPING, i
I I
Fipo while thou may'st, oh happy boy.
Thy songs so true, so r; 1 re,
That cost a littlo pain to bo
A : this r.oft natural air.
That from thy lips take caster birth
Thau violets from the showered earth.
Pipo while thou may’st, the world is deaf;
This time is ail thine own;
Pipe in thy mirth, nor wasto a sigh,
11 cause thou art unknown;
The songs that win a nation’s ears
Ara rod with blood, are wet with tears.
rips whilo thou may'st, and ch beware,
Whcu taou to love c’uait bow,
That she with whwiti tl»y pipo then pleads
Bo pnro as thou art now,
Nor lot thy songs uutuhed bo
By aught that shames tho I>Iuso and thee.
Pipo while thou may'st, for life is short,
And, ero thus?) leaven are brown,
Death in hia hands thy pipo may grasp
And toss it rudely down,
And bring the to tho sauloss shore,
Where voice and pipe aro hoard r.s> more.
—Longman's Jlagazino.
AN OPERATOR'S STORY.
One afternoon last September, at tho
Glen Mountain house, at Watkin’s Glen,
New York, a telegraphic friend told mo
how he won groat success in his profes
sion, as follows;
Almost throe years first visited
this famous watering plaeo. I had been
“working a circuit” i:i various cities and
stopped off here for a littlo recreation.
One evening in the dining room, amid
tho clatter of dishes and knives and forks,
my trained car caught a meaning from
the idle illumining on the table of knives
in tho hands of two well dressed men op
posito me. To the crowd, if noticed at
all, those sounds only indicated impa
tieneo at the hurrying yet delayed waiters,
If it had been commonplace couversa
tion I should not have heeded their com
implication, except, perhaps, for sport to
“call” them. They ticked oiTn phrase or
two at intervals during their meal. Once
the head waiter noticed tho clinking of a
spoon upon a cup, and inquired if either
of them wanted anything. For an in
slant thov were confused, then one said lie
wanted more coffee. A waiter replen
ished Ilia nearly full cup. After that tho
ticks wore less frequent. Of course it was
none of my business, hut I could not kelp
hearing tile tick talk, mnl tho eonveraa
tion was so curious it greatly interested
no.
That very evening, while I was reading
in the office, tlie two couversers in light
liiiig lingo at. tho tabio came in and lit
frcali cigars. Occasionally the hotel
“sounder - ’clicked tidings from the world
in the aurroiuuling night, Tho death of
a man of national inst^ment. prominence was her
aided by the Before the
liotel operator iuforraqd the bystandersof
til'll’ inijioi’ta^fc news one of the strange
operators saicl to the other: “lie'sdead a
last.”
“Hush!” whispered tho other. betraying
Nohodv noemed to notico tlio
observation or its rejoinder.
As 1 wondered at I ho object in view ol
that p ili- of mysterious couversers I did
not revest my identity, but determined to
lu-eil r.' iv signs. Whenever they were in
the dining room first I thought best not
to sit near them, and, therefore, did not
obtain any peculiar information.
After a steamboat ride ou beautiful
Eenec-.i 1 visited Ithaca to inspect Cornell
r.uiveri.ity. When X returned to Watkins
the landlord told me ho was sorry he
could nut give mo my former room ho
cause ot an extra large excursion parly,
Ho could, however, give mo one ns good,
which I thankfully accepted.
That night I was far from being sorry
for tlio cl’.angc ef room, us I heard inys
terious raps on the wall. Somebody was
signaling to someone in another room,
If tho mossngo ha:l be-sn ordinary I should
have signaled that I was an uuinten
tionat listener.
It was the sumo old jargon of unmean
ing words and phrases. From the fro
qnant repetition of some of them a few
lm:l become faraiiar to mo. As a com
in31V?. n J. operator I had hr.iulled many
cipher messages. To amuse myself I
tried to solve these In them a leading
expression had been: “The soup 13 lato.”
Now the rapa said: “Tho soup is getting
hot.” I was more than ever convinced
there was a plot somewhere about some
thing. These conversations, being dis
guised, we re in made themselves euspii#.is. ”e key
1 bought T had out some of
to the cipher
As the night was pleasant I went
stairs and took a stroll. A few stars
peeped out. Tho wind sighed through
the famous gorge close by. 1 sauntered
along, cautiously, however, ns the ad
jaeont chasm would have been a conven
lent place for a footpad alarm? to dispose cf his
vie! i:i without exciting
Sadden! y 1 eaw a light flash Almolf mt and
d Lapp ear above the glen. with-1
out any reason I turned my head and saw
a light flash from, tho upper portion of the
hotel. The moonless night swallowed |
up both lights. Perhaps the light in tho
hotel was accidental. May be my excited
senses wero deceived about tlio gleam
over the glen. Nobody of flesh and blood !
could flash a light 150 feet above the little I j
stream whose voice was lost in tlio black
depths below. Perhaps it was a firefly I
flashing its tiny lamp out in tlie empti-;
ness, nearly 500feet from bank to bank at
that point. largo tree and
I stepped close to a about tho
thought for sorno time un
known ingredients of that “soup.” some-1 I
hugged the friendly pino t ree as
body walked cautiously past, going to- '
ward tho liotel. A few minutes after I
determined to investigate one theory.
Cautiously I sought tho track of tlie ;
railway. Carefully ! crept along tho tics
nnd went out over tlie abyss. I estimated
the distance whore tlio light flashed, aud
earnestly groped for something, 1 knew
not wiiat. You may think X was foolish.
I was about to gd back to the liotel
when a wire. my I right struck hand, a match, beside a anil rail, shielding touched j
the blaze, I perceived that tho copper wire
r:ui into ti pasteboard cuff box tied secure
ly under across timber. Tho wire led
into tlio air toward ths hotel.
Tho brief light was out. There X clung,
held up by the siracturo which, for all its
stonc, iron and wood, seemed to almost
sway in the galo sweeping down tlio
canyon. Taking out my pocket knife, I
grasped tho wire oh the outside of tho rail
with my left hand and with my right
closed outer severed over it tho cud big I fastened knife blade. around The a! j
rail. You ho I carefully untied that I
may sure j
box. I was tempted to heave it into the |
gorge but recollected that such a courso i
would convict frustrate those dynamiters. my plan to As detect if treading and j I
a path among eggs, I started to return.
I left that mysterious box in a summer
house (o guard against any spy noting it
in the hotel.
By urgent request the night clerk cau¬
tiously admitted me to the room of the
proprietor. With due precaution I con
tided in him. He went out and gave the
clerk some instructions in a low tone and
handed me a pass key. I slyly wont to my
room.
The house was still. Suddenly there
rang out an alarm of lire. Soon confu¬
sion reigned. Guests were rudely awak¬
ened. They hurried out of windows or
down the stairs. In a few minutes every¬
body returned, pale, trembling and nerv
oca. The lire lmd been put out with nor
very heavy damage, strange to say.
isojouy, fortunately, was hurt. Every*
body congratulated everybody on narrow
escapes. To this day there are, I under
smnd, only three persons who have known
tns origin of that lire alarm.
surging" «r^eiipa"romS
adjoining mine were more dressed than
any others of the fleeing guests? Further
more my neighbors had scarcely disap
reared for downstairs till my pass key,
fiftnislied by the proprietor, was used. If
ever rn intrusion was justifiable that
was, for a quick glance before a hasty
exit snowed me a lighted bull’s eye lan
tern set on the carpet and near it an open
valise. That valise held an electric hat
tc p'^ Its wires ltd to another valise
winch contained a reel from which led a
'Yire running through a space beneath
the partially raised lower sash out into
the darkness toward the railway bridge.
Scarcely had the lire alarm commotion
subsided when there came a rumbling and
a roar in the quiet night. Tho New York
m'glit express was pciiring Watkin’s Glen
station. The bridge watchman came from
1>?3 shindy and signaled “Goaliead!” To
what? The ponderous train crept over
the bridge. I shuddered, thinking of
what might, have happened.
The conspirators were hushed. I could
imagine _ one, whose room gave him a view
oE tll ° bridge, peering out anxiously as
the train’s lights flashed on to the doomed
bridge. Did any remorse seize him for
tho chTstardly deed of trying to hurl that
unwarned train to certain deatli and ruin?
He seized the reel with one hand to quick
ly draw in the-evidence of his crime.
Mitli tlie other lie pressed the electric
button and sped tho fatal spark to tho
end oft ho wire. The devilish contriv
n-ncodi! not work. Before the fiend could
recover from his astonishment the train
had passed safely across tho bridge.
an oath tlie villain turned.as the
door was flung open and revolvers hold
hi?’, prisoner. The tarantula when cor
ncicil stings itself. I ho
pn slic'd his right lianrl into a side pocket
aud withdrew it, not holding a revolver
but something which ho swallowed. Iio
staggered and fell—dead. Prussic acid,
earned for years, hail rescued him from
earthly punishment. His partner, next
door, eras captured by surprise. He
was f ully dressed but stoutly denied his
complicity in any crime.
The electric apparatus, wire, Infernal
maemue and my testimony convicted him.
Ho is now visiting Auburn to be enter
tabled by tho state for ten years. He
turned traitor to the rest of the gang and
tried to turn state’s evidence. A number
of rascakt had planned to wreck that train.
Several stationed themselves in tlio glen
below to plunder tho debris and the
bodies.
My good lack in frustrating the him
dcrous design commended mo to the rail
iiay company and I was given a lucrative
position as some of my reward for pro
venting what would have proven a
calamity almost unparalleled in the his
tory of railroads. Tlie cuff box is kept
among tho archives of tiio con.ipany.
out north of here to-morrow anil
1)1 show you a liolo like a cellar dug by
E ‘\ e explosion of its contents. It con
tained enougli dymimito and chloride of
ai £ogen to have more than accora
pnshetMts \illamonn purposo.—-I. G. La
Moille in The Current.
“ SermiiT -
a short *
a > - o tunes when you are brought
, to realize that you stand ou the shores of
mysterious «‘0 lapping etermiy-wiici^u Sotir feet cf the can waves hear
^ ln ch across tho sea so boundless
‘ ,at . m ortal *?« bas n ? ver reucll f' tlle far ;
t ier sll0rc , - 11 13 when you liave met
so m e S“ 0<1 tendon the street, given him
a friendly . . gnp am heard him say that he
ias “ fe J‘ 80 wc “ »“ ycars-the words
hard y cold ^ lips before ho throws
up his arms and sinks to the walk as dead
f « a bullet had entered his brain. The
doctors call it a case of heart disease, and
ho / e w, '? d,d no f P aBS that W rc ad of *
to forget it in an hour. To you, who , even
J‘ eld f band as the swift messjuger came,
there 13 something never to be forgotten
P reac!l ““l D etroit 1 , 1 as n ® 1 dlvme can evel
ree rcas,
The Worlil’s Bain Pall.
It is estimated that eacli year from 34,
Off) to 3.5,000 cubic milesof rain fullsupon
tho surface of the globe. What becomes
of it? Tho rivers seldom carry off one
half, except in regions of closo grained
rocks; tho rest disappears by evaporation,
Ly the absorption of tlie earth, and by
being taken up by plants, animals and
mineral oxidation. In most parts of tem
pcra'.o latitudes tlio removal by rivers is
from a third to two fifths of what falls;
in warm latitudes tlie amount is less, and
may ho under one tenth. The Mississippi
carries away one fourth of the rainfall of
its drainage area; the Missouri throe
twentieths; tlie Ohio one fourth; the
rivers ot England and Wales nine-six
teentlis.— Brooklyn Eagle,
Athletes in New York.
Tiie craze for athletic exercise lias taken
on fresh vigor. Half tlio society and
business men of the town now go to tlio
rooms of some professor of sparring or of
physical culture and exercise at least one
hour every other day. The most popular
and beneficial treatment is that which
adds to the exercise itself tlie rubbing
down of the pupil anil the 1 rearing him
by massage or manipulation.—Cor. Pliila
delphia Times,
Tk« 400tli Trip Across.
Capt. McMickan, of the Umbria, went
into the port of New York for the 400th
time. Seven hundred nnd ninety nine
voyages across the Atlantic, nine trips to
India anil ten to Mediterranean ports have
carried tho veteran captain over nearly
2,000,000 miles of water.—New Orleans
Times-Democrat,
Terms $1.50 Per Annum.
BEFORE THE BREATH OF STORM.
Before the breath of storm,
While yet the long, bright afternoons are warm,
Under this stainless arch of azure sky
The air is filled with gathering wings for flight;
Yet with the shrill mirth and loud delight
Comes the foreboding sorrow of this cry—
Till tho storm scatter and the gloom dispel.
Farewell! Farewell! Farewell!
Why will ye go so soon,
In these soft horn’s, this sweeter month than June!
The liquid air floats over field and tree,
A veil of dreams—where do ye find tho sting?
A gold enchantment sleeps upon the sea
Aud purpled hills—why have ye taken wing?
But faint, far heard, tho answers fall and swell—
Farewell! Farewell! Farewell!
—Charles B. Roberts in •’Outing."
Tho Trades People of Paris.
Davis is utterly given over to the I
Philistines in the shape of a class known
here as “the buying Americans,” who
EW!U . m !lt this season thicker thun tho
locusts during the plagues of Egypt. Im
bue(i with the semi provincial idea that
Paris is the center of the universe and
Z S tlm^ool %Yte La^ a HuSse
haunte of or Ger
manv j,’ and t j, cn descend upon the town
f ur t e sninme r, when it is deserted by all ;
save the boureeoise 'The and tho everpresent
shopkeeper latter tlWalwivs class is glad
e.unmh to have the to rich
,\mr;cmi 3 . With open arms and fulsome.
flattery they receive them, mid proceed
alacrity to load them down with
j aid winter’s styles at a figure which
causcs tho true Parisian to grin with sar
(j on ; c ; ov
The trades peoplo of Paris, from the big
j 10 t c l keeper to the proprietor of the
second rate cafe, from the swell ilress
ma j- ( , r to ) b e small workingman, are a
sct of thieves and pickpockets, whose
peculiar object for venomous attack is
tbe , on _ 7md su ff er j llf , American, who pays in
s ii orico “ endures with heroic fortitude,
wll is jT UO ru,nt of the. language, unwilling power
la .. s to flefend himself aud to be
warned by the cry of his countrymen who
have been fleeced before him. If the
Americans were only not so wildly mix
j fm ' s to w-Jt be»in and buv! But they cannot.
c . al ln ot one minute pfter their arrival !
to learn some native process whereby to |
copc ‘ „“q ranacity of the Parisian I
s) pictures' t w made to pay fot !
[, s -l defective statuary trum ■ 1
, a . rv alld articles do virtue in French gilt
and poor * bronze, with which thev proudly
rotu n home to found art galleries ami
j ns ( ruc t the untrav-lcd. To this class
p,,,.j 3 j s s tjji jjj a t glittering with'immortal brilliant
£ creature endowed
filit tlio mistress of the world and
crowned with tho same glory she wore
when Napoleon III reigned over her and
c ..n,.|i to her festal board English and
Cor. San i’raneisco Ciironicle.
______________
Disclosures of English Private Ufa.
Th VvriUn" (lf '?, u -iird has set the cx
. , of r'Lited a-counts of urivato life,
nimosf "j u inrcc' fin-their iliselosuref
domestieitv ‘ ? - „i,.;'iv She nriitles about her
ou , d h r f i-er servants and
1
, friends- t"”' "veil steries .,{ t'-eir own’ s-vings
aml doin'-s -is of her ina
8tv "p i 0 thatovorstens nil ‘ tho ordinary ' bar
- , ‘ 1 . ct a. crce ‘ The !
F B , w £,, “ - hllt c ,nec'-dlv ‘ liar-f
’ 0 u precedent
w n y C1 r elapses without the pah
,j L • n f a memoir b- some no-sons ot
" mv r .‘ )c ' te with "•oss:» -ml some
times’scandal, about pe-mus of import
anceand unimportance wuicli the subjects
never expected would be revealed. To
'„, nothing of the exceptional { CrevilU
ni oil . B , liere nro lj0n Peaconsfield’s
)fM ers. Lord-Houghton’s monographs,
Macaulay’s, v's'inemoir;; hie-vr.nltv Lord Mai
nir-shu: fl..|’,|v V.-h- V'lmnentim Lord Minto’s Lady
ni n ,, m i navies’ 1 ulloi
a ^ ,,q j i,"i,. as t month Sir FraueisTlovlo’s iviVhln ’fifteen
1 , 1 , j[ 1V e ‘ .. n i.». 1 rwl ten or I
- incidents'ot
years . a nr 0 erm.vdeu with
cal 'j e(] m .j vate revel'itio'is p;f e repetitions of private
C0 !iversntiuns wi«i'largely of private char
a{ . f<M .. ’ a n read and admired
laftv er hoard one of them criticized for
^ f roe( i om e f their disclosures in tho
twelve years that I lived in England— ’ ’
Adam Badeau’s Letter.
Tho Goats of Bolivia.
While riding along wo saw on the sido
hills many flocks of goats grazing which
seemed (o l>o without a guardian. Ob¬
serving this to my capataz he said: “Oh,
they keep dogs to guard the goats. ” Just
then wo wero passing right through a
herd, which scattered to the right and
left as we trotted by. I told my com
pan.on that here at least there was no dog.
I had hardly spoken when my mule gave
a start and a kick. Looking round I saw
a shaggy black dog trying to bite my
animal.
The goals are sent out in the morning
in charge of these dogs, which are trained
to take care of tho flocks. In fact, they
aro brought up with the goats, and the
p 'ppios foil on goat’s milk. As tli ey grow
up they are sent out with them, being
fed before starting. If any goats are
missing they gel nothing at night. If the
flock is complete they arc fed.—Bolivia
Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
Tlie Astors null Tlielr Gilt.
Tiie Astors have always considered
themselves absolved from tlie obligation
of giving to the city because the first of
their name to acquire prominence founded
the Astor library. To the $400,0(10 which
lie bequeathed, something like $100,000
has been added by his descendants, and
tlie addition was sorely needed. I remem¬
ber, not long ago, tliat you could not get
at the library a Lit of paper as large ns
your hand to take notes on. If you
wanted any sort of stationery you had to
supply it youself. 'What a condition was
that for a great library of the metropolis to
lie ini—New York Cor. Boston Record.
Count ile Lesseps nlwaj‘3 wears a high
hat whether ho is camol riding in tha
Soudan or looking after his littlo canal
down iu l’auama.
Tho Japanese preserve timber by soak¬
ing it for several seasons in salt water,
but tho proportions of salt to water liavo
to bo very exact.
Menu cards representing autumn
leaves, with names written upon them in
gold letters, aro fashoiuablo fancies of
tho season.
In Mexico the first thing usually done
by a society after its organization is tt
purchnso a burial ground for the mem¬
bers.
NO 48.
Indian Gamblers and donkeys. 7
All Indians after n while become expert
card player:', aud the Flatheads are no
exception to the rule. These lairter gentry
are not afraid to tr 7 their skill and nerva
with the sportive frontiersmen of the
northwest, with whom they frequently
have long sieges of draw. To these ex¬
perienced gamblers the local fry are as
children. Many a young buck with no
inheritance to speak of has enriched him.
self amazingly at the expense of wayfarers
who hare fallen by the wayside. Soma
of these youngsters who draw the right
card at the right time have fine large
herds of ponies to their credit in conse¬
quence thereof. As jockey riders the
Flat-heads and their relations have per¬
haps no equals on earth. liaised as they
are from childhood almost on a pony’s
back, so to speak, it .is no wonder they
become superior equestrians. ■ “4
When preparing for a race the young
bucks skin themselves of their clothing
so as to present as little resistance to the
air as possible. A Flathead jockey
mounted for business is dressed in noth
-ore than a brecli clout and perhaps
» «■'“ ™ tton shirt, which floats In the
freeze but offers no impediment to rider
or horse. Leaning forward on their hardy
‘'tide cay-uses they. dash town the race
co,lrso | !ko Hie wind, jumping ditches
ami dodging trees with a precision and
skl11 truly marvelous. The white man*
race °° m ' se IS a flat - cl stretch of
ground, rolled smooth, over which tho
animal simply runs while the rider has
nothing much to do except hold Ills seat.
On the other hand, an Indian will race
over any kind of ground, among timber
or swimming steams, combining with the
simple speed of his animal individual Skill
and judgment in surmounting a score of
obstacles and always coming under the
wire ahead. A white man seldom wins a
race from an it,—New Indian, and there is no
wonder for York Commercial
Advertiser.
T , lc .. 5 nl(1 ' ,, .„ T ,,„, Wav r
‘
Ohm ley Haskins, . . of Milwaukee, , an old
telegraph man,was in Europerecently and
lie tells some funny stories about the way
“ IC telegraph business is managed over
! !icr0 ‘ I or instance, lio filed a message
m an office m London, and, out. of cuncs
i,y ’ vvaitcd to reo wind became of it. The
- little
r ecclving clerk did not put- it hi a
lcather cup and shoot it up the pneumatia
tube to (lie operating room, nsithe Amert
“J receiving clerk does Instead, he
tiung it. on a file hook wi.h a number of
messages and went on taking in
more messages, placing them on the sam#
hoob - I" about half an hour the hook
Y ,ls ^11, when the clerk called out to a
lu minutes the boy was on his
w -’ u ? tae sisirj to tlie operating room
with that bundle of W *4 to
wasn t m icry n' ue u of a hurry, either.
^ o condor ]VIr. 11 a ski ns says the Am^ri
can t . ’egrapho.r couldn't stand it to live
in tliat conntry -
Thar are slow over in England, but very
cnre,tl1 ’ lor Histanct, when they erect a
H’^Uiph pole m the street of a town or
clty ^ It ns carefully ns if they
were laying the foundation of a $1,000,
COO budding. \\ ith the polo once up they
nre not satisfied to brace it with the ser
vice wires, but to attach to it and
ext<,U(1 out « lld fasten in every direction
heavy guy wires, ns clumsy as they ara
nnncces!,ar ^ There is no use trying to
tel1 the Rngltsliman anything, cither, o*
to suggest any better methods. His In
variable reply in a tone which seems to
'io room for further argument, is: j
we have ahvays done it that
way- -Chicago I-Icrald.
Scene in a London Court.
V most amusing scene to philosophic
spirits litigation recently occurred at a London court
in a concerning the ownership
cf a donkey. The presiding judge, bor
rowins a hint from Solomon and the
caliphs of Bagdad, had the auimal brought
’“to court to test the allegation of tliede
fondant that it would cat bread or vegeta
bles offered it with Lord SaIisbnryH|com
P'bnents,” but would reject the same
Wl1 ^ symptoms of loatlnng and contempt
when Mr. Gladstone was named as the
douor - As it happened, tho wily quad¬
ruped when challenged by the claimant
not only devoured indiscriminately tho
Tory and Liberal carrots, showing no
partisan spirit whatever, but, when tho
experiment was acknowledged a failure,
set up such mixed notes of exultation and
protest that the magistrate, deafened by
the outrageous bray, summarily dismissed
the claim.—Chicago Herald.
A Small Boy’s Opinion.
There is a small boy in South Boston
whose childish efforts to solve the mystery
of death and tlie after life for the benefit
of a little girl who questioned him on the
subject are interesting. “You see,” he
said to her, you go on and on, and then
you stop; anil tho first thing you know
you are going on again, and then yon
can’t stop.” When he was told of the
blissfulness of this life after “you can’t
stop,” and ite freedom from suffering, lie
said: “It’ll be nice to be there and not
have any touches, won’t it, mamma?”
“Any what?" “Why, any touches of
measles and cholera tnobblcs and such
tilings.”—Boston Record.
New W»y to Kead Characters,
A French journal describes a new
method of reading character, known as
“scarpalogy.” It consists in a study of
the heels and toes of shoes. If these are
worn down evenly the wearer is » good
business man, energetic and quick in de
cision. If tlie outer side is worn more
than the inner, he is of an adventurous
turn of mind. Weakness of character is
indicated by a heel nnd solo worn most on
the inner side.—Boston Budgot.
Mont Blane’s Halo.
A envious fact concerning Mont Blane
has been communicated to the Paris
Academy of Sciences by M. Ch. Zengler.
It is tliat a bluish green glow about th©
top of tlio mountain sometimes remains
visible until 10:30 o’clock ot night.
M Zengler concluded tliat this phosphor¬
escence was due to ice and earbonate of
limo mingled; anil he has succeeded in
photogra piling the glow.—Arkansaw
Traveler.
Ocean Commerce,
Tlie 125 steumships plying between th©
United States nnd Europe cost $100,000,
000, employ 18,750 men, spend $1,000,«
000 a month for coal, carry 500,000 passen
geis a year, and earn $22,000,000 tor
passage money exclusive of what is paid,
for freighL_
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