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THE SQVIRREL’S WIGWAM.
They Ititil il low.
Row u|ion row.
Thetall straight corn Hint rustledsu.
Its once rank urceii with dry and sore-
Stalk, leaf blade, lussul v sllk and ear
Slirlveled-aud of Its -waving grace
Only a etlffeued ghostly trace.
The work all done
The rain and eun
Had lavlihed such sweet care nponl
The long ranks where the summer wind
-Could walk, and clouds their shadows find,
-Gathered awl set In ehneka to stand
Lifeless to wait the busker's hand.
Yet presently
A new degree
■Of grace that corn Held bad for me.
One shock was a truo wigwam ahapo.
The long leaves just the things to drape
About the tent poles, shelter At
For what live tliiugs might live In It.
Now what If through
Some chink a blue
Tliln Bmoke puff should go up, and you
Should spy a red man. with a deer
Slung on his shoulder, drnwlug near;
A leather belt, knife dangling thore,
And eagle feathers In hts hairl
A startling phase
Of wlldwood ways
Twould be for these tame modern days.
But I see something which to me
Is quite as Interostiug-he,
That line fox squirrel, running fleet
Toward It with his spry, small feet.
IMPOSSIBLE CLASSIC
lie'll And the door,
lie sure, anil tnore-
He'tl find the gold corn ears In store.
And till the hunters come to tear
His wigwam down, will senmpertbere.
In, out,sin vll red man, saucy, slim.
As If thu place wero ntude lor him.
-•Clara Doty Bales
The l-'lnost bight In the World*
This fair of ours, in ita general aspect
and judged from the artistic point of
view, is not only much more successful
than two years ngo we believed it could
be—it is much more successful than any
that has ever been created in this or anoth
er land. It is not only comparable to the
beautiful Paris exhibition of 1880, and
not only equal to it—it is greatly supe
rior. And it sexcplleueo is not an imita
tion or even an adaptation of any prec
edent, but lina been achieved upon en
tirely now nnd original lines. It is per
fectly certain that every one who goes
to Chicago next summer will be aston
ished, no matter how much he may have
heard and believed in advnnco: and it it'
just ns certain that he will be charmed,
no matter how good or how captious his
taste may be.-
Only those who know how hard it is to
produce a high degree of beauty on a
vast scale and in complicated wuvb will
fully appreciate what they Bee at Chica
go. They, and only they, will fully un
derstand tliat tlioy are beholding one oi
the most beautiful of sights, and, consid
ering its genesis, distinctly the most
wonderful sight, in the world—a sight
the character of which, I am not afrnid
to say, has not been paralleled Bince the
Romo of tho emperors stood intact, with
marble palace, Btatue, terrace, bridge
and tomplo, under an Italian sky no
bluer than onr own.—Mrs. Van Rens-
sclacr in Forum.
\
The Characters Drawn by Dili Writers
Nut at All Truu to l.lfe.
Borne of the older novelists in deal
ing with old Rome, the feudal days
in France, Germany or England, or
with pibneer life, make tlTeir charac
tors belong to another time in -the
New World, instead of to another
race and world of their own. In on
deavoriug to reproduce scones and
social conditions which have passed
away many historical novelists coi
fuse the conditions nnd perennial
human nature. Tlioy label thoii
Characters according to their social
station and confute these soeiid dis
tinctious with the qualities of the
spirit.
Tlioy give us men and women
whom God would fail recognize, but
whom the critics, more acute, readil j
hail as models and types for all other
students of human nature. Their
characters are nearly all mounted on
stilts, tlioy are animated by motives
and considerations which are quite
impossible, and they talk as human
beings never talked in this world
They deal not with tho exceptional
which is possible and artistic, but
with tho impossible, whioh is caricu
ture.
Their old Romans and barons aud
highwaymen, etc., stalk through the
scene mouthing platitudes aud "sen
timents," whereas w .ray bo quite
certain that they oceup.. i themselves
chiefly with cheating, lying, cring
ing. stealing, scheming, dining, drink
ing, dissipating, working, gossiping,
gaming nnd talking slang, just us men
uro doing in tho streets, marts, pub
lie offices, theaters, etc., of Paris,
London and New York today. And
beneath all this notion there wits ttl
ways a crado philosophy classifying
and analyzing both motives and ac
tions.
One would imagine from tho ro
nlfintic representations of these
phases of lifo that this reflective
habit of mankind was an invention
of yesterday, aud did not really date
beyond the decline of the Roman
empire to tho philosophy and civili
zation of Greece. These same virtues
and vices exist today, aud never will
bo entirely eradicated, no matter how
high the tide of civilization rises;
but except in the very lowest plane
of human life, where tho relation to
humanity is scarcely more than that
of the human form, men in all ages
have sought for a solution of the rid
die of existence, and hence have, in
a more or Iohs crude fashion, reflected
upon action.—New England Maga
zine.
How n Voting Auctioneer Cattle to Sea
the Serious Side of a Case.
There was a rating spell with the
auctioneer, and the rojiorter standing
by his box looked at him.
Gone?" inquired the reporter, as
the auctioneer sat down tired.
Well, I’ve been going nil morning,
and I ought to be,” responded the
auctioneer.
"You ought to be u funny man, a
;reat American humorist, or some
thing of that sort," suggested the ro
porter.
"Josh Billings was ono. und he got
his start at the block," said the auc
tioneer reflectively, “aud some auc
tioneers are given to that sort of
thing yet. I was that way myself
when I first began, but I had an ex
perience that cured t ) of the habit
before it had fixed itself perma
nently."
The reporter turned a face full ol
interrogation points on the auction
eer, nnd ho kept on:
“I was called on onco to soil by
auction a lot of household furniture j
It was tin old, old, old, old Ituly
And it lioy who wuh hull oust thro.,
And tho way that they lilayud together
Was beautiful to huh.
An Ancient Druid New Year Custom Now
Associated with Chrlo'ntos.
The mistletoe has for many years been
genially associated with the celebra
tion of Christinas, but in fact.the cut
ting of the mistletoe was in holior of the For lio was a tiiTu ilttio fellow
Now Year I With a thin, little, twlatod knee.
The Druids wero summoned to meet
Sho couldn't no running and Jumping,
Aud thu boy, no more could ho,
It was hldo-auit-uo-Biiok they wore iiloyllis,
Tliouttfi you'd never have known It to lie--
Wltli no old, old, old. old lady
And il hoy with a twlnted klioo.
The hoy would bend his face down
! On hi. one little Humid right knee,
1 Anil he’d auess where elm ivaa hiding
In guesses one, two, three!
They sat In the yellow sunlight
at this time by.the supremo pontiff. Tito ! And the game that'they IlhiVod I'll toll you
priestS came forth from their forests and Justus It was told to mo.
traversed their various districts, inviting
the faithful to follow them with the cry
of kal (first day of the year) or kalonna
(gifts) to attend the holy ceremony of
gut (mistletoe) of tho New Year.
Tito supremo pontiff of the Drnidical
order was, as it were, its pope. Immense-]
numbers of tho clergy aud inity wore-
prosent at the fete. The ceremony
opened with a search for the famous
mistletoe upon n tree of thirty years'
growth, nnd tho mistletoe so found wna
to become by ita consecration the pan-
cristrum or panacea for all woes.
Whon tho mistletoe was found, a tri
angular altar of earth was raised nt the
foot of the tree on which it hud been
discovered, and then commenced a pro
cession. First marched the Engali, con
belonging to a man and Urn wife who duotinK j wo w hite bulls, which had
u_j i never been subjected to u yoke. These
were followed by tho hards, who Bang
had been married four or five years
ait a death !
All I know about it was that
somewherenecessitated their removal hymns in honor of the Supreme Being,
from my town, and as they had no Next clune the novices, students m d
money tlioy were compelled to sell j disciples, accompanied by a herald in
their effects to get enough to move white. Then followed the most ancient
on. Well,'I was having n picnic in ■ pontiffs—one carrying broad that was lo
my young and foolish way, guying be offered up; tho second tw» vessols-
and bantering and making brilliant | one filled xvith water und teeothey with
and witty side remarks on the articles ' wine, and the third a hand made of
as they came under the hammer, so | attached to a wand, symbolical
to speak, though I don't remember j
over having used a hnmmer or seen
liny other auctioneer uso one. After
1 had dispqsed of a lot of stuff a
cradle was put up. Thore were sev
oral young mon of my acquaintance
"Ymi am In the ohlua closet!"
lie would t-i-y mid laugh with gleo.
It wasn't i hu ohlntt closet,
Rut ho .-il,! hud two nnd thrcol
You iq-c up in pupil's big bedroom,
In the cheat with the queer old koyl"
And him -aid. "You uro warm and wurmer,
liul you're mil quite right," mild she.
It can't he tho little cupboard
Where umtunm'a thing, lined to lie,
Soil in not he the t'llllhespremi, grau’uia."
Ami hu found hur with hi. three!
Then she covered her faeo with her Angers,
That were wrinkled and while and wee.
Ami nhe gtieeeed where the hey was hldlug
With a one mid u two and a three!
And they never had allrred front their placea
Rigid under Ihu maple irco-
Thln old, old, old, old Indy
Ami Iho-hoy with thu lame little kltoo-
TIiIn tlear, dear, dear old lady,
Amt the liny who ivaa half poet three.
- II. V. I Inn in r In Scribner's.
A Balloon for the Kaiser.
The sum of 60,000 marks (£2,000) whioh
tho German emperor has just presented
to tho German Society for tho Promotion
of Aerial Navigation for the advance
ment of this science is to he devotod to
tho construction nnd equipment of a
giant balloon. This balloon will bo ns
high as a four storied houso, will bo fifty-
six feet in diameter and it will contain
no less than 3,680 cubic meters of gas.
It will bo made of Egyptian cotton stuff.-
and will ho coated with vulcanized gmn.
which is considered better than varnish.
A rather interesting feature of the bal
loon will bo the provision of a special
valve of a new kind, which will keep the
gas pure for a longer time, and therefore
Bustaln the balloon for a longer period.
It is proposed to make within a year no
less than fifty journeys with the bal
loon and to ascend as high as possible,
up to 83,000 feet if necessary, with arti
ficial respiration. Over £400 will he ex
pended in purchasing scientific apparatus
for this balloon. Experiments will, if
possible, be simultaneously made with
two other balloons to further., investi
gate the physical conditions of the at
mosphere.—Pall Mall Budget.
The Queen's Statuary at Balmoral.
Her majesty proposes to place a statue
of the Emperor Frederick in the groundB
of Balmoral, which are crammed with
memorials of the qneen'a deceased rela
tives and friends, while eVery hilltop in
the neighborhood hears a cairn. There
are only three statues—one the prince
consort, by Thcod (representing him in
highland dress); the jubilee statue of
the qneen, which was presented to her
by her Scottish tenantry and servants;
and a statue of John Brown, by Boehm,
which occupies a conspicuous position
on a wooded bank near the garden.
Princess Alice is commemorated by a
Celtic cross of granite, and the Duke of
Albany by a scat of polished granite.
The memory of Bir Thomas Biddnlph is
recalled by a granite fountain. The
bronze statue of the prince consort in
the gronndB is an exact copy of his white
marble statue in the corridor of the cas
tle.—London Star.
Buying a Precious Stone.
A good story is told of one of the
Vanderbilts. While abroad Yecently
he was visited by a rich Berlin
jeweler, who, without waiting the
usual formalities incident to gaining
an audience, marched in on Mr. Van
derbilt unannounced.
Tlie intruder was an elderly man
with an intelligent face and attired
in faultless evening dress, the fash
ion prescribed by European etiquette
for visits to potentates, embassadors
and other high dignitaries, irrespect
ive of the hour or season.
Mr. Vanderbilt was surprised but
not overwhelmed by the jeweler's
evident attempt at continental com
plaisance. He listened to hiB tale of
the “greatest ruby on earth,” which
the dealer was willing to dispose of
at a sacrifice, with a courteous air,
and then offered him one-tenth of
the price demanded.
‘I have five stones of exactly the
same dimensions and coloring," said
he, “and I am willing to complete
the half dozen at a fair figure. You
may send me your answer within
two hours. Good morning.”
The answer arrived eighty min
utes before the prescribed time had
elapsed. It was in the affirmative.—
Cincinnati Enquirer.
in the crowd, and 1 smiled at them
tut I turned the cradle round and be
gan to rock it, humming a lullaby as
I did so.
Empty is the cradle, baby's
gone,’ 1 said, nnd was going on to say
something else to make a laugh,
when I happened to look down into
the face of a woman clpse to the
platform I was standing on. She
was dressed in faded black, evidently
given her by some woman larger
than she was, and there wns a look
in her eyeB and a tension of the lines
ncross her fotehead and a pitiful
weakness about her q’tivering lips
that made me stop. She stood close
to the platform, and the crowd >vua
all at her back, so that they had not
noticed her. She didn’t speak, hut
ss I stepped she looked up at mo
with tho tears starting, and lifting
her hands in a mute appeal 'of re
monstrance no wordB could describe
she gave a great sob of agony and
turned away.
all I
And I
“ ‘X—I didn’t know,’ was
♦ould stammer in apology,
didn’t know that it was her baby’s
cradle I was Belling, and because the
cradle was empty her heart was
broken, and she could no longer five
in the house that .the baby had left.”
The auctioneer was feeling his
story visibly.
"No, my boy," he went on. “1
didn’t know, nor did the crowd, but
they all did pretty sooii, and I told
them a story that had no fun in it
for any heart there, but it took just
the .same, and I got $160 for that
cradle before I was done with it, and
then gave it back to the poor young
•mother."—Detroit Free Press.
Next came the
clergy,, preceded by the supreme pontiff
inia white robe and .wearing a girdle of
gold, and the processiou closed with the
nobles nnd the people.
The eortoge having urrivod beneath
tho tree, the ofllciaut, after prayers,
burned a morsel of broad and poured
some wine and wuter on the altnr and
divided what remained among the as
sistant priests. This done, he ascended
the tree atid out off with a golden sickle
the mistletoe und dropped it into the
robe of ono of the principal pontiffs, who
received it wttli profound revorhnoe.
The supreme pontiff, aided by the Eu-
bugi, then immolated tho two bulls und
concluded the religions ceremony by
praying, with his arms raised, that God
would permit his benediction to rest
upon tho gift he was about to distribute
among the people, thon prostrate upon
the ground.
immediately afterward the inferior
priests distributed as a gift to the
assembled multitude particles of the
sacred mistletoe. They sent portions
also to the temple and to the chieftains,
who felt honored in receiving it. and
who, as an act of devotion nnd ab a
talisman ugalust hurm. wore it round
their necks in time of war.
Sickness, euchuntment and malevolent
spirits were expelled by it. Nothing
evil was capable of diminishing Its
celestial power, and lightning it*’ If
would not fall upon tho house that con
tained IL—Philadelphia Times.
Procuring Tortoise Shell.
The Society for the Prevention of
Crueltv to Animals would find a wide
if ft vi
field for ita operations if ft would
send an agent to the West India is
lands, where the tortoise shell is ob
tained. The natives do not generally
kill the tortoise to gets its shell, but
fasten it to the ground by tying its
head and feet to
coals on its back.
0 P?l
:. Thi
igs, then lay hot
ie scales are thus
loosened and come-off very easily,
and the turtlo is turned out to grow
another supply. The process is un
speakably cruel, and the ladies who
object to wearing bird plumage in
their hats ought to also reject tor
toise shell combs.—St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
Some barbers pack the face after shav
ing in towels saturated with hot water,
and very soothing and refreshing it it
too.
It has been discovered that the weight
required to crush a square inch of brick
varies from 1,200 to 4,500 pounds.
“The physician,” says Brown, “is the
man who tells yon that you need change
and then takes all you have.”
a souvenir Spoon Collector.
A western traveler has a large col
lection of souvenir spoons which he
secured in a peculiar maimer. At
every hotel and restaurant he stopped
at he has made it a point to “hook” a
spoon.—Philadelphia Ledger.
IVflKX the adverse dictum of Sir.
Cleveland lias no effect a man must he
pretty hard to down. Hot last’s jt|st
the case in regard to Mr. Cleveland
interview-about Mr. Murphy.
Murphy is still ip Wu' ring.
-.'*■ -
Mr.
Ur* Huntington's Two Houses,
The recent pnrehaso by Mr. C. P.
Huntington of Mrs. Colton's costly man
sion on Nob hill, in San Francisco, has
given rise to rumors that Mr. Hunting-
ton and his family intended to moke the
California metropolis thoir permanent
jlaco of residence. A report has also
teen freely circulated that Mr. Hunting-
ton had offered his new house, at Fifth
avenue and Fifty-seventh street, for sale.
These reporta, with gossipy elaborations
have been the talk of certain clubs ant.
cafes for the past few weeks, -and tho
names of two or three millionaires have
been named as the prdbable purchasers
of the unfinished Huntington palace in
this city. When "Mr. Huntington’s at
tention was called to the manner in
which Damo Rumor was dealing with hia
affairs, he authorized a denial of tho re
port that he contemplated going to'San
Francisco to live.
He proposes to stay right here, and
when his new lionse is completed he will
move Into it. There has been no inten
tion on his part to sell tho place. Mr.
Huntington bought tho Colton honse in
3nn Francisco because he is obliged to
spend several weeks each year in Cali
fornia. and he is not particularly fond ol
hotel life. He thinks that he can afford
to maintain two residences—one in New
York and one in San Francisco.—Now
York Times.
Volume of the Gulf Stream.
The enormous volume of the Gulf
Stream has long been a subject ef
curious investigation. The hitostcal-
dilations on tho “great ocean river"
informs us that ut least 90,000,000,000
tons of water pass Cape Florida every
hour. If this enormous amount of
sea water could be evaporated the
residue would be a quantity of im
pure salt so large that all the ocean
vessels now afloat would only he
equal to the task of carrying the one-
liundredth part of it. And all this
vast amount is held in suspension
and passes a given point in a single
hour.--St. Louis Republic.
-A NOVKI. suit lias been brought
against tile New York Central Rail
road. It is by a lady who sues for $50-
000. The lady plaintiff alleges that her
lover was killed by negligence Of the
railroad, and had he lived he would
have married-her. Itis-a pretty good
prii'i' I'm- a prospective bridegroom
As Fur As Looks Go.
“They've raked in a pretty tough look
ing lot this morning, haven't they?" ob
served the stranger, who had dropped in
at the police station.
“Yon arc looking at the wrong gang, 1
said the reporter to whom he had spoken.
“Those are not tho prisoners. They are
the lawyers."—Exchange.
La grippe has made such terrible rav
ages among ns that the smile that once
arose when reference wus made to it has
now cltanged into a grave and very serf
ons expression.
Tho modern form of football involves
excitements of a very dangerous kind.
Tho players pnt into it the utter reckless
"css of soldiers on the battlefield.
A Quern- I'liiee fur u innl'H Nest.
A etiusitlei'iiiile number of Idl'd.-
nifty lie eliiHst'il as "eavo tlWnllevs.'
They make their homes in clefij-t til
tlie rtieks. natural cavities, in trees
stumps anil logs, und in t'uet wln r
ever they, emi find tin inttiiteupipil
holt), even if it .he the tilmndtnied
home of it woodpecker.
.The wood duck, tho sparrow hawk,
tlie owls, one notable species of fly
cuteher. the bluebird, tlie nuthatch
anti tlie chickadee ure tho best known
examplesiof birds given to tho habit
»f dwelling in eaves. Our common
Tioitso wren often chooses a e.reviee
sometimes a deep cavity, for its nest
ing place.
A workman splitting wood for me
ouuo luitl opun a small log nnd dis
covered a wren’s home in tho hollow
of it. Tlie idl'd hod entered nt a knot
hole in a brunch aud hud followed u
small cavity leading into the log and
had constructed its uest some six
feet down tho hollow of tho latter.
Maurice Thompson in Goltlon Rule.
She Hud Things All
u Hoarder Interp
She hud kept it up for two muru-
lngs. She had been harping on thr
sunie old subject, tlie thousi""’
riution of the old theme, i
mornings I had been awak—-
o’clock by her high pitched voic
My-room adjoined here'
tel, but the other part of
loguo came in such muffled
that I could only guess
marks made by hor hu '
the drift of her own conve
"You kuow he didn't
right,” she began agni
least should have deferred
opinion nnd not Imvespol
he did before all those people"-
A inufi'.od answer. : “
"Provoke nothing t My
all right. Of course it
said. Tho guitar is
"How do I know! How do I kmm-|
anything? How does anybody 1
anything unywayl Why
it lie? Of course it is. The i
ideal
"What’s that you eny? lie mem.
no insult? Meant! It wns nppnreu
enough to me what ho m. nut, nnd .
should think that you its u Half
spocting man would rcsimt su
affront to your wife. Bht ye
Any husbmid-
"A triond of yours? Audi
mean nnytliing, and I' don't
stand, nnd you can’t see
making such a fnssabout? An
with common sense could see
You have no spirit, John, nbso._.
no spirit, or you'd novoi' let anyhodd
treat yom wife like that. It was ai|
insult— hin snapping me up so, all I
cause I said a guitar was a nitwit
instrument. Of courpo it’s a musii
instrument. I’d like to know wha|
■■ file
110V
it is I’ve been playing on all
months if it's not an instei
What does that fellow-sup
machine, nn agricultu
uiaut or u piece of Li io-n-1
like to know what it. is if ii's
instrument.
1 didn't understand wl
driving nt, and I don’t v
“Three" In Mythology.
In mythology wo find the three (8) occu
pying even a more honorable place than
the so called "mythical No. 7.” There
were the Three Graces, Corebus with his
three heads, Neptune holding his three
tined fork, to say nothing of the Nino
MuBes.whiqli are mado up of three threes,
and the third wave, which was thought
to bring death and destruction to every
thing in its path. In nature we have
morning, noon and night; fish, flesh and
foyvl. Hundreds of trees, vines and
grasses have their leaves and blades set
Ingroups of three.—St. Louis Republic.
Odd Looking Foatage Stomp.. *
The postage stamps of China are queer
looking specimens with their wriggling,
crawling dragons stamped npon them.
The^Burkish stamps are quite pretty
and are nearly all adorned by the cres
cent and star. The stamps of Paraguay
present a fine appearance, the main de
sign being a Hon supporting n pole which
is surmounted by a liberty cap. The
stamps of England have undergone few
er changes than any other country aqd
have suffered no change whatever in tlie
main design, the portrait of the qneen
Ohio State Journal.
ltot-itsiii,III Sonnto Clntlriniinslilps,
About the saddest crowd of men over
the result of the late election are the
Republican United States senators who
have been long enough in the senate to
hnve secured good committee rooms and
plenty of attendants to wnit npon them
and gratify ovory wish. Every chair
man of a committoe of any importance
whatever is sure to he the occupant of
the committee room of whioh ho is the
head, and this chairman owns the com
mittee room us absolutely us if it wus
his own personal property.
Nowhere in the world is autocratic
sway carriod on to snch an extent us in
the preservation of the rights of the-
cfiairmon of the committees to the room,
the furniture uud everything connected
therewith, of the room occupied by his
committee. Another senator visiting
the committee room walks liko a guest,
while tlie average person entering the
committee room of tho United States
senator is ofton looked npon us nn in
truder. It is often the ease that a sen
ator who desires absolute repose and to
recoup from a night’s bont ut tlie poker
table will go into “his" commitlee room
(the committee of which he is chairman)
and lay himself down npon a sofa, call a
(3,400 a year man to throw a blanket
over him, call another (1,400 n year man
to sit outside the door and prevent any
one from disturbing him.
But these men have got to vacate,
Fortnnate Democratic senators will now
enjoy the luxuries which have been bo
Quito » Relief.
Husband—What do you do when yon
bit yonr thumb with a hammer? You
can’t swear."
Wife—No, but I can think with all
my might and main what a perfectly
horrid, mean, inconsiderate, selfish
brnte yon are not to drive the nails
yourself.—New York Weekly.
Thk term “Grand Old Man,” as ap
plied to Mr. Gladst6ne, was fi|*st used , a uo Q mucu, ior no
by Sir Williainllnreoiirt upon the re- found in tho State v
-we, in 1«80,1 ag.ilnst Mr. Murphy.
Femlnlno Contrariness.
Old Rooster—What have yon stopped
laying for?
Old Hen—It’s too cold.
Old Rooster—Hnh I Just like yon fe
males. Quick ns it gets cool enough for
me to crow without getting into a per
spiration yon quit laying.—Good News.
Nevertheless Coni 1. Going Up.
A few days ago tlie Reading railroad
brought sixty-five coal trains from the
mines to tidewater. This does not ap
pear like mnch of an item, bnt sixty
trains contain enough cars to hold 109,•
300 tons. The freight is abont (3.10 a
ton. Result, nearly (360,000—very fair
pay for a day’s work. Coal, by the way,
is still going up,—New York Herald.
That Edward Murphy will be the
next Senator from New York, there is
not now the shadow of a doubt. The
dissutisfied element has dwindled
down to half a dozen members of the
State Legislature of district Mug
wump origin, who are probably cling
ing to the hope that since Mr. Cleve
land’s interview, their action will bet
ter their chances- for office. This
doesn’t seem to have changed tho situ
ation much, for no Democrat can be
“■ ' who will cpmc out
tur.?.» uf tlu* T.i;• r:i!b, 10. p* v
Vj "
“I,
to say that I'm guitar Is not?
moat. But it isn't flu.; 1
ing to 1 'don’t care w
thinks it an instrument
didn’t like tho way ho s
up. That's what I'm fur
And to think yon w
culmly flirting 'with nnot
while that train was int ,
wifo. Why, lie tho nauiu
I didn't have any sonso'”
“What's that? You ,
about right I" Hero
screamed. "You do.
should tl.hik you’d ho
yourself lo tolk liko thu
' iivor.tnai'Hcil you a m
Here the oouvexuitiou
to a short stop. A tic
hail optimal and uu ttngr
doredi
For ltoavon’s sako,
serial I"—New York Ho:
long the perquisites of the Republican
senators. Tills is the only feature of the
election thnt gives a number of the old
time senators “that tirod feeling.”—Cor.
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
IlInlM round In New Zealand.
bln
Among New Zealand birds the
kiwi is a brown night bird, about the
size of a guinea fowl, with a long
narrow, curved beak, with which it
pierces the ground to satisfy its ap
tite with worms and grubs. It
s fine, tong, pointed feathers, ol
which the Maoris make feather rugs
by weaving them together with
flaxen threads. The kukapo rcsein
bles a large bright green parrot anti
is very handsome. The wika. 01
wood hen, is thu most common anti
tho smallest. Tlie kiwi, or apteryx
has tho least developed wing and
approaches most closely to the hem-
extinct moa, or dinomis, of which
there are some fine skeleton speei
mens in the museums. Those ul
Christchurch run to a height of
eleven feet, but lack the rudimen
tary wing bone. In Dunedin there is
one with ft attached, and a beautiful
skeleton is to be seen in the Natural
History museum in London.—Nine
teenth Centuiy.
TnzY are going to kill the Sherman
law by indefinitely postponing its
operation. Tb* free silver men are
making a strong fight against this ac
tion on tho part of Congress.
A X'OKTBAiT of Mrs. Potter Palmer,
president of the board of lady man
agers of tho World’s Fair, has been
lithographed upon a Chicago brewery'
calendar without herconsent; nnd no’
her irate lord is on the warpath to
compel the company to stop the circu
lation of ihe calendar.
10 wl
u fairl
WANTS A
'OiCG tlltj
thud
Auditor l'eeplee A»lt» Slo.oe
Work In I lie lljiwi I'iup.
Hpcclnl to tlie llKtiAl.n. '
ATI.ANTAjan.(
$10,000 ns his fee In tlie
of the lawyers nro attack
orbltant. Ilo allowed s
torneys $15,000. Ryan is
but the money is nearly i ’
ltYAN OUT l
He Relenaed on
Spccliil to tho II11,P.«
Atlanta, Jan. 7.—Judge
Clarke to-day grunted Hy
jury, fixing his bond at $1
gave the bond and was red
Jail to-day.
rl
nil the creditors a party lo il
which will consume much I inn
trial of the cases.
The Atlanta Constitution prrlinj
ly asks:
If nil the weekly editors m-clve;,|-|...ii.iu|
from Hon. Ben Russell what will heemne f
Weekly 1‘rtns Aisocistlon?
It is hardly probable that the
bership of the W. P. A. will be
onsly diminished.
Weighted down with internal |
sensions Prance will be an easy
for Germany when the emperor
that gigantic army bill of hia tlircj
the Reichstag.
Quay’s laconic reply, in answei
ail interrogatory shout the Pent
vanin Senatorship, reads, “1 guej
will bo the next Senator.”
Col. Kiloohe, of Texas, says Ji
Culberson should by sll means bel
of Mr. Cleveland’s oIioh-m ndvi|
Col. Kilgore thinks that In- has
ise of such a result.
A olance at the returns lr
county elections prompts tliequesl
“Where is the Third Pari y a iW i
left of it is in Washington waitin|
its term to expire.
fT is just liko a Republican t<
one thing and then do iinothi
short time ago they wanted t,’)o I
Democratic,'- so that the Henio
would be responsible for the
of 8111*108.
their powc
that
Now
• to st
Demi
I he-
mg
I tin
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