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£J)ITORIAIi NOTES.
Gen DumonT, Supervising Inspector
vessels, reports the ace dents
of Steam four; liv slost, £84;
for the year thirty
ei'3 carried, 475,000,000, of which
nfls-ec T 1,750,00 perished.
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number one
K rvcfST official report says that the
in South Australia often rises
mercury U5 degrees in the shade,
in summer to
nd this has been exceeded on several
_ *
lons. In January, 1862, it reached
E 1882, it
116 decree 5 , and in January, was
280 _only thirty-two degrees below boil¬
ing - in tbe sun.
The army of pensioners amounting to
303,658 are classified as follows: Army
invalids, 198,648; army widows, minor
children, and dependent relatives, 74,374;
jjgy y invalids, 2,468; navy widows,
m inor children, and dependent relatives,
1 907; survivors of 'he war of 1812,
4 831j widows of those who served in
war of 1812, 21,336.
Few peop’e reflect upon the fact that
the Indians are the richest landholders
in the United States. We have 237,066
of them, e-elusive of he Alaska Indians,
holding 151,397,768 acres of land Some
of the tribes own 3,000 acres par Indian
The average is about one square mile to
each Indian, while a white man is not
al’owed to pre-empt more than 160 acres
of the public land.
Professional sword swallowers per¬
form, apparently, startling feats, but it
j g a well-known fact that the back parts
of the mouth are capable of becoming,
through habit, accustomed to abnormal
contacts. By constant practice the sword
swallower accustoms his pharynx to the
CODtact of large objects, such as swords,
canes and even billiard cue 3 . This ac¬
complishment, however, is acquired only
by gradual and painful efforts.
Gov. Crosby recommends to Congress,
through the. Secretary of the Interior,
the immediate cutting down of all
Indian reservations, now covering two
fifths of the area of Montana, to the
actual wants of the 18,000 Indians, and
throwing the lands open to settlement.
He urges relief for the Black Feet,North
Blegans, Assinaboines and Grosventres,
and also that schools for the education
of Indians in agricultural pursuits be
established.
John Griffin Carlisle was born
September 5, 1835, in Kenton county,
Ky. just across the river from Cincin¬
;
nati. After receiving a good academic
education he studied law with Hon.
John W. Stev nsoa and Judge Wm B.
Kinkead, and began tbe practice in 1857.
He was elected to tlie legislature, in 1859.
to the State Senate in 1866, and again
in 1869, resigning in 1871 to make the
race for lieutenant governor, and was
successful. In 1876 he was elected to
congress, and has been re-elected at each
succeeding election since.
Patti’s brevet husband is Signor
Nicoiini. Nilsson is the widow of M.
Rozeaud. Gerster is the widow of Dr.
Gardner, and has a baby ten months
old. Sealehi is the Countess Lolli in
real life. Mme. Pappenheim is Mine.
Ahren. Ellen Terry is Mrs. Kelley.
Mme. Va leria bears the unromantic
name of Mrs. PI R. Percy Hutchinson;
her husband is a very matter of fact
manufacturer in the north of England
Sembricb is Mme Stengle in private
life, and is an Austrian Pole; she is a
proficient violin p ayer, and sometimes
accompanies herself on that instrument
in opera. She is twenty-four years old.
The Brooks comet of 18i2 is now visi¬
ble in the evening. It is in the north¬
west, and is pursuing a path that will
soon bring it into the constellation of
cygnus in which the swan is across the
milky way. On December 13th it will
reach the maximum brightness of 1812,
and by the 14th of January will become
four limes brighter. Its closest approach
to the sun will be on January 25th, after
which it will be seen no more forseventy
ene years It has shown some remarka¬
ble feature unknown in any other ccmst.
About the 20th of September it bright¬
ened rapidly and threw out a considera¬
ble tail. Tbe light was of unusual den¬
sity, and, at one time, became of a smoky
color. In a few days the tail and bright¬
ness suddenly disappeared. Several
times since a feeble tail has been ob¬
served to form an i fade agp.in.
While there are cr wds of N w York
doctors who barely make a living, some
of the most successful physicians enjoy
magnificent incomes. Among the lucky
ones may be mentioned Leans Sayre,
who makes a specialty of deformities.
His income is about $40,600 a year F.
Galliard, tbe leading gynecologist
makes a large sum annual y, Austin
Flint, Sr., the well known author and
practitioner, makes $30,000 out of lungs
and livers. Others run as fol ows.
Cornelius Agnew, eye and ear, $ 20 , 000 .
j\E.T homas, diseases of women, $50,000;
Alfred Loomis, fev- is, $35,000; W.
Hammond, nervous diseases, $35,000; J.
Al. Caraochan, surgery of the bone,
*25,000, Abraham Jawbi, diseases of
Children, $25,000. From these figures it
r ALT' i £ rw iH $ iSi V
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VOLUME V.
will be seen that those who reach the
top of the protession reap a rich rew rd
for their labors.
A few facts about the professional
tours of theatrical people are interesting.
In this country there are now 227 theatri¬
cal companies on professional tours, em¬
bracing, say, 4,' 86 members. The fol¬
lowing figures will show the expenses of
these traveling companies : Transporta¬
tion, $1,221,000; hotel bills, $2,8.0,000 I
hauling baggage, etc , $560,000 ; salaries
and incidentals, $8,400,000; total out¬
lay, $12 981,000. These companies play
on shares, receiving about 65 per cent of
the nightly gross receipt-.. Some of the
leading attractions make as much as
$50,000 ayear clear profit. In order to
lessen th 1 hardships of these professio- al
tourists it is proposed to build special
cars for the companies in which they can
live and travel. It isbel eved that such
a car could be run for $175 a week. Un¬
der this system probably $1,200,000 in
hotel bills could be saved.
The London Lancet thiaks that the
renewed and steady occurrence of fresh
cases of cholera in Alexandria affords
new grounds for anxiety and watchful¬
ness. It is true that the epidemic was
stamped out, hut cholera has a tendency
to sustain itself after an outbreak in one
season by a series of scattered cases lead¬
ing to another epidemic in the following
season. The cases now reported from
Alexandria are of a modified type, but
it has been found that these are precisely
the cases which constitute tin links be
tween one epidemic and another. The
laxity of sanitary administration follow¬
ing an epidemic will doubtless increase
the predisposing causes of cholera, and
the authorities of Alexandria caunot be
too energetic in their endeavors to re¬
move these cau-es.
A traveler speaks of meeting a sclnol
of pompanos in Southern Florida. His
yacht ran into the school and the fishes
immediately left the water, flying like
birds over the yacht. A numbei of
fishes have similar habit*. The gar fisli
has a habit of rising in the air and cours¬
ing along for a hundred feet or more.
The ordinary flying fish is well known.
One of the cuttle fishes is called the fly¬
ing squib. This fi-h sometimes hurls
him-elf sixty feet in the air. In New
England a spider is frequently seen flying
in the air. Is ejects six little threads of
siik from its body and by flapping it
maria es to keep afloat. Certain species
of monkeys and squirrels are able to fly
like biicls. Recently in the Malay coun¬
try a frog has been discovered that lias a
habit of flying. Its feet are provided
with enormous webs which aci as para¬
chutes.
The committee on ways and means is
considered by far tbe most important of
the committees. It frames all tariff
legislation before being presented for
the action of the house, and to it all
bills of that nature, and all bills relating
to the general financial condition of the
couatry, are referrod Its duty is, as
indicated by the name, (0 look after
the “ways and means” of providing tbe
funds for the supportof tlie government.
In other words, it assumes the position
ordinarily occupied by the husband in
the family, o’ providing the “where¬
withal” for the support of the family,
while the position of wife is filled by
the committe i on appropriations, who
3 pend the money. To be sure, the duty
of the latter committee is to make th se
app opriations j 1 st as light as they can
consistently be when the children of
1 he household—the heads of the various
departments—make known their wants.
But is not that the duty of the wife as
well?
The reckless squandering of our pab
lic domain excites general complaint
Last year 20,030,C0o acres were din
posed of The public domain acquired
from France, Spain, Texas, Mexico,
Russia, and by cession from tbe States
was about 1,852,310,00) acres, costing
$322,000 000. Of this outlay the gov¬
ernment has received back about
$230,000,030. The sales have been 200,
030,000, wh le 370,000,000 acres have
been given away. Nearly all the land
remaining in the hands of the govern¬
ment is of little value compared with
the territory disposed of, L T nder the
timber culture law an! the homestead
act, it is claimed that a criminal negli¬
gence of administration has placed mil¬
lions of acres in t''e hands of land
sharks. Bona fide s ttlers are in a
minority, and vagabond squatters and
timber thieve - are numerous. In Alaska
a settler instead of being confined to 160
GA., DECEMBER 14,1883.
acres is allowed under various laws to
take 1,120 acres. So even in that re¬
gion the land is being too rapidly taken
Northern men who rushed into cot¬
ton planting in the southwest directly
after the war, lost heavily, but those
who turned their attention to the cul¬
ture and manufacture of sugar were
more successful. Three sons and heirs
of Oakes Ames are now running tut
Millandon plantation on the west side of
the Mississippi, three miles above Gretna,
Louisiana. Their manager is a
man, who has been directing the estat
for many year.. Th.s plantat.on era
ploys 140 hands In the sugar house an
cane fields. The machinery is all of the
heavy order. The Ames brothers culti¬
vate about two square miles of land and
all the equipments of the plantation are
perfect. Among other c nv eniences they
have their own tramway ears to convey
the cane from any part of the fields to
the mill. By the use of improved ma¬
chinery these manufacturers have been
enabled in the years ’79, ’80, ’81, ’82, to
get a larger percentage of j uica each suc¬
cessive jear, thus: Sixty-two and 2 lOths
pounds t ■ 100 pounds of cane; 64 and
9 lOlhs pounds to 100 pounds of cane;
67 and l-10th, 1 nd 69 and 7 lOths This
may be an exceptional p antation, but
there is ni reason why the conditions ©f
its operation should not become general
in tbe sugar growings ction.
Sevcral of the leading scientists of
Europe have recently discussed the g rm
theory of contagious disease from various
standpoints. The opinion i expressed
that in anticipation of the assault of in¬
fective organisms an effort will be made
to introduce into the body substances
which, though small in amount, sha 1 so
affect the blood and t'ssues as to render
them unfit for the development of the
contagions. Subsequent to the issault
of tho parasite the experimenter will in¬
troduce substances which shall effectual
ly stop its multiplication. It is believed
that such substances have been f uind,
Alkaline sulphides, introduced into the
body, are said to act power full y upon the
con agia of marsh fever, typhoid, mili¬
tary fever, puerperal fever and smallpox.
An Italian physician is experimenting
with arsenic as a preventive of malaria.
It is his intention to collect a large
number of animals assailable by tbe dis¬
order, and, after dividing them, bo will
treat one group with arsenic, and leave
tbe other without treatment, and then
determine by inoculation experiments
whether ar enic really possesses the
power it is supposed to possess, The re
suit of these experiments will be looked
for with intense interest.
GENERAL, NEWS.
Texas contains three lunatic asylums
The average in Texas is one hanging
to thirty murders.
The Penitentiary farm in Montgom¬
ery is ordered for sale.
Fruit dry ng promises to be a leading
industry in Piedmont, Va.
Boone county. Ark , is filling up with
immigrants from Mississippi.
Fourteen negroes will occupy seats
in the Mississippi Legislature.
A valuable vein of iron ore has been
discovered in Farquier county, Va.
A CITIZEN of Micanopy, Florida is
about to set out forty acres in olives.
The Birmingham machine shops will
employ six hundred able bodied men.
Arkansas lias a district of eight coun¬
ties i 1 which tbers is not a single saloon
At tbe end of the year Alabama will
bava a surplus in the Treasury of $250,
000 .
The farmers of Alabama are said to
be more economical now than ever be
fore.
The Crump cold mine, near Charlot te
N, C , has been sold to Boston capita!
ists.
Bushels of pearl buttons are being
turned out by the button factory daily
at Rhea county, Tenn.
Jsi.Etnousir.dp A’raMSDDHm! mnrrl, u of - Guava < ■ J iellv y
gave been manufactured by Ca tain
Terry, of Yalabo, Fla., this season.
There are 2 030 Germans in Charles
ton, and , they are said . , to exert a very
beneficial influence upon the commu
nity.
1 he new bridge being * bui t across the
pi V hickasahay • Vo „ w river, eas. „t of ok,,!,,,,. buubu a,
fell recently, when it was nearly com
,,leted
'
The _ orange crop of Louisiana this this
year is much larger flian was antici
pated. The quality of the fruit is ex-
celient.
The United States Fish Commi-sion
has made Atlanta its distributing point
for the Southeast, and has established an
agmey there.
A party of eighty-five Boston manu¬
facturers have arrived in Raleigh, and
will proceed to investigate the resources
of North Carolina.
With the completion of the new ar¬
tesian well at Charleston, S C., the
water supply will be increased to 800,
000 gallons, about four times what it
8
dinner given by the Medical
in Montgomery. ’ Ala., last week,
tbe guegts appeared in kneo breeches,
Mack s [, k stockings, patent-leather low
cut shoes and buckles.
Mr. A. M. Diggles, of New York,
has been in Augusta, Ga . pr. specting,
wi h a view to establishing a 51,000
spindle cotton factory, for the manu¬
facturing ol fine fabrics.
North Carolina will levy no State
tax next year. The Western North
Carolina Railroad company will pay in
to the treasury $600,000, which sum v ill
carry the State government.
The John P. King mill of Augusta
commenced baling goods yesterday for
the market. The mill lias 26,500 spin¬
dles and eighty looms, and is very com¬
plete. The company has a capital of
$ 1 , 000 , 000 .
The birthplace of Admiral Raphael
J. Semmes. in Washington, Ga., was re¬
cently sold for $2,000. The Semmes
family were among the founders of the
Catholic church in that town. It is a
quaint old chapel, which stands next to
their homesteads.
The board of health of New York
city has been endeavoring to sue out an
injunction against ^ the sale at auction of
Ping ^ Suey teas, which are we 1 v >
to be adul erated. The importation of
Ping Suey teas amounts to one hud . of
all the teas that arrive in the New York
market
The cotton weighers of Galveston
county, Tex., have filed suits ag icst
merchants in the city of Galveston
claiming damages because tbe merchants
had employed private parties to do their
weighing of cotton, The cases will be
watched with interest, as they involve
some very important points.
A member of the National Butter,
Cheese and Egg association, in session
at Cincinnati, said in the course of an
address that the annual value of the
butter product of the Uniied States is
$352,000,000; the cheese produc
$36,000,00), and eggs and poultr,
amounted to about the same.
As Mrs. Whiting stepped out of her
residence in Baton Rouge one night re¬
cently, she felt something windin
around one of her lower limbs. Sb
screamed and shook off the reptile,
which, when killed, was discovered to
be two feet in length, and of the species
known as the highland moccasin, which
is very poisonous
The shipment of cattle from Massa¬
chusetts to Floridr, without any change
of cars, is a considerable undertaking,
but it has been successfully done. On
Mondaj the first through car of cattle
passed over the Charleston and Savan¬
nah railway. It was consigned to John
Bradford of Tal ahassee and contained
thirty- ix head of fine Ayrshire and
Jersey cattle, valued at $1,800.
The deputy commissioner of interna 1
tvenue says that the internal taxes
already collected for the present fiscal
»’ear arc at the rate of $123,000,000 per
annum. He estimates that the collec
tions for the entire year will amount to
about $130,000,030. This estimate in¬
cludes between six and seven millions
to be collected in spjcial taxes in April
nd May, but does not include an in
rease which is anticipated for spirits
orced out of build.
x Impressed. , Miss Ber ha , Crowley, _ , ol ,
Deposit, N. Y dreamed three nights in
succession ot her uncles death in
auaressea a leucr to ! mm. me lettei
fell into the hands ot his lawyers who
notified her last week that she bad fallen
heir to go O.O OO by her nnc es d eatn.
A . Kansas f mder “111 drowned himself fo in
ns - mi! . pono because , a darn ho had j us
built failed to collect water enoug.i
tu rn the wheel. He exlnoited S °° l1
Rome andZld ana jawxa S iLen rSamlkiS ivch aim &i<.tvcu
the dogs clear across the room.-Am
nstawn Herald.
A Chicago man wanted a divorce be
f ause bis The wife persisted laughed m singing
fiymns> Court just at him,
and he would have lost liis case had not
his lawyer summoned the wife to tbe
witness stand and-started her singing,
At the end of the fifth verse the Court
threw up the spronge and the divorce
was granted.
NUMBER 38.
PECK’S BAD BOY.
THE BOYS PI. AY “WILD WEST”
SHOW.
Tlie Bart Hoy's Pa l.nssoa a Cow. amt <«ct«
Pallnl Arounrt in Most Promiscuous
Ola tmer.
[From the Milwaukee Sun.]
“You see,” said the bad boy to the gro¬
cery man, “all of us boys in the neighbor¬
hood wanted to have a Buffalo Bill show,
and pa gave us permission to use the
back yard, and he said he would come
out and help us. You know that Boston
girl that was visiting at our house, with
the glasses on ? Well, she this went climate home is
the next day. She says
too wild for her. You see, we boys all
fixed up as Indians, and we laid for some
one to come out of the house, to scalp,
the way they do hi the show, We
heard a rustle of female garments, and
all hid, and when the Boston girl came
out to pick some pansies in ma’s flower¬
bed, we captured her. 15m never see We a
girl so astonished as she was.
yelled ‘yip-yip’ and I took hold of one
of her hands and my chum took hold of
the other, and her bangs raised right up,
and her glasses fell off and she said ‘Oh,
you howwid things. ’ hen
“We took her to our lair in the
house and tied her to a tin rain water
conductor that came down by danced the cor¬
ner of the barn and then we a
war dance around her, and yelled ‘ki
yi,’ until she perspired. I took my
tomahawk and lifted her hair and hung
it on the chicken roost, and then I made
a speech to her in Indian. I said:
(i ( The pale faced maiden from the
rising sun is in the hands of the Apaches, brothers
and they yearn for gore. Her
and fathers and uncles, the Indian agents,
have robbed tlie children of the forest of
their army blankets and canned lobster,
and the red man must be avenged. But
we will not harm the pretty white
maiden, except to burn her to the stake.
What has she to say ? Will she give the
ved meu taffy, or will she burn ?’
“Just then pa comes out with a cis
tern P oJe . and he rescued the white
maiden, and said we mustn t be so
rough. Then the girl said she would give
ug a ]l the taffy we wanted, and she went
in and she and m» watched us from the
back window. Pa he watched us rob a
coach, and lie said it was first
rate. The man that collects the
ashes rom tlie alley, with a liorso and
wagon, ho had just loaded up, and got
on the wagon, when two of my Indians
took the horse by the bits, and four of
us mounted tbe wagon and robbed the
driver of a clay tint pipe and a pocket comb,
and a knife, he saved his ashes by
promising never to reveal the names of
the robbers. Pa just laughed, when we
gave the ash man back his knife and
things, and said he hadn’t had so much
fun in a long time. Then we were go¬
ing to lasso a wild Texas steer, and ride
it, the way they did in the show, and pa
said that was where he came in handy.
He said he could throw a lasso just like
a cow-boy. We got my churn’s pa’s
cow out of the barn, and drove her up
the alley, and pa stood there with a
clothes line, with a big noose in the end,
and he headed off tlie cow and threw
the lasso. Well, you’d a died to see pa
sweep things out of the alley with his
pants. The cow was sort of seared when
we drove her up the alley, she cause milked, I guess
she thought it was time was behind
and when pa stepped out from
the barrel and throwed the rope around
her neck, I guess she thought it was all
day with her, for she turned and galloped,
and kicked up and bellered, and pa did
not know followed enough to let go down of the the rope. alley
First pa the cow
sitting down, and about a bushel of ashes
got up his trowsers leg, and the tomato
cans and old oyster cans flew around like
a cyclone was blowing. Us Injins
climed up on the fences to get out of the
way, and that scared the cow more, and
she snatched pa along too tlie quick. and I
yelled to pa to let drawed go cf him rope, under
just as the cow a
wagon he let go, and the cow took the
clothes line home. Pa got up and shook
the ashes out of his trowers legs and
picked up a piece of board and
started back. You never saw a tribe of
Indiaim get seared so quick as we did.
As I went in the hen coop and got under
a barrel I heard pa say:
“ 'That busts up the Buffalo Bill busi¬
ness. No more wild steer lassoing for
your uncle Ike.’
“Well, no one was to blame but
pa. He thinks he can do every
tiling, and when lie tries it and gets
tangled, lie lays it to me. Wo went
out ou the street with our tomahawk?,,
when pa went in to brush himself, and
disbanded, and went to our reservation
and piece reigns again, and the Bust or
m r [ ] las > gone home with an idea that wi
-• al , atliell8 out west.”
____._______
Wtot 4 Data’ Can Dn.
a babv can wear out a dollar ^an pair of
k(ep ifs {ather busy advertising It in the
newspapers for a nurse. can occupy
both sides of tbe largest sized bed man
nfaotured simultalie ously. It can make
the aot h 0 r of its bdng’is ] wash felling bills foot
up ^ to §5 a week an( not be suffocatfon at all
11 can c ™’ d to the
^ ,• fp t f a rnilroaol trpm stations. with in
d an a S enger R between two
“ be insulted
It an cause its father to by
every second-class boarding-house keen- chii
er in the city who “never takes
dren.” It can make an old bachelor in
the room adjoining use language that, if
uttered C n tlie street, fo'r would get him
into the nenitentiarv minute^ two a‘man' vears It
©an, in ten drive frail
tieallv from his home and cause him to
seek the companionship of a locomotive
blowing off steam.
Christmas Dinner.
BILL op paik.
Roast turkey, with cranberry and apple sauces,
\Vhite potatoes, mashed.
Sweet potatoes, roasted.
Macaroni and oheese.
Celery, pieltlos, cold slaw.
Rolls and Boston brown bread.
Mince Sweet and pumpkin cider. pies.
Raisins and nuts.
Black coffee.
Our bill of fare is a simple oue, and ot
course as many additions can be made to
it as desired. The first article to make
are the pies. Make the paste of one
quart of flour, one half-pound of sweet,
good butter, the same of lard, and one
small cup of cold water. Chop the but¬
ter and lard up into the flour, until aa
fine as powder, wet into a stiff dough,
knead into a ball, and roll deftly and
quickly into a thin sheet, always rolling
from you. Fit on the pie plates.
For the pumpkin pies take one pint of
stewed pumpkin, straiued through a
sieve, four eggs, one quart of milk, a
little mace, cinnamon and nutmeg, and
three-fourths of a cup of sugar. Beat
well together and bake in a moderately
hot oven without a cover. Before put¬
ting on the table sprinkle with powdered
sugar. mince meat already
If you have not
mmiebuy from a good grocer, and mix
with it a little sweet cider. Fill the pie
plates and put on a thin crust. Before
serving place in the oven to heat.
The turkey should be ordered or
bought a few days before Christmas.
Have him plump and firm, also tender.
To test a tender turkey, lift the wings,
and if the skin breaks easily, he is all
right. As soon as you get your turkey
home dress it and place in salt and
water, find washing it in several waters,
and in the last mining in a teaspoonful
of soda. Two hours will roast a ten
pound turkey, if your fire is brisk.
Make a dressing of bread crumbs, but¬
ter, pepper, salt, sage, thyme, sweet ma
joram, one egg, and wet with a little hot
milk. A little chopped sausage and
onion is liked by many. Sew the turkey
up tightly, and dredge with flour. Baste
at first with butter and water, afterward
with the pan dripping. Fried oysters
laid about the dish, when the turkey is
served, is an improvement. boiled until
The cranberries should be
very tender, then strained and sweet¬
ened. To make them jell, add a very
little gelatine dissolved in warm water.
The apple sauce should be made of
tart apples, and not sweetened. It may
be stuffed also with gelatine, and both,
if made the day before Christmas, will
save labor.
The white potatoes should be dished
as soon as done, and piled in a pyramid
with a tiny tuft of parsley sticking out
of the top. Allow an hour or over to
roast the sweet potatoes. Keep the
celery in water until the time of serving.
Boil the macaroni in water until ten¬
der, drain, then place in a deep dish,
mix in a tablespoonful of canned toma¬
toes, grate a little cheese macaroni, over the layer,
then put on another of and so
on until the dish is filled. Cover the
top with grated cheese, and place in hot
oven for ten minutes. Servo hot. This
is a delicious dish.
Serve the cider with tho pie, and the
raisins and nuts afterward, ending with,
a very small cup of black coffee, which
is made by taking a teacup of coffee to a
pint of water, boil for ten minutes, and
serve without milk or sugar.
A Western Congressman.
Of “Gabe” Bouck, who was for two
terms a Representative in Congress from
Wisconsin, and who distinguished he him¬
self by voting “no” so loud that could
be heard in Alexandria, when a proposi¬
tion was up looking to woman suffrage,
a contributor in the Washington Post
writes: “Bouck underwent a queer
transformation when ho came to Wasli
in ton to serve in Congress, Ho had
never worn a white shirt or a waistcoat
before coming here, His shirt was a
black flannel, with a heavy gold coat chain
twisted down its front. His was a
bine frock, adorned with huge brass but¬
tons. His face was heavy and swarthy.
His nose turned up a decided png, while
his eyes were black and viciously crossed.
Over a low forehead hung a shock of un
combed, coarse, black hair. ’This eccen¬
tric lawyer—a man of ability, a sworn
bachelor and howling hater of women—
came to tne Ebbitt House, and was
seated at (he table where wife. sat Her Congress¬ bright,
man McKinley and his
sunny, lady-like ways subdued at once
he man who had never mentioned for
fifty years a woman’s name without an
oath. Grudually Bouck became trans¬
formed. He bought a white shirt and a
waiRtcoat. He had his hair cut and
combed. Finally he added the crown¬
ing stroke by having his boots blacked.
He was while hero the chivalrous and de¬
voted slave of the charming Mrs. McKin¬
ley, who used to be called by her lady
friends ‘the hear tamer.’ "—New York
Tribune.
Diverted His Mind.
It is related of Thaddens Stevens that
shortly after his removal to Lancaster in
1842 lie heard of the sad prostration of
an old friend in York, a lawyer, who,
pressed hard by necessity, had diverted
to his own use $300 due to a certain
-widow client, hoping soon to regain his
financial footing and repay her. But
“unmerciful disaster followed fast and
followed faster,” until the poor fellow’s
mental depression was actually tL killing clijn?
bin, bunted np
her from his own pocket the $300,
obtained her receipt, old and went to see his
friend. “Halloa! fellow,” he ex
claimed, on entering his office, “you
must wake up. Don’t be so down-hearted.
Say, don’t you suppose you and re then really
gone and paid that woman for¬
gotten all about it ?” A despairing the
shake of the bowed head was only
reply. “Well 3. believe you did, and
I ingoing if to look through your papers
and see I can’t find the receipt.” Then
he pretended to ransack some pigeon
holes, and a moment later exclaimed:
“Well, if you’re riot the biggest fool I
ever heard of! Look here, o.u man!
What’s this? ’ So saying he showed tho
receipt to his astounded friend, who
thereupon recovered his spirits, and,
happily, his business fortunes alio. Af
terward he repaid Mr. Stevens, and the
latter was never able to find out l pw hit*
generosity had been detected.
