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GEORGIA.
John Grasse, the Sioux chief, says that
an Indian’s head can hold only one idee,.
He might have added that that idea is
wrong. _____________
General Greedy, C hief of the Signal
Service, claims that three out of four of
the weather predictions of that bufeau
during the past year were correct.
General Boulanger’s popularity appears
to be wauing. Jlis reappearance, last
week, in the French Chamber of Depu
ties, failed to provoke a single cheer.
Mr. Stanley's last words on leaving
Cairo on his, present African mission,
were: “It must not lie supposed that 1
am lost because I canuot communicate
with the outer world.”
The report upon the French vintage
says that the injury from the phylloxera
seems 'at last to have been arrested.
Since 1873 it has caused the enormous
loss to France of $2,00!),000,000.
Christianized Chinamen are becoming
numerous enough in New York City to
make a new quarter for themselves near
University Place, and Mott street is
rapidly being abandoned to the heathen.
Germany has at la c t decided to make
a bold plunge for colonial aggran
dizement. As a consequence she has
entered the combination with England
to occupy the East Africa coast, and
generally to smash up the Arabian slave
trade.
In a naval conflict with Great Britain, i
Secretary Whitney says the fighting
would resolve itself into an assault by
our fast cruisers upon British commerce;
and that with the vessels projected for |
our new navy wc would hold our own in 1
an attack and defence.
It would take a rran 200 working days
of eight hours each to read the Cong re <-
tional Record of the last session, provid
ing that he read it at the rate of 200
words per m'nute. If we were as rich in
statesmanship as in oratorical wind power
this would be a great country.
The value of old boots does not con
eist wholly in their case. The leather
has a distinct commercial value, and,
what is perhaps not so well known, the
nails alone pay for the old shoes. By
means of magnets the iron nails and the
tacks and brads are separated and sold.
The absconding treasurer of Cleve
land, Ohio, the hitherto highly respected
Axworthy, used money to the amount of
$-181,000 which did not belong to him.
He is called a defaulter. If he had made
off with only SIOOO, moralizes the New
Y"ork Wurld, he would have been dubbed
a thief. The English language is very
flexible.
There is an odd superstition among
many farmers that the date of the mouth,
added to the month of the year, when
the first snow falls will give the number
of snow storms for the winter. If this
be true, then wc shall have thirty-eight
enowr storms this winter, the first snow
having fallen on the twenty-ninth day
of the ninth month.
A little French railroad law would
help matters in the United States, accord
ing to the American Cultivator. AY he 11
a ETench road has an accident somebody
must suffer therefor. If they can’t find
the culprit readily they search until
somebody is found upon w'hom the
blame can be laid. It is somebody every
time. The French never bring in a
verdict of “Nobody to blame.”
The New A ork Witness says: “Oyster
men on Long Island Sound are loudly
demanding protection against th it for
eign pauper laborer, the star-fish, which
has entered into competition with them
10 vigorously that they are in danger oi
having to abandon their industry. The
radiated sea-pirate can eat oysters faster,
it appears, than the human animal can
gather them. Let the star fishes be pro
hibited by all means.”
The Chinese Exclusion law is not
without its humorous effects, although
to the victims they are anything but
funny. The wife of a rich Chinese mer
chant in Ban Francisco was on the ocean
when the bili was passed, and on the
voyage gave birth to a child. The cus
tom officers at San E’rancisco refused to
permit the infant to be landed. This
seems too hard, comments the Chicago
Herald, but there is no remedy.
A few years ago, remarks the Detroit
Free Press, there was an insane competi
tion to see who could write the most
words on a post card. The present post
card craze is to send it around the world.
Jules Verne's man went around the
world in eighty days, and it was consid
ered at the time a great feat. The cost,
according to M. Verne, was something
enormous. A post card recently went
around the world in ten days less than
Verne’s hero required, and the cost was
but a few pense.
Great Britain is worrying about the
rapidly increasing number of its lunatics.
It appears that those supported by the
Government alone have grown to 75,000.
It is attributed to the hurry of modern
life. Those who attribute it to that, ob
serves the New York (S'/?/,have doubtless
never seen Chicago or auy other live
American town, where everybody hurries
in a way that Englishmen have no idea
of, and where few are insane.
The New York Board of Education
has instituted a series of free lectures for
workingwomen and workingmen and
they are proving to be very popular.
“This is a wise move,” is the verdict of
the Detroit Free Free. “Mental culture
is a most desirable gift to have, yet from
the very necessities of the individual
case it is not every one that has the time
or the opportunity to secure it. Ten
years ago the plan of giving Sunday)
afternoon free lectures for the benefit of j
the toilers was tried in Chicago and the
result was very beneficial. As far as j
possible the mental culture of the masses \
should be looked after. In the proportion j
that a person becomes intellectually de- I
veloped, he or she is the better citizen. I
Fifty years ago the United States was
the home of a large number of peculiar
wild animals. Euless a National pre
serve comes to the rescue very soon,
another decade will see them nearly all
extinct. The grizzlic are disappearing
from the Rockies. A live buffalo is now
worth troin SSOO t > HUM), which three
year 3 ago cost scarcely . one-fifth that
amount, and they are found almost no
where but in the corner of Texas and in
the Yellowstone Park. The caribou has
been huuted almost out of existence.
The mountain sheep, the moose, the
beaver, the antelope, are all disappearing.
If we are to know anything in the
future about our wild' animals,
we must arrange right speedily a “zoo.”
Says the New York Graphic: “Here
is a young man who is rdally too good
to live. His name is Jerry Fields, and
he is Treasurer of AVaubausce County,
Kan. His father had held the same
office for eight years, and when some
months since he declined to occupy
place any longer Jerry was e’ected to
succeed him. The old gentleman was a
plain, homespun farmer, without much
knowledge of accounts, and when Jefry
went over the books lie found a shortage
of several thousand dollars, or at least a
discrepancy that his father Could not
readily account for. Did.-Jerry go over
the books again and try to straighten
the accounts? Not at all. He sallied
forth to the nearest Justice of the Peace
aud had his father arrested for em
bezzling the funds of the county, aud at
last accounts the old man was in jail.”
Theodore Tilton's wife, Airs. Elizabeth
Tilton, is threatened w’ith blindness.
Since the famous Beecher trial, thirteen
years ago, in which she figured so con
spicuously, she has led a quiet in
Brooklyn, where she resides with her
mother, Mrs. Morse, and her two sons.
Her sight has failed her more rapidly
than is warranted by her advancing age,
and it is said that sight has already left
one eye. Her son, Carroll Tilton, ha?
been married to Miss Miriam Alice
Blauvelt. He is a haudsome-looking
man of twenty-five, of medium height,
slender build, with smooth lace, square
chin, finely chiseled nose, clear blue
eyes and long wavy hair. Ilis sister,
Mrs. AV. H. Pelton, formerly Florence
Tilton, who, for several years has been
with her father, Theodore Tilton, iu
Paris, has sailed for America, to be homo
w ith her mother.
Admiral D. D. Porter, in his annua]
report, says he regards sailing vessels as
the best practice ships afloat, and that,
while two steamers might well be em
ployed as gunnery ships, they should be
retained in the navy for the purpose of
giving the ’prentice boys an extended
voyage to sea. In speaking of the ap
prentice system, he says: “The crews
of our ships are generally made up ol
sailors from every part of the world, but
mostly of the Scandinavian race, good,
reliable men in time of peace, who car*
little under what flag they sail. Thoj
come and enlist in our navy, softened it
character it is true, but they are the sam<
free-lances as of old. They ship foi
money. They have no sentiment for oui
flag or nationality, and possibly, if it
came to an action with a ship of theii
own or a neighboring nation, they would
haul down the American colors and hoist
their own. This is a contingency against
which we should provide, and w e havi
the means of doing so through the vast
number of American boys who are roam
ing the streets at will, and who would
consider Government employment s
boon. AVhat is required is a larger num-,
ber of native-born apprentice boys, and
*n enlargement of the conveniences for
their introduction into the service.”
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Miss Frances AVetmore, formerly 01
New Y’ofk, has been appointed Govern
ment physician for the island of Hilo.
“Dr. EaDny,” as she is called, has i
large practice and is very popular amond
all classes. t-he makes her visits on
horseback, and is ready to answer anj
call, night or day, in lair weather 01
foul.
The great Cromwell left the University
of Cambridge at e ghteen.
A REVERIE.
Once more I stray along the slope
Of this old mountain gray;
Once more 1 muse, in wayward hope,
O’er yon departing ray.
The golden landscape of the leaves
Pales, ’no.ith the sombre brown.
oer haunted stillness which aggrieves.
And bears emotions down.
The purple veil of day’s decline
Is spread before my vi6w.
And shades enfold the amb r line
And solve it into dew.
So fade tin* rays w ithin my breast,
So tears, forbidden, fall,
As o'er the seen? dear memories rest,
And 1 one face recall.
What charm to tread where once she led,
To be where she has been; *
To read the stars she boding read,
To see what she had seen!
Ilie orbs that float in vapor nigh,
And glint o’er leaf and tree,
Are tears of love from one on high,
Who wanders back to me.
To sparing touch of spirit feet
The grasses bend and rise;
So rise and fall my heart-love’s bjat,
As hop? before me flies.
If man could prize the loved ones gone
When rosy morn was theirs,
if then their loss we’d dwell upon,
How few would be their cares?
Pond hearts would beat to hearts aglow,
Nor ill to them should fall;
And then a world would wake to know ,
True love’s the life of all.
Hugh Farrar McDermott.
A HYiSTERIOUS THIEF.
I was a chunk of a boy, living with
my aunt in a village on the New Eugland
coast, when a series of events happened |
which threatened the peace of mind of !
hundreds and caused the jail doors to !
close on a dozen different persons. My j
uncle was Captain of a mcrchant-man out |
of Boston, and was then absent on a long
voyage. .My aunt was a good old soul,
liberal, charitable and every ready to
overlook the faults of others. She had
a hired man named Duncan and a hired
girl named Anna, and both had been
with her for years.
One m .ruing I started off fishing, and
did not return until nearly sundown. 1 !
.reached home to find my aunt in a dread- j
ful stew over a roobery. She had several !
hundred dollars in a bureau drawer, and
that morning had taken out a bag of i
silver to pay a small bill. The bag con
tained SIOO, ami she left it for amoment
on the bureau. When she returned it
had disappeared. 1 was away, the hired
man in the field and the girl down cellar.
By no possibility could any of us be'
suspected. It was in June, and the bed
room window was up, and it was con
cluded that some tramp had come along
ind committed the robbery. He would
have had to enter a front window in full
view' of the street, and some one should ;
have seen him hanging about or getting j
away; but there was no other way to ac
count for the robbery. The town ?on- ]
stable was notified, and before night.he
had run in three tramps. Not, one of
them had a dollar, nor could it be proved 1
that they' had been on our street. As a
result they were turned loose. In that
quiet New England town the robbery
made a great stir, and folks would have
it that either the hired man or the girl
had got the money.
Five days later there was another
thunderclap. A iily living about four
blocks away was robbed while eating
supper. Some one went through the 1
chambers and took a lot of jewelry, two
silver cups, $203 in gold, and* several
trinkets. Whoever it was must have
climbed upon the roof of a shed and
reached an open window', but there was
no cha 1 ce for suspicion to attach to any
one. All the inmates of the house, in
cluding the hired girl, were at supper
together. There was no hired help out
side. Not a suspicious character had
been seen about the town. There were
boys playing a few hundred rods away,
and they must certainly have seen a man
had one mounted on the roof. There
was now as much excitement in the tow’n
as if war had broken out. It w r as gen
crally believed that both robberies had
been committed by one and the same
person, and that the guilty party was a
resident of the town. Suspicion fell
upon this one and that, aud a well dig
ger and a hostler w'ere arrested. Each
had an alibi, and their release added to
the excitement.
Four days later one of the nabobs of
the town, doing a little work in his
orchard, hung his coat and vest on an
apple tree. When ready to resume them
he discovered that his wallet containing
about SBO in cash, together with his
costly gold watch, were missing. He
was positive that no human being could
have approached without being seen. His
wife sat sewing by a window which over
looked the orchard, and she was sure
she could have seen any one approach.
How'ever, wallet and watch were gone in
broad daylight, and now men began to
look at each other and think of the old
witch days. Suspicion was directed here
and there, and this time a stonecutter,
who had rather a bad reputation, and a
house painter, who was out of a job,
were arrested as the criminals. The
stonecutter proved that he was at work
three miles away, and the house painter
had several witness to prove that he was
stupidly drunk all that day. It was plain
to everybody that the right party had
not been found, but tnis omy added to
the mystery of the three cases. All were
agreed that each case was a neat piece of
work, and that the thief was a profes
sional. This conclusion cleared the rest
of our townspeople of suspicion, but
made it very annoying for such strangers
1 as paid us a visit.
The fourth robbery occurred in a dry
goods store. Near the back door stood
one of the old bolt-head safes, and the
door of the safe was always open during
the day. The store door led into a
back yard about forty feet square,
which was all ro fed in. Two or three
da s after the third robbery, and at 3
o'clock in the afternoon, a citizen ten
dered a large b 11 at the store in making
a purchase, and the clerk had to go to
the safe for change. He found some
Eapeis fen the floor, while all the money,
eing about $250 in bills, was missing.
No one could have “sneaked” that safe
except from the back way, and the only
Opening from the shed to the back yard
was a chimney hole in the roof of the shed
through which neither man nor boy
could have squeezed himself. The bell
in the tower of the town hall was rung
and an excited crowd assembled. Some
thing must be done. The two clerks in
the store were sons of the proprietor and
above suspicion, and the most imagina
live citizen could not, suspect any resi
dent of the town. There was talk at the
meeting of anarchy, safety of property,
\ condign punishment, and other things,
1 and a vigilance committee was appointed.
This committee consisted of ten persons,
who had authority to patrol the streets
and make arrests. Two or three men
were arsested during the next two days,
but, as in all other cases, they’ were soon
relea-ed. To say that the town
was almost at a standstill, and many
citizens would not leave their homes by
day or evening. On the fifth day after
the fourth robbery the unknown rascal
showed his hand agdin. This time it
was a private house which was robbed.
A widow named Stafford, who kept
money, jewelry, and valuable papers in
the house, collected everything with the
intention of placing them in the bank.
The package xvas left on a table in the
sitting room while she went up stairs for
something, and when she returned, after
an absence of only five or six minutes, it
was gone. There wasn’t a soul in the
house. Not a person had approached
it, and yet the package was gone.
There was another public meeting, and
money was subscribed to hire a Boston
detective. One came down and looked
the ground over and said he would soon
lay hands on the robber. As my aunt
was the first victim, ho had considerable
talk with her, and I overheard most of it.
It was eight days between the fifth and
the sixth robbery, aud then, oddly
enough, it was the detective who was
robbed. He had a second-floor room at
the hotel, and during the night some one
entered his window by way of the
kitchen roof and rqbbed him of his gold
watch and purse, the latter containing
about S3O. If the officer was furious,
the towns people were ready to burn
some one at the stake. The detective
had scarcely eaten his breakfast when he
made the arrest of a young man who had
just established a writing school in the
town, and I heard him say that he would
wager his reputation that he had the
right party at last.
Two days subsequent to this I went
fishing again. While skirting the
Sound, two miles from town, it came on
to raiu, and I sought shelter in a de
serted house near the beach, hut facing
the highway. It was a small, one-story
affair, with doors and windows gone,
and many leaks in the roof. I sat down
in the large room for a while, and then
a boy’s curiosity led me to look into the
bedroom. As I entered soinnthing
jumped at me with a scream, gave me a
severe scratch across the face, and went
out of the house with a rush. I rau to
the door iu time to see Captain Pobasco’s
pet monkey, Mingo, going up the rosd
like a flash. I returned ;o the bedroom
to see what he had been up to, and there
iu a heap on the floor, cove ed with an
old horse blanket, was every single arti
cle and dollar carried off in the six rob
beries.
I must explain about Mingo. Captain
Probasco was a seafaring man, generally
making* voyages *to the Fast. On his
return from India, four months pro
viously, he had brought the monkey
with him. I forget what port the ship
was lying in when a native brought
Mingo aboard as a present to the Cap
tain. . On the very first night the Captain
lost a roll of bills containing s6l). It so
happened that one of the crew de
serted, aud the theft was laid to the
man. On the next, night his watch was
taken, and this time no one could be
suspected. A. watch was set, and lo!
on the third night the monkey w'as
caught as he was making off with a bag
of dollars from a cabin locker. His
master had presented him to the Captain
that he might rob the cabin and bring
him the plunder. Captain Probasco’s
first thought was to kill the monkey,
but he thought better of k and chained
him up, hoping that the native would
come spying around to find out what had
happened. If he did he was not seen,
and w'hen the ship sailed for home Mingo
was still a prisoner. He was so knowing
and kind-tempered that the Captain
decided to bring him home. Every one in
the town knew the beast, but, as the Cap
tain had only told his story to a few, no
one had suspected the rascal of the rob
beries. lie had not* stolen from the
Probascos, because they were his masters,
and he had secreted the things in the old
house because he once went there with
the Captain, and the latter went poking
about as in search of some hidden
treasure.
The raiu continued to pour down
steadily, and as I did not want to leave
the house until I could take the stolen
property with me without damage, I
waited for a break.. At about two
o’clock in the afternoon, as I stood at a
window looking out on the strip of marsh
between the house and' the beach, I
caught srght of Mingp coming back. He
was wet aud bedraggled and forlorn, but
the instinct of thievery was -strongei
than his dislike of the weather. He had
in his mouth a large wallet, andhacame
softly up to the house, listened for a
while to make sure that I had gone, and
then sprang into the bedroom window
i and deposited his plunder with the rest,
lie did not stay long, and when he had
gone I found thq wallet to be the prop
erty of a man who owned a grist mill in
the town. It contained S6O and many
papers. At four o’clock I bundled up
the plunder and started for home. The
seventh mysterious robbery had almost
set the town crazy. Three arrests had
been made, and the Boston detective
was making a speech in the Town Hall.
If ever a small boy’s appearance cre
ated a stir in a community mine was a
j climax. I left the bundle at mv aunt’s
and went over to the hall to tell the
new 3, and I had no sooner uttered it
than I was put under arrest and de
nounced as a liar. However. I had proofs
all the way ’round, and within an hour I
was a hero. The detective had to let all
his prisoners go free, and he was com
pelled to pay the writing master SSO or
stand a suit, and of all the people in the
case he got the least credit. When the
monkey's guilt was clear all could look
back and see that no man could have
perpetrated the robberies, aud each one
wondered why he d d 11’t suspect the ras
cal. Mingo was called for by the com
mittee. He hung his head and betrayed
his guilt, and that evening was hung by
the neck until dead and past all mis
chief.—Few York Sun.
NEWS AND NOTES FOlt WOMEN.
Irish poplin will be much worn this
winter.
The newest round waists are without
a belt.
Houston, Texas, boasts a woman,
dentist.
Ibe cane a la Tosca is carried by
fashionable damsels.
Women’s visiting cards are to con
tinue square in shape.
Epaulettes still appear upon prorae
nade and dress costumes.
One of the best shades is a peculiar
color known as steam gray.
Miss Braddon is just fifty years old,
and has written fifty stories.
Silver gray and green are the promi
nent colors in the new dresses.
The latest fad among fashionable
young girls is to carry heavy walking
sticks.
Cloth-finished flanuels are the preferred
wear of women of taste but limited
means.
Miss Nellie Gould, the daughter ol
.Tay Gould, js probably the richest heiress
in America.
There are said to be hundreds of pat
ents on bustles in the Patent office at
Washington.
Both large aud small bonnets will be
worn, but the toque of medium sue will
be the favorite.
It was Mine, du Deffand who said wo
men were too imaginative and sensitive
to have much logic.
High collars of cream or pale flannel,
that stand high about the throat, super
sede the linen oollar.
Gold and silver embroideries promise
to be extensively used is winter to
brighten dark dresses.
Fifty women and girls are employed
as clerks in the office of the Isthmus of
Panama Canal Company'.
Snake rings, with body of vari-colored
gold and eyes of blazing topaz, and glit
tering emerald, are in high favor.
Among the new dress trimmings aj-e
cords of white and gilt, combined with
crystals beads having golden centres.
The most stylish of all the stylish
green shades now so much in vogue is
the new pale gray green known as reed.
Lockets made of silver dollars are
worn, with a miniature burned into the
metal, after the fashion of china paint
ing.
“Price S2O” was the legend that a Mt.
Clemens, Mich., lady wore on her cloak
as she went through the town the other
day.
The Duchess de Galliera has founded
an institution for paying the rent of re
spectable working people in monetary
distress.
In London the puffed and slashed
sleeve will hereafter be seen only indoors.
Oh tlie streets plain close coat sleeves
are worn.
In Philadelphia the classes in the In
dustrial Art School number 800 pupils,
and the Ladies’ Decorative Art Club has
200 members.
The Princess of Wales is more than
ever discarding laces, satins and furbe
lows in public places. She dresses with
studied simplicity.
The Philadelphia statistics show that
there is not a trade or profession pursued
in that city which is not more or less
followed by women. *
Some of the new long cloaks for mid
winter wear have yokes as well as bands
of fur down the front, and around the
long, flowing sleeves.
The young women of Anthony, Kan.,
spend so much of their time in the sad
die that it is said the horses at that place
are becoming lop-sided.
Mme. Dieulafoy, the intrepid wife of
the North African explorer, is one of the
latest women to receive the decoration
of the Legion of Honor.
Nearly all new winter dresses are made
with sleeves in more or less fanciful
style, and the fulnesi around the arm
hole is a marked feature.
Dresses, redifigotes and hats for young
ladies of from twelve to fifteen are made
in very imitation of those of their
older sisters and mothers.
Gretchen cloaks for little girls snd
Newmarkets for misses will be the rule
this winter. Plush, astrakh in and beaver
are the materials promised.
Bourette woolens are popular for
traveling costumes. These are shown in
self-colors, and also with stripes or fig
ures of a contrasting color.
Queen Marguerita of Italy has been for
some time collecting white pearls, with
which, it is sad, she intends to decorate
the dress of her son’s bride.
Mrs. LeilaG. Redell says: “Probably
there are more women doing things iu
more organizations in this city (Chicago)
than in any other in the country.”
Moose cloth is the name given to the
camel’s hair stuffs which come with im-'
proved surface finish, bat longer,
stronger hairs thrown into the weft.
Leaves iu conventionally arranged de
signs are the favorites in the ne-v
brocades, and every possible leaf shape,
from the locust to the lotos, is seen.
Feather-stitched tucks and plaits are
the favorite decoration for cashmere
dresses for little girls. The stitching is
usually in a contrasting color or white.
AA’omen in Kent, England, surpass the
other sex in the art of writing by two
per cent., in Burrey by two and a half
per cent., and in Sussex by four par
cent.
Many of the winter cloaks combine
two materials in their manufacture, such
as cloth for the body of the garment,and
velvet or plush for the large sleeves aud
down the fronts.
Ground was broken for a new railroad
at Nicholasville, Ky., a few days ago,
and the first wheel-barrowful was
wheeled away by Miss Maggie Cheu
ault, a young lady of fifteen.
Every girl over fifteen should wear her
skirt 9 to fall at least to the top of the in
step or to the ankle. Girls from twelve
to fourteen wear their dresses long
enough to show the top of the boot but
not tbe stockings.
There is a Countess in London who
lives alone except for the presence of
numerous cats and dogs which she be
friends from time to tune. Bhe has fre
quently been brought before the courts
on complaints from her neighbors, who
testify that her house is uncleanly and a
nuisance.
A CHINAMAN’S FUNERAL,
BURIAL of a general of Til 1]
BLACK flag IN N l \v YORK.
t anned Fruit and Ora ages, Roast
Pi« and Boiled Rice Provided
For the Last Journey.
In the rear of James Naughton’s un
dertaking establishment, 35 Mott street
there was a strange and almost unearthly
scene this morning, says a recent issue
of the New A ork Graphic. Chinamen,
musicians and inquisitive persons of all
creeds moved about the dimly lighted
place irtul wore kept in order by Rounds,
man'Miller and officers from the Sixth
Precinct. The wooden ceiling was hung
in black and white and curiously shaped
draperies of plain black ornamented the
walls, somewhat relieving the monotony
of the bare walls. Near the further end
of the room on a black covered standard
was a casket which contained the em
balmed remains of Li Yu Doo, the Gen
eral of the Black Flags. The receptacle
was of red cedar, covered wiih broad
cloth, and the trimmings wtere of solid
silver. A plate on the top red:
Li Yu Doo,
Died October 19, 1888,
Aged 50 years.
We meet on the level,
We part on the square.
By the side of theiasket was a lon<z
stick covered with a yellow cloth bear
ing cabalistic characters. This was to
serve a? a ladder upon which the dead
General was to mount to the skies. The
lid of theco iin was fro ;uently opened
to permit friends to gaze upon the fea
tures of the deceased and a peculiar
odor was emitted, rather pleasant than
otherwise.
The face of the dead General was com
posed, and the body was dressed in the
ordinary garments worn by him in life.
A great number of small oblong pieces
of cardboard, bearing hieroglyphics, were
scattered about the dead man’s head and
shoulders. These were playing cards
placed there that the departed might p iss
away the time during the long journey
pleasantly. At a distance of about two
feet apart from each other and in front of
the casket were three pine tables. On
the lirst were dishes of candied fruits and
piles of oranges. The second table
groaned under the weight of a big pig,
nicely roasted and intact. On either
side of the porker were pillows
of crysanthemums and peonies,
one of which bore the words: “.My
cousin at rest.” The third table was
near the front of the establishment. On
it were several bowls of rice, in which
were stuck burning joss sticks and sev
eral ordinary wax candles. Chop sticks
and small tea cups were laid on either
side of the table. All that the lirst and
second tables contained was placed on
the grave of General Doo, that he may
not want food should he awake before
reaching the great unknown. About ten
o’clock a number of Chinamen began rig
ging themselves up in long gowns of
muslin. Four of these men wore blue
with white belts, and the four others
had on surplices with black netting.
These were the relatives of the dead
man, and their strange costumes indi
cated their deep sorrow. These chief
mourners ranged themselves along the
side of the room and began humming a
queer tune. At intervals of twenty' min
utes a tall, raw-boned Chinaman stood in
front of the third table waving his arms
and chanting in a low tone. Suddenly
the band started the “Dead March from
Saul,” and continued playing it for
ten minutes. Meanwhile additional
joss sticks w'ere placed in the rice
bowl 3 and the Chinamen bowed low and
chanted a dirge. The band played “The
Soldier’s Peace” twice, and the mourn
ers kept up the chanting, moving about
spasmodically between the tables. The
music attracted great crowds and Mott
street for some distance was lined with
people. Almost every window in the
neighborhood was open and heads were
thrust from the apertures. When the
music had ceased a Chinese band played
a funeral march ifnd the noise was al
most deafening. This was continued
with frequent interruptions to allow the
chief mourners time to make their devo
tions until one o’clock, when the parade
started. From the undertaker’s the pa
rade passed through Chatham Square to
Oliver street, to Henry street, to Grand
street, thence crossing the ferry and
winding up at Evergreen Cemetery.
An immense crowd was waiting at the
far away corner of the cemetery, where
the Chinese have tbeir burying plot.
At 4:40 the colfin was taken from the
hearse and carried through an avenue of
Chinamen to the grave. Then the coffin
was lowered. The banner of the Lun
Gee Tong was stuck at the head and two
huge lanterns of the dead planted ou
poles next to it. Tom Lee threw the
first sod on the resounding rough box
lid. Wfiile he was doing that, the other
Chinamen stripped themselves of all
their funeral trappings, sashes, blue and
red and black blouses, everything that
they had put on that had anything to do
with the funeral, and piled them all up
on the left of Li Yu Doo s grave.
Then on the pile they put the
mandarin umbrella, the eight em
blems of Tan, the poles and banners,
and when the pile was big and broad
and long they lighted it and stood to one
side to pray in silence. It was Li-YYi
Doo’s funeral pyre, and, though there
have been Chinese funerals in Elver
greens before, this was the biggest one
ever burned there. The last thing thrown
on it was his trunk. It was tilled w'ith
his clothing and all his personal prop
erty. This was done so that everything
he had in this world for daily use might
go out to him transformed in smoke for
use in the next. Another set of China
men placed two chickens, some bowls of
rice aud cups of tea on the grave. Thon
two bottles of wine were emptied on the
mound, and all that the living could do
for the dead was done. It was late when
all was over, and the sun had gone down
so far that the last thing it saw as it
was speeding to make day for Li Y u
Doo’s native home was his burial in a
foreign laud.
Professor Lucy M. Balinon, of Yassar
College, recommends a domestic poly
technic institute for two years to young
ladies who are to superintend households.
Bhe says they should be taught sanitary
laws, physiology and hygiene, care of
the sick, cooking, marketing, care of
servants, sewing, principles of kinder
garten, artistic housefurnishiug anu
domestic economy.