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FOR HIMSELF AM) FAMILY Mr. Stiy» Wonderful Fight with h Hand of Apache#. f • «-bnnd*><l. He R*pub« • Urge Body of the 81001-ihirtty Hontile# yjr f*hy la * sturdy. plain ’p“ '‘ r ‘- itr lg«-nt iimn, mid apporeni z unn w ,r>- that he hai achieved a feat :<■' - crdeil by any of h- knighU of r<> umrci- Ho w J‘J»t silting dow oto bln dinner with his wife and boy, and bnd onearrn in aiding because of wine rerent Injury to the hand. He heard aome slight noise in the yard, and glancing through the window Just In bia rear, he was horrified to aoe a painted Apache stealthily creeping up. Quick as thought lie tore the banda gen from his arm, sprang to the cor ner of his room Where Ids Winches ter was resting, and seizing It wheel' d around Just in time to re-'dvr the Ore of the savage, which he instantly r turned. Mrs Shy closed and locked the door at the same moment, and th Indians, s-eing that they had a brav nmn to light, placed themselves out <- ▼lew of the window and opened a rat tling lire up in the hum" from all sides It was a flimsy Irame struc lure, anil a bullet would go through the walla as though they were paiti laiard. Il was a terrible time so. alamt mi hour Inside of that little bouse, with the pale, terror-dr.i .en w.le end Imy i ron dung in the loft and tin desperate ranchman crouching in the room below, tiring only when he could see an Iridian through the win dow, listening to I lie migry zip of the bullets as they tore through the thin walls mil whistled about bis heal. Alter awhile there was a lull in the firing. A few yardrdisiant from Mr. Shy's house w. s the house of Mr. A J Y eater, his partner in a cattle ranch, and who war at that time being biiti here I, In company with his wife, four miles away. I lie lull in the i.r Ing was caused by the la< t that the savages had broken open Mr. I eater e residence and wen- making themselves merry eating and dunking and break Ing up the furniture Alter getting through with this they tired the house, which in a few moments was a mass of dames. Mr. Shy saw that his own house would be on lire in a few min utes, and for a moment ha was well Dlgh paralyze I with despair Ho glanced al his wile an I bov, and knew fr in the ominous signs without that the Indians were only waiting for tiie flames to dri v them out. Ina mo nietit his house was on lire, and tell Ing ins wife and buy to come down from the loft, Im prepared to open the door mid make a rush lor safety for some large roc . , near by. Opening the door he threw his Ixsly half way out and fired full at a group of sava | g<w; at Hie sama instant he sprang back within the house. Hie next mo mental leaal a dozen bullets were buried in the door lacing. The i dames were getting 100 not, however, . .to remain indoors, and Mr shy. telling ' his wife and fmy to follow him,sprang uu’side and ma lea rush for a large rm C near by. When he got within I a) Ut twelve feet of It. live savages Jumped up from behind it and tired light in Ids face. By a wonderful providence not a bullet struck him, and he Inst rnlly started for another large rock, from which another group of redskins tired a volley in his face. A storm of bullets were whistling atound him from all sides, but he seemed to bear a charmed life, and not one of them touched him He had the presence of mind before leaving the house to Illi his pockets with cart ridges, and he kept popping away at the savages. Out in the open and knowing that he could no longer lie tortured to death like a rat In a hole, all sense of fear left him, and he actually assumed the aggressive and ran the savages in a body s >me distance away, where they • cenMoil themselves behind some large ro> ■ » He also place,l himself behind a reck, and in this position wherever he could s-e the body of an Indian «x --posrsl he fired at it Meanwhile his little boy had been shot down, and Bhy had kept the Indians so busy by his own determined work that Mrs. Shy had an opportunity to get up the gulch. The woundtai boy had crawled into n thicket wh re his father had directed him tv go, but not Indore his .'.evoted mother, fearlessly exposing herself t the tiring, had taken off one of her skirts and wrappesl it around the little fellow. The heroic ranchman kept back the savages until dusk, when they retire! M mwh.le Mrs, Shy hid made advtmu and started on a trip for D Hi li.-. twenty miles avv.iv h >; ing t > get assistance for her bus band. Ihe p s-r .a ty was found in un exhaust. I condition late at night elrnggiiag along the r ml about bn * front fiennnj Sm- was picked a relief party of men who ha -n notified by c>w ■ o -th it Shv vi surrounded by alar. ; .it yof h s 1 Helling His Far Farm. “There arc some mighty green men in this world.’’ said the passenger from the West, “and 1 struck one of ’em a week or two ago. If Jhaln t I wouldn’t be here now. Last spring I went out into Western Nebraska and homesteaded a quarter section. I hadn’t seen the land, but took itsup pos.u’ it was all right. But when I got there 1 found it already inhabited. About 150 acres of the 160 were cov ered with a prairie-dog town. Well, I concluded to settle down anil see w. I could do, and I’m mighty glad now that 1 diil About td-o weeks ago I was up to the railroad station trying to get trusted for some bacon and flour and terbacker, an’ feelin’ right smart discouraged. I was out of money and grub, and the winter was cornin’ on fast, an’ I couldn’t see any wav out of it but to eat prairie dogs, an’ they’re mighty hard to catch. But that day I was Hie turning point in my luck. ■ While I was at the station an Englisb j man got off Hu- cars, an’ said as bow • In- was out Wi-st lookin’ for a place to | make an investment, .'said he’d heard o’ the fur busin• ss, an’ wanted to know If he was out in the fur country yet. •‘•Furs.’says I, there hain’t no f’— an’ just then an idea struck me, an’ I changed my tune. 'Furs,' says I, there hain’t no better fur country than | this on 'arth. Just come out to my place till 1 show you my fur farm.' "And lie went out with me, an' I showed him the prairie dog town, an', is luck would have it, it was a bright, sunny day, an' the dogs was out scoot in’ around by Hie hundreds. “ ‘Talkin' about furs,’ says I, ‘what d'ye think of that? I’ve been six years growin' those mink, an’ hain’t sold a hide. It’s all natural increase, tluess they'a 'bout seven thousands of "in now, an they double up every ' year. How many will there be in ten years ?” “You oughter seen that Englishman's eyes open as he took out ins pencil an’ gored it up. lie made it 7,168,000 mink. •• ‘Well.’ says 1. ‘call it 5,000,000. to b" on the safe side It won't cost. $1 to keep 'em, either, an' if they're worth a cent they're Worth 11 apiece. There's millions in it.' Then we got right down to business, an' in less than an hour I had sold out. tor |7,00<) cash, an' the next day I paid $320 for the homestead at the Land Office, got my patient, trans ferred it to him ami took the first train for tiie East." <7o> /// < Ihiald. Stimulants mid larcotics. Between fifty and sixty well known stimulant-narcotics are in common us H in different ountries. Almost every kown tribe and nation of men has its favorite product, ami of many of these the use attains proportions which are well nigh incredible. To obtain accu rate figures upon such a subject is difficult, if not impossible. The fol lowing were the conclusions c* Von bibra some years since: Alooh nJ tobacco are known and used by ai tions, the latter being smoked, snm, and chewed in different countries. Chinese tea claims 500,000,000 consu mers. Hashish (or Indian hemp) is eaten, drunk or smoked by 111M>,000,000; opium by 400,00,),0:k) of men, chicory by 40,000.000, coca by 10.000,000. and I’araguary tea by 10,000,000. Dr. Johnson tells us that 50,000,000 of our race are in the habit of chewing the betal nut; but there remains to take account of the numbers who consume products of Amanita (the Siberian fungus), the thornapple, the hop, cof fee, cocoa, guarana, koumiss, cola-nut (on the West Coast of Africa), kava (In the Fijis). the lettuce, the rhodod endron, Hie nightshade, and many oth er minor members of the class. A New Idea of Convict Labor. It is to remove the penitentiary to a farm, which should ‘.e cultivated by the prisoners and which could thus be made to furnish them with supplies necessary for their sustenance. Here also the doth coni I be woven for their clothing and their shoes and hats man ufactured, the whole production being confined strictly to their needs, and thus coming in nowise into competi tion with the products of honest labor either in Held or in factory. It is true that there would be some articles which this system would not furnish tor 'he use of the prison But these could be procured in the following manner A sutli dent number of the c r.vic's could l>e hired to the counties desiring their labor on the public roads or at r e that would pay for their ke ping aid also supply a fund for io payment of prison officials, and for Im incidental expenses of the prison ■self. The farm, with its buildings, s muld I* Ua-ated near enough to the ty to maka dr .id of neighboring length sufficient to keep down aeutes. but at the same time far igh away not to interfere with the y's growth —Z.'i Amon i( l a.) Sh.' LtDIEV UEPARTMENT. .▼o Q«arr«lfl In thsl My wila isn't mueh of » beauty, But a housekeeping body is she; Efficient in housekeeping duty, And makes the home pleasant lor me, bbe w< ars the most tiuty apparel, > An<f she's a per] etual joy, And we've never in ide hud a uunrrei, For she cooks like an angel, my toy. Boit'm Couritr. A < urlous Ceremony, A wedding of an interesting and unusual character took place nt the Greek church, Moscow road, Bays water, says '/'hr Pall Mall (Jazt Ue, be ta een t wo members of the well-known It dli family. A large gathering of notables assembled to welcome the bridal party. The bride wore a long, plain dress of rich white brocade, adorned with sprays of orange blos soms, the same flower being worn on ih<-head, over which was thrown a voluminous veil of simple tulle. She was ae ompanied by four little brides maids. children, wearing pink velvet and white lace dresses, with hats of the same tint. Each carried a basket of pink rosebuds ami fern. Two groomsmen held enormous candles, dressed with orange flowers, on each side of the bridal pair, and they were met by the priest in gorgeous golden robes at Hie little table set in the mid dle of the church, just in front of the i lectern. The priests came out of the holy of holies, the doors of which they ieft open, disclosing a perfect blaze of golden splendor, in lamps and cruei fixes. After wafting the fragrant In cense about—a kind much more agree able than that generally used in Itoinsn Catholic churches, which has a heavy odor—the ceremony com menced. Wreaths of orange blossoms ind white satin ribbon were placed on each bridal head and changed three times. The whole concluded, by the head priest lea ling the married couple, attended by the respective parents, three times round the altar table. Ulrla of the Marqueiai Inland. As our men took their meals on the spar-deck, the women and as many of the native men as could be provided J for, ate with them. The natives are not dainty, but cram their mouths full 1 and eat voraciously. The women are ] very fond of meat, but are not allowed ' to e.it it on the island, where it is ta- ; boo to them —another instance of the selfish character of the men. It is too ! scarce, however, for the men to in dulge in, except at a festival. The taboo is laid merely by the proclama tion of a priest. They have a pair of goats on the island, and that they may increase undisturbedly they are taboo to all persons for five years, j Our dinner table in the ward room j being under an open hatch, they clus tered round the hatch and watched the manner of our eating with great ! delight. Anything that was handed to one of them from the table was thankfully received and divided among the rest, and eaten with so great satis faction and greediness that they re minded us of monkeys. Once, for curiosity, we took several of the pret iest and cleanest girls below to dine with us. They behaved with a great deal of decorum, and in order that they might make no mistakes and do nothing wrong they watched us close ly and did exactly what we did. Each I officer attended to the girl that ha brought down, and he was the model by which she governed her actions. She would put no more in her mouth at a time than he. use her knife and ’ fork as he, lay them down when he ; did, be helped when he was, drink | when he did. One of the officers at- j tending on a girl had a nervous affec- I tion in his under jaw. and every now I and then would screw up his chin and face in a very ridiculous manner, and he was very sensitive of its being re marked on. His girl, anxious to imi tate him in every respect, to be per fectly decorous, kept an eye on him all the time, anil when he screwed his mouth to one side she w uld instantly do the same, to our infinite merriment, i and n ■ less to his mortification.— Crain.- of the Vincennes. Origin of Mome FAvhiout. A little New York milliner said in the course of a conversation with a Mail ami Kj'press reporter: “The Princess of Wales, as everybody knows, has an unfortunate limp, which nothing under the sun could render beautiful But the foolish London ladies seeing this sai I to themselves. ■Dear me! How chic that limp is.' The ‘Alexander kimp.’ as it was called, Iwcame extremely f.ushionable. and it was obtained by making the heel of one boot shorter than that of the other. The Princess cf Wales ha> also a very long and meager neck. She was absolutely obliged to wear only high dresses, close up to the throat. But the thousands o. English ladies who had not very long necks followed her example, and made them selves ridiculous. Dear m How stupi 1 the fashion world is!” The little milliner sighed at ths fraility of her sex. but tortured her self by relating still more of them. “Do you know the origin of the puck ered sleeves which are worn by every woman to-day, and which look like pirnpks on the shoulders? It was simply this: The Countess of Dudley -one of the most beautiful women in England, by the-by—was invited to a dinner one nlgnt, and was expected to shine in a very elegant costume, : which was being made esperially for ' the occasion. ’ When the countess was I about to dress her maid informed her that the dress maker had not yet sent home the costume. The countess was in despair. What could she do? She wrote a note to the delinquent, de manding that the dress should be sent immediately, finished or unfinished. It came within an hour—unfinished. The countess felt bound to don it, as several society papers had already ex patiated upon its wonderful design. The sleeves were only tacked in. The countess was not daunted. She took a needle and hastily sewed in the sleeves —so hastily, indeed, that over each shoulder the material was puck ered and stood up in alarming folds. She wore the dress as it was, however. She knew she could wear anything. A week from that time puckered sleeves were all the rage in London.” The milliner blushed with shame at this new instance of female weak ness. “Do you know who originated high heeled boots?" she asked. “Oh ! that woman has a great deal to an swer for, 1 can tell you. It was the Marquise de Pompadour. She was so small, and it was the fashion to be tall, that she invented high heels in a fit of desperation. That lady also or iginated the black patches which were so fashionable in the French court, and which people supposed to-day that the ladies wore in order to heighten the brilliancy of their complexion. They were thus simply in imitation of La Pompadour. She had an aggra vating pimple on her cheek. AH her efforts were unavailing. She covered the offending growth with black plas ter, and set the fashion. Anne of Austria introduced the fashion of short sleeves. She was not a beauti ful woman, but her arms were magifi cent, and in the same spirit with which Katisha expatiates on the beau ty of her left shoulder blade, Anne of Austria resolved to exhibit her left shoulder blade. Short sleeves were almost unknown before her time, i Marie Antoinette had masses of ex quisite hair, and the huge coiffures and outlandish designs which are so much ridiculed to-day were simply the result of that fact. She could do nothing else with her hair, as there was so much of it. But her ladies j imitated her,, and actually bought ; false hair in order to reach a proper standard of perfection.” Fashion Notes. Pale pink is arranged with trim mings of plum color. Satin is worn in combination with embroidered Indian crape. Dress bodices are long waisted with i high standing English collars. Beads of steel and gold combined have a rich iridescent brilliancy. Rosary and jet beads are used to- 1 gether for trimming black toilets. Tailor-made newmarkets are among the sensible wraps for cold weather. Fur-trimmed costumes of Jersey clot’n are among the latest importation Pretty chatelaine bags are made of pearl or tan-colored kid daintly painted. Embroidery of fringe and steele are used for trimming half-morning toil ets. Trains are of the same material as the bodice, and are made wide and full. Handsome house dresses are bright ened by jewelled belts, girdles or clasps. Newmarkets for young girls are long enough to coven the skirts of the dresses. Sashes fastened at the back, or at the left side, are worn w ith every va riety of costume. Pretty house slippers are of tan-col ored, undressed kid. They are beaded with steel or gilt beads. Plush grows in popularity for dress es, wraps, bonnets and hats, and is worn by old and young alike. Heliotrope and violet shades are chosen for dresses for evening wear, and full-dress occasions. Pins for bonnet strings are in every conceivable form, insects and tiny blossoms taking the precedence. Coral is used for trimming evening dresses, sea-green tulle with coral spr.nkled over it being quite effective. Handkerchiefs, coquettishly tucked n the fronts of bodices, are of fin* I -nuslin in delicate shades of pink, blue, -rev and buff. I AMONG THE HOP PICKERS. Picturesque Rural Scenes in England’s Hop Districts. Nomadic Existence of the Hoppers and their Rigged Familiw- The race of hoppers is not unknown to the most superficial of newspaper readers. Their sms and m:-fortunes are a fertile theme, and the paternal legislature lias taken them in hand. Considered picturesque tour ist’s point of view, the hopper is an unconventional-looking person, who camps about on the river bank in a ' manner not unsuggestive of the abo riginal savage. “Camps” is exactly I the right word, for rows ol tents placed in a line, of military precision are to be seen in the fields. Here the hopper —just come from Whitechapel cooks his dinner at a gypsy-lire, and his squaw mends rags close by. In I other places the gypsy-fires and rag mending goes on under a convenient hedge. Elsewhere two old women, of witch-like features, may be found, with half a dozen children around them, squatting under the protection of a steam roller. Three crooked sticks propped up against one anoth er over about as much fire as would till a moderate sized saucer stand in front, and at this kitchen they are cooking something mysterious in a passing strange fashion. Hoppers are of al) ages, of both sexes, and, as far as can be seen, of various ranks. The great majority are ragged enough, though even about them there is a vague something which suggests that the rags are at least partly voluntary. Many are obviously' too well fed to belong to the utterly poor who go half-naked; and if their attire is of the roughest, it may be partly because they are too wise to camp out in more decent raiment. They have bundlee, obviously full of something, with them, and a large variety of pots and pans. Now and then one sees men, and even women, among them who belong, apparently, to the class of work-people in pretty regular employ ment. At times, to be sure, one catches sight of a close-cropped bullet head, suggestive of a very recent “six months;” but it is the exception. On the wuole, the hoppers give one the im pression that they' are a much more or derly body than seems consistent with the nomadic nature of their trade. For many of them, indeed, the work is reg ular enough. There are some families which come yearly to the same farms, and write carefully beforehand to ask when the hopping is to begin. On the whole, the hopping season seems to represent their month at the sea-side— aholiday of work under healthy condi tions. In the rainy weather they must have a bad time, particularly those who are lodged in tents. A largo proportion are put into long out houses. built for the purpose, and used for no other. These sheds are wind and water tight, and abundant clean straw is supplied for beds. Though not luxurious, these houses are not actual ly indecent, and are decidedly superior to an average London slum. Doctor Johnson, who believed in the healthi ness of Londoners, would have been gratified to learn that the Kent far mers prefer the town hoppers to the country, or, as they are called, home hoppers; because the former star.J bad weather better than the oth ers, who have been accustomed to an open-air life all their days. In point of character, the hopper reaches to a certain level of respectability. He or she belongs to the race of Autolycus. They cannot resist any trifle they find lying about, but they seldom meddle with - serious thieving. Violence is not unknown among them; but in the remoter parts of Kent, which may be said to include the Midway valley, it is reported to be the exception.—Maga zine. Work Saved by Type-Writing. A man of letters in New York was under contract with a publisher to write about 30,000 words. He had prepared himself carefully for the task, but the contemplation of its manual labor tired him in advance. He went to a type-writer'sofllcedown town, where three or four industrious girls were earning their living, ami learned that he could dictate to one of them at the rate of from 1,800 to 3,000 words. The noise of the clicking ma chines at first threatened to disturb his efforts at original composition, but before he had worked half an hour he was used to it. Tae busimss of com posing and dictating the 36.000 words occupied about twenty hours each, or five or six days of three or four hours each. At the end of each sitting he left theoflice with the completed manu script tn his hand. The result was ac complished without fatigue, and its quality, he says, was unusually good— for him. He further testifies that, for the first time in his life, he has a “real izing sense of what emancipation is A Chinese Military Pay Day, The Chinese soldier receives h:s"p aT once a month only, and Chines, months, it may be remarked, are longer than these we are to reckon by. On the eve of the nav day, the captain of a company, togeti er with his sergeant-major, goes anj receives the amount requisite to pay his company, from his next sup<. r : ut officer. This is not paid to him j B jingling coins such as we are accus. tome! to, for China possesses no coin, age but in pure silver, which, howev er has been broken into somewhat irregu.’ lar pieces. The whole of the night preceding pay-day is occupied in weighing out for each man the re. quired ounces of silver, and this occu. pation as may be easily imagined, j s , very tedious one, and only suceesstui ly accomplished by infinite care, for here a piece the size of a pin’s head has to be chipped off, and there a piece of larger dimensions has to bj added to make up weight, and any deviation one way or the other means the loss of perhaps a day’s pay or mon to some poor defender of the Celestial Empire. When the process of meting out is accomplished, the silver is then carefully wrapped in paper, upon which is written the name of tiie in. tended recipient. On the following afternoon the company is mustered, and the sergeant-major divides the money, commencing with the first man in the company, and going on to the last. When this division is con cluded the question is asked in stento rian tones: “Has any one else a claim?” and the customary “No" hav ing promptly been given, the men are then dismissed. Each one now repain to the nearest tradesman’s shop where he exchanges his silver. For one tad he receives 1.600 small coins, perfora ted in the centre so as to allow of be ing threaded on a string, and having received the proper amount, turns homewards with a cheerful mien, but nearly sinking beneath his burden. The private re eives three and a half taels, equal to about nineteen shillings, monthly; out of which he has to pro vide hismself with clothes and food. This to us, no doubt, seems a very in significant sum, but we must remem ber that the whole of a Chinese sol dier’s subsistence only costs him about one tael, for he subsists on rice, abso lutely nothing but rice. His clothes, too, also cost but a trifle. But itli not pretend'd that a soldier can save much out of such a slender income; and it is invariably the case that when the next pay day comes round the pool defender of the Celestial Empire has not a cent in pocket, neither has he had any for some days past, so quick ly does money melt, even in those ce lestial regions.— Chronik der Zeit. The Laugh Was On The Clerk. “Es it ain’t writin’ an' it ain’t printin’, wat kinder stamps do you put on?” queried an urchin, whose head barely reached to the window ledge, at the postoffice yesterday. The clerk at the stamp window smiled at the youngster’s question, and winked in evident enjoyment at the bystanders. Then he said: “Sonny. I suppose you've got third class matter?” “I dunno,” was the dubious reply- The clerk laughed, and repeated his winks at the interested spectators who had overheard the dialogue. “Well,” he said finally, and mimick ng the boy's manner, “es it ain't writin’ an’ it ain’t printin’, I gne® we’ll have to call it third-class matter and send it along for you pretty cheap What does it weigh?” “Nothin’,” said the boy, as bis m< uth stretched into a grin that threatened to fracture his ears. “Nothing?” repeated the clerk. “Yump,” muttered the boy, reefin? his smile slightly. In that case, then, sonny,” said the clerk, with hilarious animation, we'll send your package through for noth ing.” “Sure pop?” questioned the boy, ® he edged back a little from the win dow. “Sure pop,” repeated the clerk. pledge the honor of the government Hand over the matter that weigh* nothing.” “Here it is, mister,” and tha boy pushed an inflated toy balloon through the window opening. “Mind yer, Hl hold the gov’ment ’sponsible—yer so.” And then the boy and speett tors did the laughing and the winking, and the clerk devoted himself W chunks of language which weighed more than the mailable four pounds allowed by law. American Indian Paintings. The painted rock of Santa Barbar* county, California, is 150 feet high and upon it are many color painting* in a good state of preservation that are thought to be the work of Indians- There are two’caves in this giantreih one at its base and another some feet up, and in each of these are p’- c -‘ ures of animals.