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Hide by aide in » recent numtwr of the
tzmdon 7on« were three advertisement’,
ra h on<- announi mg that a man named
“Braith" wa» alamt tn < hange hia name
to "Faber.” It will I” remenilieicd that
“Faber” is simply tbr Izitin equivalent
of “Smith.'' The plain Smith* of the
country will probably say that a living
language Smith ia about a* good ns a
dead language Falxr.
in order Io settle the question a- to the
proper treatment for jwrson* who have
ilaon frozen, Di. Lapt< hink’ki ha* made
a aerie* of very careful experiment* upon
dogs. lie found that, of twenty animal*
treated by the method of gradual resit*
citation in a cold room, fourteen [<er
lah'd; of twenty placed nt once in a
warm room, eight died, while twenty put
immediately into a hot bath recovered
quickly and without accident.
Thera ia a patient in a Scotch infirmary
suffering fre.m a painful diaeaae in which
every person who u*c* a eano ia inter
waled. It ia a wire of the hand, brought
on by the prewcure of a round knobbed
■tick .egain’t the palm; in thia < a*c it has
idle', ted the muM b ■ from the fingers to
above the w rift. A speedy cure is not
probable. The surgeon* My that a ’tic k
with a handle, instead of a knob on
which the palm mu>t pre**, is the thing
io carry. _______________
The queen of Madagascar goes to Sun
day w Ihhil, but nhr passi m into th«
chaprl. where guard*, with fixed Imyon
«t>, Maud l<n <h< p Within the ( Impel,
where one thoinoiixl jamon* may find
the queen ait" hi#h upon a throne
at the Hide of the pulpit \n English
«mn, who attended a service of the
im hool recently, wn" Mruek with the fr<
qurnt u*e of the w< rd “civilization” by
thf'M* who spoke and jirayed in the rm
tivr tongiie
Like nil inventor-. M Paatenr mu-t
’naturally expect n certain amount of lidi
rule, and the wit kid Phi in prcsM i- juM
now making tun of him. For instance
■Heme, M Pii-ti ur’* studio. Enter a re
turned Tompiin expeditionist, who re
marks I would like to be ino< uhitcd
«gnin«t thi hydrophob i.” >l. PiiMeur
When were you bitten?” Exjiedi
tionixt “ Well. 1 wn« not exactly bit
ten but I entertain Mi-picion* about one
<»l the log- which I ;;t«.”
*■* **y ■*». «
l’c nnsylv.uii.i burglars must lit polite
l-ey ml their fellow*. A story is curie nt
that an ugi d Mennouite couple, living I
icei.i Allentown, Jjctird a burglar break
'«L' 'lt '«*•’ 110 f'Utcry
ThF intruder, in:*) d, soon stood before
tic 111, but to all his threats made to i s
tort money, they replied that they feared
him not, for (iod was stiutiger than he.
He finally left when the old man hud
given up two dollars n« a compromise,the
demand having been for fifty dollar*.
/
Govrnor Swinford. of Alaska, i la d ;l
distinguished caller the other day. This
was Kid Yuk, Chief 1 the Hoot/. noo
boo or lloocbcuou tribe i-| Indians, K.d
Yak wa* accompanied by his valet, says
Um t/ei»Z,u,. As a usual thing Iniliims
do not hate valet*. but this chief was n
big male let Killi’tioo. What he wanted
from the governor wa* a commission an
policeman so that he could rule his In
diant with the auth rity if the United
State* b.u king hi* own lie g,,j wlmt
he de sired and pur, has. ,1 n |Kilieeman's
baton he de |u.rtee| fen Killiarioon accom
panied, we presume, by the valet. .
An electric boy Iqi* lien on exhibition
in Kelinliurg. and a gr ntlemati who wiitef
to the electrician ray» tie made such «
thorough examination of the ca»e us to
uati.fy him that there was no deception.
He was a colored Is-y The writer *ay*:
“1 had the boy strip|ecd nuked. While
thus naked he walked in my pre»n<e,
and aim' sat on a wooden scat w ith hia
tn t off the ground. In e very position
in w hich 1 tried him I found electricity
prexvided from his Indy when 1 tom heal
it with one finger The electricity came
with the greate-at freedom from the upper
lialf of hi* bedy. ami especially from hi*
tongue.”
A prominemt electrician of Philadelphia
has rveeised letters patent so» an invon
tion which he aays will rvvolutiotuzr the
* mail, telegraphic and telephouu vystems
now m uae Ilia plan is termed anil elec
trs>-pneumatic transit, and iadcerignesl tc
carry lettirs and |uu kages from city to
city at a rate of nine miles a minute.
The tulie will l»e of brass, incaml in
iron, through which si close-fitting me
talh. carriage containing the article*
w.II lie propw ted by a volume of coni
prrsMsl an Intermediate citic* and
towns will have tulas c, r.necting with
the main tube, mid the destination of till
carriage will l>e under the control of the
o|X'rati»i at tin mainctliiwho will n.au
♦ •
"Tub Gr.BAT Goxvtians'' ia thetitle
of a Ixxik by Dr. Mathewa. It does l>eat
all bow even the beat men will jibe and
jeer at the women.
One Star.
erwatar upon the brow , f Night—
Or* star, on* or.lv gem-
■-learr.s Ilk* a jewel rarely bright,
’'pon a queenly fore) d white.
La royal diadem
■ in* star npoti the brow of Night
In all that greet s fru/i**
At, from m if' mU*»n bright,
I *it ami b th** corn* n light
Os *ui wt leave lb* »ki**
Oigh M :,i CanulL
Meek Little Simeon Mix
•"A h< w.'i« ll' mei-k' st man?'’ ask’ the
at< l.i-n. and promptly answ< rs itself
by saying, “Mows.”
Th< c.itii'hi’m ia wrong. It improba
bly e»< i-alil-, however, for tin man who
iirote ft w.•* iloiibth - um''.piainti d with
I.ttlr Simeon Mix. H this should mine
I > the <le of th author of that cheerful
|>eeim<ii if .thodox literature, 1 hope
be v.ill >•< iisc hi* work in this rcsjiect.
The information ~-to nieekm-” should
l>c gii ■ n thus
(> i”tion Who v.a-th'e meekest man?
Answi Little Simeon Mix.
Jl> .. i ther< never i-ould have been a
man quite as meek as little Simeon was.
His name wa* at the head of the Gras*
villa Heacou Light as editor, publisher
and proprietor, and bo he was; but he
had no more tosuy about the way things
should lx run in the establishment than
the tinki r - apprentice next d<a>r had.
Mr. Joshua Boggs, the foreman of the
office, was the Ih-acon Light’s dictator,
'•ibiwly <i<r thought of going to little
Simeon to have anything put in or left
out of the pup i. be< au‘c they km w that
dr. Hoggs would more than likely kill the
onr and put in the o’.hei . so they always
a*ked Mr. Hogg* if o and ao could be
notieeil, or if meh and such n thing
couldn't be passed over. Little Simeon
never put his copy on the hook with any
thought that it would go in as he wanted
it, if it went in at all. ami lie never vent
ured to put copy out if Mr. Boggs was
looking. He moved about his establish
ment as if be were an interloper, liable to
lie ordered out at any moment. He al
ways spoke to and of his foreman as “Mr.
Boggs, ’ but the foreman was never more
respectful to little Simeon than to call
him “Sim.” He generally addressed
him ns “You sap-head.” Mr. Boggs
ruled the destinies of the Beacon Light
with an iron hand, and little Simeon jar
formed the functions of editor, publisher
and proprietor with fear and trembling.
The publication day of the Beacon
Light was Tuesday, and it was little Sim
eon’s wi ll known desire to have the pa
per printed on Monday night. Consc
quentlv, Mr. Boggs issued the paper
promptly on Wednesday nlterm ins. A
paper dated on Tucsilav, and not coming
out until Wednesday, did not strike little
Sinici n a.s being good ji iirnali*m, but, of
course, he could ugt ''link of suggesting
M'Ji ! *° 'l''. Boggs. Dnc night
an idea trunk little Sitneop, after he had
gone to bed. It w.is such a bold one
that it seared him. Why not change the
date of the paper t > Wednesday? Thid
was the idea. But to carry it into excr
cution was what required the nerve. It
would never do to let Mr. Boggs know
of it. Little Simeon rolled and tosseil
for hours on his com h, so burdened was
he with his idt;x Finally he crept out
of bed, dressed hilituV. stole from the
house, and went by a round about way,
through daik back itreets, to the ofhee
jh'jj-.iieon i.ight. He unlocked the
doer, and. with trembling limbs, tip toed
into the office, it was his own office,
but he felt like a thiH. The forms for
the paper were made up and on the stone
ready to go to pres* the next day, which
was Wcdtii -day. Little Simeon strut ka
match., ai d crept up t< thi stone.
’ I.aw said he. “Mr. B igg* knew thi*
he’d be mad enough to kill me! I've a
noth n tu t to do it. in w.”
-
But he did. lie lifted out the wonl
“Tuesday” anil th* date, and plaeed
“W i dm-sday” and the iin responding
date in their place. Tlien he bit the
office a* »ti ulthily as he had entered, and
flew ba; k home a* W the terrible- Mr.
Boggs ».« in dose putsu t. Little Sim
ion slept not a Wink that fight, ami half
dressed himself twice with the intention
of pomg back to the office and undoing
the bold work he had done. The next
morning he had no Courage to go to the
offiee, and sent wort! to Mr. Boggs that
he was ill. The paper ix'tiie out all right,
dati-d Wedneaday. On Tliursday little
Simeon went to the office with fear and
trembling. He t tfpet-teei a blast from
M: H gg* and admitted himself that he
dewrveil il. But h< marly tainte-il when
Mr Biqjgs greeted him w ith a pleasant
saaila, am! said:
“Ah’ Gemd morning. Simmx !"
Little Simeon filled with remorse.
“Mr. Bugg* haan't found tne out yet,”
aaid he It'll come by and by.”
But it eiidn't. Nothing was said by
any one al-out the change in the Beacon
Light's publication day Little Simeon
lagan io (eel Iwtter ami look u;a>n his
little moonlight so-.tp a* a mastci stroke
of genii!’. The next week the Beaeon
Light's new publi. atiou day came round,
but 1.0 *>. aeon Light apjKarod. Mr.
Boggs had resentisi the unheard of
itfi liter) of litt.i Simeon Mx tn inter
fering with the management of tin paper.
He brought the R aeon Light out on
Thursday, ami on Fhurmlay it cam? out
i Ih-lialter, dated M isiucstlav
Mr B< gg’B disapproval of his employ
er’ll ideazi in journalism was so universal
that little Simeon was at last forced to
use subterfuge and strategem to make
his personality felt in the conduct of the
Beacon Light. Thia was suggested to
him. however, by Billy I’uterbaugh. the
devil of the establishment. Billy was
little Simeon's confidant. One night lit
tle Simeon and Billy were alone in the
office,
“Here's an editoriid,” said little Sim
eon, “that I'd like to have set double
loaded in long primer, but .Mr. Boggs
won't let me, it isn't likely.”
“Mark it solid nonpareil,” said Billy,
without looking up from the exchange
he was reading.
“W-H-a-t!” raid little Simeon with a
start.
“Mark it solid nonpareil,” said Billy,
“and old Boggs 'll set it double leaded in
primer, an' I'll bet on it. ’
“But, law! Billy,” ->aid little Simeon,
Igha-t at the tl.ought. “S'posi! he finds
u:i out?”
Billy shrugged his shoulders and said
it was none of his circus, but said that
)1‘ 'cd bet his life that if be wanted anything
double leaded in a paper of bis, he'd
have it double-leaded or bust his bilcr.
Little Simeon pondered over the mat
ter a minute or two the wrote on the copy
“ Solid nonpari il,” ran to the hook and
clapped it on. and dashed out of the
office like a shot.
Next day Mr. Boggs look the copy off
the hook.
“ ‘Solid nonpareil,’ hey?" said he.
We'll solid nonpareil it I”
He scratched at little Simeon’s direc
tion's and wrote over <t, “Long primer,
double lead." Genius triumphed again
for the time, but Mr. Boggs found out
little Simeon's strategy in some way after
a month or so. Little Simeon was satis
fied that he was discovered by seeing in
the Beacon Light one week after his
stirring appeal to the people to support
Slocum for Pathmaster set in solid non
imreil, ami a half-column communication
on the subject of Heridity from a Psychol
ogical Point of View, which he had tak
en the chance of getting in the paper to
oblige a scientific friend, heading the ed
itorial column in double leaded long-prim
er Then little Simeon knew that it was
futile to interfere w hore .Mr. Boggs ruled,
and he meekly submitted.
Little Simeon was deeply in love with
the villiage blacksmith's pretty daughter.
She was as meek and quiet and gentle as
she was pretty, which is saying a great
deal, and she returned little Simeon's
love. One Christmas the girls of Grass
ville were getting up a little entertain
ment lor the benefit of the church, and
the blacksmith's lovely daughter was ap
pointed a committee to see that proper
notice of the affair should be given in thiJ
Beacon Light. She told little Simeon
that very night that there must be a
good notice in the paper that week, for
Friday was Christmas. Little Simeon
said to his sweetheart that she would
have to see Mr. Boggs about the mutter,
as he had charge of all such things on
the Beacon Light. The blacksmith's
pretty daughter went to the newspaper I
office the m-xt day. Little Simeon was j
out. She walked meekly and quietly up
to Mr. Boggs, and, in her gentle way,
told him what she wanted, and a-ked
him if he would give them a good notice.
“Maybe you don't know me, Mr.
Boggs?” she said “I'm Mi*s Fry, the
black smith's daughter.”
"Oh! you are. eh?” said Mr. Boggs,
turning about and talking very loud.
"Well, there's never been any black
smithing done around this office, and
there nev i will be as long as I'm here.
You can't get any notice in this paper!”
Will! It was all that Miss Fry could
do to keep back her tears and she hur
ried from the ofticc half-scared to death.
Ou her way home she met little Simeon.
Then she could contain herself no longer, I
and began to boo-boo in earnest. As
*<>on as she was able she told him how
rudely she had been treated by Mr.
Boggs, and w hat he had said to her.
Little Simeon said nothing, but after
leaving the blacksmith's daughter at her
house, he walked very rapidly back to
the Bi aeon Light office. People that he
met turned and looked after him.
“What's up with little Simeon !" they
said. “Ain't enuy is he?”
When bttle Simeon reached the office,
he went up stairs three steps at a time.
He dashed through the door, and shut it
after him with a bang. He never stop
ped until he reached Mr. Boggs. Mr.
Boggs was a six footer.
“She can t get any notice in thisjmper,
ehf" yelled little Simeon, and lie sprang
; in the air and hit .Mr. Boggs a thump
; under the ear that dropped him in a
heap on the floor. Little Simeon pounces!
:on him. He hammered, and clawed, and
I kicked. He scattered the aatounded Mr.
Boggs about the floor like a bag of chaff.
Billy Puterbaugh climbed clear upon his
case, and looked down on the frantic little
Simco'j with bulging eyes, as he thrashed
the hitherto invincibh Mr. Bogu'around.
Gallcj s wen piqd. frames upset, and gen
eral chaes was apparently approaching.
Mr. Boggs seemed utterly helpless in the
hands of the infuriated “ttli Simeon, ami
after luitting him about like an old. tin
-1 kettle, until Billy Ihiterbaugh thought
he must surely be dead, .ittle Simeon
dragged I :m to th- head es the stairs and
tumbled him from top to bottom.
“Maybe there'• never been any bla< k
amithing done orcund this establish
ment,” exclaimed little Simeon, as he
< ame back and looked about him, ‘‘but
if he don’t think there’s been a little
done juat now, then he’s tougher than I
think he is!”
Then little Simeon sat down in hi’
sanctum. “I 'spose he'll come back and
kill me, by and bye," said he, but I don't
care a cuss.”
But Mr. Boggs didn't come back. The
next day little Simeon sat in his office,
I uneasy in his mind. The de'or slow ly
openeil, and a head done up in bandage
and plasters was thrust through the
op-ning. Then an altogether broken up
individual limja-d in after the head, it
was Mr. Boggs. Little Simeon thought
the inevitable hail come, and he sprang
to his feet to sell his life as dearly as po*-
*ible. But Mr. Boggs threw up l.is
hands and said imploringly:
“Don’t strike me, Mr. Mix!”
“Mr. Mix!” exclaimed little Simeon.
“The poor fellow is crazy!”
Then Mr. Boggs went on to say that
he wanted to go to work; that he couldn't 1
be happy outside the Beacon Light office.
“Well, Boggsy,” said little Simeon, not
w ithout u start, “I guess we can give you
a sit. Come around after you get those
plasters off. There's a lot of pi lying
around this office, and I'll put you to set
ting it up. And say. Josh, if you think
you'd like' to do something to day, there's
a roller to wash, and Billy’s busy. You
might tackle that.”
“All right, Mr. Mix.” said the con
quered Joshua Boggs, and he went
in and washed the roller!
Little Simeon Mix ten the Beacon
Light after that. The publication day
was changed back to Tuesday, and the
pap' r went to press regularly every Mon
day night. Mr. Boggs was always Josh
or Boggsy to little Simeon, and little
Simeon was always Mr. Mix to the de- j
throned dictator. Little Simeon married
the blacksmith's pretty daughter, and
Mr. Boggs invested three weeks' salary
in a wedding present for the bride.—£irZ,
.Ifotf in the Journalist.
Drug Clerks.
“I don't hesitate to say drug clerks are
the worst paid of any toilers, and I’ll tell j
you how. It takes a young man at least ;
three years to learn the business. Then
it takes him as long more to get familiar j
with the details; so that you may say it j
requires five or six years in all. Now,
this is so much of the best part of his life
thrown away. And for what? Simply
to know how to earn sl2 or sl4 a week.
A man can earn more than that driving a
street car, which requires very little time
to learn. The drug business may not be
a profession, although it is generally so
considered, but, at the very least calcula
tion, it cotnes under the head of skilled
labor. The clerks are not paid as skilled
laborers, though, not by a good round
majority. No one will pretend to deny
that drug clerks are intelligent. From
my experience with men in general I
think they compare favorably with any
other class and arc far ahead of the aver
age. I knew comparatively young drug- }
gists who read Latin and Greek with ease
and arc excellent English scholars. They
study botany, geology and comparative
anatomy between prescriptions. One
thing is certain. A dunce cannot work
long in a drug store. He will be found
out before he knows it. As a matter of
fact, a dull or careless young man cannot
get a diploma from any of the better-class
schools of pharmacy. I honestly believe
it is harder for a druggist to get his de
gree than for a doctor. In some respects
his <lut:< * are more responsible. Many a
time doctors make mistakes which are
corrected at the drug store.”—New
1W Sun.
Frost Proof Men.
Just u« I regard a frost proof lower ani
mal, so also do 1 respect the frost proof
higher one, man himself. I can see little
to admire in the organization of one who
fears the frost; because, whatever Iris
mental endowments may be, he lacks an
essential of the perfect physicial man,
that is, manhood. As for boys they are
like persimmons in this, that they neve r
approached maturity until the frost
has sweetened them; and removed the
peculiar acerbity of some green things.
The lad who has never gathered shell
barks when his fingers tingled, or never
brushed the October frost from the clover
stubble with his bare feet, has missed an
experience in early life which would have
wnt him into the world with harder mus
cle* and steadier nerves for duties which
; might await his eoniing. Your vigorous
men with ruddy faces are of supreme
good nature, for “life is sweet to them.”
It is the continued dysja ptic who ha* the
monopoly of that worst form of ill humor,
chronic jaa vishne-ss. Outing.
She Was Satisfied.
“Doctor,” -aid an old lady to her pliye
ii ii.ii, “kin you tell rue how 'tin some
folks are ls>rn dumb?”
“Why, certainly, nridam." replied the
' doctor. "It is owing to the fact that
:tn y come into th< world minus the pow
er of speet h.”
“La. my!” exclaimed the old ladv;
“n< w ju*t st what it is to have a phy*ic
eihicstion. I've axed tny ole man a hun
dred time* that air *ame thing, and ail
that 1 could eve r get out of him w as,
j kaee they is!"
HUMBLE BIT USEFUL
A Short Sketch of the Evolu
tion of the Match.
How Matches Stand in the World as a
Factor of Economy.
Tn his address at the opening session of
the British association, Prof. Lyon Play
fair, M. P., the president, said: “Let
nn take a single example of how even a
petty manufacture, improved by the
teachings of science, affeets the comforts
and enlarges the resources of mankind.
When I was a boy the only way of ob
taining a light was by the tinder-box,
with its quadruple materials, flint and
steel, burnt rags or tinder, and a sulphur
match. If everything went well, ii the
box could lie found, and the air was dry,
alight could be. obtained in two minutes;
but very often the time occupied was
much longer, and the process became a
great trial to the serenity of the temper.
Fhe consequence of this was that afire or
burning lamp was kept alight through
i the day. Old Gerard, in his herbal,
tells us how certain fungi were used to
cany tire from one part of the country to
the other. The tinder box locg held its
position as a great discovery in the arts.
The pyxidicula igniaria of the Romans
appears to have been much the same
implement, though a little ruder than the
flint and steel which Philip the Good put
into the collar of the Golden Fleece, in
1429, as the representative of high knowl
edge in the progress of the arts., It con-
I tinned to prevail till 183'3. when phos
phorus matches were introduced, though
I have been amused to find that there are
u few venerable ancients in London who
; will stick to the tinder-box, and for
whom a few shops keep a small supply.
Phosphorus was no new discovery, for it
had been obtained by an Arabian called
Bechtel in the eighth century. Howev
er, it was forgotten, and it was rediscov
ered by Brandt, who made it out of very
stinking materials, in 1669. Other dis
coveries had, however, to be made before
it could be used for lucifer matches.
The science of combustion was only de
veloped on the discovery of oxygen a
century later. Time had to elapse be
fore chemical analysis showed the kind
of bodies which could be added to
phosphorus to make it ignite readily. So
it was not till 1833 that matches became
a partial success. Intolerable they then
were, dangerously inflammable, horribly
poisonous to the makers, and injurious
to the lungs of consumers. It required
another discovery by Schrotterin 1845, to
change poiso'nous wax into innocuous red
brick phosphorus in order that these de
fects might be remedied and to give us
the safety match of the present day.
Now, what have these successive discov
eries in science done for the nation in
this single manufacture by an economy
of time? If, before 1833, we had made
the same, demand for light that we now
do when we daily consume eight match
es per head of the population, the tinder
box' could have supplied the demand
under the most favorable conditions by
an expenditure of one quarter of an hour.
The lucifer match supplies a light in fif
teen seconds on each occasion, or in two
minutes for the whole day. Putting
these differences into a year, the venera
ble ancient who still sticks to his tinder
box would requfre to spend ninety hours
yearly in the production of light, while
the user of lucifer matches spends twelve
hours; so that the latter has an economy
of seventy-eight hours yearly, or about
ten working days. Measured by cost of
production at 1 shilling 6 pence daily,
the economy of time represented in mon
ey to our population is £26,000,000 annu
ally. This is a curious instance of the
manner in which science leads to econo
my of time and wealth, even in a small !
manufacture.
Gates Ajar.
The touching pathos of childhood is I
shown in the following: The death of
a well-known gentleman had called forth
many expressions of sympathy from
friends, in the way of a profusion of
flowers, in beautiful designs. After they
had been placed around him as he lay in
the casket, his little daughter Alice, of
4 yeai’s, was led by her mamma into the
room to look upon the face of her dead
papa. She was naturally attracted bv
the flowers, and by the design of “The
Gates Ajar.” Her mamma told her that
“the beautiful gate” had opened, and
pupa had passed through and would
never come back to them again. The
child looked steadily at her papa's face for
a few moments, then climbed up so she
i ould reach over and kiss his cold lips,
saying: “Papa, dear, speak to me and
say you will come to ‘the beautiful gate’
and meet your little Alice some day.”-
Button Courier.
A Judge's Charge.
Tennessee's distinguished historian
Judge Haywood, was once presiding
in a case w here a woman was being tried
lor some offense in which the evidence w a*
clearly against her. At the close of the
trial the Judge, in giving the case to the
jury said: “Gentlemen, you have heard
the evidence and you know the law.”
Then, after a pause-: “There is no punish
ment • man can inflict uponu woman and
still be a man." The woman was acquitted j
by the jury without leaving the box.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
“ As you love me, let not your tonrni,
give way to slang."
Air and light are among the best in
icines known to man.
A sneer is often the weak subterfu--, '
I of imprudent ignorance.
The silent eye is often a more poweif-|
! conquerer than the noisy tongue.
In your home study refinement unj
comfort, but study economy also.
If a married couple avoid the first
quarrel they will never have a second.
No success in life can be so desirable
that man can afford to sell his inter- j
o T
for it.
The yoke a man creates for himself ;,y
wrong-doing will lined hate in the 1, i.
liest nature.
Nothing more clearly indicates l>»
I true gentleman than a desire evinced
■ oblige or accommodate. »
There are three things in speech that
ought to be considered before they )re
j spoken —the manner, the place and the
time.
“Chip's” Leller.
“Chip,” a Chinese house-servant lon*
employed by one family in San Francisco
having accumulated a snug little sum of
money, recently determined to pay a visit
to his relatives in China. Desiring to
correspond with the family during his ab
sence, and not being able to write in the
English language, he hit upon the follow,
ling novel expedient: lie applied toj
friendly neighbor—a young lady— to
write from his dictation, enclose and nJ.
dress a letter to his mistress, he taking
the same with him for the purpose of
mailing from China. A few day before
his departure the lady of the house
chanced to go into Chip's room, and
there saw lying upon the table a sealed
letter addressed to herself. Thinking its
presence there to be an oversight on the
part of Chip in not promptly delivering,
she opened the letter, and on reading it
discovered the true inwardness of the
same. Not wishing to Lave Chip know
that she had surprised his little secret,
she had a new envelope properly prepared
and addressed in close imitation of tne
original and left the letter where she had
found it. The letter graphically de
scribed the trip from San Francisco to
Hongkong; it dwelt particularly upon a
terrible storm at sea, during which nearly
every one was seasick except the writer;
Chip's arrival home was touched upon:
the joy of his mother and family was
feelingly described; finally the date of
his intended return was given and a
answer requested. Chip, having secured
his certficatc, departed hence as arrang 'd,
and, sure enough, the last China mail
brought the wonderful letter from Chip,
and, no doubt, when lie receives the an
swer, which was promptly sent, his heart
will swell with pride and gratification,
and his importance among the circle of
his acquaintance in his native home ba
duly increased by his foreign correspond
ence. — San Francisco Argonaut.
The Chinese Minister.
A Washington Letter to the Springfield
Republican says: The Chinese Minister
is a man of 60, who was a Governor of
one of the Provinces in China. After lie
had made his fortune the Emperor saw
that he was getting rich too fast, and,
much to his disgust, exiled him here on a
salary of $25,000 a year and all expenses
paid. For the Chinese Government is
liberal. If a dinner is given at the lega
tion the Government pays for it, and the
same if he travels or keeps a carriage,
while all the expenses of the legation are
defrayed from home. When he came
the Minister left his wives at home, but
after a while he had -ent over from China
a little thing, not more than 18 years old,
and she is the only woman at the lega
tion. She is kept very secluded, and
only allowed to visit the house of .Mr.
Bartlett, formerly correspondent of the
Republican and now Secretary to tho
legation. About once a week she is
driven over and spends the afternoon
with the ladies of his family, but they
are not allowed to admit others to see
her. Then she trips back to her carriage,
if a woman on such little feet could I*
said to trip, and is not seen cut again for
another week. I have known ladies who
had an idea of the day she would visit
Mrs. Bartlett, to spend the whole after
noon in a neighboring window to get a
glimpse of her. When the Chinese want
to please people they send them some of
the finest tea, which comes direct to
them, not in the great boxes which you
see, but in small cases holding a fe w
pounds. This is the finest tea that ever
comes to this country, and those who are
lucky enough to receive a package prize
it very highly. It is a little stronger
than the tea you buy at the stores, and
so much more fragrant and pleasant to
the taste that it hardly seems like the
same plant. And I doubt very much
whether it is.
When He Gets Round.
Wife—" John,dear. I notice that your
brother James never make* a friendly < ■’ ■
upon us unless he is intoxicated.”
Husband—“No, my dear, he doesn t.
James reminds me of the moon.”
Wise —“Reminds yoi of the moon?"
Husband—“ Yes, dear; he never g''-
round till he's full.”—it-Non Co .rler.