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AMI LI; \\ Illi’S \ HEAR
rate <" oinbAt in h Pa nil-
• ylvAiiiti Foretl
Tit M;b U*m Hs HeM* Up»a Brrin
W:ib Fatal Prx miou
Aft • ! I‘i.ri Htmi Hi I Ultoh, !*■ i-i
b> n.i N< * \ urk Nun -jv lk< I»ar\< 1 »ar\< v
ntt'i i’ Dimliaiii. tu .uti. w<M*i<h'»p|HT«
of ?» .)H-r LHiitfli t uhlht n uhhi. t<*»k
a i-'u: mule* !■«’•! N'diinlai :»n<l IM*KWn
V» ruihoivi !’<'* fr»»m Ih" *<mm|n<»ii!
v li.« main h»«U Along in th** «ft» i
*Mtti th*y i«*t th" inuh'* Mhihl in I In*
wood ' 'I. whih* :li'*»* went ttlieiid t‘» (ill
<b«v 10l of Mijdinfpi l*r»- • -nth lhe\
wrtw . <>h»' k Ih*ii tramping lliroiigli the
an* the nif of tin -h igh \\ In h
<lh' twr. rm h«*d the *b*lgb In* turned to
th* r i hf, WHiki d p«*t il. mid Muffed nt
th' f.r*l< of th o!»i imilr The mule
who Lfj*eired t"b* *h , ' , ping when the
Ih 7A I. l'lh dHp ’U<k Up hi■» ‘Il it oil! «•,
rm« I right hunt foot like iHi h, mid
ffMV' '!>• Iwur u terrible kb k in tin* n<*rk
Tb* ■ 1 ’.nibli <1 •• ! in the -now pm
fi:» *. min'd by tin blow, tin *lmrp
«-nil k ’ tin* mtib '* mlvh having cut and
bi', < tl r ft* d» <lio « tl\ iH'hiinl tin* rm.
I> ■ hi mid lnngh<*d ln-.irtil\
*1 the p*<iiii:ir conduct, foi he
hid h'«uv* Im*"h i W'l \ doi ilr anim.d.
nnd > down t . thf t' H'n at <»n< *e
Jlf* i ' th* b-at hid r«« <> »T'*d f.oni
th' ih> .md got on hi* fe« I again. mid
v,.t* * A>ng mound t »w« where hr w.i*
nfi«l * .nd out what hid hit him. Thr
' mi I i m»-d hi la id ind got n glimp <
of tin * ii pi i h•» Ihinli.nn and (laH< \
« »»• wn to tin- h igh. The light
•mm rnt<* to ciiiagf* tin- imih . lor In* iirtaiit
|y Im*< f*; * rr*tle** He r< in*d up. plung
<ml forw *r<l, and tried to sank hiinMdf
mw.'J lr- m hi* mat Every motion indi
<:il»<i • it hr want' d t > Im* let !'"»**• on
fin- I '..
we onh'irm-- him an' let him
tight tl Im*;h if hr mt- to irin irk' d
<ho v»
**.* ight, .iid Dunham ‘‘w'r’ll d<»
it ■’
Dd.* J.dll thru piill|M*d to th' millrs
l> nl nd iiiisn toiit'd the linr- In in
ClfJ? ■' "lid tin* Iruiir -liap and th'* brl
lyhm ’.vi’ir iilibiu'kl«*<l. and tin niillr
"lilt' from 11nd i thr k.i m - n ith not h ■
in.' <\’(<*pl th** li<*nd*tnll and rollar.
Th' i the iniih tunifMl Hraight around
ami 1. I*- for lh«* br:o with all his might,
lb lim «*«l forward with no much force
niwl R|i'*'*<l that In* went light over tin*
I" L k brfiiir hr Mopped. Thr l»rar
«li«i Mil nipt lit gH n'Vin , bill *l<hhl
h 1 hmiui In- iihl whs iriiih tu light
•» ■ t the mule tnrneil |||HUI him
Tlr mtile still-h nt lhe benr snvngd v
will ' Il fulwurii feel, blit the lienr
.I-" 1 . . l|kl I Ini. im npi it thelilnw Then
tl- lushed nt tll< mule, illleiyigu
grind I Higer Ils hl did su, mid tried tu
•tn-i t in ui the lireisi |'he mule, him
nri, il niul in-ire auger mid grit limn
the in I lid mid, is the l.dtei rmue tu
ward i IUI, hl- struck the lienr mi the
sh-m-di with one of his slmrp t a11.., mid
tin I- it groaning nith p-iiu from tin
blow, I ked ini.-ii The mull' ipiicklv
full' •• .up th. ndx .mt. >ui he hud gained,
,-ind Liu bem tumbled backward (Hern
l-e.’, m.. ling Illi' SHOW 111 The mule
ha) a over the log ind .truck the lienr
.>n t‘ ■ mu I. with Isilh Ime feet | M -fon- he
h.et t.'.ii' to get up tint he ]inid dearly
lor it, fill the In-m twisted liis heflil
ar i l ,,i mid got t lie mule's right foreleg
In tween his jaws and bit it Inulli
I>u Lan midtiinei. who had t lie ut
mst ntideiice in tin mule's nbilitv to
col.n-ier tin In ir, kept at n safe distaiu•<•
mid wiit.'lied the lijld closely While
tie b r was trying i i crush tin- Imm- in
th>' im ,i\ |(.g, tip midi bit tin Is-ar'. enr
.ii <1 n id< the bl'iisl mu. \ iiiiimeut
Li’erth* mull* siieci'i'disl in yanking his
b - lt'''U the li' .n s jaw., piancisl around
in ti.i -i. iw idtci In had done so, mid ii]i
p‘-<i'' Im- madder limn ever Then
tin <l. mluri.d 'll a-iilii:. . .line tiigetllvi
.••gain \s the mule raised his limit feet
li' s' ~ tin- |e u spi.uig undci hi. Imdv
kills’ hi hind leg- liiiiu iindei him,
ami tun bled him over mi his side The
iim'i i milil- d l.i hi. fei t in a mm'oikl
rust ic ,p tv the bem. mid gave him such
a i ieti|i .doits thumii on tin mwe tli.it it
■tl lam stngg, i-anil i.-.u ||< was
not y.-hadi to II tin front the conflict,
thmi n +, aid .'is hi- mil mmtliei eflfon to
strike tin mull tin- blood spurted Crum
Ills nis-.-ds ||e stuck hi-nos,- into th
umiw and groaned Imidl). mid the nude
M-sjll o'T a(iw f. : iii-I , \ si him steadily
I‘r.sently th.-I. ra -.d his In ad and
piling 1 al his mt ign >t again. The
mtile -.vluadisl -n id. iih ; ,s t| ( e ls-ai
R apprise bed lu u. .mi, turning his t H i|
tmaani the ls.n, kiekisl him in the jaw
wn .-'i of his hind Rs t and kivliai hiui
• V'l er liis huh B. f.irv he , uld g> t
« n ho ••■el again th" mid. had liegun to
-<»'• him with his sharp i a'.k' the
Irn s ts.ghi d,ssivr.il< iy to get ..w i\
A f®P' tm- tee Ist. blow, which hi. long
s-wiis) mag! ,(■ At htm, but ills. flirts
ss'.ri m less | , ts, , r wa , tt< .tti ll; j
ss-.ik, id wi ik. wlien Dunhmn
an<4 <l>4o y ran to tin . it oai < luUs-i
th- • -fl ib and was
im ..n Ui pit asusiy I'm; , , at umv hit
the hw ou the top .f the head with
tile hi. k of Ills eve, tnl nut an end to
his fl.lings
Tt., death "»<• from vhlorwtonu is.
a ng 1,. » r • —it .«s; ui at“. 1 ia t,#oo
Ph*Kl> OF THOIOiIT.
I
t* Jionl'l Im m- < Ih*i rfiil of our B orh
•i of our nrxl ;•* far from w|X*ak
in# ill aw doing ill.
'I’ll" uliol'* "• "t of H
' do ij’jfo <>th< r- jin you would that other*
I Mhould do unfo you.”
f Im -erfulliK* i** mi evelhtit wtiring
| quality II h.-i- Im <*«i < .died the bright
; Hf*Nth«*i of the heart
lb" briudit geniu* i ready to Im* - >
I forward a** 1" often betray him into great
efTOf* of jlldgelWlil. w ithoilt tt < on*L»Ul
bridle on the tongue.
I All |M>liten« • bowing Io lilierty W<*
|M>lbh one another, and rub off our <or
I ner* and rough *>i<j<w by a sort of nnii< a!
I collision To i* -train thi b inevitable
to bring a rii*t iqion nien*« underNtand
j hig*
Truly there b M»ni"thing in the un*
' ruffled • ilni of nature that overawe* our
! little nn\i th mid doubt*; lhe might ol
the deep blui -k*. and I lie rhMeruig *tar
. d'ove *C''in to hiqMtrf n quiet to the
mind
I Every perni'inent Lite of mind in large
ly the » !!• <1 of habit Jn*t a* wr can
’(K iforni an ;•< !ii»n m> continually that il
l>e< uni'- habitual, *o we can encourage
' t'lidi?ion -ol mind till they too come to
* Im* h.fbit' of thinking and even of feeling.
Men arc not t<» Im* judged by their
j look*, habit* nid ipp'-arance-. but by
the < h ir.n l' i of their lives ind <onvi*r->a
tiom*. and l» their work Tb l»"H r
that i ma.r* own work* than that an
other man'- a »i<b should praiw him.
Fancied AiliiientN.
A well known phy*i(-inn mcvi *r«d year*
I igo was >|M*uding Ida summer vacation
it th* country arat ol •• leader in public
ifT.iirs, a man noted for his moral cour
age mid p»*A< rful intellect. lie wa
I shocked Oh till* evening of his arrival to
tee hi* host turn pale, atagger to a sofa,
Hid ga-p loudly foi breath. lhe wif<*
of the fainting man, a worn, wan little
woman, quietly brought a glas* of water,
I and -t »o<l by him until he recovered.
Hr iom* presently ‘lt is my heart,
doctor. Agonizing pain-‘ I ain roidi
<!• nt that it b angina )>c< t<»rb. My end
w ill be a 1 ilddrn one
“Doc* your physician? - ’ oegmi his
guest, ahockrd and sympathetic
“N no. Hut I know. The pain is
simply intolerable.”
Professional etiquette kept tiie visitor
' silent, though he shrewdly suspected the
’ pain was referable to flatulency. His
host speedily r<M*overrd his spirits, anti
the evening passed pleasantly
’l he next morning, however, the great
] st ite-inan ap|M*nred at thr break fast-table
in a gloomy. iiTituhh* mood. The doors
.ind window * wen* all hut. the temper
ature of thr house was kept it lever heat*
ind iiiviuts wen* scolded because,
‘ knowing th<* condition of his lung-*
rtn \ permittid draught-, to enter.”
“I am convinced that I h ive all the
i premonitory symptom- of pneumonia,” hr
iiri-trtl. His wife apprarrtl. palt* and
| hriivy eyed, having hern up nli night in
■ ittrndniK <* on him A* he really had
• •nly an onlimuy slight cohl, hr forgot it
before noon.
Almost every day brought rome new
symptom of pneumonia, heart trouble, or
Bright’s di case, which win his favorit"
lilinenl-. W hen hi* giu*'t h*ll him. hr
l» ulr him a solemn farewell, saving, “I
-hull make a sudden end, doctot. You’ll
see my ‘iv.ith in the papt t some morning,
and I suppose you’ll Kay. ’Poor Blank ! I
' woiuh-r hr held ou: s.» long”
“Th* man.” - iid thr dortor, in telling
* thr story latrly. “is living yet, and prom
i*rs to ii;u h i hair, hrarty old agr. But
hi* wife I- dead Sh< was not strong,
uni nritln i body nor mind could stand
’ th<* vvcai and tear of his incessant com
plaints. ”
This is Hoi - » \t «nu ' < -.r is nriy it
lirsf :ip|M ai. It is so t ommoii a one that
an eminent phy>i< i ni. who makes a spri i
dty of nervous complninH. wrote a |»ook
d< riptivr of thr patient with inmginr.rv
t ailments, and hi- “vicliin*.” or nurses
i and family.
Vno< < upirtl women, and men whose
imgi interests in thr \\v*id make them
rs|M< ially drrad death, nre most apt to
e\:»ggrrnce slight symptom* into daugri
oils disease- One of the bravest of
American soldi'r- would make his family
vvrvti tied if hr torr hi- finger with a phi
or suffered from tooth ache.
‘Human courage,” said (iemml I .er,
“should rise to th" height f human < d
amity.” It -htadj also, ii :t be genuine,
'ink to the h vd of >, a x’u Rnvx or a b< t •
-ting. u.eo..
spiders fur tgur.
Sp i- uri ■ ' tncriy <<’ -i <• *d i<» b<
a < urv in rural Ibtricts f<u ague. Some
yr ir- agu a lady in In land was famous
h»i lu r s nxr>- in curing p* ople thus
lT< ctr*l. It app. :ic that lher.only mtsli
» In- sh<« t mplov d was a sphb ; rolled up
in tr.-u lc. Thr puirut- were ignorant
ol (hr voutilits of (his novel Imlus, so
that in. g nation had nothing to do with
th * matter I ’ England, also, tin spider
has Uevu cal.td in as »n ague d<s toi In
1 aueolushirc the creature was ticaitvsl
ven mm h after the above-mentioned
Irish fashion, b- ing roll d up ia paste
and swallowed; but elsewhere the animal
is put into a am! w »rn round the
neck
A CITI RATCATCHER.
A Prof?fi»Hional Who Frcci
Houses of Rodent s.
Hi*t Vr.riouji Method t of tba
Himblo Little
\ Nrw York •*»"•< reporter r *r.*ittly vhit
rd Mr. Jennings’* plitc • in Centre street,
ft b a brick building, with irr»n bars und
win* netting Iwforc door* ami window-.
Ch' interior i filled w ith tiers of cage*.
j containing small animals and bird* of
many kinds that invariably weh »me
I stranger* with noby unanimity monkey
chattering, parrot* screeching, dogshark
ing ami yelping, rooster* crowing, ami
<-'marie- whistling.
Mr. Jennings laid par! iculni stress upon
the declaration that he w as a practical rat
ali hei. He denied that he was in th"
habit of charming the rats by the power
of his steel-gray eves. He *aid it was nt
lerlv untrue that Im* ever enticed rats out
of th»*ir hole* by |M*ruliar calls or whistle*',
ind then dubbed th* in to death, lb*
loubted the story of the Pied Piper, and
wa* willing to wager that he could kill
more rat- by hi- practical methods in a
lay than Pied Pip' r could have whidlcd
to death in a week.
Then* an*,’ - -nd Mr. Jenning*, ‘*< v
entv place- -hotel* and privat • re*iden-
• in this <*ii • that I keep dear of rat*.
I have m* vi ral nu n, thirty ratters of al)
brei 'b. and twcivc white ferret* to help
me. .None of iii<* young men who help
me nre afraid Io handle ii rat, no matter
how fierce and big lu* may be. A* for
uh*, you can see for your-<*lf just how
much j fear them.’ Whereupon Mr.
lerinings opened lhe lid of a lin lined
box. ran hi- through the animated,
slate-colored nn>-* ami sroopeil up anil
turned over a score of lively big fellow-,
lb* took one of them and placed it under
"‘ii* shirt next to hi- bosojn. He returned
it to th'* box after it had nestled then- a
minute or two, and continued talking.
■Ratcntdiing is'lone mostly at night.
I’h- ferret* run the rat* out of their holes,
ami the terriers < titdi and kill them.
They are somdimes cornered by the fer
ret*. which then make short work of
them. The ferr t* are tniiiu’d to return
tome, and will come at call, likeadog.
W«* use many -ted trap*, ami in a place
when* the tats me very numeroii . myself
and my men catch them with tongs or
with our hands. We sometime* drive
them out of their hole* with an obnoxious
smoke into valve traps, through which
i hex drop into a bag.
‘ All my best ratters nre imported. I
have six English bull terrier* that could
n<»t lw bought for les* than SHOO. Here,’
1 leading out two cream colored dogs from
a kennel on one side of the roonie, “are
Iwo of the handsomest iniinnils ever
brought to thi* country. Did you ever
sec finer eyes, more beautiful limbs, and
such a colors They are English terriers
that it would take a pile of money to
buy.
“What do I get for my work? Well,
it depend* upon the phir.’ I keep free of
ial* and mire. 1 charge from SIOO to
S2OO a year for regular customer*.
Among the hotel* that employ me an* the
\\ md-'.r, Murry Hill, Ih-cxoorf We*t
tnin-t r, Victoria, Bruns\vi< k. (’ontinen
tal. .M"i ropoliian. Kt James. Gilsey
11«'U-c, and the \llx-m.ii le.
“I cannot tell yon how many time* I
have fdt the La th i f dogs .md rat-.’ Mr.
Jennings continued, “but I can tell you
that I h.ivt never mice had a thought of
hydrophobia aft* ; being bitten. I be
iit v. the b’te of a rat is in no xvax dan-
I gcrou* to those ac< Ustonit <1 to handling
1 ’ it- I have picked up a* many as sixty
rat* an hour at tin car stable* without re
ceiving a*< patch. How many rat* have
I caught with my own hand* Millions I
should sav. ”
The Millionaire.
Who • thi* liard working man This
i* th'* m ilninain the man who \anted
tube rich ard has got rich, ami i-grt
tim» richer ••very day. [* he the happier
l»'i it Happy. Bl- * youi >oul. he's
mon* mi*, cable, tidh-i of rai - and inxie*
li«* and hanh work than evm*. He is
Hm verir-t d.'xr of them all. lb* is
pudird with business, and business is
pu-hin him Hr has many irons in
thr tirv that **»im an* burning hi* finger*
whih othrrs it-, u ttingmhl. in* pre*-
ent lift* i* a rush i • »m thr meeting of this
n»ard to that b» ird and thence to *ome
o her board Hr i- dina'top of thi- enm
t
ar’ iii another, world without end. and
• ' '»’• * “ming H- H*n t tim. . tl an j
hardly t< -a ;nd wh 4he d<.< >j , hi x
p * head <thr pillow lie V a:. t stop
bn*;m-.* plan* and schemes, hop. ;l!1 d
1 • : ••m wb’ri. „;m i whirrin, meR
h I’ .-oft tak 1 day t . spend quirt
oi l 'iftoui. iiad if h * could h ,\<mld
t'd al d - b i-ine** with him im the
' I' H• h *lave and a victim. Hi*
m.d.ion- in M nk don't bring hhu *o much
tn, >\ m. u do. -a nc'v U' <■ nt pie< <•
rti t<» t> y'•n yr .es old H, is in
(...<•• «ith tin- mania f»r gi'ttiao. and
thr more hr get* the motv h< waut*. if
« idd m . him n;*t a- he i* :• J where
h »* iuevitalL going, and Loxx hr i*
?’i?g there, v. u would only pRy him.
Ik i- on. of the coming victims of
li-m 'il a paraiyti. a, the prevalent ailment
i»ra >ng mi many Wall Street men. .Yew
V ■ ' H ■ <(>?.{■
CLirriNus for the tiKiuvt*.
\ hnndr.-l y< ai> ago ladiei- d muff*
five or t'*n time* a* large a*- the little rolls
of fur or pouche* of plush and lace m
. losiug the hands this winter.
Pari- is suffcririg from hard time*, and
tiu-v pure no industry. A reduction in
1 liarg.-s is announced by an establish
ment which supplies ladies and gentle
men to dinner parties to keep the table
in .. roar <>>■ make a soiree go off bril
liantly.
Ituriug the later period olKoinau hi
ton. the men and women reclined to
irethei at their repasts; but the Greek’
on -ider.-d such n jtosture indecorous for
females; their women, tlierefore, either sat
it a sr-pcrate table, or upon one end of
the couch oil which the men only re
clined.
According to an English writer, the
pre-historic horse of the age of the cave
nan, n« shown by carving- on horn,
antler', etc . w#' even smaller than the
-hetliind )><>ny, had a head and neck
><-ry large in proportion to the body, a
course and heavy mane, and was alto
gether .1 clmnsi sort of animal.
(J 'orgia claims tin- oldest colored wo
ni u in the world, lb i name is Aunt
Sjlvic Dwite, and she lives in Benke
County. She i laim- to be over 130 years
>ld, and remembers many circumstances
of tin Ib'volutiomin v.m. She is said to
partly support lierself, and i- astonish
ingly active for n person of her year’.
A story is related of a Connecticut in
fantry company in the civil war which is
believed to be without a parallel. The
company, which was recruited in the
town of Greenwich, hud no less than
twelve pairs of brothers in its ranks.
There were, in addition, three instances
which father ;md son stood side by side
and three brothers-in-law.
The plow most commonly represented
on ancient monuments is a very simple
imichin -. consisting of the branch of an
elm tree, cither naturally orartificially
bent into a crook at one end, which,
when shmjiened to a point and cased
with iroh. answered the purposes of a
•hare; another brunch growing out from
the main one in a direction contrary tc
the crooked end scried fora plow tail or
handle to guide the machine, and press
the share to u sufficient depth into the
ground.
In his new work on anthropology
Topimird says that there are only two
types- the blonde and the dark; that the
other so-called types yellow and red in
particular—can only in a very minor de
gree serie to distinguish races, and that
color as a rule is an uncertain character
liable to alter in individuals and difficult
to determine and express. As a conces
sion. however, to the general practice, he
gives a table of classifications of races by
their color umler-tlie threi denominations
- white, yellow and black.
Presence of Mimi.
While traveling in Russia, Peter the
Great liad to take refuge in a monastery
from the inclemency of the weather. The
monks receiveil him with the greatest hu
mility and deference, ami prepared a ban
quet for him.
One of the voiino monks presented the
mamirch with a large glass goblet <>f wine
lhe young monk stumbled, the goblet,
fell to the floor and was shattered into a
thousand pieces beyond the hopes of re
pair while most of the stomachic distur
ber went down the back of Peter's neck.
Furious with rage. Peter the Great
sprang to hi- feet ami raised his whip,
without which he mwer went out, and
was about to flagellut' the monk several
consecutive times. Tim monk, however,
folding his arms with dignity, ad
dressed the chai: as follows. -‘Mv lord
mid i zar. not drop by drop, but in a per
fect gu-li are God s precious gifts poured
overtime. Muy all thy enemies come to
grief even as this glass ha . been shattered
to pieces.”
Peter the < Ireat was disarmed. Instead
ot laying the goad on the monk's back,
he made a motion to lay it on the table,
w hich was carried unanimously, lie also,
appomted the young monk Archiman
driiten of Patschcrky. which was the
least lie could do under the eircutnstan-
--1 hi- is historical We are giving
it stra ght to the Amerii an public, but
always reserve ... oursi'lves the right of
putting it into our own language. • Trj<is
A Family of Giants.
Coulter of Walker county. Ga..
i deputy I idled .'state' marshal, and is
tim youngest ..ml tallest m.m in the ser
vice in Georgia. -I idiug s.x feet eight
inches m Iris st<x-kitig feet Mr. Coulter
has five brothers, and tin- shortest one
measures six fix t four inches ami the tall
est six feet eleven inches, one six t«t
■ ven inches, on -ix feet six inches and
lootin' six foe; tive itiches. the six
■ o'tii <lt >ur Ug togeth. i iiiirtv-eight
’ 'even incla-' Th' -verage weight
I the i” •> is 200 j oiu; i- Their father
nie;i>urcd six’ feet five inches and the
mother fiv fe. ;t. inches. Mr. Coulter
slid, with a laugh : "We are tin smallest
p-opii in our settlement. When the
ein us w-as in Chattuaooga recently thev
offered us tIOOO each and expenses to go
with the circus, but we an- able to work
ai i make a living. and don't want to
travel with a circus."
A MIAIIiER’S MAIL.
Many Letters Received Daily
by Congressmen.
flor? They ar? Answered, and tiia Queer
Contents of Some.
‘■Carp" says in a Washington letter to
the Cleveland (Ohio) Ltodtr: The let
ters received by Congressmen are of all
i kind’, and some of them arc very funny.
Your average Congressman gets from ten
to fifty letters a day, and the number
who would do any work upon the great
questions < f the country must use a steno
grapher. Now nearly every member has j
his shorthand clerk, who comes to him in
the morning or evening, answers his mail,
and runs about the departments for him.
The Congressman takes a bundle of about
twenty letters in his hands, and sits down
in his room with his stenographer at his
side. The stenographer has a pencil and
a notebook. The Congressman takes up
letter by letter, and as fast as he can talk
reads off an answer to it, which the short
hand man takes down as fast as the w or is
fall from the member’s lips. A half hour
passes, and the twenty let ers have been
finished. Wha would have taken the
member four hours to do for hitnself. he
has accomplished in thirty minutes by the
aid of his stenographer. This may be at
11 o’clock in the morning. He now goes
to the Capitol and, when lie returns for
; dinner at 5 I is twenty letters arc lying on
the table ready for him to sign. He does
i this mid his clerk mails them. Some
Congressmen allow their clerks to write (
their notes on the type writer. Others
must have them written out by hand, as
letters on the type writer look too much ,
like printed circulars. In written letters
nine out of ten men who receive the let- i
ters will think the Congressmen did all !
the writing themselves. A long letter
from a Congressman is a big thing to the ;
constituent in the back county. He takes
it around and shows it to his friends,
then lays it away in the family Bible, and
keeps it as reverently as though it was his
grandfather’s will and the. old man was
vet alive, had lots of property, and likely
to drop off any day. Some Congressmen
1 answer every letter they receive, no mat
ter how trivial the affair, or how silly the
request. Others throw a great part of j
their correspondence into the waste-bask
et, and some never read office-seeking i
: letters at all. A great part of the corre
spondence of a Congressman relates to
garden seeds and public documents. An
Ohio member told me the other day that
i his constituents kept a better track of the
’ government publications than he did .
himself. Said he; “They watch the j
papers closely, and when anything new is
published my first knowledge of it, in
many cases, comes from requests for it.” |
The pension letters form another large
portion of the Congressmen’s mail, and 1
General Grosvenor says that he gets let-1
ters from every State in the Union on J
pension matters. A number of letters
have been coming in lately' from an old
crank who wants Congress to pension
school teachers who have outlived their
usefulness. This man says that the gov
ernment has millions of idle money in the
treasury and he thinks that fifteen mil
lions ought to be devoted to this purpose.
A Kansas man got a letter the other day,
accompanied by a curious horse-shoe,
which a blacksmith wanted him to get
patented for him, and another member I
know has just answered a letter of a
Yankee doctor who is anxious that the
President should send him out West as
the government vaccinator of the Indians. ;
... . . r .J.C2.
A Cup of Tea.
There is tea and tea; and the dccoc
tion that is sometimes served in this
name is a terror to gods and men. A
cup of tea, in its finer significance, is the
symbol of hospitality. Properly made it '
is the nectar and ambrosia of tiie gods. I
It should be served in the dantiest of
porcelain, and it should be made at the |
time of serving. The poet Longfellow is i
said to have always made his tea at his
own table, of a peculiar kind expressly
sent to him from abroad. It was a liquid i
amber, full of sunshine and inspiration.
To make a cup of tea is a fine art. The
most delicate flavor is obtained by a ju
dicious mixture of Oolong black, English
breakfast and Japan tea. There is a
brand of the Garden Formosa that is all
balm and fragrance and sunshine, and
that, combined with the Orange Pekoe,
is a beverage fit for the gods. But. a cup
of tea cannot be truly en joy ed a la soli
taire. Its very nature demands the social
circle. The tea that is made of these ar
tistically composed mixtures; that comes
fresh and fragrant from the boiling water
poured over it; that is drawn off ln
dainty, decorative porcelain—such tea
has nothing in common with tea as served
in a philistine fashion. To make- a cup
of tea is a household rite. It requires a
lady to perfectly execute this—no unedu
cated servant can possibly bring to it the
delicacy of touch and liner adjustment
» essential to its success. It. is an art—to '
sen t tea that is nectar and ambrosia.
Rjsijri Traveler.
lu <omc Y'irgini-a counties the courts
have stated rewards for hawk heads, and
these emblems of bird existence are fre
quently seen in the windows of cross-roads '
groceries, whose proprietors take them in
trade.
The Ever-Green Pine.
Oh, a valiant tree is the ever-green pine,
That ipows ou the bleak mountain side.
Not a fear does it feel of the wind or th*
storm.
As it stands like a king in its pride.
The lightning may flash 'round its tall w t ,
ing crest,
And the wind 'mid its branches may ra,,.
But it s'ands in its strength like a lionetbjj
Or a hero, who’ll ne'er be a slave.
Oh, a sorrowful tree is the ever-green pine
That grows in the sweet smiling vale,
It murmurs forever a low, plaintive song
That resembles a krn lover's wail.
It stretches its strong, shady branches abrosd
And it sighs to the flowers below,
And it tells of the sorrow corroding its bean
To the breezes that merrily blow.
I Oh, a bountiful tree is the ever-green pine
That grows on the hfll's stooping side;
It shelters the woodbird, gives shade to tin
deer.
And makes cheerful our house, far and
wide.
j Then honored and loved be the ever green
pine
That fears neither lightning nor gale.
And cherished still more be the sorrowful
tree
That sighs in the sweet smiling vale.
—As. .Riordttji.
HUMOROUS.
“Ahem !" exclaimed the needle.
Justifiable homicide—Sleighing girls.
It is said the axe trade might be
sharper.
A roadbed is for the convenience of
i wheels when they are tired.
“No,” said the hack-driver, “I can't
! stop; my business is driving.”
In this progressive age it is pleasing to
know that every milk train has its cow
catcher.
A fashion exchange tells of “new
wrinkles for men.” It seems to us that
j what is most wanted is not new wrinkles,
but some method of getting rid of the
' ohl ones.
“This is a most trying situation,"
spouted the little whale, when he was
cut up and put in the boiling vats. ‘l'm
afraid it’s oil over with me," and lie be
gan to blubber.
“Why do all the cold waves come
from the northwest, my dear ?” asked i
fond husband. “Oh, because there ii
j so much coolness between St. Paul and
Minneapolis,” was the reply.
Thoughtful Y’oung Lady (to college
graduate)—Who, in your opinion, Mr.
Muscle, was the noblest Roman of them
all 1 College Graduate —I used to think
Ilanlan was, but I wouldn't bet a cent on
any of ’em now.
A taste for painting ? I don’t know;
He may, perhaps, be full of it;
He did his best to paint a cow,
And—well 1 He made a bull of it.
An Irascible Musician.
Great musicians are not to be trifled
with. At Moscow, the other day, apiece
by Glinka was being rehearsed. The
■ conductor, the famous Hans von Budlow,
remarked to a clarionet player that, in t
certain passage, there was a mistake, and
that he was to play an F sharp and not
an F natural, as written. The clarionet
player replied that ever since the piece
was in existence F natural had been play
ed. Budlow, furious, exclaimed that he
did not allow any one to give him a les
son in counterpart. The rumor of Bud
low’s conduct spread through the town
immediately, and the professors of the
: conservatoire signed a petition praying
the Grand Duke Constantine, president
of the Russian Imperial Society ol Music,
to order Budlow not to change Glinka's
i score.
His imperial highness immediately
wrote to the irascible German composer
to that effect. ‘‘Very well,” said Vo#
Bttdlow, “then I will not conduct the
performance to-night and to-morrow I
will leave Moscow.” He was, however,
induced to change his mind; but in the
evening, as he appeared on the platform
in front of his desk, he shouted at the
clarionet player: ‘ ‘By* order of his impe
rial highness, you will play F natural,
which is wrong, instead of F sharp,
which is right."—Jfu.r O'ReU't Letter.
The “Jogger.”
A newspaper correspondent writing
from Aiken, 8. C., the famous health re
sort, thus describes an institution origin
al in that village:
So far as I have observed it is found
only on the piazzas of boarding houses.
It consists of a long pine board, each of
whose ends rests upon wooden standards.
The jogger has a health function, being
intended and used as a means of exercise
for the invalid boarders. The long l lin "
plank has been chosen for its elasticity,
and when burdened with the proper
weight, springs up and down at a livery
rate. After meals the boarders tak ’
turns in riding. Gray-haired mea fl vup
into the air in very undignified fashion
middle-aged dyspetic-looking men bouse-’
away tike jumping-jacks; children cry
out with delight, and timid womeu ho
on with fright. The jogger is a groat in
stitution. For exercise it rivals th’
Aiken saddle horses. Its movements re
quires little strength, and brings every
muscle into play. It is cheap and un
patented : there is no danger of a suit
infringement or royalty. Above all it”
both an appetizer and digester. b 1
boarding houses where the jogger >’
found Aiken beefsteak can be eaten W! - J
perfect impunity.