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Fellcliy.
T)m> cat Bang on tb« Im/ k-rard f/ncw,
Wbcnor all but *be hn4 fl* <1;
1 mv rt/« k of < «4Dinon wrwo
And flung Il nt Ixjr bend,
1 flung rny l**t luJ Ilana’nt>,
My rbah, my ftrittar !*d:
Tn null, with |4t*u*i<>n quit* intmaa,
With Mrango rMitort*d J;nMUiiM>tn»
Tluit < at Ming on tlw I wk yard fair w
U banco nil But hJh« bad fl**!.
I *ith Nt range {rrandiloqumm.
In rocißing tows* I phm/l,
>1 v ImmH* were gotw my Lant <1« (• i*ao—
My Munday Ixw imd Nfavl:
AH thing* or pHty or hnnwn>/-
Found I'xigz-nw-nt on t Im> abed
Th>* fHiiM* wondered mu<*h fi<»rn wlimi/t
7bey came, But MiH. with grief inb m* f
IKha aang upon ft*** lm/-k yar«l fence,
Wlmodc all But Um * had fled.
Elm- mttwal f other r<-*» l«*nt
I oft had wuled tliern /lead.
For tlw'y wi n* uiimm* k/ving "g<'UU,* 1
And dw< It nlove my head
Th»*y mmmwl fbrtr string/*! Inatrunu*nt4,
Which *»t/ /id liard by tl»« ir Im*!
They pbn«d with wondrou* doquenco—
With one vaat lw»w I of |>alri itit< n«i
That f/'lhii* Ihd afar from tb/wa:
bbi' »tngi* no more u|«on our ftMU*,
Hut on a Infth i «mm* n ••■
Our n* it <!ooi n/ngld*»r'a sired.
j: Fm„l: l.mhtlH , in Puck.
WE MET BY CHANCE.
J wa« going to \’lrr B I tin rnrnivnl.
Only "in <dh< i|ht on w in the coupe
miili m< u Miff, innguttrial apj»<urbig
mm, uh on' only bnggugc hw i portfolio.
J oat «s tbe tmm w ;»•' fatting <»nn<h of a '
diMpnlr tiro™ nt th< r dour of my coup/’.
“No, r.ir' no*4i<l ii woman’a voice.
<4 | onl< nd o rov;*r-/rf,'imi lin ; i have it'.
“But, Mie him, aim • <*hnv< none ”
•■•‘You ought tohai' het did my letter!”
'* ‘ \V< n< < ivrd iiolittar, Mnd.iiu!”
•’Make them mid another enr, then'' 1
“hiijw/saiblr! Wc have the regular num
ber. Come, conic, hivdril lluj tll.il IM
going” 1
“But I n*i t li■!’>/■ uni*’ pin- < *
“There, in that coupe.”
■“There?”
“Yim, them!”
A little brown head was thru*! in nnd
miihh nly withdrawn, ft* if frightened. j
“There are two gentlcim n there!”
“Eh, madam, 1 ninnot giv< you u <ar
to y ourself!”
“Very will, I will not go!”
“A* you ph -iim’! Th< train icav< ! 1
give the signal!”
“Bt«ij», air, atop! J am obliged to go
and ftitiCtl tin I* i* only that roujx but
they will gh4 idc n K/fcp/-/it at the fust
atnt ion ?*’
“Y’va, tnndiltn )<••», ininliun,”
“You will telegraph for that?”
madam yea, madam ”
The door opened,the little brown head
entered, Mirrninded with bundha ami
wrap* There wis a pit r< ing whistle; w«
had started 'flu tiff g< nth inan gallantly .
t4M»k a M id by me, h aving nil one side free j
for the new arrival. Without glancing at
um, brenthlras and crimson with wrath,she j
arranged her things ih il for a long jour- i
nry one bug, two bag*, three bugs, ami
ckmka ami shawls. 1 looked on out of the
corner of my rye, and saw with pleasure
that aht was <'harming in appealamr. At
he the stiff man arranged his pn|M*rs
and left us. Il<- wan received by tin* depot
iiuulor ns “Moiuieur I'liHp/M tor.” The
kdy rushed to the door.
“Did Uie.v telegraph Irotn I’urn for u
<vu/>e-li( t"
“Yet., Madam, 1 «<nl tu<- <li»p:iti-hon.”
“Whitt! I cannot hnvr it nt oncct”
**lin]Mw»ibh’, Miidiun. Wo have no ciws
h< r<\ Ihej 111 give Jan one nt l.yoo
Prrmche.”
"Not till then! Hut I i annot stay here
all that linn it i« impossible. I will
uot ”
“Tnkr a i xiv, Nl.Ki.ini- the train is
starting."
The cam were m motion. She returned
to her ci'tiii-r. furioti’. nev> r glsucing my
way. I opened my truth uewqeqiei
Shull I own it it <x < uphxl me huigvi than
the nine l>ek>rv it. 1 read the same lines
twenty liim <. lIH-lievi I h*'ld it sometimes
u|»id< down 1 wanted t > talk with her,
but wluix mi* th< pri-U xt? < omudering
th< tt mp< nituretheelireti, resoureeofrai*-
iug or lowering windon% did not exist.
M hut e<fuld I <lo? 1 »an tlu xx.c;i w.Rnail
of lU’ xvtirld ia<l of di, la st tflnss. | couhl
oltly uitrtoN her notsi < bx someven origi
iui!s]h< <L But whut what 1 meditated
in vain. I was -tall studying the point
when the train stvp]s>l. “Tonnerre!,
Twenty five minutes for nstreslnuviits!”
was shouted at the door.
My lair iWighlair rose, <lix>p|H-d Inr
wrap* and left tin car It waa noon.
Hunger made itoelffclt She xwut tow unl
the rrllvshuH'lll lxs>in. I followed. I
ceuhi tlu n admire nt my < a* her elegant
ligxiix. distinctly »utlin<*i by a long ott< r
■ !<»ak I also ninaike<l that she, ha<!
pretty curls in hti link, a gray felt hat
and very sm ill feet.
1 quickly walktw ixl several things My
Fair tiaxvle: took abwl of soup. The
t ime »<<ot» passi-d, ..nd the travelers raced
Intel, to their cars. I went to mine. Tin
lady had net <ogie. I saw her at a link
xiok kiwi newspaper stand, hulking at
Hie row of las ks. kltlnugh 1 saw only
he: back 1 reeugutred Iki pretty figure,
lie otters leak and In r gray I>»t. Her hair
did not look s,,,!aik tome doubtless the
effect of distance. Every body was on
•soard . doom wen slaumuug.
“She w ill miss In i train," I thought.
tMul thru I called to her from the wiu-
Jcw : “Madam! M-vlaiu!”
I wa» too far away. She did not hear.
The w histle sounded . the train was start
ing. What should be dom 't An idea flash
ed through my head. She was going to
remain there, in this horribly f old weath
er, without anybaoe.ig. The poor little
woman must have h< r thing-. I iiatehed
I the three bag», ami nil her shawls nnd
1 wrap*. B nd flung the whole out to u man
standing n< ..r the < ar.
I “(Jive them to that lady over there,”
I cried.
The man e night th* thin'.-, nnd went
' toward the Indy at the bookstall. At the
1 same moment, from the other side of the
train, enine my po tty e.c ipanion in great
[terturbation, hu-tled by a gruwbiing ofli
i < tai, but safely on bonrd.jn-t as the train
moved ofT. Horror! I had mistaken the
j lady traveler, the one nt the book-'titml
wa* not the right one same cloak, sam<
hat, same outline, but not th<- name wo
niim! She had r< ao <ly entered the <nr
when she uttered n < ry
“My things! Some one has stolen my
things!"
I For the first time site looked nt me
| with what an eye' I shall never forget
! that look. “No, Madam,” I said, “your
| thing* are not stolen; they arc they arc
i i< ft at Tonnerre!”
“At Tonnerre' How
I explained everything. Bless me! 1
could never describe tin- second look she
gave me -but I la-lic vc I shall remember
1 il long > than the fli st me
“J am very -orty,Madam,"! -taininercd.
“J am greatly di-tressed. but the motive
was good. J thought ou would mi--the
train,and you v. iu!d be cold,and 1 did not
Want you to siifb i Pardon me don't fear
for your things I hey are in honest h inds
a railway official. Al the m\t station
vosi rnn t< |i r-iph I shall telagrnph w<-
will telegmph we will soon g-t them. Ah!
' you shall have them! 1 swear it, if I have
I to return myself toTonnerr. to get them."
“That is sufficient, sir,” she said. “I
know what I must do.”
She sat down, severely twisting her
gloves in wrath. Hut alus! poor little
' thing! She had reckoned without thecold.
' She no longer had her good warm wraps.
I It was ».< arec'ly ten minutes In fore she
begun to shiver. She shrank into her
self, drew her otti i cloak around her fine
lunn nnd positively shook.
“Madam,” I said, “I beg upon my
knees that you will accept my shawl!
You will take a cold; it will be my fault,
and 1 could never conaolc myself in all
i my life."
“1 <b> not speak to you, sir," she said,
hnughtly.
I was furious nt having made myself
ridiculous. “Madam,” said I, “accept
this shawl, or 1 swear I will jump oil the
train I” *
Throwing the shawl between ns 1
•i-iz.cd the door-knob. My air must have
la-en convincing, for she cried;
“You are c raty, sir you aro out of
: your head!'' •
“Take tin-shawl -or I shall spring oil!"
Shi' took tin- shawl, saying: “But
' you, sir, you will jrcrish from the cold."
“Don't bo uneasy about me, madam,
I am not delicate, and even if 1 should
' be cold it would only be a just punish
ment for my unpardonable stupidity.”
“bay for yout tod great hructe, for you
I an- right the intention was good, but
■how could you take that lady for me!”
“Bceause she looked so charming.”
She Miilirel, the ice was brokoll - the
: ice of conversation, for otherwise I sbiv
red. But how quii kly I forgot the cold,
the journey and nil! She was delicious,
| exquisite, mloiuhlu! Dainty. p<< uliar,
gay and original! She loved travel as I
1 do. She had been in Italy, like me; in
, S|Hiin, like me; *he always dreamed of
going U> Egyjit, like me. In literature,
' in music, in every way our tastes were
th, same. And then, just imagine lots
joi the same friend’. Perhaps I had met
her twenty linn s without remarking her.
Where was tny head? Heavens! xvhere
was my head? While I eagerly conversed !
I did ev.rything in tin' world not to,
. have the air of being chilly, but good '
Lord! how e> ld 1 was! At Dijvu my
right foot was numb. We teh graphed
to Toimerre foi li> i thing'. At Maeon
my left foot was numb, We heard from
I'onnt-rrv that her thing* would be it
Mats, illes n< xt >h\ At l.yoti P< rra. he i
my left hand !»■< une insensible. She
be .ot to claim het . , .1 \t \ all .<■<'
iny right hand f,,ilow<<l th. example of
the left I learned that she w*s axviduw,
without < hildren At tnx nos,,
ttirnvd purple. I thought I umlerstixal
that 'he liar! never lover! her first hus
band At last, at Marseilles. !s| i zed
violently three tilin'. She handed me
tny shaw l, say iug graciously “Gxhhl bve.
till we meet again.”
“Till we next a„ain!” 1 wu» wild. I
pos'isl the night in a hotel, and rose iu
tin morning stiffei g frdhi a terrible cold
m the head, t'ugl t I. in stub. state,
to call an tny friend*, the R. nib.uids?
They must tak< nn as 1 am. and t mor
row I will start for Xne and eur< invsclf
in sunshim What ’a 'Urpris< That
ever limit Romhnurd had invited some
people to meet me, ami among them was
tny fellow traveler, my chanuer' When
1 was preM-nted liter, wa* uu imp r<v|>ti.
ble smile on her lips. ] laoved and mur
niurvd: “And Tonnerre?” “I have
thcug” she answered, iu the «uue low
v oicx'.
W e took our seats al the dinner table.
“What a cold, my goodness!” si-
claimed that excellent I’otnbau 1.
“Where in the world did you catch such
a cold? In the cars, ja-rhapaf"
“It is p<-siblc,” I rcpliccl, “but really
. I do not n-gre t it."
N/’b'sly understood this cptcerrc-sponsr,
i but I felt the sweet and compassionate
gaze of my lovely traveling companion
coming to me- ar row the ordoroun fume*
I of a Mipcrb soup.
What more shall I say? Next day I
' did not go to Nice ami we an- to la
married in two weeks'.— from the frturh
Fortunes Made in Old Corks.
| “You wouldn't think a man could
make- a fortune selling old corks and bot-
I ties, would you? Well, I know a man
who bought out a coffin shop twenty-five
yc rirs ago and began to deal in old corks.
Eight years ago he we nt into the old bot
tle business, and he is now a rich man.”
The pedie eman who said this took the
writer down Mull»crry street, and a few
block- le low Bb 'c ker stopped be fore a
rickety old building, in front of whie h
-torsi several barrels filled with bottles of
all sizes. There wen- bottles emptied of
Viner Vermouth, Piper See: and Rhine
wine-, of Bass' eile, claret and stomach
, bitters. Inside the; shop we re- seen the
1 nee ks of a thousand bottles, pointed
toward the do.,r like little howitzers.
They were: pilcel up anil b->.xed up and
we re in rows r,a the- floor. From the roof
' hung dingy* <l< mijvhns, cxrvoted with
c rfl>webs, and in the center of the room
I was a barrel of old champagne corks.
“How many corks have you sold to
day, Hugh?” asked the; policeman.
“Eight barrels.”
“How many bottles?”
“Seventy-five gross. Y'ou see we never
take the labels rdf. nnd never wash the;
j bottles. The men who buy wine bottles
want the labels as well as the bottles -
sometimes want the labels much more
; than th'- bottles; but we do not deal in
labels. When a junkman comes in with
i a load of bottles he may have twenty
! cliflerr nt kinds. We sort them. When
we get a gross of a certain kind we know
where to sell them. A gross of quart
champagne bottles fetches $4.50; pints,
$2.25. Claret bottles se ll for $3.75 pel
i gro-s, nnd so do soda water bottles.
Bass’ ale is worth $2.25, but for Rhine
wine bottles we get $0 per gro-s. “Tom"
i gins and stomach bitter- go at $1; porter
and Vino Vermouth at $2.25. Apollina
ris, quarts, we sell for $5 p-r gross, and
pints al $.">.25. A gallon demijohn is
1 only worth 20 cents, but larger bier bot
tles with the patent stoppers bring $8
per gross. Root beer bottles sell for s(>.
while ging'-r ales only fetch $1.50. \V ■
sell Hathorn, Congress ami Geyser bot-
| ties back to the mineral spring men in
Saratoga for 30 cents per dozen. Most
of the small bottles are bought by catsup
ami table sauce makers. We don't buy
medicine bottles. We sell very little
-tock to medicine men.
“You know a champagne cork has a
sound head ami is turneel from the bark.
It is not cut out as straight c inks are
I made. When it pops from the bottle tiie
head is cut up by the string and tin- cork
• looks like a mushroom. We put them
j all in a big ki'ttle of boiling water and
swell them. Then they’re ns good as
m-w. Ordinary sound corks sell for
twenty-five cents per gross, but corks
from champagne bottles, made with more
labor, bring $2.50. We have handled
enough corks in the past twenty-five
years to float the Great Eastern.” A.ia
I Sun.
Newspaper nnd Orator.
Compare the orator, one of the noblest
vehicles for the diffusion of thought,
with the newspaper, and you may gain a
faint glimpse of the übiquitous powers of
the latter. The orator speak' to but a
few hundred, the newspaper addresses
millions; the words of the orator may die
in the air. the language of the newspaper
is stainpeil on tables imperishable as mar
ble; arguments of the onibt may follow
each other so rapidly that the majoritv of
the audience may struggle in a tut work
of nites ination, the reasoning of the
niwq.a|Mi may he scanned at leisure
w ithout a fear of p-rpiexity; the passion
of the orator influences an assembly, the
feeling of a tu’wipaper r leetrities a conti
nent. the orator l« for an edifice, the
newspap-r for the world—the one shines
for an hoar, the other glows for all time; .
the orator may be compared to lightning,
w hich flashes over a valley for a moment,
but leaves it again in darkness, the news
(Mtper to a sun blazing steadily over the
whole earth, and fixed on the basis of its
own eternity Printing has been happily
d. tined the art that preserves nil arts. It
< atehes up hi' dying w<>ni* and breathes
into tin in the breath of life. It is the ,
gallery through which the orator thun- .
decs in the i ar* of agaa. He leans from I
the tomb over the cradle of tlie rising ;
generations.
Hawk and ( at.
A hug California hawk swooped down
• ■ii a sleeping < at at vinta Ri>sa the other
day. and Imre it squalling and scratching
high in the air. AY hen about 500 feet
high the haw k b st its grip, and the cat
.ante down with fearful velocity, but
the hawk eatfght it again just Ixfore it
'truck the earth, and was carrying it off,
when suddenly both fell like haul to the
ground. The eat hud bitten through the <
i hawk ' head, killing it instantly, and the I
fall killed the cat.
A GOAT FARM.
A Woman’s Venture which
lias Proved Profitable.
Raising Angara Gcata and Selling Their
Wool at One Dollar a Pound.
A Nyack, (N. Y.,) letter to the New
York Time., says: Three miles from
this village, near the Hudson River, is an
Angora goat farm, which from its nov 1-
ty attracts much attention hereabout.
It is l<M>ked upon as something in the na
ture of a farmer's freak, like the raising
of bee- or silkworm*, f loats browse and
goats pro-per on this farm on the heights
that border Rockland Lake as readily as
they do on the rocks about Shantytown,
in Ni w-York City. But they are a differ
ent breed of goats, more aristocratic than
their city relatives as to wool, more epic
urean in their tastes, and more blue
blooded as to ancestry. The herd in
this somewhat novel farm just now num
bers 75, varying in age from the tiny ob
ject of three months which looks like a
cross between a dog, a rabbit, and a
lady’s powder puff, to the handsome pa
triarch of the flock, a magnificent speci
men of the pure Angora breed, w ith im
mense curling horn-. This handsome old
fellow with his wife were imported by
Dr. Agnew, the famous oculist of New-
York, from Asia Minor, and the impor
tation cost him aheap of money as the
price of goats goes. Their present own
er is the good woman who now runs th s
goat farm, and who never tires of dis
canting on the good qualities of her pets.
They know her voice, and answer to
their names when she calls them. Kind
arid gentle they appear when visitors arc
about, but the fondness for fighting, ns
characteristic of goats as it is of a native
of Tipperary, crops out when the herd is
together and apparently out of sight of
mankind.
A strange fact, noticed in the breeding
of these annuals is that the females do
not thrive in tiiis locality as well as the
male. The hardy female goat of the or
dinary sp.'cie-; was ;::tr xlnced into this
flock lor ex]wrimcntal breeding purposes,
nnd with marked success. Repeated
crossing with the common goat and her
offspring has produced apparently pure
Angora goats, the t-m iency being in ail
cases tor the to revert in the texture |
of their wool toward the male side. As ‘
a consequence the third generation has ■
al! the appearance of its distinguished an- 1
ce-trv. and in the fourth generation even '
the best experts cannot teli the pure '
blooded from the grade Angora. This
fact is a matter of considerable interest i
to breeders of goats, as an Angora buck
cost slOll or over, while the common
goat can be had almost for the asking.
The fecundity of the Angora is not so
great as that of the common goat, the
Angora ewe giving birth to but one kid '
yearly.
As a source of profit the goats have
turned out well. The wool is from four
to six inches in length, silky, and of
beautiful texture. A full grown animal
will y ield four pounds of wool, which
will readily sell at $1 per pound. Just
now the demand for tiiis wool is not par
ticularly lively, as the lustrous dress of
fabric into which it was at one time
largely converted is out of vogue with
fashionable ladies. It is therefore used
almost exclusively in the manufacture of
plush for upholsti ry purposes. When
the kid is 6 months old its hide, un
dressed, is vvortii $3, and will sell readi
ly for that amount to glove manufactur
ers. Kids on the farm in question meet
with sudden death on that account at
about that age with considerably regular
ity. When it is necessary to kill them
the good lady has them chloroformed so
that she may not hear the deatli cries of
her little pets. The milk of the goat is
much sought after by dyspeptics, by tier
sons suffering from pulmonary troubles,
nnd by otherwise delicate persons, and it
brings a much greater price than cows’
milk. A' to their n.- ■ for :o > ! little can
be said, because the .goat docsziiot flesh
up well, but the kid. when killed young,
furnishes a fair amount of tender meat
which some people like. It will never
be.-omi; a great deliesey in the market, or
ba iu siiflicient dein iml to become a
source of income to the goat raiser.
There is nothing in the world so cheap to
raise os goats, because they will find am
ple f<Mxl in lots up here where other ani
mals w ould starve to death. Acorns are
a favorite article of food wit'.i them, and
ns these abound in the woods the cost for
AYinter fodder is mainly confined to the
trouble of gathering the acorn*.
What For.
Mr. Doline was always lending money
to impecunious friends and iii> wifte was
forever qu.-vn lingabout it. She heard
yesterday of his latest n::s>lenieaaor in
this din etion and she called him up.
“Have you been loaning money to that
worthless J> e Storm?" she inquired hotly.
. "Y>'\ tny dear,” he answered meekly.
“Oh you have, have you? well how
much was it ?”
“Ten dollars, love.”
“Goodness gracious," she said, “what
did you lend Ara $lO fer."
“Don't mention it, dear." he respond
ed in a most deferential tone, “but I
loaner! it to him for two weeks.”
The shock prostrate*! Mrs. D. in a fit
of speechlessness. —J/ereAu.it- Traveler.
Hiding Valuub'es.
Speaking of silver, says M. G. McClel
land in the Chicago Tn:ie», reminds me
of a little story I heard a Richmond lady
tell my mother some time after the cap
ture. She had a quantity of valuables
and stowed them almut iu every conceiv
able place for safety. Among other
things she had a huge solid silver fire
■ man’s trumpet, which had l>een presented
to her husband by the volunteer tire
brigade of Richmond many year* before
in recognition of his service as their
! chief. This trumpet was forgotten in
! the general hiding of valuables, and the
Yankees were fairly in sight when she
discovered it resting ostentatiously in the
. middle of the center-table in the parlor.
: She was loath to lose it, knowing that
her husband valued it greatly, but where
to stow away the big thing she could not
think. At last she took it out to an old
negro man who was very much attached
to her husband, explaining her dilemma,
and told him to take the thing away and
hide it. Long before the end of the
three days she gave the trumpet up for
lost, as the soldiers, not being hurried,
poked about in every hole and cranny
with a preseverance and fertility of re
source worthy of a better cause. But the
day after they departed the old negro
presented himself at the house with smio
on his countenance and the trumpet
under his arm. On being questions I, he
explained that he had “toted de horn ,
down de hill an' jammed it up in one ole
holler log what was sorter layin’ in de
creek, an’ too soggy fur to make fire.”
He had stuffed up the opening in the end
with wet leaves, and calmly watched the
soldiers sitting on the log by the hour at
a time without the faintest suspicion of
its silver heart.
Killing a Giraffe.
The noble animal stood at bay pawing
nnd stamping the ground, lus long neck
swaying to nnd fro; several more shots
were fired at him, causing him to strike
desperately with his fore feet a blow
which would knock a horse down. Dis- ’
mounting, I ran to get a nearer view.
There was despair in his large drooping
brown eyes, and a look which seemed to
say-, “What harm have I ever done you?” ;
It seemed a shame that no one gave him a
coup de grace, nnd put him out of his
agony. Turning to one of the men I said,
“Shoot him in the head, and put an end
to his pain.” But he answered inc by
grasping my arm and pulling me to one
side, shouting, “Look out, or lie will be
on you.” Looking up I saw the crazy
creature swinging his head about, his
long neck putting me in mind of an |
anaconda, as it fairly whirled through
the air, forming wide circles as he made
desperate plunges to keep his body un
der his neck: pitching forward, he fell on
his head and shoulders, and rolled over
with a thud that shook the ground. He
was a “zwart bout” (black-spotted, the ,
variety usually- seen in zoological collec- '
tions; the white-spotted ones are longer
and finer made, and have never been
brought to Europe, and arc never so
heavy). He measured from the root of
the tail to the shoulder 6 feet 1 inch, and
from the shoulder to the tip of the nose
10 feet 7 1-2 inches.— London Graphic.
Short History of Candles.
Candlesticks are mentioned in the !
Bible, but there seems to be no doubt i
that these were lamps for burning olive
oil rather than supports for which arc
now called candles. The candles used
by the Greeks and Romans were rude
torches made by dipping strings of papy
rus or rushes into pitch, and afterward
coating them with wax. In Europe this
candle was in use during the middle ages,
the wick being of twisted tow. Often 1
these were very large and heavy. Among '
the poorer classes candles were made by
snaking splints of wood in fat or oil.
The use of these wood splints is mention
ed in English history about the begin
ning of the fourteenth century. Wax
candles were also nude during this cen
tury, but they- were expensive and deem
ed a great luxury. Soon after this a
dipped candle made from tallow was in
troduced. A company for making wax
candles was incorporated in London in
1484. Mold candles are sai 1 to be the
invention of the Sieur Le Brcz. of Paris.
Spermaceti candles are of modern manu
facture.— Chtcotjo Inter- Ocean.
Goats as Animal Doctors.
it is a curious fact that, prejudiced as
we seem to be against the useful goat, in
spite of all its really admirable proper
ties, it has been from very early times
popular in this country, on account of a
virtue which is purely fictitious nnd fan
ciful. Antiquity has bequeathed to us
the legend that goats were exceptionally
wise in the matter of wholesomo herbs,
that they were, in fact, the herbalists
among quadrupeds and “cunning in sim
pies.” Out of this grew the idea that
they were virtually physicians, that their
presence among domestic animals was
beneficial, and that their odor, though
unpleasant to man. was wholesome to
horses, cows, pigs, sheep, and the farm
yard generally. For this reason one sin- 1
gie goat was often kept, nnd fannvardk 1
may still l»e found where “Betty” or
“Nanny” lives at its ease, and is main
tained, not for any real use it is put to
but in deference, perhaps quite unknow
ingly. to an almost obsolete superstition.
—Zxzntien Telegraph.
Newport News, 1888.
The huge sea monster, tha “Merrimac;”
The mad see monster, the “Monitor;”
You may sweep the sea, peer forward and
back,
Hut never a «ign or a sound of war.
A vulture or two in the heavens bine;
A sweet town building, a boatman's c.-iU ;
The far sea-song of a pleasure crew;
The sound of hammers. And that is all.
And where are tha monsters that tore this
main?
And where are the monsters that shook this
shore?
The sea grew mad! And the shore shot
fame!
The mad sea monsters they are no more.
The palm, and the pine, and the sea-san ls
brown;
e far sea-songs of the pleasure crews,
air like balm in this building town—
And that is the picture ot Neport Newa
—Joaquin Miller in, Independent.
HLMOROI'S.
The lawyer’s advertisement—Give me
a trial.
Felt slippers—Those applied to vicious
youngsters.
What is taken from you before you
possess it? Y’our photograph.
It’s the little things that tell—espe.
daily the little brothers and sisters.
The letter earner that gets around
quickest is the cylinder of a printing
press.
Professor (who is about to have his
hair cut) —How cold is it in this room.
Pray allow me to keep my hat on!
A western sight-seer being told that
the dried-up man of 110 pounds weight
was Evarts, the New York senator, said;
“By gosh 1 I’ll bet he boards.”
Au English paper reports that during
recent explorations at Nineveh a petrified
umbrella was found in one of the temples.
Near by was the petrified man who was
just about to make off with it.
Professor —Does my question trouble
you, sir? Student—No, sir, not at all.
But I am a little in doubt how to frame
my answer so as to give you the precise
information for which you seem to ask.
“Mamina,” said Johnny, “can any
body hear with their inouthii’ “No,
child, I don’t thiuk they can,” replied
the mother. “Then, mamma, what made
Mr. Jones tell sister he wanted to tell
her something and put his lips to her
mouth instead of her car?”
“Landlord,” said a Wisconsin trav
eler, emerging from the dinning-room
after a long and fruitless struggle to se
cure a dinner—“ Landlord, there’s one
thing you have here that’s as good as the
Palmer House, Chicago.” “I am very
glad to please you, sir. What is it?”
“The salt.”
Natural Selection in Mankind.
“The strongest men in intellect,” said
Professor Dana in his closing lecture on
Evolution in Peabody Museum, New
Haven, “are gradually taking possession
of the globe, thus exemplifying natural
selection. This is seen in the spreading
out of England’s domain. Before 1859
it was supposed that that species had al
ways existed in the same condition in
which they were then found. Now this
has all vanished. The reasons for the
migration of animals and plants are
sweeping. All changes in physical con
ditions of migrations may work great
changes either good or bad. Let the
temperature or humidity of a climate be
changed, it will be for the benefit of some
and the disadvantage of others. Thus,
cutting down shade trees will strengthen
the grass which was under the tree, while
it will crow-d out the weeds. Remains
of tropical species arc found in Great
Britian, showing that it was once joined
to the continent. North America was
once joined to Europe across the Arctic
ocean, allowing the passage of animals.
Migrating birds and storm winds may
carry with them many hundreds of miles
small insects and seeds. The migration
of the potato bug from Colorado has been
rapid, and were it not for man’s care
there would have been a complete de
struction of the species of potatoes.”
Blnuting the Feelings.
“Curious how one’s feelings tret blunt
ed by the sight of blood and horrors,”
says Sir Chas. Wilson, in his new narra
tive of the Nile expedition. “There was
one strange incident. An unwoun led
Arab, armed with a spear, jumped up
and charged an officer. The officer
grasped the spear with his left hand, and
with his right ran liis sword through the
Arab’s body; and there fora few seconds
they stodil, tlio cfircer bang unable to
withdraw his sword until a man ran up
and shot the Arab. It was a living em
bodiment of one of the old gladiatorial
frescoes of Pompeii. It did not, strange
to say, seem horrible: rather, after what
had passed, an every-day occurrence. I
used to wonder before how the Romans
could look on at the gladiatorial fights;
I do so no longer.”
No I’neertainty.
Angelina: Didn't you promise me,
Edwin, when you went out that you’d
certainly be home by one?
Edwin: Yezh, my dear, yezh, and
here I am jezh to the moment.
Angelina: Just to the moment, in
deed! Do you know what time it is
now I
Edwin: Jezh one, my dear, ezh one.
Jezh heard it strike one over and over
again.— L\fe.