2 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. IT WORKED ON HIM. A Alight Variation from the final Bar. panttna NarratlTa. I saw a yoiinff man light a lonff Ilutv jmrlan cigar the other 'evening and throw himself hack In a chair to enjoy he smoke ftnl conversation, aays a New York Herald writer. The Hunga rian cigar is something1 like a l'itta lmrgh tohy, only it Is twice M long as the Pittsburgh article, and before you fret through with It is also twice as strong. The young man was more In terested in the conversation than in the cigar, apparently, so he laid the latter down on the edge of the table a moment, as he talked. The waggish pvntloman next to him slyly took the cigar and cut oiT about three Inches of the fire end and began to smoke it, re placing the body of the weed. When the yonng man got through with hi story, at which all the rest laughed extravagantly, he picked up the cigar Sjgaln and pulled at it. His face wore a puzzled look as he glanced at the end and saw it hod apparently never been lighted. Cut he struck a match and lighted it again. After a few pulls he laid it down to answer the pleasantries, whereupon the man on the other side drew his knife and neatly cut the fire end off and drooped it In the cuspidor. The expression on the face of that atory-telW when he picked up that cig-jr and again essayed to smoke waa something too funny to describe. He gave two or three vigorous puffs at it, then stopped and looked at the fresh end. while the other fellows were In terested in almost anything else at the moment As soon as the would-be smoker saw that his cigar had not been lighted ho turned a littlo pale, shoved his un emptied glass aside, and, with a hasty apology and a story of an alleged for gotten engagement, bolted for the street, amid the demoniacal glee of the crul men left behind. Thus doth con science make cowards of us all. DID NOT WISH TO BE EMPEROR, Old William L Quit Content with the Throne of Proeala. Rev. Dr. Bernard Rogge preached the sermon In the Versailles palaco January 18, 1871, when the German empire was proclaimed, and ever since he has been known throughout central Europe as the consccrator of Germany. In a lecture given by him in Vienna recently ho told of a remarkable inter view which he had with the king of IVussia three days before the groat ceremony. King William requested him to make the sermon short and ex clude from it as far as possible all ref erences to the house of Uohenzollern and its head. "For 1 have not done it," said old William. "God in His providence ac complished it I shall find it difficult to accustom myself to my new title of emperor. My own wish was that at my advanced age I might avoid the honor, although my son might be tailed to accept it; but matters have turned out in such a way that I can no longer do anything but take it" When received on the same day by tho crown prince, later Emper or Frederick, Rogge got a few more instructions as to the nature of his sermon. The crown prince pointed to the great hall where the ceremony waa to be held and remarked: "When J first saw the palace on the 1Mb. of last September I said to my self: 'There is the place where tho founding of the German empire will be proclaimed." CLEOPATRA'S PEARL. Some Douhta About Its Ttrtng Dlnolved In Wluo. Roaders will easily call to mind the story which Is told of Cleopatra to il lustrate her luxurious habits of living, that she dissolved in her wine a pre cious pearl. No one seems yet to have questioned what must have been the effect upon the drink, says Youth's Companion, but Mr. Lewes questions quite pointedly the possibility of such , solution. We aro very sheep in our gregarluus ness of error. When one bold or stupid mutton takes a leap, all leap after him. It is rare to find men doubting facts, still rarer to find 'them doubting whether tho facta be correctly coor dinated. Our books are crowded with unexamined statements, which wo never think of examining. Do we not all believe that the mag nificent Cleopatra, regardless of ex pense, dissolved in her wine cup a pearl of groat price, as if it had been a lump of sugar? Is not tho "fact" fa miliar to every one? Yet, if you test it, you will find the fact to be that pearls are not soluble in wine. The most powerful vinegar attacks them but very slrfwly, and never entirely dis solves them, for the organic matter re mains behind, in the shape of a spongy mass larger than the original pearL No Sinecure. A man named Winks recently do nouneed the bishop of Manchester, Eng., for accepting a princely income while so many better men wero starv ing. The bishop mado tho following answer to him: "You taunt me with the amount of my income. Perhaps it may astonish you to be made acquaint ed with the following facte: I live as plainly as any workingman, and I be lieve I work harder and more hours than nine out of ten workingtnen, and yet I am compelled, by tho ex penses incident to my office, to 6pend one thousand pounds a year more than my official income." Uon't Speak EoRlleh. It is hard to be called upon to see th point of a joke without being given sufficient time to seo it in. A gentle man with a serious face aid at a re cent small gathering of people: "What are we coming to? Statistics show that in Massochusetts there are thirty thousand persons, all native of the United States, who cannot speak tho English language!" "Impossible" everyone exclaimed. "It is true, nev ertheless,", persisted the grave-faced man. "And native Americans, you bay?" "Certainly and all under two years of ogol" AFRAID OF THE CAMERA. futile Effort of a llnnter to 1'botoarapU an Indian TlUon. The dislike of some people to the photographer's ebalr may be due to a natural shrinking from anything like personal publicity, or, more likely, to feelings of wounded vanity, becauso the camera persists in representing them as they are, rather than as they Imagine themselves to be. Neither of these considerations con be supposed to have influenced the Indian bison of whom Mr. II. H. Elliott tells the story, says Youth's Companion. Mr. Elliott Is a devoted sportsman, but also a lover of wild animals as liv ing beings. At one time ho desired to secure pictures of the Indian bison, an animal which, to his regret, is growing less and less common under the perse cution of reckless hunters. To this end he sent one of his European em ployes out to photograph a solitary bull, choosing for the purpose a bit of grassy ground in a detached piece of jungle. Sure enough, a bull came slowly along,, grazing as ho went Ho ap proached within ten paces of the man. The opportunity was of the very best Hut, as ill-luck would have it, the bison looked up just as the photog rapher removed the cap from tho camera. At sight of the lens which he perhaps mistook for the glaring eye of some new kind of tiger ho whirled about and rushed madly into the jungle, leaving the photographer disappointed. GILDERS IN AMERICA. Circumstance ba the Reign of Oeorge IV. That Sent Matter Workmen nere. It is a tradition among the gilders of this town, says the New York Sun, that they owe their peculiar skill to tlie redecoration of Windsor cattle at tho command of George IV. Every available glider of London was busied for a long time in gilding tho palace, and when the work was done many of them found that their places in the trade had been taken by apprentices. Unuble to find work at home, many came to America, and some established themselves la New York. These men taught tholr art to Americans, and the gilders of this country are now among the best in tho world. The trade lan guished for a time in the face of cheap processes and cheap materials, but tho taste for flrst.rate gilding, whether it be picture frames, or furniture, or walls, has never really gone out The trade has been spilt p Into sub trades, and Just now the stencil fresco painters are quarreling with the gliders over the question as to which class of artisans shall do the gilding of interior decorations. The gilders, who regard their trade as an art, look upon that of the stencil frescoers as merely me chanical. ONE OR THE OTHER. The Natural Conclusion of the Victim of an Cmbrella Thief. The following amusing story has been going the rounds of tho London papers. Readers in this country will not appreciate the point to tho joke unless they take into account tho peculiar sentiment now prevailing in regard to the honse of lords.: A member of a fashionable club in London lost his umbrella at the club rooms. Being resolved to draw atten tion to the matter in an effective man ner, ho caused this notice to be put up in the hall: "Tho nobleman who took away an umbrella not his own on such a date is requested to return it" The committee took offense at this statemuut, and summoned the member who had made it before them. "Why, sir," they said, "should you nave supposed that a nobleman had taken your umbrella?" "Well," replied tho member, "the first article in the club rules savs that: 'This club is to be composed of noble men, and gentlemen,' and since the person who stole my umbrella could uot have been a gentleman, he must have been a nobleman." THREE OF A KIND. Some Pointed Inatance of the Irlnhroan' Aptitude In Making "Doll." In the coffee-room at a hotel in Dub lin, an Irish gentleman said to a friend who was breakfasting with him: "I'm sure that's my old college friend, West, at the, table over there." "Then why don't you go over and speak to him?" said his friend, "I'm afraid to," replied tho other, "for he's so very shy that he would feel quite awkward if It wasn't he." A barrister defending a prisoner in Limorlck suld: "Gentlemen of tho jury, think of his poor mother his only mother." About? seventy years ago, the grand jury of the county of Tipperary passed the following resolutions: "First, that a new courthouse should be laid; sec ond, that the materials of tho old courthouse be used In building the new courthouse: third, that the old court house shall not be taken down until the new courthouse Is finished." Delfrtns) a Chinee Woman. It is possible for any Chinaman, or even any Chinese woman, to become a deity by paying for tho honor. A few years ago a rich and devout Chinese lady died la Soochoo. Her friends thought that an apotheosis was no more than her due, and communicated with the priests, who interviewed tho gods on the subject, and discovered that the god.of the left little toenail bad no wife. The old lady was ac cordingly married to his godshlp, and is now enrolled as the "goddess of the left little toenail" The honor cost the old lady's estate over five thousand dollars. A Baperetlttoua noaaroh. The shah of Persia is exceedingly superstitious. lie always carries with him when be travels a circle of amber, which is said to have fallen from Heaven in Mohammed's tlmo, and which renders the wearer invulner able; a casket of gold which makes him invisible at will, and a star, which Is potent to mako conspirators lnstant I ly confess their Crimea. i FINEST PARKS IN THE WORLD. Australia Oau Uoaat of finer rnbllo Gar den Tliim An? other Country. In no country in tho world do people pay so much attention to tholr city and country park a do tho Australians, says a writer in tho Cloveland Plain Dealer. As none of tho largo cities is over visited by frost or snow all have great advantages over tho cities of our northern states or of northern Europe. 'Adelaide, tho capital of South Aus tralia, has a park with botanical gar dens which for beauty of situation, ar rangement of grounds and variety of tree and plants is unequaled by any It' in the world, unless it might be by those of Melbourne, Sydney and llrinlmno in the same country. These Australian parks aro not simply orna mental, they are useful; the peoplo nse them, and, as they ore free to all, their one objectionable feature Is the faot that they aro made tho resort of "sun-downers," or tramps, and of other disreputable characters. One of the largest of these olty parks, and it promises In tlmo to bo the most beauti ful, is Centennial park, of Sydney, New South Wales. This park was purchased and surveyed four years ago, to com memorate the one hundredth anniver sary of tho founding of Sydney, which, at the beginning, was a penal colony of England. Die municipality has gone to great expenso to adorn tie park with scores of replicas of famous statues or the statues of famous men from all parts of tho world. It Is very pleasant to an American, driving through this park, to siV, near the entrance, a huge marble statue of Abraham Lincoln, which is a facsimile of the one in Union square, New York city. One of Washington is also to bo seen. A little further on there is a herolo figure of Garfield, looking to ward that of England's grand old man, Gladstone, across the way. There are also busts of Longfellow, Bryant and Sheridan, as well as life-sire copies of many of the Rogers groups, such as "Tho Wounded Scout," "The Advance IMckct Guard" ood "The Last Car tridge." Hut it Is not only America that Is honored In this way. In driv ing through the Centennial park one sees Napoleon and Bismarck, the duke of Wellington, Oen. Hovclock and King John of Abyssinia. The Australians hove not only the parks in their large cities, but every town and village has its pleasure grounds, and the race track is to bo found in every settlement All the colonies also have large areas like our own Yellowstone and Yosemlte set apart as national parks. The wisdom of this course will become evident as the population increases and land be comes more valuable. ALCOHOL AS AN APE CATCHER. The Jocko Tribe a Fond of Booee a I the II a man Raee. "The ape family resembles man in more than one respect," remarked a citizen of Jackson, Miss., to a St Louis GlolKj-Democrot man. "They love liquor, and this love, as is tho case with mankind, often causes them to fall. The natives of central Africa make a fermented beer of which the monkeys ai-o very fond, and, by using it as a bait, capture a great num ber of these animals. The natives go to the parts of tho forest frequented by the monkeys, and set on the ground gourds full of tlV enticing liquor. As soon as a monkey sees and tustes it he utters loud cries of joy that soon at tract his comrades. Thon an orgy bo gins, and ib a short time the bou&ts show all degrees of intoxication. Then the negroes appear. The drinkers are too far gone to distrust them, but ap parently take them for large species of their own genus. When a negro takes one by tho hand to lead it oil the nearest monkey will cling to the ono who thus fiuds a support and en deavor to go off also. Another will grasp at him, and thus in turn till the negro leads a ctsgrgerlng line of ten or fifteen tipsy monkeys. When finally got to tho village tho monkeys are se curely caged and gradually sober down, but for two or three days a lim ited supply of liquor is given them so as to reconcile them by degrees to their state of captivity." Snow, Not Ureaee. A littlo incident that occurred aboard the Furst Bismarck, during her recent Mediterranean trip, may now bo added to the series of episodes made memorable through the stupid ity of mankind. The ship was leaving the harbor of Athens, and Capt AI bers, her commander, was pacing the deck. There had been a storm during tho night previous, and the distant hills were covered with snow. A middle-aged woman approached tho com mander, and pointing to the heights beyond the fast receding coast, asked: "Whot is that white stuff on the hills, captain?" "That madam," gravely answered Commander Albers, "is snow." "How singulanl" remarked the lady. "I was just told it was grease." Old English Laws. For many years gypsies were hanged in England. Vagrants were whipped naked at the oart's tail, their eyelids cut off and the un happy wretches exposed to the burn ing sun; their noses slit, their fore heads branded with a letter V. 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