NOBLESSE OBLItIE,
I hold it the duty of one
And royally dowered
To know no rest till his lif
Fuily up to his great gifts’
He must hold the man into rare complete
ness,
For gems
He must f
swoetn
And cast
mn
For he wi
Of art «
Must sift
And
Wey
For 1 thin}
Should
That
By slow fe
sven,
the whole,
Groat gifts should be worn like a crown-be
vreear's hands;
must be constant and unre
ot like gems onal
And the toil
ting
nit
mands
Soon Winter, from his
With whi ming f n the sky,
Will hoarsely t sugh the forest rave :
And let uis icy arrows fly
(Jonx M. MACDONALD.
northern
frot
conve,
A Few Points on Muufl,
[Detroit News.)
There are three grades of
fine, poor and medium.
is made from the blade of
snuff
the
and grouud up into the poor grades
The medium grade is ¢
entire leaf, and is the quality of which
the greatest amount is Of
grades of uff th h 18t
dry varieties. The di
on earthen
ground,
of heat. Ti
to denote ti
heated
snuff is m
which has alr
mposaed
and
be €n
.}
all
to fermen
determing
of the snuff.
salt 1s mixe
perfumes
powdered «
the i 288%
Ofte ni
hme and
which
healthful
easily be detected wi
whica reveals the
the tobacco
that of adult
“Mach
asked to-d
dealer w
brands of sn
way
sunly witl
“Not as
ago,”
tinue
y
allment
are n
d
custome
the p
st
gion.
BAYS that bet
*“pouncet-box )
gave his nose of snuff
taking is evidently a continuation of the
rage for odors and perf es which was
prevalent in by-gone days, and like it,
snufl-taking is dying out.
Sacred Cattle,
(Prof. Oswald in Cincinnati Enquirer}
Yet the sanctity of the holiest reptiles
was exceeded by that of the = Xen
or Brahma bulls. The ancient Egypt-
ans contented themselv worship-
ing one bull ealf «t 5 tin in India
all black cattle are sacred, and the
hunchbacked kind of the species Bos
Brahmanus so unspeakably holy that
even their uncouth CAPTICEsS Are n eepted
as signs of divine fav If a Brahma
bull lies down on the sidewalk, the pro-
prietor of the ngxt house sends a ser-
vant to fan his distinguished guest, or
sprinkle him scented Ganges
water. Hucksters must not drive |
away from their stalls, but anticipate
his desires by a voluntary offering of
garden greens. If he invades the gar
den itself, the owner must try by per-
saasion first, and gentle force only as a
last resort.
“Oh, my son, oppress not the poor!"
Von Orlich heard a Hindoo farmer ad.
jue a voracious bull, “Come, my child,
I will feed thee with honey if thou will
follow me.” The Lmll continued to help
himself. ‘Provoke not the weak,” re
sumed the Hindoo. “Brahm is just;
come, repent in time.” The bull never
budged, and the farmer at last sum-
moned two compargons, “Oh, my son,”
they began again, Put nt the same time
two of them seized the bull's horns left
and right, and thus trotted him out,
chanting a passage from the Upanishads,
while their assistant enforeed the quota
tion by hammering a board with a sort
of mallet.
If an unbeliover shionld lift his hand
against a cow the meanest Hindoo
wonld risk his life in her defense.
About thirty years ago the native
soldiers ascertained that the pasteboard
shells of their eartridges had
lubricated with beef tallow instead of
wax, and that discovery led to the in-
surrection that cost the lives of 360,000
natives and 14,000 foreign soldiers!
¥
i
. 1
wWCredad
Arkansaw Traveler De tear ob aor-
row is as bright as de tear ob joy.
.
IN THE ARKANSAS WOODS.
Land of Children, Dags, Tobacco
Corn Bread and Bacon.
{Kansas City Times.)
especially attract the stranger’
There's the head of
tall and
objects th
{ Lousan and ot
tion.
prodigionsly
imteresting
th
i") or
iiie eh
d the dogs
0, Cane rotting fc
the
weirs, and so
ttle .
thelr exist
the old tire
position « vhen compe
50. A sinking sem of
seoms to over the whole
dogs— ure 16+Y
tian |
wo (11 i
(FY
" ) )
as they squat about the dingy
all imaginable attitudes, eacl
up in the
little self
confines
the quid
HAIrTrow
and
tobacco.
Tobacco is their only solace
made article it 1s, too; tue mean
vilest stuff to be
land. The
1] h mao
found anywhere in the
men chew it, the
the dogs chiew it. It’s chew, chew, pit
spit, spit, squirt, squut, from m
tul night and from night till mo
and if you are not cautious enon
get off at you
compelle dd to dodge numberjes
of amber-colored Jui e that
a safe distance
about in every conceivable
respective of persons or things
tunes their jaws
service 1n the art of mn:
chewing requires too mucl
doient natures t
become weary 1
long term of
1st be
ed members of tie
iuman organism, and the characteristic
pipe 18 al once ]
pipes —gres
enough to
I ifth Wal
stand
1s in full blast
He
would
» great iron
splutter u
number
floating sbout upon a
¥ grease.
mess—grease aud all-in conjunctio
the corn brewd, is eagerly de-
voured by these rapsmous natives, and
on this meagre diet, strange to say, but
nevertheless true, they IMANAZS SOMO
how to keep the sands of life in motion,
Truly, one-half of the world knows not
how the other half lives.
his
with
Lengthening Short Ladies,
The London World tells of anew
contrivance for making ladies taller.
The woman who is to undergo this pro-
eess 1s encased in a very tight corset,
and her feet are placed in shoes
weighted with fifty pounds of lead
each. She is then placed in a machine
consisting of a ring, which encircles her
waist, and is suspended from the ceil
ing at such a height as to prevent her
feet from touching the ground. The
pressure of the corset forces the upper
part of her body upward, and the
weight of her shoes stretches her from
the waist downward. It is estimated
that the extreme length to which the
spine can be stretched by the process
thus described is two inches, and that
the knee and hip joints can be stretched
i inch and a half more, Thns three
inches and a half can be added to the
aeight of almost any woman who has
the courage to undergo the trouble and
pain necessarily connected with a
stretching process, lasting, with brief
intervals, during five or six months.
No Theatre Programmes.
[{Croffut’s Letter. ]
In European theatres, as far as my
experience extended, no programmes
are given away. lf the auditor wants
to know something of the play and the
cast, he can buy a programme of the
ushers—price in London, three-pence
(six of our cents), and about the same
elsewhere. [Mem.--I will hie me to
London and start a daily paper, to be
called The Theatre Programme, and I
will print in each issue all ths pro-
grammes for that evening: ela, and
I will sell that shoot for tuppen we and
get rich! Happy thought. I wll re-
| ember it. |
f
Rule for ehinreh-fair oyster suppers
.
| Twice one is stew,
GATHERING THE NUT HARVEST,
An Auntumn
Farmers of the Alleghanies,
[Port Jervis, N. J ,
An industry of co
ANC KINO thi
the countsy this ses is that
Hore
Industry Among
C wy ro
oO Now York
siderable
the farmer
ory nu
buttern
vali
In
will
Thi
but a fe |
come from the
back, near |
per depending
their q
pect ' of »
as well as
ge or small crop.
pre 18 8 great nnd
to what this erop will amount to.
burs were plentiful and were
until by the
aud the protracted cold,
tilling
sont there wriaint
nicely checked
does nat seem to ba
will not be a very large nor
is not likely to much below
£1.50 per bushel.
There is a popular belief that
)
chestnut burrs not
touch 0 sharp frost,
: iv di + Sour
18 BO Caslly dissipated Dy
do burst un
vation that one is su prised to
i
vest of nuts follow 104 an frost,
The burrs crack only upon maturing
y been
frosts hereabouts, but the nut. not
being ripened, has not fallen t
ground, and it will be n Iy t
early
There have alread
i
probably
1} er
will rapidly
’ 5 1:1 1
BOL uniikely
or 50 cent
'
\ 3
SAOVEID Der.
narket
Oct
about
) COmMPar
although becom:
year, The produ
oecents a bu
the average pri
0) cents, although they
a drug in the marke
as
it pos
no standard
some
Mow the Chinese Regard Foreigners,
hicago Tr
among the inhabitants of the north
Yunnan, affords a striking ill
of the animosity with which the “foreign
devils” are regarded by the Chinese:
“The E
human race; they are
apes and goose | their appr arance re-
sembles that of apes; their heart that
of the devil; for this reason they are
called (European devils),
i TRACE
heaven nor
its parents, has no
ita ancestors. Besides
them the sanctity of family ties is un-
known. A veritable herd of dogs and
pigs, their talk is only of equality ; they
have no idea of social hierarchy, and
know no distinction between father and
son, king and subject. These fam
English particularly, what are they? A
small tribe confined in a corner of the
sca, on an island not larger than a hand
Theiy sovereign may be male or female;
half of their subjects are men, half ani-
mals. You say, ‘but if this raceis
savage, how is it that they can manu
facture steamers, railways, watches
none of which we, the sons the
Celestial Empire, are able to make?
You are simpletons! Do you not know
that these Europeans, who come into
our country under the pretext of
preaching religion, in
come to snatch away the eves and the
brains of the dying, to extract blood
from ci ‘dren? and with these eyes,
tratisn
+1 ’
kKoui-tse
earth, does not honor
TORO
tails,
ua
80
of
medicinal pills, which they sell in
their country, and so acquire ability to
do all these things. Only those who
have eaten of our Chinese substance
have t eyes opened sufficiently to
make the discoveries of which they are
so vain, Dut remember what our holy
book says: “The proud enemy shall
without fail be conquered.” Their
greatest confidence is in their steam-
boats, With these boats they have
many o time offended the spirit of the
sea. Let me have my way and 1 swear
I will exterminate them to the last, and
none shall return home,”
Why the Fashion Prevalled.
{Boston Budget.)
The fashion of clipped hair prevailed
| for a short time during the reign of
Francis I, whose long hair was acci
dentally burned off during a shem fight,
reducing him to a condition to which
| wolves by artificial mens,
Muperstitions
Finlunders,
Daily 1
IBrinG 8
Concerning
tx
Indeed
not bis
rraph.)
ion ]
super io
to kill, for they
A large numb
irs |
i
ie
trie
hard
f5it1
SCH J
J
us thi
nch mad galls
cr
i
torm fore
Hin
rl volving
him.
There is the old superstition
Finns, for ius I'he Finlander
makes a very good, quiet, respectable
sailor, but both Fnglish and
agreed, for som
able, to look
ort of uaz and to fear lun
treat lim for that
reason. Many stories used to be related
of him. He is usually picted as
ow-haired man in
predictions
Ane
geamen
easily detern
LCG,
respectfully
as Nn
and
¥
ferist
rigns
: In some ships, wher
Finn aboard, it
jorsesl
to neutralize any 1 i
utter that was likely to be Inn
Le slip or row, He was
ally ecreditad with
of getting diunk as often as he
throughout the longest
was custom
: is
to the
YOVAEe on a
diminishing, no matter
to his lips, and he
stand the
nd tall ) it
1
often he put it
s been known to bottle or
before him a
wind
studding
rhanl and j
ame directio
of a captain
Finn in
f
miine a
aE 3
riter
news
itted to ne, ‘
He has, in fact, no
nity to become known,
] stent with
work 1
ins hie has of amas
the dreams of avarice
his commonly scantv salary.
A Missing Link.
{Exchange.]
A primary school teacher in one of our
New England cities, met
experience. Having taken pride in im-
parting to her pupils much information
not founda in their spellers and readers,
she thought she would show this to the
visitors on examination day, and framed
a eet as “Who made
vou?"
1 the
“wealth
out
with a strange
of questions, such
“What are von made of?” eto,
and so drilled tho scholars in the an-
swers that each child knew the question
coming to him and its answer.
The room was full of visitors who had
hrard of the teacher's new method. She
milled up the elas and gave the first
juestion, “Johnnie, who made you?”
No answer. Johunie was dumb as a
“Who made you?” the teacher repeat
intended to reassure the
But he only stared.
“Why, don't you know who made you,
Johnnie 7” asked the puzzled teacher,
lor the third time.
“Please, ma'am,” exclaimed Johnnie,
‘I am the little boy what is made of
flesh and blood: and--and--the little
oy God made has got the mumps.”
A Great Aqueduct,
{Demorest’'s Monthly. }
Among the notable American works
about to be undertaken is the construe:
tion of a new squednet ranning from
a vast reservoir © supply New York
city with water. This agquednet will
be thirty miles long, and although the
first catimate 4 $14,000,000, it will
probably coat $25,000,000. When com-
pleted New York will have a water sup-
sly of 360,000,000 gallons per diem.
oon should there be a year of drought
there will be never leas than 250,000,
000 gallons a day, nan amonnt sufficient
for a population of 5000000 versons.
New Orleans Times-Democrat: The
horse population of the United States is
W every five Lhauuoens.
wo
New York,
ton Hera
tient
Findison Mguare,
{Joe Howard in Ti
sunlight
ting to
{ IN oTeen
tesgne stant
althh and hi
o of the Peo] le
d ehildren
romp there, and eve
blot, the presence of
of wi
been, rather than offer
Beauti
LIOR
18 suggestive
i unre.
at night it
ial grandeur to tl
vland, Hund
ire
L tree
Jumps
Huminate
this 8g
the oY
leaves through
rd and ¢
shadows on
ostly set ‘1
The san-Catehers Trade.
{Philadelph 1
“I've killed mor’:
da
don't die I hope t
W i « Hes: Bi
i
ferrets in my
vE 4 rood Aan
When Donkeys May Speak.
{ rest Wi
Miastemen's Miimulsnts
{ Was
O'Connel
§
tuatedd with
Iie reporter cok
be the favorite drink n
“That depends
conntry that tho cusl
Now.a New
likes rum, the eastern man likes wil
while and
drin}
=
the southern western
ed 1}
their
was old Senator Bogy: 1
tell what he wanted, and wher
came in I wonld set it out without
question Zin and
ator Ferry nev
in the bar, but he was a gre
Davis, of
'
took siraigl
are heavy on mix ..
ot
HAY
could al
BUgAY
Virginia generally
but had
Maxey,
takes anything stronger
ade. Coke takes
Bavard takes the same.
sugar and sky
Pendleton 1s
sky punch. Jones,
anvihing with
takes 1t
of I'lorida, never mixes
his. He drinks whisky, and
out of a water glass, having An aversion
to small glasses, and Vest, asa
rule, take it with a little sugar. Eaton,
of Connectient, was pretty regular. He
sometimes took whisky, but most gen-
erally wine. He seldom came in with
anyone. He would drink asmall bottle
of Mumm’s extra dry, pay for it, ahd
walk out There was okl Sen
ator Dave Armstrong, of Mis
souri. He always took whisky and
lemon, forty drops. Lapham, of New
York, would start in on whisky, bat
there was no telling what he wonld
wind up on. John B. Clark, of Mis.
wour, generally took it straight. Sodid
Van Horne. Proctor Knoit never
mixed it and alwars wanted ‘Old Dour-
bon! Page, of California, and George,
of Oregon, as a rule, took straight
whisky. The great objector, Mr. Hol
man, used sugar and water,
Stephens never came into the barroom,
though he was a regular drinker, He
carried a Little eight ounce vial of the
very best whisky in his pocket. Gen,
Phil Cook, of Georgia, is one of the
most jovial congressmen that comes in
hore. He takes a little sugar in Lis
Widnsoy"
Jonas
NIGHT AND GOOD-MOLRROW,
ii i 3
EWEDIEH
of the Most Primitive Ilind,
¥
wiatiary Is Riz
“e.
nel
“What may you call that air boy?”
Lhe aske
d.
“The Gteek
raanity before |
“Three th
: 8, wi 2m?
siatmed ; “yon don
Iti lit to buy somethin
that's a notch above me. Why, statiary
is riz, ain't it?"
Powers, in telling the story, used to
musing auitation of the miner's
4
« OY 80
Varieties of Ninreh.
[Popular Science Monthly.)
The starch of every plant differs
its neighbors both in rize and
considerable intor-
comparatively soft mass. Buf, not
: utward points of
difference, in chemical composition the
the same materials as sugar is come
Boston Herald: Herr Krupp has
made altogether more than 20,000
pieces of ordnance, of which a majority,
of cvmrve. ure al suall callbios,