General Crook's Woo-
Ing.
oy
[New Vork Evening Post.)
Now that Gen. Crook is so consnicts
ously before the publie, it is with pecul
ir inter
romantic
diately
promote, the m
officer with ins
y 1
recalls the
ere hi
Preceding { they did no
» of that
placed them
min & pe There
is no doul
sonal popula
she was, did :
and peighbors sm the inevitable loss
and suffering upon their
well-known southern proclivitios.
A little anecdote in which she played
a part went th unds of the newapa
pers while she was still in hor school
days. On his w vy to Wheeling, inn
private cur, President Buchanan made
the usual wait at Oakland station,
where any persons assembled to ba
presented to the chief magistrate.
When Mary's turn the
bachelor put the question to her that
had served him throughout the inter-
view: “And what you from,
miss? “From the same state as your
excellency,” she quickly replied, “the
state of single Llessednoss!”
Another story my friend had from ker
own lips as they were walking through
a new wing of the hotel, which before
comuvlotion had beeg taken for a fem
POrary DArrackKs and pospital by thn
IASG Uen
CHRINO,
state are
to the window. Oneyoung fellow, pale
Home sick
soldiers were
and encamped at this point.
and wounded Union
brought in one day.
across from her window into the op-
ad been
tresses,
laid on blankets
making a large caldron of chicken
broth for them. When it was doneshe
carried a smoking bowllul in each hand
|
“Hold on,
lob,” sang out a comrade on the floor
beside him, “may be that stuff is pois:
The sick man hesitated for one
moment, looked at Mary, whose eyes,
frank as the day, doubtless flashed
their indignant protest, “Oh, for
shame.” said he, “I'll trust that girl's
face for my life Here's thank 0 to
yor, miss,” and down went the soup.
In the rapidly varying phases of the
war on this border land th 3 TO ul
government,
now
now
miles in a night, by
Stonew 11 brizade the por-
the hotel
SAY em
in wsion of the
torn up, thirty
Jackson's
f the
1
socal 1 nt
y the veranda
A
y
i
an bods
led out o whe
town, 1 harrie
to Libby pr
friend were me
party, con
their Persona
erals was probably the only amn
dark
f off t
won
wognition by
ing
feature of the spirited affai
man who had held
tions with General
summer at Oakland,
ing a position in the secret service
war department at Richmond
Through his advice, pressed upon Sec
retary Benjamin, Ge Kelley and
Crook released, as their reinstate-
ment in command of the road
sortant to the interests of
Pe. py southerners whose lives and pro-
perty lay at the mercy
and foe, on thia critical line of soc
demas
Later on
hello 1
was the SOY
of
ie
nerals
were
was im-
those une
+
ional
reation,
another rumor of a
to the hotel in the mountains; of his
nurse, a little rebel maiden; and finally
conditions: a capture by the sister as
well as by the brother—an altar and a
ring. In the recent redoubtable ex-
ploits of Gen. Crook among the
Apaches, may we not perhaps discover
tho same stratogy so successful in the
tenderer engagements of his youth,
when, penetrating into the enemy's
country, he conecilisted and captured
the charming hostile, the subject of
this sketch.
hr
Sir W. Templo: To make others
wit appear more than one's own, isa
1 rule in conversation; a Neccssary
one, to let others take notice of your
wit, and never do it yourself,
BEAUTY IN HOMESPUN.
the War...Curious Makeshifts
ployed in Contriving Costumes.
{Ma v W
Several
Early in Philadelphia Times.)
histories and
gketehios have been w ton descr
the military straits to
brought durir
i do ot k
depi ded the sti
the AY
( onfederacy
ibing
which om
ho lat
men
bnt
were
OW
women
block ade,
had a p HA
opening of thie o
1
ad on
rotty oo
supply we
Pi
cet on with
ol 1n3¢
ier of the
wi i it to an ele
inmment un vchmoad she
of the wa
What Thomas Hughes Nays.
Ms
from Band
3
little bouta
Is, and =
Your
i, and I noticed thai
turned to column of
I was talking to a fellow
wd I did not want to bre
veraantion. But 1 noticed in
glancing ov the shoulder
that the column every
ted in was ‘proaperons
that
but
new ay
rai tos
one
Pd
32 ie one
rag intere
I thon
to mv own con
i :
this referred
I found after
referred to your doings on
Langhitor Hol ind
riean people regard as
first importance what takes place
Mr. Hughes said that America
was the only country the world In
mney, but Engiand was
ountry to gpend money in.
aht of course
niry,
Cie
ch 10 makes mid
Looking at the Brighter Nido.
{Cincinnati Enquirer. }
Human life is full of ils strange ups
to remember the ups
the downs we should be the
happier for it, We are seldom as mis-
erablo as we think wo are. When a
single hornet stings us we need not
swear that we ran against a hornet’s
nest and that the whole swarm came
ont and stung us until
swelled to the size of Jumbe.
lesson from the Irishman, Two broth.
ers were rolling a huge log down a hill.
One end rolled faster than the other,
it. The log rolled on, hawever, und
one minute Pat was under the log
groaning, and the next mindte he was
on tov of the log roaring for help.
brother, with a true Irishman's wit,
wok in the situation at » fiance, and
eried out: ‘Hold on tight, Fat, for you
are oa top ball the time any way.”
LIERARIES FOR SHOW,
The Purchase of Hooks by Ignesunt
| Parvenuns.
A New York Sun reporter interviewed
a book with regard to the pur
chinae books for the mere of
their bindings by ignorant parvenns,
*1 have been sent for several times this
year,” said the sales
i
“i Her
0! anke
man, "to meastre
in
nuniber
tho sie
to
ho 18608,
re
libraries now
of
Monks
fun
sitting
the books
the forn
books
'
100
kesd ont 8 hand
for a eustomer about to
He had
books; b
re
The Church Bell
rue we $. 4 4
sew ork Lotte
nate pom
chureh
New
interested
rman
red of Jac)
has heard of
. {a " who
+ enoagh of
me still
y have
Mr.
He
He
i will
lod on
albu
wi h
evOry morn.
bell annovs
wwe away from
the bell, Int he
io that
R prope LO 1ppress the bell
And not only that bell, but all of
ehinreh bells, This fight will po on
gave, till every chureh bell in Now York
is stopped. Church bells mast go
They are a nnisance, and grits unneces-
sary, and their sinled
Schultz has been joined mm his crnsada
by another man, who makes compliant
against another bell connected with an
{ent el nro,
i that is rung earl
EFT the
doom =
ters for the Poor. That bell must be sap
pressed, too, the other man says, It
up, snd makes him nancomfortable in
varions wavs. Jackson Schultz, and
the other mun, are determined to oarry
on the fight at all hazards, and “arouse
a public sentiment that will sweep
every church bell out of existence.”
“By Foslery Thrive”
{Inter Oconn.)
Peck, of Peck's Sun, and anthor of
* The Bad Boy,” to an interviewer of
I'he Boston Traveler said that his
mother often asked him why he made
such a fool of himmelf. His reply was,
of conrse, ** because it is the most prof
| table thing a wise men ean do.”
HIGH-PRICED CIGARS.
Bo — i
Tho Weeds That Bring Faney Prices |
and the Men Who Buy Them.
(New York Sun.)
A young man with neatly brushed
hair and & light-blue necktis stood be
hind & cigar stand in a fashionable and
well-known cafe ap town the othe
It was very dull, as the Wall stree
had not begun to drop in on their way
had ‘
In the Cues
the
and
y
rdaay
L mer
UN EErs wandered
Ware
oral
POW
@ King t
hap rend
Queer Device
wl
nded i
hollow
yor EI TOR
nec
‘ BON UGE
space. Many
among the
what purpose this new-
ight The
plausible explanation of the muti-
lated coins seemed fo be that
they were intend d to sls al five dollar
Meco ID Tam This was upset,
however, by one of the boys, who was
familiar with all the tri of the
kn. According to his knowledge,
these mutilated in nse a
great deal by the tin-horn gamblers
hiroug t. They re in
throughout the
tended to conocal within this hollow a
ving un
1 n
device n
oped
we
* “
EID
coins
were
Wes
1
small mirror, snd thns while
detected upon the table st
forty-five degrees, behind
gimailar coin, in front of the dealer,
latter could, by a Little easily
ekill, know by moans of a 1 to a |
certainty every card held by any one or |
ail of his opporents. A man who |
should chance to play in any ga
where this little racket” was bes
worked by a successful “greek” would
MONOY AWAY
without even the excitement of a pons.
ble chance for winning. The game i
not nnknown to professional gamblers,
htt probably is to the general pubis
IPTG
UIrroer
The Multicharge Gun
{Texas Biftings}
The Lyman-Haskell multicharge gun. |
is almost completed, and experiments |
will be began at Bandy Hook in a short |
time. It is proposed to fire a ball
through iron thet icknese of three feel,
which is from thirty to fifty per cent,
heavier than any ship ean oarry. Mr.
Haskell claims that his gun will project
a ball at least fifteen miles, which is six
miles further than any other cannon has
been able to send a missile,
OLD LETTERS
(Earl of Roslyn}
Jt seems but yesterday she died, but years
Tinve paused sinos then ; the wondrous cheng
of time
Makes great things little, little things soy
Hine,
And sanctifies the dew of da
y temrs,
BO LEAs anpeers
fave in my pour
i, as all must
Bho died
In hi page, nor
£3380,
tory ”
rhvine,
Of her, whons
prime
sadly where
fear £,
It seers
A fe
And do
life was love,
whose lovely
F risen ne EOrrrows are, nox
to-day 1 read
bstss
Booms ra
dead
} thie +1 the hand,
i I Kind ber
Th og
Thu
fy
ALN 2
Frite's Dog Story.
Texas oe ngs}
for a {«
w minrrhes,
ntage of to re
American
nust ge
wre day
toga vel
i
one
of
wid to the
REY BOTTS
A Spall “Dipping”
Party.
on 8 sensational Inter.
WOW of the New York deme
monde, pu hod recently in a Phila
delphia paper, M. Labouchore says
11d seem that 40 per cent. of
the cigarettes sold in the United States
kod by ladies. In Russia, 1
glioald imagine that the peroentage Is
even greater : whilst in France, Germany
and Italy the perceniage oon
sumed Dy the fair sex must be
considerable. And why not? it
find pleasure tobacoo, why
shoald women be arbitrarily excluded
from the enjoyment of the same
pleasure? When, many years ago, 1
was living in the United States, the
young ladies at Washington were given
to what they termed “dipping,” a prac
tice far more objectionable than smok-
ing. A dipping party consisted of a
number of girls squatting on the
ground round a bowl in which thera
was a thick mixture of snuff and
water. This they used to put into
their mouths with sticks and rab i on
their teeth, the theory being that
whitened them; mt this, of course,
wis & mere exonse for what was equiva
lent to chewing.
th some
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