AFTER THE PRIZE.
The Horse Reporter and the Autho
of a Bundle of Competing Mum,
{Chicago Tribune.)
“1s the literary ¢ ditor in ?®
The horse reporter looked up an¢
discovered a very pretty young lad:
standing in the doorway. “No,” he re
plied, “he is not. The literary editor i
s very aflable will-o-the-wisp in rathes
tight pauts, and the extent per wi ok
which he is not in would surprise
if you only Knew He
with airy grace through the building
once or twice a week, and then hike
beautiful vision with box-toed shoes, i
gone.”
“] would like to see the
editor,” said the young lady. “I }
to compete for The T'mbune’s £10 priz
for the best Do thirk
would have any chance to win it?”
a pair of soft brown ees looked wis
fully into those of one who would soo
be taking another bite of hard tobacco
“1 can't exactly tell,” said the horse
reporter. “It is more or less difficult,
by simply looking at a person, to judge
of her power of weaving from he
surging brain the style of romance
which this paper is at present
810 worth of bread
waters, The pos
dress, a hat with a
Ot
x
tid
ib
.
about it
story. you
per week
and a pair of high-l
mdicate lit
and then ag
hate to
Tennyson
fish
Juhien, “I sh
the story, bu
some of it. i
when a per
entical juign
work
aliy in ap
the effu
“Her
youu £g
TORII
“{Jh, §
ful tone.
abot t
For a i
¥ hen
Uh,
porter.
the shot-tower
Eke tlLat.
too far {.
talk about
ble tie.
YOrce sui
rimonial
#eatl 1 one
“Do you
said the
“I don't ¢xu
meplied thie hi
that last sented
The young 1
aud read as {oll
a 3 A
aot a bieatu
¥ took the manuscript
OWS :
f wind, not
est sugypestion of a Z¢ phy r even
the leaves of
erimson, and purple, and gold
magic of an early trost-—under :
Vivian aud Natal.e were stavding. Th
golden haze of an October morning was
tinving the hills with its glory, and as
Vivian bent his head and pressed on
the beautiful face that was apraised to
bis the betrothal kiss, hie said to her, ‘1
will never leave you aga.n.'”
“Vivian said that, did he?” asked the
horse reporter,
“Yes, sir.”
“wuld In October, right after a frost
bad knocked the leaves endwave, that
he woud uever leave her again?”
“Yes, sir.”
“That won't do. No young man with
8 head lice that gets in‘o our cha te
eolomns. Why, he ought to have left
ber be.ore noou that day.”
“Why?” asked the young lady, “1
really do not understand youn.”
“ihis story bas "em out there under
the trees ou a frosty October morning,
doesn t it?”
“Yen, gir.”
“That's no place for a young man
who has the true Saxon spirit. He ought
to Le over on the board of trade buy
ing corn. Any young man v ho puts in
his frosty October morning making love
will gaiber no moss.”
“Yuen yon don't think my story
wonld be accepted 7”
“Hardly at least in its present sta'e.
Yon had better make Viv te.l Natalie
that he loves her with a wild, mad
possion that makes him stub Lis toe
when he thinks about it, but that he
eannot ask her to Le his bony bride
until alter the Lease ball championship
is decided. That kind of an ending
would have the true Chicago tinge.”
“Good day, sir,” said the young lady.
“Bon jour,” replied the horse re
porter. “Faw your story into shape
and come around again,”
tha
Lhe
the linden trees
£
3
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, Enmamity Among Sheep -Herders.
[“H. H." in The Century.)
The sheep ranches are usually deso
late pla es; a great stretch of seemingly
bare lands, with a few fenced corrals
bisckened and foul smelling ; the home
and out-buildings clustered together in
a bollow or on a bill ride where there is
water; the less human the neighborhood
the Lotter.
Phe loneliness of life is, of itself, a
salient objection to the industry. Of
ing; they can live where they like. But
for the small sheepmen, the shepherds
ble life-
Sometimes, after a few months of the
life, a herder goes suddenly mad. Af
ter this fact, it is no longer
possible to see the picturesque side ol
the effective groups one so olten comes
on suddenly in the wilderness; shee)
peaceably grazing, and the shepherd
Iving on the ground watching them, or
the whole flock racing in a solid, fleeey,
illowy scamper up or down a steep
with the dogs leaping and
} m all sides at One
sean he shepherd's face alone, with
pitving fear lest he may be losing hus
wiksa.
learning
oneae.
locking Up the Tower of london.
[Chicago Times. ]
Register has been
p the history of the tower of
LLondon., sud finds that some curious
sremonies are still kept up in that
grim old pile. That of locking up the
ghts is the most anc ind
3
most stately
The
3. 2
lox RIDE ©
American
tonerof n
risinly v
“
fmogcination aud Pain,
18 Dell
cut off, he frequently cried out
When the arm
found unmorked
The Loek had ooly
of the jacket!
via bod
ACIHRWU
by
auteraed the sleeve
even o
as real as if the hook bad ripped up
the flesh of Lis arm. The brain had
received a false bat a real impression,
and the nerves responded to it by pro
ducing pain.
Patents of Nobility.
{Lon lon Worid 1
Tt is as easy to buy a patent of no-
bility ns an old mader—the peerage,
if anything, being cheaper than the O
M., and most likely much more genu
ine. The pope has countships and
dnkedoms galore for good Catholics
willing to pay for them: and thers is
no power on earth to prevent a poten:
tate who arrogates the presidency of
the European roval family and has never
recognized any other lord in Rome than
himself, to refrain from creating dukes
os Disaceia in the persona of aspiring
diplomatists, or counts of Q(onionges
out of Parisian linen-drapers. There is
a Yankee dentist in a certain city who
is marquis and koight, until the heads
of the common people grow giddy al
the sight of his signature in full. It
requires, however, amall proyetatioa
for the sovereigns who decreed Stalz,
the tailor, a baron, and another London
artist of the same description a Portu-
guese viscount, to exercise their recog
nized functions. especially if the wheels
within the wheels are properly greased.
There is, indeed, a book published, en-
titled “L’Art de se Decorer,” in which
the mys'ery is frank'y explained and
the secret of gaining all the cheaper
orders aod titles taught for the sam
of £5.
Nearehing for Milver,
[Uor. Bosten Transeript.)
A young English gentleman at New
pert tells mo that when a child he was
taken by his father to hear Coleridge,
b “the silver-tongned orator.” His oratory
had no effect upon the child, who heard
not a word he said, so eager waa he to
get a glimpse of his tongae, whic) he
believed to be silver, and he returned
greatly disappointed, having failed t.
discover the metallic member. This
reminds me of my own very literal
childhood, one examples of which I give
you: Overhearing that a playmate of
mine was born with a silver apoon in
her mouth, I made a hant for it, which
resulted in a serious quarrel bedwoen
us, the other child resenting the search,
and I returned home indignant st the
imposition upon me, deciaring vele
mently that she bad wuothing but a
tongue and horrid teeth that bit when
1 looked for the silver spoon, witch was
not there.
.
A Brooklyn Man is Shown Some Real
Country Butter, Recalling
Dayn.
{Chicago News]
“T wonld like to look st some butter,”
he sank
tub in a Vesey stroat
Hin, nx
said a smoothi-voleed
upon an verted tu
[EE ER
$1011 B.Ore, iro=
prictor inserted a knife
firkin and handed it
remarking.
grade.”
“pPelicions!” said the
man “Orange county to
emell the sweet clover the
waving grass gently kissed by the sumn-
phyrs, while the lowing kine call
to the rosy chioeked maid to draw their
mill Ah, there's poetry in the thought
of Orange county butter.”
" Yes, and
into an open
the cnat
“Orange county,
to OIer,
gir: fine
’ .
emooth-voiced
! i
and see
Been
ner 2
38 cents a
Could I sell you half
maouey, 100]
“Oh, I would
other variety,
to look at some
You have other brands,
said the smooth-voiced
Like
[ suppose?”
HR
‘Oh, ves,”
gaid the man of butter, as
he uncovered several gra les; “creamery,
western, Philad:
Ise 1
Old Methods of Lighting.
cans of
people wer
blowing the
but
Was Weary
often
3 wor k
with the servant who had to kindle tae
first fire if the tinder happened to be
damp or worn or the
flint and #eel “ a temper” In
athe
spat k and match to a ff
out,
"in
deed, in many honses a rushlight was
in some
burnt, so that in ease of sudden illness,
or any disasler, there might be light
ready. The rushlight having, as its
pame implies, a rash wick was about
fifteen inches long, and was burnt in a
huge perforated shade; it was the
“farthing rushliglht” which very poor
people were said to use for other pur
poses than a night-light The picture
of a half starved in her gar
ret would, in those d AVE, have been
very incomplete without the thin rudh
candle: bot its flame was so fo bie that
I ean hardly fancy anv eves could have
served to thread a needle by it
Hen st asa
The Romance of Gas. Tar,
{Cincinnati Knaqu
Prof. Fisch of Munich, has
ceeded in obtaining from distilled coal
a white eryetalline powder, w hich, as
far as regards its action on the human
stomach, can not be distinguished from
ninine exespt that it assimilates more
readily with the stomach. its eflicacy
in reducing fever heat is said to be re
markable, even rendering the nse of ice
nanecessary. The importance of such
a discovery as this consists not so much
in the actual fact achieve] as in the
etimulus given to scient.fic research by
the opening up of a new channel of in-
vestigation. The romance of gas-tar is
evidently far from being exhaus ed. In
addition to the sw ccoteat scents, the most
briliiant dyes, the most powerful dida-
fectants, and even prasde acid, are
some of the numerons and woaderiul
products of its decomposition,
ror}
auto
Goldamith's Segiectod Tomb,
{New York Herall]
There is a lonely court close to Fleot
#‘eet where the body of another poot
lies forlorn and forgotten. No railing
protects Goldsmith's tombs'one-—-no
barr.er keeps it sacred from the indif-
ferent clerks and busy lawyers who
hurry over the mouldering graves
around it. Dr. Ingleby would be doing
right good service now if Le would
situate for the disinterment of “pout
Noil's” bones. They have Iain where
they are too long already for the eredit
of the millions whom his works have
Jeligted. tis time they were better
sheltered from the weather, and
elias fitter shelter could there ba for
bom then the roof of Westmnnter
Abbuy ? ;
Chinese Medien! Treatment,
{Shanghai Cor, Globe- Democrat. }
The most absurd snperstitions are
held in regard to sickness and disease.
It is always attributed to the evil pirits
floating 1a the and when a me;
Ly ttacked with illness they
ar, her
of a family is a ;
send {i These sacred in
dividuals come attended by a full band
of music, that is to say, a hb
rth priests
several drums, and an mstr
ape, N
~~ 0 No
y can be Lag
merable pravers placed
road
¢ end of each one he
himself to the earth, ar
on a sort of easel, in large hara
ers.
trates
struments renk
cordant clamor
A womal
{
gates of ony
in a village just
I ind
nor
conrse, the o
ut the
1
well
house
‘ .
can thunk is tl
silo
(1
reioval
pos £48
the pr ests were sent for, and they |
i
been k ing it
A Wicked Joke,
2
{ nesd
iad
ertain tite he should
Then the joke r called
to the driver:
take this box to the
looks of that box
I wonder who left it
TIcan this
an dismally
ray and said
Here, Jack,
1 don’t like the
around
dee
uere,
The Lox wae placed upon the dray,
snd the dravman mounted
started for station
it half the length of
groan of
the box
beneath him, ‘The driver was not
certain that he rightly eaught
direction of the nose, but he
Ltened np on the box, the perspira-
un oozed out apon his furehead, and
¢ furze upoa his hands rose up in
ing horror at the sound.
“What dat?” he softly asked himself,
Care de _
and the
hi How
from
iy street when a
up
oop
“Umrhi-h-albi-oh<ee-nmrh-h-ah
rom the box, and the captive
ed in his gage.
‘here was a yell of awful terror--a
high in the air
full fifteen
Camo
floun-
torted eye out over each shoulder he
dod down the strect praying and snort
ing as he rin:
“0h, Lordy | O,my Heavenly Father!
Be with me, I pray! Oo, wihi-ah-ah!
De dobill like to eoteh me! My Lod
in glory! save your sufferin’ chuld I”
He stopped at last, bat it took half
an hour to get the thing explained,
and the coon in the box mquired very
particularly as to whether the drayman
was near at band before he woula con-
sent to beng released.
Mussulman Fanerals,
{Cincinnati Enquirer. |
Ag soon oi the grave is filled np each
friend plants a sprig of cypress, one on
the right and another on the leit of the
deceased. If thoxe on the right grow
the deceased will live forever, enjoy the
delights and bliss promised to all true
followers of Mohammed. If those on
the left, he would forever be excluded
from enjoying bliss in the arms of the
ravishing Houris, whose eyes are big as
the tea saopers, and Jorms as of Pavian
marble. HM both grew he would be
greatly favored in the next world; if
neither, he wonld be haunted by black
angels untd Mohammed interfered.
Inter Qcean: Fashionable young
Indien shonld not forget that Goliath
died from the effect of a bang on his
torehead,
THE COLORADO SAND DUNES,
The Tragie Mtory of Their Origin
Mirty-Meven Years Ago--The Herd.
ers’ Horrible Fate,
(3. D. Mix in Buffalk
How and when the dunes
if
| was the subject of
' Courier.)
1 + i 1
i Hiad
Vv adi
gro de Chrisso rang
with the snow-tipped
noblest and hy i]
contral
hind the Bal
was gradna'ly fadiog {from
We w s petting a fresh bree
the snow-covered mountaing
i amt 1
Lidl Loecone
fire
i
i
ind
1
CGO!
1
Ore 1008 On Ol
Dearcely
y at last came to realize what
ned, and that
a large hill of
his house had been for the past
He started immestiately to find
herders, but after searcin
wi
sal a was
when
mith
AO dave he gave them 1
had risen dur
buried the
£ om} ANICLR
and ool
feet of sand.
as the beginning of the famous =
{ nes of { olorado The
ad escaped the fate of his ecmpanion
en set oat to carry the
randfather, and after
pany bardships he at last arrived at
be hacienda and related to his master
oi] that he knew. Search was m
ar the bodies of the Mexicans who
hed there, but the »
ould sneceed in getting ten feet below
excavation made would
ompiete iv fill with the loose sand. and
the undertaking was abandoned.” After
enor Gonzalez finished bis tale we all
selves up in our blankets and
into dreamland. The next
norning after breakfast our guest got
ip his horse and, after extending a very
wird al invitation to make him a visit,
leparted fo: his own camp.
a
fifty
herder wh
news to my
cnoountening
ile
Pers
i
1 we
I@DHoOTrers
before
he surface the
i 1¢ « ony
missed off
Give the Fair Sex a Chance,
{Laramie Boomerang }
Jackson, Jefferson, Franklin and all
the other old worthies will be retained
wm stamps of different denominat ons.
t is cur.ous that the post-office officials
ave never conceived the idea of utiliz-
ng the likeness of some of the fair
sitigens of the republic in this way.
Vhy, for instance, should not a certain
woportion of the Z-ecent stamps be
z.ven to Martha Washington? Why
xeinde Mrs. Franklin from all partied
pation in the postal bonors of her
lustriots husband? Then, there is
Miss Susan B. Anthony, who has raises d
lie banner of woman suffrage in every
date in the Union. Why not put her
Jarming countenance on one of the
rostoffice stamp issues ?
Of Uneerinin Meaning,
{Pecks Bun.)
A New York paper speaks of the
drowning of “the head” yarnishor in a
piano factory.” We are willing to wear
ur head bad, becanse it is the style,
nt if it has become fashionable to have
heads varnished, that settles it. Not
any head varnish on the old man's.
They Munew the Cards,
wisville Courier-Journal. }
The Midget Sheed
pp
20% (
oss word or
. 3
*
Fi § ¢
B® .
snad of the Amazonian Mandrucans,
& Encuirer.]
from
nIopo
ripe, an
pieces,
fling
until they are
turn black
and pounded fine, the
cakes and mixed wit
some manioe flour,
a burnt shell. The
over a slow fire
taking u
as the
When the
takiog a pin he serap
yf il from bh and
all over a sano with the br
great ant He Brows
to work ryving abort
When he
enough he
Of the harpy
RPO Cake
PY eng sank-bones
of a bird like the 1 y are tied
together, and, inhaling in each nostril,
gets a good sunff. 7 affect is like a
shock from a galvanic bat!ery: his body
is all of a tremble, his Vi balls start oud
as if they wonld burst from their sock
to the ground as if in a fit of intoxica-
tion. It lasts, however, only for a mo-
ment, then he feels tip-top, and jumps
madman. He
is brave. and wants to fight, and is full
A New SGirowing Clty. 4
{Inter Ocean.)
Wew Tacoma, the western terminus
Situated on am
arm of Puget sound, it possesses a
magnificent harbor four miles in width,
which is too deep, however, for vessals
to anchor in. Lown lots sell at fabn-
lous prices, rangins from &40,000
downward, Mount Ranier, plainly dis-
cernible sixty-five miles to the south.
east, towers to the height of 14.400
foet, and is crowned by perpetual
SHON, which the foot of man ol never
Bat His Selghbor.
Mr. Spurgeon, being asked whether
a man could be a Christinn and belong
to a brass band. replied: “Yes, I think
be might; bat it wonld be a very diffi
cult matter for his next-door neighbos
to be a Christian.”