r THE NOBLE RED MAN. Wome of the Civilized Notions Which He Has Acquired, {Cor, Boston Post.) At Amargo. a station on the ; reservation, I had an opportunity to in- spect the dreaded redskin on his native heath. ‘I'he: about fifty of them, men, women and children, around the dept ft. As soon as the train came tO a stop, they made a rush for the news agent, and bought nearly his en- tire stock of apples at exorbitant prices. It is an amusing sight to watch an Apache devour an apple. His facial expression 18 one of supreme happi- Ness, Scalp taking and apple eating appear to be their chief accomplishments. Their dress was a mixture of white man’s and Indian's. The long, straight, black hair was parted in the middle and tied up—a switch on the back of his head. This was adorned with gay feathers. Their shoulders and chests were covered with bright colored blan- kets. Their legs were encased in pan- taloon legs. receives a pair of pants sent by the Great Father, proceeds at once to cunt ov" "Yio seat. pantaloon legs were bound on to them by bands of red, white and 1 They WOre moccasins or nothing at all. I tried to negotiate with an aged worthy who, by the Way, bore the repn- tation of thirty or of Anachs a These '. 21 blue cloths. either asked hi price to *' continu En unt he lot The re; tion Among i mother, his COL/e 1 tion of much fog the no ters his complain Savs he: “They me ‘bad dian.’ ! my wi too asic) killing my pap; too, but it cried sleep Iam" dian.”” Light-Houses Ancient and Modern. [Demorest’s Monthly, ] The first | the stor: am a hil andl zlass, dashing force ag she panes, susizugh A Story of George Peabody. {Pall Mall The proceed of the Li hivened | well-kn books.” sumor some literary anecdotes, whi as he s generally to be net wi hese late Mr. George Peal ody 18 too not to de £rve 2 wider circulat : wnt phil. snthropist, anxious “to do something in t literary way" for his native city, Bos- lon, applied to Mr. Stevens for advice. “How are books?” inquired Mr. Pea body, as if they were stocks and shares. “What can I get 3.000 volumes for?” “Well,” replied his adviser, “you ean get them at a shilling a volame or a pound a volume.” “Then I will have them at a shilling a volume,” was the answer; and he forth- with commissioned the book savant to ocure and have delivered to him at Pe well bound, in good condition, charge, 3,000 volumes for the same number of shill ings. This was in due course accom- plished and the munificence of the donor lost nothing by the fact that a mistaken secount of the transaction afterward found its way into the newspapers, de- scribing how the library had been selected and founded at a cost of £1 per volutue, One of b wk 8. fa reias snd free of A Rieh Deposit. The finding of a great belt of phos. phates in North Carolina is announced in 8 communication to Bradstreet's. The deposit has been traced a distance of nine miles, and an observer believes they extend a distance of thirty or forty miles on each side of the northeast brauch of Cape I'ear river, PREMONITIONS OF DANGER. A Railvoad Eungincer Gives Hix Ex. perience, [Washington Critic.) “A fortnight or so ago I was on | way to the far west, traveling on no | through Baltimore & Ohio expres | & bright Sunday morning berth and was starding still. and poe Pe d out. I awoko alized that the * a’: I raised the curtain The sun well up in the heavens, wd the train stood in a { dense wood, away from living i creature, It did not for som | time, and I arose, made my toilet, and went outside. The train stood partial on a long trestle-work or open bridge, and I could see smoke rising ten | end of the structure furthest from us. { I walked ont past the locomotive and { on the bridge, where I met a number of | gentlemen talking. ! “““What's the matter? I in juired of one, ‘Oh, a section of the bridge has burned,’ replied the gentleman. “Lucky the engineer saw the fire in time to us,” I remarked, down into the water below, and dering at the thought of up, in a sleeping-ca , in the cha | yawned for me, “‘But the eng any fire when he my Wi any move y from Save gazing shu i pile sm that being BAVS he didn’t see stopped,’ excel 110 mn my engi I almo » no explanation ie trainmen who cam all over the s all right, 1 ong the train. Nothing appeared ‘Then I walked down the track front of the engine When 1 had 1e less than a hundred feet, and be- id the rays of the he adlight 1 ran tgainst a box ear! It stood right ont n front of the engine, full on the track. I'he switch had been loft open and the wind had skewed it out. It was loaded with carbon oil. Had I not seen it wores of persons would have bx «hn killed and burned. Wants It “Done Srown” [Chicago Herald. | Flood, the California millionaire, is going to ship brownstone all the way from New York for his new San Fran- cisco palace. This will be an innova tion in which health and comfort are to be sacrificed to style. Brick o1 stone houses in ‘San Francisco are simply uninhabitable because of their coldness and dampness, but Mr. Flood believes that brown stone alone ean give the solidity and dignity necessary to such a palace as he means to build. By the way, it should not be forgotten that Mr. Flood used to keep a saloon and attend his own bar. His tastes are. therefore, necessarily cultured and wsthetic, A Point in Peanuts, It is reported that attempts will be mada next season to raise peanuts on land that can be irrigated. The ero was a feilure in many parts of the sout Wiis year on account of the drought, Jeff Davis' Capture, A son of Gen. Albert Bi Iney John. ston, who was eaptured Jeflerson gives the vorsio iair nan tderviey “Linth.' publisl d 1m Cincinnati Enquirer Now I did see the Mr. Davis. The first thing Mr. Davis he was sitting I'here were tents i wis under guar I, and gtate of mind, i to the effect that nt Be 124 «1. Xi 5, not pinioned by wonld have thrown the seonndrel from his horse.” Mr. Davis had lon that told me how to thirowa man yn ¢ horse. He said that if yon would take the liorse by the bralle and him a jerk, and at the same t ever so light a foot of the rider, npward push together would edly throw him on his head, So 1 sup- that remark meant that have tried t {fick on countryman who saized . “Did Mr, Davis have sny disguise on on slong with following i with not said he, been hefore movements that the werk an undoubt- he the 1 pose is wonld “1 believe that Mrs wile rpre of over | had f 1 sort of bro Davs did throw Saoral of us these to find Will sy ernteh and alr t br off. t np the sireet vy wuts uiind 1 elevator URAL eve he « head his hip pocket, and he is fixie improved shot tower in our Civilizing the Bralimins, Pre # ww can never beeon wrding to our sb tl i lose their old religic faith is so interwoven with the ti their every-day life that they are free from it for a moment. By fluence they still plow with an iro stick, reap with a sickle and thresh grain beneath the feet of oxe gives them no iden of right and wr according to our standard. It cates child n gros and the terro whood ; it fosters female of female depravity and worthlessness. In short it is a vas! improvement over fotichdam and Parseeism, but it falls short of the real needs of mankind, and it is only through this foreign missionary work and its support that these poor, be- down-trodden and heart Paul Pioneer Ar: wil nin cide by its doctrine active nighted, out of this utter darkness into the light of truth and happiness, The God of the Bedstead, [Chigngo Herald.) The principal idol of Chinese women is the God of the Bedstead, whizh they worship religiously until the youngest child is 15 years of age. This god consists of a rice bowl, with two pieces of red ribbon laid on the bottom of it, two cakes of yeast, and twelve leaves, culled from as many diferent trees. The god is kept on a shelf, either above or under the bed, sccording to the fancy of the worshiper, and is appealed to at least twice a month by the woman and Ler children, wa ssm— A Paroxysmal Winter, {Bxchange.) Professor Cather. of Alabama, makes bold to predict that the coming winter will be very cold and early, and *'phe- nomenasl for its paroxysmal spells of heat, succeeded by intense cold,” Twn Ways of Doing It, { St Paul Ploneor Press.) A onl brats d Singer told me this wook y stories of the elder Be When arepa first came to this sha walled at the Bennett mu wented a letter of she bronght from nnett country ion and pre- netion w hi { h Mrs aett, who was a dre aitficent soc) 8 hi 2 “ 1 Bennett, father: the res pleasure *, but Parepa bridled per- imimed earnestly: me! You surely mistake. Tdo not come to ask the pro- tection of The Herald, but ouly to pre- went a personal letter of introduction is.” Cot and embarrass lowed, straint Mi all was sho ave a word iil both i ad, Another When Madame Gazzanizea, £ ! time, Wis iii Be nrniett i an } i singer o ner Londoners Dress, After Nineteen th tery, , didu’t gh to vard, he ¥, 10 it they're ith saya have n out of $ : tation sf deed, but the man de wuld have nothing to do with them or their cemetery, and that be “would rather be buried in Potters’ Fields” And so this consistent cham pion of the oppressed turned tothe less he Stove v clared he wy [Progress in Medioation, {British Quarterly Review, ! Since the time of our fathers great changes have taken place, all in the di- number of drugs administered. Doses are getting smaller, pills are dwindling in size, and powders are growing so beautifully less as to suggest at no distant period their final and blessad extinetion without hope of res. urrection. Drops are substituted for tablespoonfuls, and effervescing salts for the black draught of still blacker mone ory. The whilom bolus, monstrous in size and nastiness, is an extinet type of physic, and what pills still survive in dwarfed form cover their nakedness in coats of varied hme, or present theme selves in the seductive guise of bonne fide sugar plums, Numberless are the ways and forms in which now-a-days the horrors of physic coutrives to hide itself, Reeklens Horsemanship. Inter Ocean.) ly in the n 8 ORI Orning wero invored wi i Lip which he stations at there BRPPORT all knot of natives a boy, mounted and fulls WOT ain ) d birimm Vs plea i133 face, Fn Iver hi extended ather, the obiect of 1 18 8 o be to protect him from rust. He was adked if werd of sheen grazing near. and ' tiie indig that he Ow} i] ity responded that he did not VAs 4 cowboy, “Let us x os ou lasso th nothun’'! The boys + “ie it cow, th the train we pe ny le of the track, xd, horse Was al i i rider made a da si, going ahead of 1 train Gradually as train got grained n its oppo: The Crash of Worlds, $e ing day and said for the perfor Hold yourself pretty stiff when the eap is draw Then youn will go down straight and won't dangle. It's very uncomfortable to dangle and yon will find the stiff method preferable.” Prison Morality. Chicago Herald. | A man who was convicted of theft and sentenced to the state prison in Philadelphia the other day astonished the judge by making these pointed re- marks in court: “I worked three vears in your state prison making shoesy and I know as much about making shoes as 1 do about watches. They tanght me to be dishonest. My principal work was to paste leather and pasteboard to gether to make a thick sole to impose on the public. The man who had the contract was a Christian, a member of the church, and at the time I called his attention to the pasteboard business he was foreman of the grand jury. What Mis Idea Was {Ban Francisco Balletin] A New York merchant was speaking of a gray-haired comrade who had just married a third wife. “I ean’ ander- stand it," he said. “I am a widower myself, but my idea has always been that if a man's first wife suited him, he wonldn't expect that another could fill her place, and of she did not suit him, Le wouldn't want ancther to Gill i” The hin In meinnehol He chanes ug W hows An Old Phy A Piea for Little Men, LE (ins the Nerious Wants, 3 atile to i ro! aid "hecom The Authorship of “Old Grimes” Chicago 1 ¥ n sity janguet.” Ih nteated claim OF Wis a nt of during the preside ight. In those days the janitor of lie mstitution was an charac- ter, who wore “an old brown coat,” and was called by the students Professor of Dust and Ashes. He disd, and the claim is that one of the college rhym- sters wrote the lines in question, which were sung by a lot of heartless students who assembled for that purpose on the roof of the college building. studs 0 10) i Pr. l eccentric A Useless Mabie [Chicago Times | The act of putting a lead pencil to the tongue to wet it just before writing, which is habitual with many people, 1s one of the oddities for which it is hard to give any reason—unless it began in the days when peneiis were poorer than now, and was continued by example to the next generation. A lead poneil should never be wet, It hardens the lead and ruins the pencil. This fact is known to newspaper men and &* .uoge raphers, A Warning, [Inter Oooan.] A Doston editor became “a walking encyclopedia of historical and bios raphical knowledge” snd then died. "eople should not try to be encyolope- dias unless they expect to be svon laid’ on the shell,
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