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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,