A MARYLAND ESTATE.
How the Negroes Were Provided for
--Their Allowance of Food and
Clothing.
Fred Douglass, in his autobiography,
thus describes the management of a
Maryland estate, in the times of slavery :
“The men ana the women
Col. Lloyd's farm received
monthly allowance of food ei
of pickled pork or their 29
fish. The pork was often t nted 1
the fish was of the poorest quality
herrings —which wonld bring very little
if offered for le northern
market. J air pork or fish they
had onel ited,
of which 1
to feed }
pound of sal
the entire monthl
grown slave, working
open from
every day in the
and living
quart
1¢ 81
The vearly
f two
slaves
as
hit 1 ounds
went
On
t
an meal, unb
ial
field
on i
Ff Of §
sisted of
the coar
two pairs of
and or
One
one pair
apparel eo
FS a
fans to cool
alabaster
COACHES Wi
ph tons, bal
silver-mounte
fine horses.”
Co : i lmes
Wf
i
Tk i
A Scbhmarine Balloon.
vatory. or
will sink people to the
f the Mediterranean shore waters
they njoy the
which will
re natural
aquaria there to be seen. It is a bal
Joon of steel, with three compartments
one for the actuating me hanism and
heating bladder, one fo
and one for the passengers, to the num-
ber of eight. There are glass windows
for looking ont at the fishes, shells and
weeds, and the height of the balloon in
the water is regulated at will by means
of a collapsible bladder. A telephone
connects the balloon, which 1s captive
and can not float away, with the shore
or a boat above.
r the captain,
Cunning Conjurers, | §
[Chicago Times)
The performances by the Davenport
brothers and other spirits are clamsy
compared with the acts of the far north-
west Indians. The conjurors are legion
that will permit themselves to be
bound, not merely hand and foot, but
the whole body swathed with thongs,
withes, ropes and rawhides, and after
ward tied up in a net, and then release
themselves almost instantly on being
placed in a little “medicine lodge” of
skins, constructed for the purpose, the
bonds being ti through an
opening in the top, w ithout a knot being
apparently disturbed.
irown out
The Coming Trotter
(New York Tribune. ]
When the world sees a trotter eover
a mile in one minute and forty seconds,
a feat pccomplished by more than one
thoroughbred, it will see a wholly new
type, so different from the present ani
mul that the theory of evolution will
never stretch far enough to cover the
prodigy. —
A Fortune Waits,
A fortune awaits the man who will in
vent a penholder that you can't stick
into the muecilago-bottle, and a muecilage
brush that won't go into the inkstand.
There is a man in New York who
manufactures diamonds for actresses ta
Jose, They are sold at so much a quart.
Louise,
Republican}
Courngeous Frincess
Montreal Cor. SBeranton (Pa
Her roval highness is very fond of
yunshine, and the early morning visitor is
welcomed by flinging back the curtains
‘the first thing of the day.” Every
morning before breakfast the princess
takes a walk of three miles over the
state of the government house and the
ond beyond, walking briskly over the
snow in winter, aided by a cane and ac
sompanied by a favorite dog. She is
1d of skete and
han other accomplishments, but she 18
the Germans call a no ybhle house
the kitehe [i overy
for the
did not at
her lady
who wet
hing painting
day
ome’
yore used to the expression of supreme
1
wills,
Like
IINCESS 18
wotio the
ered, and the se
to thin!
een in tl
ODO,
vants
Lemp
were taken iil of
r defect
Uraing
The Races of Corn.
Raisins Better than Wine,
experience
testime wo know of
none better from medical and
commend thoughtful con
sideration of : :
habit of resorting to *'
thy stomach's sake.”
v
my
Source
we
signs of Longevity
Chieago Herald
Lord Bacon, g«
obsery
nerally regarded as
the keenest er and profound at
thinker who has appeared an this
planet, wrote much on longevity. His
signs of short life are quick growth,
fair, soft skin, soft, fine hair, early cor
pulence, large head, short neck, small
mouth, fat ear, brittle, separated teeth
Some of his signs of long life are slow
growth, hard, coarse hair, rough,
freckled skin, deep furrows in the fore-
head, firm flesh with veins lving high,
wide nostrils, large mouth, hard, gristly
oar, strong, contignous teeth He adds
that early gray hair is not significant,
the livers having
turned gray in early life.
some of longest
But with Dignity.
{ wo Tribune, |
has lately joined the
militia, practicing in Lis shop: “Right,
left, right, left. Four paces to the rear,
march !”-—{alls down trap door into the
cellar, Groeer's wife, anxiously: “0,
Jim, are yon hart?” Grocer, savagely,
but with dignity: “Go away, woman,
what do you know about war?”
so —————
Mormon Growth,
[Chtieago Herald, )
According to Mormon figures, in the
last six months 781 Mormons have died,
2,300 Mormon children have besa born,
and the Utah membership numbers
127.264, distributed in 25,000 families,
The most astounding item is the num
ber of new members, 48,040, an increase
of 20 per cent.
Lane
‘ 1
(roc er, Wao
Fuller: Chose such pleasures ns ro
create much and cont little,
“OLD HICKORY'S'' FARWELL.
Andrew Jackson's Last Hours in the
White House.
[Joaquin Miller. }
How many strange, old-new
ne finds down here among these an-
sient people! And how curious
relies of days “before the war, sah.”
In the last month of President Jack-
administration, he called
voung artist, whom 1 am not
to name prow, to
stories
many
BON 8 in a
itted
1s
YOUung
Del
do a miniature of
leceased on "hi
wile Ivory
but 19 and the
Lin
oldie:
Jalan
18 to have taken
from the letter
pre served
Jackson's
I'he
admin
artist
work on
» hero
and lool
aoncern
1 He roon
general's
vas the one on the 1
at the head of the
artist—now
cons
Wor:
wtely
Ty
Pha
ind eminent in
surrounding him.
¢ xl on his own hoofs
a bed of M arshal
$
Gry 3
Non
in th
Neil roses; in
was the customary lemon
sted in his small tal
He was pr
moun
5
anvthir i
1
, was duals
the alth of the
was duly dn
champag:
ng in
A Perpetunl Cloek.
{Chicago Time
uales oa brake that st GY 4 thins
to start ar
ins gone dowy a J
i the clock was 1
y, after having
nine consecutive
it iree Win
tile.
ne
been in
notion for months,
Queer Oil Springs,
New York Sun. }
“Venezuela has boiling oil springs,
California has got an oil
w a drop of oil 1 the dark of
and Wyom has oil wells
tanks, and
Capt. Jared
county, in the
He has just re-
yvoars tour of inves-
tigation of alleged oil fields in Mouth
America, on the Pacific coast, and in
other loecalitios,
springy that
BOM.
own
sce ‘em all”
Ven ae
Aster honse rotunda
The Right of Conquest,
{Arkansaw Traveler.)
“Why do yon make such a fare in
taking that medicine #7 asked a wife of
her husband. “Yota pour it down
Tommy."
“Yes, because I an stronger than
Tommy, HM Tommy were strevgor
than 1, he would doubgless pour it dvwn
5
we.”
“ABBY CRIED AND JACK CRIED’
How a Carrier Boy Fell In Love with
8 Little Whitehead,
Detroit Free Press.
It has been going on for a
Jack fh Currier
and his ciren
soeott
year pas
for one of the daili
takes
One
11 3 in a house
day Jast
baby crowed at him from an open
on that street, and Jack tossed
into the hi ic next
VAR Wil
g. §
dra natic
a degre
On the Wrong Foot.
(Norwalk Hour)
A little Norwalk boy got a sliver in
a motion to poultice the
wonnd, made by his mother and seconded
hia foot, and
by his was carried in
spite of his objections. He kicked
creamed, and protested that he wonld
submit to any such indignity, but
the maj against him was two to
one. and the poultice was made ready
It was arranged that the grandmother
should apply the po iltice while the pa-
tient's mother stood
stick with authority and 1
apply that alsof he made
of resistance
When all was ready the youngster was
placed on the bed and operations be-
gan. As the hot poultice touched the
boy's foot, he opens « his month to say
something, but his mother, with the
stick, awed him into silences, gain
the boy strove to make himself heard,
and again the upraised stick warned
him to be quiet. In a few short min
| utes the poultice was firmly in place,
and the boy was tacked up in bed, there
to remains until the medicine had done
ita work, As the urchins tormentors
| moved away, a shrill, small voice from
| under the vedelothes
“You've dot it on the wrong foooti”
grandmother,
¥
Hos
over
the least show
American Ways,
{Chioago Tribune |
London is fast adopting American
manners. There are now seven hotels,
each to contain 1.000 bedrooms, in
course of construction in that eity.
Many rith London people prefer boards
DUEL WITH A SHARK.
A Hanaks Kills no Shark ina Hand.
to-Hand Encounter.
Faquirer,)
d to
"San Francisco Cor
Fyory soul on board erowds
sides 4 tnens the duel. It
to be to the d {Ine ot
the combat The
avid
anis
How Pretec
baked rap
I'he
regulation
steamn pret
(ig
word pretzel nea
that it
after being boiled
backed and placed in a box, is dri
The soft predzel is not a «
able COMMOGIEY Indeed, it be
inedible after two or three days
the hard steam: pretzel is as impen
able hard-tack, and a delicas
even at the mature age of six montl
ms made of eras
steam.
as in
is.
Marvvicd for Keeps,
{Ts
The skipper of a coal
Baltimore Ohio canal
cided after mature delibera
earefnl consideration, to
cook who iad been a tried and
servant to him for quite a
his perilous tr Ips on the storm-lashe
canal. So he spoke “to bor about ti
matter one day, and after securing |
coy consent, he ordered the boat tie
up at a small town, and, being a pr
tical skipper, skipped up street alt
The nuptial knot was
tied], the parson beaten down to a
lar and a hall for his fee, and the:
canal boatman said:
“Well, Melindy, we are married far
keeps, now. Weare hitched far life,
and must pall together. Pm a littla
Jorb-handed to-day, and ag that lead
mule has got saddle galls on his back
you jist take the tow path, and lead him
down to Harper's erry, an’ I'll steer,
an’ kinder ruminate on some plan to
give you work on the boat without going
ashore in the mad. I've got a power
ful wight more respect for you now, that
youre my wife,”
sas Niftings)
boat
Ie
on
rithy
a
number
jr “Om.
By the Mississippi overflow of last
vear Louisiana claims to have been
damaged to the extent of $60,000,000,
A possession of honesty by somo peos
ple makes us think of a blacksmith with
a white wlk apron on.
+
Fapensive Mateh Mafes,
fHhonton Budget}
thor
Tif«
OG
any
sived
1 the
Thm
Josh
aid of
0 every lin b
intricate engravin his fact
iwonught to the attention of th depart
ment not long ago.
The statutes forbid any
‘3
i
imitation of
¢ currency of the country for the pu
poses of advertisement. ’
generally understood.
brewer
ard
1%
A New
recently devised a business
in the shape of a plate with sev.
eral bills of different denominations
lying upon the plate, being held
down by a gold and a silver coin.
He had emploved regular bills as the
X and the result is
What portions of
y the careless piling
They were re-
hography and then
: originals, Tha
plates were al zed, and the brewer
notified that he was a violator of the law,
although hig intent was innocent
This discovery has sel the officials to
thinking. With the right kind of paper
any skillfal photo-livhographer could get
up millions in & very short time. To
guard against the danger and to provide
means of detecting such counterfeits arg
as yel wn oived problems,
b
H
1
Pamping Out the Nea.
The Dutch at one time thought of
sumping ont the Zuyder Zee, and asked
Mr. Bookwalter, of Ohio, for an esti.
mate for turbine wheels to be worked
by the tide. They wanted 100 tare
bines, which wonld bave cost $2,000
each. The work may vet be done.
The total oulflow of all the mineral
waters of Francoe is estimated at 10,08
gallons per minute.