NEWS OF THE WEEK
—Near Qu’Appelle, in the North-
west Territory, on the 17th, the I’rince
Albert mail coach was stopped by a
man armed with a double-barrelled
gun. After binding the driver and the
passengers he proceeded to open the
mail-bags until he found a registered
package said to have contained $30,000,
which he took and then decamped, It
is said he was accompanied by a gang
of six men from Montana. Lewis Dick,
gently paid $1300, and kept the money
in his house, On the 19th robbers en-
tered, drugged Dick and his wife and
two children, secured the money, set
fire to the house and fled, Fortunately,
seeded in extinguishing them. The in-
mates of the house were speedily re-
stored to consciousness, with the ex-
geption of Mrs. Dick, whois in a pre-
carious condition.
—S8ix men are in jail at Wyandotte,
Kansas, charged with having wrecked
a Missouri Pacific freight train, near
By the wreck
The al-
of the
26th, during the strike.
two train men were killed.
leged wreckers are members
Board. The
H. Hamilton,
prisoners are:
recently a special po-
iceman: Robert Geers, Mike Leary,
Fred. Newport, a car repairer, C, J.
[.loyd, also a car reparver, and William
Vossen, employe of an ice firm. By
secretly getting confidence of
:he Knights of Labor, Thomas Fur-
ong, a detective of the Gould railroad
system, has succeeded in getting the
sonfession of Lloyd, and it is upon this
the arrests were made.
—Michael Viergiven
Vincent Place bridge, in
New York, the 19th. He fell a
listance of 120 feet, and struck the
water with his back, but, as no bones
ire broken, is expected
rover, Henry C, Shaffer, 25 years of
age, shot himself dead in Evansville,
Indiana, on the 19th, He left a note
:0 his employers saying **he was short
$175 in his accounts, which his wife
would settle,
—Durnng a thunder storm on .the
18th, four Indians were killed and ten
njured by lightning en Red Lake Res-
ervation in Minnesota. It is also re-
orted that a settler and his wife, on
Chief river, were killed in the same
Nay.
—4t 18 reported from Tombstone,
Arizona, that Prefect Oposura, of
sopora, Mexico, and four companions
were killed by Apaches last week while
on their way to examine mining pro-
perty near that place. They had an
ascort of fifteen. The others escaped.
It is said that eighty Indians were
seen in the fight.
—M. B. Buskirk, a dry goods mer-
chant of Clinton, Missouri, 1s reported
to have fled, taking with him all of his
available assets, amounting to about
$4000, and leaving behind him debts
amountiug to $6000, Thomas White,
John Kelly and Louis P. Saup were
arrested in Dayton, Ohio, on the 19th
on the charge of altering stolen United
States bonds,
into the
jumped off the
Rochester,
on
3 ny
ne to ie-
— Heavy rains fell during the 18th
and 19th, over two-thirds Kan-
as, Wind storms also raged at seve-
ral pla At Lakin twenty houses
were demolished and ten or twelve
wersons severely injured, At Nicker-
on eighteen houses were blown down.
A wind storm in Kearney county,
Nebraska, on the 19th, blew down a
church, and killed a woman, Nea:
Minden, a farmer, his son,
laughter were Killed by lights
~-Disosway Ludson was
of
COs,
in
ii
taken
Charleston, West Virginia, on the 20th,
mn a charge of being a party loa
gery of a pension receipt, for which H.
B. Martin was sentenced to two years
n the penitentiary, and for which N.
J. Lesher is under a bond of
somplicity. “This forzery has been
the cause of the arrest and trial of one
innocent man, W. I1. Justice; the con-
vietion of another the probable con-
viction of two more, and, in addition,
has cost the State a large sum.” In
Chicago, on the 20th, the jury in the
sage of Henry Roberts, a notorious
burglar, charged with breaking into a
aouse on North State street, announced
shat they could not agree. After this
announcement the defendant
guilty, and was sentenced to one years’
mprisonment.
~Mrs., Emilie Andre, living near
champaign, Illinois, has been arrested
an the charge of poisoning cattle by
scattering Paris green on their pasture,
One of ber neighbors lost two cows,
and a thirteen-year-old boy In her em-
ploy testified that she told him to put
he poison on the grass,
~—J1t is reported from London, Ken-
ucky, that “the French and Eversoll
‘action fought at Hazards on the 18th,
+
Ww
for.
Apa
$1000 for
The French faction hold the town.”
-—The Calispel Indians in Washing-
won Territory on the 18th, killed two
white men on the reservation. General
varlin and two companies of infantry
nave left Fort Cear d’Alene for the
scene of trouble,
~At Luling, Texas, on the 10th,
Peter Sorell, colored, aged 20 years,
who had murderousiy assaulted a Mrs,
Dukes, was visited in jail by & masked
mob and riddled with bullets, News
has been received at Santa Fe, New
Mexico, of the killing of Juan Martinez,
4 prominent citizen of La Junata, by
A Swedish tramp who stole Martinez’s
horse. In the fight the thief was also
fatally wounded, both men dying within
» few minutes of each other, James
U. Cook and Frederick Gerhard were
killed by horse thieves in Montgomery
bounty, Aamo, oh the 19th.
Henry Il, aged 15 years
and killed his sister Mattie, aged
3 in Bangor Maine, on the 18th,
"He picked up a , and, not knows
Ing that it was | , playfully point-
it at his sister,” etc. He has become
insane from the shock,
~ Hailstones as big as walnuts fell in
Winchester county, Virginia, on the
I8th. covering a tract nine miles !n
length and balf a mile in width, Veg-
station in the path of the storm was de
itreyed,
—Samuel K. Gay, the absconding
pension clerk, was brought brck to
Pittshurg on the 10th, He confesses
his guilt, but says he did not steal more
than $4,000,
— George Simmons, & reputable citi
zen of Westfield, Illinois; accidentally
shot and fatally wounded his mother-
in-law early on the 20th, mistaking her
for a burglar.
—It isreported that the revolutionists
in Tamaulipas, Mexico, have captured
a large hacienda near Mier, and robbed
Clem Bishop, aged 70
married
on the 19th, to Retta Boston, his ward,
a girl nine years of age.
backwoods doctor and
sibly without diploma or license. His
wife died two weeks ago, and the neigh-
bors theatened to take from him this
To thwart
them, he procured a license and
married. He presented a certificate
from the girl, to obtain the license,
that she was twenty-seven years of age.
The officer who gave the license sus-
wrong, and sent a
mony had been performed,’’
—The Burlington ITawkeye publishes
despatches frem Southern and Eastern
Iowa regarding the crops. With the
exception of a few light local showers,
there has been nd rain for six
Wheat and oats are nearly harvested,
The quality is good, but the yield only
about f. Corn generally
good condition, but everywhere needs
rain to crop,
I Hay
light.
one-hal is in
save Lhe
up.
— Heavy rains fell
11st, in t
Kansas.
washed away.
on the 20th
the country aroundGarden (
Several br have
ages been
— At Cunningham, Missour! Ie
20th, Maud, Cora and Anna Daven-
port were playing in a sand pit, when
the sand caved in and buried all three,
Anna freed herself and dug tl
1
AWay Lue
earth above Cora, uncovering her face,
thus allowing her to breathe and saviug
her life. The body of the other girl
she was unable to find, and she ran to
the nearest for aid. Cora was
taken out uninjured, but Maud was
dead when found.
house
—lobert Burton was killed
20th by the premature explosion o
blast in the Crescent mine, »
—3ix years ago Lewis Green, of
Columbus, Mississippi, defrauded five
mills in Fall River, Massachusetts, out
of $60,000 by forging bills of lading
aud drawing on the mills for payment
of cotton never shipped. Green fled,
but subsequently offered to compromise
at 25 cents on the dollar. This was
refused. But on the 21st the Weta-
moe, Granite, Linen and Mechanics’
Mills compromised on that basis
845,000 plus interest and
I'he Slade Mill remains obdurate,
— Near Union, Newton county.
Mississippi, a gang of young white
ruffians, styling themselves ‘‘Regula-
tors,” have issued a decree that no
negro shall work on the farms in that
vicinity. The band contains about fif-
teen members, and they have Il
negroes and wounded several
A posse of twenty citizens,
“headed by proper officers armed with
warrants,’ are in pursuit of the gang.
1 NOT
losing
expenses,
three
others,
— Frank Malloy, son of Mrs. Emma
Malloy, ‘‘the temperance evangelist
and Mrs, Jacob Stern were drowned by
the upsetting of a row boat at Laporte,
Indiana, on the 224,
—The house of Rudolph Roath, at
Conewago, I , Penna, ,
was burned on the 2lst, and two
children perish
v ’
count
1
» flames,
Lowa,
ra house and
onthe
21st, destroyed (
Hubbard's h leather store,
Loss, S40 0H i3.
fell
rains jedi
¢
i
during the 21st
in indiana, Missouri
Illinois, breaking the long drought,
— At Long Beach, New Drunswick.
on the 19th, Richard, the 4-vear-oid
son of Captain Simon Tufts, *d
ately threw the l10-month-old
Fnos Serat off a bridge into a
stream, where the little
drowned."
—Oprous
portions « and
eliber.
child of
running
fellow was
—Thomas Conway, aged 17 years,
died on the 224, at Baltimore, from a
dose of rat poison taken on the 21st,
with suicidal intent, because his rather
old him that “he must go to work and
earn to make a living for himself."
- (General Gibbon, commanding the
the
ore
of hostile Indiaus on the Yaqui river,
10 horses and several hundred pounds
of dried beef. The Indians fled in all
directions.
~Stephen Brodie, 23 years of age,
on the 23d jumped from the centre
span of the Brooklyn bridge Into the
East river. He was fished out, hav-
ing suffered only slight bruises, and is
now under arrest. It Is said he made
the fearful leap for a bet.
~Caspar Wehner, Chief Clerk in the
County Commissioners’ office at Pitts.
burg, shot himself on the 234 with
suicidal intent, He is not expected to
recover, B. G. Plummer, aged 50
years, a prominent lumberman of Wa-
seau, Wisconsin, committed suide in
his bed room on the 22d, He had lost
heavily by econ} Samer. Hes, Peter
olf, BO years o himself
in an uninhabited A 3803 hisnaelt
county, Penna., on the 21st. He was
a veteran of the Mexican war, a
“Forty-niner” in California, and a sol-
dier of the Unlon,
«fierman Jacobs and Edward
Kroncke, boys, found a closed tin box
in an alley in Chicago, on the 20th,
“Something rattled inside like money,’
and they took it to a chopping block
and struck at it with an axe, It
exploded with a report which was
heard for blocks around, and both boys
were severely wounded.
~At Lancaster, Penna., on the 23d,
James Henry, alias Charley Wise, alias
Henry Lindon, was arrested charged
with having stolen a horse in Carroll
county, Maryland, last April, and with
having burned the barn in order to con-
ceal the crime. The
years of age, and was released from the
for
he
years of a twenty-year term
writes to the Georgetown
account of affairs there,
of the flood. He says: *‘Men
houses, Thousands are in
condition where he 18 and
in the county. The
last year’s cropping
same else
where
from what they might
otherwise do. He thinks the people
are on the brink of famine, and sug-
gests the convening of the Legislature
—At Butte, Montana, on the 23d J,
W. Moore shot and killed Joseph Hen-
derson and then killed f©imself,
—Lincoln Sprole and Calvin James,
hanged
on the
’
the Iud
ders committed lu uaian
Lory.
thor
with
ber about i)
heartened and
War.
well-armed
have defeated the Gover
badly. About 200 Yaqu hi
captured and shot. The or
given to shoot all Yaquis fo
was mel by a ¢
Cajemne to kill all Mexicans,
suit is that many wore Mexicans
been killed than Yaquis.”
pebmesntbaffs
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESE
SENATE.
. 8, Senate on the 10th.
rine bill
v
i
Ys rE in
LLIN
i
Aditi,
wunter-o
have
was taken up, and
an amendment ex-
he principle of bill
ines and liquors, Mr. Harris offered
an amendment making it 1
ful to sell oleomargarine
District of Columbia or the
i it was distinctly marked ;
was rej -yeas |
Mr. Miller moved to lay
amendment on the
offered
+
the to
HAW
sete] -
table,
ynmitiee on
reported back a bill
statutes as to the mode «
sellin cut
the
back
¥ i $ t
VY RIDE
{I packit
tobacco,
Cominittes
the Pension b
on
over
> and recon
passed
4:1 # »
leration
{ing the word
| clauses, and
$
ise
1 4
sented a batch of Knights
in fav we Ok.
The ay
discussed a
Van Wyck pr
of Labor peti
laboma bill,
ip, and
ns
pe case was taken
great length.
id Teller ar-
.
Messrs,
gued e 1
gating the case, an
investigation.
ate adjourned,
In the U., S,
the re lief of
Greely expedition
lieu of
conference
fit nvestii-
. Hoar favored
Pending debate the Sen
ot
ayy oa # ws #1 ¥ 31 $is1d
Senate on Lhe 22d, a hill
for enlisted men on the
paying each 8708 in
commutation) was passed, A
report on Naval Ap.
propriation bill was agreed to, The
discussion of the Fayne case was re-
and Mr, Telit finished his
speech in opposition to investigation,
Mr, Sherman argued at length in sup-
port of an investigation and Mr, Eustis
Mr, Frye followed on the
the
In the U, 8. Senate on the 23d, the
there should be no further investiga.
tion, was then agreed to—yeas 44, nays
17. Fifteen Republicans voted with
the Democrats for the majority resoiu-
tions, The Sundry Civil bill was then
considered, its consideration being con.
tinued in evening session, Adjourned,
HOUSE
In the House on the 10th the Forti.
fications bill was passed. It appropri.
ates $020, 100,000 for the preser-
vation and rephir of fortifications and
other defences; $20,000 for continuing
torpedo experiments and for practical
instruction of engineer troops; and
$600,000 for armament of seacoast for-
tifications, providing that the imple-
ments o a pure Shazed oSiom this ap-
propriaation sha 0 merican
manufacture, Mr, Cobb, from the
Sonfgrense EE onthe Sin re.
ng the | imber and
t Land laws, reported a complete
disagreement, A further conference
was ordered. Adjourned,
In the House, on the 20th, Mr,
Willis, from the River and Harbor
| Committee, reported back the River
and Harbor Appropriation bill, with
the recommendation that the Senate
| a point of order raised
| burn, of Iowa, the bill and amend-
| ments were referred to the Committee
| of the Whole, The House then went
into Committee on the Senate amend-
{ ments to the iver and Harbor bill,
| Pending action on a motion by Mr,
mewitt the wveint of no quorum was
Hade and the committee rose,
rison called his concurrent r solu-
tion for
| gress on the 23th inst,, and
| agreed to—145 to It now
the Senate, Mr. Morrison then
up the resolution setting
up
it
goes to
called
30.
the increase of
Yeas, 102; nays,
| River and Harbor Lill was
| conference committee, The
State Commerce bill was taken up and
discussed, debate being continued in
an evening session. Adjourned,
the
47.
the bill for
Adopted,
NAVY.
luter-
In the House, on the 22d, a
Or
Mr,
prohibiting the passing of local
special laws In the Territories.
Hatch, of Missouri, from Com-
mittee on Agriculture, reported back
| “as a matter of privilege,”’ the Oleo-
margarine bill with Senate amend-
ments, Mr. Dunbam, of Ii
raised the pcint of ler that the
wus not a pnvileged one,
thererfore declined to entertain it
The House refused to consider the
Naval Increase bill,
ler { Interstate (
‘
vO 180d
the
oraer
port
i
and also refused
Lhe gmmerrce
ol
ominitiee
agreed to,
i [ to go nto {
the hole was then
2 House Ww
he revenue bills
i Lilt
a8 1n
were su
wr rd ey
y OLS Yai
8ES88I01 .
session, the I
into Committee of the Joie, an
t € Cadell
all MEASUres on
dar iu advance of Oleomargarine
bill were passed over. When 1
margarine bill was reached, Mr.
said that, though the bill bad
ported back with the recommendation
that the Senate amendments be non
concurred in, In view of telegrams and
letters which had been received by the
committee during the past twenty
hours, he had been instructed to
+s X3 i
ie revenue
the
he Olen
Hatch
been «ree
{ter
cur in all the amendments,
debate, bil amended by
Senate was reported to the House and
concurred in-—yeas 174, nays 7
BOW goes President, A
ence report on the Naval Approp:
1 to.
the
as
to the
Lill was agreed An evening session
was heid for | wngideration of pen-
i ————
FOOD FOR THOUGH
ludoe
a Ina
£ i
a i
for many a one {
ait > 3 if “
To over
meekly
Aol
The
with any fallu
never make any
reas]
stronger than ev
really good man in an ill place is
little yeast in a gallon of dough;
eaven thc mass,
Melancholy falls upon a « ontented life
ink upon white paper,
because it
(oxi is
ike a
{ can
like a drop of
which is not the less a stain
CAIries
Kindness thrown down to a man like
a crust to a dog, is like an apple falling
It ory et
10 meaning
§ '
,
on us from 3 Lop oO
though it be a good apple,
a Lree,
A lawyer is happiest when his {friends
are in trouble; a when his
friends are seriously sick: an undertak-
when his friends are dead.
1 ~e ¥
uoctor,
er,
Life one continual proges-
sion, Step by step it travels to its cli-
max, and loses a portion of its Interest
as soon as it begins to decline,
Keep thyseil at a distance from
those who are incorrigible in bad hab-
its: and hold no Intercourse with that
man who is insensible of kindness,
s#apit
Ise
| an enemy's or stranger's rebuke is in-
vective, and irritates, not converts,
The fellow that forgets a good deal
| that has happened doesn’t worry us
| half as wuch as the fellow who remems
| bers a good deal that never happened,
No man’s body 18 as strong as his ap-
petites, but Heaven has corrected the
boundlessness of his desires by stinting
his strength and contracting his capaci-
ties.
Each human being does not solely
bear its own sin, nor work out its own
retribution. Upon others near and
distant falls the debt, and it must be
paid.
To judge by the event, is an error all
abuse, and all commit; for, in every
instance courage, if crowned with suc-
cess, is heroism, if clonded by defeat,
temerity.
Thas is the prerogative and charm of
genius. It never 1s genius unless it
creates; and everything inside of that is
mere cleverness, which can be trained
or made,
We are dead to the past, which was
yesterday; we live only in the present,
which is to-day: we are unknown to the
future which is only to-morrow. Yet
we fondly remember the past, suffer on
in the present and build castles of great
ponuty in the future. We are a green
PASTIMES OF ANIMALS,
Members of the Brute Creation That
Amuse Themselves,
Dogs, though not able to gquandel
after hour seated at a window
| watching all going on in the street; or,
| in the evening, regarding a mouse hole
~not with the slightest of gain
| or profit, but merely a8 an
| means of passing the time, Then there
continued flights of tame
{ hour
cas
IER
are the long
pigeons about our houses, the
gambolling of gnats and the hovering
in the sun of those bright colored, two
winged flies we sometimes call drones,
Even the patient that beast of
many woes, 18 naturally light hearted,
his ordinary relation seldom
He
abH,
though
goes
| when off duty, but those
{ .
i kept cared for
who
and one
nition and joy at the sight of any one
| worked, joyous donkey, fond of sport,
has been known to indulge In
hunting pigs round a farm yard, catch-
even
ng and holding them DY
ie
od
ie
} afl nnt
the tall unt
their squeals brought the owner to the
out of school shows hi
ir freedom more
pony does wil
run at grass
paddock, now
and fil
art
Wi
re beginning
the amusemen
form of
heir stable
take the
some such horse
stable coat and
in their
to
0 es
sir stalls
jayful pony has
been known to indulge in pulling the
feathers out of pigeons’ tails,
me of the
Talking of pigeons reminds
4 y 11 tally Gr
igantity of small talk, gossip or scan-
1 + vie} ngs vd 54 §
juglied in by apd certain
¥
i
them
birds on retinng at nig
the day. House spar-
all vers
who
' }
IC OF De-
inning work for
starlings and rooks are
+ auch
. tisrsan hile bLirds
at su MINES. Wille IGS
nore ly always
he loves tol
s away half an
t l., gnawing a
f
WO DG, t
ilen end
vi) PAR
’
hearted dogs will
wme with a game of pitel
a di
£
.
6% Of
I have
KEDOwWn
ith one pei
the d«
$ Voy
HAIER §
beasts sp 48 mu
ier $1103 1h these
DE LIne as a0 LNese,
en a —
Making
hooseo,
ping,
hooks, cheese-1
Strain fresh unskimme
a boiler: warm it just |
i pour it u to
vhile warm add rennet enough to turn
it—a half tumbler strong
water to six quarts of milk will proba
bly be sufficient, but it will very much
of
Keep the tub covered with
more: the tub, and
rennet
of
depend upon the strength the ren-
net- water,
be only
the
ene
a hlanket where the milk will
blood-hot,
curd lu
use
and if in
not formed,
more is absolu
or the cheese will have a
As as the curd is
gently into cakes without
hour
more
an
18 add I
net; no than tely
Necessary,
strong taste.
formed cut it
moving them; this will cause the whey
S000
to rise: cut it across slowly and gently;
pass the knife around between the tub
and curd, Cut it again in ckecks an
| ipch apart. Remove the whey as it
rises, tut do not disturb the curds,
| Cover the tub a quarter of an hour.
run off with the whey and leave the
looks green the process is proceeding
satisfactorily. After the tub has re-
maimed covered fifteen minutes set the
basket partly over the tub; spread the
cloth (for strainer) over it, and dip the
curds into it; shake the cloth to hasten
the dripping. Gather the ends of the
cloth up recurely, and put a weight
upon the curds for a quarter of an
hour. Break up the curds again with
the hand, and press again, Now salt,
using half a tablespoonful of salt to a
pound of curd. Spread a thin cloth
in and over the press; lay ia the curds,
a litle heaped in the centre; pack it
down tightly, The cloth should be
large enough to allow the corners to
cover the top of the cheese well; lay
upon it a heavy weight; let it remain
two hours; cut up the curds; lay in the
press a dry thin or gauzy cloth; put the
curds agam in the press. Repeat this,
without again breaking the curds, three
or four times a day until tie last cloth
looks dry; then use a fine linen cioth
wrung out of hot water; wrap this
’
If firm enough (if not
H
it; put in a hoop, Keep it in a hoop
i
a cheese-board or shelf and rub it
butter every day for a week, For
months
WAS
}
it on
grease it occasionally
very rich cheese, add to th
the cream of the
These rich cheese
need coloring, but for
annatto, and a little
mix
which it 1s g
es————
The Mouse Plague of Brazil
In the colony of Lourent
the months of May and
mice suddenly appeared
number They invaded
fields in such great num!
corn literally seemed alive
few
that was edible; and
before,
were carried away and
low trees, or other
ise, Gourdsand p
hardest, were
Of green
1s, barley, not i
ese long
amazing.
hundreds were killed
The cats could cont
plague,
the rats so
fia} rip b o
gating such a
were f
many of
would have been an
it by their great n
» cats aclu
$riTey 11
via G
sLone
or
from their destructiveness.
othes, hats, books-
the traces of their te
the hoofs of the cows
the stables, literally ate up fa
nd often bit away the hair «
wg sleep. They penetrated
apartments and gnawed thei:
§
nd walls of
ough boards and
ches that were dug
ot suffice; the mice
y other 11
tha
#4
egoing account of
in lLourenco will
extent
to what an the
The same province had
‘ Ta .
i Again in AT
plagues
a0
1
tl
have occurred
1e fleld mice ul
in greatly inc:
well think wh
t were these little, ali
cant creatures everywhere in s
. +1
4 . wy vad S #8
we take lhe ascenqancy.
1 that
considers that on an
‘ '
One or two Im
Average
mnths five to
are born, and that these yo
mature in a few months
will not be surprised {
single pair of common eld
course of a single summer,
crease to 23,000 individuals,
the conditions which now keep them in
check be removed, every living thing
would be consumed
a half dozen years,
Could all
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upon the earth ig
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Diamonds
as iiltle rodne
brownish
Diamonds are found
pebbles covered with a thin,
and When
this brown coating is taken off they are
colorless, butsomeare found tinged with
red, orange, brown or black. Those
without any color are the most wvalua.
ble, and called “diamonds of (he first
water.” Diamonds were first found in
India and the Island of Borneo. The
most celebrated mines of India are
those of Golconda and Roalconda,
But most of these stones imported into
Europe and America now come from
Brazil, where they were discoverad by
semi-transparent
1t is now principally carried on by the
Jews at Amsterdam. Perhaps the
most precious diamond in the world is
the “Pitt Diamond,’ which was bought
in 1743 by the regent Duke of Orleans,
who paid $600,000 for it. The stone is
pow valued at $1,000,000. The cutting
occupied two years, and reduced the
weight from 410 to 136 carets. The
Empress Catherine paid $450,000 and a
large annuity for a diamond weighing
194 carats, and about as large as a pig.
eon’s egg.
The best things are nearest; Lreath
in your nostrils, light in your eyes;
flowers at your feet, duties at your
hand, the path of God just before you.
Then do not grasp at the stars, but do
life's plam, common work as it comes,
certain that daily duties and dally
bread are the sweet things of life.
Modesty is very becommg mm a fool,
but it makes a man agspear like a fool,
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