—Dr. Ralph L. Stone, 22 years of
age, committed suicide in his room in
the County Hospital at Brooklyn, New
York, on the 5th,
—A slight shock of earthquake was
felt on the 8th at Reno Nevada.
—Near Indiana, Penna., on the 8th,
five masked men entered the house of
George Smith, and, holding a revolver
to his head, forced him to give up five
thousand dollars in gold which he had
concealed in the house. Smith's wife
and a hired man were in the house at
the time, but all were cowed by the
yobbers, Frederick Reger was arrested
in Chicago onthe 8th on several charges
of robbery. He has been identified as
the perpetrator of three jewelry rob-
beries, two of them committed re-
cently. One of his methods, it is said,
was to throw pepper in the eyes of the
person he wished to rob. Frank Hart,
the colored pedestrian, was arrested in
Boston on the 8th, on the charge of
having embezzled $700 of the gate re-
ceipts of a recent walking match in that
city. Five of the mounted police at
Regina, in the Northwest Territory,
have deserted and carried off the pay
of a troop amourting to $2000.
—AnotLer weather prophet bas arisen
in the shape of “Professor Foster, the
meteorologist,” who publishes in the
Burlington Hawkeye a prediction of *‘a
great storm period extending from De-
cember 4 to 17, during which will oc-
cur some of the most destructive
winter storms of recent years.” ‘‘These
storms,” he says, ‘*will be much of the
same nature as the great blizzards of
last January. Heavy storms and high
winds will greatly impede railroad
travel,” and he advises the rallways “to
prepare for blockades that will occur in
the Western States about December §,
and reach the Eastern States December
9.” There will also be “‘energetic elec-
trical disturbances that will affect tele-
graph and telephone lines,”
—Lyman A. Hill and Charles Niles,
deputy sheriffs, were shot dead on the
8th, by one of the two Poachers, whose
dogs they were about to capture, in
Hemenway township, on the Machias
river, Maine. The murderer was about
35 years of age, his companion 50. Both
escaped.
—JIce a quarter of an Inch thick
formed at Lynchburg, Virginia, on the
night of the 7th. The snow is three
inches deep in the neighboring moun-
tains,
different times attacked ard wounded
four colored men, one of them fatally.
He then, accompanied by his brother,
Albert, fled to the cane brakes. A
Sheriff and four deputies are in pursuit.
The fugitives are armed with *'six or
gight pistols and shot guns.”
Greiner, an American ranchman, and
cans opposite Del Rio, Texas, on the
Bth.
Further trouble is antici-
Greiner owned a ranch in
also killed.
pated.
Mexico.
—Jt is stated that more than 1000
cattle in Jasper and Christian counties,
Indiana, are afflicted with pleuro-pneu-
monn, and that the disease 1s spreading
rapidly, The malady was
from Northern Ohio by spring calves
about three weeks ago. .
—'There were several incendiary fires
in Salem, Massachusetts, before day-
light on the 9th, which caused an ag-
loss of about $20,000. The
principal building of the Portland
Stoneware Company,s Works, near
Portland, Maine, was burned on the
oth, Loss, $50,000; insurance, $22,900.
Sixty-five men are thrown out of em-
gan, was burned on the 8th. Loss, $25,-
000; insurance, $30,000.
-—The official vote of Ohio gives
Robinson, Republican, 340,805; Mc-
Bride, Democrat, 329,314; Smith, Pro-
hibition, 28,657; DBonsal, Greenback,
1902. Rotipson’s plurality, 11,581.
In 1884 Robinson’s plurality for Secre-
tary of State was 11,242. The rest of
the Republican State ticket has plurali-
ties ranging from five to six thousand
grates than the head of the ticket.
he combined majorities in the Con-
Districts will exceed the
head of the ticket about 10,000. The
total vote in the State is a little over
700,000.
—Jesse H. Lord, one of the contrib-
utors to the Scientific American, was on
the 10th found lying on the ve of
his wife, in @ cemetery, at Hartford,
Connecticut. He had shot himself in
the head, inflicting a fatal wound, He
was 55 years of age.
—Near Manne, Kansas, on the 5th,
Samuel Purple shot and killed his wife,
their babe and another child, and
wounded his sister-in-law and attempted
to a third child. He then
started for the house of his wife's par-
ents, but an alarm bad been given by
his sster-indaw, and, seeing himselt
frustrated, be went to Jetmore and
gave himself up to the authorities.
the 8th he was taken from the jall
by a mob and lynched. At St. George
de la Beauce, Quebec, on the 9th, a
number of young roughs aitacked a
intle, in his -own
— & telegram from Raleigh says the
Senate of North Carolinas *‘stands 27
straight Democrats, 3 Independent
Democrats and 20 Republicans. The
House, 54 straight Democrats, 9 Inde-
pendent Democrats and 57 Republicans.
No labor candidates were elected,
—A train on the Ducktown branch
of the Western North Carolina Rail-
road was wrecked on the 10th by the
spreading of the rails. Three men and
a woman were injured.
—It 18 reported from Plymouth,
Michigan, that David Smith, O. Me-
Guyan and Hugh Stewart have been
poisoned by drinking beer furnished by
Smith. The latter is dead, the others
mm a critical condition. It 18 sad
Smith put poison in the liquor. Al-
exander Goldenson, aged 19 years,
shot and killed “Mamie” Kelly, aged
14, in one of the streets of San Fran-
cisco, on thel0th, Thegirl was ‘‘deeply
in love with him,” and he gave as a
reason for the shooting that he “was
thoroughly tired of her.” Polk Hill,
colored, who killed Dewee Bolton, of
Courtney, Texas, on election night,
was captured on the 10th, while asleep
in a cabin near Brenham, “He had
eluded the bloodhounds by rubbing his
boots with tobacco.” To avoid lynch-
ing he was lodged in the jail at Cam-
ron.
—When the mail train north on the
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Rall-
road arrived at Dubois, Penna,, on the
11th, the ear inspector, while passen-
gers were getting on and off the cars at
the depot, discovered three Sintiiie
bombs and caps fastened under the
springs of the rear coach. “The bombs
were carefully removed, and there were
many pale faces among the passengers
when they learned the terrible fate they
had so narrowly escaped. The train
starts from Punxutawney every mora-
ing, and it is undoubtedly at that
place that the bombs were placed under
the springs, as it only makes short stops
between there and Dubois. 1t is twenty
miles from the place of starting and
how it was possible for a train to run
that distance over short curves with
that amount of dynamite and caps
under the springs of a coach is a mys-
tery.” Thirty-four persons.were in the
coach. The matter will be investigated.
—William Stephenson and George
Havens, injured by the Forcite Powder
Works explosion at Lake Hopatcong,
New Jersey, died ou the 10th. The
other two, John Rogers and John
| Faucher, are in a precarious condition.
| The boiler of a draining machine in
| Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, ex-
| ploded on the 10th, killing Gabriel
| Burroughs and dangerously injuring two
other men, The boiler was hurled a
distance of an eighth of a mile.
| ward J. Routley, Willlam Walsh and
{ Joseph Young, fishermen, are believed
{to have been lost in the recent gale,
off Manitoulin Island, Lake Huron.
—Russell Blackstone, aged 17 years,
| hanged himself in the cellar of hs
father's grocery at Berlin, Wisconsin,
jon the llth. “Despondency’’ 13 as-
signed as the cause,
~The house of Reuben Baker, at
Latrobe, I'enna., was completely wreek-
td on the 11th by an explosion of natu-
ral gas, The pipes had just beep con-
| family were In the house at the time.
| The loss is about $10,000.
—Dr, Cyrus Edson, Chief Inspector
of the Health Department of
| York City, on theevening of the 11th
exhibited before the Society of Medical
Jurisprudence, a hog full of measles,
twin pigs rotten with cholera, and a
| barrel of “bob veal,” all seized on the
| 11th while being taken into New York
| for consumption by its citizens,
~The director of the Mint estimates
i
1
lars in pennies are now in circulation
in the United States. The Philadel-
| phia Mint is pow turning out minor
| coins to the value of $3000 per day, but
| the demand for such coins is $200,000
| ghead of the supply. The amount,
| however, will soon be made up and the
| demand fully met.
| —Joseph P. Long, dealer in cloaks,
11th. Liabilities, $33,204. C, Haven
hill, Massachusetts, has made an as.
signment, Liabilities, $75,000.
—A severs snow storm, with a high
wind, set in on the 12th, at Columbus,
Ohio. At Louisville rain began in the
morning, and at noon turned into
snow, melting as it fell, Rain has
been falling for forty-eight hoars at
Pittsburg, and there are good pros-
pects of a rise in the rivers and a re-
sumption of navigation, which has
spring. Enough water is expected to
permit of the shipment of nearly ten
million bushels of coal to Clneinnati,
Louisville and the Southwest,
~George T. Hathaway, the Fall
River embezzier, was on 2th re-
leased from the Massachusetts Peniten-
tiary, after having served 8 years of his
10 years’ sentence. His good behavior
in prison secured commutation.
~There 1s trouble in Brazoria
county, Texas, ove the election of
Henry Masterson gs Coun’ Judge.
The county, which a large colored
pulation, usually gives about 700 ma-~
ority. Masterson, who is the present
Judge, and serving a second tern, was
~The November crop report of the
Department of Agriculture shows a
general average of cotton two or three
pounds lower than indicated a month
, The yield of corn is 22 bushels
per acre, making a total product of 1,-
608.000,000 bushels The potato erop
same as year, aver
or & total of 165.800. -
000 bushels, Buckwheat 11,
000,000 bushels. The 3isid of tobacco |
promises to be 485,000,000 pounds,
about equal to the average requirements
of consumption and The
apparent product of hay is 45,000,000
ons,
~The standard mines,
wt, Penna,, have been flooded, and the
fren are believed to be under control.
charged before the election with mal-
feasance in office. It is sald he agreed
not to be a candidate for re-election; but
violated hw ise st the last moment,
and, by ing ‘runners’ among the
colored voters, carried the county by a
small majority. *‘The taxpayers now
threaten to Kill Masterson if Le at-
to assume the office. Master
son fled to Houston, but it is re-
that he intends to return and
the office,
«At Montreal, on the 12th, in the
extradition case of John F, Hoke, tho
Peoria bank defaulter, F, C,
testified
Pocahontas, Virginia, which was
burned on the 84 inst , when the busi-
ness portion of the town was consuu:ed,
has been held in $3000 bail on the
charge of having fired his own hou'e
and caused the conflagration.
~The county court house at Monte-
video, Minnesota, was broken into at
2 o'clock on the morning of the 12th.
One end of the brick vault was batter.
ed down and the county records was
taken, The burglar proof safe of the
County Treasurer was uso taken. The
safe is sald to contain considerable
money belonging to the county. Madi-
son was voted the county seat at the
last election. Governor Hubbard re.
ceived a telegram from the County
Auditor stating that the records were
being removed to Madison, and asking
for instructions. Governor Hubbard
answered: “The County Attorney and
Sheriff will be able to secure obedience
to the law and the court.”
—A mob of one hundred “Bald
Knobbers” entered Chadwick, Mis.
sour, at one o’clock on the morning of
the 11th, to raid the saloons and pour
their stocks of whiskey into the street.
While thus engaged the citizens opened
fire on the ruffians, and more than one
hundred shots were exchanged. Finally
the ‘‘Bald Knobbers” retreated, earry-
ing off one of their number, danger-
ously wounded.
—A severe snow storm raged
the night of the 12th and 13th in
Northern and Western Pennsylvania
and New York, the snow being from
three inches to nearly two feet deep on
a level, according to locality. At Os-
wego, New York, the depth on a level
was 18 inches, while many of the drifts
were six feet, There and at Rochester,
the street cars were stopped for hours
and travel on all the railroads was in-
terrupted, A similar snow fall was
experienced at Geneva and Whitehall,
Much damage was done by the high
wind at Poughkeepsie and Elmira. On
the lakesthe storm was violent, and
there were several marine disasters.
Two barges broke loose from a tug and
have not been heard of since; they had
twelve men on board. Three freight
engineson the Central Vermont road
were wrecked in the snow storm on the
evening of the 13th near Montpelier.
They were a short distance apart when
the second engine ran into the first and
a third engine ran into the other two
and all were ditched.
caused a delay of three hours One
brakeman was slightly injured. Two
molished by the wind on the night of
the 13th. Many chimneys in Jersey
| —AbL Winfield, hansas, on the 13th,
| Lillan Quinn shot and mortally
wounded Frank F. Lockwood and
then committed suicide. It is sald she
| had been betrayed by Lockwood. The
| house of Benjamin 8. Wheeler, in
| Cleveland, Ohio, was entered on the
| night of the 12th by burglars,” who,
after beating the old man into insensi-
bility and choking his aged wife to
| death, ransacked the premises. Quite
| & sum of money in & closet escaped the
| notice of the robbers, and it is not
{ known how much was secured. Pat.
| rick Graves, a former tenant, was
! arrested on the 13th for the crime and
Wheeler Jdentified bim. William M.
Hughes, of Hazleton, Peona., a well-
{ known turfman and politician, quar-
reled with 8 man named Wells, on the
15th, near Bloomsburg. Wells knocked
Hughes down and was about to kick
| him, when Hughes drew a pistol and
| shot his antagonist through the heart.
Hughes gave himself up to the Shenfl,
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i —A fire in Loulsville on the 13th
| wallis’ wholesale notion store, The
losses are estimated at $225,000; insur-
i
{ tore up a large portion of the street,
| killing one fireman and injuring three
{ others. A fire at New Brighton, Btalen
{ Island, on the 13th, destroyed the
| office of the Staten Island Dyeing Es-
| house, frame room and
| chinery. The loss is about $100,000.
—During the firing of an election
| galate in Knoxville, Illinois, on the
13th, a cast-iron cannon burst, killing
a young man who was walking slong
the sidewalk, about two hundred feet
from the cannon.
~The Roman Catholic Pro-cashedral
of Bt. Peter, in Allegheny City, Penna,
was destroyed by fire on the 15th, The
loss is estimated at $130,000; insurance,
$40,000. The spire is undamaged, and
the walls, lined with brick and cement,
remain intact. The edifice will be re-
built at once. The fire is attributed to
the registers becoming overheated from
the building a week ago.
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God might have made no gentle flowers
To beautify this world of ours,
And reatter on the summer alr
Their wondrous perfume every where.
Instead of skies of lovely blue,
They might have borne some gloomy hue,
As though they wore a constant frown,
On us, in anger, looking down.
The grass, now of a pleasant green,
With starry dandelions between,
God could have given some color bright,
Too dazzling for our feeble sight.
And he who sends no gift in vain
Could make mers avenues to pain
Each delicate and substile sense,
By breath of his omnipotence,
If he had spoken one little word,
Nor air had thrilled with song of bird,
Nor butterfly with wings so bright
Had sported in the golden light;
And all the pleasant sights and sounds
With which this love-srowned earth
abounds,
Our eyes, alas, had never seen,
Nor ears had heard—It might have been.
_ _— te —
A NIGHT AT SEA.
Just off the coast of New Hampshire
nine miles out at sea from the gharming
sleepy old town of Portsmouth, the |
Isles of Shoals lift their grand, storm- |
beaten granite ledges alike in clear and |
cloudy weather, endur ing with unmov- |
ed serenity all the changes of calm and |
tempest,
In winter the snow mantles the gray |
rocks with the purest white, and they |
lie there, eight white spots In the dull, |
gray winter sea, under a dull gray win-
ter sky. Then they are desolate indeed |
cut off from the great, busy world |
around them, sometimes even from on? |
another, by the wild storm-tossed waves |
that beat upon the'r rock-bound coasts |
us they have beaten for ages. |
But in summer, when the sun has |
had his way and#thawed out the Ice i
bound ledges, and warmed up each lit-
tle crevice and nook, then the stern |
granite breaks forth into a smile of !
Wherever a
find a lodging place, there shines some
And the best of
it is, that when they have once started
right
wit
stop blooming. and keep on in
iter
his and «¢
They make no account of
their inland
er
sharp
breath.
sons and the fashions of
The wild ng
Je
sisters, rose runs riolir
over the rocks, blushing with shy de
{ight in the salt sea air, hobunobbing in
easy good fellowship with the
rod and aster, in utter ignorance that
the main land
are long ago dust and ashes, and that
she ought to be if she cared at all Yo be
“in style.”
Down in the narrow clefts where the
sea washes in, and ip the shallow pools,
grow the most brilliant sea plants, love-
ly with bright brown green and
erimson tints,
Rut Jife is not all calm and sunny
weather on those stern, gray rocks, and |
my story is a tale of storm, and calm
coming after the storm.
On a jutting headland of Star island,
a man stood peering anxiously out into
His rough, sea-
faring clothes, and weather beaten,
bronzed face plainly showed his calling.
Over in the northeast the clouds bad
golden
and
on Star island, had come reeling home
Dan Ricker had secured his “Roa-
and weather-wise eyes, now mio the
the “Seagull” plunging and straining
at her cables.
into his nockets, he seemed not to heed
into a fury. The force of the wind
grew stronger each moment, and huge
drops of rain came driving before it.
A small hand slipped under his arm.
“I saw the Seagull come in, Dan.
Are the boats all in?"
Dan threw one arm round the tall,
lithe form of the girl, who clung close
to him as a flerce blast struck them,
threatening to carry even the sturdy
fisherman off his feet. The girl gath-
ered her shawl still closer round her
head, as the wind howled and roared
and shrieked, as if all the fends of the
air had been turned loose to the work
of destruction, The raving, dashing
waves lifted their crests of foam and
hurled themselves against the granites
clifts with an ever increasing avalanche
of fury. And over and under and
through all the roar and rush came a
dull undertone of thunder. The girl
shuddered. “Hog island was cryin’
this afternoon, and Grans says to look
out for a storm, there's going to be
wild work to-night. Are the boats all
in?" she demanded sharply. ‘Why
don’t you tell me, Dan? Is father in?"
The girlish face that was turned to
the fisherman was young and pretty,
though browned and freckled with the
sun and wind, but there was a strained
anxious look in the clear, gray eyes,
and lines of care too deeply indented 1
the shore and strain eyes
too, watching for a father and brother,
sweetheart, husband and son, and to
pray that the white sails, which come
flying 1n before the dreaded northeaster
may reach the little harbor before the
waves run too high for them to enter—
that is the common lot of the women
of Star Island, Poor wives and moth-
ers! they know only too well what it is
to watch the swaying masts of the
schooners anchored under the lee of the
island when the waves form an impas-
sable barrier to the safe shelter of the
cove.
Tossed by the rough sea, cold, wet
hungry and sleepless, the men ride out
the storm, while the night blots out the
slender masts from the sight of the
anxious women who stand in desolate
groups upon the shore. They cannot
tell from hour to hour whether the
strain of wind and wave may not prove
too strong for the cables, then destruc-
tion is sure, as the treacherous rocks of
the New Hampshire coast bear ample
evidence,
The women cry out in despair and
wring their hands, and the wind roars
drives them indoors to watch and pray
till day comes and shows them their
treasures. No wonder they are while-
haired and old before thelr time, for
the terror of the ocean is always before
them.
But the men love the sea, and they
ever the rippling, sunlit waves, or
“tough it out” in storms, and bring
them in their daily “fare of fish.”
But to-night the litte hamlet on Star
island may rest peacefully as the boats
are all riding safely in the cove.
Dan turned srom watching the Sea-
gull, *I don’t know,” he said with
the deliberate drawl of the Yankee
fisherman, *‘whe'r or no she’s goin’ tw
stand. She's a pretty piece of wood,
a goin’ out to her, she's hove tod
short,”
“0 Dan, not to-night—she'll tough
it ont—she alwus has,’ Nabby pleaded
with her woman's logic, catching her
lover's arm to detain him,
* But he shook ber off roughly though
not unkindly, and ran down the steep
path to the strip of white beach
bordered the Nabby
after him and gave a half
cry as he sprang into his dory, and has.
ly rowed out Sea-
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that
hurried
suppressed
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f the min, Nabby,”
called out the gruff voice of her father,
from a li
ing at one of the fish houses. *‘Ii’s
to the men, “an’ Dan’ll fipd it
resky,’’—but the next moment he and
all the other men who were scattered
along the beach joined in the shrill ery
of the girl.
Down swooped the hurricane, and
caught the dory, and whirled it away
as a dead leaf is blown over the plains,
pretty
out of the cottages, and gathered upon
the more sheltered outlooks gave Dan
their sight,
Two or three sympathizing neighbors
drew the sobbing Nabby away with
them, and the storm drove even the
men to the shelter of their homes, all
the sooner perhaps that Dan’s family
lived upon the main Jand. The attrac-
tion of Nabby Varney’s pretty face had
led himto cast his lot in with the
Shoalers.
What of Dan? Driven and tossed
Still a strong
man will struggle for life even when
the tumult, and roar and terror, sound-
ed even in his ears a cry, and that cry
porved him to efforts when strength
The oars had been torn from his
grasp. If be had Lad them they would
have been useless, Alone in a little
the task—no easy or certain one—of
keeping the dory afloat and right side
up. Tying himself with a loose rope
that was aboard so that he could not be
tossed out he bailed for dear life. It
was all he could do. All that terrible
night, driven he knew not where—
drenched with every wave—tossed from
billow to billow—he endured and bail-
od.
The Blackest night ends at last in
morning, and to the involuntary voy-
ager the sun came up, and the wind
went down, and there before him the
early sunlight was gilding the steeples
of his native town of York, ou the cost
of Maine,
Dan Ricker, drenched and haggard,
walked into his father’s house in time
for breakfast.
Hungry?
The Ricker family just stood around,
with open and empty mouths, while
the mother piled Dan's plate again and
. The homa folks devoured his
tale that day, and Dan made away with
her forehead to be accounted for by tho
trouble of the moment.
And was there not cause? Was she
pot a fisherman's daughter and a fish-
stand upon
RI ARR,
crowd of ezcursionists landed him 2
Btar by dinner time,
Somehow real life 1s not so romantic
as the story teller would have us to be
lieve. It would be more ‘artistic’ to
overturn the dory, and break Nabby's
heart, and depict a heartrending scene
when a ghastly corpse was washed upor
the beach, There were two strong ob
jections to such a finis, Sunburn!
Nabby, strong and lithe, was far to
tough to kill easily, and strange as |
may seem, the true ending really pleas
ed her,
Bhe was very well satisfied when Dar
strode into her father's cottage follow:
od by half the astonished villagers, wie
welcomed him as one risen from the
bottom of the sea,
And Dan appeared to be satisfied toc
--1t sounded as if he was.
GROTESQUE DWARFED TREES
Arts of the Chinese Landscape Gar
dener.—-Pigmy Bearers of Fruits
and Flowers.
“Melican man him heap smart
makee tlee glow velly big.
gsavee makee tlee glow little,
man do that; me tlell you how
ido that,” said Hop Low, a Chin
| ese landscape gardener freshly arrives
| from the Pacific slope, in answer lo in
| quiries about the peculiar dwarfed tree
{ shown in Chinese garden scenes.
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Him ne
Chinese
“Chinaman him makee tiee any shag
speaker
man
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{ him wants,’” continued the
{ “likee bell, likee cioss,
| hand. Me makes olange Lise
man’s hand in China, When
{ him no bigger than this,” said the gar
dener, holding his hand about two {eel
{ from the floor, *‘and him havee nice
glood olanges on him. Me makee
| tlee just likee sammee,”’
The celestial who seemed 10 be in
communicative mood unusual with his
| race, went on 0 say that the dwarfed
| oak bore acorns and that 1s wood was
| just like a tree of natural size, Citron
and bamboo trees were also dwarfed
{and for this purpose the luchee tree
| was a favorite.
{ “How is this
ied?” was asked,
“Him velly easy,” was ther
the speaker described
| which consists briefly
branch of a tull
likes
itn Oi
ai
Jus
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dwarfing accomplish-
and binding i
cloth or mat
kept
The fibers of
$ Lge
constantly soaked
the branch thu
8000 sho to Lhe moi i.
is then carefully cut from the
after the ge is taken
planted in new earth, The fibers
become roots and thus that which
a branch on the parent
trunk, bearing flowers and fruit
buds at the extremities of the branch-
es which are intended to be dwarfed
are torn off as soon as they appear, and
| by this means the growth of the
branches is arrested and other buds and
| branches shoot out. After a oertain
time sugar water is applied to the
trunk of the dwarfed tree, and by this
means insects are attracted which
| wound the bark and give it the knotted
| appearance peculiar to old trees. When
it is intended to give any peculiar form
{to a tree the branches are bent inl
the shape and retained in it by means
of pieces of bamboo. ’
It is said that bamboo trees scarcely
four feet high are frequently distorted
to represent dragons and other fanciful
creatures dear to the Chinese imagira-
| ton. hese the mmformant above had
| never seen, but he smiled ULlandly and
said: “China gleat clountlie,” and
| shouted after the scribe:
| “You clomee black aglain, me {elie
| you slome more."
| He has been brought to Chicago for
| the purpose of exercising his fantastic
| skill! upon some of the handsome north
| side and suburban grounds.
| elles memes
i A Negro Prince.
i a———————
| London is shortly to be honored with
the visit of a really black prince, black-
er than Cetewayo. His name is most
euphonious, such as Theodore Hook
himself would have delighted in Diaou-
Jok Karamokoko, He is the son of the
great Senegalese Emperor Samory. His
age is but 18. His tastes toward Eu-
ropean ladies are said to bs barbaric.
His stay in Paris, where he was the ad-
mired of all admirers, who were lagioo,
may account for this. He takes a most
intelligent interest, it is said, in all he
sees, and his observations prove him to
be possessed of good mental qualities. .
His manners are gentle and affable.
He wears the national costume, consis-
ting of loose pantaloons, a silken vest,
| and a cloak of rich velvet, purple in
hue. A sort of silver tissue smoking-
cap forms his head-dress. Like the late
King Cetewayo, Diaoulok Karamokoko
keeps a diary. An enterprising Pari-
sian editor has seen this natarally re-
markable production, and it is rumored
has even obtained permission from this
affable prince to publish extracts from
it.
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He who provides for this life, but
takes no care for eternity, is wise for a
moment, but a fool forever, and acts as
untoward and crossly to the reason
imagined,