v
THE LITTLE BIRD TELLS.
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It's strange how little bovs's mothers
Coen find it allout as they do
fellow does anviliing nauch'y
nyth ng that's not true,
at you just for a m ent
ur heart in your bosom swells,
ey know all about it
For alittle bird tells!
Wow. where the litle bird comes from,
Or where the Httle bird
IT he's covered with beautiful plumage,
Or black as the King of the eros;
I his volee is as hoar-e as the raven’s,
Or clear as the ringing bells,
1 know not ; but this I am sure of—
A little bird tells!
WR,
The moment you think a thing wicked,
The moment you do a thing bad,
Or angry, or sullen, or hateful,
Get ugly, or stupid, or mad,
Or tease a dear brother or Sister
That instant your sentence he knells,
And the whole to mamma in a minute
That Jittle bird tells.
You may be in the depths of the closet,
Where nobody sees but a mouse;
You may be all alone in the cellar,
You may be on the top of the house ;
You may be in the dark and the silence,
Or out in the woods or the dells—
Xo matter! Wherever it happens,
The little bird tells!
And tle only contrivance to stop hi
Is just to be sure what to say —
Bure of your facts and your fancies,
Bure of yor r work and your play;
Be honest, be brave and De kindly,
Be gentle and loving as well,
And then you can laugh at the stories
The little birds tell!
—~Adilanta Consti{ution,
rn ———————
WINTER IN 0A TRO,
BY MRS. TALBOT COKR,
’
camels,
last 1s
wi
la
chains
too, that grou
ints in their sg
slippers, an
satin galib
eneath
waler;
girl
To me there is a glamor 1n the very
words, and truly do 1 envy the many
friends just starting for the sunny
East.
Memory brings back the cheery voy-
age, the interesting places touched at
en route, and the gradual warming up
of the atmosphere, till ere one reaches
Alexandria the trusty fur cloak is laid
scornfully aside, and a green lined um-
brella becomes one's nearest and dear-
est. Then comes the slow, jolting rail-
way journey, alleviated by the interest
of the novel sights by the way (an
Egyptian train does not dash recklessly
onwards like an English express!); the
wondrons groups of people—like pie-
tures from some Bible story book—the
clumg a8 of
feathery date palms, and still, lotns-
laden pools, Verily, in spite of the
unromantie surronndings of a railway
earriage, one feels that here at
the Land of Egypt.
And now for the never to be forgot
ten first peep into the ndrous
leidoscopic Cairo street life!
crowds of quaintly dressed, chat!
natives; the bare-legged, bustling
key boys urging on t}
animals the merry jing
laden neck sonnd
the lond, long-draw “Haas
owners! See,
looking merel
bans, vellow
striped biahs—a kin
close-fitting gaberdine—Here comes
toil-worn Bheestie, sto ping |
his heavy mus«nck, or skin of
bere a slim bine.clad clad Fellal
moves gracefully along, with a pil
cut-up suger cane on a quaint copper
tray, deftly balanced on her
head, A peculiar sosfenuto shi
heard, and the crowd (natives
walk in the middle of the street
vides before a little white-clad syce,
his scarlet and gold jacket flashing in
he sun, and the long blue tassel of his
fez flouting behind him as he runs
swiftly on; using th« long wand he car-
ies to clear the way for his master’s
carriage. Here comes an old pesha,
riding solemnly along®on a magnificent
snow-white d« nkey; with elaborate red
and gold trappings;and heres fluttering
group of lad es from the harems, clos ly
veiled in dainty white yashm ks an
balloon-like, thin black silk cloaks from
head to foot the only touch of coquetry
being In the brilliant little shoes of red
or green velvet, heavily embroidered
with gold, and sometimes high gilded
Leels, :
Again comes a string of dusty, sad.
eyed camels, each slung with two nets
full of green clover-like burseem, the
last one bearing a wild-looking Bed-
own, huddliug his picturesque brown-
striped rags round him, and casting
fierce, eagle-like glances, as he sways
slowly with every lurch of the ship of
the desert. Verily, shalt never forget
my first drive through snch sights as
these—through long-stretching streets,
past beantiful mosques, up to the
stately Citadel, which crowns Cairo as
with a diadem (and which was to be onr
home as long as my husband's regi-
ment remained in beautiful Cairo), nor
did these street scenes ever pall on me
during my daily drives,
It is very amusing sometimes to aee
the innocent surprise of new arrivals,
who had fondly imagined-—after the too
eommon practice of our country women
“that “any old things ean be worn
broad,” for Cairo society is ve ry
uch the same, evening gowns are re-
quired by those anxious to hold their
wn in the matter of dress. Not for-
get$og a warm wrap, which should
slways be put in the carriage, for no
matter how hot the sun may be, the
moment be hides his flery face behind
the desett one feels a chill, and it 1s for
want of an extra wrap at the sunset
hour that so many unwary strangers
are at once laid up with fever, which
they attribute to the unhealthiness of
Cairo,
The fact that none of our own party
ever had a touch of fever, either in
Egypt or India, I attribute to our al-
ways wearing fine natural wool under-
elothing; icdeed, 1 believe were such
worn entirely in hot countries, not only
would illness be less frequent, but, ow-
ing to the wool being porous, the heat
would be far less felt, To return, how-
ever, to the outer woman. A long
warmly wadded evening cloak is also
an essential, for, unless the hotels may
possess them, no nice closed carriages
ean be hired in Cairo; all our going
out, therefore-—somotimes five nights a
week was done in my pretty vietoria,
to which the buggy, or hired carriage,
is, by the way. very similar in shape,
A light long croje scarf put lightly
round the head and round the throat,
and over this (fashegoed with one large
headed pin, #0 as 10 be easily removed
on nearing one’s destination) a fine
auze veil keeps the hair from bein
own about, and adds much to one's
comfort. In
climate one never troubles about rain,
and, indeed, we only once had to go
out on an wet night.
Turning to quite a different sort of
pleasure, I ask my readersto come with
me to that happy hunting ground of the
collector, the Turkish Lazaar. Gaily
we drive down the steep Citadel hill,
throngh the long-stretehirg Shariah
Mohamed Ali, the Esbekieh Square
with its pretty gardens and imposing
Qpera House, and turn into the erowd-
ed narrow Muski, the buasiness street
of the natives. I think this was the
only street which daunted my other-
wise dauntless syce, who, in spite of
shouting and belaboring, could not
here always fulfill his ambition of never
allowing the earriage to be brought to
a standstill by the vulgar herd. On we
go, till at last a sharp turn into a narrow, *
irregular street on the left brings us to
the famous Turkish bazaar. Narrow, ir-
regular, the roofs almost meeting over-
head, and with an uneven mud floor, it
yet holds treasures of gold, diamonds,
Eastern rugs and carpets, and, above
all, embroideries such as make a col-
lector’s mouth water. The shops if
so they can be called—are mere little
recesses, with in some cases a ohair or
two for European customers, on the
edge of which the owner sits, oross-
legged and sharp-eyed, waiting for his
prey. We arrive, are seated, coffee, or
delicious Persian tea in tall, narrow
glasses, is pressed upon us, and now
our host shows us his stock in trade,
and the bargaining begins. I am told
by those wel vers:d in Eastern char-
acter, that the natives are not pleased
when they get the price they ask, but,
au contraire, are overwhelmed with
self-reproach for not having asked so |
verdant a customer double, and yon
may be quite sure that they never sell
at a loss. Knowing this, I always en-
joyed the fun of bargaining, and made |
many a friend in the bazaar. A very
pleasing—and I may say unusual-—fey-
ture in such a transaction was the utter |
absence of any offence if nothing
pleased, or if one's offer was refused,
I was sorry to see, in the brass bazaar
—which is a sort of side shoot from
the Bazaar Turc—an increasing tend-
ency to make thiogs of English shape
in their beautiful work, such
trays, bed eandles, &e.,
the demand, I fear, being created by |
the tastelessness of the ordinary tour- i
ist, who can see no beanty in the quaint
shape It was a
168 to secure a8 in
Must
dragomen-
} DRAZAATS,
match-boxe 8,
great |
nd |
ph
of native design.
lessure sometin
Arabic well
SEPOEe ATAUIC We ii, Or
wt conrteo
penetrate to the
French and Engl
ing, where chairs
1 he I
with
and
ped-up to
ch charming |
thie
low leather shoes
~those fi babies 1
i Bla
little pincashions to hang u
bazaar, ti old and 8 lver
scent bazaar, all
and of the wondrous pictures wi
every-day life in the Fas: pr
at each turn.and
aye add so much t
1 may &
journ.
To return to eiviliz: tion,
find no pleas ire in studying t {
Ps
bazas
were fall of
dances
which to an observ
» the pleasure,
ay instruction, of
will, at any rate, enjoy the «
cial race meetings an gymkhanas on |
the pretty racecourse in the Ghezirieb,
with its background of feathery d
palms and our dear old Citadel, with
the tall minarets of the mosque it in-
closes, shining ra liantly white and
beautiful in the far distance against the {
deep blu: Egyptian sky.
Mutilated Money.
Unless the money’s identity is en-
tirely gone it is redeemable, In fact, |
money in the shape of ashes can be re!
stored, and after the great Chicago fire |
ashes were redeemed, It came about
in this way: It is customary in banks |!
to do money up in packages, say of |
$10,000 each, and in the big fire, of!
course, hundreds and hundreds of these |
packages were reduced to ashes Dut!
the shape of the packages remained,
and whenever the package could
sent on to Washington
crumbling the ashes, the
was sure to be replaced.
by nimble-fingered women in the Treas-
ury Department, whose traned touch |
and sight are wonderfully acute. It is
well known that the ashes of a news.
paper if dampened will show traces of
the printing. So it was with bills,
These women would moisten the pack-
ages of apparently useless ashes, and
to their experienced eye the number
and character of the bill would at once
appear. So thousands and thousands
of dollars were redeemed by these
patient women,
A country merchant, afraid of banks,
placed a large sum of money in bills in
a stone jar on a shelf in his stores where
he thought it would be quite safe,
When he went to look at it one day
some time after it was a mass of frag-
ments, Mice had got into the jar and
chewed the billsinto the minutest parts,
They bad mixed them all up, and alto-
gitiies it was a fearful looking mess.
Ie sent a cigar box full of it to me, |
forwarded it to Washington, and what
do Jou think? Out of the $1145 orig.
inally in the pile a little over $1000 was |
redeemed, the parts beyond recall being :
only the mere fibres of the bills, So |
the man lost only $100 by his foolish.
ness,
ia
ba |
withou
[LEH
~~More now than at any vious
time the style of a dress is © to de
pend on the material of which it is
composed. The rich silken stuffs with
velvel stripes and gay Pompadour gar-
lands, and the handsome failles and
other soft corded siXs, are employed
fpr straight “skirts that are almost des.
titute of drapery or looping, On the
other hand, the Bengalines, foulards,
India tissues and kindred soft silks de-
mand the folds and loopings for which |
adapted,
~ HORSE SIEAKS.
FRENCHMEN THINK
VERY NICE.
Something About the Paris Horse
Abattoirs,
The Frenchman who has set up a
factory
Long Island, says he learned his trade
horse sausage at Newtown,
in Paris, where the sale of horseflesh
is licensed. He predicts that Americans
will soon be dining off horseflesh like
his French compatriots. Frenchmen
are too economic to throw away any-
thing, and when horses become
up with work whatever
them is killed and eaten.
used
of
wera
remains
There
15,000 horses and 300 asses eaten in
Paris last year. There are four special
and
formas,
abattoirs for slaughtering (hem,
all
have
horseflesh is eaten in
Strangers, however, will BOING
difficulty in obtaining a horse steak for
the asking
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although it is often palmed
off on them under another name. It
is deftly concealed in beef a la mode,
or is used in making soups and stews.
in Paris is not calculated to make
eater. The writer visited one of
fit for
This abattoir is in
mals that are thought
food in Paris. the
south of Paris in the Boulevard
not many vards from the
famous Manufacture
(es
1
gla
slaughtered.
nvalids, lame, spavined, diseased
fleshless old b
firmities which a
8 DOorse
is taken
d, unless he
3 of those in the
stil bad
thie
when
Be.
shoes wer«
th 4
Oo awail th
re 8 horse was killed his
knocked off, his mane and tail clipped,
ininaries
was all
Hed
removed what
than an ox.
After the skin was re.
mained was to
But they were carted away
all the same by the butchers and sold
the cheap res.
taurants. It was
that th
hahituated to the use of horse flesh.
Paris
Jefore the imprisoned Parisians were
horseflesh was the
The
tion of horseflesh, however, had been
several before
first
authorized
The
Years
horse abattoir
but dishes made
lished in the Latin
The
ever since then the quantity consumed
Quarter in
siege popularized the food, and
has increased every year.
French soldiers kill and eat their
When Napoleon's
army was retreating from Moscow
amid the snows of Russia the only
food of the soldiers was horseflesh
During the Crimein war, when the
commissariat of the French and Eng
lish troops was in a bad way, the
French soldiers lived sumptuonsly oi
horseflesh while the English were al
most dying of starvation. The Frency
also fed on horseflosh in the Franco
German war.
wounded horses.
From a scientific point of view thers
is.no reason why horseflesh should not
be eaten by man. Its wholesomeness
depends on the condition of the horse,
and horses are not usually raised for
the shambles.
Before the consumption of horse.
flesh was authorized in France, a nom.
ber of scientific men held a series of
conforences and. banquets to demon
strate that the horse was good for
food. GeoflregSaint-Hilnire declared
that it was absurd for the French peo-
ple to Jose millions of pounds of good
meat every year, when thousands of
poor people were in want of food.
M. de Quatrefages tried to prove that
fibre was much finer, he said. These
that they were not afraid of a piece of
horse themselves, held a hippophagist
of horse soup, horse sausage, boiled
horse meat, roast and ragout, and salad
dressed with horse fat.
A young horse which has not been
worn out with work may be good to
but, except
that Is accidentally wounded
rendered for work, all
in Paris
eat, and
then
and
the horses slaughtered
old hacks.
flesh is deftly concealed or changed by
one now
unfit
are
sive, and soup made of it has an oily
But the natural repug-
nance which people have for horseflesh
appearance,
arises more from inherited ideas than
anything else. In Pagan times the
cow is among Hindoos to-day. Hares
used to be considered unfit for human
food, and are so still in some parts of
Russia. Religion prevents the Jews,
Turks and Arabs from eating pork.
Horseflesh is eaten openly in Berlin
and Vienna, but not to the same extent
as in Paris.
the
A Frenchman opened a
of
| London a few years rjro, but it wasn't
| store for gale horse meat in
a success. Many thousand horses are
| killed for cats’ meat in London every
year, and in poor districts it is sold in
of
| against the consumption of horseflesh,
place beef. There is no law
| if sold as such, but every now and then
| some butcher Is prosecuted for selling
| horseflesh as beef.
| Russian ve. American Kerosene,
American kerosene oil
deci led
in encounter.
Fast
Mer-
ne competition in the
The
to the immense quar
Shanghai
China,
cury, referring
Fe 5 ¥ v % {1 2} 5 g oo
of Russian kerosene ofl that is arri
ort, savs that Bro. Jonat!}
Are simp
i nothing a Chinan
than being able to
and
sum,
trifle under the
Ig such a
| femand in Shan
From Janu
i year 220.4
ary to July the
0 cases of Russian ket
oil were received at Shanchal,
§
a OOK cases of
A #rsandmms
Aer 33
Russia sent 40 per cent, and Ame
But
Bot vet tw
| per cent. of the oil taken
Russian exportation is
id, and up to a short tin
| American producers had the
te meelves
COneset
nee oO
{arrival of of Russian oil, the
price of Ax
$3.20 0 $2
selling at $2.62 1-2
difference he thinks that the
| producers can control the market,
sevican oil had fallen from
75 per case, Buossian
At this
American
for
the
pe r case.
| the reason that the Russian oil is an in-
3
| ferior article, as it is dull and smoky,
tand emits a disagreeable odor unless
the lamp is kept clean and in perfect or-
| dor—a somewhat unusual thing in that
sountry of easy-goin ants The
il
ak
producers in this com: the ease
with which shipments can be made.
The oil can be taken on board, either in
bulk or in cases, at Batoum, and carried
and without
hange, to its port of destination in the
ist alow rate of freight,
sast.
sl —
Domestic Felleity,
Caller—Has your daughter's married
Ife so far proved a happy one, Mrs.
Vernon?
Mrs. Vernon—Very, Her husband,
rou know, is a traveling salesman.
Brown-—You show a good deal of
soyish enthusiasm over your coming
wip to Europe. Why, you've crossed
everal times before, haven't you?
Robinson-—Yes, but this is my first
rip without my wife.— Epoch.
— i ————
Opportunity,
A man who sat daydreaming in his
chair beheld a vision, woich stood be-
fore him and beckoned him to follow
her to fortune. He waited sluggish.
ly, heeded vot her call nor her beckons
fog, until at last she grew dim and dis-
appeared. Just as the vision fade! he
sprang to his feet and cried out, *“Tell
answer, “I am Opportunity; once neg-
oted, I never return,”
Take liver oil in tomato eatsu
to rol SI I
Nothing in life Is more unfortunate
than the
both realize that they have
neath them
married be.
A man is not made rich by what he
can't lose,
How the Dead Mon rolians
posed cf,
Digs |
of
ere |
3 1
Wa are in the Chivess quarter
Bau Fran Hare is a house w
i death has occured, A Chinese friend
procures acc ttance for us, so that we
way see something of Chinese funeral |
customs, As soon as bresth bas left |
| the body professional mourners are |
called in, who deck it with all the |
finery posible, If it is a female that
has dled her cheeks are heavily rouged, |
and, if the deceased in life was not Lie |
owner of sufficient jewelry to decorate |
her remains with, friends and relatives |
are called upon to furnish the desired
awount,
If tiie weather is favorable the dy
is laid out on a table that is placed in a |
| street or alley adjoining the late resi- |
dence of the deceased, but
18CO,
covered |
from sight with a large white cloth,
{ Next to the table holding the deceased
18 another table covered with met, |
candi -s, preserved cocanut and gingeis, |
together with a liberal supply
Chinese wine and brandy,
Among the funeral meats will always
be found a pig or hog roasted whole, |
the size of the porchine offering being
Ceased,
laid out in state the serious work of the
profesional INOUrners Commences,
| TLe number of mourners according
the social standing of (ue deceased
lite—{from six 10 ten being the averags
for an alult,
80 that cannot tell whether the
mourne's are male or female,
The first move is to gather around the
bier and chant a moruful dirgs, not
for geting ww extol
the depurted. Du
are constantly moving sround in a
clicle to prevent evil spirit fron
Cieeping ib and so getting POsBession ©
i Lhe body.
§ . * :
i Assoon asthe dirge is over the
| gic Ans con
cymbals and tomton
t
perches and
one
ring his time they
any i
#
i
mence bes
sae Line giving
+
BOW Ls,
are Xeptl burning
racket last for
Cr
mouruers, then 4
follow, the decersod bringing up the
rear, wilh the exoepiion of two men
| who are detailed to follow behind and
| Bcaller Joos papers,
{ When the grave is reachel the rea.
| agony begins, The mourners redouble
their eforis and
| thelr gongs, etc., with
poss be,
| grave, another piece of money is placed
SiON I8 & wag
all the power
{ filled up, The money Is for the pur-
pose of paying the god of waters for
| rowing the deceased across the dark
| waters, It is supposed (hat the god of
| Walers will be satisfied by merely seeing
i the money in the hands of the deceased,
The woney on top of the coffin is for
the benefit of the evil spirits, Afier
| meats and liquor are placed over it, as
| the mere sight of the food will appease
the hunger of the gods,
The food
| grave very long. The morning after
| any one is allowed to take iL away, as
suntise the next morning they are gen-
erally plenty of impecunious Chinese
food of the gods, as they call it,
i —
General Sherman's Trained Eye.
An interesting story of General Sher.
man 18 told by a park guard, When he
was last in this city he was riding
along the Wissabickon when he saw
the sergeant of the guard riding toward
him. “That man is an old cavalry-
man,” sald the general, and when he
got opposite to him he was saluted by
the sergeant in a military manner:
“Halt, sergeant,’’ said the general.
The latter stopped and again saluted.
“You aman old soldier, a cavalry.
man, sergeant,’ said Sherman,
“Yes, General, of the Seventh Caw.
alry; I served twelve years alter the
WAT,
“Ah! then you know ot Custer and
Major Reno?"
“I was one of the fortunate ones of
that command to escape and be rescued
Ly Terry.”
Sherman smiled. When the old sol.
dier told again the tale of the massacre,
At the conclusion General Sherman
: sald:
“Sergeant, let me shake hands with
you; you are a brave man,” .
“I never make a mistake,” added the
Sever rie ke mt snd Se sb
all doubts, ,
¥OOD YOR THOUGHT.
Cod never made a homely face,
Cheek 18 often mistaken for courage,
Admire beauty, but don't worship it
Patience is a necessary iugredient of
It is human to err, but devilish to
brag of it,
For the thankless man there is no
blessdng.
No man can know any fore truth
than Le will live,
Flessed are the gingle, for they cap
Confidence is a plant of slow growth
It is for most persons more cary te
flatter then to praise,
Belfishness is only anot! er nawe forthe
Truth mukes men gentle,
sigotaed,
Theory
Neatluess may be carried so far that
Blessed is he who has a big pile avd
Knows how Lo spread it,
If there wasn't any opposition, thes
couldn’ be any progress,
Marriage 1s the medicine whieh
re
The man that tells good news always
Sheep never leave a good pasture to
hunt up a blackberry patch.
The nght way to go into your closed
is through the door of praise,
Never associate with tad company—
have good company or none,
Jessed are they who have no ear for
a key nor ear for a knot hole,
The nearer you get to the Father's
hand the
We
who
Was Lie BY
always find rit in those
lock at us
He that will
greater man tlian
Perhaps no gy
to any war
¥1 advice 1s 8
L gives it,
ong can be done
wWige him,
nere, the more
wall thelr wives o ba
Comes
iO en.
BCL
3 4
OES
. 3
i INK
Ww
UE In
us, political or
wan which is
nce between repartes and
in the size of Lhe mau who
man thinks almost every-
ug; the wise man scarce'y
stima tes hlmrelf, while
ne Lo excessive modes.
I
B Wise ian is §
Ls
The chief value of
¥ vg iv 5 a
patting ofl ili Temp
is
red letters and In.
irocrastination
lerviews,
The man most anxious to mwainiain his
rig..is becomes celebrated for circulating
Lis wiongr.
The imagination furnishes us with
gpecters, but the consclence clothes and
nurtures them.
Next to making a mistake yourself
the easiest tlung is to criticise the mis
{ takes of other people.
Those who have never achieved success
| are always the mos! ready to tell others
how todo it.
| He who plays with sover~igns in his
| youlh will doubtiess want {or farthings
in bis old age.
The pleasure a dog experiences in hav.
| ing his back scratched, a an experiens
ces in being praised.
There is a ime for everything. Tak
ing off your brols after you get in bed
indicates a high old time,
One of the surprises of eternity wili
be Lo find out whom we Lave been live
| ing with In this life,
A reputation must be tarnished in.
deed when it no longer returns reflect
| Jons upon itself,
Every man truly lives so long as be
acts his nature or some way makes good
| the faculties of himself,
It is the work of a philosopher to be
every day subduing his passion and lay«
ing aside his prejuuices,
The minds of the young are easily
traived; it is hard work to get an old
hop vine to travel a new pole,
The revence that society bas taken
upon man who isolates himeelf is as
terrible as it is inevitable.
Just in proportion that a man is thank.
ful Heaven, and haus neighbor, just is
that proportion he is happy.
The reason why women. do not
pose is supposed to be due to the
that they want to have the last word,
It Is funny that while modesty is the
atest evidence of merit, it seems to
tle poorest guarantee of success.
The boat that refuses to pause in its
vazsage, and thow a line to & smaller
craft, will bring no tow into port.
If you want to teach a child to stea
oats in the bundle, make him beg out a}
you every thing that you give him.
Time is Infinitely long, and every
is a vessel into which hows pd 4
poured, If we fill it up to the brim,
If you wish to relain the fi