OUR YOUNG FOLKS. HOW A NEWSBOY HELPED, The other day a blind man came down Madison street walking with his cane thrust out before him and tap- see that he was not running into any thing. At LaSalle street the crowd was dense and the oable cara and street traffic were clanging noisily by. For a moment the blind man stood there undecided, not knowing which way to turn. The throng parted and left him like an island in a swift stream without offering to help him. On the corner a newsboy was calling the after- noon papers. He eanght a glimpse of the old man and ran up, took his arm and steered him safely across the street. Here he started him on his way again. Then he ran back to his place. ‘“*Noos ?” he shouted, as if it was the most ordinary thing in the world to help blind men across the street '" “*GOOSE CUTTING. | f i Avother gam, { ““goose-cut ting,’ has been add d to the long list in vogue at gatherings. The hostess provides a well-drawn outline of a goose, which is usually of red eloth, or, if made of paper, is colored red or black. This is merely for purpose of distinctness, Two pairs of scissors wre provided and a number of sheets of plain brown paper. Each wt © i vii] S0OCINl the gentleman invites a lady toeut ago with him, Y are seated ba in the centre model pair are blindfol evolve with their rs and sl t of paper copies of the Having finished, each SIE d by its : merriment 18 always arouse process of cutting, as the in full view of the pany, re laid out on the parlor floor, names down, and two judges, been present at the cutting, passu the merits of the geese submitted, rEErs and in turn these couples k to ba of the room two chal When 1 K in has TOOK fowl, creator pair rest of the o« When finished, all the resu who have not tha w tile W¢ prizes reward to their merits CAPTURE Frank H. St of “The Buece ROW running in « the capture of chantwan by and his thus relates the m the victo They es thony, After a place, they sume their long be ore th dis soward a very large trewely small ¢ these full; to Against the autag to be th ucht of leas fellow as Bar th y sh Pp vess he boat's crew eye of a nanutic Farthole: 2 1ys a} Blan ¢ on con ay, three ue an alle the Ini Was lay to, boarde« eaptain of one of that this were terrib y « through which it h course he wa t:d to knos happened. When he f great ship was in the possession of a very small body of pirates, Bartholemy gomething was enue i: for y in the long fight and of int had mud that the ad pas 1 LA and his men were immediately made prisoners, taken on board the Spanish ship, were stripped of every thing they elothes, and A crew from gent to man the captured, and then the little fleet set sail for San Francisco in Campeachy. An hour had worked a very great ehange in the fortunes of Bartholemy and his men In the fine cabin of their grand prize they had feasted and sung. and hd gloried over their wonderful and now, vessel of their captor, they were shut np in the dark, to be en laved. or perhaps executed ! were even their hold. P ywseased, were shut up in the the vostel Spanish ships which wan had be en SUCCES; in the DRUMMERS T.AST CALL, A pathetic story of the Civil War was related by the corporal of an IHinos regiment who was captured by the Confederates at the battle of Wilson's Creek, and is repeated in “Women of the War The day before thie regiment was ordered by General Lyons to march toward Springfield, the drummer of the company fell ill. There was no one to take his place, and while the eapiain was wondering how he should au ply the lack a pale, sorrow-stricken won: #. appeared at his tent door, begging an interview. She brought with her a little boy of twelve or thirteen years, whom she wished to place in ths regiment as drummer | bo THE LITTLE y. “Captain,” she said, after the boy bad been accepted, ‘‘he won't be in | much danger, wiil he 7" i **No, 1 think not,’ replied the officer. “We shall be disbanded in a | fow weeks, I am confident.” The new drummer soon became a | favorite, and there was never a feast of fruit or other hardly procured! dsinties that “Eddie” did not get his | share first, The soldiers were stirred by the child's enthusiastic devotion, | and declared that his drumming was | different from that of all the other drummers in the army ! After the engagement at Wilson's Creek, where the Federals were de- | feated, Corporal B —-, who had been trrown from his horse, found himself lying concealed from view near a: clump of treeq, Ae he lay ther mith | his var to the ground, be heard the { faint. In amoment he recognized the | stroke of Eddie, the boy drummer, { and hastened toward the spot whence | the sound pro seeded. In a clump of { bushes, propped against a tree, he | found the boy. His drum was hang {ing from a shrub within reach, and his face was deadly pale, “Oh, corporal,” said he, ‘1 am glad you eame ! Won't you give we a drink of water, please! The corporal ran to a little sir am bv. and bronght the chuld a draught. Just this moment there KO close nt corporal turued to go “Don’t leave me,” drummer, ‘IT can't Lie pointed to his feet The corporal saw with that both feet had been shot off by a canon ball, “He said the them," cont in the dead body of a Confederate the Sea’ said little walk and horror nod pointing bes de him ‘He was but he oray et} wha l soldier WHO Lay + 11 & 1 * shot all to piec led over 1 here and would I ALE Old wl his eves wearily The Cor oral * overs Ww by a mist of tear The Conf and in the az s as he looke derate soldier, shot { nies of the last off his eps above t!} » take suspend The Engl Judges’ an Goat Hunting in had When located point the a huge them ti it ed stre thre 2 Oi is started it did get to going the havoe it caused on its down to the valley was something fearful. Then the boys told me to get ready for a sur- prige. We all got onr rifles ready and waited It was only a short time un- til we saw emerging from the shrubby growth below us, three fine goats, They came towards us, bounding from erag to crag, and apparently heedless of the danger they were running into, They came to within sixty yards of us and we brought down all three “I learned then that the goat always tries to get above rolling rocks, and that that is a favorite way of hunting them.” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, g0t me to ook the combin f us to get it and vay Significant Advertisement, A noties displayed io a Brisbane mixed character of the unemployed in Queensignd. It runs thus: “Wanted, some men for a township, accustomed Good wages. No doctors, jour There are about fifteen women in Chicago whose names are listed in the directory as druggists. One of them, a girl of limited means, helped herself through college by taking the position of night clerk for a year, A QUEER MANIA, It Attacks the Man Who Looks Down From a Lofty Height. Not long ago a Cleveland man was taken up on the roof of the New Eng- land building by some of the Century Club boys to enjoy the view It was a clear day and the vista In every direc. tion was beautiful But the boys no tice] that the visitor hung back from the parapet and declared he could see everything all right from the middle of the roof Being pressed to go clos er to the edge he flatly refused “The fact ie,” he sald afterwards “that I can't stand the sensation of be. ing up at this tremendous height, No I don't have the ordinary feeling that I must throw myself down It isn’t giddiness In think —doectors have told me case BOM what iginal. sensation you bridge and hs neath. If vou fact, 1 my have when standing on oa be {hat is You get ol noticed the vessel wing a look pass down it isn't long standing still all experimented in ots boat we yery and the Course, this hood wis have thing Well sensation il g Of times (GAaAvVR same considerable height above the If down and catch moving object I at f rite ru grous ight of jfruagine the ure upon which I stand i ' s 100K once rapidly through sp it. ] and ace and somehow j the with down Creasmss off } and | 1 of mos it When em on PRION: 0 if there ear ny fingers What is Triple Extract? ff marta 12 nightfall or « 4 nornimg when the Before the ire gat! fess recetfiacion are prepa #0 shape of large frame stretched cotts are with olive Il saturated a f The cut flower ih mond oil in and : another in and huge are thickly spread frame |& that turn is well thus pile of and flowers until a pared This 6 at the end of which time are removed from the and placed by fresh ones. The frames filled and emptied every two days un- til two weeks have passed, Then cloths are detached from the and placed under great all the oil oll thus obtained is with the fragrance mixed with double weight of pure rectified spirit and put in a called a digester.” gimply a porcelain or block-tin kettle that fits in another kettle When in nee the outer vessel is filled with boil the flow the frames re pressure, is pressed out of them heavily of the flowers, and it is its ary i% veoasal which ing wates In this vessel the mixture of oil and spirits “digest” for three four days; then, after having cooled, the spirit is decanted into another vessel holding the same quantity of fragrant ofl, and the digesting process is re- peated. After being thus digested three times the spirit is found to have taken up enough of the perfume and it is then decanted from the oil for the third and last time through as tube, one end of which is filled with cotton wool to serve as a filter. The finid thus prepared is called “triple ex.’ tract.” Philadelphia Times. Settled the Case. “I was called up in 1878 to defend a man who was charged with the most unusual misdeamor | ever heard of any clerk entering on a court calender,’ said a lawyer friend from the moun- tains, Sunday. “A young farm hand came to me at the hotel, where | was stopping, my home being in another town, but my practice extended to the country seat [ was then in. The swain told me he had been charged by a girl, to whom he had been paying attention, with giving her measles, she claiming that the disease, which had been epi- demic in the neighborhood, had been communicated to her by kissing her repsatedly. The girl's surly father sued the badly frightened defendant for $00 damages, claiming he had expend. # Or ed that sum in doctor's bills for tha afflicted daughter, My client pleaded guilty to kissing the plaintiff, but said he couldn't ‘a-hoped it ef’ he'd ben a- mind ter, and insisted that he had never had measles I tried the case before a Kind hearted old squire, and after the court had heard the testimosy he delivered a long opinion, in which he held that a girl as pretty as the plaintiff would make a boy risk mea. gles and ‘even dumb chills’ to sip the of her coral-like lips The ‘jolly’ put both sides in good and defendant two week married the plaintiff and se'tled of appease the of her Louisville Ic sEweels judge's numor, the later the wrath cost the suit to father | MAKING ARTIFICIAL ICE. of Water Inte Solid Blocks. fce Converting Cans Artificial cold or may be mo | { In the liqu amount or les volatile liquid this the structed Of converted was water One tenth f of water used wus into io but as it was maintain uum in ihe g araiu its orking wa LO Yad perfect problem therefor i iad to be sub Hguifis ulphurous ac lHquified ammon gaseous suitable sul F ammonia general 1 application LONnIa degrees In this ref vanized ir the large customed to through Not Bite Snakes Do "3 11018 wh } fh the upper nothing to not f draws ilaelf jaw havi: gerpent does swallow iis but glowiy over devours it skin and dition bones of its of the iy loose cor of fangs depositing a thick i before swallow tis a The tongue does moisture enough to do this | OYer its prey ing it mistake not carry but when once inside saliva, The & an abundance of tongue is looked upon as a sting, and the ecm m fook out for its mon expression “ The tongne is a mobile, extensile or both and taste So far the delicate imple use, and pleasure; gan of touch the AnEer is of greatest ex presses fear ment OI we have often proved whenever a dif ferent kind of food was given, There fs no doubt but that the tongue of a snake ig very important to its owner as the slightest injury, even to jig tip. generally results in the snake's death -Scientific American Buying By Sample. A certain gentleman in this town is the proud possessor of a remarkably red nose, The term proud is used advigedly, as the owner is continually relating stories having a bearing on the brilliant hue of his nasal treasure. The following is one of them: He was in Exeter one afternoon, and hav- ing completed his business, was amus- ing himself by as Inspection of the shop windows. While admiring some ties in a cer- tain window, and considering whether he should speculate or not, a little girl came out of the establishment, and finally caught him by the sleeve. “Please will you come into the shop with me, only for a minute?” she ask. ed. “Certainly.” answered the gentleman, following her at once. Arrived at the counter, the little one astonished everybody by remarking: “Theer, fi ., muvver wants a ribbon the seme color as this gentleman's nose.’ it is intimated that one English per sou 1a every twenty-four has red hair. NOTES AND COMMENTS. Eigland 1s not so engrossed in hold- ‘1g on 10 her present possessions but that she can find the time to take an interest in the dismemberment of China y : 1 matter of inks An expert in the t and papers pays that the books of the pres ent neriod printed such poo ink on perl that fu ture generation with paper not be r« them ale hable will of reading such an op tunity Boston bas been mak fifteen £5 bills by cutting fourteen to pieces and pasting the frag toro he They Somebody in ments are Boston, but there be are make money been signed Dy and nur has been qi 1a ; v ads taal IN», which been made ic. have been awaited with Leen ceaded fhe births in that ex- he respectable iz account- decrease of yell the deaths oy i The Eain the figure of 94.000 for only in thag is, a prolon bat principally by a crease in the number 0 the birth rate smaliest in any the earth. The Jirope is ON pet n France is so alarming that the pub- i its are fain 10 ax as sat tory the same figures, about, that trou- so much in births of S65.0806, « 377 in that y ar not fon of life giderable in Never. theless, per 1,000 13 the f 225 civilized nation Oo birth rate Average 1,000 ept 1801 pared with 5006, eal Steps are being taken at the National Museum in Washington to carry out an a hall of American history. Prof. Goode had long cherished the idea, and Prof. Holmes, who is in charge of the department of anthropology, is equally enthusiastic. It is the purpose to have the institution as nearly national in character as possible, and every effort will be made to have as many things in it relating to early American his- tory, that of the United States in par- ticular, as can be obtained. The ob- jects and relics will be presented chronologically, beginning with the period when Leif Ericsson, in his Vi- king ship, visited America. Then will follow, in order, Columbus, the Pil- grims, Capt. John Smiths party, the Dutch and other settlers, after which will come relics of the Revolutionary war, the war of 1512, and the war of the Rebellion. There will also be ex- hibits of the growth in facilities of navigation and of railroading, and of the remarkable advance fn the use of electricity. Many interesting experiments have been made recently by the United States Bureau of Education with a view to finding ou! how much actual jabor the brain at afferent ages and of different sexes ean perform, and how long it can work without fatigue. Some - SS —— ET of our learned scientists are of the opinion that many nervous diseases are being developed fn our schools, aa opigion borne out by these recent in- vestigations, Mental conceantlration is found to impoverish the blood. City children are found to be more nervous on than those who live in the coin This is ascribed to the and excitement of city life, the hurry for dodging of bi , the .con digtraction of i and re. new people cured of mind of the averag: ty bustle treet cars, the ant Bighty v wit} On willl new the ciat it however, be Cue that short bree each irk The recommended are fatigued is sved tonty pent; recess half-hour or so mort for those ad- ¥ p LOT Veen practical the in inrition ang oi y for musi glern bh I an old Huguenot fami members Complos w hose tims of a terrible { he others own them Cyclists See a Strange Sight gE aves are ur reputation id a whe ling in Europe last summer ah for tourist went bi And But 1 some of . un te 1 i a no o have i going to tell you Bow 1 had taken ont of me ‘We were going through Swilzeriacd had of the descent Geneva we reaso i am tiie conceit the close first and reached day's The with- were for our through our way toward P 10 coast we and, as IFRK es {ear Iasi us uid not » back-pedalled all the ‘As after he veranda of the lodge of we were sitting SUPPer om discussing the exercise, and dreading the morrow, which meant more of the same out attention was suddenly called to a cloud of dust descending the mountain side Then we saw a cyvelist, coasting as nice as you please, towing a good-sized sap- pling, which acted as an effective brake without injury to the tires. One of the bays ejaculated ‘Weil! Why didn’t we think of that? The rest were sim- ply dumb. That man was a German, I now take off my hat te our German brethren of the wheel "Pall Mall jazette our unusual sort fce Cream om Fire. At a children's party the other day the ice cream was served in a way to draw forth the most extravagant ex- clamations of delight from the young company. It was packed in little can- dlesticks cleverly made of pink paper and to add to the illusion in the bol- tow of the tube which formed the can- dle a short taper was inserted and lighted. Most children had seen burn- ing plum pudding at Christmas time but ice cream on fire was a paradox to which they were not accustomed -- Philadelphia Record. A perfect ruby, which weighs four carats or more, commands a times the value of a diamond same size. A ruby of out any defects, is 4
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