TIMELY TOPICS.
The mustache is again the subject of
legislation in France. Clerks in the
national bank are not permitted to wear
itl
At Berne, Switzerland, recently, an
American and Austrian girl passed as
doctors of medicine, and Mile. Lina
Berger, a young Bwiss, toon the decree
of dioctor of philosophy after a brilliant
i examination.
A Glasgow pajier gives a list of up
ward of 150 failures in Glasgow and
the west of Scotland directly and in
directly traceable to tho stoppage of the
City of Glasgow bank. The total lia
bilities of the Scotch firms who have
been dragged down are $125,000,000.
To beautify the coats of eight horses,
value $B,OOO, and also four oxeu, s
Cambridgeshire (England) laborer put
so much arsenic in their food that they
all died. Sentence: a month's hard
labor. This treatment of horses is com
mon at Vienna. It makes them foam at
the mouth, too, or it is supposed to do
so.
The latest robber triok in New York
is to don the clothing of a porter or
market carrier, lounge round a stall till
some one is observed to make a pur
chase, then, having ascertained the pur
chaser's name, to return at a busy timo
and glibly demand snob and such meat
for him, the trick usually proving suc
cessful.
Mr. E. Kingsley, the engraver who has
achieved much success, some of his l>est
work appearing in Scribncr'n Monthly,
was formerly a compositor in a news
paper office in Maxeachiisetts. At one
time he gained a precarious living by
designing fantastic cigar-box labels and
engraving illustrations of local manu
factories. When Professor Chamnney,
♦he artist, went to Northampton, Mass.,
Mr. Kingsley took drawing lessons of
him, and then visited New York to study
anatomy. His success in a short time
became so marked that he returned to :
his work as an engraver.
A woman's hair has suddenly turned 1
white in Milan. Bhe was a mother, and i
was going from church with two chil-1
dren, one of whom could walk, while
the other was held in her arms. The
one who could walk ran down the church
steps into the street where a carriage
was passing. As the child disappeared
between the wheels, the woman uttered
a loud cry and fell ipsensible, with the
other child in her arms, on the ground.
The child under the carriage was picked
up unhurt The mother, when she was
restored to her senses, found bar bair
had turned perfectly white.
In sugar refineries large iron cylinders
called boneblack filters are used. They
are usually about twenty feet high and
five feet in diameter. Two men went
into one of these vessels in a Bt Louis
refinery to ooat the surface with tar, as a
Sreventive of rust during a season of
is use. They sat on a suspended board
and put the tar on with brushes by the
light of a lantern. The lantern fell to
the bottom and broke. Instantly the
cylinder was converted into a fiery fur
naoe, the tar on its sides blazing furious- ;
ly and a hole at the bottom providing a
draft. The men were completely
charred.
I
The government of Honduras is make
ing great efforts to develop the agricultur- I
al resources of the oountry. Coffee plant
ing has been vigorously carried on, and
the government makes, free grants of
land to all persons desirous of under
taking the cultivation of ooffee, or
sugar, or of cocoa, and gives free trans
port of the necessary material and labor
to the site of the grant. Besides these
advantages, planters are exempt from
military service, and all implements and
material necessary for the use or
formation of plantations are admitted
into the oountry free of duty. Btrangers
are admitted to the same privileges as
citizens of the republic.
While the English steamer Warrior
was off on island in the West Indies,
but out of sight of land, a human cry
was heard, and the carpenter said he
had seen a man struggling in the water.
The engines were at onoe stopped and a
boat put off. After a long pull in the
direction noted the cry was again heard,
and half an hour later a man was dis
covered and picked up. He proved to :
be a native of Jamaica named Alexander
Hughes, and said he bad been three
days in the water dinging io a clothes
chest. He was one of the crew anil pas
sengers of the schooner The Little Min
nie, which capsized at sea and sank
while on her passage to Oolon. The
accident occurred sixty miles from
where the man was picked np. He was
the only survivor.
A writer in the Atlanta (Ga.) Oontlt
lution says that Senator Gordon was
wounded five times while fighting as a
colonel in the battle of Bharpeburg.
The fifth ball entered his cheek and
brought him to the ground. Aa be be
gan to recover his senses he says his
thoughts ran an follows : "I have been
struck in the head with a six-pound
solid shot. It baa carried away my
bead. On the left side there is a little
piece of skull left. But the brain is
gone entirely. Therefore, I am dead.
And yet I am thinking. How can a man
think with bis bead snot off? And if I
am thinking 1 cannot be dead. And yet
no man can livs after his head is shot
off. I may have consciousness while
dead, but not motion. If I can lift my
leg, then lam alive. I will try that.
Gen 1? Yes. there it is, lifted up.
I'm all right I The Senator says that
every stage of this solikmuy is indelibly
stamped on his mind, and that in his ex
hausted state the reasoning was oarried
on as logically as ever a man reasoned
at bis desk.
If you want to know whdtber your
oanary bird is a male or female just put
some angle worms in the cage. Then,
if the bird eats only the nude worms,
you may be sure your bird is a nude. If
• the bird eats the female worms and
leaves the male worms, then the bird la
a female. Sure every time,— Rot ton
Pmt.
' DIAMOND KOBBKIUEN.
Ma* aflk Pesallar Cnirlinarn Hcaarl-
Ml la by Thaaa la Paraall af OiHrr Paa-
PIR> llrai MIFPI Itraiarkabla i n*—.
A Bt. Louiii Olube-Democrat reporter
Tut an entire afternoou in the office
B. Bpyer, a well-known diamond
dealer, and listened with rapt attention
to reminiscences and traditions of dia
mond robberies, successful and attempt
ed.
One day a respectable-looking gen
tleman with a young lady, to all appear
anoe his wife, oame into Bpver s and
3 lent several hours looking at diamonds,
no cross and ear rings, valued at
$5,000 seemed to strike the young wife's
eye. The husband demurred at the
price. The wife pi 'yfnlly ooaxed him
to buy. •• Well, well, I will think about
it," said he, aa they departed without
buying.
The next day the young woman drove
np in a coupe, and said : "My hus
band deairca to see those sgain. I
think lie will buy. Ho is sick in lied,
and will you go to the Southern with
me or send a clerk ?"
Warned by a previous bitter experi
ence, involving a loss of $l,OOO, Bpyer
did not send a clerk, bnt went himself.
The couple bad a suite of parlors on the
second floor. The young lady was
Suite engaging. Her husband was
eeping. Would the geutlemau wait a
few moments? He would. The lady
was unusually interesting ; and, alwsvs
susceptible to the charming woman, the
time passed agreeably to the diamond
dealer. The young lady got up and en
tered the inner apartment, but retnrned
immediately with the announcement
that her husband was awake. With the
sweetest affectation of enthusiasm, she
picked up the case containing the
jewels, and, with " Let me show thi-m
to my husband," disappeared within.
The door seemed accidentally to blow
shut. Bnyer jumped up; and ns he did so
ho beard a key turn in the lock. He at
once recognized what was up, and
spraug to the door opening to tho hall.
He found it locked. He WHS a prisoner.
The solid door mocked him. He was
desperate. In nn instant he drew his
revolver, placed it to the lock, fired ; it
was shattered, and the door swung open
to his touch. Like a madman, ho hire
along the halls, down the stairs, through
the rotunda, and around to the ladies'
entrance, just as a lady in a carriage
gave the order, " Relay depot, East Bt.
Louis."
He leaned into the window of the car
risge, and aaid, " Will yonr husband
take the diamonds, madam ?"
Bhe gave him one long, searching
look, qnietljr aaid " the price ia too j
large, and then they are each hard 1
thinga to keep;" produced the eaae |
from the receaaea of her muff and hand- !
ed it to him, saying, "I abonld bare
been quicker." HpTer looked at the |
diamonda, aaw that they were all right,
and bade the yonng woman good day. ,
Within the hour ahe and her confederate
had left the hotel. Bince then Bpyer
baa never let a diamond leave hia band
for more than two aeennda.
The Gall hooae at Louiaville ia now
defendant in a anit for $40,000 dama
ge*. It ia the cnatom of traveling dia
mond merchant* to deposit their atock
in the rude of the boteL A New York
traveler bad been at the hotel for aev- ,
eral day*. He came down from hiaj
room at about anpper time one evening,
and banding over a little aacbel to the '
yonng clerk in charge with " put that j
in the aafe;" the amart young clerk took !
the aaehel, gave a cheek for it;the
drummer walked away; the clerk waa j
called by a gneat who wanted ice water |
in 1878, put the aacbel under the oonn- '
ter ; another man ram* up and loudly
aomplaiued that hia baggage bad not
been aent to hia room ; the clerk took to
explain, and the man who, perhapa, had
followed the drummer thouaanda of
mile*, and for month*, reached over
and under the counter and aeenred the
valuable package, and baa tbua far ea
caped detection.
About aa intereating a caae aa there ia
on record created a profound aenaation
among the diamond dealer* of Maiden
lane, New York, neveral year* ago. The
ntreet ia a narrow, dingy little thorough
fare, and on it are located the establish
i mcnt* of twenty-five or thirty wholeaale
| diamond dealer*. They import direct,
and supply the trade. The jewel* are
wrapped up in little paper parcel*, flat
ly folded, and are, of course, not mount
ed. A man of solid and respectable ap
pearance became gradually known aa a
buyer of small diamond*, *ucb aa are
n*ed for cluster* and settings for ladies'
jewelry.
The teat of the purity of a diamond is
found in holding them close to the
month and breathing upon them. Flaw*
trill show up as little black spots under
: this process. This solid and respects
' ble gentlemau waa alwsyn particular aa
|to the purity of the diamonda Le
; wanted, and when satisfied generally
j made a purchase of from two to five car
ats, the gems being sold, of course, by
weight. It waa customary to note on
the outside of the package the amount
sold. One day one of the dealers walked
into the store of another and found him
in a state of perplexity. He had juat
weighed what remained in the paper
and added to the aggregate sold, and
found that this package was about five
cnriU short. Diamonds are worth $BO
per carat. The viaitor, in aome sur
prise, stated that he eras troubled by
exactly the name thing, and he oould
not for hia life account for it Their
discoveries spread. The other dealers
were at onoe exercised, and on examina
tion it was fonnd that there waa not one
of their nnmber but had this mysterious
shortage to aooount for. A close watch
waa then set by each individual upon
all of their employee* and upon all their
customer*. It was left a few days later
for one of the nnmber, an old man sixty
years of age, who suspected the solid
and respectable buyer, to detect the
tongue of the aolid and respectable
buyer aboot suddenly out aa be leaned
over a paper of jewels to breathe upon
them, and return with forr carats of di
amonda upon its end. The old man
aeiaed the adept thief by the throat and
found the sparklers stuck to his tongue.
The thief compromised with the old
man for $3,000. There was no arrest
in this case. It is estimated during the
three years that this roan petgenised
the diamond dealers of Maiden linn
that ha realised fully $&0,oq0 from hia
adroit dishonesty, .
, In the Easter" <*tie* thsyHeorgmiixed
.timed that followed the clogfe of tbo war,
r tJt
when orimc took its moat violent form,
wore attended by suoh cases aa the
smashing in of Tiffany'a abow window
in broad daylight and the eaoape of the
gang with $40,000 worth of diamond
jewelry. A mode of robitery that ob
tained for several years was the throw
ing of snuff or pepper into the eyes of
the salesmen, and an immediate and
wholesale theft of all the goods in sight.
A Broadway (New York) jeweler, with
a very valuable stock of diamonds, had
an automatic connection between the
door and the curtains of his show win
dows, so arranged that upcn opening
the door after it had lceu locked for the
night, the curtains would roll up and
leave the interior of the store exposed
to the passers by.
A gang of English burglars came to
New York city in 1071 and selected this
establishment to commence upon. By
the use of forged letters they succeeded
in introdncing one of their nnmlier into
the establishment as porter. He was
unnstully faithful and well liked by his
employer. He found time daring his
labors to tske an impreraion in wax of
the lock to the front dour. The aocret
of the window curtains rested alone with
the proprietor. One night four of the
gaug entered the place by means of the
fslse key made from the impression.
They did not notice the curtsin roll si
lently up. The privste watchman on
the lieat saw them at work on the safe,
summoned aid, and after a desperate re
sistance, succeeded in arrentiug the
four men. They were all sent to Sing
Sing for long terms. After this attempt,
the old gentleman who owned the place,
grew very nenrons on the subject of
burglars, and formed the habit of leav
ing his house at all hours of the night,
visiting his establishment, entering to
assure himself that everything was all
right, and then returning Lome. One
night the old gentleman came along
al>oat 1.80 o'clock, spoke pleasantly to
the private watchman, quietly entered
the st< re, pulled down the blinds, and
after a half hour emerged, bade the
watchman good-night. The next day
it was learned that the old geutleman
ha 1 been found lying nnconscions in the
street. Home of the Kugliah gang had
waylaid him, and procured his keys.
One of their nnmber,made np to person
ate the old man,had walk oil down to the
store, and with the aid of the combina
tion to the safe found on his person,
opened it, and quietly walked away with
a stock of diamonds* valued at $75,090.
The perpetrators of this singulsrly bold
robbery were never apprehended.
' Keported I'nder Fear of 1.1be1."
A lawyer of Pall River, Ma**., eial
the Hrrald, of that place, for lib*!, an i
claimed $15,000 damage* because the
Eapcr published a three-line item alxmt
im. The suil brought oat conniderable
editorial irony, of which the following,
taken from the Hrrald'* polioe-couit
report, ia a unique specimen ;
Poor of oar moat estimable and re
spected citixcna. Michael Rowland, E*q.,
Jamea Bwatn, ESQ., Patrick Hbep|ard,
Esq., and Michael Conroy, E*q., and a
very refined and cultured lady, Mary
Downing, were the recipient* of dis
tinguished honor laat evening, having
reoeived kind and preaaing invitation* hi
a reception held by hia honor in the dia
triet ooartroom thi* morning. The
eminent gentlemen and lady were re
ceived cordially by hia honor, and dar
ing the interview the judge broached
the subject of evila existing in the land,
applying hia remark* more especially to
bo prevalance of intoxication. Hi* ad
don* on tbia oocaaion waa elucidative to
the illustrious gentlemen and lady, and
waa intimative that they might gencr
onaly donate to the fartherance of public
morality an amount eonal to two dollar*
each, with a alight addition to meet the
reqnirementa of legal process.
A very respectable gentleman, William
McLonglin, Eaq., who had been prevail
ed upon to visit hia honor, we* also con
ferred with by the jndge on the "object
of frequent imbihatioo, rfaulting too fre
quently in inebriation ; bnt aa the view*
of Mr. McLonghlin were diver** from
tlioae of hia honor, no conelnaion waa
arrived at, and another conference be
tween the gentleman and hia honor will
lie held on the 14th inah, when it ia
hoped that a definite concloaion may he
happily reach*], and the diacnaaion
terminated.
Bo endeth the flrt leeaoti.
A Whole Family llrownrd.
A heartrending and diatreeaing ac
cident occurred recently at Laneaville,
la. In the afternoon Mr. Lane, with
hia wife and two children went on the
me in the Mtaai*aippi river to enjoy
i them wive*. He improvinhed a hand
aleigh and a large box, into which he
placed hia wile and children. Two
handle* extended from the rear of the
; aleigh, with which Mr. Lane shoved the
i aleigh on the 100. They were having a
delightful time. The km near the ahoro
waa about threa inches thick. The river
waa open in the channel, and tha iee
naar the open water wi.a, of ooaiwe,
much thinner. Mr. Lane, unfortunate
! IjFi ventured too near the open water,
i He felt the ioe giving way, bnt before
: he oonld retrace hia steps it broke
; through, ingulfing ia the atreem the
wife, the children acd toe father—all
in a moment were launched into eterni
ty. The maddening ahriek of the
drowning family waa heard by a party
of woodaboppera on an adjacent island,
who aaw the cataatrophe. Tliey has
tened to the rescue, bat were anable to
arrive in time to be of aervioe. Laoe
and hia family were under the ice, their
deed bodies probably fioetiag down the
river. It waa *ad to contemplate, and
the bronxed faoea of the hardy wood
obopper* were moistened with tear*
they oonld not control They went to
the station and gave the alarm, and then
proceeded to Lane's cabin. They found
the door unlocked. Inside a bright
fire crackled in the stove. The aiiver
bright tin tea kettle waa ainging for
the return of the unfortunate family.
The oat and dog were nestled under the
stove awaiting the return of the two
children who petted them. Everything
about the honae indicated happiness and
neatnei a. Mr. Lane waa the ticket
agent at the station, and ia spoken of aa
a man of industrious and frugal habit*,
and a man who thought the world and all
of hia Utile family
In 1838, whan Walter Hunt Invented
tf sewing machine, hia wife protested
that it throw sewing women oat
of work.
AA KfIUIKKEH'M AbVKMLKK
Trs kr S WHS Hoar ssdSstM Irmm Death
h* a lllark Rear.
A letter from Honesdale, Pa., says
Aleck Frobes and Charley Hulsizer, of
Port Jarvis, are two well-known Erie
railway engineers. They have lately
returned from a two weeks hunt in the
wilderness of Canada, 150 miles north
of Bt. Thomas.
" Last year Charley and I went out
the same woods," Aleok said. "Then I
got treed by a wild boar, and I thought
that was worse than going down the
hank at tho rate of forty miles an honr.
Yon see, some old fellow out there
turned tome hogs in the woods three or
four years ago, und they wont wilJ. I
started one of 'em one day, and thought
I'd have a littlo fun with him. I sent a
ballet after him. He changed his
course, sud made plumb for me. I
skinned up s beech tree. I thought tho
blamed animal'd go away when be fontid
I was out of his reach. Bnt he wasn't
that kind of a hog. It was colder than
Greenland, and ul>ont two o'clock in the
afternoon. Charley and the rest of the
party we-e scattered about in the woods,
out of hearing. The boar—for he was a
boar, and u big one at that—waltzed
around that tree, spitting out froth as if
he'd chewed a barrel of shaving soap,
and showing up a pair of tusks like a
young rhinoceros. He trie/1 to gnaw
the tree down, and worked a*ay for an
hour with hia teeth. 1 thought certain
be inteuded to keep right on till he
brought me down. Bnt by and by be
gave that plan np. The tree wasn't more
than eight inches through, and I think
the hog made a mistake in quittiug, for
there ain't any donbt but that he'd a
fetched it by early bed time. But lie
stopped gnawing.
" fhen he went off ten or ad<Aen feet
and sat down on bis haunch, s. He
granted and frothed for at least ten
miuntes. Then a now idea seemed to
strike him. He jumped back to the
foot of the tree and commenced to
shovel tho dirt away from it with his
snout, as if he had a contract to build
a cellar. I saw what he *a at in a
minute. He was going to dig up the
tree by the roots. ' Blame the hog 1' I
said. 'lf some of the boya don't come
along pretty mam I might a* wt-II have
been born a beech-nut, for lie's bound
to have a meal on mc if it's in the book.'
Then I yelled, ' B'boy, there, a'boy 1'
But that hog'd been too loug in the
woods to a'boy worth a cent. Then I
whistled for an imaginary dog, ami di
ed, ' n'ver, Towser! b'jcr, h'yer,
h'yer !' I reraembeml that when I was
a boy, an<) the hog* got into the garden,
they slwavs made for the bole in the
fence wo/ n you shu-tled for the dog.
But this oIJ fellow only frothed the
more, and norted the louder and work
ed the faster.
"I vw blame near frozen hy the
time it grew dark. The ann went down
nn i the mom came up, and still that
b'lug away at tho root* of that tree.
I oonld see that be had a hole around it
big • -Kiugh to hnry an ox in, and I hope
to fly if I didn't think the tree began to
tot lex. It got colder and colder, and
the boar kept right on rooting. I be
gan to'wonder who they'd pat on my
engine in my place, and whether the
bog would leave my bones so the boys
might find 'era, and take >m home to
niv folk*. 0.-.ee, at abont eight o'clock,
I thought IM sbm down the tree ami
try a race with the boar, aa I might aa
well be killed in trying to got away aa
to die like a sheep in a pen. Bo I lie
g*n to let myself qnietly down. 1 had
my hand* on tho lower branches with
my legs hanging down the trunk, wb*n
the hog smelt the rat. He gave a snort
that made the vcrv tree shake, and
raised np ou hut bind feet to meet me
half way. I waa liaek to within two
feet of the top of the tree in less time
than it would take a red squirrel to
jump a rail fence.
" It's no nae," I said. " Unless some
o' the boya come along inside of an
honr, I'm a goner." About ten minute*
alter that th* hog suddenly stopped dig
ging. He seemed to listen tor a minute ;
then, with a string of the roost unearth
ly snort*, he started ou a dead run off
toward Wolf swamp.
"What's up," 1 said. In less than
five seconds I knew what was up. Out
of Uie brush to the right came, tearing
and growling, one of the biggest bears
I ever aaw. He never stopped, bnt let
himself oat the beet he knew how after
the boar. Pork ia one of the choice
delicacies in the provender of a bear.
The bog had considerable start of tlie
bear, but at the rate the bear was going,
aa I aaw him by the light of the moon
disappear over the brow of the riiige, I
think ho mnsi have come np with the
bog and had hia oowtod lunch. I didn't
wait for any news from the seat of war.
but got out of that tree atiout as lively
aa I bad got into it, picked up my gun
and made for camp. I got in abont
twelve o'clock. The boya had been
out looking for me, and had given me
np for lost. They felt good when I
showed up.
Little Mil) on tlf I'irNi.
My aiater aayi no man wich ihooU
pi Jgin ramlcbfw ahal marry her, bnt no
man a ode want to marry her, I gneia,
an long aa the pidgin ehootin held oat,
oo that wad ne fan ennff. Wen nhc
naid it her ynng man got red like a beat,
bat didn't nay nothin. Nex day he ant
my Uncle Nod did be kno nobody wich
wad like to bi a jam op good atibt-gnn.
Uncle Ned, he aaid : "fd like to bi it
my own eetf if it waa a good pidgio gnn,
but I gene it aint, coe it ban come mitr
ni npilin a match." Some pidgine cai -
rya letter*, name aa the poatcfßce, and
one time wen ray'aiaterVyung man aenl
away he cot one of oar pidgina and took
it a long for to fetch back a letter to
her, jeet for a flier. Nex day weoerer
that girl herd the dore be! ring ebe waa
jeat wild, ooe ebe thot it was her letter
eome, for her idee was that the pidgin
wade teere it at the poetofllro, for tone
delivered by the letter carreers. But
wen my mother tola her the pidgin moat
come thru the winder, aha wont and
thro np m winder in the hooa, and'it
waa a cole Jar, and Franky, that's the
baby, took COM and come mlty near pe>
terin oat, , .j ; V' i
A man in Lexington, Vt., mailed e
latter to e flctition* namo in Japan, with
a request that it be returned if not call
ed for, and started it byway of the At
lantic. Hi* object waa to eo bow long
it would be in going around the world.
It iMune bock tor the way of San Francis
oo in joat 100 day*.
Hew a Man Leeks the Dears.
There is something curious sbout the
ways man closes up tho house for the
night. A woman will secure all the
doors iu the bouse in ten minutes and
spend twenty minutes tiking down her
hock hair and getting ber frizzes ready
for morning. The man of tho boose,
having no I wok hair to take down and
no frizzes to put up, spends his time in
closing np the bouse. Ho begins st
the bsck door, and locks and bolts all
the doors from that to the front door.
Then he takes off his cost and oollar.
By that time one of the children wants a
drink of water, and he has to unlock one
of the doors to get it. Then be locks
the door carefully, goe buck and takes
off bis vest and winds tip bis wntch or
clock, as the case may be. His wife
suddenly calls out from among the bed
clothes—it being the winter season—
and asks her liege lord to make another
expedition to the kitchen and see if the
pancake hatter ia liable to riae in ita
might and overflow the dish. He an
lcks two more doors and makes s tour
of inspection. 411 is well. He removes
his stockings, wi rms his feet and pro
poses to retire. Suddenly be is over
come with the conviction that the rear
door is not looked, and away ho goes
barefooted over the cold floor of the
kitchen and woodshed. By the time he
reaches the woodshed door he is nnoc-r
-lain whether any of the doors are lock
ed, and he makes the grand round
again. All is secure. Ho removes his
pantaloons, blows out the light and is
jnat about to lie down, when his wife
suddenly bethinks herself that the girl
probably forgot to put the milk pail out,
and away ho goes again in a huff and
white flowing garment. Before bo gets
back to lied again he steps on two mar
bles and a sharp piece of tin which the
children have left on the floor. At last
he gets between the sheets and lays him
down to pleasant or horrible dreams
he is never sure which it will be. As
Morpheus gobbles him np and is about
to take him to the land of Nod, the bril
liant thought that the hired girl ia out
flashes athwart bis brain, and begets np
and unlocks the kitchen door. In ex
actly one hour and eleven minutes from
tbo time be begin* preparations to re
tire he is in bed for good, ami one of the
doors is still unlocked. He aays softly
but solemnly to himself that he'll be
blowed if he'll undertako to lock the
doors again if robtier* surround the
house fopr deep. Eu' the Dext night he
repeats the performance, by apecial re
quest,—Rome (N. Y.) Sentinel.
The FillH el Memphis.
Memphis is situated upon the east
bank of the Mississippi, upon a bluff
varying from fifteen to fifty feet in
height. Upon the crest of thia bluff
run* Front street; from thia street the
ground slope* outwardly away from
the river, o that all ruin, surface gutter
washing*, nlop and whatever of floatable
filth there may be, ia drained into the
bayou, which winda through the heart
of "the city. Across the river the Ar
kansas aboro stretches low and flat, a
vast marsh, notorious for it* malaria;
north and east of Memphis upon the
Tennessee aide, the land ia low and
awampy; the soil in and about the city,
of clay. The bayon runs through the
moat thickly populated parts of Mets
fihis. Into the elongated cesspool ia ooi
eeted all the floating filth of a city of
55.000 inhabitants; garbage, the drain
age from privy vanlts, gutter and street
washings, dead animal matter, all and
everything ia poured or thrown into
this receptacle, there to decay and fester
under the broiling ann of that southern
climate. Consider it, if possible—ten
miles of rocking rottenness; not a yard
of it covered except where crossed by
the bridges of the various street*. Dnr
ing a rise of the Mississippi the back
water fills thia bayon bank fnll, it* ac
cumulated filth then soaking into the
llie clay of its hanks. Whn the river
fslla, the enrrent of tbo bayon ia not erf
sufficient strength to empty its content*
into the river. Th street* of the city
of Memphis are beyond description
filthy, and completely out of repsir.
The wooden pavement is only one
in nae, or rather was the pavement
originally pat down. The street* and
vanls are heavily shaded, th magnolia
Iwtng the tree mostly need. leanest
and Clinic.
Ail OHkIuI hrlter of li.mlel Bonne
An nriKinal |pl(r of I>aiiiol Boone it
on exhibition in Cincinnati. Lite letter
it toe property of Colonel John Taylor,
of Newport, Kf., and wa* addreaped:
" To John Overton, of Lincoln oonnty;
to ti left at Elijah Hmitb'a, Lniogton."
The letter reads:
Jnly the 20lh, 17fW.
Bm—The I Ami haa Been Long Hnr
vayd ami Not Knowing When the
Money would ba Radev Was the Reason
of my not Returning the worka however
the may be Returned when yon pleaa.
Bnt 1 mnat ft rat have a Nother Copy of
the Entry aa I bar* Lnat that I had when
1 I oat my plating Inatrnmenta and only
have the Bbnrt field No tea Jnat the
Oorae P'Manc and Corner treea pray
aend me Nother Copy that I may Know
how to give it the proper Bonnderry
agreeable to the Ixioation and I Will
aend the plat to the oAa a medetly if yon
Chnae it the Expenaea iai* follows, via.:
Hnrtayera fata £9 I I
Rmwtiti faca 7 It 9
<3aM>n>en and Marker It Day* . I 0 0
pnrrMJon* for the boor > 0
(urarlnoiui for tba tour). -
£33 17 0
Ton Will also Bend a C >py of the
agreement Iwtwixt Mr. Walaa Overton
and b Self Where t red the warrant*.
1 am air yoar nmMe aervant.
Dakucd Boo*it.
The above ie a literal copy. The
letter ia written on nnrnled paper, in a
clear, round hand, very legible and
ci Atneteriatie. The p. of nee employment
of capital letter* and the total abaenca
of pnnetnatien marks are notable in the
manr r
He Had fargette*.
A profwr in Letpsto nniversity
asked a student what the anrjra
tmrealia was. Putting hi* finger to the
aide of his bead and looking wise, tba
student aa!-' •
" 1 know very well, bnt I forget jnat
no* - hat it ia - *%
" Tbere," said lha professor, "wa
arw iu h*. The only man in tba world
who evar knew what the anmra ia haa
Mfotah
Ibimufuf of aa Apple Ktaad.
"Jennie Jane," writing from Mew
York to the Baltimore American, Mb
this romantic little story of ooe of the
innumerable fruit-stand* sprinkled aU
over (iotham :
Tin-re is an apple-# l*nd on * oorner
near Fourteenth street, winch baa been
presided over for many y<*r* by an old
man, a philosopher in but way, who re
cently grew rheumatic and retired on
bia navinga, wbicb, notwithstanding bia
oonatant grumbling at the prieea be *u
obliged to pay ana the small profits ha
had to put np with, must bare been
considerable.
Hia anooeaaor waa an Engliah woman,
neat, quiet, reserved and with a certain
refinement of appearance and manner
which would strike even the tnoat casual
observer, and with precision and oor
redness of speech very different frota
tbe ordinary tvpe of apple women. Her
reticence ami her lady-like manner
served effectually to check qaeatiouing,
wbicb must have savored of imperti
neuoe ; anil ao aho remained in ber
place, behind ber stall, selling ber
apples, week after week, in all kinds of
weather, for a number of months, until
finally she disappeared. Two weeks sgo
ber place was taken by two little girls,
eight and eleven years of age—little
women both, qniet, neat, gentle refined
iu speech and manner just like their
mother, and with the same reserve and
self possession. Black cloth English
walking-jackets were buttoned closely
over their dark stuff dresses, and their
shy eyes and timid manner seemed only
a vail to nnosnsl decision and an almost
painful maturity of character.
One year ago these little girls lived
with their father and mother, the former
a working mechanic in a small town in
The man became uneasy and
dissatisfied, collected his small sarings,
sold out their household furniture, and
with the proceeds, to his wife's infinite
sorrow and regret, brought the family to
New York. Here be left them to try
and find employment The woman took
a small room, an attic, for herself and
children, removing them from the lodg
ing-house in which they had first found
refuge ; she sold her wedding ring and
a set ot jewelry left ber bv ber mother,
and consisting of an old-fashioned brooch
and earrings of aome value, to purchase
the good will and stock in trade of the
apple-stand, by which she hoped to livs
until her husband returned. Exposure
soon killed her, aided by want of proper
treatment and medicine. The two littlt
English girls now oocupy the attic
alone at night when they return from
the corner of the street, whiob is the
scene of their daily labors. They keep
it anxiously neat and clean, as nearly
a* possible as their mother kept it.
They are only waiting with that pitiful
patience which belongs to the well-to-do
poor when great misfortunes overtake
them, altering no word of rebellion,
finding their only relief and oonaolatioß
in the iudnstrions discharge of every
little duty. Their father does not know
of the death of their mother. They do
not know where to vrilo to him, nor
perhaps does it matb r much if he never
returns to them. They will in some
way work oat an honest future for them
selves, to which, perhaps, be would only
be a hindrance or a blight.
Trials ef as Editor .
Mr. Willard A. Oobb, himself a jour
nalist, in an address at Lorkport,
( X. Y.), told his audience what aome of
the trials of the newspaper editor are.
He enumerated the following: "The
placidity with which c rreepondentr
write upon both sides oi the sheet, thus
aettii g all tLe compositors to breaking
the third oommandmeui ; the appear
ance in ibe sanctum of the man who
has a grievance; the presence of the
fiend who carries away the host ex
changes ; the coming m of the man with
the latest news—one of those characters
who has an idea that when he goes
west the east tips up, and Ho* eerso."
Mr. Oobb might have added to that last
clause the man who comes to the
editor'a private room to ask what is the
i news; also the man who has come in
i for "a little talk." Htories of ludi
; crous typographical blunders are legions
j in number, and Mr. Oobb recalled sev
| erl good ones. By the dropping out
! of n single letter, the Book of Common
Prayer once went to press with the sen
tence "We shall all be change! in the
twinkling of an eye," tcanafoHesd into
"We shall all In- hanged in the twin
kling of an eye." A poet who wrote
"Bee the pale martyr in a sheet of
fire," wns startled to see his line
chanced into "See the pale martyr
with his shirt on fire." Mr Oobb ■
Suite right in thinking such ' rsusgrea
■nt rr*> na pardonable aa the blunder*
aotueume* made in other profession*,
and tells (he story of the minister who
was aiknl to read the following notice:
"A man having gone to sea, his wife
i desires the prayers of the church and
i by the misplacing of a comma in read
| ing it, gravely told the congregation
i that " a man having gooe to see his
( wife, desire* the prayers of the ebnnih."
Xerwegiaa Oemmeree.
| The Norwegian nation is the smallest
| of all European nations, bat it* cummer -
: oial fleet is the third largest in the
i world. The Norwegian flag is, of all
foreign flags, that which is most fre
quently seen in the harbor of New
York, sad through the sound which
connects the Baltic with the North sua
and forms tha highway from London to
Ht Petersburg, often three to four hun
dred Norwegian craft of every descrip
tion pass daring one single day. is
Norway, although not every man is a
sailor, every person is, nevertheless,
more or lees directly connected with the
shipping in tercet. To build ships or to
sail them, to owe ships or to hare a neat
in them, is a point in .rybody'e lift
all along those thousand fjords which
fringe the ooaat of Norway; and to (he
inland fanner the moat common manner
of placing hie seringa Is to go down to
toe aae and boy u part in a ship. Many
a Norwegian vessel, carrying timber to
England and coal back to Denmark, or
dried flah to Kapha and oranges berk
to St Petersburg, represents the tor
tunes of a whole village eg pariah, to
which even the servant girl ma* hare t
share, and to many a well-to-do Korww
glso firmer the only aouiee from whic"
he draws, and can drew, ready money is
hie ship-part.