A HUMORIST'S CAREER. Story of Ihr F.rcntfti! I.lfr of "XI. Quail." Charles B. Lewis, hotter known an " M. Quad" of tlx* Detroit Free I Ye**, lias written a comedy, and Mr. ami Mrs. Alf' Wcynian. the celebrated aetor anil ac tress, will soon put it on the stage in that city. Lewis is truly a remarkable man. lie fw-gnn life a poor printer—so poor, in faet, that his proofs, after lieing read by the editor, looked like a map of L'pper Cana da. When the war broke out lie enlisted j in the Sixth Michigan cavalry, and served gallantly until its close —and for nearly a year afterward, as the regiment, after "the" surrender of 1-ee, was sent to Fort Bridget. Utah, and was not mus tered out until February, IHWfI. On the Yellowstone, in May. the command fought one of the bloodiest Indian hat ties in history, in which the gallant Col. Kid. while riding at the head of his command in the same heroic manner as • Custer, fell pierced with twenty-seven arrows. After the war j-ewis returned to Michigan almost penniless. and again took up the stick and rule. Through the assistance of (Jeorge Peek (who was once a congressman from Michigan), editor of the State ,Journal, to which paper he had ! occasionally contributed, he secured a situation as local editor on the Maysvillc (Kv.) Haiti tin. While en route to Mays villc, to enterupon the duties of the only lucrative offer lie had ever received, the steamer upon which lie took passage on tlie Mississippi river, blew up, killing and wounding some forty persons and more or less injuring all the others. ! Lawis, horribly scalded and disfigured. ' was blown some tlfteen yards, landing I on the hank of the river. When picked | up, life appeared to he extinct, and his appearance was such that lie was mis- I taken for a negro, loaded into a cart and . was driven to the dead-house. On ex hibiting signs of life lie was removed to a hospital, and. after weeks of intense suffering, began to mend. When at gist ahli* to leave that institution, lie found . his Maysvillc position had long lieen ' filled, and he returned blemished and j bankrupt, to Michigan. While in search j of employment he happened into the of- ! lice of the Pontine Jaek-*onian, and, with* ! out copy, set from the ease an article headed, " llow it Feels to Is 1 Blown l*p." 1 The article was humorous and graphic ' to a remarkable degree, and there are ; few publications in America in which it has not appeared. It may he said of j Lewis that "he went to bed one night. ' and awoke in the morning and found ; himself famous." He sued the steam- ! boat company, and recovered' $lO,OOO. This sum lie invested in Free Press stock. 1 and has ever since been an attache of that paper, though for years lie has con- I tribute-! to the columns of Kastern lite- j rary periodicals. In 1*74 lie published a hook of selections, entitled " Quail's ! Odtls," which ran through several edi tions, and a half interest in which he sold for $12,000. In a recent letter to the writer, Mr. Lewi* states that his weekly income is now $2lO. making a munificent annuity of some $lO,OOO. (jnml has hut one eccentricity, or " weakness,as it is called, and tliat is peanuts, of which he is very fond. It is doubtful if there has boon a moment during the past ten years when his coat tail pockets did not contain peanuts, lie never passes a huckster's stand on the street without pausing to reach around i to see if his stock of this peculiar vege table needs replenishing. If he meets a child crying on the street, lie never in quires the cause, hut stops, reaches into his coattail pocket, loads tlie tearful youngster up with a double-handful of peanuts, and hurries on his way. Sight ing a newslsiy or lioothlack ahead, whose j • countenance indicate* cold weather or depressed business, lie gets ready a hand- ; fui of peanuts, calls " Here, boy." and j the transfer is made without once break ing his pace. Is 1 wis claims that two i cents'worth of peanuts, judiciously bo- Stowed, will carry more satisfaction to a j human heart—while the action encour- ( age* it to brace up against the world— ; than a $5OO gift to pay off a church debt.— Peek'* Milwaukee Hun. Remedies Worth Trying. The Paris correspondent of the Boston Fourier, referring to hi* recovery from a dangerous illness, says: I mention this illncss that I may tell you how easily I was cured. I was bent double. I could not breathe. My piivsicinn ordered un to take a flat-iron and heat it as hot as I could liear; hut a double fold of flannel! on the painful part and move the iron to and fro on the flannel. I wascured ashy ] enchantment. My doctor told roe that j some time since a professor in one of our colleges, after suffering some days with ' neuralgia in the head, which In- himself tried U> cure, sent for the former, who preserilied a hot flat-iron. The next , time the doctor saw the professor the ! latter exclaimed with mock anger: "I - really shall not pay you any fee! I had no sooner applied tie- heated iron than all pain vanish**!! That is as simple as good day; surely you eiuinot expect a fee for it? My physician was summoned recently to the bedside of a woman who had neuralgia in fxtth sides and so violent- I ly she alarmed the whole neighliorhood ' by the screams which her intolerable anguish wrung fsnm low. She was taken from her bed and borne near the Are. In such severe cases a heated iron Is not energetic enough. He lias an iron rod fastened in an ivory handle. He heats this rod to white heat (which causes less pain than red heat) and applies it very slightly to tlx* seat of pain, first in longi tudinal, tlu-n in latitudinal line*.. The application is so light that no trace i* left hut red lines on tin- epidermis, which are soon effaced. In twenty minutes the woman walked back to ls-d and the third day nfterward quitl-sl it entirely freed > from neuralgia. This instrument is not to la- entrusted to awkward hands. Three weeks ago one of our brilliant ar tists was invited to shoot by the owner of a chateau in whose grounds tlu-re are wild fowl in abundance. He woke, the morning after arrival at this gentleman's house, with sciatica in his right thigh. He could not leave his bed. Tnancarcst doctor wll* sent for. " I can do nothing which will give you immediate relief. Tin-artist is a patient of my physician. He tohl the doctor what to do. 'Hie lat ter declined taking the responsibility of any such violent treatment. "But I assume all responsibility." The doctor applied an iron rod heated to white heat, hut so awkwardly tliat the artist has sears tin- size of a Ilve-lhmc piece on Ids thigh. Hp was ne vert In-less cured, and et\)oyed a week's sport without one other twitch of pain. "m The electric light on thnCtinard wharf ■ is working well, and it is now i-ropuard F to light the harbor with these machines. ) One placed on Fort Independence nnd another oa fhinard wharf would enable a vessel to enter the linrbor In the dark est night or denwwt fog - -Ho+jmA<hcr titer. FOR THE YOUNtt PEOPLE. Npnlllna a llomlialirll. When Tom Black was in his fourteenth year, ho w.-is at school in u small village in the sftutli of England, and was as happy a hoy a* any fellow ought to ex pect to Is-; and yet on his birthday, when ho was really fourteen, he ran away to sea. No one could possibly imagine why lie did tills, and, indeed, 'loin himself could give 'no good reason for his conduct. lie had a half-holiday on his birthday, and in- went down to the seaport town of M . a short trip from the school, to spend a few hours and to see tlx* ships, 'i here lie fell in with a recruiting oflh-or, who wanted soniv bovs for a man-of-war in tlx* harbor, and Tom was so utucli pleased with tin' stories lie told of life at sea, that he went into a stationer's store, bought some paper and wrote two notes, one to his family at home and the other to the master of tin- school, informing them that lie had a most admirable op portunity of going to sen and learning to he a naval officer. Such a chance might not occur again, and as In- hud made up his mind to enter the navy, any way, it would not be wise to let the opportunity pas*. He would lose nothing by leaving school now, for navigation, mat hematics, and everything flint it was necessary for a naval officer to know, were taught on tin- siiip. Then In- mailed tin- letters and went on hoard. Wln-n Tom's father and the master received these notes, it is probable tliat tln-y would have taken measure* to get Tom off that ship in very short order, hud it not been for tin- fact tliat tin- ves sel sailed early the next morning after Tom made his appearance on her deck, and she was fur out at sen la-fore Mr. Black and Dr. Powers had read tln-ir letters. So there was nothing to he done at home hut to hope that things would eventually turn out for the la-st, and in deed this was what Tom himself had to do. For he soon found that his position on tin* vessel was very differ- nt from what h- had supposed it would la-, in stead of being taught how to ail the ship, he wan taught how to coil a rope anil to help wash the deck, lie was a ship's laty—not a midshipman. When poor Tom found out thi* lament able fact. In- made up hi* mind tliat in would run away tin- lirst time the vessel touched a port. But when --lie did reach a port, he re-made up hi mind, and concluded to stay on board. By a little observation he found tliat it would la- a difl'n-ult and dangerous thing for him to try to run away, and besides lie hud no money to takeliim home. It would he la-tter. lie thought, to stay on l-oard the shin, where lie had made some friend*, ami where In- was getting on a good deal better than any other ship-lioy. For the under-olfn-ers soon found out tliat Tom was made of better stuff than the other Ih>\ s. and they could not help thinking, too. that tie had In < n a great fiol to cxjiiie on l-oard in -ucli a position. But they -lid not tell him so. for that would have helped no one. and might have spoiled a very good ship's IHV. Tom wrote home wln-n- v-r he had a chance, and In had some long letters from his family, which were forwarded to him witli tin- other ieit>-r* for the ship. But after lie had been on l-oard the Hector alioitt six months, lie got a short letter, which pleased him nmv-- than any thing ill the letter line lie had ever n ccjved. This t-d-l liiui tliat a* hi- friends had la-eome convinced tliat he was really very inu-'h attached ton life on the sen. ami that as his oflh-eg-s lnul reported Well of him. they had obtained for him an nj>* pointmr-nt as midshipman. Now Tom was liappv. Now he would r--ally learn mat hematic* and navigation, and now he hail a eluuice to w->rk him self up into a g-x>l jM-sition. it would seem as if this tliot!gnt|e-s fx-y had i-een rewarded f--r running away from school, and giving his family no much anxiety and trouble. But things sometimes hap pen that way, though it does not do to trust to any sti- h good fortune. In after years, Tom often r--gr--tt-<l that lie had not stayed at s. hool ami finished portions of his education whi<-h had to l>e entire ly neglected on U-ar-l ship. Ami he also had some immediate cause for r--jent oro-e, for lie found that some of Id* com panion* were very willing to joke nlx-tit the shjp'-i>oy who hail route among them, although tln-y knew that In- was just as much of a gentleman as any of them. In alout a year after Tom'* npp-rfnt ment, war broke out w itli Spain, ami tlm Hector was ordered to tie- Spanish roast. After cruising about for a month or two. she joined with two oilier Briti-h vessel* in an attack on a fortress on tin- short- of the Mediterranean s- a, which viu at tin same time besieged by a buid force. Early in the morning the three Ye*sal* opened fire on tin- fort, which soon replied in vigorous fashion, send ing homlwhell* and eannon-fmlls all nr-uind tln-in. n-l sometime* knocking tiff a spar or crashing through some tim ber*. But the Hector fared very well. She was mor-- advantngi-ousl v placed than the other shins, and while sin- eould readily m-ur in her lire on tin fort. sin- received fewer shots in return than her consort*. But, after a time, the enemy Ix-gnn to think tliat the "Hector" nceiled rather more attention, ami additional guns were brought to fx-ar upon her. Now there were lively times on the Heetor's deck, and Tom found out what it wn* to is- in a hot fight on board of a shin. I But the boy Was not frigllt-n- rf. Tliat was not Ids nature. He rushed around, carrying orders ami attending to iiis du ties, very much n* if In- was engaged in j a rousing good game of ericket. While lie was thus employed, jihitup on Ixianl earn* a l-oinhshcll. and mil ai moot at the f(*t of the mainmast. The fuse In it was smoking nnd fizzing. In an instant more it would explode and t--ar everything nround it to atoms! Several men were at a gun nenr-by, hut they did not see the ttnmh. Their lives were almost as good n* gone. The captain stood just book of the gun. He saw the smoking homh, and sprang back. Before he had time fo even shout " I-ook out?" along came T-m. He was almost on the Ix-nih Ix-fbre he *nw it. It never took Tom long to make up his mind. We finve seen that. His second thoughts always came up n long way after the first one*. He gave a glance at the smfcking fuse; he knew that it was lust about to explode, and that it Would kill everybody round about It, and he picked it up and hurled it into the When the captain sow Tom stoop, nnd grasp that hot, heavy homh In lit* two hands; when lie saw him rata it tin with the fuse spluttering and fizzing close to his ear—where. If it hn-l ex ploded. It Would have blown hi* head into pieee* no bigger tlwn a pen—nnd then dash it over tlie ship's aid-, ?•< that the fttsc was, of course, extinguished tlie instant It touched tin* water, li<* won ho astonished ill,'it ho could not speak. lie niiule one step, a warning ery wan on Ills lijis, |>ul before lie could say a word it wan all over. When Tom turned, and was about to hurry away on an errand that hod been HO strangely interrupted, the captain took him by the arm. "My giwid fellow," said he, and al though he had seen much Hervice and had been in many a tight, the captain could not help bis voice shaking a little; " niv good fellow, do you know what you have done?" " Yes,air,"said Tom. with a smile, " I .lav spoiled a bombshell." And every r inan in this part of the ship owes you his life, I 'added the enp ain. • If vou should ever meet Captain Tom Black of her majesty's shin "Stinger," you might ask him about tills incident, and he would probably tell you that he has heard nbnul it a great ileal himself, and that he believes, from what happened afterward, that the nfliiir of the Isilnb sliell was a very good thing for him, but that it was all over so quickly that he has really (forgotten almost all about it.— John l.ih cr*, in St. yicJiohw. The Cliff* Dweller*. tang liefore ('oluillhirs' diseoverv, probably early in ihet bristinnern, eivfl i/.ation Is-gaii in Ainerien. l-'ive distinct native civilisations arc known to have exist**!: one in I'cru, one in Yucatan, one in Mexico, one in New Mexico, Ari zona and Colorado, and one in the val leys of the Mississippi nnd Ohio river-. The latter were mound builders, who worked the copper mines of lake Superi or ami worshfiied the American eagle. The New Mexican race we call the l'tlch los, or town builders, ami toward the dose of their career the Cliff-dwellers. When the whites came to this conti nent the Peruvians and the civilizations of Yucatan and Mexico > nourish ing: the Cliff-dwellers I .early di.nap js-ared, and the Mound-builders bad Ihsu >wcpt away nnd rep|n<-cd by Imrbar ous northern liordcs. I,iving in a moist land rich in wood, they built of tliis material, nnd most of their works |H rished with them; but tbe New Mexi can people occupied a dry, elevated and barren country abounding in platraus and cliffs, where agriculture, requiring irrigation, could lH*rniTi<*l on only along the I/orders of tile few and widaly-scpn latcd streams, or where water could Is* Htor.nl in reservoirs. The region was and is a desert, in which settlement* mark oases. Wherever the Pueblo* could cultivate tile ground thev built towns of stone or sun-burnt brick, the only mate rial at hand in this rx-nrlv woodles* land. They raised cotton, corn, pumpkin*, can- and other vege table*, lino domestic animals, and w. re quite advan. isi in weaving, |Mitterv mak ing. and otler primitive art-. At one time they occupied ev. ry available spot in eastern ArlJtonn, New Mexico and touthirn < oiorado; Init tic natural con ditions of climate and topography f..r bnde tliat nnv great accumulations of wealth should repay the cn.lle-* patience of their toil. A liar.* subHistence was all tliat could In wrung from the desert land. WRen, therefore, the nortliTn trite* Is gali to crowd down upon the scatter.si settlements, the*.- wild ne n of the chase. who. having neither property nnr fixed hom.s, bad everything to gain and nothing to lose in tie struggle, aiowiv wore out th' -ir.ngtli of the morecivif. iz.sl race. While the services of every man. woman and child mut have been needed in agriculture to accurc a living a large proportion of the male popula tion Were in arms r<-sisting the increas ing incursion* of nomads. Weak' nrd by battle nnd famine, the gentler mee. who had treasured and developed the saerel germ of human progre-s, aban doned their i t•* in the valleys and took reftjgv in ledge* of almost inae. .-siti| cliffs. Hwtney built tbtnnlni st..n houses, not to Is 1 approach'*) ex.vpt by ladder*, and support.-d theme!vi on what could In' raise.) along streams at the foot of the ro< ks. All of this trans pired tiefbre the flfto'nlli century. When the Spaniard* tirst js-netrated int.. New Mexico, they heard falniioits tab's of seven inhabit"*! cities, full o gold and silver, perched on the summit of a high rock. They vainly endeavororl to cross the deserts separating them from tins... o-ealie.i eiti.-i of Citeila. Almost nothing was known of them until a I'nited Stnt'-s government expedition, overcoming great olwtneli*. encamped finally at tliefoot of the escarp**! plateau, on w bos.' top stand the seven Moqni tow ns. They found a civilized agricul tural people. clad In cotton and woolen garments of their own weaving, en gaged in cultivating maize, vegetable* and fruit, l.ut also men of the chase, and thoroughly warlike, Tlii* i toe only surviving remnant of of that once-powerful people, who. driven from the valleys to the cliff-, perished at last by the bands of the wild trihes we am now exterminating —Al bany Journal, talent Force*. A Kansas mule, of the brindle denom ination. was standing in a pasture held, backed Up uneotnfortablv close to a mild-eyed Texas steer. The mule was not feeling in a very good humor. lie had lost his railroad ticket, or had a note to lift, or somebody had kicked his dog or something. Anyhow, lie was cross, nnd feeling Just ready to do some thing mean the tirst chance" he. got. By. and-by a rnH*l* sw i-li of the Texan's tale ntveliiin the longed-for lirovoent x>n, and Is-fore the mule got his heels hack to the ground, the Texan thought some* body lin.l shot him with a double-bar relled cannon. And then the steer aiowiv turned hi* head, and opened wide his clear, pensive eyes,and without swearing or catching his breath or say ing a word, he just lifted one of his hind legs about eight feet from the ground and tapped the astonished mule with his cloven lioof, right where he lived. And the mule curled up in n knot and gospel. "Oh, bleeding heart!" And then lie leaned tip against a tree to cateli bis breath, nnd sat down.on the ground and opened bis mouth to t air, and finally lie lain down and held his leg* up jn the air and *ald. In a htiskv whisper, that If he could only die and IK- over with It, he would Iw glad. But he got over it a little after a while, and as lie was limp ing sadly toward the fcn<*\ trying to think just how it!happcncd. and wonder ing Just where lie was hit. he met his mother, who noticed Ids rueftil counte nance and Iti* painful locomotion. "Well," she said, "and what 1 * the matter with you?" ".Nothing, tlie mule said faintly. "Ob, nothing. I have just kicked n hook agent." "Heaven save us," said Ids mother with derisive accent, "I thought you bad more sense."— HurluujUm flawkcye. A Serond-hund .Suit. A big one hundred nnd eighty pounder, whose long legs and bulky body were jammed into a second-hand suit of clot lies two sizes too small, entered the <'entral sttation yesterday with Ids ear bleeding and a hunch on Ills jaw. As soon a- encouraged to speak he iiegari: " Well, to begin on, i in a miss, and to end, I'm a fool r' I've got that down,"said lhe<:iptaifi, us he made notes on a sheet of paper. "You see," continued Bulky, "I wanted to get hiv tin-type taken, and I wanted it took with a red necktie on. Bed just shows off gorgeous on at in-type, and this one o' mine was going clear to liijiutiy." "That's clown." ".Well, I went to a clothing store down here, and the fellow lie bowed and shook hands, and his wife she bowed unci shook hands, and lie hud red neckties ranging all the way froth fifteen cents to three million dollars apiece. I got one— here'shc is. ] don't claim to know any tliing about carpets, hut I do believe I kin pick out the best reel necktie of any ejiap of my inches in North America. That's all right, I'm satisfied with the tie; but ju-t put your eyes on this suit of clot lies! "I've seen better (its and more har mony in colors," observed the captain. "fits! Why, these clothes were built for a yearling calf, while I'm a tliroc-year old elephant; Harmony! Why, here's brown, blick, red, green and saddle color, all in bean!" " Well, why did you get Vmf" " Ye*, why did I get 'em," rcqs-atcsi the man as lie fell into a chair. " Write me down as another fool, ami draw a line under the fool! The-i- ere clothes hung there in that store, and when that 'ere man smiled and bowed and offered 'em to me for lifti-en dollars I bad no more jd< a of takin' Vin than you have of eat ing alligator-steak for dium r. Then bis wife bowisl and sniiledaml offered 'eln to Vnc fur tlllrtcs-n. and said I bad the purti est pair of shoulders she ever miw. Thc-n tie old man knocked off another dollar and said the clothes once- belonged to a millionaire here, and that w hen I got into 'em and walked up the street every hat would come off to glorify me," " And you believes! it ?" " Believed 1t! Write me down a-an idiot—a tins* —a fil who don't know 'nuff to chaw slipis-ry-c'lui! Ofcour-e. I believed it' One of '< m was praisin' my leg*, nnd the other my shoulders, and both smiling and Im>w ing. and I tcM>k these dud* at 'lev® dollar* 1 aiioot me. it I didn't!" " And pedestrian* took off tlxir hat- to you. did they ?" "Hidthey! That's tlx-nx-mx-st thing of all! I bought tie -• '-re t lungs Vino in' they belonged to a millionaire, but I hadn't gct| a lilndi from tie- store when a big-necked nift" danc-s up to me, call* inc .Ijiii tie' Kicker, and-ays lie's going to li. k me for giving him away to tlx* police. Tti'-'' '• re duds *o,d lie- right out 1n a 111 ill it. and J got a couple* of <uff on tie* le ad vrhieb have k-pt my brain play in' pull-away ever siuce tie boy* llC'l|Mv) tne up." "And what do you want lie to do— make an nrr>'*t ?" " Am t be bang'si"' -bout'sl Bulky a h jumped up. "l>o voti *'jM.-> I'm a qU'-ll r:' l>o I cry wfic-n I get bitten? N' 1 er' I can i" rjsb, but I ' aiiliot jural' Fan W' "I!" He started for the live r, at- offieer fol lowing at a distance, hut be changed hi* mind alsiut suiciding, ami vv.l* last seen sitting "ii a barrel <•( Akron "tieni pes ling a herring w itli one band and pull ing down In* \ .*st with tiie otler, while an old apple woman w.i- saying: " I s'po*e ye was driven into them elotle-s by mix hiix iv: hut what -ort of tnae-hincrv it i* tliatil elrive ye out of'em \ is more than a poor old woman lik-- tlx lias business to know."— Jktroit /We PrtM. , A Fterlslein on I'oiitene**, C'-rtain jN-rson*. who think it an evi elence .f being a giMid fellow to call g< n ll'iisn with whom they have only a slight acquaintance by their ir*t name*, may Is* edified U]N>n reading that a de cision en politeness was res c'litly giren iiy tiie supreme court at -Itostem. A liotel rlerk sit'sl lii- employers, wlio luwl elisohargexl liim liefore- Itis time was tin. tliey alleging that lie bail injureei their business by lieing tia familiar with gri'-sts in addressing them bv tiu-ir Chris tian name* or surnames only. The alle gation wa aeimitted, and the eenirt saiel: "To a<ldn*>s a person iiv lii* t bristian name, unliws the parti"-* have lie* n inli- 1 niateive-onnevtcd, *Ol iallv an'!otherwise, is unralleel-for f.-uuilian'tv, and. there- 1 i>re'insulting to the party *0 aeidreaocel. To neblre** a party by lii surname only show s aw ant of respect, anei would im ply* tliat tiie party sei aiieln-ssesl was lie- 1 m*ath the party addreming: therefore it is elise'ourte'oiis, and would lie considered insulting. To speak of employer* by their surname only show* a great w ant of respect on the part of the employe*- towar<l tbe employer. While it may In customary for a person t address lii* junior clerk* or under servant* by their <'hri*tian or surname*, to addn** others so show* a want of nw|M*ct. and the party so iuhire*cd would naturally evade con- j tact in the future with anv one who had . previotudy so addressed him." Politem***, added the court, cost.* ! nothing: but the want of it had *ost the i plaintiff the )o** of his situation. The complaint was dismissed, with exist*. Strange Murder Agent*. The reported attempt of the king of Bnrinali to procure the murder of the claimant of his crown i* a fair sample of the way in which state question* are settled in the east, where political assas sination ha* for ages lieen one of the re cognized function* ol government. The commonest method of ac<xmnlishing thin is, of course, by armed violence; but where this happens to bo impracticable, other and yet darker mean* are cm ployed. One of the most singular of these is to mix with tbe doomed man's food a tiger's whiskers chopped small, which, from the Internal Inflammation caused hy them, make the victim's death merely a question of time. The same ri-sttlt i* produced hy the employment af diamond-dust, a device which received unexpected publicity three or four year* ago. in consequence of the attempt made hy the late gackwar of Bartala noon the lire of Colonel Plume, the British resi dent at his court. But the moat formida ble of all these hidden weapons is the sulitle poison extracted from the com mon thorn apple, which attack* the mind instiwd of tiie body, and which, admin istered in doses too small for detection, ha* converted many a bravo and gifted leader into a gibbering idiot. "Hie total prcMnt strength of the regu lar British army i* about tIOO.OOO, of which aliout half are absent from the country In India and tbe colonic*. Fact* About Printing. Movable type* for printing were not used until the fifteenth centurv. Books were printed liy the (,liino*o and other eastern nation* from engraved blocks long In-fore the Invention of type. Th'' first type were wsd. The same material is still much used for the larger Varieties of letter*. Johannes (luttenhurg i generally be lieved to have been the first to manufac ture movable type*. An edition of Donatu* was the first iwiok printed from movable types. The finest letters were characters jn). itating band writing. Printing was in troduced into Paris in 1710; into Izmdon four years later. Komaii type was first made in M((6. Italic about the year 1500. Type founding was a part of the bui ; lie** of a printer, and was declared a dis tinct art by a decree of the Star < "handier. I The largest-sized tyjH' Used for ImokA 1 i great primer; the smaller sizes are | Knglisli, pica, small pica, long primer, j bourgeois, brevier, minion, nonpareil, j agate, p< arl, diamond and brilliant. Pear! is tlx* smallest type found in ] ordinary printing offices. , In America printers arc paid by the I.Oflo cum (M), an cut Is-ing equivalent :to alsitit two letters. lii Kngland tlx* - matter i- measured by ens (S), 2,000 of , which • quill I.UOO ems. A good compositor will set, correct and distribute alsmt 0 (**) cm-a day of ten hour*. Savin I of the New York : newspapers are printi'il from stereotype ] plates, w liieli are prepared with great rapidity and incited o\ er for use again in printing tlx* next edition. So rapidly is this work performed that iti sonic "in stance* forms have ben got ready for tlx press in twenty minutes after tlx* last page had been given to the stereotyper. Thailand pr-s was invented in 1150 and i* still usel, without any important imprtivetiient. in tlx* majority of country newspaper off!era. Ink rollers are made of a niixture'of inolas- - and glue, and were Ingi-nt'-d by ne (iantml, a glue manufacturer nf Pari". Tiie first in w *paper c\ *r printed iiy steam w.i> tlx- i/iixlotl /imo of Nov. I*M The World's Largest Bianiond*. A story comes from Parti-all, India, wh*re diamonds ar<* usually found—(i<il eonda being the place where tlx*)' are merely ' lit and poii-b'-d—that tlie|args>t • liaiiKind in tlx* world lias mtelv tx**ri di*4*>vere<l there. It i said to wejgli !<*• c arat, thirty-three 1 a rat* niore than the 2.11) 1 ins stone Ix ionging t" tiie Bajali of Matt iti Tlx* story i-. in aii proba bility, much bigg' r than tlx* diamond, and Is'tb will te- lik'-ly to diminisli Uinh r careful examination, (in-at <lia inoixis an* interesting, because tliey ii irly always hav curious and roiijantie bistori'-s. Tlx* 15* .'' tit or I'itt diamond. l.'M't carats, cut. found in Hyd'*raitad, VII t.ak-n to Eoclaad by I'itt. grand father of th'* fir-t Karl of < batJiam. and Mild by liim to till* dti<* d"f>rl'*ans for a sum equivalent t" i?t.'io.f**i. It <irtia iix nt' d tlx* sword iiiit j f N-4|sil<sin; xvns t ik'*n iiy tlx Prussians at Wab rloi, and i now among tlx* "Town jewels of tlx* emperor of tienoany. Tlx- S uxi. an other celebrated stone, one'* bejonpd to barb* tlx Bold, duke "f Burgundy, who wore it in hi* list at tlx* battle of N .in y, xvlx re ).. f.-JI. It then pa*l to tlx band* "f Anton, king of Portugal. an<i Ii". Ix'irig eiiibatTa-.*.-d. <ii*jNis*al of it for ?2U.t**i. Tlx n it was pur. b flfcf'll, after diver* change*. liy a Fr<*n<|iman natixsl S.aix i. win nee it* ihwignation. (tne of liia lb-*, 1 rid.int*. hax ing In* h w nt a* ambassador to Itenry 111., at Soicure. the king demanded the jewel a* a pledge Tlx* M-rvant, (arrying it t<i tlx* nionnrch. , wa* waylaid hy roblsrs and murdered, but not liefore be biut swallowcsl tlx diamond. His master, confident of hi* fidelity, caused the Inmlj* to Is* oi>en<*l. | and found the precious stone. After a while it was secured by the government of (it,-at Britain, and Jain""* II carried it to France in! lUsih. After varied for tune*, te>ui XV. got bold of it anil wore it at iti* coronation. Then it passed.froni luuxl. and wa* iNiught. fifty ml<l year* sinia- bv a Uilssian nobleman, for ?tnh.f*io. and ts said to Ix-long'noxx t" one of hi* heir*. A* it is too for almost anybody to keep, it will con- ! tintte.no doubt, as the year* go on. to add to it* memorable history. 1 fiamoinl* supply ino*t of the romance of |imiiu* stones. Mrk-Rnom Hint*. Consult your patient'* want*, but con sult liim a* little a* jNi*iblc Your de- ' c*i*i<>n n'*ed not Iw very obvious and j positive; you will be next decisive if no . one sustes't that you an* *0 at all. It i* the triumph of supremacy to Ixs-otnettn ninseiottsly *upn*rae. Nowhere i* this ; decision more blessed than in a si' k, j rNim. Where it *xit in it* g*nuine- J m**s, tlx- *uff'rer is n'*vT contradicted- ! nev'T*eo< re<sl. all little victories are aa- j *umed. The decisive nurse i* never per- 1 etoptory. never lotul. She is distinct, it 1 i* true—tin*re i* nothing more aggravat- i ing to a si'k prson tlinn a whisper—, but siie is not loud. Though quiet, however, she never walks tip - toe; j she never tuak'** g**ture*: all I*l open and above - board. She know** no diplomacy or _/fnrj*r. and of course lx*r *lio.* never creak. Her touch i* steady and encouraging. Six* doe* not potter. Site never l<Hik* at j you sideways. You never catch her j watching. She never slam* the door, of ' course; hut she never shut* it aiowiv, a* i if she were cracking a nut in the hinge. ; She never talks behind it. She never tx-cp*. Site poke* the fircskillftilly. with firm, judicious penetration. She carraac* one kind of patient with genuine sym pathy; site talk* to another as if he were well. Site i* worth Iter weight in gold, nnd lias a healthy prejudice against phy*lc, which, however, at the right lime she know* how to conceal. Habkles. It i* estimated tliat there arc in Phi la- | delphin not lea* than 8.000 collection* of old coins and autograph*. The bobby is confined entirely to tiie male *eV. Speaker Randall has a famine** for speci men* of tiie golden rurrencv. and 1* the proud possessor of a collection compris ing a specimen of every gold coin which has Iw-n eoin'd in the United State". 1 Simon Grata, ex-Prmident ofthelmardol education, lio* the reputation of po*e*s- j Ing the longest collrs-tion of autograpli* ' in existence in thia country. William S. ! Vatix, a cousin of the ex-mayor of tliat , name, has an immense collection of old Pnt money and coin*—among the latt<*r ng a fine lf*M cent, which ha* an ex traordinary value. Pcrlin|>* the largest rolie*tion In America i* In the |to**e*aion of a Tenth ward druggist. Ill* accumu lations, the labor of over thirty year*, are valued at ft?&,000. Among tliem U a complete collection of copper, silver and gold issue* of the llnfteti State*, (o gethcr with a nearly complete act of the old colonial coin*. An International Expedition at w York In 1848. Wo publish an interesting and imports ant communication in advocacy of hold ing tbo next American International ex puuitkin in tUia city in 1883. That thero will ho aucli a festival held in America within ten yoara admits of nodonbt; for, in apito of much mismanagement, of inevitable dissati*faction on the part of many exhibitors, and positive losses | incurred by some, it ia certain the Oen j teunial exposition of 1876 baa resulted in groat benefit to American indu'try and commoroe. That the next oocaaion of the kind ahonld bo oarefully and scien tifinally prearranged in anob manner oa to secure the greatest poaaiblc advau tagoy, lx>tb material and moral, ia a ■ self-evident proposition. Tiio two im ; portaut decisiona which require to l>e made without losa of time are place and the date. In roapect to the former subject a final decision ia essy. While Cincin nati, Chicago, Bt, Liuis and other am bitious cities would offer a hearty wel come to the next internatioual festival, there ia no city that can dispute cither the pre-eminent claims or the exception al facilities of the metropolis of Ameri ca. That question may be regarded aa settled. In reaped to tho date, it must bo remembered that thin ia a matter upon which the wishes, the convenience and the int. rents of other nations roust be consulted The number of aucb no tions, however, ia small, and the prob abilities of their action can be estimated without much difficulty. Germany and England haye not held expositions for several years, and, as our correspond i ent points out, both are discussing the advisability of such an exposition for 18S5. There should never be an inter val of less than two years between such festivals, so that it will be safe to con cede to London and Berlin a pre-emp tion to the years 1885 and 1887. Although little has yet been said on the subject, it may IKS set down ss an abso lute certainty that Prance will in 1889 I celebrate the centenary of ber great revolution witb a an exposition surpass ing in magnificence every previous fes tival of the kind. It ia equally certain J that America as a whole will celebrate in a similar manner in 1892 the fourth centenary of the diaoovt-ry of America. We must, therefore, appoint onr next exjKjaition in view of the above facta. The date should, if possible, eommem | orate an important national anniversa j ry; it should be as nearly as possible intermediate between 1876 and 1892; it 'Or nid not conflict with dates to which other nations have a superior; claim; it ■•lionld be neither so far off aa to para lyze present interest, nor so near aa to afford insufficient time for due prepara tion. All of these conditions are ful filled by the year 18®:?, the centenary of our Acknowledged independence am! of the evacuation of the city of New York be the British troops.— AYc York Herald. __ True HocceKß, "——the men who speak IVilli the loudest tocgne* do leant." It was a favorite remark of on old nca csptein whom Cauacur knew, that be '.corned in youth never to talk about :>i.Tilling that he had determined upon. "Mn waste their energy in talk," he would isy, "and have none left for their fnterpriaea. But if they are wise mongh to keep still, and devote them selves to doing, they will find that their actions speak for them selves and that talk is unnecessary." Good advice this, but many find it Lard to follow. Man s a i-crisl animal, and there is a certain pleasure in diaensairg one's plans with a friend and enjoying their fruits in anticipation. Borne go through the world in a .Id-blooded, calculating way, neeking advantage at every turn, and doubtless finding it, but are tbey, after all, the beat patterns to model after? Is uot a little human weakness of this sort rather amiable, on the whole f It certainly is true that he who keeps bis month shut and his ears open, lays deep plans, and watches his oppor tunity as a cat watches to take the fatal opriug, stands a better chauoc of what the world calls success than the more confiding kind. But what is success ? Is it simple to lay up store of this world's goods? The many ao view it. but those who hsve looked deeper feel that he is moat truly successful who baa Iwrw his share of life's burdens and troubles, who baa opened hia heart to his fellow-men, wheae thoughts have ' not been of self alone, and the work ing* of whose mind have not been wholly concealed. Of course prudence ia to be observed, and care most be taken in the choice of confidant*. And moreover • < sUU keep something to your**!' Tow sesrcnly tell to ony" But don't seal up the windows of your soul too tightly. It needs an occasional airing.—Cauirwr is Boston Tran script, 41 Picayune*." Circumstance* alter caeca -in court'. Greenback* in politics are old issue*. Hearing the murmur of the mighty ocean the river ran down to sea. The soldier* who cry for quarter* are those who stand out on the picket-line in frowing weather. The man who prepares his own tomb stone sod monument, can show to the world exactly what he tbinka of him self. Lord Bsoon has said: "It ia not the desire of change that abould bring about the change, but the need of it" This, however, makes no change in a man's pocket, A writer of facts for farmers says bens : do not lsy well after they are three years old. They set well, however, and can be sold for spring chickens.— W. O. Pic ay one. Advf rtiftifr While the advertiser eats and printers, steam engines and printing presses are at work Tor him, train* and I steamers are bearing his words sll over the laud, and thousands of men are reed ing with more or less interest the messages he sends them through the columns of hia local paper. No preacher ever spoke to so large an audience, or so j eloquently ss you may do with the news paper-man's sasistsnes Prion Point s?***Ma. Pacts speak lor t hemes!vea. A WO* man's tongue ia a severe fact.
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