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.