Trip Lightly.
Trip lightly over troubls
Trip lightly over wrong,
Wo only make grief double
By dwelling on It long.
Wiy clasp Woe's hand so tightly ?
Why sigh o'er bloaaoma dead 1
Why cling to tonus unsightly ?
Why not seek Joy instead ?
Trip lightly over sorrow,
Though all tho days bo dark,
Tho sun may ahino to-morrow
And gavly sing the lark;
Fair hope has not departed.
Though roses may have flod;
Then novor be down-htartod
But look for joy iustead.
Trip lißhtly over sadness,
Btand not to rail at aoom;
We've pearls to string of gladnsea
On this side of tho tomb.
Whilst stars are nightly shining,
And heaven is overhead.
Encourage not repining,
But look for joy iuatoaiL
—A son.
The Broken Engagement
When Maiy Clarimont's engagement
was proclaimed to the world there
ensued a general expression of sur
prise.
People generally arc surprised at mat
rimonial engagements. There is always
acme cogent reason why things should
have been adjusted otherwise—why
John should have mairied Joan and
Peter should prefer Betsey. Nobody
ever yet was married to suit every
body.
But in Mary Clarimont's case it did
really teem as if the course of true love
had interfered seriously with the cur
rent of common sense and prudence.
Miss Olarimont was only one-and
twenty, a tall, imperial beanty, with
dewy black eyes, a skin as fresh as
damask roses, and dark-brown hair,
ceiled in shining bands at the back of
her bead. Moreover, Miss Olarimont
had a "career" before her. Hhe had
just graduated from Mt il field Medical
university and taken out her diploma
as an M. D.
"And only to think of it," "aid Annt
Jo, bursting into tears of vexation and
disappointment, " that she must needs
go and rnin all her prospects by getting
engaged to Darrv Marlow, down in New
York 1"
"It doesseem strange, Annt Jo, when
I sit down and think of it," said Doctor
Mary, laughing and hlnshing. "Six
months ago my profession was all the
world to me. I neither wished nor
cared for anything outside its limits.
The future was ail mapped out liefore
me, without let or hindrance; and
now—"
"Bcmphl" growled Aunt Jo. "Any
brainless idiot can get married and keep
• man's house and mend his shirts t n r
him, but y< u were made for tu rru thing
higher and more dignified, Mary."
Mary's dew bright eyes sparkled.
"Ei3ter, Aunt Jo?" said she. "More
dignifhd? There you are mistaken.
There is no higher or mere dignified
lot in life than that of the true wife of
noble hnsband."
" hid< lesticka 1" said Annt Jo. "As
U every poor fool who was dazzled by
the glitter of a wedding ring didn't say
the same thing I You've disappointed
me, Mary Clarimont, and I'm ashamed
of you, and that is the long and the
abort of it."
Mary smiled.
"Dear Annt Jo," said she, "I shall
cot let my sword and shield rust, be
lieve me. Barry has only bis own tal
ents to advance liim in the world, and
it will le at least a year liefore we shall
he ready to marry. In the meantime I
shall ac<ept the prost of visiting physi
cian to the Aldenbury almshouse and
practice my profession in Aldenhnry,
juat the same as if there were no en
gagement"
"I wish to goodness there wasn't,"
said Aunt Jo. " I tell you what, Mary,
1 don't fancy that smiling, smooth
tongmd young man of yours, and I
never shall."
Bull Doctor Mary Olarimont kept her
temper.
" 1 am sorry, Aunt Jo," she said,
pleasantly. " Bnt I bopie that you will
eventually change your mind."
" 1 used to keep a thread-and needle
■tore when I was a young woman,' re
marked Annt Jo, dryly, " and I always
could tell the ring of a counterfeit half
dollar when a customer laid it on the
counter. I could then, and I can now—
end 1 tell yon what. Mary, there's base
metal about Harry Marlow I"
Doctor Mary bit her lip.
" Perhaps. We will not discuss the
subject further, Aunt Jo," she said,
with quiet dignity, and the old lady
■aid no more.
"Aunt Jo is wrong!" persisted the
pretty young M. D. to herself.
"Mi.ry is nu king a fool of herself!"
thought Aunt Jo.
Aldenbury was a pretty manufactur
ing village, with a main street shaded
by rmbragrc its maples, a " west end,"
WJM l><) • wo bad made their for
tunes lived comfortably in roomy old
houses, surrounded by velvet lawua and
terraced gardens, and an "east end,"
where people (ought desperately and
not always successfully to keep soul
and body together on the merest pit
tance.
And a little way out of the villaue
the almshouses, built and endowed by
a certain smuggling sea captain, whose
conscience b.td pricked him during his
latter das, raised their gray-stone ga
bles to the sky, and made a picturosqne
background to the landscape.
Doctor Mary Clarimont made some
thing of a sensation at Aldcubury. Up
to this time all the resident M. D.'s
had licen snuffy old gontlemen with
wigs or pert young ones with eye
glasses.
A beautiful young lady who wrote
prescriptions and compounded pills
and potions, was a novelty'in the town,
and by no means a disagreeable one.
People raiher liked the idea, onoo they
had convinced themselves that the lady
doctor thoroughly understood herself
and her patients.
And the poor old people at the alms
house grew to love Doctor Mary and
listen with eager oars fur the sound of
her carriage wheels over the blue gravel
drive which led np to the portico.
It was a brilliant December day when
t he young physician stood in the neatly
carpeted reception-room, drawing on
her fur gloves previous to entering her
neat phaeton once again, while she reit
erated to the white-capped maid some
directions respecting old Ann Miulgett's
rheumatism, when the matron hur
ried in.
" Oh, I beg yonr pardon, Doctor
Clarimont," said she, " but I clean for
got the new old woman I "
" The new old woman," repxvated
Docior Mary, with a smile.
"That is," explained Mrs. Cunning
ham, "she only came last night—a
qniet old sonl, half blind and qnitebad
with the asthma. I'erhaps yon'd better
jnst see her before yon go. Bho
brought a card of admission from Doc
tor Merton, the New York clergyman,
wliojis one of onr directors, you know.
And she seems a decent body enongh."
Ho Doctor Mary went cheerfully into
the little briek-praved room, with its
white pallet-bed, cushioned rocking-
and neatly-drmpred casement,
where sat a pmor, little *briveled-op
woman, wrap>ped in a faded shawl.
Hhe looked timidly np, as Doctor
Mary came in, from nnder the borders
of her cap.
"I'm a ptoor body, miss," ssid she,
"and I'm sensible I'm making a deal of
tronble in the world. Bnt the Lord
dr n't always take ns, miss, when we'd
like to go."
"This is the doctor," ssid Mrs. Cnn
ningbam.
The little woman wonld have risen
np to make a feeble conrtesy, bnt Doc
tor Mary motioned her to keep her
seat.
' What is yonr name?" said she,
pleasantly.
"Louise Marlow, miss."
' Merle w? That is an nnnsnal name,
isn't it?" said Mary Olarimont, ooloring
in spite of herself.
" We're English, miss," said the old
woman, struggling bravely with her
asthma. "1 here ain't many of nsin this
conLtry. I've a son, miss, in the law
hnsinrss, as any mother might be prond
of."
" A son !" echoed Mrs. Cunningham ;
"and you in the almshouse I"
" Not that it's his fanlt, ma'am," the
old cirsture made haste to explain.
" My son is to he married to a flue,
proud young lady, as is fit for any
I'lincp in all the laud, tnd of course he
can't l>e expected to bnrden himself
with s helphsa old woman like me. He
says I'm to write and let him know how
I get along, and if I'm sick or any
thing he'll try to see me. I sewed car
pets nntil tho asthma got hold of me,
and supported myself comfort ably. But
of course I couldn't lay up anything for
a rainy day—who could? And Henry
couldn't help roc, for he's getting readj
to be msrnt d, poor lad I Ho I went to
Doctor Merton and asked him did he
know of suy diceut place where an
old woman like me could end her days
in peace. And he save me a card to
come here and some money to p>ay my
traveling expivnrce—God bless him I
and here I am !"
Mary Clarimont had listened quietly
to the garrulous tale, hut the color had
varied in her cheek more than once as
ahe stood there,
" Is yonr scn'sname Harry MarlowT
she raid, slowly and thoughtfully.
" Y'ts, miss, at your service," said the
eld woman, with a duck of her white
rapipid head, which was meant to do
duty in p lace of the imp>oaaibl court
esy
" la he like this?" ssid Doctor Msry,
takingmp<hotogrsph from her pocket.
The old woman, with trembling
hands, fitted on her iron-bowed spreclu
des, and looked at the picture, uttering
a little cry of recognition.
"8r , misa, it's bis own aelf," she
cried. "You're acquainted with him,
then?"
" 8. mewhat," said Doctor Mary, oom
prosed|y, as she returned the photo
graph to its pilsrc. " And new I will
leave yon something to relieve this dif
ficulty in breathing."
Bat the old orono eyed her wistfully.
" Perhaps yon know the young lady
my son in to marry ?"
" Yen," aaid Dr. Mary, writing HO mo
ttling in her prescription-book. " I
hare noon her."
" Perhaps, miss," faltered the old
woman, yon would give her my hnmlile
dnty, and tell her I would just like to
look at her for onoe and aeo what she in
like. There's no fear of my troubling
her, mia*. for I mean to end mv days
here. Hnt I wonld like to aee her just
onoe. And if it wouldn't l>o aaking too
much, miHH, wonld you pleaae write to
my son, and tell where 1 am ?—for I'm
no acholar myaelf, and I'm hia mother,
after all."
" I will write to him," aaid Doctor
Mary, quietly; and no ahe went away.
" I never aee a lady doctor afo*e,"
aaid old Mia. Marlow, with a long nigh.
" But ahe'a a pretty creetur, aud it
aeema good to havo her around. I hope
ahe'll come again aoon."
" You may be very euro of that," aaid
the matron, brusquely. " Doctor Glari
mont ain't one to neglect poor people
becauao they are poor."
That evening .Aunt Jo, frying crull
era over the kitchen lire, was surprised
by a viait from her niece, who came in,
all wrapped in fnra, with her chocks
crimsoned with the frosty winter air.
" Bless me I this ain't never you7"
said Aunt Jo. |ieering over the riniH of
her spectacles.
" I drove over to see you, Aunt Jo,"
said Mary, "to tell yon that you were
right. The metal was counterfeit."
"Eh?" said Aunt Jo, mechanically
ladling out the brown, curly crullers,
although she did not look at what she
was doing.
" I have written to Harry Marlow,
canceling onr engagement," said Doctor
Mary, calmly, albeit her voice faltered
a little. "The man who will heartlessly
let his old mother go into an almshouse,
sooner than take the trouble to main
tain her, can be no fit husband fur any
woman!"
And then site sat down by the tiro
and told Auut Jo everything; for
crabbed, crnsty old Aunt Joe bad been
like a mother to her, aud the girl's heart
was full to overflowing.
When she had ceased speaking Aunt
Jo nodded her head.
" You have done well and wisely,"
said she.
Old Mrs. Marlow died that winter, in
Aldenbnry almsbonse, with her head on
Doctor Mary Claiimont's arm, and
never knew that her garrulous con
fessions had deprived her son of bis
promised wife.
And Msry rays quietly and resolutely
that her profession must be husband
and home to her henceforward.
" Jnst what it ought to lie," says Aunt
Jo. "No woman every yet succeeded
in doing two things at once."
Expensive Horses.
The advance in the luxury and ex
travagance of the age is shown by the
purchase of ffib.ooo pictures, 815,0<1Q
sets of diamonds, as well as in houses
that cost a quarter of a million. Why
should not the same overweening wealth
lie displayed in a f30,000 horse? These
luxuries are all of a class, and theircost
in each instance is a mere trifle to a man
who can at any moment issue his check
for a million. If the reader inquire
how large a rinmUr is included in this
cl ass, 1 reply enough to keep up the
market to its present fanciful quotation.
Conversing with a leading man in this
a |eo ally, I asked him the highest value
set npon any horse in this oountry.
" Fifty thousand dollars," was the reply.
My infotmsnt then added that lie re
ferred to St. Jnlien, which at present is
the property of Ilickok k Morrow.
Santa ( lane, owned by William Cole, is
valnid at |25,000. Foster Dewey, who
was at one time private aecretary
of the notorious ring, values his Rich
ard a* 810.(H0 Maud H., the property
of William H Vanderhilt, is valued by
its owner at 850,000, and, reader, should
yen Under your check for that amount
yon might be disappointed hy refusal.
Maud S. is at present kept at Cincin
nati, being still under training. Her
time is 2:10 1 4, which may he men
tioned as the heat made on the Ameri
can turf. The enormous value of such
animals is found on the race course,
where immense sums are won by some
and lost by others. Daniel Mace, who
has a training stable in Twenty-ninth
street, is a very snccessfui trainer, and
has also driven in some important trials
of speed. To drito successfully on a
race course requires gr*at nerve, and at
least three vears' practice The fee is
sometimes SOOO, to which is occasional
ly added ten per cent, on the winnings,
Hnch are some facts in connection with
racing—a custom whioh has been on the
increase for several years, notwithstand
ing its demoralizing tendency.—Neto
York LctUr.
('oanshlp With a Vengeance.
Be—May I call you Revenge?
Bbe-Why?
Ha— Became " Revenge la aweet."
Hhe—Certainly you may ; provided,
though, you let me call you Vengeance.
He - And why would you call me
Vengeance?
Hhe— Because " Vengeance is mine?"
t'LIPPIHUM KUK THK t'UKIUUM.
When young lions mew like a oat.
One ostrich egg makes a meal for
three persons.
The Egyptian physcians of old were
paid by the state.
The invention of keys is ascribed to
Theodore of Hamos, 733 B. C.
Pliny says that four-wheeled carriages
were invented by the Phyrgians.
The main facts of blood circulation
havo ouly been known 250 years.
Embalming was in nse among the
Egyptians at least 3,000 years ago.
It is said a mole can travel, when
frightened, as fast as a horse trots.
Emperor Justinian introduced into
Europe the silk worm from China.
Drowning was a military punishment
mentioned in the charter of Richard I.
only.
The oldest canal in England, from
the Trent to the Withan, is said to have
been dag in 1131.
When a crocodile is sore pressed with
hnnger he swallows stones to relieve
the uneasy sensation.
Marggra', an eminent Prussian
chemist, first drew the attention of the
public to t>eet-root sugar in 1747.
The African negro is remarkable for
his length of arm and leg ; the Aymura
Indian of Peru for his shortness.
A Canada town boasts two brothers
who are practicing law in spite of.the
fact that they are both deaf mutes.
It was once believed that the halter
that hung a criminal was a remedy for
headache when tied around the head.
The fashion of carrying fans was
brought from Italy in the time of Henry
VIIL, and young men used them in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The parliament which mot in Febru
ary, 1426, was exiled the |>arliament of
bats, since the members, being ordered
to wear no swords, attended armed with
clnlis or hats.
At a boo and houey show in Man
chester, Eugand, they tied s white
wooly cotton thread around the waists
of the queen*, for the spectators to ob
serve them and watch their movements,
as they wondered among the com
munity.
March was the first month of the year
among the early Romans, and it con
tinued to be so in several countries till
a comparatively late pcricd, the legal
year lieginning, even in England, on
the 26ih of March, until the cbang
of style in 1752.
It was Henry VIII. who confirmed
the charter of the ©ollogo of surgeons.
Up to this time s copartnership existed
iet ween harliers and surgeons. At the
time of the charter there were only ten
surgeons who confined themselves en
tirely to the practice of surgery.
Ilow Canadians Fish Through the Ice.
Win'er fishing deserves a brief no
tice. As it is carried on only through
the icn it is almost confined to the frr **n
inlets of the aonth shore of the Geor
gian bay to Burlington bay and the
Bar of Qiinte. In winter a passenger
by the Great Western railway will no
tice en the ice near Oakville and on Bur
lington bay a large number of small
wooden houses', about four feet square
and jnst high enough to allow of a
man standing upright. These houses
have no windows. Under each of these
square boxes is a hole through the ice.
This hole the fisherman sits and watches
with all the eagerness displayed by a
polar liear watching a seal-hole. It is
a cold operation, but sometimes a pot
auprndrd atiove the ice and containing
a fire sflTordsa little warmth. The fish
ing through this hole'is done either
with ho ika >r fork-like spears. On the
Georgian bay inlets Indians and half
breeds are the fishermen —not white
men. The mode is primitive. The
little houses ate not used, but the In
dian, crouching down on tba ice, cov
ers bis had and the hole with a blan
ket, so as to exclnle as much as possible
any light excepting that which comes
through the ice. Tho amusement is a
grim one, and brings but little return
to " poor Lo." Sometimes, however, a
small wigwam is pitched over the hole,
and a little more comfort is enjoyed by
the lonely fisherman,—Tortmijjiiobc.
A We-dern Yarn.
A certain lady in (his county set a
hen upon thirteen eggs. A few days
afterward, looking into the nest, she
was surprised to find the hen missing
and the eggs gone and in their stead a
huge rattlesnake comfortably coiled up.
Noticing the swelled condition of his
snakeship she procured a spade and
pinned his bead to the ground. Then,
with a rake, the tail was drawn out and
fatened down to prevent wiggling. A
pen-knife soon split the reptile from
head to and the eggs taken out.
Being OMfuby washed they wereplaced
under Uie same hen and eveoually
every one hatched out and the ohickena
grew and thrived. We regret that a
strict regard for truth compels us to
way that the hen was uot swallowed nor
were the chinks marked with * snake.
—SL Paul Pijtuxtr.
TOPIC* OF THE DAI.
The highest inhabited place of the
world is Osiers, a railway station in
Peru, which is feet above the
sew. Near it a tunnel 3,817 feet long
ia being bored through the peak of the
mountain, (VK) feet above the perpetual
snow Hue.
A writer in a London [taper aaya that
the lowest percentage of insanity is
among men and women engaged as
anthors, editors, journalists, reporters,
translators, and in other literary work.
Of 140,000 such persons twelve only
are returned as Innatiov They see so
much of it ouside their business that
they continue to keep out of it them
selves.
Hen nillard, of Washington county,
(la., is perhaps the great esi sufferer in
the world. He has been thirty-three
▼ears in his bed, enduring the most ex
cruciating agony from rheumatism,
unable to move any part of his bfdy
except his lower jaw and to slightly
shrng his shoulders. For all those
long years of suffering his joints have
Iwen as stiff as if grown together solid.
Of the nearly five thousand represen
tatives who have been honored with
elections to the II iuse of Representa
tives from the organization of the
United States government to March 3,
1881, hut eight of the whole nnmlrer
have served twenty successive years and
upward, as follows : Thomas Newton,
Charles F. Mercer an l Williams Mc-
Coy, of Virginia, Louis Williams and
Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolinta,
Joshua H. (lidding*, of Ohio, John
Itoad and John Qaincy Adams, of Mas
sachusetts, and Jotin W. Taylor, of New
York.
There is said to be on Broadway,
New York, an old-fashioned dwelling
at which any one can stop, knock,
enter, ask for cakes and ale and be
serve. 1 with t hem gratuitously. The
property was willed mauy year* ago by
an eccentric man to his daughter on
condition of ner furnishing cakes and
ale to any one that should ask for them.
The heirs have kept strict watch to see
if this should ever be refused, but
doubtless grew tired of it, as for the
la-t five years no one has called. What
a procession of dea 1-besta there would
le if the faet should become generally
known I
When he earned a miserable living
in R osita, Oolora do, by doing errands
for a *tblmn. be w* callel Old Man
Ilassick, and his wife and daughter
worked at the wnditub. O-io day he
'ound ore in a mountain near by, and
within the year lias become a half mil
lionaire. Now be is respectfully men
tioned as Mr. Bassiek. There are
those, however, who sneer at the family's
ignorance, as the frJloaing anecdote
shows : Mrs. llas-irk was at Canon. It
was noticed that she frequently walked
ont upon the hotel porch as if looking
for some one. "Do yon expect friends?*'
asked the ob-<<jni>us boniface. "No,
indeedy," she replied, "I'm expecting
my phantom." Her pretty phaeton,
for which she ha I paid 13,000, after
ward rolled around the corner.
The vivi*o-tion of living animal* b,T
scientific men ha* not rot attracted the
attention of an ariti-viviectiou society
here a* it haa in England, although
atop* have Ixon taken in thia direction ;
hut it i* practiced in the United State*
on a scale easily paralh lo I hnt not ex
ceeded ahroatl. A single scientific
work, D>otcr Wormier'# "Micro-Cbeuj
istry of Poison*," ia aaid to hare cost
the lire* of 3,000 cats, who died under
different poiaon*, their loaa breeding—
no unmixed loaa a genuine eat famine
in the learned author'* home, Colom
bo*, O. An inreatigation, only recent
ly closed, conducted by the national
board of health into the drinking
water* of varion* cities, haa needed the
services of aome 1,200 rabbits who were
inoculated with preanma'o y gertu-iaden
water*, and a ahare of whom died of
fever iu the cause of aoionoc.
Tle'o ar certain facta which may
aeem dry to the unskillful but which
are really full of interest and infrac
tion to the judiciona. The foreign
ootumoree of thia country during the
la-t flacal year waa larger than that of
any prerioua year in our history. It
amounted to the immense sum of
$1,675,024,218, Tbete figure* represent
a vast industry on both sides of the
ocean. They would represent, for in
stance, the wage* of 1,675 0.10 men at
SI,OOO a y-wr. They rally represent
much more than that, but ereu that ap
proximate illustration will suffice to
give an idea of this great trade. To
other countries daring this year we
sold $902,377,346 worth of our prod
ucts, and we brought from them $642,-
064,628 worth of their products. Ho
they had to pay ua, or will have to pay
na wb*n the accounts omn to be set
tled, the very hsndaome sum of $259,-
! 712,618.
Smallpox is prevalent in maryoom
muoit as and may be expected to be
oome epidemic wherever, having ap
peared, prompt and efficient step* IN
not Uk'-n to soamp it ont. Boston has
lately furnished the country an excel- a
lent example of the way in which the V
sconrge should be confronted. It bad 1
gained considerable headway at the 1
Month End, and at one time was ap
parently on the verge of booorning epi
demic. The neighborhood where it
had main its appearance was thoroughly
inspected by a household visitation, all
cases discovered were at once removed
to the hospital, the infected places were
fumigated, general vaccination was
dered, and all persons suspected of hav
ing l***.u ex [nosed to the disease were
placed under strict surveillance. The
result of these precautionary measures
is that the threatened epidemic in the
infected locality has been completely
stamped ont, and no farther trouble ia
anticipated.
Charles Heukle, an aged German how
bad been afflicted with leprosy for
several years, died recently in the
charitr hospital in New York city. He
had in former year* visit* 1 different
parts of the worll, inclu ling India and
the West Indies, and it is probable that
the disease was incurred in the course
of these travels. This is one of a num
ber of sporadic CHUM of leprosy that
have been report >-d from time to time
in this country. We lieve there have
been more in Hun Francisco than in
any other city. Leprosy is a most
foul and loathsoui" disease, contagious
from contact and in itsalvancol -tage
well-nigh it not absolutely incurable In
oountric< where it is most prevalent the
mode of treatment embraces complete
isolation of the suffereu from the rest of
the community. InChina hospitals are
provided that stand snrroun lei by large
areas of ground, and no communication
with the outside world is permitted.
In the Handwich islands one oi the
gronp, widely separated from other i
island*, is set apart for the residence |
of leprous patients, wan, onoc removed
thither, are never permitted to leave.
This testifies to the fear inspired by
the dread complaint. The origin of
the occasional cases occurring in the
United States can undoubtedly be
traced to foreign source*. The gov
ernment should exercise it* unquestion
able right to strictly prohibit the laud
ing on the sh ires of this country of any
one affected in the least degree by
leprosy.
Ancient Mining.
The methods in vogue tmong the
ancients for'the development of mines
were in DIDT respects far different from
those in n at the present time. In
the country to the sonth of us the
descent and ascent of shafts were made
by means of notched leg*. These were
from twenty to thirty feet long, extend
ing from level to level. The logs or lad
ders wore cliru'tsd by the sure-footed
miners, the Aztecs and more recently
by the Indians, who were engaged in the
dislodgment of the precious mineral.
The ore wa* placed in rawhide bags
containing about half a bushel, this
name being rented upon the back while
it was held in jwtsition by strain ex
ten ling acrot-s the shoulders, united in
front and fastened through itaown weight
upon the forehead.
If s mine were overflowing with
' water the troublesome fluid was re
moved in those bags in the same man
ner as the ore, by the m tiers, who todi- A
ou-ly cliiuls-1 the not hed pole*, and flj
whose notches answered the place of w
wider stops. The ore wa* removed in a
manner aim >*t a* tedious. Fire* were
built again't the walls of the mine, and
a their suriace hctm<- calcined the
incinerated porti >ns were di*lo.lg -d by
atone hammers. The melting was
| equal!v as cumbersome, bo ng effected
with charcoal and bellows. Yet minuig
was profitable under these cru Je meth
od*. It is not surprising, thereforv
thst wonderful reports continue to
reach us of the richne*s of the aban
doned old mine* of Sinora, which,
with the introduction of modern
machinery, worked by energetic and
experience 1 Americans, will toon
ast mish the worl l with their rich
production*.
In the early days of the Oo in stock we
have seen these notched pole* in use in
the Mexican mine in this city; also the
rawhide sacks. However, they used
picks and shovels and Masted out the
ore instead of burning it cut. The ore
was worked in arastraa and by the patio
process —indeed the patio process was
in use hero for come yearn, and o<H
alone by Mexicans. Horses were used
for trending these patios to stir up the
pulp, and in a short time* the poor
beast* presented a pitiable appearance.
The biueatone in the pulp took all tha
hair off their leg* and covered them
with sores, while the quicksilver sail- I
rated and poisoned them- It was saij %
that the horses became so charged with
mercury that it oozed from their eyer v
—Arif ma Star. 4
Didn't fare to Mara.
"Boy, I'll teach yon to tear your
pants," ssid an irate Austin parent,
swinging a strap, " I'll tesch you."
" Don't hit me, pa, I know how
already. Just look at 'em."—Temas
Sifting*