Drifting. '
The tide went ont—
Shining pebbles nnd shells that Inj
Ou the shore, ut the beck of the white-arm ed 4
tprej.
Wont out with the tido.
The tide went ont—
And n hundred s!.i|>s nsleep ou the strand
Sprang up, nnd away from the hutuful Inud
Went out with the tide.
The tido went out—
And a life ns sweet ns n life might he,
Drifting away to the unknown son,
Went out with tho tide.
"v Tho tide came in— ■*'
The pAhhlos and sliells, with the waves' dis- |
dnin,
Flmig from Uieir amis to the shore again,
Came in with the tide.
The tide catne In— .
The weary ships from their voyaging,
Laden with many a precious thiug,
Came in with the tide.
" .a t
Tie tide came in— " I
But the life, a- swvi t as n life might t>e,
Came not back from the unknown sea—
Came not in with the tide.
k'miltc A. ItradtbKk. '
A FORTUNATE JEST.
A certain voung man, living not a r
thousand miles from the city of Lon- !
don. had at the age of one-aml-twcnty, | t
come into the possession of a large for- ■ v
tunc. ! 1
Immediately thereupon the fair- ' |
weather friends assembled about him, s
and sought to make him believe that d
they could make life pleasant for
him. He was fond of company; full '
of life; with no restraint save his own I
conscience; and he was easily led on h
into the glare and glitter of convivial h
enjoyment.
His mother had died when lie was a ii
youth of sixteen, and his father had
lived but a year longer. And he had 1
no near relative to guide him. t
Once he had loved a beautiful young v
girl, but his dissipated course had f
frightened her parents, and they had h
forbidden him their house until he h
could truly mend. This had so an
gered him that he had torn the image
out from his heart, resolving that lie u
would never he a slave !
.S
And he was living a brilliant, glor
ious life, he knew—or, at least, he t >!■!
himself so. He drank deeper; and,
anon, he came to the gaming-table. In '
short, every vice that a wealthy spend
thrift might lind fleeting pleasure in,
he indulged in.
And the circle of friends clung \
closely. They swore by him; declared t
him a trump. They drank his wine, 1
robbed him of his money; and if a
ndk source of pleasure could l>e found.
they air went in fyr ttiC en j°)' ,,u ' nt uud v
he paid the ..J 1 ' a
One.;/ p 7e had became 1'
blearC " t, ' he met
~ d and his step nnceriu.il.
™ girl he had once loved, in the stree.,
ile read pity in her sweet face, and d
saw tears in her eyes; and he tried t<> d
steel his heart; yet he thought of her h
until his wild friends were again a- g
round him.
One day he went to the bank and ,
drew out a thousand pounds.
That night he sat down in his own
apartments, with his own wine upon o
the sideboard, and his own cards upon
the table and played with his dear J
frienAs ! The wine flowed freely, he t
drank deeply, and the game went on
recklessly. They played for high stakes, f
and played fast and late. ;
On the following morning the young (
man awoke with a bursting head and (
aching eyes. By-and-hy he called to .
mind the events of the night. He j
looked into his pocketbook and into
his purse. Empty, both! And he re
membered that he had given his checks
to various memhers of the party for
large amounts. He found the counter- 1
foils, and they told him he had drawn 1
his checks to the amount of over two 1
thousand pounds!
But what of that? Before night he
had drank brandy enough to steady his
nerves and make him once more happy,
Another evening came, and again
his friends were assembled round his
board. He had got up a grand supja-r
for them this time! and after the var
ious courses of fowl had passed in or
der, came the wine and the toasts.
And one of the friends, to whom a
large check had >een given, got up to
offer a sentiment.
"Fill up! 1111 up!" he cried; "while I
give you the toast of the evening'
Here's to our sober and thrifty host!
May he be ever as sensible as he is at
this moment!"
It was drank with cheers—three
time three.
It was observed that from that mo
ment the spirits of their host seemed
to fail him. He became moody and
attracted. By-and-by some one ban
tered him upon it, and asked him what
was the matter.
He answered:
"I was thinking, did Tom tell the
truth when he said I was sot*r and
thrifty r
And thereupon they all excleimrd:
"Of course he did ! Oh ! wan ever
n man sotierer or more thrifty?''
"Because," pursued the host, patht
"icnlly, I shouldn't want a friend to
lio on my account!"
"Oho! Sensible to the last! Fill
* up!"
Hut the host would drink no more.
He bade the others enjoy themselves
as much, and as long as they pleased,
but they must excuse him.
Without hiin, however, the sport
lagged, and when they found there was
to be no card-playing they soon dis
persed. f ry* . -
And after they were gone, theyoußj?
man sat down alone and thought, and
the word "Sober and thrifty!" "Sober
nnd thrifty!" rang in his ears, and ho ;
repeated them aloud.
And then he repeated :
"May he be ever as sensible as he is '
at this moment!" And then, with a
smiting ot his clenched hand upon his 1
bosom, he exclaimed, "Tom did not
lie! 1 w ill not let him lie!"
On the following day the youth went
to the bank, and was closeted for half
an hour with the manager.
On the morning of the next day a
paragraph appeared in the papers, an
nouncing:
"We are rather pained to announce
that F -1! —, theyoung man who
! was the inheritor of a fortune little
more than two years ago, has lost
every penny. Misfortune has befallen
him; false friends have betrayed him;
so that now his bill fs>r h"-s than a hun
dred pounds has gone to protest."
< >n the next day after this the young
man (we will call him I'rt-d) went to
Tom Aiubrrly, to whom he had given
hundreds and thousands, and usk<-d
him for the loan of a hnndn-d pounds.
" 'l'on my honor, Fred, 1 wish 1 hud
it; but, really
Theyouth waited to hear no more,
lie tried half dozen others, and with
the same result; save that one man,
who had won two thousand {saind*
from him at <>ne sitting, offered to give
him live pounds; but he wouldn't lend
him! .
Then Fred went to his rooms and
sold off his furniture, and gave thein
up; and from that time was lost to
sight for -iv. ral months.
It was getting towards Christmas
time that a society paper came out on
a certain morning with a paragraph
whicti, to a certain set, was startling:
"We are happy to state a sail mistake ,
was made a few months since in tic
announcement of the entire loss of Mr.
F H 's fortune. He had at that
time I wen very unfortunate, and,
thri ugh s aiie strange mistake, a bill of
Ills went to protest: but he is all right
now. The manager ot the bank where
his account is kept informs us that he
will honor the young man's ■ he< k for
a hundrod thousand [sounds with i
pleasure. All is well that ends well." i \
Within four-and-twentv hours of >.
that time Fred was in receipt of a <
u gushing notes, from as manv i
tlrtfcv
s-r •tKliviflual*. offrring him anv i
different . t
, , • .w w, ' r to five, and l g- ]
help in their p<. . v
ging him to remember the old friend- ;
ship. I
Only one of tlnjii did he answer, and j \
that was the note from Tom Amberly: I
"Do you rememlier, Tom, that you '
once offered a toast in my rooms in i
honor of myself; and you railed ni i
your ' Sober and thrifty host.' And I
resolved in mv heart of hearts from
that moment that you had not lied!"
i
And when the Christmas bells wen
ringing Fred led the dear girl of his
' old-time love to the altar, and took hr
hand in wedlock, promising that the
night had passed, and that the morn
ing haul dawned ii|m anew and better
P
The Author of "Home, Sweet Home."
Mr. W. W. Corcoran's generous en
terjiri.se of bringing home to an Ameri
can grave the exiled dust of John
Howard I'ayne, recalls the aged phi
lanthopist's reminiscences of the poet. !
He saw him llrst in 1809, when l'ayne ;
called "The American Hose ins," was J
playing in a Washington theatre. Mr.
Corcoran, who was then a mere boy
says : " Whenever I could get twenty
five cents to pay for a seat, I went to
see and hear the tragedian;" and his
memory of his appearance and action
is now fresh and clear, after a lapse of
seventy-three years. Two years later j
he saw him again, w hen l'ayne fled to !
Georgetown from Baltimore, where he '
had l>een trying to defend a printing
, office from a mob. In 1840 the per- j
, sonal acquaintance of the two Itegun,
| and continued on very intimate terms
until l'ayne went as United States ron
-5 sul to Tunis and died there. Cor
coran- has select-d the spot where the
poet's remains are to real. It is a tri
j angular plot, near the eastern entrance
j of Oak Ilill cemetery, on the crest of a
hill, overlooking the valley of Bock
t ■ Creek. The place is marked by a soli
-1 tary, magnilloent beech tree. The re
mains will le interred next spring with
appropriate ceremonies, and a plain,
j massive monument ejected alwvo them,
bearing only the inscrption;
JOHN HOWARD PAY**,
T Author of "Home, Sweet Home."
Horn June 9.1792;
t. Died April 10,1812.
tOE WELSH CHOIRS.
tlHlln aha Peculiar Ciistam -Wrl.b I.or ol
Prt"l ~#w flielr* Sr.
The custom among the Welsh oi
holding musical contests is very old,
having its origin in the meetings called
Elsteddvodan (the plural of Eistedd
fod), which were a sort of competitive
examination for the election of chief
bards. J hese banls formed a very lin
j porLint anil influential in the
community; they kept alive the na
fibmi! spirit of the peojde by stirring
l^Oads^ of tin: wisdom and power of
I their ancestors. In fact, their power
was times such as to make tbum the
1 vippiial rulers of the natiuu. As curly
as 940 A. I).. King Ilowel Dha found
it necessary to revise and limit their
privileges. A century ami a half later
Urifllth np-t'onali still further re
strained their pretensions, and their
power gradually wants) until it van
ished on the conquest of Wales by the
English, when, as tradition says, the
bards were ruthlessly exterminated
a tradition that is now happily rele
gatisl to the rapidly increasing num
ber of historical myths. These Kistcdd
vlan were not held at any stated
time—but when the office of chief bard
became v;n .int from death or tome
other reason. They were gatherings
to which all who could by any means
attend, docked eagerly; tiny were al
ways, at least in early times, held in the
open air, some sheltered vallev or
sloping hillside being generally chosen
lor the purpose. Here the bards vied
with each other iu Mirnng up the pa
triotism and enthusiasm of their vast
.audience, by recounting in ruggisl
vers.- the warlike ilc*|s of the kings,
and the wisdom of the sages of old, ac
companying their recitations with the
Welsh harp, ealhsl i rowd, or crowth,
when he who aroii-i-l to the highest
pitch the fe; id national feeling that
characterizi ill Celtic peoples, was
chosen chief ird by the aeelainationH
of the mult it |e.
After the conquest of Wales by Ed
ward 1., in IJ-I, tin- ] -overfill influence
of the bards was broken. Hut he and
the succeeding s. veri-igns, re.ngnizing
the value of such allii ■>, irehari d as
they were from old associations to the
popular heart, wisely encouraged the
jMwtieal and the musical aspi i ts of the
fJuild of Hards, while they can fully
rurtailisl tleir political jkiwit. The
!.i-t sovereign to make any spc-ia! en
aetment concerning the bards was
Klizalicth, who in l.V 1 - issued a coin
mission for the holding of an Eistedd
fod, at t'a*rwy. Hut the ancient spirit
was dying out, and, from that time to
the present, the efforts of these a—<x i,-
tions have K-en chiefly directed to pre
serving the scanty remains of the an
cient !**• try and music of their people,
and to the encouragement of their
modern national p -'ts and musicians.
latter fespis-t tin y ijaye n**t a
yet K*en prodmdivc of any very im
portant results; the mere fad of a p'K iii
it musical composition 1-dng by ana- '
tlvfl author, and tb the native tongue,
b:is been held sufficient reason to giv.
it a hearing without any regard to its
merits.
At the present time, i -]*•< ally among
the Welsh in Pennsylvania, they have
taken a much Utter direction, namely,
in the formation of large choirs for the
study of the choruses of the great mat
ten, and in this way they are doing a
great work in spiralling a love and
knowledge of the master-piece* of
Hack, Ifaydn anil Mi mb 1* >hn.
So universal among all < lasses of the
Welsh people has this love for chorus
ringing become, that it may with safety
be said that no other j- pie have such
a widely diffused acquaintance with
the very highest class of music as they
have. This is the more remarkable,
when we take Into consideration the
| fact that both singers and listeners
1 were, for by far the greater part, com-
I posed of miners and their wive* and
j children.
| The members com losing a choir are
ftcn scattered over a wide ex
j .ent of territory, so that regular
weekly or even monthly meetings of
j the choir are Impossible. When a new
| chorus is to lie learn<*l, the various
| members will procure. If they can
afford it. one copy for each member of
| the family, or, if the work is exjten
! give, one copy for the whole family.
Then the neighboring families will
meet once or twice a week at each
other's houses, the liest reader among
them is appointed leader, and they go
to work with no instrument but a
pitch-pipe or tuning-fork, to master
the fugues of Handel or Ilaydn. When
all these small parties have mustered
tho chorus—whirh they do so thor
oughly that they commit it to memory
—a meeting of the whole choir is held,
numbering from ten to three hundred,
' in some church, school or railway
' station, and the leader of tho choir—
himself usually a miner—holds a grand
review of the work done by his lieuten
ant*. The whole work is gone ovei
carefully and thoroughly, and, aftei
J th "Effing of some of the old home
, f in their mother tongue, the vari
■ Odl croups separate for the long walk
j. or ride through the wikhla and over the
I mountains, to rcpimt the process with
another chorine Tho choirs that live
l_ in the neighborhood of towns huve, of
fj course, many advantages over those*
f that have to conduct their rehearsals
. ' n this fragmentary way, having tiu>
opportunity of frequent meetings arid
. the constant presence of their regular
j lender, and, in some instances, the aid
I of instruments.
Feelag Walters
In the course of an interview with a
,* waiter, a < incjnnati I'otnmir'dal rc-
I porter asked: "Well, how at>out this
r feeing?"
"til course some people fee us. If
. they do not it is all right, and if they
. j do it is all right ; we treat all alike, and
| as for giving anything that is a matter
. for the guest to decide, not us. In New
ork the system has grown to con
siderable dimensions. If a man has a
good place at Itelmonico's cafe, or the
Hrunswlek, ho ought to make from
four to five dollars a day from fees. If
' a I ,!, rty of gentlemen come in here and
spend |.'K) or ?P> for dinner, why, of
course, a waiter is detailed to look after
theni exclusively. We are more at
tentive, just as the proprietor will be
more attentive, to guests who come
often and pay large bills rather than
one who com is one a wick to get a
(h mi-Uisxr ,- lint in Cincinnati jiisiple
give out very little in foes. They are
| what waiters call miff-. They order
i ne portion fur three jus. pie. of course
we give them all tin* attention jswsi
' bio. Knowing that we can't get rich
at it the proprietor of tin* >t. Nn holas
jmivs iih f"i n month more than liel
inoriico would. In the ladn s' part of
the house less is obtainisl. I,ailii s are
running in and out of there all day.
I hey like to sit in the window and
watch the people. They order very
1 itt — a drmi-tassr and some toast, a
tuttl frutti , or a glass of wine will be
all they will want. Sometimes they
fee and somotimes riot."
Another waiter in another part of
the city was interviewed, and askfsl '
whether Ldies ever took anything
strong to drink, and In* rej.liwl:
"(•h, yes, ladie* come in very fr
qucntly for a cocktail, or a punch, or
vune brandy, and sometimes cham
pagne. Hut they will want it si rvi*d
in i tips, soothers will not we it. t\'e
had a great titue the otle r day. Nunc
l.wlies eaine in for champagne. They
orderisl it in cuji.s. The waiter was
not smart Instead of filling the nips
outside he brings them in and {daces
them on the table. Then he brings in
hi* l. ,ttle of I'ommcry Sec in his silver
in-freczer and opens the bottle with a
great pop.
"The ladies are terrified.
"EverjlKKly looks around for the
j i hanipagne, and s. .• the ladi* - drinking
out of cups. Of course they all laugh,
i The ladies themselves are al ashed."
A furious Excuse for Murder.
Diphtheria in childhoml is not gener
ally ren i\ <*l as an excuse fur murder in
rij>cr years, but it has lately l** n al-
P gi'l in xtenuation of that critne in
an Italian court of justice. The assas
sin is a youth of si venti**n, who, some
mo..*hs ago, after a quarrel with the
attendant of a cafe, drew a revolver,
and discharged four barrels at the un
fortunate man, killing him on the spot.
The facts were not disputes!; there
were plenty of witnessi-*, and the only
provocation alleg*l was that the bar
man ohjistcd to this impetuous youth's
g. ~ng Ik hind the bar to look for a ratio
whirh he said had Urn left there by a
frimd. Mlnervini, the homicide, is
very respectably ronne*eted. His father j
had U en in parliament, and he veined
to think it altogether too strung that
he a "gentleman," as he repeatedly
called himself—should be ralb*l to ac
eount for shooting a waiter. He said
j he had Viecn struck in the course of the
. 1 dispute, and that consequently he was
blind with rage. Hut witnesses te-sti
fiedthat he had left the place and re
turnisl to shoot, and the judge eugentlv
' oliservisl that he was not so blind but
, that he eould aim straight. Minervini'a
i friends urgel that he was of an un
f; governable temper, and his doctor eer
. tifiisl that since treating hnn for diph
theria, ten years ago, he had hml fit* of
I rage—in one of which, it apj>ears, he
, had thre-atened to shisd a cabman.' The
j jury found him guilty, anel, on account
• if his age, he was sentenrod to the light
' punishment of five years' imprison-
I I liient. However, in five years' time he
r will still only be twenty-two.
The sting of the lee. it is said, is
scarcely discernible under a powerful
* magnifying glass. Hut the man who
p get* stung by a be*' seldom has his
1, microscope with hint, and always
I imagines that sting to lie about the size
of a red-hot crow low.
"What Impudence !" exrlaimrsl Mrs.
j Shoddy. "Here is a man applying by
letter "for a situation as coachman who
signs himself "Your oliedient servant,'
r and I have uot even thought of hirir.j
'f hint yet."
DEPARTMENT.
Fulilm Num. '
Heavy armuro br<* ■aiiitt are used for
outside garments:
Crenelated edges to fancy house jac
kets are a growing fancy.
The fur set of a fashionable young
lady is composed of u j>eleriiie and a
1 inufl.
i Undyed heaver will Ik: much in
vogue for capes, collars, muffs and
; Imndfl.
Very plain skirts are much worn,
hut not to the exclusion of more elab
orate ones.
Colored handkerchiefs are brought
| out in th loveliest coiuhinations of
aesthetic colors.
Flush is in high favor for carriage
and opera wraps- in dark colors for
the former, and light ones for the
latter.
Standing military linen collars, fav
tened with a gold or jeweled button,
are fir-1 favorites in plain neck lin
gerie.
White felt jMike !onnets trimmed
with white uncut velvet, w hito feathers
and some gilt braid, are worn by young
1 a<lies.
Small, white tulle scarfs are twisted
around the neck and taken down the
front of the inside of the waist like a
llehu.
Iluhy. very dark plum color, and
golden brow n are the ■•hades rnost in
Vogue for %"lvet costutiMiF for tin
promenade.
s >me of the latest imported Freneh
(silonaises have Kuiis XI \* w;u.stcoats
and pockets covered with eolurvd silk
i tiibroiderr.
.launty, soft felt English hats niueh
re-embling Hkn* wom by gentlemen. 1
a passing novelty for ultra-fiLsluMiable
young l.elies.
Maraltout fringes of chenille, in w ide
bands that an* more like moss trim
ming than fringe, are the gn at novelty
of the winter.
<>n some of the I'.u-i-i r.ding habit*,
when the corsage is u light > b.r. a
horw '- head in bright color is eul rojd
ered on the collar, fx ings aid the
cufTs.
Light oik*of pale green. d*li< ate
pink and lilac are combined for nvi*n
itijt wear with dark garnet, dark blue,
brown and royal ptirjie velvet* with
admirable effect.
In jewelry is shown x very novel lace
pin in the form of a locust with sap
phire eye*, the body of a lights ojorist
lapis luruli. the legs of gohJ, and '
the wmgs formed of tiny ibamoiid
• hipping-.
• 'oatsof plush, with braid ornaments
looped acre—thefr nt military fashion,
are worn ly young I.u'ies over a vari
etv of -kir?-. and • ti !-• utilize! K'tH
for the 1, use ami also out-of-doors
wear;
titsimetrie.il b-igns are now the
tie -' fa. burnable lor all snrsll artirh*.
Dollies, f..r in-t;tßce, are left quite
plain in tie- < ■ nt: e. and in < a< h > one r
a double triangh or interlacing circlets
or squares are worked.
Itihb 11 \ elve*". i- now v ry much *sed
It is pi ru rally arranged in three ijt five
rrnrs around a ttat skirt, ir • lm- it forms
small b ps on the lower part of the
skirt and waist. The richest ij these
trimmings a broad land of \cl\<t on
a handsome plain silk skirt.
Magnificent coats and ckstks fret*
Paris are in plu-h. velv< and Sicili
enne. • tirfsv sod and plain, trimmed with
bands of natural feathers, cook's feath
ers in light tones and in greens slmri
itig to Mack. With the latter a slight
tinge of gold is blend-*!. This triu>-
ming is applied in Kinds of some six to
eight inches wide.
A fancy has recently I>een in vogue
among ladies who thought more of
fashion than eomfort to have the
sleeves very tight. This freak, how
ever. has 1— n condemned not only by
physicians, but bv artists of moles -by
the one because it destroys frss* rircti
lation and renders the arm inactive,
and, therefore, seriously affect* the
gener.il health, and by the other because
no woman in a vise can l>c graceful iu (
her movement*.
A "UrmMmfr't"
A well-known commercial traveler
was last wis'k introdurel by the land
j lord of the hotel at which he was stop
ping in Minnesota to the landlord's
; oldest and handsome daughter. "This
is my gal," said the landlord. "She's up
and a comin'.but you can't trust her.
I'm tryin' to drive some foolish notions
out of her head, an' I'll do it or I'll
break every bone in her body." She
burst into tears and walked away. The
traveler next morning, with his three
big trunks behind the wagon, driving
over to the railroad station, overtook
walking on the road a young school
master, whose acquaintance he had
made at the hotel. On his invitation
the school teacher got up on the seat by
his aide and rode to the slation with
him. As the last trunk was being set
on the platform, there was a terrible
rumpus heard inside of it . The young
teacher, tusluug to the traveler's side.
exclaimed: "It's Nellie; forGrxf's sake,
Mr. , let her out." The traveler
. hurriedly unlocked his trunk, and a* he
threw hack the lid, the pale fare of the
landlord's daughter appeared rising out
of the trunk. Hho stood trembling
upon the platform, then hurst into tears
and sohbiiigly told her story. Her
"foolish notions" were her love for the
poor schoolmaster; and they had devised
this plan for escaping the vigilance of
her father. She fell on her kn<** and
tagged not to is- sent hark. Tie trav
eler's heart rn Ited, and he auperin
tended a grand welding for them at
Sioux City. The only pay he got for
twenty auger holes bored in his "sam
ple" trunk was a kiss from the bride.
V i-I'mprr-nm P.i#rair.
The Empress Eugenic is reported to
he very wealthy. Her projwrty n-aily
consists of three house* in the lltiede
l'KJysee, valued at hut mort
gaged f,K $100,000; two houses in the
Uue d'AlUs, value*! at 1180,000, Isst
mortgage*! to the Credit F*>ncier for
(ItKMmO; tetat*• of Jucheres j
the Selferineestate, valued *t $300,000;
l<ut on wiiirh there is a charge of
s*2oo,o'JO; a scuull estate at Ames, in
the Pyrenees, valu<*l at $*,1100; the
Palius de i'Klyiee, at i'iarrira, valued
at s"2f< I,'itft; a small mansi* a in the
Hon Coureelle* . t, < hah t at Visfcy ; the
pulaceat valued at s*sls,ooo,
a life annuity of $15,000, and the es
tate -int lately I' ight if' in Mr Long
luau.
fSilllstrrf* Intoßi Ididlru.
rilliarl jikiviiijr, which h;i> liw-n
iiinn- *.r Jess p-.pui.ir with ladies in
IvarojM-s.nce the days of Marv, 'yieen
lof S< <its, is indulged in very largely by
New York lielle?, :ual ia las ruing no re
fasiiionaJ.il' every day. There are many
lady expects at tiie gam*- in th< rrtv,
including the wife I AIU rt Gamier,
the fatuous* profe--.n r.;d, who is rated
for making faney sh t*. It is a mi-tter
ot current ?r'y g *ip that mat hes
are often play**l I• t **en Murray 'liil
ll]i-s for such st.il .-* as n*-w gh-ves
and t■: 1t tnnk't*. * .iii* ' imes," <rjd
a gentleman, "the stumer s>-x are ir
vited uu these little select evening en
tertain meats and r< skies-ly Mjuar dcr
•"■i 1 their immediate porkf money m
gallant wager* on th-u f;\ r,t*--."
sew York"* did Men.
It is a curious fait i.nnectcd with
Ufa in this city, ren*ark? a New Y rk
corr**?j>ondent, that find very nv
old men here. I.ife s hard <•:! nth
physical .uid mental ;s*w-rs that o* n
wear oug here with wonderful rape dry.
The only exception **> this statemi it is
f.iind i tour old cap itndsta. Th**s*',wm,
having been endowed with nervi *nd
•skill t< fight th* hattb forw-ealth, tavc
gradually gr**wn <>l i .a th*- conflict hut
have -till retained their j>site a as
leadov They has* been able not fdy
to master the eon.ja-ritors ofyoiahful
days..hat h:\c alxi held th<-,r si pmn
iwy uoi'i the ru w ce.aiing gem ration.
TUs distinction 'tiilirates great power
of isxly andmind, and h* nee the
"M men of this : jy ar<- aa a elies men
.t. notje.
A very int'wstmg and in fuei re
markable old man isl'eter Coipt r.who
wa* born in tli* city tnor- thin ninety
one years ago. He has 1 wen a plain
in.in all his life, notwithstanding his
immense wealth, and h; not only
worked hard tut continue* tu attend
to business. Mr. Cooper m a money
making iLain without l><ng a money
loving mxc. lie makes money natur
i ally, ami gi m** it just as tuturaliy away.
His parents were v< ry |wr and he wax
hound out in l>oyhnt to learn this
< .ibm<-making biisin***. Tie worked,
at this for s while <>n his own account.
an*l thin failed. Afterward he gp> >t.
into the iron and also the glue businsoSk
in which he luiilt tip a reputation
which became a fortune to him. His
glu is well known in the trade. Iwit
the institute ha* given him ooKwopidi
tan fame. Pupils come here from all
l*arts of the world to enjoy the Iwnefit
, of instruct ion and ni'h is the pressure
! for ailmittance that application must
now le made six mouths in advance,
A very fine feature in tle institute is
its free lectures, and when the course
oj>eneil this season Mr. Oxtper X|ipe?rel
on the stand and waa welcomed vith
applause, lie lives in neat but Minple
style sn*l is one of the plainest of old
fashioned jeo pie.
The AdTantaces of the American Press.
In the matter of late news the Am
erican press has the advantage of the
European. Whatever hap]ens in this
country after or 11 o'clock at night
is too late for the morning edition* of
1 the London pajwrs; hut anything oc
curring there as late as 7 or 8 o'clock
in the morning can hfCpuWished in the
morning papers on this side. In the
same wsy the afternoon pajir* in this
country may get the whole day's news
from abroad while the European pa
pers can get only half a day's news
1 from this side.