- AS BILL GRIG’S RELIGION. | ra bogus [Arkansaw Traveler | Old Bill Grig used to drive a team across the Boston mountains, When a railroad survey was made, ho swore that the iron highway could not be built, *'cause why ¥ sald he, “Simply ‘eause they Kain't Oh, I know they have built "em through other mountains, but not in Arkansaw.” He would sometimes modify his declaration, | | tie haulin and say that the road could not be built | within twenty years, but the fact that old | Bill was prejudiced was as prominent the nose of a greyhound, his own red protoscis, for matter. | or nearly thirty years, the exception of the dangerous terval when he soldiered with had driven a freight wagon mountains thu died idea and a primitive business upon any innov ment fF Own 1 it wie lone time before Bill Cesa: not Tait 10 A uth wooii rh sever 1 fir La | n Tit | Wor, as he termed it, 1o cet the SOFL OF Nite “ns us that or in Price, he the old he looked usu divect infrinve \ imoeninliy NCross and und lo an tion upon h uty of his une end Une night ut rch, wh ed Him log Ot more try the sweet eflicacy er 8s 1 solicitous 11 che he Ol 1! ich. he shook his hesd, and 1 . recxon not ths s ¢ i am mucu oblceged to your offi to set ‘em up, but the fa 1 is, it sin't no use while m presen eer Hike my Ves 1s nn ligion, an’ | don t se WHS Tha Ag 8 can (ure it over tried tor He p n 1 git, pars Poel to sel on « work, fur ofl side “Oh, my dea: come this oue mon | “Weil 5 a8 it's a fre you, but reckolleck that if sh ain't my fault, ” The next day when Bill ut home he was not very cordially greeted by his wife, a shim, red haired woman called the 4 the tloor and when Fill entered she threw a bucket of svds on him and exclaimed “Whar've you 1 } out all night?" “At church most of th “Well, 1 am sorry for t all ” “No, Lize, it ain't all. 1 wish it was.’ wiping the water from his face and sitting down on an old hair trunk. “I've been waitin’ fur it all, fur I'd like to hear the last of it, but the end ain't in sight yit.* Lei lips olf it w vhom tl sweetener She was scouring Deen anngin time.’ he church, that's “Never mind, you good for nothin wretch. You'll think of this when I am dead and gone ” “Now, Lize, don't I have ‘fessed ligion agin, an’ for goodness sake let me keep it awhile. ” “Yes, its mighty fine 'ligion that you've got. You go an’ biubber at the bench an’ then taper off at the grocery. Oh, | know you. ing at him with a moprag. ” “Look here, all this bus'ness mout accident but danged —like to lost it tooks like it to me fur a week.” “Git outen my way, ” be if it I aint teched a drop throwing a chair at him. “You're nothin’ but a beast, that's all you air.” “Look out, lize. Do you want me to lose my ‘ligiom right here?” “You've got no more ‘ligion cat an’ you kaow it’ “I wish you had as much, Lize " “You do, eh?” “Whack. " she struck him with one of ber old shoes, which had come off during the conversation “Now, I'll be d—d it—"Tigion's gone Told that blame preacher it wa'n't no use Wall, I've got to go over the mountain an I wouldn't grieve when 1 come back if | didn't find you in the neighborhood. As I git old I sorter feel like 1 want to go to heaven, but every time I put in my pe tition, blamed if you don’t black ball me but the Lord may take a notion one of these days to come along this way an blow out your light. Can I git some breakfast?” “Can't git a bite here. “That's it. an’ not give him anything to eat. er good mornin’, old sweetner. ” She threw something at him as he went out, but without turning to see what it was he hitched up kis mules and drove away, Two days'later, when Bill returned, wife was not there. She had been taken to the graveyard She impetuous woman while beating a cow had been turned upon by the longsuffering animal and hooked across the dark river whose course is not traced by modern geogra. phers “They needn't been in such a hurry "bout buryin’ her, " said Bill, “but I don't reckon they knowed when I was comin’ home. Well, I reckon it's all for the best-—~best for the cow, at least,” he added. A year later, Bill married a modest little woman who had promised that she would assist him in holding his religion. She was so considerate and affectionate that in his new found happiness he soon forgot the trouble arising from former marriages, When not on the road, he and his wife went to church regularly, and the warmly his solicitous Joncher who bad asked so many fruitless blessings over Bill's bowed head. thanked the Lord that his prayer had at last been answered. One day, while hitching his team, Bill's favorite mule reached over and bit a hand- ful of hair from the top of his master's head. Bill threw down a pair of hames and swore in a loud voice. “What's the matter, William?" asked his wife, coming te the door “Iam killed! he replied rubbing the top of hs head “Oh, I reckon not, dear. ” “Yes lam. That d—d onery mule has bit off the top of my head Never saw the like in my life. Soon as the wimmen conclude to let a man keep his ligion, the blamed mules come along an’ snap the life outen him, " “William, I'm sorry you've lost your religion, “Yes, soam I, but losin’ my head ia whut's a hurtin’ jest st the present time, YTIwan't in debt I'd Kill that blamed ule, * Bill did not long remain away from the mourner’s bench. There was no revival In progress at the time, but when the warmly solicitous preacher was made ac quainted with the circumstances under which Bill's religion was lost, a meetin was af once called. The freight haulers face was radinnt when he arose from the hb, and grasping the preaclier s hand “Oh, brother, suthin’ tells me that I've It fur all time 10 come Never no more will I lose It, fur with the help of m it will stay with me allus, ” b meantime work on the railroad than a | Take away a man's ligion | ell, | Get out of my way," strik- | with | From day ov day, Bill watched the grading. The destruction of a house in which he had been reared could not have exercised upon him a more sad- dening influence, The road was completed, “Tam goin’ over to make my last trio as freight hauler, ” said Bill one day. “The fust train will come over tomorrer, an’ Vou Know airter that it won't be no use for me to hitch up the mules only to do what lit thar 1 be in the neighborhood. Well, V've got my ‘ligion all right, an’ 1 reckon tha! s something more than thems railroad men Ken say, ” As he neared his home with the last { load of freight to be hauled by wagon, LAL stopped his tesin, and stood up in | I vingon to look at the first train that CRINGE OV el The engine shricked. The mules ran away. So fearful was their Hight that the « neer stopped the train (ht ent the \ Now the wagon Whit ind it & rock will, now th PHD OVer a preciplog now, eam ind 1 ne orn 1 1 to the oe 4 { ! ! ) I ] KH { | h 0 § Cat Lie i 1] I'y { [ badd « 1 he 1 } ili ert «l { mn | he od i | oy h} unnin | nothin n 1 BO | Lo \ N danger of | Ww. pars seit 1n { i | } Ww i Ww to i erview Are Reported, { { inderstood, ” Ld asa Mpor ( rough the free render i t iris of what he sald. | mi him once when five senator ! then ens ( { ) i n wi peered { I { Each seunt La me a dif erent ex viou of the meeting sand a erent { rin fv t Grant had said But ail men are ven to that sort { thir Lhe day | came from Wash 1 me weeks azo, | met Stone, Bal ) and Field, of 1 ews, and G Cerne i Cl, . Duke ta, walking fo a partridge sort of a group, tramping on rach others’ toes, and with bodies bent to bring their hends together They wer in great giee about something, and wer $0 absorbed that they came prettily near run ning over me. As they moved on awk wardly, wriggling like fist all pulled by I winkeq at f them 5] oke to me one hook them, but not one “As | had not seen any of the national convention this struck me as The wpext day Stone met me and confided to me that they had Just at that time been convulsed by one of the governor s Dakota stories. Something about a blizzard and the funniest thing be ever heard Half an hour later Pierce volunteered the statement that they bad been laughing over ove of Field's stories that Stone had sat down on. 1 saw Field in the afternoon snd he explained that Slone was telling them a joke on Medill Ballcotine came into my range evening and confided to me that they had al the moment | came scross them con cocted a joke on Long Jones, and that the thiog had tickled him nearly to death Putyng the stories, all volunteer state ments, together, | had as clear an ides of what the fellows had been laughing about the reporter often received of Grant's views from men who professed « have taiked with him." them since being a little cool it] Nankin's Porcelain Tower. World of Wonders The city of Nankin, once the capital of China hag for centuries been famous te | the “barbarians” of the outer world for its porcelain tower, a relic of the splen dor of its ancient days, before Pekin usurped its dignity as the seat of the em pire lhe porcelain tower built quite early in the fifteenth centary by the order of the Emperor Yungloh, and as a work of filial piety. It was a monument to the memory of his mother The work was commenced at noon on a certain day in 1413, and oecupied nearly twenty years in its completion The total height of the porcelain tower was more than 200 feet, or about equal to that of the monument of London, and it was faced from top to bottom with the finest porecelain, glazed, snd colored. It consisted of nine stories, surmounted by a spire, on the summit of which was a Was ball of brass, richly gilt From this ball eight iron chains exteaded to as many projecting points of the roof, and from each chain was suspended a bell, which hung over the face of the tower. The same arrangement was carried out in every story. These bells added much to the graceful appearance of the breaking its otherwise formal and mo notonous outline. Round the outer face of each story were several apertures for lanterns, and when these were all {liu in the | tower, | | often minated, we are told, in the magniloquent | language of the Chinese historian, that “their light illuminated the entire heav ens, shining into the hearts of men, and eternally removing human misery!” Improvements in Heavy Guns. Col. J. KR. Haskine | The manufacture of heavy guns is in its infancy. It fis true that improvements are made from time to time in their construction, but they Ld to details rather than the prin- ciple upon which guns are built, here is but a little modification of the princi | ple of the old brass piece of the last cen- tury seen in the 100-tons guns of today. There is the same general loss of power in each. A pressure of 40,000 pounds st the breech of the best gun in the market will diminish to 6,000 pounds at the muz- zle, with a corresponding decrease in the velocity of the projectile What gun-makers are striving for Is to make a gun in which the high pressure at the breech will be maintained to the muz- zle, and to discharge a shot with this tre mendous pressure behind it. When this result is attained the heaviest fortification and armor will sink into insignificance, and a city or a vessel will be battered to pices the same as if it were an egg shell, ‘he time, I believe, is not far distant when a gun of this power will be made, The harbor defenses of the world will then have to be changed, and the most powerful men-of war will, comparatively speaking, be nothing more than pleasure. yachts, Winter in the Adirondacks. [Chicago Times.) Winter costume in the Adirondacks is comfortable nud sometimes picturesque Guides and wood cutters wear heavy scar. let woolen stockings drawn up over the knees. A warm blue Jersey and a scarlet woolen comforter tied around the walst help to mako the wearer a cynosure of all , Visitors of both sexes wear for Aoing buffalo overcoats, felt boots, with rubbers over them, aud sealskin turbans which can be pulled down over the cam | tent, even of HEATING STREET CARS, A Drooklyn Company Seems to Have Solved the Problem. [Cor, Chicago Tribune.) In order to test the question the Brovk- lyn City company, at the outset, placed stoves in the cars making the longest trips those running to east New York. These cars carried a large proportion of laborers | specimens i mounds that are seatteved about in almost | | every section | nod ou class with whom the more refined element did not choose to ride. To accommodate the latter, living between the ferry and bedford uvenue, about half Wil 0 cast NOW York, a sep wale line bias been established, and Brooklynhies would almost in variably wail fur thu cars ruthier than go over the same track os for 1 Bediond avenue in the cars carrying the more wiscellaneous and uatidy through [EH EY ers Te { 1 I Of } loves ere Nest placed ntl cast | OK Ci Hl wis | bat the wou there | } 1 | 1 { I] ( r 1 y pah \ W n 1 noregu It ti [ in [ (iin ly I { il { [| ! uen ) AN 1) “ n i i { nph N . Me i d ; Hin \ | A I ) l } i i } i Vi y f i el n Lie 1 1 LI | cn | e | } i : ju i ts cul i Ww [ car of tin i (I A A ( t ' ( ( { fo able th Nut co anthracite is used It costs the brooklyn City ympany £4.40 per tor at dock For Kindling they use a refuse onk wi has undergone treaiment for the purpose of extracting acid This wood has a charred appearance, is not very smoky, and requires less than of other kindling to ignite a cml fire This wood costs 30 cents a bag, Ll about two and a half bushels. The cars, $00 in number, being in constant use, are run shout thirteen and a half hours a day, and it is estimated that that the cost of heating, reckoning coal and Kindling, is 12 car per day. Conductors make and attend to the fires, which is no trouble, and they cheerfully do it for the comfort they derive in being able to warm themselves frequently nisining cents per Gen, Fremont's Last Venture, Uncle Bill's One of old men ing the versed fort Half a cer bold schem ng has y (hic ago Herald the white haired and w hiskered who toddle in New Yorx war unmistakab e evidences of re. is Gen John ( b Jes, X d mont tury of 34 eft him poor Of Int ws com— Saribuy “Emgy’ Mounds, (St. Paul Pioneer Press.) Mr. T. H. Lewis, a Bt Paul archwolo gist, has lately returned from a tour of xploration of almost a year, and he brings with him some rare and valuable obtained from the ancient of the southwest and north [ west. Ile brings back with him, as the | result of hig tour, a large collection of | drawings of effigies and curious relics of the days of the mound ballders. In the { Hoe of effigies he discovered a mound in | southeastern Minnesota, the outlines rep- | rescoling the form of a fish. ‘The few { fish efligies that have been described by eaplorers herclofore have never shown the fins; but Mr, Lewis discovery has the | tins very accurately muorked, being the | first ever moted by Grell ologists Its xirem length LR feed the greatest wid thirty six feet, trom end to end of fins Mr | Lew considers this one of the most in 1 i 2 | i de { VOI discov el i I Ht ol pet Leese It | ely fty four li iu | Clegs i { Liat ti I tin 1 le BIT the } i 4 A A fre | i fe i 0 An Ol Lt A il i of “nny 8) ) 1 \ f ou on Ww i i O Ihre i id 4 IH Ft Ina | I W A ’ d Tink i Oe Wi iL. Va | ¢ mot { TH 4 L} 1] ) : Wilgs exu } el wad Fhiree bet | '] | J Ol a { 1 L841] \ Lh i I Den 0 ir. | of t nd fi eilig DAS « 1 i ‘ I he SUR « { 1} i auy that ha vn ‘ H in the way o ! Le Ihe | bh Wy " or tl er 1 HT th of wills pr portioned so as 1 Ww hh wa Lie long feathers run hese described are only the more striking ones of the 125 of Hes surveyed The Theosophile "Sisters of Thibet eieenth Century. ] the fairy my home sisters and Lawrence Oliphant Suffice to say, that in vilion which was twenty four lonely twenty four chelas-- | make twenty fourth—jn the most complete and absolute harmony, and that thelr lives presented the most cunrming combination of active industry, harmless gayety, and innocent By a proper distri bution of Hor like pa dwelt their Lhe | fo Was plessures in which all tion of the land, the cultiva of the ex took the part, tending ‘Grave Guards, Tron Settees work and proportionment of la | | quisite gardens, with their piashing foun- | be hus made a living ss a civil engineer He is no pauper, nor in absalute penury, except by comparison with his former prosperous state He is now on his feet again for another chase after wealth His course lies to Mexico where he Is to survey, acquire nd share in owning an immense tract of land “I have high hopes of dying a willion- aire, after all,” he ssid to me, before set. tiog out, “but 1 may fail, and I am con vinced that this is positively my last chan I haven't any time to lose, and | feel like a gambler who has od his final remnant of money My capita As energy, boldness, and possib.y OTe brains, and | have got to the end of it, after playing a pretty heavy game of ak ternale winnings and losses This is the | inst throw of the dice ” It should be wdded, however, that Fremont present venture has covery mark of legitimate en terprise How We Use Paint. [Chicago 1 ribane “There is three times as much paint used in the United States as there is in any country in Europe, proportionately speak ng,” said a wholesale dealer in paints * What is the reason?” Principally our frame houses You see in Europe people all build in stone brick or clay. In the townsand cities one doesn’t see any wooden houses at sll. and even in the country the peasants and farmers have either houses of rough stone, brick or clay. Evem the Imus are built of one of these malerials Here the reverse is the case There are probably ten frame houses to one of any other material. Asa consequence, great deal of paint ie used to give the out side an Inviting appearance. Many Amer fcans are perfect enthusiasts and’ spend thrifts that way. The sooty atmosphere of our cities spoils the looks of a house in no time. A new coat of paint is the rem. edy. Thus many paint their residences twice a year, cad this is true, to a less ex the brick structures. In that way probably two thirds of our paint goes Grant at Shiloh, [Exchange | Gen. Grant, in his paper on “Shiloh, ” written for the February Century, scouts the idea that his army was in a defenseless condition at the close of the first day of the battle. He says that before any of Buell's troops had taken position he had given orders to his division commanders 10 attack at daybreak on the second day. Of the close of the first day he says: “Gen. Lew Wallace arrived after firing had ceased, and was placed on the right Thus night came, Wallace came, and the ad vance of Nelsons division came, but none ~~axcept night—in time to be of material service to the gallant men who saved Shi lok on the first day, against large odds. ” He fixes the time of the capture of Gen. Prentiss as certainly after half-past 4 o'clock in the afternoon, as he himself was with Prentiss at that hour, “when his division was standing up firmly, and the general was as cool as if he had been ex. pecting victory, " ————————————— ————— Progress of a Century. [Loninville ournal.) A pie in 1770 was of two bushels of flour, twenty pounds of butter, four , two turkeys, two rabbits, four wild ucks, two w k, six snipes, four ridges, two neats' tongues, two cur. for seven blackbirds and six pigeons. A riod 'sppie AR Ita Pics oF cogay apple wn a lint o dough, such is the march of improve ment. | Alo, ENAMELED SLATE MAN. | TELS, MARBLEIZED AND DECORATED FURNI- tains, fragrant flowers, and inviting ar bours. the herding of the cattle, and the heavier part of various handicrafts, fel upon the men; while the women looked after the domestic arraungemenis voked made or mended ar ashed the chelas clothes and their own (both men and women were dressed according to the | purest principles of a sthe.ic laste), looked after the dairy and helped the men in the lighter parts of their industries Various inventions, known only to the 0A isterhood by means of their studi in th teric science of mechanics, « trituted to shorten these labors to an ex tent which would be scarcely eredited by the uninitiated; but some idea of th na i form fron be fact that meld f storing and apg ng el EOCilY, unknown a el int est, hav bere beer perat for many centuries, wl i ¢ machines atid many other contrivan still 1 nedr 4 fancy with us, are carried to a hig) pitch if perfection. Ina word, what struck me once as the fundamental difference Ix tween this sisterhood and the fraternd sdepis with which | had been associated was that the former ty experiences to daily life in ironed all their occult practical account in their this world, instead of pre | serving them solely for the sulilective con ditions which are supposed by mahat ms 1o attach exclusively to soother state of exislenoe The Card -Mriting Induastr Chicago Tri Within the last three years this industry has assumed quite remarkable proportions, and at the present tine a much more re spectable class of men is engaged in it Said one of them For a week | had sc much business in writing Christmas and New Year oards that [| had tw engage an assistant, to whom | paid $10 per day My sales ran all the way from §1 to $8 per dozen, and | worked twelve to fourteen hours each day, but my assistant only worked e ght hours for his $10. After paying my reot for space 1 clear about $2,000, a year, besides which 1 have 180 pupils who take u course of twelve lessons either at my house or their own, It keeps me busy, but | am making money, and don't care for the hard work. During the holidays there were an army of itinerants fn the field, but they have folded their tents and gone no one knows where There are persons engaged in this occupation at most of the hotels, and most visiting cards and many drummers’ instead of printed Shaking Chimneys, [Sclentific American A soundly-bullt chimney vibrates, or swings from side to side, as a whole, un der sudden and violent shocks of wind, and is in reality safer when it than when it stands in sullen and un moved resistance. The vibration indi cates that the several constituent parts of the structure are firmly eotmputy into one coherent, continuous, and, as it were, homogenoous mass, which can sway from side 10 side like a steel rod o. spring with out any tendency to dissolve its contin uity and break sassunder at some inter mediate point, The absence of vibration, on the other hand, means that there is not this Integ rity of coherence, and that there are, so to speak, fissures of substantial continuity in the structure, at which disruptive strain Is unavoidably developed. den shocks of wind bursting upon lofty columns of brick work in such circumstances tend to cards are written | | of Music 100 Pall Lessons for $18 for C1 1 ! does so | | i break them across’at the joints where the | interruption of continuity occurs, Uncle Eeck: There are lots of nop who never know ous thing until they run against it, and theo they Know 100 uch Inter Ocean: Seventy five OWS Ae) 3% have come into life, sickened and did iu New York within the past thirty years, i CURRY INSTITUTE | | REMEDY guemags DISEASES IETTER.ITCH, SORES, PIMPLES, ERYSWELAS i { ol i ITCHING PILES Evmptoms are moisture, stinging, itching, worse at night ; seems as if plo-worms were crawling about the rectum; the private parts are often affected. 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