NORTH SEA “COOPERS.” FLOATING PUBLIC-HOUSES WHICH MAIL FROM GERMAN PORTS, A Visit on Board a “Cooper,” and the Skipper's Recoption — The Curse of the North Bea— Dishonest Smack men, [Bt. James' Gazette.) In July last it was monounced that a German vessel, the Diedrich, had been at- tacked and plundered fn the North sea by a gang of pirates, supposed to belong to fishing smacks working on the Dogger bank, The assailants, it was said, towed up in boats, boarded the Diedrich, assaulted and maltreated her officers aud crew, and made off with a considerable amount of loot The word “piracy” was evidently an exaggeration, for it is not pretended that the “pirates™ were armed. It was suggested, no doubt, that they carried knives and bludgeons. Lut bludgeous ure no part of the stores of a fishing-smack, and every sailor carries a knife as a matter of course. Tothose acquainted with the Dogger bank the whole thing wus clear at ouce The Diedrich was : Bhd 8 German “cooper.” The “coopers” ure large smacks of sixty or seventy tons measure ment, liberally rigged and fast sailers. They come out from the German ports with a cargo consisting principally of cigars, tobacco, and spiritx But ‘they also carry scent, kid gloves, bangles, and other such wares of Autolycus, which the smacksmen purchase for their wives, daughters, or sweethearts There will also be an mssortment of sundries—cut lery, combs and brushes, mzors, and boots, sad with these other articles of a distinctly objectionable character, such as stereoscopic slides, the sae ot which on shore in England would be an indictable offense. The prices charged are low, snd the goods, as a rule, are worthless. The spirits are abominable man in want of adrink will drink any- thing. The one genuine article a cooper carries is her tobacco. This costs you 18 pencen pound. The favorite brand re joices ip the title of “ Kising Hope, ” and it would Le cheap in London at 4 pence the ounce, These coopers come out of the German ports and cruise about among the fishing fleet. There is no secret as to their busi ness. It is publicly indicated by a small, square blue tlag hung a third up the main. topmast. They are, in reality, public houses, and the flag in their sign-board. Now smacks on the Dogger trawl sunset and question is rnglish fishing put down their at baul lies to, drifting slowly to leeward hardly shifting her position on the fishing grounds. It is during leisure of the day-—generally after dinner the visit to the cooper tukes place row up to her, and are welcomed by a polyglot skipper, who commences ceedings by handing round liquor and then gets to business. Over the business an altercation is by no means uncommon, and it will sometimes get beyond the length of mere words if, on the other hand, things go amicably, an hour ortwo will be spent in drinking Hamburg sherry, potato-spirit, and other such poison; anc then the men will rejoin their smack, all more or loaded with rubbish There is nothing good on a cooper ex cept her tobacco; and this is only because cut tobacco can not be counter feited or adulterated. The floating grog shops in the coopering trade are the curse of the North sea. The men waste money on them which would be better spent on shore; and in too many cases the skipper of a cooper is neither more or less than a receiver of stolen When the smacksmen have no money he will tempt them to “truck " the stores of their vessel: wind many a valuzble net, many fathoms of rope, many anchors, snd other such gear, have been reported as lost, which in reality bave been bartered away for an eighth of their value in exchange for Ham burg spirits. No one says that this is honest on the part of the smackmen; but here is rough sense in a remark often heard from the bench, that if there were no receivers there would be no thieves the that less drunk and easily goods Pecullarity of Seismic Waves, (Inter Ocoan.) It is a remarkable peculiarity of earth. quakes, and one which may yet shed a light upon the mystery of these seismic disturbances, that they generally roll from east to west like a wave. Within recent years this singular trait of earthquakes has been very conspicuous. The dreadful earthquakes which altered the configura tion of the island of Java was followed by terrestrial disturbances in Syria and Asia Minor, and now the convulsion that has smote terror to the heart of Spain seems to have rolled across to England, where several shocks have been distinctly felt. In 1755 the great earthquake which destroyed Lisbon and Sjfaved the Tagus until it looked more like a great tidal wave than a river, was follo by shock in England and France. The American continent does not seem to be affected by these seismic waves, but in the old world it does seem to be the rule that earthquakes start in the of in the east and roll westward. Australinn Sheep Dog. (Exchange. | According to English papers, the sheep industry fn Australia has brought out a rey of the sheep dog remarkable for gacity, but differing in many other par: ticulars from those of other countries, It is related of them that they will hunt for stragglers miles away from the hut, sad cither drive them in or watch them, hi they happen to be exhausted, until hey suflicient strength to walk. It A common thing in traversing the graz ing country to come upon one of the sa Juctons dogs on guard over a strayed or roken-down sheep, and while placable aad gentle to a remarkable degree, us a rule, are then resentful of interference with their charge, and fierce in the ex: treme, Only, a smacks. | outing | It at sunrise, | During the day a fishing smack, as a rule, | and | | worn hour | You | pro | glasses of MY KINGDOM. (8. B, McManus in Detroit Free Press) Bho winds her arms tightly about my neck, Hor dear little arms with dimples kissed over, And ber baby breath touches my lips and my chee As sweet as the scent of a summer bloomed clover; Then she Kisses me over and over and over, And each kus is as sweet as a white bios womod clover, All nigiit-eapped wy princess creeps into her And, tho’ gone but a minute, I know she & slov ping, And I feat on the slumber smiles lighting ber ace, While I sit by the window, my restiul wateb keeping; Like a robin wing-weary my bird is sslesp- ing, And J sit in content, my restful watch keep- ing. To-morrow may come, as to me they have come, With frettings and cares the full hours to lessen, And the earth will fast fetter my hands and my soul, And the farthest star will seem nearer than Heaven Yot no touch of the earth can theses watch * bours lesson, For I »it by the gate of my Kingdom of Heaven. Cape Coats Again. [New York Sun.) “Men are wearing capes on their over: coats ugain, ” sald a Broadway tallor re. ceutly, as he leaned ngainst his counter ind delved into the ianer recesses of his mouth with a toothpick, “and they recail 10 old New Yorkers the popularity of the caje, and its sudden disappearance. after the murder of a young woman uptown by a young man named Robinson. “Many years ago any man with any pretensions to style worea cape The arments were of various colors, often unning to bright plaids. and they were worn quite long. A tall man wrapped up in one of these capes and walking sloog ! like a bandit conveujent in the dark looked were very when a man went stre in dress clothes. He had only to slip his cloak over Lis shoulders when running out between the acts, which was vastly easier than struggling into an over coat, and saved many a man from catch ing many a cold. When the great Robin murder trial came on, however, the testimony played largely on a cape which wis worn by a mysterious man, who was subsequently ident. fied as Kobinson. They then known 4 and, by George, sir of the streets before Until now they hav They particularly to the the son became Robinson capes,’ ey were driven out © MASON WAS aver never reappearcd - “ What is the fash ible cape to day?™ “It is a part of the op coat and hangs very close to the shoulders It is never separate from the coat, and it will not do ona Newmarket A sack coat is the only proper form of coat, and when a Newmarket topped with a cape the effect is anything but fashionable. ” is Gardens In Germany. [Hanover Cor. Boston Transcript. ] We have some pleasant gardens in Han over, but they are now closed for the winter months, How we all regretted the day when Tivoli shut its gates, not open them till the warm spring comes again’ What happy afternoons and even ings we have idled away here under the trees, listening to tie musi of the military band! Here came with our work or books and » {reaming and reading. How ¢ iiet and peaceful alwavs is! Even the idttle to feel the influence of the place in America would it be 50? Where it nol be so in Germany All classes come to these gardens, where they quietly drink their glass of coffee. Itis quite the fashion to we for hours « children sem Wher would give a vollee party in the garden instead of at | home, and one often sees a merry party of Indies sitting together drinking coffee and working away at their knitting or crochet Sometimes the programme for the even ing concert is s0 tempting that we order our supper here also, and remain till the end, which is at 10 oclock for German hours—and everybody goes quietly home A Very Odd Wedding. {Boston Herald | A very odd Amish wedding took in the Conestoga valley, hear town, says a Iteading. Pa, dispatch Some three bundred people attended John 8. Mast and Miss Stennie Zook, children of very wealthy Amish farmers Morgan were the contracting parties. The plain | ceremony of joining hands took place in the meeting-house, after which a ori procession proceeded to the house, where a banquet took place. A feature of feast was as follows iccted his sweetheart, and both went to the table. This action was followed by similar selections, until all the younger couples had gore in. A hymn was sung, when feasting for ten minutes followed Then all arose, each couple holding » book between them, and another hymn ten minutes, when there was more singing as before. In this way the festivities were kept up for six hours loe-house Firee [Detroit Free Press | Why should an ice house burn? lee, surely, is not inflammable; the houses are unuaily bullt in some retired locality, and save when alongside a railroad track, their surroundings are not dangerous Yet jce houses, and per ticularly those In New England and on the Hudson tiver, are reckoned among the special haarda Many insurance com: panles will have nothing to do with them, and the numbar of companies who thus pass foe houses by on other side is yearly locreasing, At the Rasor's Mercy. L (Laramie Boomerang | Suppose your favorite barber should suddenly become insane, and suppose as you lay stretched out comfortably in his chair he should A nation to cut your do to Abe Rich. Lt the More Thas the Clreas Poster Advertised, a uestrienne jn a Russian er glug A Hagel the mine se 26 SIR while her horse was In full pareer dead fo, So 0 Sh A Te Bre fethaen. i An ETE ER tronomy. draining on the company, but it draw, Re TRICKS OF MACHINES. UNACCOUNTABLE STOPS AND STARTS WHICH PUZZLE MECHANICS. Watohos Thai Have Needed Only o Little Host ~The Shoemaker and His Cranky Machine ~ A Locomo- tives (near ¥Voouwk: (Philadephia Thue | “There are times, ” sald a well known machinist, “when pearly all machines get cranky. The trouble is often a simple one and is not infrequently owing to the machinist not knowlog his business. But that is not always the (nse. The ve best mechanic in the world gets hold of a nut sometimes that is diticult to crack. A machine, vo mutter of what kind, may work perfectly for months, and then one day something goes wrong with it. The machinist loons at it, examines it, perhaps even takes it to pieces and puts it up again, but all of wo avail; the machine remains like a balky horse, which nothing will make zo. At lust the ma chinist gets tired and goes home, sick of pottering with .the troublesome thing. ie comes to work the next day, per haps having forgotten the previous trouble, touches a handle here, x wheel there, drops ulfttle oil in half & dozen places, turns on the seam and off she goes without » murmur, as if nothing bad ever happened. No, | can’t explain jt neither could he. The only conclusion to be drawn is that be omitted on the oe. casion of the stoppage those little neces sary touches of bandles, turning of wheels and droppings of ofl. But there are other casos of a slightly different nature.” “ Watches are so small and their mech anism is so delicate that it requires a care ful inspection to find the cause of any | again | Hanging | pocket 1 often discover the fine | L | Mackay's | good | days beer or | i Some spirits 0 turpentine and cleaned up . | me an’ my ole woman took a holiday that rather late | | when I went down to the shop next | the old thing went piace ] | nothin’ the matter with it " said | Philade | He the | A young man se | | old wus sung; feasting then continued another | trouble, " said a jeweler. “The causes of sudden stoppage are very various, but smong the most frequent is want of oil Adropof oll in a watch will last from eighteen months to two years as a lubri cator. AP the end of that time the works become dry and cousiderable wear ensues Still a watch may run five years before ft stops. If a watch is brought to me | can piways say instantly is the mat though 1 of Bave to make some statement ta satisfy a Indy or au inconsiderate man Som: times | have had a watch to ‘eure,’ have taken itto pieces, but do all 1 would I could not get it right. Then 1 lay it on and goto work on something When 1 ¢ } to the watch it ust as vervihing will Of been red or been not what ler ind one wile else me MICK 1 11 ’ Is Lin Ba ho na possible ible bh side into PiRCe AS easily as course, the f reason of my tro a lite nervousness n I have been t anxious, or my eyes or “Sometimes | have and hung it on a rack fore returning working order three fingers have repaired a watch for a few davs Ix itto iis owner Then perhaps brings it back stopped That is sometimes a poser, but in such a case 1 put the watch in my pocket and carry it round with me for a few day a watch which is perfectly still and of éven not a fair test. By carry in good in two or days bie on the rack Lmperature, is mg it mm my trouble which is generally a very simple ome “ewin machines are est as posi cranky as women, " sald / Clane. one of the old Philadelphia There's Mackay's much about and hand. | machine like a me one day It was though book It payed possum f went stiff 1 couldn't nothin' with it, then it broke all ms threads, and at last it took and 1 8 inch and & half into one of my uppers “Well I couldn't find out what was the matter. | the thing = tw witched Anyhow, I went out and ight for eo guessed i | every part of it, then 1 oiled it a sh and Jet him be for a whole day I ‘member | day sn’ spent it on the river in a Delavan steamer. Weil, | don’ know what did it | whether it was the rest had put it in good but day houw been | humor, or the clefting, or the oil slong like a a fire, as though there hadn't never “Ever had any bother with my engine?” Ed. Murmy. an engineer on Pennsylvania railroad. “No, | can’t say I ever did, but I've heard old Jake Fin lay, who used to run the express between phia and New York, tell a queer of a trouble he got into ounce wis considered a good engineer and was undoubtedly a thoroughly capable man. It was one winter a good many | years ago, he was running his usual en- | ine on the evening express. He reached | renton safely and stopped there twenty minutes for refreshments The rest was over, the passengers all seated, the line signaled ‘clear,’ the bell rang aod | Jake took off the brake and turned the steam on. The engine gave a sort of a feeble kick and the big driving wheels revolved half a dozen times but didn't grip the rails and the train didn’t move “Jake thought the tmin was 100 heavy, 80 he backed it a littie to gain an impetus Then he put on the steam full again to go forward, but the old engine just kicked again and the driving wheels went round again, but the train never moved Jake got mad at last and got off the cab to look for the trouble. He shouted to the fireman to turn on steam. His order was obeyed and without the ight trouble the engine glided out of the station as if she were on a board Jake was so worried about it that it story bewitched and The om as mow el m { w hiy.one Boarding schools, seventy six dap schools and six mavual labor schiools, for education, are all crowded be yond their « aha 40 be 4 revival of umooth faces socket oe must chopped. off and the gonte: Sok £0 Woo. i of | the tree, | pv unknown in b | tender, are veellent s | cabbage | strange the | | cassava | and Doty, FROM HONDURAS. THE WOODS OF CENTRAL AMERICA AT THE EXPOSITION. The Wealth of » British Colony -~ Valuable Exhibit of Mahogany, Cedar, Mowe wood, and Other Beautiful Woods wHtrange Vegetable Produota, [Garth's New Oricans Letter.) Let us look a2 a new and strange ox. bibs that has journeyed over the stormy waters of the Mexican gulf to this our ‘ex- position —the contribution of British Hon. duras. Imbued with the popular idea that the colony is a desolate, tat wilder ness sod iohabitants malaly negroes sutliciently Americanized to vitiate their native qualities, 1 was somewhat msion ished when the gentlomanly, bronzed lo dividual in charge informed me that Belize is a town of 5,000 or 9,000 inhabi- tants, governed chiefly by the arge scotch element of the population. A living wit ness, 4 lnotern jawed, sandy-haired Scot, came up to the exhibitor for orders just then in un atmosphere of old rye, and con. firmed his stntoment. The only portion of Central America over which sritsh colors wave, iL is the only spot among sll the petty siates that not von tinunliy sod blood thirstily exercised over the maintcuance of js dignity. Two hundred years ugo » few British pioneers came to Honduras to cut logwood and maliogany. Their arcival was regarded by Spain ws au impLrtinent intrusion, and it was ony by successive treaties with that powur, Uautemala, Mexico snd the United Sistes that the colony remains British to-lsy. Now the exhibit—the woods first, of course —the wenlth of the colony: A maboguny log 28 feet loug sud + feet square, snd a cedar 20 feet long and «+ feet sj uure are the biggest things in the space. Cedar is used chiey for cigar Loxes, but of the noble mabog- any we have more to see. Two besutiful “spurs siiced cleanly out of the root of rely for table tops, One | is almost square, 5 feet 4 inches by 5 fet 6 inches, tue other round, sbout & feel ao dismeter. A beautiful, bhoroed, iulaid | rid id three ecaquisite igned card-tabu naduras g ernment have Journed for hy HOWDnH “What is those spurs’ 1 askey A ni “There, about 3 LL HEH hat es Rov 3 wir Li80 ne of t wfor market is flooded ! hogany in lo any advantage this Had 8 Cras | { UW 8 pgetling it 18 y look Wo us unuy will soon super Ci more Lis he fully polished en from a Jog which formed a the foundation of the old Belize | i which lay wand | r SIXIY years As you it» again durable than added prece of taking wood, ie an unaGergre Ses ws a bel the solid wood | nted, with various i peg owls, cut out of Orns. are bi up in bmstets stiut fiber. Hee isa yw boat from forty but only three feet out of A Imghogany ire picalls with © OILY means thers eral winis inder sits of PaRIian un . reposcs on lids » This one bears the No poem ' ¢ al ip inscr bodder of me has | as Lit 3 La perfor a baat, bald Hi im ren” en cal Hosewood and | re CoOnNu wil hinge 1 Toomn re i» also shown which as every exported for dye . of Alnerica ar: sim nuly and value Here and viled, and beautiful pa paimetio, madre ban tan, and pieces of the cablmge | which the natives use for clap no oall can pierce jis density fruit when young sod substitute for | vegelable products are | and interesting sarsaparill L 000s, eramantic bark, a much prived tonic; | used by the Caribs for bread: ar many imens of St John's | of locusts, which look like big. brown | boon nuis, and the val makers oll that is made fr gourds, cocoanuts, 1 ACCO, ono LL LEN hennequin from which “ fine, strong cord made, 1 have] not begun to name them. A case of fascinatingly ugly Indian relies, dag up| in the abounding monnds, stands near the vegetable display. They are chiefly grin ning heads and dislocated members, seem ingly of baked clay, A carved turtle is prominent among them, the work of some obscure Carib artist whose aspirations will | perish with him. lroching coral and fairy forms of seaweed adorn the “court” | of British Hondures The skull of a log. | gerhead turtle, about twice the size of al man's; the scaly coat of the armadillo, a | sort of well protected guinea pig, about eighteen inch # long, and the skull of a | mountain cow, a curiously formed struct | ure, are other interesting objects | “These mountain cows are dangerous things, " said Mr. Agar, to whom you are | now introduced “Many a time out hunt ing 1 have been persuaded to take to a free in view of their prospective society ™ Snakes~green and blue “racers,” red and black “corals,” vipers, the most deadly “Tommy Goff,” and leautiful dark red little sen horses are bottled up in alcohol. All sorts of ill-looking bugs and reptiles associate with them, including the centipede and monster locusts fully six inches long With a glance at the beautiful Indian wood carving and embroldery we must go As we leave the main building to sunter down the broad walk with an ever changing crowd and a delight that is always new, the bells ring out * Land 0 the Leal. ™ Oh, it is worth the long Eu ry southward to hear those bells melodies away into the sunlight and across the listening city y’ the wees borders of the cyprus swamps. Come hear them ooiboy know La) The woods of «eats they stand nity Creva, fre boards The split arielics i rowroo diet ROMY ’ CF ML © Wal Te Determine Doubtful Death, [(Solentific Journal, A new Ajo for determining the tion of doubtful desths is by an electrician, who says that in bodies in Fite upon the application. of ‘An. shectr nn ir Sutten sod never in the cose of actual An Ohio Wagon in Pekin Rev. J. Walter Lowrie, 8 Prosbytcrian ™m 10 Chins, bas the only four wheeled vehicle in Pekio an ulfrucufal but vseful covered depot wagon, hallt iu Ohio. The atives sre amared ot its Wiel, #0 light snd yet strong. | ticipated, It was not Gl BOOT or SHOE ! 2nd floor Bush Arcade, | I would be pleased to have you call, | and examine specimens of work, Quick Rallway Time, " Rockford, I1l,, Jan, 1890, ia is to certify that we have appointed Frank P, Blair, sole agent for the bg our Quick Train Riilroad Watches in the town of Bellefoute, Rockrorp Waren Coxpaxy. i) HOSMER P. HULLAND, Bee. saving most thoroughly tested the Rock ford Quick Train Watches for the last three yours, | offer them with the fullest Sodfdene as the best made and most reliable time keeper for th that oan be obtained, Vey 1 Hovey I fully guarantee every Watch for two ; FRANK P. BIA IR, etna Neo. 2 Brockerhoff' Rov. Allothar American Watches at reduced prices. 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