A MEXICAN “FIESTA” A SEASON OF RELIGIOUS CERE- MONIES AND INDULGENCE, Brutality of the Bull Fight=The Native Mexiean an Inveterate GamblereVas rious Games of ChancesAn Orderly Crowd. Every Mexican town has a patron saint whose duty it issupposed to bo to watch and guard over the interests of the town and its inhabitants, The patron saint of the old town across the ror, Paso del Norte, Is Our Lady of Guadalupe, The natives begin their celo bration on the 8th and keep it up till tho 24th, when they have to quit so as to be ready to begin the Christmas festivities on the 20th. The celobration or ‘‘flesta,’’ as it is called, consists of: 1. Religious ceremonies con ducted daily in the celebrated old church known to be over 2. At tending three or four bull fights a weok Gambling, and lastly, drinking plenty of pulque, meseal and tequile and having a good time generally, Than the bull fights more brutal iscrusting fizht, a cock fight or a fight men, and you know that they ar but follows ing out the instincts of nature, and if either contestant enough he can show tl white feather and generally g bull fight different; goaded and scored befors he bs the ring here speared 0 ae or years old nothing could be Take a dog between two or gels the poor brute is turned into nu goaded and killed Ho stands no in an box with a eat is ho is : Ther finally more show than a mouse AN INVETERATE Sunday over plaza, The native Mexica went gambler the turn of & center of the + tensive DEALER AND DICE, Pat “ntarers un oentrancs often prow of the first magnitude, being usually of an active race with clastic limbs and unem barrassxd by superfluous flesh. They dano from the first tootings of tie orchestrs to its lt quavering notes, They give pleas ant and salutary exercise to large numbers of muchachas (young ladies who would otherwise ornament the wall throughout the evening. This excites the gratitude of many mammas, affords these sons of fortunes new avenues to establishment in life, and causes them to be unanimously voted by he whole tertulia “the nicest kind of young men, Mexico Cor. Kansas City Times, A New Name for a Skeptio. | This gentleman's father had been on futimato | terms with Louis Napoleon when ho reskded | in the United States, and the futon i had often besn his guest on his plantation in { rope in the year 1508, and on arriving in | peror, whom he well remembered as having, | wrote to one of the imperial chamberiaing, | sotting forth his desire, and also the facts of | ings for the friends of his adversity was well | known, at once granted him a private inter | when the latter aro | tion, | was the reply. 1 Wi n very | f thre is a fiddle thew are planets | A SADLY DUPED EMPEROR, Story Concerning Napoleon 111 and a Contragl, A Cuorlous I was lately told by a southern gentlem in A very curious story, going to prove how thoroughly duped and deceived was Napoleon 111 at the close of his reign, and bow gigan- tic were the frauds and pecnlations then being carried on by the lmperial officials CIYITHOP mperor Louisiana. My friend was traveling in Eu- Paris, and wishing to bo presented to the em- when a boy, seen at bis father’s house, he | the case. The emperor, whose kindly feel view, The French sovereign and the American citizon conversed long and pleasantly, and Lhe his leave r tots ; next point of destinn- | 1 him as to bis my way “hon,” said the emperor, “1 h vou would go to the establishment of M great punmakers, and ask lon ask “1 amon to England, sire,” AM | them how tl offi | y ought to be nearly complecsd by this time." The Amer: called as . clerk to w on simply laughed in his Ong on, ik oe of the fir ws he first acddrossed Lis g face, “You my id Wades san uidertook the « " 11 the ofli eauestix] at § SONSOSs, been | countrym tod upon of the ; nies for an Answer : 110 pay by debits alter thn gether with bh falls into a river to re the wadding bas taken place, and both the pol W drownea. A rulserly creditor of the young man bappens to poss, jumps into the waler and saves whom and why! nt of 1 are on A New Marriage Ritual, i Tho Marquis of Queensberry, who is bo ing sued for divorce, once to subwti- tute in the marriage ritual of the English church for the words: “Whom God hath Joined together let no man put asunder” the ym te government or nature as no man to ke together, "Chicago alan fmpt go Lengthenoed is Daye, “Stop smoking,” said a Boston doctor to an ailing patient the other day, “and ft will lengthen your days.” The “Young men believe in nothing now-a- | bis dayy,'! says Mrs. Ramsbothum, wi sigh. “WW u deep , there's my nephew, Tom, who | and | It noe A | increased my walk, improving my ability | a pedestrian and earning among my comrades | the reputation of a crank, | giving way i that some morning Is ESCAPE FROM LIBBY, | A FEDERAL MAJOR'S SCHEME WHICH PROVED SUCCESSFUL. Puying a Confederate Uniform by Nieves meal=Digging the Famous Tanneleln DisgulsesSimulating Sleknoss=A Yree but Very Nervous Man, I Coubt if there was among ut a captive without somo pet theory by which liborly raight be regained, and like tho rest nursed, though silently, a firm determination to s, well knowing that strategy must Le my mal neo a wound received during the second year of service rendered mo too lame to hope for any luck on foot or in tho open, I knew that a complete dis guise would bo indispensable to my purpose, and that all my baste must be made slowly. Persistent dickering and trading here and there when and wherever 1 could safely do it gradually put mo in posession of the differ arts of a gray uniform, and I wos hile doing what I could to make tix log serviceable to bear me toward Patient and ofttimes painful toil it took to achieve this end 1 was d rot 1 sph iyy GBCALA 11 dependence } Gap yf mean whi woundod freedom, but, like the rest, wnted no effort too 1 vhich 1 many times Then day after porate and of paced tho confined and learned how ro in a mile, My health wi vin much longer mu hould go forth inom y rude boxes we dai not To rem v saw hanlod aw re, in the prison cart to a man of | y the ol 1otiy I have n yout } hen, but 1 ss my table of L Know also anot my 11 hh Woh has nove WAT H ting and ip and 1 by my of ¢ vor needled my gray clothing. Ere wild bo closed I had followed the arehad ott upon the ddewalk a pervous man. --Maj, John F, ndeiphia Timea oat : the oy i guard and m five but & | Porter in Pi Newdpapeors ns an Edacator, “I never road a book any more,” said an exceptionally intelligent merchant of this city, “and I think I am about as well in. formed as the majority of business men," HWhat do you read?’ asked the reporter, “The nowspapers and occasionally a magazine, Well conducted newspapers now have carcful reviews of the best books, ob» viating the neceasity of reading those books. They onrry descriptions of avery new inven. tion and are a complete history of each day's events, In addition they publish enough reminiscences to a man tolorably wall posted in Listory wo redding books i= an act of superorogation. The newspapers rive me everything I waa." Philadelphia Times- Star, although | 3 ! | will follow, | { PROVERES ABOUT BNOW. A Boloction of Boyings Which feem to i Have nn Youndution In Faet, There are many 4 chout flomo have relation to size by wid number of storms Curing tho soap; ba ezleulated end often / ! storms in the fe'lowine winter, wiilo oid | others claim a eonnectio: : and tho Passing interentine at the beginnin ton to have a select wilchi y a founas norally proceeded animation of wan end beds ues until after tho enowis {iret snow remains on the ground som eos not exposed to the on QVETS i WY. Baow ag =] in pl hard winter, It takes three cloudy dayato bring | INOW, . If the snow fakes increase Dn elise if thoro is no snow before January there will be the more stow in Aareh The more mow thio 10m son. " : heallly Heavy the following sun A snow year, a rich year, Snow is a poor man's fertilizer will follow Ci NNGY r thu th werdure, vy fall of snow i at loll ber Will iv ton Jour: mow in winter favors Lio Ci 18 od i ' winter of he i 1 on the 1 bo epre Mion Of pi . BOG 8 1 ee EO Homage to Boston Deanty. 3 § hat of pro Wd name Le Lr day at tl a he Distances of the Herlson, What is the « the son shore? Owing to the enrvature of the earth's surface the distance between a spectator on the sea shore and the dip of the horioon becomes greater according to the height of the spectator above the level of the son. The rule for measuring tis distance fs ne follows: To the height of the eye in feet | add half the height and extract the square | root of the sum, the result belug the distance in statute miles. Hence if the spectators eyo were six foot above the level of the sa | the distance would be three miles; if his eye | were ton foot above the lovel of the sea the | distance would be nearly four miles, and so on Bor any height above the sea level «-Chi- listanoe of the horizon from 1 1 And the swallow sing Through tiv i Poenuse Dame Eakire vw | More tha Iam n a BNOWFLAKES. Where do they i Jubidode Thers do Hwy fo How do they got | Drop after droge. ia a silent flow, | When the warm rain falls, 1 the winds are loud, in the rift of he « ke fromen vidos 01 tho « They wollly £0 Fiala Why do they ro? | have ft so! nti, ry Taanaot L031: i i rnor i % When @ ! THE CoWERS OF PARIS, A Plessure Trip Under the Streets of the y Metropolis of the ’ sof W Ie i ¥ INNO, patron lon 8 YA Organized Charlit ¥y Dinners in Lage Clues py ing 3 WwW Tary Gal } boged to death d fitch Overpuraon « lotion Aine working fn Amerika are o fook gt thelr hands « "wo I ce A ROE i only faring thx four last cours fore no sul common, To relieve this awkward ooment, to rafee the dull, depressing cloud wivio sets ties over the jaded senses, what betier that an ingenious dinger card, with a quotation from Ehakesponre or a few lines of original poetry? Here at lonst is an opening wedge, a text, a beginning, & subject of common interest. It fs worth a world to an anxious bostess, To goo hor guests thus amused, introduced, and put at their esos gf once is worth much money. ~ Mrs, John Bherwood fn Now York World. They have positively The Ears of Criminals. fre PRICES Bl | together, perhaps, who bave never me bse | in } 1859-1887 The melting takes of the bright, i They go to nourish fhe Ag i They go to foster the Haylie Where the roots of { Great Reduction Y v » I am now Drepared to Give ~ 1 BARGAINS. ( 1 00 { Pr rrom GROCERIES w en sl: LOW aY AiR e st. b | the Low; Ye Wa Guarantee Satige faction. Countrv Produce On band, and Wanted at all times. C. U. HOFFER
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