JUST A LIVELY BOY. n——————————— NOTES OF A 10-YEAR-OLDS EXECUTION OF AN ERRAND. Ther w 8 nothing peculiar about the boy's appenrnnce, He seemed just an ordinary 10-year-old boy in knick- esbockers, shoes, stockings, jacket and polo cap, the latter worn on the back of his head as most other boys wear theirs. He was starting out of a house on Lexington avenue with a gollon tin can, a new, smooth, bright! vosel, very stroogly ma le, and car- ried by means of a handle of wire at the top. Iu turning the corner of Fiftieth street the boy suddenly came upon a large black dog asleep in front of the grocery. Just before he reach- ed the dog he let go his hold on the can aud launched it squarely beside the sleeding animal, It struck the flagging, rattled off its cover, bound- ed ia the air, and sent the dog out of his sleep with a leap and a yell of ter- ror. The dog ran away, and the boy gathered up the can and its cover, fastene | the two together, and went There are iron palings in front of the houses on Fiftieth street, aod tue boy found much sport in holdivg the cau firmly against them as he walked along. This made a prodi- gions noi.e, aud caused the can to bob ¢ inc wsautly fron peiliog to pailing, denting it at every bounce. on. The boy was tempted to desist from this exercise by the sight of a frowsy wowan pitching slong the street with | uncertain steps, aud with half a yard | of hor rusty black dress dragging on the pavement. The boy went up to | to her with a modest and kindly air and asked ber if she would not like some beer. She replied affirmatively with brightening oyes. Follow me, said the boy He led her to a gate in a high brown painted fence, of ened it, waited until the woman was in, the gateway, and then gently shoved her in, slammed | the gate, and hung on the top of the | fence with his head just over the edge, shouting to her that there was a sav- | Hoboken, and you'll be killed and your mother will be pulver——- At this instant the stout German woman who kept the store opened the lace curtained inner doorway to the househeld apartment in the back and entered the store, The boy cessed teasing the child. His face looked blank and innocent, though the little girl's countenance expressed consider- able alarm, Penny's worth er chewing gum, said the boy, 'o’ I'm in a hurry. He got the chewing gum snd start ed to return. Io his haste he opened the door so rapidly with one hand as to knock the gallon can out of his other hand. It banged on the floor, its lid rolled off, aud there was noise beyond all estimate. The little girl had been expecting an explosion and screamed with fright. Dropped my can, said the boy and at once squatted on the floor, spread his legs as wide as possible, and described an arc with one and a circle with the cther as he lunged first for the can and then for its lid. A bale of little red wooden wagons was disengaged from the nail it bung on sod fell with a crash that brought the German woman sround the corner of the counter just as the boy bad gathered himself and his be- longings and was darting out of the door. In his tright he made a pretended dash at a pile of apples on an Italian fruiter’s stand, but neither touched the fruit nor stopped his flight. He did not take to around in order to note the conse quence of what he had done. He lost something by that, for the Italian in charge of the stand had almost leaped out of his coat in haste to de fend his goods. The boy ran until the trouble he came to the stairs of an elevated railroad station, These he mounted with only three falls, by reason of one { of which be was obliged to chase his : gallon can down to the foot, where | it bad gone with a series of bumps and bounces that aroused all the pleasure the boy's eyes had power to | express, He made believe to forget to put look | Wexford Connty, Mich., is that it gradually rises’ and subsides once every few years, It has been rising for the past four or five years, and the Grand Rapids & Indiana railway has been obliged to abandon its old road- way along the shore. A farmer of Clarence, Me, lost a cow more than a month ago, and after searching io vain for her came to the conclusion that she had been stolen A few days ago, while he was pulling straw from a stack, his hands came in centact with ap auimal’s tail, and fol. lowing it up, he found that it belong. ed to his long lost cow, The cow ap- peared none the worse for her long imprisonment, A handsome young girl of sixteen, who livesat Arkwright N Y. bas never seen the world by day light, though enabled by lamplight to read and see as well as anybody. Up to the age {of four or five years she was believed to be totally blind. The parents no- ticed that after the lamp had been lighted she gave evidence o7 seeing and gradually this power of sight grew upon her, until the little one played light as eagerly as other children by daylight, stl Wp A— NEW PROCESS OF PAPER MAKING. The object of this invention isso to arrange the various machines or ap- paratus for treating esparto, straw, etc., that a continuous process can be | carried on direct from the fiber boilers | to the paper-makiog machine without the materials being handlec by the workman ss hitherto. Iu the first place the boilers are em" an arrangement of endless traveling lattices, which carry it to the break- sng and washing engines. | conveyed into the chests to supply the halfstoff or cleaning machine, alter which it is run into a store chest | supply the bleaching engines. After bleaching it passee into a chest to | supply the beaters, from whence it is | finally conveyed to the paper making aze dog in there, and that she had | his ticket in the box, and when the | machine. better look out. stant later tired of this conceit and see- | ing a Third avenue car bowlingalong, waited until it had passed the corner, and thenjyelled aud whined for it to BLOOD. When All right let flung At the He al 8 WAY It stopped and he ran after it. close to it he shouted: go, The car moved, and | ion on the piatiorm. same momaat he boarded the car had thrown the can in sue and off at The cou ductor pulled the bell to stop the car. that jt went on at one side the other into the street, Never mind; I'll get it, said the boy, | as he plooged off the car alter the | ean. The car stopped, and the boy | did on the return journey can only be | But he was evidently ao | He picked it taen continued walking hastily away | got his can, up. and from the car precisely as if he had | { ! never dreamed of wanting to ride on | it. The conductor was furious, but | of the : he did pot seem to be aware man & existence, gateman asked him for it he pretend. | He dropped to the sidewslk an in- | ed to indulge :n a wearisome search | the fiber is maintaived in a wet coo- | through all his pockets. The man discovered the ticket in the olfered to not boy's mouth, took it away, sod cuff the lads ears, bat was half quick enough. In the elevated car he had rare fun. He put the now battered and dirty can bottom up between his koees and to a taupe whistled between bis teeth in «hat grating, discordant way that only such & boy can manage, he drum med with his knuckles errand Thus the boy rode on his Unfortunately, the reporter Who observed him left him at the termioa. tion of the elevated ride, so what he | guessed at, every day New York boy, with only the ordinary excess of animal spirits, w= New York Sun - WORTHY OF NOTE 1 During a recent storm at the mouth | The advantage of this process is that | dition throughout the entire process of manufacture, and therfore contri both from | butes largely to the saving of material and time in moving ose process to another. This can {readily be done aatomatically iu buildings where the various machinery f « subdivided and arranged upon dif ferent floors, but in say case wher this advantage does not exist, pumps stock chests are so acd small Arrang ed that no difficulty presents ilsell This system will dispense with Lhe makiog of the stuff into a solid at the | pre see pate machine, li ON THE ROADTO WEALTH doing with your Widow Jims has 1 What are you asked of her oldest boy who | apple seeds? [4] carefully | scraping off the table the sceds of | half a peck of apples he bad jost de voured, Puttin’ 'em in me pocket, replied 3 ’ pg 3 " At the momen, that be reached the | of the Columbia river, in Oregon, the | the young glutton. Can't yer see for sidewalk he encountered a young, doing with the can, Got it to play shin loo with, Don't | you know how to play it? It's the Hoss game out ! Without taking time to think what he was abont to say, he explaimed to the boy, who wastwo years younger than himself, all about the game, which he would have been obliged to | admit that he had never heard before, but which he now said consist. ed in picthing pennies at the can, the rule being that all the coppers the little boy put in the can were counters, and all that he failed to get in were losers, Thelittle boy had three cents which be threw at the can, which the bigger boy had set up as 8 mark. All the boys coppers rolled away from the can, and the big boy picked up them sod the cao. Afler spending a moment over an expression of smpathy for his friend, sod promising to give him soother chance tomorrow, he strode ofl, whistling lightheartedly. A little farther down the street he soted the fact that a candy store was in charge of a little girl. He opened the store door and went in. Hello, little girl ! said be, assuming a wicked appearance, | am going to leave (his thing bebiod the o.unter, and as soon of ws 1 bave gone away it will burst up good and Blow the whole store over to! | waves flashed over the top of the light. playmate, who asked him what he was | hose, 190 feet above the sea level, and | extinguished the light. The importance of soit water for domestic purposes is illustrated by the | experience of a large London asylum, in which » change from hard to soft water has resulted in an estimated an- nual saving in soda, soap, labor, ete., of more than $4,000, In cutting down an old apple tree in | his orchard a Connecticut man found a squirrel’s nest and init » watch and chain which he had lost last summer. Whether the squirrels had carried it there or not is the questidn which he is now laboring hard to solve, When a Mr, Blank, of Buena Vista, Gin. [became engaged 10 his present wife a number of years ago he gave her a yearliog heifer in lieu of an engage ment ring. This liviog pledgeof their troth bas given furth increase until the lady now has a haadsome herd of eat Le A geotleman in Taylor, Ga, . while taking eareof his horse, dropped his big pocket-book from his coat. He picked it up sod laid itin the manger until he should bave finished his work; but the horse Look a likeing to it and chowed and swallowed the con. teats, excepting $30 in gold. Over $400 in greeubacks went down the steed’s throat. A peculiar featue of Lovg Lake, yerself? Where's yer eyes? For goodness sake! what do you | intend dolog with them? Sell ‘em, Sell them! Where? In New York. They give two dollars a busel for them there. - HIS REASON What on earth induced you to take | rooms on the tenth flor? Any one would shink you were to poor to live on the ground floor, exclaimed old Mr. Blowy, to his partner, whom he was paying a visit. Well, I'll tell you. At my last lodgings | was terribly bothered at night with ents, sod, as I read in a scientific jonrnal that cats ona’t live above a greater elevation than twelve thousand feet, I thought I would get up as high as I jcould towasd the twelve thousand. See! A —— sn MISSED HIS BROTH, Why are you #0 pensive, Mose! asked Cblonel Planter of an jaged darkey, who was quite a character in bis way. 1's joss been tinkin’ boss. dat's #ll, replied Mosi. Aboat what? Is'e tiokin’ ‘bout bow I dan miss mer chio's broth fer de pas’ fo’ f' de de moon's bin outen de sky ob nights, —— with her dolls and toys with artifical tied and their contents placed upon | It is then | AUBREY'S GREAT RIDE Among the deeds of early life in the West the fumous ride of F. X. Aubrey from the plaza of Santa Fe to the public square of Independence, Mo., as a physical achievement stands without au equal. Indeed, it is doubt. ful whether the history of the world can present s paralell to that great ride of 800 miles through a country overrun with hostile Indians, a large portion of the distance being through sandy deserts and leading across rivers mountains, and prairies wi h only the sky for a covering and the earth as a resting place. An old resident of this city, who used to know Aubrey very well in conversation recently said : When I first met Aubrey, about 1848 he was a young man of 35, the perfect picture of health and strength, Short, rather heavy set, weighiog open countenance and was one of the rising men of the plains. He was a French Canadian, came to St. Louis gaged in business as a Santa Fe trader, making trips to Santa Fe from Independence, Mo, and spending the neither man nor |journey. Everything he did | done with a rush. Aubrey made two rides alone from | Banta Fe to Independence. The first was on a wager of 81000 that the distance eight | days. He succeeded in reaching his destination three hours before the ex- piration of the time. He killed | eral horses in the ride, and it is said | that the death of one his way obliged him to walk twenty-five miles to Council Grove, carrying his he found He was the lion of the day Whe he could cover in Bev. horse oun saddle on his back, before another at St. Louis and Independence after this ride. men and many good riders There were many powerful in these 10 He 3 times, but not one of them dared attempt 10 beat Aubrey’s record. determined to beat himself and on Santa Fe in test | human endurance | have ever known, Fe (it n secoud wager he left 1851, and gave the severest of | was on my way to Santa Was LhIrly seven Years ago) will rain of twenliyv-live wagons ied merchandise and koew hot When we were at the BK (% C ing around a hil pr his -? were friends and puttiog I bh his Head as the irs to steed he dashed past, merely nodding dast flew in our { faces. It was a great surprise Lo mu for Aubre ¥ fo real a Tend in that style, but when | reached Santa Fe | i {understood it. Every It was the moment Was effort rushed prec: us, supreme of his life. Night and day he lon. Six horses dropped dead as he | rode then, | His own beautiful mare, Nellie, the | one be was ri flog as he passed oor party, aad ove of the finest pieces of | borseflesh I ever saw, quivered and | fell in the sgonies of death at the end | | of the first 150 miles | did horses had been sent ahead and | stationed at different points on the usil. No man could keep up with Aubrey. He would have sacrificed every horse in the West if necessary to the accomplishment of his design It was not money he was after, but fame. He had laid a wager that the trip would be made in six days At the end of fivedays and thirteen hours, exhaosted and fainting, he was taken from a horse that was trembling from head to foot, and covered with sweat and foam, at the south-west corner of the Bquare of Independence, He sank into a stupor from which he was not aroused for forty-eight hours, Aubrey was a wan of marveloos en durance or he conld never have re- covered from the strain of that ride on his system. There was no stage rioniog to Sant Fe at the time of Aabrey’s ride, and be was ouanimoos- ly pronounced by Western wen as the greatest exhibition of nerve and strength ever shown on the plains, After the ride Aubrey wandered into California, but returned to Sant Fein 1864, pmwediately npon «ne tering the city he met Richard iF. Weighimen, tio Mich of the reguler army, who had been one of Aubreys closest friends. After ex changing salutations, Aubrey invited bis friend to step into 8 saloon and tuke a drink, Weightman, by the way, was editor of a small paper pub- lished in that city. As the bar keeper poured out the whiskey, Aubrey turned to Weightman, and his whole manner changed as he spoke: Weight- mangwhat made you publish that lie about my going to California? With. out a moment's hesitation, feeling the | 1osult keenly, Weightman, seized the glass, vow full liquor, and threw the contents into Aubrey’s face. Aubrey reached for his revolver, but befor he could draw it from his pocket, Weight man snatched a bowie knife from its sheath and buried the blade in the about 1656 pounds, be had an honest, | in 1840, and very soon afferward en- | larger part of his time in the saddle | | He was a voted horseman, and spared | beast when on a | Several splen- | { door open. 1 also belong to an athletic | | heart of the great rider, | That was the last of Aubrey. He { was buried in an unknown grave, and all that is remembered of him is his exploit in crossing the plains. Weight- man was acquitted of the charge of murder, joined the Confederate army in the late war, and was shot at the head of his brigade at Wilson's Creek, falling near the spot where Lyon lay. (Jeneral —— — EXEMPLARY HABITS My literary methods are simple, writes Bill Nye in the New York World. 1 do while under the influence of liquor. 1 state this in order to correct 8 wrong impression which the public seems to bave found afier reading my work. to [no the afternoon I take my through the park in a I devote the forenoon thought. thinker perambulator, In the evening I think some more, I ent plain food when st home, but others ile the the best soar above it while visiting Rather than appear rude wh 2! of food with and sct as i Wealthy prominent people are so sensitive that 1est of eminent people I eat impunity though liked it. and I eat what they set before me and say no thing I read all the New York papers in before I go stairs, where I jerk a low refrain out By evening papers arnve, | e read then down the morning rising rise, feeling refreshed, and that t I Of the lurnaoe me the read them thoughtfully, then think over what I hav | eal Rimost « mpuni the only thing | ever e with, Health food will pulse d to forty-eight n h u A nan 1 ttuton 10 at § Already CXOroIe & Ereal eal in Lhe }. mower around for an hour each day, one pen air. lo summer HOW BR IAv DL and in winter | like to haunt rabbits across country, or take a spin on the elevated railroad which 1 I then put the book in a side pocket of my i keep a note-book iu write all my best thoughts, coat and give the coat lo a poor man whose address 1 do not know, I give 8 great deal to charity, but try to keep it out of the papers as far As possible that 1 When the weather is such can not exercise in the open air I have | a heavy pair of dumb-bells at my | lodgings, which I use for holding the | club, and a pair of Iodisa clubs with |red handles. I owe much of my { robust health to this I do most of my writing in a sitting posture or in an autograph album. When I am not engaged in thought [ am employed in recovering from its effects, 1 am very genial and pleasant to be thrown amongst, and frequently submit to all kinds of in dignities, especially from people to whom I am indebted, rather than re sent it, aud thus cause them pain, I keep a large pair of brass-knock- les, which | wear on my feet while riding io a crowded car, This 1 live better than getting mysell newly up bolstered every week. I do not believe in mixing up alcohol with literature. Literature with nothing else in it will last longer when exposed Lo the air than the other kind. 1 dress expensively, but not so as to attract attention. In the morning I wear morning dross, io the evening dress aod at night I wear night dress. I bave forgotten, what books have helped me most; also, what my favor. ite paesgges of prose are I had benefit of the best of home influences when a child, and every body has been very sind to me, #0 I can not say de- finitely what it was thst brought me here. - RELIGIOUS GLEANINGS, San Francisco bas only 1500 Methodist church members, There have been 1,600 conversions {since 1881, on the Mosquito const, in Central America, due 10 the labors of Moravian missionaries, Messrs. Mateer sod Parker, of none of my writing | Bpurgeon’s college, are making an ;avangelistic tour of the world. Mr, | Mateer preaches and Mr, Parker |wings, They are now in India, | During the last thirty-four years | the Congregational union bas had re turned to it $171,000 by churches which were aided in building their houses of worship by this society. At its annual meeting, Plymouth | Congregational church, Chicago re- ported 102 additous for the past year, with a pet gain of forty-seven, and a total membership of 878. The Sab- | bath school numbers 714, | The Minvesots minutes report 152 Congregational churches in the state, | 45 of them independent of the Ameri- ‘can Home Missionary society, and 9 | organized within the year. The total membership is 10859, & gain of 797. Io recoguition of his services in keeping open a line of communication with the outside world, Emin Pasha has sent Mr. Mackay 1 Uganda, for the Church Missionary society, two tusks of ivory, valued at $270. A tract of land Gage county, Neb, has been the Boards of Home snd Foreign Missions of the United in bequeathed to church, is expected, about $7,000 10 the church when sold. Presbyterian The land will bring, it The king of Siam proposes to place the Presbyterian mission schools on aid Al a re- the same basis 88 Lo government as Lhe government s:hools. cent visit to Petchburi, he gave the hopitaigl, 440, and the queen the girls’ school $960, The American board, at gave convention for the the Old South charde, Boston, amounted to 87 500. Of this sum 8,000 is to gojto the board, sonusl and 82500 to missionary objects chanoels, was $8, to the board. ago ch went {f Preshsterian co church le ges members dent DOW io ’, 167 of i &« 948 BU : 1d students, JY XK CC oty-two intending min Rev. Dr. prospec is tor isters Judson Smith reports for The the number of converts in China has cheering Chistianity among the Longols, fact that more than doubled within ten years, and now exceeds 30 000, is at once | a proof that Christian work is grandly successful there, and is a powerful stimolus to more abundant labors. | A wealthy Methodist in Chicago, in giving to the Missionary society property valued at $126 000, justifies the purpose of the gift in these words | “Every man in America has had a {good chance to hear sod obey the | Gospel as I bave had, therefore, I pro: | pose to help those older in the world who had lesser or no opportunities. -_— HE FOUND THE BOSS, I would like to see the boss of the house, said a book agent to a peppery looking female with a peaked nose and a red topkoot, who opened the door of a Dakotas farmhouse where he had called. Yer dew? questioned the woman, as she placed ber arms akimbo. Wi stranger, jest lope round inter ther back yard an’ ax that wezen-fuced, ! snimplegged deacon you'll find weed. in’ ther tater patch, an’ he'll tell yer [of 1 don't boss this layout he don’t know wha does. Now, whudder wr wan't er me? -— HE WAS PREPARED. Wife (to extravagant husband) For Heaven's sake, Geoye, don't sped so much money 1 eodlesaly, Don's you know you ought to lay something by for a rainy day? Hosband-—1 bave done that, desr. Wife—What, [ should ike to kaow? H usband-—A gom coat, love
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