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I if" Answer to Enigmas In last week's Times i - Geographical Enigma, No. 1, Baltimore, Maryland. . Enigma No. 2, " nAKHAn.,- Twenty men (ten black and ten white) were out at sea when a storm arose, rendering It Impossible to carry more than sixteen men aboard with safety. A council of war was held, and It was determined to throw over every fifth man. The white sailors arranged them In such order that "every fifth man" should be a black man. How did they manage It? Thus they stood : BWWBBBWWWBWBBWBWWBWB Poking Fun at a Railroad. MR. DERRICK DODD writes as fol lows to the Washington Capitol about the branch railroad between Balti more and the Capitol. But about this railroad. Of course I want it abolished, every one does. The reckless velocity with which the trains are run between here and Baltimore is abso lutely frightful. I was delighted years ago when this road was established, because I thought we had got rid of the old rickety and dangerously fast stage coaches, but the speed they are beginning to run the trains on this road is worse yet. Now, every one knows that Baltimore is forty miles from Washington if it is an inch, and three days ttnd a half is plenty quick enough for the trip, but the managers have already reduced the schedule time to three days and four hours, and what with making the engine fires too hot, and racing with cows along the road, and all that, the con ductors are even cutting that time down. Why it was only the other day, on the down trip, we happened to spy old Simm's mule about two miles out of town. What should the reckless wretch of an engineer do but clap on full steam and race every foot of the way into the district. We didn't exactly pass the mule, but we caught up with him twice, and came into the depot neck and neck, and which was pu fling the most, the mule or the engine you couldn't have told to save your life. Now it was all very exciting and all that, I know, but I hadn't purchased an accident ticket, and I don't believe the other four passengers had cither. This is all wrong, Mr. Editor, all wrong. And then on another occasion, I remem ber, we came within a hair's breadth of having a very serious accident. The engi neer had gotten off to snow-ball a chip munk, and the conductor was minding a young widow's baby for her the result was that the train happened to get on a down grade and was started off at a terrible rate, every bit of four miles an hour, I should think. Wo were just half a mile above the An napolis junction, and the first thing we know there being no one to whistle and wako up tho switch tender wo wore turn ed off into the Annapolis road and went down tho wrong track at the full speed. Imagine our consternation, whou just at this moment we heard tho whistle, not half a mile ahead of us, of tho Annapolis up train. We wore paralyzed with terror. Here were two trains on the same track approach ing each other at the dizzy speed just men tioned. Evidently our time had como 1 In a few short hours the engines would meet, and then destruction 1 With great presence of mind a minister on board organized a prayer mooting. Pale but calm tho doomed band of passengers sat, and though with the very shadows of death upon them, raised thoir voices in a parting hymn. " Send for tho baggage-master," said a young man, with a sod smilo. "Why?" was asked. " Because we are all about to pass in our checks." Everybody wept. From tho roar platform, we could see the miserable engineer strain ing every nerve to catch up, but ho had tight boots on and didn't gaiu anything to speak of, ' . , At this moment a ray of hope dawned on us. I had juBt finished writing my will on the back of a visiting card, when I observ ed a young lady in the act of detaching her bustle. Placing the article which was composed of eight hundred papers and a hair mattress under her arm, the heroine marched through the car. We followed her anxiously. She climbed up on the tender and then over the engine. It was very interesting and thrilling to see her climbing over the wheels and brass things on her way to the cow-catcher. It reminded mo of a country girl getting over a wire fence. But never mind about that now. Let mo see where I was. Oh I yes; on the cow-catchor. Mold ing on by the cross-bam with one hand, the noble maiden tied the bustle on the sharp prow with the other. ;"' ' " ' You can guess the result. In the course of the afternoon collision came off. Pro tected by the bustle the engine received a gentle bump, and we were saved. I took up a collection for the woman on the spot. I always take up a collection on such occa sions always. And what's more, I never forget to give the object interested some thing nice out of it never. There is noth ing mean about me. I suppose you have noticed my clothes? . . , Anecdotes of a Russian General. 1MIE stories told of Marshal Suvoroff . display, better than whole pages of description, the wonderful way in which he contrived to adapt himself to the rude spirits with whom he had to deal, without losing one jot of his authority. What Na poleon was to the French army, Suvoroff was to that of Russia; now jesting with a soldier, and now rebuking a General; one day sharing a ration of block bread beside a bivouac fire, and the next moment speak ing as an with equal Prince and potentates. Suvoroff comes before us as an uncrowned king, one whose authority needed no out ward symbol; an autocrat of nature's mak ing; full of a rough, hearty familiarity, that was iu no danger of breeding contempt, and surrounded by men who enjoyed the bonhommie, while they dreaded the dis pleasure of the little, pugnosed, grimy man, who was in thoir eyes the incarnation of earthly power and grandeur. It must be ownod, however, that in his own peculiar vein of pleasantry, tho old Marshal more than once met with his match. Ono of his favorite jokes was to ask a man unexpectedly: " How many stars are there in the sky ?" On one occasion ho put his question to one of of his sentries, on a bitter January night, such as only Russia can produce. The soldier not a whit disturbed, answered coolly: "Wait a little and I'll tell you," and he deliberately began to count, "One, two, three," &c. In this way he went gravely on to a hundred, at which point Suvoroff, who was already half frozen, thought it high time to ride off, not, how ever, without inquiring the name of this ready reckonor. The next day the latter found himself promoted, and the story (which Suvoroff told with great glee to his staff) speedily mndo its way through the whole camp. On another occasion one of his Generals of division sent him a Sergeant with dis patches, at the same time recommending the bearer to Suvoroff s notice. The Marshal, as usual, proceeded to test him by a series of whimsical questions, but tho catechumen was equal to the oc casion. "How far is it to tho moon?" asked Suvoroff. "Two of your Excolloiicey's forced marches," answered the Sergeant. "If your men began to give way in battle, what would you do ?" "I'd toll them that just behind the en emy's line there was a wagon load of corn brandy." "Supposing you wore blockaded, and you bod no provisions left, bow would you supply yourself?" "From tho enemy !" " How many fish in tho sea ?" " As many as have not been caught." And so the examination . went on till Suvoroff, finding his acquaintance armed at all points, at longth asked him as a final poser: " What is tho difference between your colonel and myBolf ?" The difference is this replied tho soldier coolly: "My colonel cannot make me a captain, but your excellency has only to say the word 1" Suvoroff, struck by his shrewdness, kept his eye on tho man, and in no long time after, actually gave him tho specified pro motion. Suvoroff always affected tho utmost brevity both in speaking and writing, the terseness of his dispatches being almost unrivalled. Tho correspondence with Prince Potemkin, relative to the assault of Ismail, is uniquo iu military history. Potemkin copying the brevity of his gen eral, wrote to him thus: Marshal, you will take Ismail within three days, at whatever cost. " Potemkin." The day after tho letter ai rived Suvoroff carried tho town by storm, with a loss of liftoon thousand mon to himsulf,aud thirty. eight thousand to tho enemy, summing up the fearful tragedy in one doggore couplet, which, literally translated runs as follows: " Praise to God, and praise to theol Ismail's taken, and tbore I be." The anecdotes of the great Marshal's eccentricities his habits of wandering about the camp in disguise, his whim of giving the signal for an assault by crowing like a cock, his astonishing endurance of the heat and cold, his savage disregard of personal comfort and neatness, are beyond calculation; but perhaps the most cliarao teristio of all, is his apjiearance In 1700 at the A ustrian Court, then one of the most brilliant in Europe. On being shown to the room prepared for him, (a splondid apartment filled with costly mirrors and rich furniture,) this modern Diogoues said simply: "Turn out all that rubbish, and shake mo down a bundle of straw.". What Causes It 1 , , A curious phenomenon has just happen ed , iu Russell county, Ya. , The rocks around a spring have been cracking and making reports as loud as guns, and some weighing from four to five hundred pounds have been thrown up. The people of that section are at a loss how to account for it. To grow rioh, earo money fairly, spend less than , you earn, and hold on to the difference. The first takes muscle, the second self-control, the third brains. . Two Mares at Enmity. Mr. Thomas Kilpatrick put his two road mares to the pole early in tho spring. As both are good steppers they . promise to make a rapid team. Both are a little high strung, and each seems to have a good opin ion of her. The two were courteously po lite to each other, but there was no strong display of affection. While gently driving in Central Park one day, the sorrel mare made an awkward stop, and cut the bay mare on the ankle. The accidont appeared to stir up bad blood. Maddoned with pain, the bay mare bit the sorrel, and this act of hostility was quickly resented. The mares now forgot their politeness, and each struggled to inflict as much injury upon the other as possible On arriving at the stables and being detatched from the wagon, in stead of walking quietly to their stalls, they turned upon each other with groat fury and engaged in a savage fight. They were separated with some difficulty. But now it is out of the question to drive them together. When they come within sight of each other, the eyes flash and tho nos trils snort defiance. If loft to themselves, they would surely engage in a conflict bit ter and remorseless in the extreme. If. Y. Paper. A Singular Robbery. This Is an age of bold thefts but the la test case that has come to light is the rob bery of a fashionable private boarding- house in New York. Board was engaged about a week ago at this house by a man and woman, who represented themselvos as Mr. and Mrs. James. Thursday morn ing two men called at the house and de sired to soe Mr. Jamos. They were shown into the parlor, and the servant summoned the new boarders. Both Mr. and Mrs. James appeared overjoyed to see thoir visi tors,, and Mrs. Hardy, the landlady, was called in and introduced. The girl brought in some refreshments, and without a soo ond's warning, the strangers sprang up and seizing Mrs. Hardy and the girl, gagged them, and bound them hand and foot to chairs. Accompanied by the boarders, they then ransacked the house, and plun dered it of (1,200 worth of jewelry and plato, after which all parties left Hie house. A boarder returning from a shopping expe dition, discovered the outrage, and called the police No trace of the robbers has yet come to light. . tW The police of London lately unearth ed a don in which a business was carried on more atrocious than imagination can con coivc, and which ono oven with the evi deuce adduced can hardly beliove possible to exist. Tho place was devoted to tho manufacture of cripples; children of tender age and babes, even, being taken there to have their limbs twisted out of shape, their features bumod and distorted, their eyes put out, or to be so mangled or maim cd in other ways as to attract attention aud sympathy from the alms-giving public. The majority of those children were or phans or wore takon, "adopted," from almshouses or very poor families while others were undoubtedly stolen. Tho scale of prices for maiming varied according to ages, the cost of twisting tho legs of a babe under a year old out of shape being only seven dollars, a variety of other injuries being thrown in for ten dollars. Incurable ulcers and sores were manufactured for from one to five dollars and so on. Mauled. Tho following amusing advortisment, a mixture truly of rhyme and reason, lately appeared : " Required, by a gent, near to Bromley iu Kent, a cook on plain cooking plainly intent. She need not make entromcnts, sauces or jellies, that cause indigostion and irritate jenough if she can serve up a dinner that won't make her master a dyspeptio grimier. If asked to bake bread, no excuse she must mutter; must be able to churn, and to mako molted butter. If these she can do eke boil a potato, and cook well a chop with a sauce called tomato the writer won't care to apply further test that she's up to her work aud knows all the rest. She must be honest, industrious, sober and clean, neat in her garb, not a highly dress ed queen; and must be content, whatever her age is, with sugar aud tea and 20 wages. tW Memphis has a romance. Once upon a timo, very many years ago, John E. Per kins was a school boy of 18, in Kentucky. He had a bosom friend, who, in a fit of passion, deliberately killed another young man. Upon Porkiu'a evidence alouo tho boy was convicted of murder and hanged. Stricken with remorse at having brought about tho murder of his friend, Perkins took a solemn oath that he would never again testify In a case whore his evidence might cause the infliction of the extreme penalty of the law. Some time since, he wltnossed a murder in Memphis, . and on Monday last be was brought before the court as the principal witness against the murderer. True to his oath, he refused to give testimony, and waa seut to Jail, where he says he will remain forevor rather than testify. , tWlt you would live to purpose, and live long, live Industriously, temperately, regularly, all the while maintaining a con science roid of offenoe toward God and to ward man. ,. Cariosities of the Chinese. It la difficult for us to conceive ' that mankind, like the various orders of cre ation, Is constructed on the principle of infinite diversity, nature's- constant effort to avoid repeating herself, whether it lie in race or individaals. A letter from the Rev. Dr. Prime to the New York ObMrter re calls some remarkable ooutrasts between Chinese civilization and ours. The marin er's compass is made to point South, in stead of North, by putting the index on the opposite end of the needle; a rider mounts a horse from the off side: instead of blacking shoes, they whiten them with chalk; the old men fly the kites, while the boys look on. An American, as an act of hospitality, treats you to a glass of wine. A Chinaman introduces you to his dead grandmother, In her coffin. He Bhows you his own coffin with asbland profusenes s as a Frenchman would show his picture or an Englishman his dog. To express his pleasure at meet ing you, he does not shake your hand, but his own, moving up and down as if he were pumping out his feelings, and the gush was Blow. In coses of small pox and itch, this mode of salutation has the highest hy gienic qualities. Instead of taking of his hat, on coming into your presence, he takes off his shoes. As a mark of special honor at a feast, he seats you at the left hand, not on his right, and sends your ladies into an interior room, to cat by thomselves so that you can get as drunk as you please without gratifying their curiosity. Unmarried woman are regarded as of very little account, but mothers always rule their children and their grandchildren, to whatever age they may attain. Here, on the contrary, pretty young girls com mand all who approach them, and the rule of children over thoir parents is only less perfect than thoir sway over their grand parents. Here you ask a fathor how many children he has, and he answers, perhaps, three. In China he would answer, " one child and two girls." Chinese men wear frocks and carry fans, and the women wear pantaloons and smoke. In these re spects, however, tho two countries are not very unlike. When a man marries, his mother acquires the right to "boss" his wife os well as himself, which is very consoling to both parties. The mother-in-law is consoled by having one more to boss. The husband is consoled by the feeling that his labor is dividod. The daughter-in-law is consoled by knowing that she'll do tho same when she becomes a mother-in-law. In China your dressmaker is a man, if you are a woman, but the person who con structs your liat for you is a woman. The men wear their hair, braided and never cut it, esteeming it, as St. Paul says, "an ornament." The woman do theirs up very close, or shingle it short, feeling, as the Apostle remarks, that it is a shame to them to wear loin; hair. A book is road from the left of the page to the right from the bot tom to the top, and beginning with the last page and ending with the first. Tho written language is not spoken, and the spoken language is not written, so that two persons may be able to understand each other perfectly by writing when neither can comprehend what the other may say. The detectives sound a torn torn as thoy go through the street's, to warn rogues and thieves that thoy are coming. Our Neighbor's Jood Name. Anybody can spoil the reputation of an individual, however pure and chaste, by ut tering a suspicion that his enemios will be liove and his frionds never hear of. A puff of the idle wind cau tako a million of tho seeds of tho thistle and do a work of mis chief which the husbandman must labor long to undo, tho floating particles being too fine to be seen aud too light to be stop ped. Such are the sends of slander so easily sown, so difficult to be gathered up, and yet so pornicious iu their fruitage The slanderer knows that mauya wind will catch up the plaguo and become poisoned by his insinuations without ever seeking the antidote. No reputation can refute a sneer, nor any human skill prevent .mis chief. A Beautiful Thought. ' ' The sea is the largest of all cemeteries, and its slumberers sleep without monu ments. All other graveyards, in other lands, show some distinction between tho groat aud small, the rich aud poor '; but in the great ocean cemetery tho king and clown, the prince and peasant, are alike undistinguished. - The same waves roll over all ; the same requiom by the minstrels of the ocean is sung to their honor,' Over their remains the same storm beats, and the same sun shines ; and there unmarked, the weak and powerful, the plumed and unhon ored, will sleep on until awakened by' tho' same trump. ' . , "Everything in-life has " a right side and a wrong side. You can take any' joy, and , by turning it around, find troubles on the other Bide ; or you may take the great- ' est trouble, and by turning it 'around find joys on the other , side. . Tne ' gloomiest mountain f uever costs a shadow on both sides at once, nor does the greatest of life's calamities.
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