ii
; t -
HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and .Publisher. NIL DESPEIlANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. III. IUDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., TIIUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1873. NO. 29.
A Trifling Exchange.
Said grave papa, " Why, Kitty, child,
What do I on yonr finger see ?"
" Oh, this, papa?" the maiden said s
" Why, this, yon know, Sam gave to
me."
" And pray what right had Sam, my dear,
My daughter's hand to fetter thus i"
" Oh. let me see !" Miss Kitty said
" It was the day he dined with ns."
' He dined with us !" papa replied ;
" Pray what has that to do with it ?"
"Why, nothing Sir; but then, you know,
We tried to see if it would fit ;
And then wo couldn't get it off,
Although we tried, and tried, and tried !"
" Toor child ! I'll take it off at once,"
With tendernoHS papa replied.
With Mushes Kitty hung her head :
"Oh no, papa! because, you see,
Sam Baid, if something I'd give him,
Why, he would give the ring to me."
"Oh! ah!" replied papa " indoed !
And pray what did you give him, miss ?'
" Only a trifln, Sir," she said :
" IIo wanted, and I gave a kins !"
THE BULL-FIGHT OF TO-DAT.
Few cities, -writes a Madrid corre
spondent to the Cincinnati Commercial,
present n gayer sight than the Spanish
capital on a bright Sunday afternoon, as
the people crowd and jostle each other
on their way to that most disgusting
and degrading of all modern amuse
ments, the bull-fight." Letns join the
crowd and witness for once for we are
told we will never go again this na
tional amusement. The ampitheatre is
situated at the end of the Calle de
Alcala, one of the finest streets in Eu
rope, and the only very fine one in
Madrid. As yon pass along it it is
amusing to see the old " hacks," which
cannot possibly go out of a walk during
the week, tearing along like mad, for a
slow coach will not do in Spain where a
bull-fight is concerned. As we entered
the building, which is said to seat 20,
000, every seat was occupied, every foot
of standing room was crowded, even
the roof was so loaded down with people
as to make it appear anything but safe,
for the bull-fights are almost as noces
sary to the Spaniard as his daily bread,
and many have been known to sell their
clothes in order to buy tickets. The
arena is separated from'the people by a
passage protected by walls about eight
feet high, over which the "men of the
cope " jump closely pursued by the
bull. While waiting for the sport to
begin, let us look around on the im
mense mass of people. The roof is oc
cupied by the newsboys and ragamuffins
of the city; under it are the "boxes,"
which are sold for the season, and are
at present filled by the aristocracy of
the city. The rest of the audience is a
general mixture of high and low, rich
and poor. Over on the other side is a
low door, behind which we can hear
the bull bellowing, impatient to be out,
but the performance has commenced,
the procession has" entered the circle,
and the men are saluting the judges.
First como the marshals, who are fol
lowed by the matadores, then in turn
the "men of the cape," the picadores,
who are mounted and armed with a
long rod having in the end a small
dagger-like point, and lastly the mules,
gaily decked out in ribbons, which are
to carry out the dead animals.
You would think from the appearance
of the men, dressed as they are in gav
colored satins embroidered in silver
andgohl, white silk stockings and dain
ty satin slippers, that they were going
to'a fancy ball. The dress is the same that
lias always been worn by men in their
position, and, as long as the bull-fights
last, it is probable there will be no
change. The mules have been driven
out, ami tho men have placed them
selves around the ring, those on horses,
the picadores, being placed nearest the
door where the bull is to enter. The
horses are old and considered useless.
They are blindfolded, and their riders,
armed only with the weapon I have de
scribed, and which is only intended to
infuriate the bull. Being blindfolded,
the poor animals have no possible
chance to escape or defend themselves.
They are simply placed there to give
the people blood, and not until the
ground is strewn with blood do they
take any interest in the performance".
If, at the first rush of tho bill, the
horse is not literally divmboweled,
they hoot and hiss lu uler for not
having placed him 1 . the proper posi
tion. Tho "men ot the cape" are scat
tered over t' d ring, each carrying a
lurge circular cape of red and blue, with
which 'u case a man's life is in danger,
thy decoy the bull, which will always
' follow the last object he sees. The sig
nal for his entrance was given by the
band, the door opened, and with a roar
he rushed into the circle. He was a
vicious-looking little bull, and shook
his head, as much as to say, "I shall
make short work of all in "this ring."
Of course he was first attracted by the
brightest cape, at which he plunged,
tearing it to fragments, driving its
bearer over the wall, following after and
chasing him three times around the
passage before they could get him back
into the ring. Finding his man had
escaped, he turned with a most fero
cious roar, ad plunged at one of the
horses, literally disemboweling him ;
the poor beast ran around the ring with
his entrails trailing the ground, and
the blood spouting in torrents.
The bull struck ugain, tearing him all
to pieces, so that you could not tell he
had ever been a horse. Then the peo
ple cheered and shouted with delight ;
the disgusting spectacle seemed to turn
them crazy. Ladies, elegantly dressod,
and little children, who, though young
in years, were old in their love for this
sport, stood up in their seats screaming
and stamping, seeming perfectly de
lirous with delight ; men threw their
coats and hats into the ring, and money
by the handful was showered on the
Eicadore for having so successfully set
is horse. As an American afterward
remarked, "It seemed more like hell"
than anything he ever witnessed. Can
you wonder that a country is degraded
when its people have 6uch tastes as
this, and yet they are surrounded by
the most beautiful oLjects of nature
and art ? And yet these same people,
who are so delighted at the sight of
blood, will go next day and spend hours
jn their picture gallery (the finest in the
world V They wi 1 tell yon the " down
fall oi our nation is due to the inquisi
tion aud the priesthood J but attend one
of theso bull-fights and you will see
other and greater causes for their degra
dation. But, to return to the arena.
Every bull must kill at least four horses,
some kill ten, so the poor animals are
placed one after the other, directly in
front of him, and where they are sure
to bo utterly demolished. The bull is
then attacked by men called "banderil
leroes," who, as he plunges at them,
jump aside, and thrust into his back
long barbed arrows, having on the end
either tho national flog or some comic
device. Flo is soon so covered you can
hardly see him. Some of these, as they
strike, ignite, and soon his back is ail
ablaze, and lie rushes' around uttering
the most frightful roars. Then the
matadore enters, armed with a long,
sharp sword, and carrying a bright scar
let cloak. Tho bull, infuriated by his
wounds and the fire, plunges at him till
it seems he must be killed, but he has
been raised from a boy to the business,
and very easily avoids the animal. Fi
nally, as it plunges at him, he steps
aside and runs the sword int its back.
From that instact the poor beast,
which has fought so long and well,
gives up all attempt to defend himself,
seeming to know that he is mortally
wounded. He walked across the ring,
and, with a most piteous moan, sank
down upon the ground. The matador,
going up behind him. ran a daecrer
into his brain, and, without a mean, he
rolled over dead. Ho was then hauled
out and butchered, aud the meat sold
at high prices. The people took but
little interest in the end ot tho game,
for there was very little blood smiled.
The arena is soon cleared up, and they
nro impatient ior tne appearauce ot the
second bull but wo have had enough
of this disgusting spectaclo, and will
leave the Spaniards to enjoy the rest
alone. There are six bulls killed every
oiinuay, ami, Dy tne laws of the ring,
none can be over six years, for after
that time they " refuse the cape," hav
ing lived too "long to be fooled by a red
rapr, and when they once attack a man,
will pursue him and none other till
they either kill or are killed. Each
performance lasts three or four hours ;
that of to-day is over, aud as I sit
writing, I hear tho crowd going homo
ward. The excitement for the week is
over, and Madrid will soon settle down
into tho dull routine of every-day life,
to be roused only on the next Sunday,
when the same people will cro aa:ain. as
eager as though they had never before.
As degrading and dissmstinflr as this
amusement stems to you at first, there
is that in human nature which soon
learns to like it. There are Americans
in Madrid now who go every week, and
yet if you had told them, after they had
seen the first one, that this would bo
the case, they would have felt them
selves insulted. The fascination is as
great for somo as that of gambling for
others.
The Two Good Friends.
About quarter to twelve, Saturday
night, says the Danbury Xcwg, two
middle-aged men stopped in front of a
house on Essex street, and after shaking
hands with an earnestness and solemnity
that was very affecting, one of them
said, "Good-uight, Buggies," to which
tho other responded, "Good-night,
Punky." Then both of them stared at
each other with wonderful intensity,
and finally grasped hands again. " You
feel quite well ?" said Puuky, with some
anxiety. " Never better," kindly vol
unteered Buggies, at the same time
turning around on one leg, and throw
ing up one arm to suap his fingers, but
changing his mind, and hastily clasping
Puuky around the neck instead. Then
he straightened himself up and looking
solemnly at funky, extended his hand,
which that individual hastily grasped,
and wrung with a fervor that was sim
ply surprising, while both of them
stared at each other in a manner that
exhibited an extraordinary interest in
the object. " lou are a firm friend of
mine, said Punky, with the tears gath
ering in his eyes. " So you are of
mine," asserted Buggies, in a broken
voice. Then they shook hands again.
" Nobody never seemed to understand
me as you do," said Punky, trembling
with suppressed emotion. " That's just
what I've always said of you," main
tained Buggies, with as much emphasis
as his awakened feelings would permit.
At this juncture the two were so thor
oughly absorbed in contemplating each
other's features as not to notice a night
capped head peering out of an upper
window, and were just preparing to
grasp hands once more in increased fer
vor, when a shrill voice screamed,
"Come home drunk again, will ye?"
followed by a bucket of water most un
fortunately aimed. The' man called
Punky immediately bolted over the
fence, and around 'to the back of the
house, leaving Mr. Buggies to look
around for his hat, which had been
knocked off by the force of the shower,
and to dispose of himself afterward as
he might see proper.
How they do It In Danbury.
While Mr. and Mrs. Edward Pawling
were riding through Wooster street,
Friday afternoon, they were stopped by
a stranger with a book under his arm,
who came up to the wagon, and said
he had called at their house, but did
not find them at home, and took the
liberty of addressing them now. He
explained that he was canvassing for a
neat little work, entitled "Helps for the
Home Circle," being a collection of the
thought of the best minds of the age, a
work that wa.s adapted to a larger circle
of readers than any other extant, and
one which must necessarily improve the
tone of domestic life, add to the refine
ment and intelligence of society, and
fill the hearts of all with a longing for
the purer things of just then Mr. Paw
ling s horse stepped ahead, and drag
ged one wheel of the wagon right over
the foot of the speaker. With a howl
of agony the miserable man dropped to
the ground and then immediately
sprang up again, and taking the injured
member up in both hands, and still
howling dismally, hopped across the
sidewalk. Mr. Pawling waited a reas
onable length of time, but seeing that
the man showed no intention of resum
ing the topic, he drove on,
Hpidelburg Dueling,
There are always to be seen in Mnnich,
parties of German students from Heidel
Dnrpr, especially on Saturday, when
they come here to spend their Sundays,
thouch there are more here now than
usual, on account of the vacations. They
are a frolicsome set of fellows, always
seeking a quarrel, especially with those
whom they think will fall easy victims
to their prowess. They wear dark cloth
caps, with a white, red, or yellow band,
pnd swagger about as if they were of a
superior class of human beings. A
Heidelburf? student of three years
standing who has not his face slashed
and scared with sword cuts is regarded
as a poltroon, unless he has the proud
record of having done his share in
slashing and cutting the faces of one or
mere of his fellow-Btndents. The proud
est man at the Munich Park the other
evening was a young student who wore
three long stripes of court-plaster on his
face, one of them extending from the
left eye down across tho nose to the
right side of his mouth. He had a
throncr of other students following him.
aud two, supposed to have been seconds
in the encounter, hanging on his arms.
He was evidently the lion of a recent
conflict, and later in the evening ho
came in, similarly attended, to a res
taurant where we were taking supper
and listening to a fine military baud.
They, doubtless, paid similar visits to
all the public resorts in the city to show
off their gallaut companion. We learn
from an old Heidelburg student, who
has a wound on the nose, that these
duels are of daily occurrence, but never
result fatally ; that scaring the face is
the object, and when blood is drawn the
conflict is at an end, and wounded honor
is healed. In order to prevent any se
rious results, they wear, when fighting,
protections for tho eyes, and also for
the body, the scarring of the face being
the purpose of the encounter. If a
wound is slight, they will keep it fes
tering for a month, in order to attain
the honor of n visible scar. Whilst
there are few who do not fight among
the students, there are of course many
who excel in swordmauship, and are on
this account exempt from quarrels.
Nobody will quarrel with them, and no
one fights them. There are others who
make it their business to pick quarrels
with every new comer, and though they
sometimes get the worst of it, they
generally escape injury. There are
young men who would, if it were not
for fear of the law. regard it as a high
honor to be able to boastof having taken
the life of a score of victims. But duel
ing ut Heidelburg is more of an amuse
ment, aud is in reality a burlesque on
dueling and duelists. Nothiug more
serious can come from it than a scar on
the face, as the swords used are too
light to cut, except with the point of
the 'ilade, and the face is the only part
left exposed. C. C. F., in Baltimore
American.
Cainel's-IIalr Cashmere.
A new product of the loom called
eamel's-hair cashmere, says a fashion
journal, bears away the palm for soft
ness and fineness, and will probably be
the choice of the season for over dress
es. This is ulmost as closely twilled as
French cashmere, but has the roucrh
lustreless surface of camel's-hair. with
its niuny loosely woven fleecy ends, and
its unctuousness so pleasant to the
touch. It represents all the stylish tints
ot slate-color, dark blue, olive, brown.
tea, gray, and myrtle green; it is double
tout, and costs tfl2o a yard. An imita
tion of this fabric is sold for SI. 73.
Jacquard striped cashmeres showing
reversed diagonal lines that form nar
row stripes cost $2 a yard. Single
width French cashmeres of admirable
quality are 85 cents a yard: theso are
preferred to double-width goods when
bought for a whole suit. Double-width
cashmeres sold for over dresses cost
from $1.25 to $2.25 a yard; four or five
yarns tre required lor a polonaise,
Myrtle green cashmere, so dark that the
color is almost invisible, finds favor.
even at this early day, for polonaises to
oe worn throughout the fall and winter.
Dark blue cashmere is also being sold
for this purpose, and merchants antici
pate that these colors will rival the iron
gray and marron brown over dresses
that are now so popular.
Disposition of the Hands.
A terrible epoch occurs in the lives of
most created beings, during which their
hands are a burden to them and
always in the way. This epoch out
lived, aud the hands tell their own story
of good or ill breeding. One of the
most common signs of wantof breeding,
is this uncomfortable consciousness of
the hands, an obvious ignorance of what
to do with them, and a painful awk
wardness in their adjustment. The
hands of a gentleman seem perfectly at
home without being occupied; they are
habituated to the da Ice fur niente, or if
they spontaneously move, it is attract
ively. Some of Queen Elizabeth's cour
tiers made playiusr with their sword-hilt
an accomplishment, and tho most effi
cient weapon of the Spanish coquette is
her fan. Strength iu the fingers is a
sure token of mental aptitude. When
Mutius burnt his hand off before the
eyes of his captor, he crave the most in
dubitable proof we can imagine of forti
tude; and it was natural that amid the
ferocious bravery of feudal times, a
bloody hand in the centre of an es
cutcheon should become the badge of a
baronet of England.
The Bible and Beer.
The Birmingham Morning Newt
states that daring the recent contest in
East Staffordshire there was to be seen
in the window of the Dartmouth Hotel,
West Bromwich (one of the houses of
Mr. Allsopp, the famous brewer), a re
markable sketch of two cherub-faced
Sunday-school children, bearing be
tween them & banner, and which bore
the " strange device," of a Bible orna
mented with a crown and sceptre, with
the following lines beneath :
Holy Bible, book divine,
Precious treasure, thou art Bine ;
Mine to tell me whence I came,
Mine to tell me what I am.
Then came, "Shall we have this
blessing taken from us? No, Then
vote for Allsopp,"
A Wild Western Scene.
The Denver Tribune relates tho fol
lowing:
An old drovor from tho far-off plains
of Texas got npou the Kansas Pacific
train at Ellsworth with the intention of
going to Kansas City. There also got
upon tho train at tho same station two
cattle dealers, one of them a short, mus
cnlar little fellow, who plays the most
prominent part in this affair. A party
of three of tlioso pestiferous thieves
known to all Western railroads monte
gamblers soon mado their presence
known, and in a few minutes pocketed
the old drover's last twenty-dollar note.
It was at this juncture that the above
mentioned little Chttlo man interfered in
the old drover's behalf, when the monte
men arrogantly told him to mind his
own business. The young man resent
ed tho hint, word led to words, aud
words to blows. The cattle drover man
aged to put in a series of scientific
sledge hammer blows, which soon sent
the monte thief howling and bleeding
over the seats. Tho other monte men
joined in to take a hand, when the other
cattle drover met them, and in a short
time punished them fearfully. Finding
themselves beaten, they retreated at the
muzzle of the cattle men's revolvers to
the sleeping Par, and locked themselves
up iu the drawing-room, drew their re
volvers and knives, and bade defiance
to further attack. A council of war was
held in the front car, when it was agreed
that the monte men should be permitted
to hold the sleeping car until the train
reached Salina, where a sheriff's posse
had been telegraphed for. But this ar
rangement was not satisfactory to the
brave little drover. Ho had fully re
solved on recovering the old man's
money, and appeared to treat with con
tempt the knives and pistols pointed at
the windowsof thedrawiiig-room. After
woshiug oil tho blood from his face and
bauds, he walked boldly into the sleep
ing car, where the three gamblers,
driven to bay, stood within the locked
glass door.
With a hugo navy revolver in each
hand, the young man dashed open the
door, and pointing his cocked revolvers
at the astonished gamblers, coolly de
manded the old man's lost money.
Finding that ho was determined to have
it, and seeing the passengers closing in
with cocked revolvers, the gamblers
gave up the money. This did not sat
isfy the drover; he now demanded the
surrender of all the knives aud pistols
in tneir possession. Attersome parley'
ing the arms were given up, and the
monte men held under guard until the
train rolled into Salina, where the
sheriff s posse awaited them with brace
lets and a guard of honor. They were
rauen irom tne train and escorted to
jail.
Dalrjmple's Grant Farm.
auoui n o ciock. savs a correspon
dent, we were at the Grant farm, some
two miles from Hastings, Minn. After
dinner, and while waiting for the train.
Mr. Dalrvmple gave me some facts
about his furmingoperatioii8. Afewmost
prominent of which are inserted hers
to show the reader how wheat growing
is done m a largo way. The home, or
Grant farm, now contains about 1,000
acres, 000 of which is iu wheat, the bal
ance m grass or occupied by the hi eh
ways or roads about the premises. This
is the head-quarters of the general oper
ations, and from whence the fwree of
hands move to the other farms as the
crops at one are put in or harvested.
Hero is a hotel, or boarding-house, to
accommodate 100 men at tho tables, but
a part sleep in the granaries durincr. the
time of harvesting the crops. Three
meii are now employed as cooks, and
everything is done ill the best possible
order. In addition to regular meals
they have a lunch in harvest time, one
at 9 a. m., the ether at 3 p. m. There is
plenty to eat here, but no liquor fur
nished as in the olden time.
The number of hands generally em
ployed in harvesting is about 100, at
wages ranging from 2.50 to S3 for day
laborers. About twenty horses are re
quired the year round, while in time of
threshing and hauling to market the
number runs up to eighty or more. To
harvest the crops of his threo farms ten
reapers are used, and four steam thresh
ers. The wheat is not stacked, but
hauled from shock to tho threshers, and
from thence to the warehouse at East
Hastings, put into cars from the wagons,
and sent to Milwaukee. Tho price ob
tained last season was $1.20 per bushel,
the freight being about sixteen cents.
The crop of '40,000 bushels brought a
pretty good sum, as .will be seen, and
the profits ubove all expenses, including
interest on money invested, is set down
at twenty-five per cent.
The expense per acre as given by Mr.
Dalrymple, is $10 per acre, where all is
hired by the job. Tho yield of the
Grant farm last year was twenty-two
bushels per acre, and this year it should
be nearly if not quite as great.
The Sherman farm is ten milea nnvfli
of the home farm, aud the Sheridan be
yond that. The former contains 500
acres, the latter 480, all of which is in
wlieat. in plowiujr. seeding, and cut
ting as soon as the force is done at home
they move on to the others where are
buildings to accommodate hands, tem
porarily. '
Some years the renting nvstem Vina
been tried; so too different crops, but
they did not pay as well as the present
system, -with his brother's assistance,
and all in wheat.
A Boom Full.
Saratoga is to have another lnro-A
hotel, to be erected near the white
sulphur springs. This arrangement for
increased accommodations must.indeed
be necessary if many of the visitors are
acoompanied by such an array of pets
as one lady of whom we have heard.
She has nine sintrincr. birds, one narret.
one tame dove, one peacock, six dogs,
nine eats (some of which are kittens),
two squirrels, two gold-fish, tnree tur
tles, and a youug alligator. Among
tho dogs is a black-and-tan, weighing
only two and half pounds, for which she
paid $75. We are given to understand
that the owner of this menagerie is only
abiding at the springs for the season,
but we are forced to believe that this is
a mistake, aud that she is a permanent
resident,
Pralrie-Doirs.
A correspondent in the West writes:
At the point we had now reached, we
were only six or seven miles fromChey
enne. The road thither had become a
well-beaten track, along which one of
our party started to walk with me to
wards the town, ahead of our teams.
Wo went on in full view of the railroad,
or rather, of the road in the state of
being graded into readiness for the re
ception of rails. As it was Sunday
morning, there was no work going on;
but we could see that there was need of
no small labor at this part of tho line,
both in cutting and embanking, to pass
over the swells and hollows of the prai
rie. In this walk we made our first ac
quaintance with "prairie-dogs," the fun
niest little creatures imaginable.living in
populous prairie settlements of their
own, as rabbits herd together in rabbit-warrens.
Tho prairie-dog is much
smaller than a rabbit, being hardly
much bigger than a big rat. In shape,
he looks like a bull-terrier pup, so far
as one can judge without ever having
seen him dead, or even very closely ap
proachable. The holes have smaller
entrances than rabbit-holes, and go
down into the ground much more steep
ly and directly. In front of each is a
little mound, formed of the earth thrown
out of the hole, and, standing erect on
this eminence, with his tail smartly
cocked up in the air, the prairie-dog
barks at all comers defiantly, till, when
you get within twenty yards or so, his
courage fails him on a sudden, and he
bolts down the hole, quick as lightning.
Sometimes he just pops his head out for
an instant afterwards, for one last angry
bark at you. The barking is of the
feeblest kind, though of great anima
tion and liveliness. For power and vol
ume of sound, the wheeziest of old
lady's lap-dogs would scorn to have his
note compared with it. It reminds one,
in tone, of children's toy-dogs little
gray dogs on hollow stands, so con
trive! that when the Btand is pressed
together, a thin and ghostly barking
seems to proceed from the effigy of a
dog thereon seated.
And, indeed, theso very effigies, as
they appear in the toy-shop window,
look something like the little "Come
dians of the Prairie," as somebody called
the prairie-dogs. I have seen probably
as many as forty or fifty shots fired
from time to time by good pistol
shooters at this small game of the
prairies, but never saw a death yet ;
ond men versed in prairio lore tell you
that, of all marks, these prairie-dogs
aro much the hardest and most trying
to the temper. However, it is managed,
they must be sometimes killed; for
Westerners say they are excellent eat
ing, besides being something like squir
rel in taste, a favorite dish in parts of
America. The strange story about the
" happy faniily" living together in each
of the holes was told to us, as it is to
all travelers how a prairie-dog, a
prairie-owl aud a rattlesnake lived on
friendly terms in every hole. I had no
menus of verifying or disproving the
statement, but have looked up the
point in books of prairie travel. Bayard
Taylor says of his Western journeyings:
"The prauio-dogs sat upright at the
doors of their underground habitations,
aud barked at us with comical petulance.
Towards evening, their partners, the
owls, also came out to tako the air.
Tho rattlesnakes were still, I presume,
indoors, as. we saw but two or three
during the whole journey."
Bowles says of the prairie-dogs :
"Only a pair occupy each hole: but
we hear the same story, that earlier
travelers record, that a suake and an
owl share their homes with them. The
snake we did rot see : but the owl, a
species no larger than the robin, solemn,
stiff and straight, stood guard at many
of the holes."
A Cheap City.
Munich is undoubtedly a very chean
city, says a letter writer. Even the
rates at the hotels aro lower than we
found them anvwhprn aIka in Fiirnno
The expense fwr rooms is about seventy
ueui! per uay, aim uiinougu the Uotel
restaurants charge nearly double the
price for meals that is charged else
where,, it is difficult to run the entire
living expense over $2.50 perday. Car
riage hire is verv flllr nml oicrnra ovo
better and cheaper in Munich than any-
wiitre in iiUrope. English goods of all
descriptions are sold eliennor than tlmv
aro in Loudon. There is abundance o'f
fruit here, kucli ns pIiai'imph. miripnta
plums, green gages, and some very good
peaches, which are sold at moderate
rates. Cherries are to be had through
out the summer, they being brought to
tho cities from SO mnnv rliflVivont oiii.-
rounding climates that so soon as they
are over in one section the supply comes
in from another. We linvA Iwnii
cherries for two months, and obtained
tins morning some of the largest and
finest whitehearts that we have yet
tasted, for ahout.twelvA PAnta nor nmiml
A gentleman's well-made calf-skin Con
gress Doots cost lets than They are
as soft as buckskin, and most admirable
to travel in. I sea Eno-lisli ray.nra in
the windows for twenty-six kreutzcrs
(about eighteen cents', ami thrAA.ltlnrlo.l
penknives for about forty cents. Full
business suit3 of cassimere are marked
at alout $10, and everything at corre-
SI)OndiDff!v low rnb Tl.no hour in
I O . . . . , it. V- 4 .a
not the only thing that is cheap, and
wo gxpeci laoor is correspondingly
Cheai). Manv of t.liA lnhnrinar man anil
women, who flock to tho breweries at
noon seem to make their dinner off of a
mug of beer, with a big radish and
salt, and a roll of bread and a sausage,
all of which costs but thirteen kreut
zers, equal to about eight cents in our
monev. ThAV n ro linwara. offin r
stout, and muscular, and look as if they
ii i . , .
were weii iec-1. uur party, numbering
six. have iust takeu dinner at one of fli
best restaurants. We had soup, beef
steak, roast beef, roast duck, potatoes,
and pie. with & full nnnnlv nf lieer mnA
good appetites, each calling for what
iney warned, ana tne wnoie cost was
less than six florins, or about fortv
cents apiece. The inferior qualities of
meat are obtainable at the restaurants
lor much lower rates than the better
dualities, and a ennd dinner in Kprvn.l
the carriage-drivers, who eat in a sepa
rate apartment, for less than twenty
cents in our currency.
The Bor Tamer.
Boyst What a world of badness is
suggested by the word "boys." There
are no good' boys. Some boys are worse
than other boys, but they are all bad.
There are mule-wrestlers, horse- break
ers, lion-tamers, snake-charmers, plenty
of them. The world is full of such peo
ple. But the man or woman who can
train a boy, and conquer him with kind
ness, the only way it can be done, is a
first-class natural curiesity.
Some have even believed that a boy
cannot be tamed or trained, but this is
a mistake. There is an old policeman
called "Bijah" in Detroit who is an in
fallible boy trainer. Tho old man must
have a good heart. A lato tough case
that came into his hands shows there is
a heap of "human nature" in him. He
is a janitor at the police station, ond a
part of his business is to pacify and en
tertain nervous children that are
brought in lost, or strayed, or stolen,
or otherwise abused by this pretty
rough world on children. .
They como to him howling with ter
ror or pain, and he has a regular system
of pacification. Candy and peanuts
generally do it, but tjiere are many cases
that these simple remedies will not
resell. Theu he tries throwing them up
and catching them if they are very
small, or riding them on foot if they
have arrived at a good jolting age;
whistling and singing will mollify
some dispositions, and so on. "Bijah"
had never been known to fail. But the
other day he got hold of a little chap
that taxed all his resources and was
very near proving that some boys would
not manage. This is tho way he did it :
He was brought in howling and kick
ing, and he turned from the sight of' a
stick of peppermint candy with a whoop
and a yell. Bijah then tried whistling,
but the young reprobate spit on him,
and whooped the louder. Offers of pop
and soda water was responded to by
well-aimed kicks, aud he wasn't to bo
taken in by the display of a big jack
knife or a bunch of keys. When all
these little thiugs failed, and the boy
continued to dance up aud down, and
howl and spit, Bijah kindly put the
hose on the pen-stock, and offered him
the pipe. lie threw it down, and was
so inad that he got white around the
mouth.
Then he was offered the city directo
ry, an insurance picture of Washington
crossing the Delaware, and a one
wheelesl cart which had been brought
in from the alley, but ho loy flat down
on the floor, and his shrieks set every
body's hair on end. For more than oue
straight hour Bijah racked his brains to
find means to muke that little imp shut
up, aud by and by he hit the thing. Pour
ing a pailful of water into the gutter he
made a fisli-poa.d, and then he bfnt a
pin into a hook, got a stick and a piece
of string, and seated tho boy on the
curb-stone.
The young rat had begun to ,hold in
little as he saw the preparations going
forward, aud wheu he took the pole
and sat down he was quiet as a lamb.
For two long hours he "bobbed" away
in that pond for trout, heaving a sigh
now and theu, but, feeling a bite and
jerking up the pole regularly every ten
seconds, and atlast he fell asleep, lopped
over, and was carried in and placed on
two chairs, to lie there until called for.
As Bijah remarked when the job was
ended: "He who overcomes a boy is
greater than he who slays ten thousand
men."
Business Prospects.
A review of the prospects of tho
trade of the country has been issued by
tho Mercantile Agency of 11. G. Dun &
Co,, to its subbscribers. It winds up
with tho following sensible words:
From the foregoing statements based
upon careful local observations as to the
condition untl prospects of trade, it is
obvious that tho outlook has improved
in the last few months. The productive
power of the country, the success at
tending agricultural operations, and the
gouerally healthy tone of manufacturing
interests, all point to a steady growth in
our material resources.
While it is not improbable that there
has been a great deal of over-trading,
and that there are a great many people
in business that ought to be out of it,
there is hardly any doubt that tho in
ternal commerce of tho country is iu a
healthy condition, and, taken as a whole,
the state of affairs generally seems
safer than it did four mouths ago. The
spring and summer trade has been dull
in most quarters, but that is not a bad
sign. Stocks of goods generally are
small, and the consumption must create
au active demand throughout the
balance of the year. Notwithstanding
however, this generally favorable aspect
it must not be forgotten that the lines
of credit are, and have been in the last
year or two, extending materially, aud
that tho gross amount of internal lia
bilities to-day is much larger than' it
was threo or four years ago. It is get
ting more ond more evident that in
retailing goods to consumers, merchauts
are trusting too freely and find it ex
tremely difficult to. collect. The Mer
cantile Agency Records indicate a lock-ing-up
of capital in our outstanding
debts, to an extent that cannot fail to
render collections difficult and sales un
safe without judicious care. As a rule,
consumers ought to pay as they go ;
they are rarely better able to pay six
months hence than they are to-day, and
the scattering of assets in this direction
is one of tho earliest and worat indica
tions of a crisis in the future. While
we do not think that this condition of
things has grown to any disastrous ex
tent, it is proper to direst attention to
it, and, if possible, to lessen the ten
dency in that direction. This is best
done by keeping in mind the debt-pay-ing
power of the parties who are buying
goods. It matters not how ample the
surplus of the parties seeking credit
may be, if their liabilities are dispro
portionately large, and their assets in
an unavailable shape. Our experieuoe
proves that outstanding accounts are
among the weakest of assets upon which
to rely, and the safest account is that
where the party owes little and has a
small amount outstanding. Expenses
in business continue largely to absorb
profits, which competition renders al
most ruinously small: hence there is
more than the usual necessity for great
oio ju lUBfjeuauig vi creuus,
Facts and Fancies.
Trance purchas
ed 00,000 railway tickets within three
months.
ThA Villoil bv the Detroit & Milwau
kee Railway " disaster number six and
the injured nine.
Tho Feejee Islanders aro in insurrec
tion, and have murdered a number of
white settlers.
A tender Des Moines father wishes to
exchange one of his newly-arrived twin
boys for a girl.
There are twenty million acres of
wild land along the Mississippi Kiver,
of great richness of soil.
Four women and one child were killed
by an accident, recently, on the Detroit
and Milwaukee Railroad.
Tho last murderer hanged in Virginia
remarked that ho "was going to meet
his little babies in heaven."
Should Don Carlos gain tho throne of
Spain the estimated cost is an increase
of one-third in the national debt.
There have been twenty-seven deaths
from cholera in Lancaster, Ky., since
the breaking out of the disease.
Brown is a fashionable color for la
dies' note-paper. We have some "now
freak in this line to record every other
day.
All emigration agents in Germany
who fail to prove that they aro German
subjects are to bo expelled from the
country.
A telegram from Liverpool announces
fee loss of the British ship T. C. Lem
on. A portion of tho crew were
drowned.
Long waists, tight sleeves, and high
ruffs will be the distinguishing charao
teristics of feminine street garments
next winter.
A kind expression of countenance can
make the most homely pleasing an
honest heart and friendly acts mako tho
dullest lovable.
The insurgents in Cartagena have lib
erated their Carlist prisoners, and the
Carlists have responded by liberating
the communists.
The hull of the British ship Confi
dence, tho flag-ship in the battle of
Lake Champlain, is being raised from
the bottom of Plattsburg bay.
An Englishman who is visiting in
Danbury says ho has but a poor idea of
tho freedom of a country that has to
get its weather from tho government.
Californians are drying grapes into
raisirs with success. One hundred
pounds of grapes worth a dollar will
produce twenty pounds of raisins worth
$2.50.
Trying to do business without adver
tising is like winking at a pretty pirl
through a pair of green goggles. You
may know what you're doing, but no
body else does.
Details of the late hurricane in Nova
Scotia show that many vessels and
smaller craft have been stranded, that
churches, dwellings, and business build
ings have been blown down and wharves
aud crops destroyed.
Tho grangers of Winnebago county,
Wis., have passed resolutions denounc
ing the attempt to draw the order into
a political movement, aud affirming
that they will have nothing to do with
anything of tho kind.
It is said that the mothers of Bangor
(Me.,) tie cardboard tags around tjeir
children's necks when they aro sent out
to play. When the juveniles stray and
become lost, the policemen refer to tho
taps and take them home without loss of
time. .
Miss Elizabeth P. Teabody advertises
to the effect that anybody who is pre
pared to enter tho Boston University,
and whose only difficulty is a deficiency
of . means, is requested to confer with
her at Cambridge. That is unselfish
generosity.
A fact of somo importance in connec
tion with tho farmers' movement is the
yield of tho corn crop soon to be har
vested. According to dispatches from
Chicago this, in Illinois and Iowa, is
not likely to be more than one-half to
two-thirds tho average amount.
According to a Washington letter, tho
Signal Scrvico officers claim that the
predictions or statements of probabil
ities for tho first' year were verified in
about sixty-nine cases out of a hundred,
and their accuracy may be expected to
increase with increasing experience.
The Masonio fraternity have under
way at least $4,000,000 worth of new
halls, most of whichwill be completed
this year. The one in Philadelphia is
the most magnificent structure of the
kind in tho country, and when furnished
and entirely completed will be worth at
least $1,000,000.
Additional details of tho frightful
disasters caused in Nova Scotia by the
late storm, show that the vessels blown
ashore at Cnpo Breton alone number
more than 100, and at Canso more than
100 have been destroyed. The number
of lives lost is not yet given, though
known to be very large.
In the list of importations from
France during last week there appeared
two cases of butter packed in tins. This
importation is intended as an experi
ment to try the market, and consider
ing the demand for fancy articles,
especially fereign ones, it is not at all
unlikely that the experiment may be
successful.
An idea of the value of Iioiisa nrnnon.
ty in London may be gleaned from the
following statement: Upon a block of
handsome offices just erected in Lead-
ennaii street, tne ground noor of the
back block simply a room under fifty"
feet by forty lets for one thousand
cuineas a year, on a twAntv-nno u..
lease, and all the other rooms in pro
portion.
As soon as any soreness is felt in the
ear, let three or four drops of the tinc
ture of arnica be poured in, and the ori
fice be rilled with a little cotton to ex
clude the air, and in a short time the
uneasiness is forgotten. If the arnica
be not resorted to until there is actual
pain, then the cure may not be as
speedy, but ie just as certain, although
it may be necessary to repeat the opera
tion. It is a sure preventive against
gathering in the ear, which is the usual
cause of earache.