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.