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Lata English papers contain an order
from the privy council which requires
every local authority in England, Wales
and Scotland to slaughter within
two days of tho exiateneo of the
disease becoming known to ' them
all swino alTcctod with swino fever, and
all swine which havo been lu contact
with such a(Tctcd swine, tho compensa
tion in tho former caso boing fixed at
one-half tho value of the animal and in
the latter caso at the full value
Pagan Myo, on the bank of the Irra
waddy, just abovo Minis, and now in
possession of tho British troops, is tli0
ancient capital of Burmnb and in ruins.
It extends for two miles along tho river
ind Is choked with junglo. Its pagodas
(re almost countless, and ono of them
ranki next to the famous Taj M.tnal.
The neighboring hills aro dotted with
ruined pagodas razed by the hill tribes
(who aro not Buddhists) for tho sake of
the gold and silver images of Cautama
buried beneath each when it was
founded.
The supremo court of Indiana has just
decided thut who.ro property has been
destroyed by fire from sparks negli
gently pormittcd to escape from a loco
motive tho owner may recover its full
value from the railway company, not
withstanding the fact that tho property
was fully Insured and the insurance com
pnny had paid tho loss. In other words,
if a person hnppens to be lucky enough
to have his building burned by a chance
(park, and also has it insured in a sol
vent company, he may get twice its value
In solid cash.
A company of Americans are to lay a
paper railway in Russia. The uses of
paper are becoming amazingly extended,
and will bo likely to do some queer tricks
with rhetoric as people now may think.
Perhaps it will not seem strango some
years hence to read in a newspaper of a
locomotive "fiercely flagellating the all
enduring paper nails, and striking fire
and thunder from them at every mighty
bound," but it seems now as though it
would. Inevitably cannon balls will
come to bo made of paper, and tho New
Yorker of the future may learn with sor
row and alarm of the demolition of Fort
Hamilton by tho "heavy paper hail'
poured upon it by a hostile vessel lying
far out at sea.
!- i 1 ii j
Now, when the mercury sinks out of
sight and the water-pipes frcezo up, there
is a timely renewal of the proposition to
dam the Strait of Belle Isle, between
Newfoundland and Labrador, so as to
deSect the Arctic currcut which now
passes through, turning it eastward and
allowing the warm water of the Gulf
Stream to flow northward close to tho
shores. It is claimed that this warding
off of the frigid waters would give a
mild and genial climate from Nova Scotia
to Cape IJattcras, liko that of Spain
and Northern Italy in the same latitude.
This stringing of new isothermal linos
will be expensive, and the scheme is not
likely to prosper. But it is better to dam
the Strait of Belle Isle than to imprecate
the weather.
During the past decade the savings
banks of tho United States have de
creased to the number of fifty, while
their total resources have increased
1237,000,000, and the aggregate amount
of their deposits $180,000,000. The
average amount to each depositor has
fluctuated from $352 to $;l5(i. From
the best Information obtainable the
number of savings banks at the present
time, by geographical divisions, is as
lo'lows:
No, Capital
New England 4J0 $100,000
Middle States 1;S 030,00)
Southern Htatos 5 VO,0tiO
Western States ... 48 2,72J,OO0
Totals OH $4,030,001)
Of the total number of savings banks
about 500 are without capital, which ex
plains in tho table above tho small
amount of total capital.
The territory of Alaska is so far away
and in the popular imagination is so
closely associated with polar boars and
everlasting snows that, though it is
part and parcel of the United States of
America, but little is known of it by
Americans. There are reasons now for
the belief that at no distant day Alaska
will be more familiar to the people under
whose protection it was placed by the
purchase of 18tf7, and it would not be
surprising if, in tho development of its
undoubted mineral and timber resources,
U should become ere long au important
and influential State. The territory is
of vast extent, having more than 4,000
miles of seacoast, and varied is ita
c'd.iiate that, while portions of it are
:i most uninhabitable, other sections are,
")V reason of the warm currents from the
I'aclflo ocean, made as salubrious as the
middle Southera States.
' The most dangorous counterfeit of a
United States coin is ft $5 gold piece
that is supposed to have been made
through the rascality of somo employes
in the New Orleans mint. It was made
with tho gonuino stamp. The outside
is of 000 fine gold and the inside of
spclta and plalina. There are hundreds
of thousands of them in ciroulation.
M. doLcssnps, the great constructor
of canals, has been making tome state
ments that agriculturists might think of
with profit. He says that one pound of
flour is worth three pounds of beef. lie
asks why cereals are fed to cattle, hogs
and sheep. "Why not," he says, "eat
the grain instead of feeding It to ani
mals?" He says that England is sup
porting 82,000,000 cattle, sheep and
hogs upon cereals sho herself raises, while
she imports flour from America to feed
her pcoplo. .
The New York Timet declares that
"all the most successful farmers are now
specialists. Ono grows apples and pears,
and his name is well known in the mar
kets at home and abroad, for thousands
of barrels of choice fruit bearing his
name are scattered over two continents.
Another produces fino butter, and has a
etoady and regular market for his pro
duct. One grows potatoes and soils
several thousand dollars' worth every
year. Others breed stock, horses, cattle,
sheep, and some poultry and hogs, but
all gain a reputation in their own ways
and have a suro and wide outlet for their
products. It must now be bo with the
majority of farmers, for they have been
cast adrift from their old landmark and
have fallen into a network of cross cur
rents which carry them wholly away
from their former courses. An instance
of this is tho dairy, which is wholly at
the mercy of a substituted artificial pro
duct against which there is no possible
competition excepting by making tho
choicest quality of butter and cheese.
Ohio river fiat-boatmen in old times
used to have a saying, and believed in it
too, that "water is clean after it has
flowed over nine stones, no matter what
it was before." "It would be comforting
to fastidious New Yorkers," says a metro
politan paper, "if they had some such
conviction as an offset to the hideous
information made public by Inspector
Lewis, of the health department, to the
effect that "the territory from which the
Croton wator supplies is obtained em
braces cesspools, barnyards, 9,455 cows,
1,241 horses, 1,500 pigs, and 20 sheep,
and a population of 20,000 persons with
their dwellings." The first thing we
know some Philadelphia newspaper will
bo finding out about this and saying:
'Why I Hello! Croton water is as
filthy as our own Schuylkill!' This
matter of pollution of the water supplies
of our largo cities is a most momentous
one already, and must become more and
more seritus as our population increases.
It is simply amazing, in view of the -facts
existing, that people are not more gener
ally careful to havo thoroughly filtered
the water they require for household
use."
The Birth of an Iceberg.
The birth of a huge iceberg,, a phe
nomenon that has been seen only once
or twico by a European, and to a certain
extent has remained a matter of theory,
was observed by the Danish explorers on
the east coast of Greenland last summer.
The bergs are formed by breaking off
from the perpetual ice of the unexplored
interior to the coast and into the sea.
The water buoys up the sea end of the
glacier uutil it breaks by its own weight
with a noise that sounds like loud
thunder miles away. The commotion of
the water, as tho iceberg turns over and
over in the effort to attain its balance, is
folt to a great distance along the coast.
The natives regard it as the work of
evil spirits, and believe that to look upon
tho glacier in its throes is death. The
Danish ofiiccrs, when observing the
breaking oil of the end of the great gla
cier Puissortok through their telescopes,
were roughly ordered by their Esquimaux
escort, usually' submissive enough, to
follow their example and turn their backs
on the interesting Bceno. They bad
happily completed their observations,
and avoided an embarrassing conflict
witu the crew by a seeming compliance
with the order.
Chinese Secret Signals.
The Chicese wood sawyers have a Bort
of siijn languago of their own, in which
the signs are made with sticks of cord
wood. When a Chinaman has taken a
contract to saw a pile of wood he places
several sticks on tho top of the pile in a
peculiar position, which informs all other
Chinamen that the contract has been
let, ami thus the owner of the wood is
kept free from the tinnoyanco of having
a dozen Chinamen a day riDging his bell
aud asking for a job. Should the wood
pile belong to a man who is not good
pay, several sticks of the wood are
arranged by some Chinaman who has
been victimized by the party, in such a
manner that no other Chinaman will ask
for the job of sawing it. Any one wbo
lias hud a pile of wood lying in front of
his premises for several days without
some Chinaman applying for ti.e job of
sawing it may know that he is down in
the bluck lint, and wilt just pitch iu and
saw his wood himself. Pvrll.tnd Ore-yoniiin.
THE WELCOME BACK.
Bweet is the hour that brings ns home,
Where all will spring to meet ui
Where hands or striving a we come
To be the first to rrroot m
When the world has spent its frowns and
wrath
And care been sorely pressing,
Tii a west to turn from our roving path
And And a flrenide blessing.
Ah, Joyfully dear is the homeward track,
If we are but sure of a welcome back!
What do we reck on a dreary way,
Though lonely and benighted,
If we know there are lips to chide our stay
And eyes that will beam love-lighted?
What is the worth of your diamond ray
To the glance that Cashes pleasure
When the words that welcome back betray
We form a heart's chief treasure?
Oh, joyfully dear is our homeward track,
If we are but sure of a welcome back I
CONQUERED.
It might be said of old Sam Sladger
that his counting house was his temple,
his desk was his altar, his ledger was
his Bible, and his money was his god.
Next to his money he loved his only
child, his daughter Julia.
One could hardly realizo that Julia
was his daughter, or even that she bore
tho unromantic name of Sladger. She
was beautiful, well bred and accom
plished, and was sweetly winning in
manner.
Old Sam had determined that Julia
should wed his Iriend Alderman Choz
zle, who was worth a mint of money,
and would be mayor at no distant day.
It was an excellent match from every
point of view except one Julia's. Julia
would have nothing to do with Chozzle,
much less would she marry him. The
matter was often debated between father
and daughter, if that can be called a de
bate, which was all command and low
voiced argument on the one aide, and
an tears ana anenc oostinacy on the
other.
Had Chozzle had no favored rival in
the field it is possible the poor girl might
have been bullied into accepting him.
But there was a rival. He was an artist.
He was very poor. He was a complete
faihire in his profession. He was ex
ceedingly romantic, and his name was
Vandeleur de Vere. Any one must see
at once that these were quite eood and
sufficient reasons for any young woman
falling in love with him. At auy rate
they were quite sufficient for Julia.
At last Chozzle became too much for
Julia, even though she wasn't married to
him. Her life seemed all Chozle. Her
father served him up at breakfast, at
dinner, and between meals. At last this
incessant Chozzle diet, as it may bo
called, became intolerable So Julia
went out one fine morning and married
Vandeleur de Vere. according to a prear
ranged plan.
"Now, if there was one man old Sam
objected to more strongly than another,
it was Vandeleur de Vero. Ho branded
him, with fine scorn, as -one of them good
lor nothing, ascetic fellows' by which
he was uuderstood to mean tho great
esthetic brotherhood in general. When,
therefore, ho received a letter from his
daughter, putting him in possession of
the state of affairs, imploring forgive
ness for herself and 'darling Van.'.tho
old man's feelings may, to use a novel
phrase, be better imagined than de
scribed. In their rooms in a back street, Mr.
and Mrs. Vandeleur de Vere awaited the
outraged parent's reply with a good
deal of anxiety. They did not expect
that he would come around all at once
that would be too much ; but they did
hope that he would, after his first "fit of
passion, accept the inevitable, and his
son-ia-law.
But they were soon undeceived not
quite so soon, however, as might have
been supposed, for two days elapsed be-
ioro a jeitcr maue us appearunce, bearing
on the cover the stitf, awkward writing
of Samuel Sladger. When it did come,
the young couple found it very brief and
to the point. It was addressed to Mrs.
V. de Vere, and ran ns follows:
"Madam: Your favor of the 4th instant
to hand, and contents noted. As you have
made your bed. so must you and your vaga
bond lie. You havo not broken my heart
by your wicked and disgraceful conduct, but
you have closed it against you forever, I
am a man of ray word: that you know well.
I cast you off; 1 disown you as a daughter, I
forbid you or your M. de Vere to set foot in
my house under any pretense whatever, and
I tell you now, once or all, that you Bhall
never have even one penny piece, or th value
of it, from nie. It will bo quite useless to
writ to me, ax all your letters will be re
turned unopened.
Samuel Bladder."
Writing to the obdurate old man under
these circumstances was certainly a for
lorn hope, but the young people did
write more than once, aud each time
the letter was returned unopened.
To do Julia and her husband iustice. !
they bore up under their misfortunes
pluckily. Van painted by the perch,
rood and acre, but the piotures would
not sell. By tho time all Julia's trinkets
had been turned iuto money, and actual
starvation was staring the young couple
in the face for deaieis and art shop
keepers wouldn't even look at poor Van's
productions now the landlady who was
getting unxious nbout the rent, which
was rapidly falling in arrears, volun
teered this to Julia very mysterious
piece of advice.
"If you can't sell 'em.'' and she indi
cated the blushing canvass, "why not
spout 'em?"
"I 1 beg your pardon, 1 don't quito
understand," replied Julia, looking a
good deal bewildered.
The landlady, iu a tone of ill concealed
pity for her lodger's ignorance, explained
that "spouting" trio pictures insaut
pledging them ut a pawnbroker's for
whatever he could be induced to leud
upon them.
Julia shrank fron the idea at first, and
Van was indignant when it was sug
gested that he should pawn his works of
genius just as if they were flat irons or
Sunday suits. But Julia had grown
more practical of late was beginning to
come out of her shell, as the landlndy
said and soon reconciled herself to the
notion of obtaining small advances upon
her husband's pictures.
The work of pledging them was by no
means a pleasant one. Only a few pawn
brokers here and there could be induced
to lend anything upon Van's priceless
art treasures. And those who lent any
thing at all lent very, very little, grumb
ling that "pictures were a drug in the
market," and suggesting that they were
prepared to make really liberal advances
upon any articles of solid commercial
value.
In their keen struggle for life both
Van snd Julia became smart and artful
to a degree which surprised even them
selves. Van very soon got to know the
sort of pictures upon which most money
could bo lent, and was lavish in the use
of his brightest colors. But to Julia
must be given the idea of Van's produc
ing endless copies of his most popular
piece a red-cloaked maiden walking in
a gamboge corn field under a brilliant
ultra-marine sky. Vai soon dropped
into the knack of "knocking off" these
masterpieces at a terrific rate. He worked
upon some half-dozen at once, first put
ting on six brilliant skies, then calling
into being six fields of waving grain, and
then introducing into each the simple
maiden in the excruciating scarlet cloak.
For many a week did the young peo
ple live upon the proceeds of their gaudy
nranufacture, but there came a time
when there was scarcely a pawnbroker
in New York who had not in his keeping
one of Van's outrages upon nature. But
it gradually became harder to part with
them, or any picture at all, and the
young pcoplo were getting terribly
anxious about the future.
"Van, dear," said Julia, for the thou
sandth time, "we must have money
somehow. I'm getting despesate. I
wish, oh, how I wish I could earn some !
But what can I do? I was never taught
anything useful. I can play decently,
it's true, and I can sing; that's one thing
1 can do rcalr well. But where can I
sing? I have never sung in public. I
have no recommendations nor introduc
tions. I shall never make anything by
singing."
"I'm afraid you're right, darling,"
said her husband, gloomily, as he clinked
the few half dollars remaining in his
pocket. "Yon could never make a pub
lic appearance unless" and here ho
smiled at the quaintness of the idea
"unless you make it in the public streets,
like that girl we saw with a crowd round
her the other night, don't you know?
How delighted your amiable parent
would be if he knew it. Wonder what
ho'd do!"
Julia was always ready to laugh at a
qnaint conceit, even in the midst of their
poverty. But she did not laugh now.
She started as Van spoke, and turned
quickly away from the table. Van rose
also, went to his easel, began misrepre
senting nature, and iu that pleasing oc
cupation very soon forgot about old
Sladger and tho cantatrice of the pave
ment. All that day Julia was exceedingly
quiet and thoughtful.
"Van, dear," said Julia, suddenly,
when they had been sitting talkins for
some time after tea, "I'm going out."
"All right," said Van, "I'm ready.
Where do you want to go?"
"Ob, not far! there are several little
things to buy. I can get them quito
as well by myRelf. You needn't
come."
"Needn't cornel But I don't like
vour going out aione at night, dear.
Beside, why should you go alonei"
"For a woman's reason. Because I
want to. Now, don't be angry. Van.
You must let me have ray own way. I
won t come to any harm I promise you."
And Van gave in, of course.
But he had a fresh remonstrance to
make when he saw Julia wrap herself in
a faded old blnck shawl, and put on a
bonnet which had long seen not only its
best but pretty nearly its worst days.
"What on earth are you putting on
those wretched old things for?" he in
quired. "We are poor enough, good
ness knows, but you have some respecta
ble clothes left, anyhow."
"For the sake of economy. I don't
care how I look about here," and with
that she hurried out.
"Julia walked rapidly, looking neither
to the right nor left. She feared if she pro
ceeded slowly, or hesitated, the courage
to carry out the resolution she had made
might ooze away.
At last she arrived near her father's
house, a handsome corner building. It
was about 9 o'clock, and old Sam and
his guests, for he was giving a dinner
party, were in the brilliantly lighted
dining-room.
Sam Sladger had changed a good deal
since his daughter's departure from
home, lie looked aged and has-n-ard.
lie missed her sorely, and yearned to
have her back with him: but he had
stuck stubbornly to his determination to
have nothing further to do with her.
He had found, too, to his bitter an
noyance, that tho opinion of nearly all
hii friends was that he had treated his
daughter with undue harshness and
severity, not to say actual cruelty. He
feared that Vandeleur might be driven
by poverty to resort to any shady means
of getting a living that mi rlit present
themselves, and he was tilled with a
vague terror that he might thereby find
himself the respected Sladger in
volved indirectly in some scandal
brought about by his son-in-law.
The old man then was not happy.
But on this particular evening he was
less unhappy than he had been for a
considerable time, for among the guests
was one of tho "nobs" he worshiped.
"Well, as I was saying," remarked
the ariotocratio gentleman, continuing a j
conversation, "there was quite a scene,
Regular excitement; everybody upset.
I don't say there was anybody in par
ticular to blame. But a scene is a thing
I really cannot stand; and so I've never
been to the house Bince."
There was a murmur of applause at
this very spirited and aristocratic way of
treating the affair, which had hardly
died away when Sladgcr's face suddenly
became ashy pale.
He listened with feverish eagerness, for
it was something he had heard which
had caused the blood quickly to leave
his cheeks. Yts, there was no mistake".
Tremulous and low at first, but growing
louder and clearer now, a woman's voico
singing a simple ballad could be heard.
There was nothing much in that to
other hearers, but there was a good deal
in it to oid Sladger. It was his daugh
ter's voice. Surely he could not be mis
taken. Making some trivial excuse for
going to the window, he raised the cur
tainsnnd looked out. There before his
very doorstep, was a small crowd; one
of those crowds which spring up in New
York as if by magic ; and in the center
of it was a young woman wrapped in a
faded and old black shawl, with a
Eatched and shriveled bonnet on her
ead . In spite of this it was clear from
her general appearance and the timidity
of her manner that she was not a "woman
accustomed to get her living by singing
in the streets. Somo in the crowd were
sympathetic, others were mirthful, and,
others again, merely looked on and lis
tened, and wondered vaguely.
Old Sam knew her in a moment. He
had not mistaken the voice. It was his
daughter he saw before him . He looked
out at her for some moments, unablo to
decide bow to act. He must not have a
scene, and ho must have his daughter.
He cursed himself for having held out so
long. This sort of thing must bo put a
stop to, at all hazards. His daughter sing
ing in the streets 1 It would certainly
come to be known and talked about.
The scandal would be too great.
Leaving the dining-room with as com
posed an air as he could assume under
the circumstances, he went quietly to the
hall door, opened it and passed out. As
he did so the song came to an end.
Stepping up to his daughter who looked
at him with steady eyes, ho said aloud:
"Very well done, young woman very
well done 1 You must be tired. Come
in and take a little refreshment!" And
then, in a tone that reached only her
ears, "For heaven's sake, Julia, come
into the house and stop this horrible
masquerading t You'll disgrace me for
ever I Don't hesitate or make a scene.
I wouldn't have a scene here for any
thing. I'll take all back I wroto you.
1 dare say your husband's a very good
fellow in his way. I'll make friends
with him too. You shan't want for
money, either of you." And bo saying,
the old man drew her into the house.
What passed between father and
daughter then, is, perhaps, hardly worth
relating, but a reconciliation must have
been effected, for the young couple and
tho old man are now on the friendliest
terniB.
Strange to relate, Sam has come to be
fond of his son-in-law, for Vandeleur
has made a name as the founder of a new
school of art, by his friends and admir
ers called the Mystic, and by his de
tractors called the Moonstruck, and
which, whatever its claims to considera
tion, is talked and written about a great
deal, and that is the main thing, after
all.
Julia says she has no secrets from her
husband, but, all the same, Vandeleur
has never learned what became of his
wife when she donned the old bonnet
and shawl, or how it was ttiat Sam Slad
ger's heart warmed so suddenly to his
runaway daughter and her husband.
Food of the Burmese.
The flesh of the python is much es
teemed bv the Karens for food, aud the
gall bladder for medicine. All lizards
of the varanidte family are highly valued
for food, and sought for in hollow trees
by the aid of dogs. The Karens steal
up the tree with a noose at the end ol a
bamboo, and snaro them while leap
ing for the water, or catch them in a
boat beneath the tree. The head is
deemed venomous; but the flesh of the
othei parts is preforred to fowls. If not
needed for immediate consumption, the
captive is rendered helpless by breaking
some of the toes and knotting the sinews.
The eggs aro equally esteemed. The
padat (Lioptlus guttagus) is herbivorous,
and in high favor as a viand. The flesh
of the mijyoung (Crockodilus), which is
very common and reaches thirty feet in
length, is in great request for food. A
kiutl of turtle during the inundations
becomes scattered about the country, and
on the sucsidence of the floods, and dur
ing the grass burning in April, many are
either caught alive, or their scorched
bodies are found afterward, and greatly
relished by the people. The flesh of the
soft turtles is generally eaten by the
Burmese, and may bo good, though the
animals are carnivorous. The leikpyen
won is algivorous, and is tho "edible
turtle" of India. The boatmen on the
river make it a practice, when mooring
at a spot, to hunt in the neighboring
thickets for lizards, chameleons, snakes,
and similar reptiles, with which they
flavor the invariable dish of boiled rice.
Even li.ards found dead are esteemed a
great delicacy when cooked. The Bur
mese exhibit decided peculiarities in
their choice of comestibles. There is a
small kind of beetle which fabricates
balls of clay as a nidus for its progeucy,
about the same size as tenuis balls, and
buries them in grouud where cattle are
stalled. These balls are eagerly bought
after by tbo Burmese for the sake of the
oainty grub contained within, which
thev devour with uncommon relish.
ni rial j.
Only twenty-five per cent, of the 50,-
000 Indian children in this country are
ttceiving any education.
LOVE'S APPEAL.
If I should listen, listen, love,
With longing ear, in time of k'Uure,
Unto a redbreast's song alwve,
Feeling a thrill at every measure,
'Twould be ingratitude, my love,
If, when the song had ceasod above,
I took the life that gave me pleasure.
But if, when it had died away, i
And I had listened, listened, love,
'Twere only just if I to pay
The redbreast that had made me gay
Should build for it a nest above.
Thou, thou has listened, listened, dear,
With strango delight, in time of leisure,
U.ito a love song wondrous cloar,
And smilod and blushed at every measure.
Now, twere ingratitude, my dear,
When old does seem the aong you hear,
To wound the heart that gave yon pleas
ure. But, deaf, when it has thrilled its best
And thou hast listened yearningly,
"Twere only just within thy breast
To rear for it a gentle nest
And soothe the love that sung for thee.
Edward A. Fuller, in IJotton 2'ramoript
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
There is a great deal of Balkan among
the war horses of the East.
A roadbed is for the convenience of
wheels when they are tired. Picayune.
A proverb says Hunger is the best
cook. That may be so, but hunger
hasn't anything to cook. Sif lings.
A New York tailor says eveiy man
should have five overcoats. Not a bad
idea from tho tailor's standpoint.
Chicago Ledger.
An exchange tells "How to boil
onions." What we want is a recipe foi
boiling the man who eats them. Bur
lington Free Press.
"I'll drop your acquaintance," re
marked the big man as he held one rob
ber by the throat while he knocked
down the other one. Mtrchant-Trav-'
tier.
Oscar Wilde declares that he can see
angels where other men see oaiy flesh
and blood. A slaughterhouse must look
like heaven to him, then. LuweO
CUieen.
Prisoner (dosirous of flattering the
court) "I think there is a fine expres
sion in your honor's face." Judgo (ur
banclyi "So there is, and the line is
$10 and costs." Boston Courier.
BHAKKSPEAHB SLIGHTLY ALTERED,
" He never spoke a word;
Cut with a look of deepest melancholy
lie sat, like Patience on an ottoman,
Waiting for his wife to put twr bonnet on."
Lynn Item.
A California man has a defect in hii
eyes which causes him to see every oh
ject multiplied nineteen times. II
would be a treasure in a thousand ways.
What a man to take the Chicago census.
Philadelphia Cull.
"I have such au indulgent husband,'
said little Mrs. Doll. "Yes, so Georgi
says," responded Mrs. Spiteful, quietiy;
"sometimes he indulges too much,
doesn't he 1" They no longer speak to
each other. ltouijiler.
EPITAPH ON AN HONEST MAM.
Hore'raong the dead his body's laid,
But his soul is in heaven a dweller;
For this man never tailod, while he lived, it
is said.
To return a borrowed umbrella.
Uoiton Courier.
A South Carolina woman rode twenty
five miles through a drenching rain t
marry the inau sho loved. Seems ai
though a man would be rathe' shy about
marrying a woman with so much energj
as that. Burlington Free li-ets.
Ethel "Mamma, I think Frank meant
business." Mamma "Why, what I
way to talk, child! But tell me what
makes you think so?" ' Ethel "He gavi
me a pair of sleeve butons lust night and
they were linked." Kentucky mate
Journal. lie asked, " Why is that look of pain
Upon thy lovely face;
Why on ttiat brow hath agony
ISot its corroding trace
Ah! tell me, dear, why misery
Thy sinloKS soul dota blight;"
"Oil, darling," she replied, " because
My new boots are so tight"
Huston Gazette
A boy who bought a quart of New
Orleans molasses at a Cincinnati grocery
store tho other day found a diamond
rinqr worth t '00 in the stuff. Grocery
'clerks should have their rings made to
tit tighter somebody will get choked
on a cluster ring jet. Milwaukee Senti
nel. Japan Yillagre Shops.
Japanese villages aro full of shops.
There is scarcely a house which docs not
sell something. " Where the buyers cora
from, and how a profit can bo made is a
mystery. Many of the things are eat
ables, such as dried fishes, one and a
half inches lonir. impaled on sticks;
cakes, sweetmeats composed of rice,
Hour, and very little sugar; circulat
lumps of rice dough, called uiachi; roots
boiled in brime; a white jelly made
from beans; and ropos, straw shoes for
men and horses, straw cloaks, paper um
brellas, paper waterproofs, toothpicks,
paper mouchoirs, tobacco pipes.hairpins,
and numerous other tritles made of bam
boo, straw, grass and wood. These
goods are on stands, and in the room be
hind, open to the street, all tho domestic
avocations are going on, ami tho house
w tfe is usually to bo seen boiling watei
or sewins, with a baby tucked in tbi.
back of her dress. A lucifcr factory has
recently been put up in one place, and
iu many house fronts men are cutting
up wood iuto lengths for matches. lu
others, they ate husking rit e, a vt-ry la
borious process in which tho jtraiu is
pounded in a mot tar sunk iu tho lioor by
a llat-encicd wooded estle, attached to
a lung honontal lever, which is uoikcl
by the feet of a man, invariably baked,
who stand at the othef extremity.