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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 7, 1887.
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There is a Mantling jirize, to bo
'awarded by tlm Academy of Sciences,
Pari, to whoever shall find an efficacious
remedy for Asiatic. cholcYa, or shall dis
cover the cause of this terrible scourge.
An oXpcricncod barber says' that it is
decidedly dangerous for men who aro
lieing shaved to rend newspapers; that
barbers nro opposed to the- practice, be
cause the razor is held Tcry lightly, and
the newspaper is apt to strike tho handlo
and causo a cut.
Mrs. IJeecher seems unable, since her
husband's death, to remain long away
from Brooklyn. Her white and pathet
ically composed face is seen among the
Plymouth parishioners every few weeks,
though nominally she is spending the
season at (Stamford.
Acting Secretary Muldrow, of tho in
terior department, recently rendered I
decisiijp, according to married women
the right to enter and purchaso timber
And stone lands, under the law governing
the sale of such lauds, in the States of
Mississippi, Louisiana, California, Nevada,
Oregon and Washington Territory.
' .'A burglar has been writing some of his
'j-.V.ieriences for tho press. Ho tells how
liimsclf and a fellow thief followed Anna
. Dickinson at one time and a theatrical
company at another, bought tickets and
sent them as complimentiiries to leading
citizens, and then broko into their house!
whilo the families wcro enjoying the
complimentary.
The medicine chest is as much a neccs
iy on trains as on ships. So think the
managers of the Maine Central llailroad,
who have now provided each one of their
conductors with "emergency'' case, if
wo may so cull them, containing, besides
medicines, lincu and rulibcr bandages,
surgical instruments and whatovcr else
may be needed by tho conductor or the
chance doctor in cases of accident.
Tho rnily lilies in tho United States
having public batlis nro Huston, with
17; New York, l."; Philadelphia, 6;
Brooklyn, 8; Cleveland and Hartford,
each 1 ; and Buffalo, the number not
given. In New York, 3,4:11,080 persons
tallied from Juno to October in 1883;
during the same time in Boston, 059,005,
and in Brooklyn, 225,885. In eighteen
cities where there tire no public baths
only about 2;i per cent, of tho residences
arc supplied with bath tubs.
It is stated that thirty-throe mission-
'y societies now have workers in Africa.
Tho dark continent is encompassed on
every side, and, like the divisions of nn
investing army, these missionaries aro
moving toward tho centre, and closing
iu upon tho last strongholds of heathen
ism and .the slave trade. Hundreds of
natives in the seminaries are preparing
to lalMr as preachers or teachers, anil
thousands of children aro receiving
Christian instruction. It is said that
the Scriptures have been translated, in
whole or in part, into sixty-six of tho
dialects of Africa, whilo the whole Bible
has iM-cn rendered into eleven languages,
spoken by multitudes of natives.
A new kind of benefit club has just
liecn started at Yeddo by a number of en
terprising young Japanese, who arc de
termined, if possible, to see the western
Jnnd from which comes the fashions and
notions that are so completely revolution
izing Japan. Tho club is called tho
Yoko-Haiska, and the members are all
expected to pay a monthly subscription
of about a guinea to a special fund,
under tho management of the club com
mittee. Anil every year this fund is used
up In the following way: The names of
three members of tiie club are drawn by
lot, and the first of these is accorded the
privilege of going to pass ten years in
Europe at the expense of tho fund, for tho
second a trip of live years is arranged and
paid for, while the third prize consists of
the necessary traveling expenses for one
year's visit to Europe According to re
cent accounts, the members of tho Yoko
Haiska will not remain lung without im
itators in the chief cities of Japan.
Miss Ella Wheeler Wilcox, tho well
known poet, says in the New Haven
I'lillaJium: "It is true that we aro to
leave our Meriilen homo as soon as I nm
strong enough to travel to some seaside
resort. Our new location for the fall has
not yet been decided upon. We have iw
idea of going West, and I do not even,
contemplate a visit there this summer.
It is true that in my early residence iu tho
East I thought tho people cold and un.
sympathetic. I missed the warm and
demonstrative affection which in tho
land of my birth my Western friends had
shown for me; but I never had tho
egotism to say or think that my literary
attainments were not appreciated here.
I have, on tho contrary, felt for several
years that the public at largo overesti
mated mo intellectually a fact I still
believe to be painfully true. During the
last month of severe illness aud extreme
trial, the warm sympathy, tender solici
tude and overwhelming kindness which
the people of Meriilen have exhibited to
me u ml mine make me thoroughly
ashamed that I ever thought them cold
or iuditiereut. It U a misfortune that
unwise words can never be unsaid we
t an only regret having uttered them."
THE DEAD SUMMER.
What lacks the summer!
Not roses blowing,
Nor toll white lilies with fragrance rife,
Nor green things gay with the bliss of grow
ing, Nor glad things drunk with the wine of life,
Nor flushing of clouds in blue skins shining,
Nor soft wind murmurs to rise and fall,
Nor birds for singing, nor vines for twining
Three little bads I miss, no more,
That blossomed last year at my garden
door
And that is alL
What lacks the summer!
Not waves a quiver
With arrows of light from the hand of
dawn,
Nor drooping of boughs by the dimpling
river,
Nor nodding of grass on the windy lawn,
Nor tides unawept upon silver beached,
Nor rustle of leave on tree tops tall,
Nor dabble of shade in the woodland reaches)
Life pulses gladly on vale and hill,
But three little heart that I love are
still
And that is all.
What lacks the summer!
Oh, light and savor,
And message of healing tb world above!
Crone is tho old-time strength and flavor,
(tone is its old-time pear and lovel
Gone is the bloom of the shimmering
meadows,
Music of birds as they sweep and fall
All the great world is dim with shadow,
Because no longer mine eyes can see
The ayes that made summer and life for
me
And that is all.
Boston Traveller.
IN THE SURF.
BT MLY CURRY TVNEn.
The first two weeks of September are
certainly the finest of all tho summer for
ocean bathing. The water has at length
liecomc bearably warm, anil the waves,
though running high, run regularly and
with a certain evenness that a fair swim
mer can comprehend and count upon.
At the resorts along the Jersey coast,
for instance, this a season of absolute
water revelry. The beach is peopled
with thousands of figures, happy and
picturesque, or grotesque, as the case
may le. Child, jouth, adult, all arc
here. The strong swimmer calmly cleav
ing his way out through tho breakers;
the timid novice shrinking at each new
burst of salty suds, and the would-lc
brave one prancing defiantly knoo-deep
in tho mighty brine, yet clinging des-m-ratcly
at the sumo time to tho life
Hue. It was not long since, at one of these
resorts, a heavenly morning, the sky a
dazzle of sun ami pale azure; the sea
booming grandly on the white sand, and
all the merry thousands hastening down
to meet it.
Two men and a woman left tho fourth
of their party, an elderly lady who was
not in bathing costume, as were they,
sately ensconced with chair and book
where the sand was quite dry, and
tripped lightly down to the first thin
edge of tho water. To be strictly accu
rate, but two of them tripped lightly;
the woman, who was young and in her
own way beautiful, and the smaller and
less thoughtful of the two mf. --The third
of tho party followed with a "gravity of
countenance that was quite absurd in
conjunction with his costume. Having
entered tho water they naturally sepa
rated. The younger man was slender,
graceful, willowy, a golden-bearded
blonde. He seemed to carry the joyous
recollection of some personal triumph.
"Come," he cried, reaching out gayly to
the girl. But she drew back, for she
could not swim.
"Nor" he said carelessly, and plunged
off, leaving her near the other mau. This
other was also fair of complexion, but
his close-shaven hair had tho look of
brown velvet, and his large violet eyes
were fringed with lashes almost black.
He had stooiied to put some water on his
head, and looking up he saw that the
youug latly stood alone, her gaze resting
quietly upon him.
"Shall I take you out a little farther?"
he asked.
"You look too sober. You might
want to drown me."
He took no notice of the petulance. J
"You think I shouldn't look sober,
then l" I
"I'm sure I think nothing whatever,
Mr. Baxter. You have relieved me of
the necessity."
He took a step toward her. His face
paled. There, in the edge of the ocean,
was an absurd place to show feeling. But
be seemed to forget their surroundings
and to see only her dark, uncommon
beauty and flashing eyes.
"Anita," he said, "I have done noth
ing to merit ridicule. I have been
iincere."
"Oh, yes; but too much sincerity bores
one at times."
He started; his lips moved, then he
teemed to remember some resolution aud
no souud issued from his tightly set
jaws.
But Anita continued to speak in the
tame studiously insolent tone. "Why
re we standing here? At least you
might take me over to the line. I cer
tainly shall have lessons when we go back
to town. It is altsurd for one to feel so
dependent. And these good swimmers
are always so selfish. "
He put out his hand.
"Come this way," he said.
They made as pretty a picture as any of
the couples who had gone down or were
going down together.
Some lookers-on upon the beach sin
gled them out and discussed them.
"The young lady in white and scarlet,
with Spanish face; Miss Hanking,
Anita Hastings. Hush! The mother is
there in the chair. Quite rich. The
young man. Ned Baxter; sort of four
teenth cousin ; used to be engaged to her,
but it is off now. She is to marry some
one else."
Meanwhile the couple had' gone out
waist deep. Miss Hastings had grown
more gracious.
"Go and swim, Ned," she commanded,
with a laugh. "We won't quarrel any
more."
"Quarrel?" he related. "You think
I would quarrel with you? If, as you
have told me, it has been a mistake,
our caring for each other, and you really
love Griffiths, do you think I wouldn't
be a man enough to desire your welfare
first of ail? Do you think I would let
any memory of one year ngo of last
summer however precious, stand be
tween ytm and your happiness!"
"We never live over agnin our 'last
summer,'" she replied with somo con
straint. "You are right," he answered. "We
never live them over. There is only one
thing I want to say to you, Anita. You
won't lie angry? it is this: Bo sure you
know your own mind."
"You think I do not now?"
"I cannot toll. I hope you do. Not
all men are wont to take disappointment
philosophically. Perhaps Griffiths would
not."
Miss Hastings' chocks turned a shade
Calcr. Her dusky complexion had a
luish tinge.
"Are you getting a chill?" he asked.
"Not at all. But I don't see Walter
anywhere. It is strange ho should stay
out so long."
Baxter put up his hand to shade his
eye. Tho sun was dazzling.
"I don't see hira cither," lie said, and
continued to gaze.
"He is a perfect swimmer," Anita went
on, uneasily. "And surely he would be
careful."
Baxter started slightly.
"Cnn you stay here alone" lift asked,
or go in shore by the line? I'll look for
him."
"" "I'll go ashore." she had begun to say,
but he had plunged on through a great
wave and no longer heard her.
She turned and slowly made her way
back, clingingever to the sagging rope.
But she had not gone far when something
checked her progress and caused her to
face quickly seaward.
A wild outcry thatforan instant made
her heart stand still! A bitter cry and
sudden hoarse shouts. Then the beach
blackened with men and women by thou
sands, other than the bathers.
"Mau drowning!" That was the awful
cry.
Anita Hastings, standing statue-like,
with eyes strained to know the worst,
could not even feel the water that lapped
her ankles. She was incapable of feel
ing anything; frozen from head to foot.
For now she knew half intuitively, half
by circumstances that Walter Griffiths
was out beyond tho reach of the boldest
and going down to his death.
She could not stir. She was numb,
frozen.
The shouts and outcries constantly in
creased until tho hubbub was maddening.
And still sho stood there, with only
power for one agonized thought.
"If I could only swim!"
Walter Griffiths, her lately avowed
lover, the man for whom she had broken
her engagement with Ned Baxter! Wal
ter out there, buttling, struggling, de
sparing. She fancied sho saw his arms flung up
for the last, last time; then hush! Why
should they cheer? What was that? Who
was that out there? Could she sec a
gleam of blue and orange above the
breakers? Why should they cheer? Was
it because another risked his life to save
her lover's? Was it because Ned Baxter
had not hesitated, but had gone out to
save the man who had supplanted him? i
Hush! Another cheer! V as sue dead her
self Had her heart ceased to beatf
On cither side of her some one had
caught her arms, and they were dragging
her up tho beach.
It seemed to her that she must shriek
nloud. Yet she was dumb, and growing
-deaf and blind as well. Her mother caught
her in her anns.
And now another maddening cheer.
The life savers going out and strong
ropes rapidly uncoiling.
Anita, on her knees by her mother's
side, prayed dumbly for the two out
there.
Then she shut her ears with her fingers ;
the men were drawing in tho ropes; the
rhythmic, awful chant of voices measured
the length of pull and told when to cease
and let out with the ebb.
They were pulling in what? whom?
Would the savers bring one rescued man,
one drowned, two drowned, or none at
all not even a cold form with the soul
battered out f
She held herfingers in her cars. The
chant of tho toiling men would have
crazed her.
And amid louder shrieks and hoarser
clamor tho savers staggered ashore at
liisr; and laid two forms upon the rand.
Life was in both as yet. But Walter
(iriltiths needed much rolling and pound
ing to bring him around. Baxter, on
the other hand, speedily revived and
tried to stand on his feet.
"I'm all right he murmured, but his
lips were quite blue.
Anita Hastings turned tohim
Giilfiths
had Ix-cn carried to'his hotel.
"You saved him!" she cried hysteri
cally. The crowd took up her words with a
mighty cheer.
"Give mo your hand'." cried ouc man
and then another. Tho women sobbed
aloud.
Anita sank dizzily into her mother's
embrace, and heard rather than saw Ned
Baxter borne home Un men's shoulders
a hero!
Of the three, perhaps. Miss Hustings
felt the shock the longest. For several
days she remained almost entirely in her
room. Griffiths and Baxter went about
as if nothing hail happened. Griffiths,
who was the richer of the two, showed
the other some extra little attentions,
perhaps, but neither alluded iu any way
to the late almost tragic occurrence.
Anita Hastings, however, could not
keep from talking about it. Griffiths
must have been ill-natured on some other
score when one night he responded im
jatiently to a remark of hers concerning
Neil Baxter
ofhimf' .
You make a perfect god
Auita gazed straight in his face for a
moment. She was silent, but her eyes
gleamed ominously.
" If he had been lost," she said, with
great deliberation, " I should never have
forgiven myself."
" Possibly," retorted Griffiths, "I am
to take thut as an indication of a change
in your feelings toward me. Perhaps 1
am to understand you would like to end
the engagement."
They had been. sitting iu the parlor of
her mother's cotluge. She nro-e, at his
words, a id ere leaving the room, re
plied : "You may take it so if you choose.
I adore bravery and 1 loathe ingrati
tudef "
In this way she freed herself,
The next evening Baxter came to her.
They talked in the porch.
"Are you quite sure," ho asked; "nre
you quite sure you have not made a mis
take this time?"
She drew more closely about her
shoulders a little scarlet shawl sho
wore.
"I suppose you think I don't know my
own mind, or rather that. I haven't any
mind to know."
"It looks very much like it," ho nn
swered, coolly.
She reflected for a moment.
"I have always known my own mind,"
sho resumed, "except on one occasion."
Baxter was silent a little space. Then
he moved nearer to her.
"Will you tell me what the occasion
was, nnd when?" he queried, softly.
She looked at him with tears welling
up in her dusky eyes.
"You know!" Sho answered trcmti
ously, and laid her head upon his shoul
der, where it had always seemed to him
to belong! Nem Turk Mercury.
Practice With Kcpcating Rifles.
The company I saw had but little prac
tice, and were getting reprimands from
half a dozen officers standing beside tho
drill sergeant for the slowness of theii
movements but to a non-military eye
nothing could be more machine-like,
says a Metz letter to the London 1'nll
Mall (JiKttte. The repeating rifle dilTcrs
from the ordinary rifle in the fact that tho
stock, instead of stopping short where it
it is grasped by the left hand, is prolonged
to within an inch of the end of the bar
rel. This constitutes the reservoir of
cartridges. The tiring consists of three
movements tho "ready," during which
each man gives a sharp turn to the right
to a little lever above the lock of his gun,
and the familiar "present" and "lire."
The company stood four deep, the two
front ranks firing while tho two rear
ranks recharged their magazines. So
rapid were the movements that the mag
azine, holding ten or twelve cartridges,
I forgot which, was emptied, with a per
ceptible allowance each time for rapid
aim, in ten seconds. The thought of
what would happen to any body of men
exposed to half minute of tiring like this
made the spectacle most appalling. A
stolid looking German by my side, who,
as I afterward learned, hud been of the
landwehr in the wnr.cxprcsscd his feel
ing iu one word "Schauderhaf t !" (terri
ble) he exclaimed under his breath.
Queer Names of Post Offices.
I have been looking over the list of 35,
143 post offices in the United States and
find some very funny names. If we wish
to create a man out of the names, we
will find Blood in Kentucky and Meat
nnd Bone in North Carolina. If we pre
fer getting portions of tho body com-
idete, we have an Eye in North Carolina,
louth in Oregon, Foot in Tennessee,
Leg, Shinbono and Head in Alabama,
Breast' in Missouri, Hand in Dakota,
ringer in .Mississippi and Knee in
California. To clothe the man, wo will
get a Hat in Georgia, Pants in North
Carolina, Coat in Ohio, and Moccasin in
Illinois. If the man don't want to wear
moccasins he will have to go barefooted,
as there is no boot or shoe on the list,
although there is a Shoemaker in Cali
fornia and a Shoeheel in North Carolina.
If we had created a women instead of a
man she would have been compelled to
go almost naked, for the only article of
female apparel to be found on the list is
a lion net in south Carolina, iorlood,
the man can have an Oyster, Bread,
Coffee, Sugar, Babbitt, Hash, and, if he is
not a teetotaler, can take a Drop in Texas.
In fact, he will find anything ho needs
on the list, and when h:s wants are
ended there is a Coffin waiting for him in
Knox couuty, Tennessee. O'lube-Demo-crat.
Scenery on a Southern River.
Exquisite bits of scenery will repay a
sail upon the rivers. One view upon the
Sampit seemed especially charming on a
certain evening. The stream turns and
curves into the land; there is formed an
open glade fringed at tho water's edge
by sedge, marsh and waving grasses. Buck
a little space from the river towers a lofty
brick column, covered from base to top
by trumpet vines, which hang their
crimson flowers out full fifty feet in the
air. In the background two giant oaks
form an arch, within whose clear space
are visible the distant waters of Winyah
Bay, and there, as in a framed picture, a
ship appcurcd with all its snowy sails full
set. Around aud over all was shed the
tender glow of the evening radiance, for
the sun ws sunk low in the west; the
breast of the river mirrored the shades of
the sky purple, opal and told, crimson.
I "range and blue, with feathery flakes of
Ky just tinged with pink, seeming like
ashes blown from countless thousands of
roses, incinerated by Oriental situs.
American Mmjitziue.
, Car Horses.
The usefulness of a car horse extends
over a jH-riod of about five years. Horses
are adaptable to this line of work at the
age of four, and at nine or ten, when in
I their prime, they are cast oil as worthless.
Such animals are expensive, some costing
as mucti as f sou ami f ami. lien t lie day
of their usefulness is past they are sold to
farmers, hucksters anil others at prices
ranging from (5 to M. ft is said that a
horse which has done five or six years'
service before a car is better adapted to
ploughing than those beasts which have
been trained to that line of work. Cer-
I tainly, unless too
much broken down,
workers. JJn'l hn
they make good
Jingle.
The Largest Wheat V eld.
One of the largest wheat fields in the
world is that of ex-Congressman C. F.
lteed, of Stanislaus couuty, California.
' It consists of 10,(100 acies in one unbroken
alien ji niuii me uauiv hi me cull .jouipiin
river, and much of the laud is protected
by levees, as the stnuui is higher time
the shore. The g;ain this year is as high
us the back of a horse, and it UcMiin.di d
the yield will be forty bushel tolheacie.
This" will give 40l,6id bushels, which
will load ten large vessels.
A Baseball Tragedy.
He left his home bv the lili day,
With a Imse ll Hint- lie h id
I to play.
And In-dom ed his suit i f line
lie knew lie would will. Il felt o ;;.'.
All thoughts of ill lin k I.k would tin
.til-
lb- emu" Uu'k home at th-d.-ali-t uii.t.
Ho was all "i.unii" up, m a ti ivi;ij pi-n'at.
His hrokc'.i liiir- Wit v u te il l ui s: iit.
And lie piti li -1 Ills vo.ee w Hi ail hi.i le.i : lit
l '.i ! v. b i ' : li t-ilt a! I-. o . ! o'l
.-'-11. " i.
THE ALLIGATOR MARKET. '
I
BTRANOE SIGHTS IN A SOUTHERN
SAURIAN MERCHANT 8 STORE.
How the Illilcona Hcptllca Are
Caught and Cared For A 150-Vcr-ll
Alligator.
"How do you sell the best, madame?"
asked the inquisitive reporter of a quiet
looking woman who was the one peace
ful object in the screaming, noisy world
about her.
"Well, I hardly know how to answer
that question," sho responded, her voice
pitched high enough to jxmctratc the
chirping Squeaking, cawing and crowing
of the congregation of feathered folk
fluttering about. "You sec, they come
at most any price, and when I tell you
they come all the way from fifty cents to
$200 apiece, you can understand how
prices vary."
As is well known, sugar, oranccs and
alligators form three staples in Louisiana
exports and internal revenue, and it was
to discover the exact condition of the
crocodile market aud whether tho
season's catch had been good that a visit
was paid by a reporter to the big tanks on
Chart res st reet.
Alligators are brought into town in
every stage, from an embryo state in the
egg to great, angry monsters a dozen feet
long, tipping the scales hundreds of
pounds. Men hunt their hideous game
after dark, stalking the swamps, drag
ging lagoons ana wading through low,
oozy marshes, where vast numbers of al
ligators abide. Several methods of capt
uring them nre resorted to. Those
caught with hooks nre only fit for im
mediate killing.as they sicken nnd die in
short order. The big ones are lassoed
and smaller fry snared in a heavy seine
made for this purpose. The hunter
realizes he is after dangerous game with
lots of vicious habits, and so, besides
blinding their stupid eyes by a lamp worn
in his cap, he is prepared to send a sooth
ing bullet whenever necessary.
After bringing in his find of eggs, the
crocodile farmer heaps them in boxes nnd
simply depends on time to do its perfect
work. In the course of weeks the in
fant gnaws and claws nt the hard shell
until ho finally squirms his way into tho
world.
Passing through tho big bird store the
alligator region is reached. It is a pretty,
garden-like place, with tcnder,lacy vines
trained in delicate festoons up the lattice
against the dark brick wall. Great red
pots lio!d rich foliage plants that lend a
tropical air to the spot, fitting the in
habitants of the long cemented tanks.
These troughs are built six in n row, the
occupants being carefully graded accord
ing to size. Twice a week the water
must be changed for the salubrity of the
atmosphere. Twice a week refreshments
are handed round, beef lights as a rule,
a delicacy for which alligators havea very
pronounced penchant. The half-grown
variety eat from five to six at a meal, dis
tending their uncomely, shapeless
stomachs until the receptacles refuse to
hold nnother particle. They feed only
nt intervals, but have voracious appetites
then.
They are very ugly creatures, with
wretched dispositions.as the reporter had
a fair opportunity of discovering. Hang
ing over the side of the tank in playful,
almost intimate relations with the beast,
his sheltering umbrella gave a tip too far
and touched the extreme point of the
thing's snout. It was enough; with a
terntying bellow and blowing off of
team tho infuriated being rose two
inches out of water nnd sent his ob
server exactly three feet in the air. It
wus a severe shock and has generated re
spect, if not admiration, for tho alliga
tor's sensitiveness. Lying in tho sun
shine.every grizzly feature is accentuated.
1 heir great shovel heads float on tho wa
ter with stupid, evil eves that blink liko
yellow cxeres.-euccs ou a mud-colored
una c. A tiny, minute slit in the snout
admits enough air to enable them to
make a sound frightful enough to' senre
the stoutest-hearted.
The keeiRT of tho tanks said hundreds
were sold yeaily to traveling showmen,
numbers being sent to Europe as curiosi
ties, besides many that were bought by
Northern visitors. Saloon owners buy
them constantly to keep on their coun
ters as nn attraction to possess, Chicago
and St. Louis being noticeable among
the number. An artist hero in town set
them up with all sorts of comical de
vices. He stuffs them with cotton,
and fashions preachers, lawyers, gam
blers, organ-grinders, cotton handlers
and duellists out of the ridiculous little
figures.
The saurian merchant has a perfect treas
ure that he keeps in close quarters and
guards as the fairest jewel of his entire
collection of beauties. It is a huge, evil
smelling, sluggish reptile, measuring
twelve feet, whose age is calculated at
one hundred nnd fifty years. Ho lies
sprawled out on the floor of his trough,
iu a state of torpid stupidity. The crea
ture looks bored to death and with
enough mulignitv in his depraved yellow
eyes to devour every visitor who studies
his handsome pnqiortious. .Yew Orleum
Timei-JJ iiioerut.
Hit Lions on the Nose.
It has been said that the hurts suffered
in pugilism are particularly severe, and
that few pains equal the pain resulting
from a blow of the list squarely aud
forcibly delivered upon the nose. An
incident which goes to support this alle
gation, is reported from Paris. A lion
turner, iu one of the Boulevard shows,
was set upon by a powerful and irritaldo
old lion, whose cage he had entered, ac
cording to hubit, in the course of an en
tertainment. The beast made his attack
without warning or particular cause, nnd
iu an instant the man was upon his back,
between the lions paws. The spectators
screamed, thinking it was the end of thu
lion tamer, but, like a flash, he w as upon
his feet, and striking out with his right,
in accurate pugilistic style, lauded his
fist upon the lion's noe, with a spat that
was heard all over the place. The liou
w heczed and sneezed and backed aw ay,
shaking his head and shutting his eyes
as if dazed, while the man stepjied
quickly, but with dignity, out of the
cage. " The blow was a good one, and if
it had fallen upon a man would, undoubt
edly huve "knocked him out." Evi
dently, it made the liou tingle from the
spot where it was delivered to the tip of
bis drooping and spiritless tail.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
How to Clean Lace.
Fill a bottle with cold water; draw a
stocking tightly over it, securing both
ends firmly. Place the lace smoothly
over the stocking nnd tack closely. Put
tho bottle in a kettle of cold water con
taining a few shavings of soap, and place
over the fire to boil. Kinsc in several
waters and then drain and dry. When
dry remove and place smoothly in a large
book and press w ith weights. Very nice
lace can be made to look new by this pro
cess. Pcaa in the Pod.
The shelling of peas generally falls to
the young girl members of the household.
It is rather tiresome everyone knows,
especially if the family is a large one.
It may make this little domestic trial
leai irksome to combine with it some
times a little harmless romance which
is traditional among the Germans, who,
when shelling pens, watch for the pod
that holds nine perfect peas, but it is a
number seldom found. They run six,
seven and eight, but nine is the exception,
so the girl who is so lucky as to find nino
peas in one pod lays it under the doorstep
or gate. Tho first man who passes over
it will be her husband before peas come
again. This is one of the many little
conctl.s that give a little spice to every
day life. The Germans hold that peas
have an alleged virtue in cases of love,
very much the s ime as the English look
upon the mistletoe. In one part of Bo
hemia the young maidens make a garland
of five, seven or nine kinds of pea blos
soms upon which they sleep. The num
ber alwuys is odd for luck. The dreams
are supposed to eome true. Any one can
verify the truth of this little assertion.
I'scful Hint.
Use a warm knife in cutting bread and
the like.
Iron rust is removed by salt mixed with
lemon juice.
Egg shells crushed nnd shaken in glass
bottles half filled with water will clean
them easily.
The luster of morocco may be restored
by varnishing it with the white of an
egg. Apply with a sponge.
Sonp is often wasted on paint. A lit
tle ammonia in tho cleaning water, or
whiting on a damp cloth will clean wood
much easier, and leave no yellow stain to
tell of its abuse.
Salerntus is excellent for removing
grease from woodwork which has not
been painted. Spread thickly over tho
grease spots, moisten, and after it hus
remnined a half hour wash off with tepid
soap suds.
itccipes.
Bi.ACKnEHRV Pi'Diiiso. A pint of
flour, a pint of warm water, a pinch of
suit; mix flour, water and salt thorough
ly ; add one (juurt of blackberries the last
thing. Put in pudding bag well floured
and boil one hour.
IIice Pudding. A teacupful of rice,
the yolks of four eggs, tho whites of
three beaten separately, two ounces
pounded sugar, two ounces raisins, one
quarter pound suet, chopped very fine;
flavoring of ratafia or vanilla; put these
ingredients into a mold and boil li
hours. Serve with sweet sauce.
Vegetable Sorr. Four onious, three
turnips, four carrots, one small head of
cabbage, one pint of butter beans and a
bunch of sweet herbs. Boil unfiT done,
add a quart of soup stock; take two
tablespoonfuls butter nnd one of flour,
beat to a cream; pepper and salt to taste;
add a spoonful cf sugar. Serve with
fried bread chips.
Good Apple Savce. After washing
tho pieces of apple in a colander, let
them stew ,vith only water enough to
cover thei. Continue stewing until
they can bo easily mashed through.
Sweeten the sauce while the apple are
warm; Season with rose-water, lemon
juice, and nutmeg. Some very thin slips
of fresh lemon peel, stewed with the ap
ples, add greatly to the delicate savor.
Too sweet apples do not cook well.
Not Honored at Homo.
As water seeks its level, so does the
village instinctively tend to maintain a
certain moral and intellectual uniformity.
The man of exceptional ability is sooner
or later expelled by the body politic. He
is mistrusted, disliked and finally ostra
cized. Nor is he himself slow to take the
hint to depart. He perceives that then
is nothing for him to do at home, lb
forges restlessly about for awhile, trying
this and that and iffectingonlv mischief:
everybody surmises an evil destiny for
him; he puts on his hat and depot-, iu
despair and linger; and presently tin
world recognizes and celebrates his
genius. But his native village never
swells the chorus of prai-o. They have
known Jiiin from a baby; he cannot hum
bug thton! Did he not steal apples from
Farmer Hoyt's orchard? Was he not the
slowest hand at a spelling match in
sc hool? Did he not jilt Mary .lane after
everybody had ugreed he would marry
her? Goto, then! Can such a fellow as
that invent a navigable air ship or write
a classic book, or create a suc cessful rail
road? He is only Jack Smith, after all is
said and done, aud among tlio-e who
know him, will always have a Jack Smith
rcpututiou. .1 meriraii Mii'jmine.
Hogs Can Swim.
There is an old tradition that hogs
can't swim, and ou this is founded tin
twice-told tale of thu devil entering in
to hogs iu the country of the Gadareiies,
causing them to run violently down u
steep bunk into the sea, where they weie
choked. The idea is that the sharp
cloven hoof of the hog comes up against
his throat in his effort to paddle aud
cuts it. All this is bosh. Hogs, if
given half a chiMce, become expert
swimmers. 1 knew of an old sow eight
or ten years old that has been kept for
breeding purpo-es up among tne .Miugii
tuck hills of Connecticut that can rival
Bovton as an expert in the water. Her
pen is on the bank of Mud river and runs
dow n to the water, ner oniy way oi
firetting out of it is by water. Once a
day din ing thu summer she takes a swiu
to a little island located iu the centre of
tho river, and there she wallows till it is
time to take her nightly rations, when at
the call of her ow uer she sw ims bac k to
her pen,- ( incinni(i Tim? .Sr.ir,
BEFORE THE RAIN.
The blaekeaps pipe among ths reeds,
And there '11 be rata to follow;
There is a murmur as of wind
In every coign and hollow;
The wrens do chatter of their fears
While swinging on the barley-ears.
Come, hurry, while there yet is time,
Pull up thy scarlet bonnet
Now, sweetheart, as my lor is thine.
There is a drop upon it
So trip it ere the storm-hag weirrl
Doth pluck the barley by the beard.
Lo! not a whit too soon we're housed;
The storm with yells above us;
The branches rapping on the panes
Keem not in truth to love us.
And look where through the clover bush
The nimble footed rain doth rush I
.4mria Ilirt, in Ifarper't.
JICVOR OF TIIE DAT. -
A hero of tho pen The prize pig.
Thcro nre some men so mean that to
call them a hog is a libel on pork. l'hil
mlclphii 1'nll.
"I wis rapped in slumber," said the
tramp as tho policeman hit him with a
club. Yihiiujtm Critie.
Omaha restnurants fill an 'order for
mock turtle sounwith abowl of Missouri
Hiver water unliltcrcd. Botton Globe.
Notwithstanding the astonishing fact
that the sovereigns of tho earth continue
to reign, the weather is unusually dry.
Mtjile U'if.
A Burlington milkman has discovered
somo gold-bearing quarts. They eon
tain about n piut and a half each. Bur
lington Free l'reim.
A Burlington policeman declares that
ho has to handle about as many pieces of
male matter as they do at the postotfice.
liiirlintjton Free Pre-t.
Prepare to heave the deep-drawn sigh,
And wrestle with distressing grief,
And actuate pains of nightmare brief,
And all because of that muiee pie.
Chiratn Xatinnal.
A French farmer writes to his landlord :
"I have a great deal of stock on hand.
If you want an ox, an ass or a pig, please
remember your obedient servaut." Par it
Ifouloi.
A photographer has succeeded in tak
ing an instantaneous picture of the flight
of a curved ball thrown by a $10,000
pitcher. It is said to resemble a pro
cession of inebriated corkscrews. JVorris
toirn Jlcml'l.
A waste of good material. Ha wns
from Missouri and he stood looking at
the high telegraph poles in admiration.
"Fine poles," snid a policeman who was
passing. "Yes, but what a wasto of
good material," said the visitor. "I'll
bet you we can wait here all day without
seeing a single lynching." Julje.
Mr. Do Sickly has cnlled upon Bobby'i
sister, and is waiting for that young lady
to make her appearance. Bobby enters
in the meantime. Do Sickly (with v
grin) "How do do, Bobby? Don't you
know me? Come and tell mo whnt's my
name." Bobby "Well, sir, if it ain't
just as Sis said! you haven't sense enough
to know what your name is. If you'll
wait a minute. Til tint! out for you. I
heard Pi4y he had you Lojk4rVrr? list, (,!'"
guess lie musrrk u!W jour namo. lexm
Among tho Little Ones.
Little girl at breakfast table: "Mum
ma, this is very old butter. I have found
a gray hair in it."
"Mamma, what is colorblind!" asked
little Nell. "Inability to tell one color
from another, my dear." "Then I guess
the man that made mv geography iswlor
l.liiwl l.ii-niiBn hnla trif drunlunil il nn' n
painted yellow."
"James, do you love your sister?"
"Yes, sir." "Well, show mo how you
lovelier." Tho boy stood still, not know
ing what to do. "James, how do I ex
press my love for your inothcri" "Oh,
you give her some uauK notes, put i ain i
got any.
Alice, three years old, has seen her
brother's velocipede oiled because it
squeaked. A few days ago she was sur
prised at tho noiso her teeth macio ami
said to her auntie: "I dess my teef will
have to be dreased, 'cause they squeak 1"
B il!noo(.
I have a niece, a bight, logical little
maiden, aged four, brown-eyed, golden
haired, with a complexion like a flower,
nd a most lovable mouth, full of varying
.... .. V .,.-1 1.
expressions. -;i. arne, i bskcu uer,
"where dnl you get such a tug inoutni
l'he flexible curves dresv closo as she
thought a moment. "Well," sho au-
swered. "mv mourn is piece oi me, ami
I'm big, so my mouth is big." Safer
..'.
Spirits of the Mines.
It is u very old fancy says the Philadel
phia i'ull that mines uro inhabited by
spirits, who are jealous of their treasures
and of a very resentful character. In
early days these spirits assumed the forms
of serpents, especially in Egyptian le
gends, and to such un etcut that they
were regarded as the gods of metals, tho
most famous being Hoa, the serpent god
of Chaldea," muster of all wisdom and
guardian of the treasures of tho mines.
The belief that evil spirits guard tho
treasures of the emerald mines is as com
mon among thu Peruvians as it wus
among the Scythians iu tho time of
Pliny. In Sardinia the ancient silver
mines are rarely entered from dread of a
venomous spider called the tnlil'injn, so
named from uvoiding the sun. Their bite
w as considered fatal. Tho traditions aro
unworthy of belief, but no doubt such a
spider was found ill tho silver mines, for
Agricola mentions the fact and gave them
tho name of luei'ein.
Death on a Sweet Tooth.
A medical plant is found in India
which destroys tho power of tasting
sugar. This plant, the gymnemn sylves
tre, grows in the Deccun and iu tho Assam
aud on the Coromotidcl coast. By chew
ing two or three leaves of it a person may
extinguish his susceptibility to sweet
savors. Morbid cravings for sweetmeats
that injure indigestion may thus be cor
rected. As the gymnema is said, also to
diminish tho power of enjoying a cigar,
greut benefit may probably be derived
from it by iintemperuto smokers. Candy
unit cigarettes being the bane of the
small boy, pruden-l parents may be ex-
I pecteil to siock iiieinsens proiiipny mn,
I g ninema svfvesj
vesjre.
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