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There it a standing prize, to be
awarded by the Academy of Sciences,
Paris, to whoever shall find an efficacious
remedy for Asiatic cholera, or shall dis
cover the causo of this terrible scourge.
An cXpcricncod harbor says' that it is
decidedly dangerous for men who are
being shaved to read newspapers; that
barbel aro opposed to the practice, bo
causo the razor is held very lightly, and
the newspaper is apt to strike the handle
and cause a cut.
Mrs. Beccher seems unable, since lici
husband's death, to remain long away
from Bcooklyn. , Her whito and pathot
ii alfy composed face is seen among the
Plymouth parishioners every few weeks,
though nominally sho is spending th
season at Stamford.
inviuioij iiAimti Uv, ui 1.110 iu-
tcrior department, recently rendered
docisiji, 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
'T.V,,crlnncps 'or tbe press. He tells how
bimsclf and a fellow thief followed Anna
. Dickinson at one tima and theatrical
company at another, bought tickets and
sent them as complimcnturica to leading
citizens, and then broke into their houses
whilo tbe familios were enjoying the
complimentary.
The medicine chest is as much a ncccs
Sijy on trains as on ships. So think the
managers of the Maine Central Railroad,
who have now provided each one of their
conductors with "emergency" case, if
wo may so call them, containing, besides
- medicines, linen and rubber bandages,
surgical instruments and whatover else
may bo needed by the conductor or the
chance doctor in cases of accident.
Tbo ouly cities in the United States
having public baths aro Boston,' with
17; Now York, 15; Philadelphia, 6;
Brooklyn, 3; Cleveland and Hartford,
each 1; and Buffalo, tho nutnber not
given. In New York, 3,431,080 persons
bathed from June to October in 1883;
.during the same time in Boston, 959,005,
. and in Brooklyn, 225,885. In eighteen
cities where there are no public baths
only about 23 per cent, of the residences
are supplied with bath tubs.
Olt is stated that thirty-three mission
y societies now have workers in Africa.
Tho dark continent is encompassed on
every sido, and, like tho divisions of an
investing' army, those missionaries are
moving toward tho centre, and closing
in upon tho last strongholds of heathen
ism and .tho slave trade. Hundreds of
natives iji -the seminaries are preparing
to lalnir as preachers or teachers, and
thousand's of children are receiving
Christian instruction. It is said that
tho (Scriptures have been translated, in
whole or iu part, into sixty-six of tho
dialects of Africa, whilo the whole Bible
has beon'reiiflered into eleven languages,
tqiokcn by multitudes of nuTives.
A new kind of benefit club has just
been started at Yeddo by a number of en
terprising young Japanese, who are de
termined, if possible, to see the western
J and from which comes he fashions and
notions that are so completely revolution
izing Jiipun. The club is called tho
Yoko-llaiska, and the members are all
expected to pay a monthly subscription
of about a guinea to a special fund,
under the management of the club com
mittee. And every year this fund is used
up in the following way: The names of
three members of the club are drawn by
lot, and tho first of these is accorded the
privilege of going to pass ten years in
Europe at the expense of the fuud, for tho
second a trip of Ave years is arranged and
paid for, while the third prize consists of
the necessary traveling expenses for one
year's visit to Kurope. According to re
cent accounts, the members of the Yoko
Haiska will not remain long without im
itators in the chief cities of Japan.
. Miss Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the well
kuown poet, says in the New Haven
I'ltliaJium: "It is true that we aro to
leave our Meriden homo as soon as I run
strong enough to travel to some seaside,
resort. Our new location for the fall has
not yet been decided upon. We have no
idea of going West, aud I do not even,
contempluto a visit there this summer.
It is true that in my early residence in tho
East I thought the people cold and uu.
sympathetic. I missed tho warm and
demonstrative affection which in tho
land of my birth my Western friends had
shown for me; but I never had the
egotism to say or think that my literary
attainments were not appreciated here.
I have, on the coutrary, felt for several
years that the public at largo overesti
mated me intellectually a fact I still
believe to be painfully true. During the
lust month of severe illness and extreme
trial, the warm sympathy, tender solici
tude aud overwhelming kindness which
the people of Mcrldeu have exhibited to
me and mine make me thoroughly
ashamed thut I ever thought them cold
or iudilierent. It U a misfortune that
unwise words tan never be unsaid we
; an only regret having uttered theto."
THE DEAD SUMMER.
What lacks the summer?
Not rose blowing,
Nor tall whito lillea with fragrance rife,
Nor grown things gay with the bliss of grow
ing, Nor glad things drunk with the wine of life,
Nor flushing of clouds in blue skies shining,
Nor soft wind murmur to rise ami fall,
New birds for singing, nor vines for twining
Three little bmls I miss, no more,
That blossomed last year at my garden
door
And that is alL
What laoks 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 nnawept upon silver beaches,
Nor rustle of leaves on treetops tall,
Nor dabble of shade In the woodland reaches
Life pulses gladly on vale and hill,
But three little hearts that I lore are
still
And that is all.
What lacks the summer!
Oh, light and savor,
And message of healing thsOrorld above!
Gone is the old-time strength and flavor,' '
(lone is its old time pesos and love!
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 eyes that made summer and life for
me '
And that is all.
Botton Traveller.
IN THE SURF.
BY LILY CURRY TTKER.
The first two weeks of September are
certainly the finest of all the summer for
ocean bathing. The water has at length
become bearably warm, and tho waves,
though running high, run regularly and
with a certain evenness that a fair swimmer-
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 be. Child, youth, adult, all are
here. The strong swimmer calmly cleav
ing his way out through the breakers;
the timid novice shrinking at each new
burst of salty suds, and the would-be
brave one prancing defiantly knee-deep
in the mighty brine, yet clinging des
perately at tho same titno to the life
line. It was not long since, at one of these
resorts, a heavenly morning, the sky a
dazzle of sun and pale azure; the sea
booming grandly on the whito sand, and
all the merry thousands hastening down
to meet it.
Two men and a woman left the 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 sccu
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 me "-The third
of the party followed with a'gravity of
countenance that was quite absurd in
conjunction with his costume. Having
entered the 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.
"No?" he said carelessly, and plunged
off, leaving her near the other man. This
other was also fair of complexion, but
his close-shaven hair had the look of
brown velvet, and his large violet eyes
were fringed with lashes almost black.
He had stooped to put some water on his
head, and looking up he saw that the
youug lady 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. .
- "You think I shouldn't look sober,
theni"
"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 tho ocean,
was an absurd place to show feeling. But
be seemed to forget their surroundings
lad to see only her dark, uncommon
beauty and flashing eyes.
"Anita," he said, "I have done noth
ing to merit ridicule. I have been
sincere."
"Oh, yes; but too much sincerity bores
one at times."
He started; his lips moved, then he
teemed to remember some resolution and
no sound issued from is tightly set
jaws.
But Anita continued to speak in the
same studiously insolent tone. "Why
are 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 absurd 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 bad gone down- or w ere
going down together.
Home lookers-on upon tho beach sin
gled them out and discussed them.
"The young lady iu white aud scarlet,
with Spanish face? Miss Haskings,
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 oil 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?" ho related. "You think
I would quarrel with you? If, as you
hive told me, it has been a mistake,
our caring for each other, and you really
love Griffiths, do you think I wouldn't
be man enough to desire your welfare
first of all? Do you think I would let
any memory of one year ngo of last
summer however precious, stand be
tween you and your happiness 1"
"We never live over again our 'last
sumnier,' " 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 le angry ? it is this: Be sure you
know your own mind."
"You think I do not now?"
"I cannot tell. I hope you do. Not
all men are wont to tako disappointment
philosophically. Perhaps Urilliths would
not."
Miss Hastings' cheeks turned 8 shade
aler. Her dusky complexion had a
iluish tinge.
"Are you getting a chill?" he asked.
"Not at all. ButI don't see Walter
anywhere. It is strange he should stay
out so long."
Baxter put up his hand to shade his
eyes. The sun was dazzling.
"I don't see him either," he said, and
continued to gaze.
"Ho is a perfect swimmer," Anita went
on, uneasily. "And surely he would bo
careful."
Baxter started slightly.
"Can you stay here alone" he asked,
or go in shore by tho 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, clinging ever to the sagging rope.
But she had not gone far wheu something
checked her progress and caused her to
face quickly seaward.
A wild outcry that for an instant made
her heart stand still 1 A bitter cry and
sudden hoarse shouts. Then the beach
blackened with men and women by thou
sands, other than the bathers.
"Man 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 the reach of the boldest
and going down to his death.
She could not stir. Sho was numb,
frozen.
The shouts and outcries constantly in
creased until the hubbub was maddening.
And still she stood there, with only
power for one agonized thought.
"If I could only swiinl"
Walter Griffiths, her lately avowed
lover, the man for whom she had broken
her engagement with Ned Baxter I Wal
ter out there, bottling, struggling, de
sparing. She fancied she 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 see 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?
Hush! Another cheer! Was she dead her
self? Had her heart ceased to beat?
On either side of her some one had
caught her arms, and they were dragging
her up the beach.
It seemed to her that she must shriek
aloud. Yet she was dumb, and growing
-deaf and blind as well. Her mother caught
her in her arms. ' .
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 tho two out
there.
Then she shut her ears with her fingers;
the men were drawing in the 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 briug one rescued man,
one drowned, two drowned, or none at
all not even a cold form with the soul
battered out?
She held her fingers in her ears. The
chant of the toiling men would have
crazed her.
And amid louder shrieks and hoarser
clamor the savers staggered ashore at
last; and laid two forms upon the rand.
Life was in both as yet. But Walter
Griffiths 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.
i Anita Hastings turned tohim. Giilfiths
had been carried to his hotel,
i "You saved hiiu!"shc cried hysteri
cally. I The crowd took up her words with a
mighty cheer.
"Give me your band!" cried one man
aud then another. The women sobbed
aloud.
Anita sank dizzily into her mother's
embrace, and heard rather than saw Ned
Baxter bortthonie Uxm men's shoulders
a hero!
Of the three, perhaps, Miss Hastings
felt the shock the longest. For seveml
days she remained almost entirely in her
room. Griffiths and Baxter went about
as if nothing had happened. Griffiths,
who was the richer of the two, showed
the other somo extra little attentions,
jierhapa, but neither alluded in any way
to the late almost tragic occurrence.
Auita Hastings, however, could not
keep from talking about it. Griffiths
must have been ill-natured on some other
score w hen one night he responded im
patiently to a remark of hers coneernini;
Ned liavter: "You make a perfect god
of him I" .
Anita gazed straight iu 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 that 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 beea sitting in the parlor of
her mother's coltuge. She iro-c at his
words, a'id ere leaving tho room, re
plied : "You may take it so if you choose.
I adore bravery and 1 loathe ingrati
tude?" Jo. this way she freed herself.
Tho next evening Baxter came to her.
They talked in the porch.
"Are you quite sure," he asked; "are
you quite sure you have not made a mis
take this time? "
She drew more closely about her
shoulders a little scarlet shawl she
wore.
"I suppose you think I don't knowmy
own mind, or rather that. I haven't any
mind to know."
"It looks very much like it," ho an
swered, coolly.
She reflected for a moment.
"I have always known my own mind,"
she 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, and when?" he queried, softly.
She looked at him with tears welling
up in her dusky eyes.
"You know!" She answered tremn
ously, and laid her head upon his shoul
der, where it had always seemed to him
to belong ! New York Mercury.
Practice With Repeating Rifles.
The company I saw had but little prac
tice, and were getting reprimands from
half a dozen officers standing beside the
drill sergeant for the slowness of theii
movements but to a non-military eye
nothing could be more machine-like,
says a Motas letter to the London Pall
Mall GazttU. The repeating rifle differs
from the ordinary rifle in the fact that the
stock, instead of stopping short where it
it is grasped by tho left nana, is prolonged
to within an inch of the end of the bar
rel. This constitutes the reservoir of
cartridges. The firing consists of three
movements the "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 "fire." '
The company stood four deep, the two
front ranks firing while the two rear
ranks recharged their magazines. So
rauid 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 firing like this
made the spectacle most appalling. A
stolid looking German by my side, who,
as I afterward learned, had been of the
landwehr in the war,exprossed his feel
ing in one word "Sehnudcrhaf 1 1" (terri
ble) he exclaimed under his breath.
Qnetr Names of Post Offices.
I have been looking over the list of 55,
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
and Bone in North Carolina. If we pre
fer getting portions of the body com
plete, we have an Eye in North Carolina,
Mouth in Oregon, Foot in Tennessee,
Leg, Shinbone and Head in Alabama,
Breast' in Missouri, Hand in Dakota,
Finger in Mississippi and Knee in
California. To clothe the man, we will
get a Hat in Georgia, Pants in North
Carolina, Coat in Ohio, and Moccasin in
Illinois. If tho 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 Bonnet in South Curolina. For food,
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 he needs
on the list, and when h;s wants arc
ended there is a Coffin waiting for him in
Knox couuty, Teunessee. Globe-Demo-erat.
Scenery on 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 the water's edge
by sedge, marsh and waving grasses. Back
a little space from the river towel's 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 appeared with all its snowy sails full
set. Around and over all was shed the
tender glow of the evening radiance, for
the sun wis sunk low in the west; the
breast of the river mirrored the shades of
the skv purple, opal and cold, crimson.
orange and blue, with feathery flakes of
gray just tinged with pink, seeming like
ashes blown from countless thousands of
roses, incinerated by Oriental sous.
Amerian Magazine.
, Car Horses.
The usefulness of a car horse extends
over a period of aliout five years. Horses
are adaptable to this line of work at the
age of four, and at nine or ten, when in
their prime, they are cast off as worthless.
Such animals are expensive, some costing
us much as 1(200 and 300. When the day
of their usefulness is past they are sold to
farmers, hucksters and others ut prices
ranging from $5 to $30. ft is said thut a
horse which has done five or six years'
service before a car is better adapted to
ploughing than those bcusts which have
been trained to thut line of work. Cer
tainly, unless too much broken down,
they make good workers. Brooklyn
Etitjle.
The Largest Wheat V eld.
One of the lurgest wheat fields in the
world is that of ex-Congressman C. F.
Heed, of Stanislaus couuty, California.
It consists of 10,000 ucies iu one unbroken
stretch along the bank of the Sun Joaquin
river, and much of the land is protected
by levies, as the stream is higher than
the shore. The g:uiii this year is us high
as the back of a horse, and it is estimated
the yield will be forty bushel to the acre.
This will give 400,000 bushels, which
will load teu large vessels.
A Baseball Tragedy.
He left his home by the lit;1' f 'hi)'
Wiih a base mil niiit. kit- h:nl , miimiltoplay,
Ami cat. tlont'e.1 bis suit of Una u.tuv.
lie knew be hguM win. h.- Iclt .-o i;ny.
All thoughts of ill luck l.e wool. I tin utile.
He cmie lttu-1, home ut lb 1 ilea t of niUt,
Hn was uli iuii sl'' up. in a terrible pl.K-'t,
His broki-ii 1PUU--S wo v a few! ul k: lit .
Anil be pitch.' I his vo.cu w Hi nil bn u:i ;ht,
:i.!j : v b t ) a t-wt mire I tt.c: '
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THE ALLIGATOit MARKET.
STRANGE SIGHTS IN A SOTTTHERTf
SAURIAN MERCHANT'S STOKE.
How tbe HioYonaj Reptiles Are
Caught and Cared For A ISO- !
Years-Old Alligator. '. j
"How do you sell the best, madame?" ,
asked the inquisitive reporter of a quiet- I
looking woman who was the one peace- '
mi object in tne screaming, noisy world
about her.
"Well, I hardly know how to answer
that question," sho responded, her voice
pitched high enough to penctrato tho
chirping Squeaking, cawing and crowing
of the congregation of feathered folk
fluttering about. "You see, they come
at most any price, and when I tell you
they come all the way from fifty cents to
'200 npicce, you can understand how
prices vary."
As is well known, sugar, oranges and
alligators form three staples in Louisiana
exports and internal revenue, and it was
to discover the exact condition of the
crocodile market and . w hether tho
season's catch had been good that a visit
was paid by a reporter to the big tanks on
Chartres street.
Alligators are brought into town in
every stage, from an embryo state in the
egg to great, nngry monsters a dozen feet
long, tipping the scales hundreds of
pounds. Men limit their hideous game
after dark, stalking tho swamps, drag
ging lagoons and wading through low,
oozy marshes, where vast numbers of al
ligators abide. Several methods of capt
uring them are resorted to. Those
caught with hooks are only fit for im
mediate killing.as they sicken and 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 and
simply depends on time to do its perfect
work. In the course of weeks the in
fant gnaws and claws at the hard shell
until he finally squirms his way into the
world.
Passing through tho big bird store the
al ligator region is reached. It is a pretty,
girilen-like place, with tender, lacy vines
t.-ained in delicate festoons up the lattice
iiguinst tho dark brick wall. Great red
pots hold rich foliage plants that lend a
tropical air to the spot, fitting the in
habitants of tho long cemented tanks.
These troughs are built six in a 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 have a very
pronounced penchant. Tho half-grown
variety eat from five to six at a meal, dis
tending their uncomely, shapeless
stomachs until the receptacles refuso to
hold another particle. They feed only
nt intervals, but have voracious appetites
men.
They aro very ugly creatures, with
wretched dispositions.aa the reporter had
a luir 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 touebcu the extreme point of the
tilings snout. - it was enougn; with a
terrifying bellow and blowing off of
steam the infuriated being rose two
inches out of water and sent his ob
server exactly three feet in tho air. It
was a severe shock and has generated re
spect, if not admiration, for the alliga
tor's sensitiveness. Lying in the sun-
i ; : T . i
suiue.every grixziy leaiure is accentual ea.
Their great shovel iieads float on the wa
ter with stupid, evil eyes that blink like.
yellow cxcresceuces on a mud-colored
surfar-e. A tiny, minuto slit in the snout
admits enoui'li air to enable them to
make a sound frightful enough to scare
the stoutest-hearted.
The keeper of tho tanks said hundreds
were sold yeatly 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 an attraction to possess, Chicago
and St. Louis being noticeablo among
the number. An artist here 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 and fifty years. He lies
sprawled out on the floor of his trough,
in a state of torpid stupidity. The crea
ture looks bored to death and with
enough malignity in his depraved yellow
eyes to devour every visitor who studies
his handsome proportions. Aeio Orleans
Tiinti-lJeinocrat.
Hit Lions on the Nose.
It has been said that the hurts suffered
in pugilism are particularly severe, und
that few pains equal the pain resulting
from a blow of the fist squarely and
forcibly delivered upon tho nose. An
incident which goes to support this alle
gation, is reKjrted from Puris. A lion
tamer, in one of the Boulevard shows,
was set Ukiu by a powerful and irritable
old Hun, w hose cage he had entered, ac
cording to habit, iu the course of an en
tertainment. The beast made his attack
without warning or particular cause, and
in an instant the muu was iijHin his back,
between the lions paws. The spectators
screumed, thinking it was the end of the
lion tamer, but, like a flash, he was upon
his feet, aud striking out with his right,
in accurate pugilistic style, landed his
fist upon the lion's nose, with a spat that
was heard all over the place. The lion
wheezed and sneezed and bucked away,
shaking his head and shutting his eyes
as if dazed, while the muu stepped
quickjy, but with dignity, out of the
cuge. " The blow was a good one, and if
it hud fallen upon a man would, undoubt
edly have "knocked him out." Evi
dently, it uiudo the lion tingle from the
spot where it was delivered to the tip of
his drooping and spiritless tail.-jf
Epoch.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
How to Clean Ijce.
Till a bottle with cold water; draw a
stocking tightly over it, securing both
ends firmly. Place the lace smoothly
over the stocking and tack closely. Put
the bottle in a kettle of cold water con
taining a few shavings of soap, and place
over the fire to boil. Rinse in several
waters and then drain and dry. When
dry remove and place smoothly in a large
book and press with weights. Very nice
lace can be made to look new by this pro
cess. I'e as 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
lest irksome to combine with it some
times a little harmless romance which
is traditional among the Germans, w ho,
when shelling peas, wntch for the pod
that holds nine perfect pens, 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. The first man who passes over
it will be her husband before peas come
again. This is one of the many little
conc5 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 samo as the hnglish 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 always is odd for luck. The dreams
are supposed to come true. Any one can
verify the truth of this little assertion.
Useful Hints.
Use a warm knife in cutting bread and
the like.
Iron rust is removed by salt mixed with
lemon juice.
Egg shells crushed and 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.
Soap is often wasted on paint. A lit
tle ammonia in the cleaning water, or
whiting on a damp cloth will clean wood
much easier, and leave no yellow stain to
tell of its abuse.
Saleratus is excellent for removing
grease from woodwork which has not
been painted. Spread thickly over tho
grease spots, moisten, and after it ha
remained a halt hour wash oil with tepid
soap suds.
Recipes.
Bi.AcnnF.RRY Puddino. A pint of
flour, a pint of warm water, a pinch of
salt; mix flour, water and salt thorough
ly j add one quart of blackberries the last
thing. Put in pudding bag well floured
and boil one hour.
Ricb Pudding. A teacupful of rice,
the yolks of four eggs, the 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 1
hours. Serve with sweet sauce.
Vegetable Soup. Four onions, three
turnips, four carrots, one small head of
cabbage, one pint of butter beans and a
bunch of sweet herbs. Boil untif done,
add a quart of soup stock; take two
tablcspoonfuls butter and one of flour,
beat to a cream ; pepper and salt to taste ;
add a spoonful of sugar. Serve with
fried bread chips.
Good ArpLE Sauce. After washing
the pioccs of apple in a colander, let
them stew H'ith only water enough to
ccver tlu&S. Continue stewing until
they can be easily mashed through.
Sweeten the sauce while the apples 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 tho delicate savor.
loo sweet apples do not cook well.
Not Honored at Home.
As water seeks its level, so does the
villajro instinctively tend to maintain a
certuiu 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. Ho perceives thut there
is nothing for bim to do at home. He
forges restlessly about for awhile, trying
this and thut and efTcctingouly mischief;
everybody surmises an evil destiny for
him; he puts on his hat and departs, in
despair and anger; nnd presently the
world recognizes and celebrates his
genius. But his native village never
swells tbe chorus of praise. They have
known bim from a baliv; he cannot hum
bug thcon! Did he not steal apples from
Fanner Jloyt's orchard? Was lie not the
slowest hand at a spelling match in
school? Did he not jilt Mury June ufter
everybody had agreed he would marry
her? Go to, then ! Can such a fellow us
that invent a navigable air ship or writo
a classic book, or create a successful rail
road? He is ouly Jack Smith, ufter all is
said and done, and among those who
know him, will always have a Jink Smith
reputation. American Mayaime.
Hogs Can Swliii.
There is an old tradition thut hogs
can't swim, and on this is founded the
twice-told tale of the devil entering in
to hogs iu the country of the Gadurcnes,
cuusniL' them to run violently down
steep bunk into the sea, where they were
choked. The idea is thut the sharp
cloven hoof of the lioj comes up auiust
his throat in his effort to puddle aud
cuts it. All this is bosh. Hogs, if
eiven hulf a chance, become exm-rt
swimmers. I know of an old sow eight
or ten years old that has been kept for
breeunij purples up among the :auga
tuck hills of Connecticut thut can rival
Bo v ton as an expert in the water. Her
pen is on the bunk of Mud river and runs
don u to the water. Her only way of
trettiiii; out of it is by wuter. Once a
dav diirinir the summer she takes u swim
to a little island located iu the centre of
the river, aud there she wallows till it is
time to take her nightly rations, when at
the call of her owner she swims back to
her pen, ( inci nnUi 'J ww-Ptar,
BEFORE THE RA1K.
The blackcaps pipe among tbo rceda,
And there '11 be rain 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 bonne.
Now, sweetheart, as my love is thine.
There is a drop upon it.
Bo trip it ere tbe storm-hag weird
Doth pluck the barley by the beard.
Lol not a whit too soon we're housed;
The storm with yells above us;
The branches rapping on the panes
Seem not in truth to love us.
And look where through the clover bush
The nimble footed rain doth rush!
Amelia Rire, in Harper't.
HUMOR OF THE DAT. .
A hero of tho pen Tho prize pig.
There are somo men so mean that to
call them a hog is a libel on pork. Phil
adelphia Call.
"I was rapped in slumlier," said the
tramp as the policeman, hit him with a
club. Washington Critie.
Omaha restaurants fill an "order for
mock turtle soup with a bowl of Missouri
River water un filtered. JBotton Globe.
Notwithstanding tho astonishing fact
that tho sovereigns of the earth continue
to reign, the weather is unusually dry.
Maple Leaf. .
A Burlington milkman has discovered
some gold-bearing quarts. They con
tain about a pint and a half each. Bar
lin'jton Free Jress.
A Burlington policeman declares that
he has to handle about as many pieces of
male matter as they do at the postofficc.
Burlington Free Pre.
Prepare to heave the deep-drawn sigh,
Anil wrestle with distressing grief, -And
actuate pains of nightmare brief,
' And all because of that mince pie. -
Chicayo National.
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 servant." Parit
Gauloi.
A photographer , has succeeded in tak
ing an instantaneous picture of tho flight
of a curved ball thrown by a $10,000
pitcher. It is said to resemble a pro
cession of inebriated corkscrews. JVbrcis
toien Herald.
A waste of good material. Ha was
from Missouri aud he stood looking at
tho high telegraph poles in admiration.
't ine poles," said a policeman who was
passing. "ics, out what a wasto oi
good material," said tho visitor. "I'll
bet you we can wait here all day without
seeing a single lynching." Judge.
Mr. Do Sickly has called upon Bobby'i
sister, and is waiting for thBt young lady
to make her appearance. Bobby cntert
in the meantime. Vo Mckiy (witn r-
grin) "How do do, Bobby? Don't you
know me? Come and tell mo what's mj
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. I'll find out for you. j
heard piav ho had youojiBfche , sJ',
guess he must"kl!9)"youi numo." Taat
biflmgs.
Among the Little Ones.
Little irl at breakfast table: "Mam
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 my geography is olor
blind, because ne s got urccnland down '
painted yellow." -'
"James, do you love your sister?"
"Yes, sir." "Well, show mo how you
lovelier." The boy stood still, not know
ing what to do. "James, how do I ex
press my love for your mother?" "Oh,
you give her some bank notes, but I ain't
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 made and
suid to her auntie: "I dess my teef will
hove to be dreased, 'cause they squeak t"
Bdfhood.
I have a niece, a bijrhr, logical little '
maiden, aged four, brown eyed, golden
haired, with a complexion like a flower,
and a most lovublo mouth, full of varying
expressions. ;tamc," 1 asked Her,
where did you cet such a big mouth!
The flexible curves drew close as she
thought a moment. "Well," she an
swered, "my mouth is piece of me, and
1 m big, so my moutn is big. ' ottrer
Jlftt.
Spirits or the Mines.
It is a very old fancy says the Philadel
phia (all that mines are 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 au extent that they
were regarded as the gods of metals, tho
most famous being lion, the serpent god
of Chaldea, master of all wisdom aud
guardian of the treasures of tho mines.
The belief that evil spirits guard tho
treasures of the emerald mines is as com
mon among the Peruvians as it wus
among the Scythians iu tho time of
Pliny. In Surdiuia the aucient silver
mines are rarely entered from dread of a
venomous spider called the tulifugii, so
named from avoiding the sun. Their bite
was considered fatal. The traditions are
unworthy of belief, but uo doubt such a
spider was found in the silver mities, for
Agricolu mentions the fact and gave them
the name of lucij'eqa.
Death on a Mnret Tooth.
A medical plant is found iu India
which destroys the power of tastiug
sugar. This plant, the gyniuema sylve
tre, grows in tlio Deccan and iu tho Assam
and mi the Coromoudel coast. By chew
ing two or three leaves of it a person may
extinguish .his susceptibility to sweet
savors. Morbid craviugs for sweetmeats
that injure indigestion may thus be cor
rected. As the gymiieiua is said, also to
diminish the power of enjoying a cigar,
great benefit may ptobably be derived
from it by initeiupcr'utu smokers. Candy
aud cigarettes being the bane of the
small boy, prudent parents may be ex
pected to stock th.emsc!vs promptly with
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