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VOL. XXIV, NO, 10,
TIONESTA, TA., WEDNESDAY, AUG, 12, 189L $1.50 PER ANNUM.
Tcr t minute, night " and day, tha '
United Si ale Government collects $039
ami spends Ijt-lGl. j
A wealthy German offered a prizo o(
(i2.r!,000 to nny nstronomcr wlio will sot- ,
isfnetorily demonstrate to him that tho
nun, inoou or slurs aro inhabited.
Drill instructors aro boing appointed
by tha labor organizations of Australia.
The members nro buying guns and am
munition. Lively times tiro expected.
A. Philadelphia surgeon says that by
three strokes of the lancot ho could para
lyzo tbe nerves nctod on to make a man
get mml, and thereafter any one could
pull hi nose or cull his cars, and he
would simply Bmilo a soft, bland smile.
At Cotta, ia Saxony, persons who did
not pay tboir taxes Inst year are published
in a lint which hangs up iu all restaurants
nnd salon -s of tho city. Thoso that aro
ou tho list can gut neither meat nor drink
nt these places under penalty of loss of
license.
Harrison Tudington, tho ex-Governor
of Wisconsin, who has just died ia Mil
waukee, commenced his CBreer at that
point in 18118 as the immediate business
euccssor of Solomon Juneau, Milwaukee's
first settler. The lives of these two men
cover tho whole history of the great North
west. . . .. !
Tho Now York Sua (earns that Cornell
is going to improvo all tho roads ou tho
University property, around Ithaca, N.
V., iu sections and by different methods,
ind thus furnish a standing object lesson
as to style and cost, of maintenance for
tho guidauco of attempts to improve the
roads of the State.
Tho Treasury authorities at Washing
ton have just had tlioir attention called
to the fact that it would be an easy mat
ter to tunuel from a neighboring build
ing into their vaults, romovo tho coin
ind ship it down the Potomac. Seven
ty guards now watch tho Treasury, and
very precaution has beca taken to pro
rout robbery.
Tho Philadelphia Bulletin is authority
for the statement that tho phonopraph
aas beeu employed in New York to re
port tho utterance of monkeys, sclontiflo
men have become convinced that their
shattering is a language intcligiblo
smoug themselves. Their phonographed
talk has beeu repeuted to the animals
with startliug effect, aud they havo en
deavored with their long nrms to draw
aut tho ape concealed iu tho instrument.
TUo New York World declares that
the population of the agricultural dis
tricts is less than it was tou years ago,
the gains having beeu mada in tho towns
und cities. Hut tho mortgage indebted
ness is increasing at tho rate of $8,500,
ODD per year, and tho loss iu farm values
siueo 1881) is estimated at S'JOp.OOO.OOO,
or a a average of 7 per acre for tho
single State of Ohio. There are States
where tho proportiou shows a still wor
cunditiou of affairs.
The Prince of Monaco having secured
a wife with $i300,000 annual lucome bos
made up his tniud to be good and havo
no more gambling iu his spacious realm
ufter tho present leaso of tho Casino is
run out, April 10, lH'J'i. But tho enter
prisiug managers of tho tables have
made arrangements to reproduce tho en
tiro establishment, theatre and all, in
Audorra, tho little republic in the
Pyrenees ou tho border of France aud
Spain. Already $1,000,000 of the capi
tal stock has beeu taken up iu Paris.
"South Carolina, liko most of the
Southern States, continues to bo wade
up," notes the Boston Tranxript,
"mainly of rural communities. There
nro but tweuty cities and towns in the
State that havo more than 2200 inhabit
ants. Charleston, with 51,955 inhabit
ants, has a loug lead over tho second
city, Columbia, the capital, which hat
15,353 population. Charleston has
gained 497l iu tho last decade, while
Columbia's population, is 5317 larger
thau it was iu ISS0. These two cities
contain more thau half tho urban popu
lation of South Carolina."
Professor Lombroso, a student of
criminals, says that out of forty-one an
archists whom ho studied in the Paris
police office, thirty-one per cent, showed
tho criminal type of features. Of forty
three Chicago anarchists tho percentage
of wicked faces w.is forty, aud that is
about the percentage obtuiued trom tho
professor's researches among tho politi
cal crimiuals of Turiu. ltcgicides or
murderers of presidents, such as Fieschi,
Guiteau, Nobiliugaud historic evil-doers
liko Marat, had nearly all tho criminal
cust of features. Nobiliug, Guitoau and
Booth, iu tho specialist's opinion, had
hereditary tendencies to crime. Certain
socialists, liko Karl Marx and Lassalle,
are exempted from the doctor's classifica
tion, as their features are noble, but theu
men men do not favor auarchy.
A CHILD'S LAUOHTKR.
All tho bells of heaven may ring,
All the blrJs of heaven may sing,
All the wells on earth may spring,
All the winds on earth may bring
All awont sounds togothnr;
Bwoetor far than all things heard,
Hand of harper, tnn of bird,
Bound of woods at sundown stirred,
Welling water's winsome word,
Wind in warm wan weather.
Ona thing yet there Is that none
Hearing ei'e its chimo bo done
Know not well the weet?st one
Heard of men beneath the sun,
Hoped lit heaven heroaftTj
Boft and strong and loud and light.
Very wound of very light.
Heard from the morning's rosiest h'
When the soul of all delight
Fills a child's closr laughter.
ttolden bells of welcome rolled
Never forth such notes, nor told
Hours so blithe in tones so bold
As the radlnnt mouth of gold
Here that rings forth heaven.
If the golden crested wreu
Were a nightingale why, then
Something sson and heard of men
Might be half as swot as when
Laughs a childof seveu,
A. t7, SwinburnK
DOWN IN A STEAMSHIP,
My father wai a rich man when I left
New York. His partner's only daugh
ter was to bo my wife when I should re
turn. I was a student in a Vicuna hospital
when I received a cablo from homo that
the old bouse had failed. It proved to
bo an honest failure und both families
wcro beggars.
I counted my pockctbook from cover
to cover. I had just enough to leave
fieo of debt and get to Liverpool. How
to cross? Well, swim if necessary.
In the Liverpool steamer office was au
old Harvard College mate. This em
barrassed mo. Ho owed me a grudge
from tho football days at Berkeley Oval.
Determined t work my passage over,
I entered what I supposed was not the
office where my old competitor was man
ager. I did uot see him, but ho must
have caught sight of me. I was sur
prised with the promptness with which I
was told to go on board tho C , and
something would be found for mo to do.
Two days out I was called to tho cap
tain's own room, iusulted with the
chargo, at first politely put, of being a
stowaway, and finally stung to madness
bitter enough to obey silently wheu the
officer said: "If you really don't want
to steal your, passage, go report to the
engineer and shovel coal."
This I did. My experience I want to
describe. It is commou euough to hun
dreds of poor scamps this moment ull
over the seas. But, God pity them, they
have not tho tongue to tell,
nor, perhaps, always tho sensibility to
feel, what their life really is.
Dizzy already with the tossings of the
sea I staggered down those series of iron
stairways till I stood at last on the ship's
lowest deck. Behind me were tho vast
bunkers of coal that glistened from a
million eyes when tho furuace doors were
opened, and theu faded out of sight.
Beforo me the hue billows rose, not
silent, but roariug monsters, so hungry
that the toiling pygmies who fed them
jumped to their tasks till the sweat rolled
from their bare backs. The heat was, to
one desceudmg from the pure breath of
tho Atlantic, something fearful. I was
dressed iu my ordinary uttiro.uud even au
overcoat ut that, so precipitate had been
my actiou. Tho smell of bukiug lubri
cants aud red hot iron, tho dead air,
poisoned with coal gas aud bilge water
odors, tho dust, despite all showering,
but most of all the sudden transition,
from white light to blackest darkness,
momentarily proceeding, as this and that
furnace dour was opened and shut.almost
fulled me to the floor.
As I stumbled aud caught my hold ou
tho stair rail, again tho hardy fellows
shouted: "Give us your shilliug aud no
back 1" supposing that I was a curious
passenger seeing the sights of the ship.
Tho voices of derision roused me. I
was no passenger. I was au honest beg
gar like the rest; and here I was to bo
imprisoued fur a week, watch on aud
oil!
In a frcuzy I tore oil my clothing till
I stood in my trousers and shoes like my
fellows. I stated my hiriug to tho fel
low in charge of the watch, und lie gave
me my shovel with a pitying luugh.
I was put at the boiler nearest the
stair. The midships would have beeu a
less druuken spot, but I leaped at the
hardest task.
My head grew dizzy. I panted for a
full vital breath. The corrugated floor
ing, polished till it was glossy smooth iu
spots, tangled my poor feet so that I re
peatedly fell. Ah, that sense of whirl
lug, whirling, whirliug! How little the
fair folk iu tho cabins, know of ull this
plutonian hole beneath their carpets.
lteully, I thought I could describe
aomew hat that lurid fautasia amid tl.eso
scarlet skiuued, good natured demons,
but I cauuot. Vertigo struck mo down
iu less thau a half hour. The next I
knew I was being revived iu the coiu
paniouway, and the ren air was so grate
ful. The ship's surgeon asked me if I
felt ablo to go to work agaiu, and
courteously recognized that I was not a
luborer. I was graceless euough to
growl out my spleeo aud reassert that I
was no stowaway, which the good doc
tor did not uuderstand.
I turned to the assistant engineer, who
stood by, aud asked him to give me a
job of which I might be capable.
Thrusting his bauds in his pockets, he
walked oil with a command to "try him
at oiling."
Eil U , the head oiler dcar.brave
heart- I often go down to the dock to
see him wheu in port here, but the en
gine is as dear to hiin as a bride or I
would loug ago havo bettered his for
tunes he took me iu hand. We
walked along those mero bird cages of
stair-ways aud platforms, a labyrinth of
Vasrausiu a forest of steel arms, wheels,
shafting nnd stcirra piping. To a lands
man, that endless maze of mighty anat
omy is at first simply awful. It sobers
ono, this sullen, ceaseless throb of tho
monster's heart, tho deep breathing of
tho steam shests, tho sigh of the crea
ture 'i spirit as tho pistons make one movo
and yet one more herculean-thrust turn
ing the crank shaft,
Knrh time, as the piston slowly starts,
it seems as if it must be the last, and in
finite fatigue prevail. But rid, it goes
on, night and day, motion, motion, mo
tion. Don't let mo tire you; reader, but
I dd wish I could express td you some
thing Of the solemn impression that be
gan to seize upon me, crawling liko a fly
after Ed, the oiler. Then the hiss, the'
scream, the little sighs and moans of
here and there a jet of truant steam, al
most human sounds, issuing from the
jungle of polished steel I
"She's a tiger, she is?" cried Ed.
"Look out I"
I heard that kind exclamation fre
quently as wo went our rounds. There
were others doing tho same work, but I
hecamo a chosen attendant of my cat
liko friend. He had a sprained elbow
and I helped him professionally. He
gdt my ktory, We were intimate in two
of three days, and I record it with hon
est satisfaction, for Ed B was a gen-
uind man.
It was One day off the Banks that we
stopped. Tho chief got a notion that
the shaft was not sound, and the next
voyage it proved so, for a hair line along
and around that huge polished arnl of
power turned out an incipient fracture;
But it was on investigation decided this
VjyagO that there was nothing wrong;
Still, there we lay on tho breast of tho
swells for more than two hours; Ed
came to me nnd said i
"Now she's still tho second engineer
thinks wo might go into the pit and
clean out. the waste and oil puddles. I
don't like it, doctor, when she's got
steam ou. What if she turned her
crank, eh?"
The brave boy went jumping down,
however down, down, till ho stood di
rectly under that massive crank, which
had stopped ut the half turn over his
head;
Tho reader will understand that tho
space allowed for the crank to make tho
full circuit round below was only suffi
cient for the iron to sweep through.
Into that now empty space Ed was pre
paring to step. It was dark as a grave
and about a grave's dimensions. I held
thd torch above his head. Men workiug
by torchlight in that place resemble
imps. We wcro good natured imps,
however, and, though very cautious,
were chatting cheerfully enough.
"I never liko this job at sea," resumed
Ed, "nor auy time, except when tho
last pound o' steam is out of her, two ot
thrco days at dock."
"But the engineer knows we aro
here," I replied.
"Yes, he ordered mo down and
there's no need of it and he don't liko
me," El got off between his breath,
bending to his perilous work in the pit.
"Heavens, maul" I exploded, catch
ing nt what I thought was his meaning.
"That would bo murder!"
"Hush, doctor 1 Not that, not that!
But if I had refused to come, as ho
thought I Would, don't you see lie could
break mo that is, discharge me when
wo get iuto New York."
A few minutes later Ed sent mo aloft
for ml extra mop of cottou waste, I
was to hurry, for we knew not what
miuuto the captain might go ahead. I
remember I had secured tho waste, I was
picking my way along the enigma of lit
tle ludders and platforms. Far below,
through the shadows, dung from occas
ional gas jets the sleeping mouster, like
a nickel plated spider, lay prone, and I
seemed to be exploring its viscera like
some daring pathologist. Away below
me iu tho light of his torch Ed reminded
me of a microb.
Suddenly tho gong struck from the
pilot house. God help me, I cau boar it
yet!
I was near the engineer's lauding.
Quick as a Hash I was on the eugineer,
and like a tiger I caftght at the wheel
which ho was turning to let on stsaui.
"Man I B is in tho crank pit!"
But I was too late. She gave one turn,
at least. Then the scouudrel or fool, I
don't kuow which, yielded to me and we
stopped her. But such a cry as cauio
echoing up from the very heart of the
engine !
"Thank God for that second cry," I
fairly sobbed, us it floated up.
Thcnal spraug away and down. E l
lay iiiseusiblu on the arm of the crank,
as if the eugiuo had stopped in pity and
held him out to us. He had fainted with
pitiu only, for the spraiued elbow had
beeu broken. How ho escaped heaven
only knows.
Now this is the curious part of my
story. Less thau a year after, when she
was cold and lying at the docks without
a pound of steam, that engine killed this
same eugiueer. It must have beeu in tho
middle ot the night. What ho wus do
iug dowu iu her no oue knows. A list
by cargo aud tide must havo moved the
machiuery a hulf a turu and crushed
him.
Ed B says that cngiucs havo souls,
but seafaring men cherish queer uotious.
-Yetf York Preai.
Married the Family.
A story of u Florida mau who married
three wives from one family is goiug the
rounds as something remarkable, but
there was a family iu Maiue consisting of
six girls, and of the six three married
meu named Bickwell, three married to
the name of Young, oue married a Liver
more aud ono never was married. An
other paradoxical feattiro is that there
were only five husbands iu all. The ex
planaliou is that two of tho Bickwell
died, leaving widows, aud Mr. Young,
who had two of the sisters before, took
one of tho widows. Then Mr. Liver
more took the other. So that there
w.'ie seveu weddings iu the family, and
only five meu und five women concerned
iu them. Mr. Young had lost oue wife
before he Jioju on this tumily. Man
cheater Union.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
Marmoreino hardens plaster.
Electricity is to revolutionize mining.
Many of the big paper-mills have
turned out paper belts said to be supe
rior to leather.
The juice of a half lemon in a teacup
of strong black coffee, without sugar,
will often cure a sick headache.
The ekin of a boiled egg is tho best
remedy for a boil. Carefully peel it,
Wet, and apply to the boil i it draws out
the matter aud relieves Soreness;
When your face and ears burn so ter
ribly bathe them in very hot water as
hot as you can bear it. This will bo
more apt to cool them than any cold ap
plication; Tbe compounding of locomotives will
soon be gone intd on a large scale, and
triple expansion engines will soon be
adopted in the larger manufacturing es
tablishments. Tho breaking weight of a bar of iron
one foot long and one inch square is
5781 pounds. A piece of seasoned hick
ory of the same dimensions would break
at 270 pounds.
A Philadelphia Company recently
made a fly-wheel which weighs 180,000
tons; It is twenty-five feet id diameter,
eighteen inches thick, and twenty-eight
inches wide, It will be operated by a
8000 horse power.
Borers of tho city artesian well at
Fort Worth, Texas, are of the Opinion
that the drill will soon penetrate a huge
volume of boiling water, as tbe tempera
ture increases with every few feet they
go down, and at last accounts was 121
degrees, at a depth of 2900 feet.
Chatiri has proved that a parasite
growing on plants of the Strychnos
genus contains neither strychnine nor
brucine. The mistletoe growing Upon
the oak docs not contain the blue tannin
of tbe latter, but exclusively a green
tannin; In like manner other parasites
are shown not to absorb tho peculiar
principles of their hosts.
Neuralgia in the face has been cured
by applying a mustard plaster to the
jlbow. For neuralgia in the head, apply
the plaster to the back of the neck.
The reason for this is that mustard is
said to touch the nerves the momeut it
begins to draw or burn, and ta be of
most use must be applied to the nerve
centres, or directly over the place where
it will touch tho adected nerve most
quickly,
Sarno, a German chemist, finds nitric '
acid abundant iu annual plants, and more
or less in nearly all families of plants.
A singular observance is that where
plants formerly supposed to be root-par-
asitos, and now called saprophytes, are
connected with certain bush roots. Such
roots have no nitric acid. For instance,
tho cancer root is only found under
beech trees, aud yet no connection exists
between tho beech and this plant. These
roots ought not to have any nitric acid,
if Sarno is right.
For many years a spring of dirty
water ran from the house of a certain M.
Korotnell, iu tho heart of Sebastopol,
and caused the proprietor much trouble.
At times the spring would cover the best
street in tbe city with mud; Of lnte the
spring has become a public nuisance aud
the city authorities compelled M. Korot
nell to build a small reservoir around it and
lead oil tho muddy substanco by sewer
pipes. But as soou as this was done it
was discovered that tho substance iu the
now reservoir was pure naphtha. For
tho last three mouths since the discovery
was mado nothing has been doue to util
ize this wasting treasure.
Convicts Off for Siberia.
The Moscow correspondent of the
London Aie says: "To-day I witnessed
tho departure for Siberia of the first
batch of convicts this season. They
stood in marching column ut tho railway
station, surrounded by a guard of about
100 soldiers with drawn swords. At the
head came the worst class of convicts,
ubout 300 iu uumber, all having leg fet
ters and chains. Many bad tho right
half of tho head shaved, an indication of
long-service sentences. Thou came irbout
100 without fetters, convicted or sus
pected of lighter otleuscs, most of them
being without passports, and therefore
liable to punishment. Next follow about
100 women, some couvicts and some
prisoners' wives. It is pathetic to see
little children aud some infants startiug
ou this long aud terrible journey of ex
ile. Tho dress worn is gray, with ayel-
j low diamond ou the back. luo by
standers threw money to tlieai to enable
them to purchase comforts on tho jour
ney."
Bright Thoughts and Merry.
Frank 11. Stocktou tells with great
glee how once, many years ago, he in
vented a dish and got $2 for the inven
tion. It was while he was sub -editor of
JIairth and Home, a weekly paper of
which Mrs. Mary Mapes Oodge was the
editor. He bad contributed to every de
partment save the household department.
This put him ou his' mettle. So he
liauded iu a receipt of his own concoct
ing. Mrs. Dodge accepted it, aud paid
for it at the current rates $2. The
dish is called "Cold Pink," aud here is
the receipt: Take all tha white meat left
over from tho Thauksgiving turkey, und
;hop it uy very flue. Pour a thiu crau
berry sauco over tho cold meat. Mix
well, put it iu u chiua form aud set it
sway to get cold. Wheu cold, serve it.
It makes a delightful dish. But alas!
s Mr. Stocktou himself remarks, there
is uever any turkey left over from the
Tbuuksgiviug dinner. Kjjoch.
Custer's Lust Sword.
Tho sword which Custer usod iu his
rumpalgu against the Indians, aud which
ho lost with his life at the battlo of the
Little Big iloru, .s now iu the posses-iiou
j of a Chicago mau. Its battered blade is
as flexible as whalebone, and it looks us
i though, it had boeu through many a
j hand-to-huud encounter. It is covered
. with inuuinerublu design of drums,
I tilths, cannons and oihcv implements of
warfare. Jnliuimivlit Journal.
Canning Crnb.
A thriving industry at Hampton
a, Va.,
is the canniug of bard-shell crabs, which
wus first begun in tho year 1878. About
the 1st of April the season for these
crustaceans opens and continues until
June. During that month and July the
crabs are found with spawn and unfit for
canning purposes. Then in August the
work begins anew and from that time
until about the 1st of November the
canneries are kept very busy.
The crabs are caught chiefly with trot
lines and note. Beef tripe is used for
bait and each line is attended by one
mad in a light skill1, The average daily
catch per man In Hampton Koads is from
fixty to seventy-five dotfen, although 250
donen catches have been occasionally ro
ported; Largo boats go out every day and
collect the crabs from the fishermen.
Upon arrival at the cannery the dead ones
and spawners are thrown away; Tho
others nre placed in bperi slat-work cars
and conveyed to a wooden steamer hav
ing a capacity of 250 dozen intd which a
car is rolled. Steam is thon turned on
and the crabs cooked until they turn red,
when the car is rolled out and tho con
tents shoveled into baskets. These are
delivered to men technically termed
"strippers," who remove the shells,
small claws and entrails. These meu
pass the cleaned portions to a force of
women and Children called "pickers,"
who take out all the meat and place it in
large pans. Tho large claws are crushed
and the meat deftly extracted. As these
pickers receive but from two to three
cents a pound) it niturally follows that
they must be quick and agile workers.
The most rapid pickers can generally
prepare about twenty-five pounds a doy,
but the average is about sixteen pounds,
Tbe hard parts and other refuse are
dumped into sheet-iron barrels, placed in
scows and sold to the neighboring farm
ers for fertilizing purposes. Tho upper
shells, which tbe strippers remove, are
carefully cleaned and used as receptacles
for deviled crabs, being packed up and
sold with the cans containing the meat,
After being weighed, the crab-meat is
taken to tho "fillers," who pack it in
ono and two-pound cans. Each pound
can is estimated to contain the meat ex
tracted from thirty-eight crabs. In order
to prevent spoiling in the cans, the con
tents must be very thoroughly cooked,
and consequently after being sealed these
receptacles aro placed in boiling water
for half an hour. Then they are taken
out aud vented by piercing a small hole
in the top of each and immediately re
seated. After this they are givon a final
hot water bath, in which they remain for
two hours. Another process consists iu
placing tho caus in a strong solution of
chloride of limo wnter.
Upward of 11,000,000 crabs are thus
canned each season in the Hampton es
tablishments, nnd tij'l a ready sale in all
parts of tho United States. Detroit Fr
I'rett.
Jack Tar's Flea In His Own Paper.
The sitlors of the United States flag
ship Philadelphia publish a little paper
which is called "Tho Philadelphia
Print." A good paper it is, too. The
last edition is issued at Port-au-Prince.
Tho whole paper makes ono proud to be
an American, and shows that the intelli
gence of the days when the Constitution
sailed the seas with 300 New England
freeholders on her triumphant deck havo
not been followed by decadence Among
other articles is oue which should com
mend itself to the Naval authorities. It
is as follows:
"It sounds very pleasant nnd one is
proud to hear our m;v vessels spoken of
as being modern steel cruisers, nil tho
material and guns made in tho United
Slates, not a rivet that is not American,
can steam twenty knots, fitted with elec
tricity und telephones, ar.d all have the
latest ideas, etc. but with all this can
Jack make a modest request,
"Iu a number of ways Jack is not as
comfortable iu the modern ship ns ho
was iu the old navy, or iu other words
'these modern improvements' are a good
deal like an Irish promotion, for all these
new ideas and modern science take space.
.Tuck's living and berthiug quarters iu
tbe modern ship are not us roomy or as
comfortable us iu the oak sailing urks of
a quarter of a century ago.
"Of uecesity Jack work is not as
clean as iu the old ships, but still his
prido is just as great; his ship is his owu
private yacht; he owns her while at
tached to her, yet no provision is made
for cleansing himself after compartment
or double bottom work. Much less a
bath tub. Iu a number of foreign men-of-war
clean bathrooms arc shown both
for fircnieu und crew.
"Could uot even a couple of shower
baths be fitted iu the new ships, espe
cially the larger ones, aud then wo would
laugh at hard work, for in the morning,
and when in tho tropics, our 'shower'
will refresh and cool us oil and we'll bo
ready for more work."
This coining us it does from the sailors
themselves, should havo weight. Xta
Yurk Tribune.
A Curious N'anio Combination.
"What is in a uame ?" bus beeu a ques
tion suliicieutly unanswered to still re
main u subject for discussion, but what
is iu two names should have a double
interest. If you don't think so, tuko
two names as well known us any iu
American history aul look at them.
Tiiey are the names Lincoln nnd Hamlin.
Of course, there is uethiug peculiar about
them as they otaud, but set them diller
ently and observe tho result. For uu in
stance, place them thiswise:
HAM LIN
LIN COLN
Bead up and dowu and then across.
1'ticie is something iu that, isu't there?
Now, a ,'aiu
AHKA HAMLIN COLN.
Cau you lind two other names of two
other men w hose official lives and nsuies
coiubiuu as these do? St. Lout V&11A
lic. The Queen of Spain has umpired the
( 'o'uiub.a-Venezuela boundary case en
tirely iu favor of Colombia.
HORSE FLESH FOll FOOD.
HIPPOPHAOT IS PRACTICED IN
VARIOUS PtAOES.
rnrlslnns Convert Horso Flesh Info)
a Havory DIhIi Rating Kqulue
Mont in South America,
Alfred Trumble says in tho Epoch that
his first impression of horse flesh as au
article of diet was that it would have
suffered no harm had it been fatter. It is
of a darker color than beef, and of a
tougher fibre, coming nearer to gamo in
quality. In fact, at a dinner given by
an enthusiastic hippophogist in London,
nt which all tha meats were borso of var
ious dressings, I sampled it as venison
and as bcar-mcat, and found the decep
tion plausible) and I have been credibly
informed that at many Paris restaurants,
horse flesh is actually served (is venison;
so my experience with it may bo even
wider than I am aware.
It is a curious fact, by tbe way, that
the French, who cannot cook a real beef
steak to the Anglo-Saxon palate, can
convert the horse into a savory dish.
Tho opportunity for deception puts their
culinary art upon its mcttlo, I suppose,
just as if you givo them the primcst
green-turtle out of tho West Indies, they
will spoil it in the pot, while from a
Calf's head, soino veal scraps and tho
stock kettle, they will make you a mock
turtle snip to delude anyone but a Lon
don alderman.
Every day, at early morning, noon nnd
evening, in Paris, you will Bee poor peo
ple gathering at certain shabby cookshops
in the quarters of Belleville, Montmartrc,
tbe Batignolles aud others of the sections
outside the Boulevards, whoro poverty
houses thickest each armed with a tin
pail, a pitcher or something else calcu
lated to carry liquid. These receptacles
aro duly filled with thin but savory broth,
ladled from huge, steaming cauldrons,
nnd which costs only a ceut or two a
quart, I have drunk this bouillon, and
found it nourishing and good. It is
mado of the bones and scraps of horse
meat after the choicer pieces aro sold to
the cheap restaurants, aud tho very es
sence and marrow of the meat are i'x it,
for tho boiling is kept up until the bones
are fairly honeycombed and the meat re
duced to shreds like bits of twine. This
broth provides tho principal animal
nourishment for tho average laborer in
the gay city. He adds to it a few vegeta
bles, thickens it with bread, and it, hav
ing as tho cook-book might say, beeu
"seasoned to taste," makes a palatable
and hearty meal.
Ouco upon a time, beforo the Argen
tine was gridiroued with railroads, a lit
tle party of us set off in tho saddle to
cross tho Pampas to the fertile, planta
tions of Bolivia. Coming to tho end of
a long day's canter, wo also cauio upon a
tump of curious half savages of whom
we had heard, but whom I, at least, had
Hover mado acquaintance before. A
couple of them wero carving veritable
chunks out of tho carcass of a horse,
whoso hido was pegged out on the grass
to dry. These great morsels of meat,
half roasted, without salt, iu the embers
of a tiro of twigs and turf, constituted
the feast to which the Guachos welcomed
us. It was hearty eating, though tho
cookery could not compare with that of
Paris, nnd it wus tho only meat our rude
hosts knew. They lived by the horse and
nil the horse, as well as on his back. His
hido went to tho traders to clothe them,
nnd his He ill went into their bodies to
render them worth clothing; and no oue
who has rceu them running dowu their
game, with their long lariats tipped with
leadou balls, will doubt that it was
healthy feeding, however deficient iu
epicurean charm.
I do uot wish to bo understood as dis
daining the roust beef of Old England,
which, as wo all know, mostly comes
from the United Slates nowadays, nor
even as preferring the product of tho
stall to the product of tho pasture; but
I can affirm, with a good conscience to
wards my digestiou, that there are less
salutary dishes served ut nobler boards
thau thoso which nourished us at Tho
Honest Mau. As f jr the savor, doth not
our old friend Brillat -Savarin tell us "it
Is ull a matter of the cook aud the appe
tite?" The TI11 Soldiers of Nuremberg.
Tho artisU of Nuremberg und Forth
have long been famous for their manu
factures of toy-soldiers of lead. Tho
art dates from the Seven Years' War,
und was developed under the influence
of the enthusiami aroused by tho career
of Frederick the Great. Much pains aro
takeu with the sketches of the intended
figures, aud eminent artists uro willing
to supply the models. Certain fixed
rules have to be adhered to iu designing
the figures. Iu colors, deep tints must
be uvoided, aud gaudy hues preferred.
The artists must be arquuinted with tho
military costumes of the period to which
the soldier they represent belonged.
Anachronisms in this matter are fatal.
Molds of slate aro used for tho plain
figures, and of brass for those in relief.
Tho figures, having been cust, are takeu
out aud trimmed; then handed over to
the women, to be painted; ami then to
other women, to be packed iu woodeu
boxes. 1'ojjular Seituce Muutldy.
Norway's Headsman.
Iu Norway au expert executiouer is
requisite, ulthougb his services uro sel
dom needed. August Cluesou is uow au
old uiau, and has held tho ollice for
twenty-four years, with occasional assis
tance. The laws of Norway are still
harsh iu terms, und were liar.-h iu prac
tice uot many years ago. Old man
Cluesou can remember that, ut Trond
hjeiu, ubout twelve years ago, a preuoher
named Janseu, convicted of murdering
his child, stood iu the pillory all day,
with his right hand cut otl, and had his
licit I cut oil at sundown. Now, how
ever, the punishment is decapitation,
without the barbarous exhibition that
used to precede it. The death penalty
is so seldom resorted to iu Sweden aud
Norway that it is practically obsolete.
tt. Lou 14 llejjublie.
l.ETTINO DOWN THE BARS. ',
fair Jane stands near the", woodland where
The barn lane joins the Mold;
The cows are doming at her call,
Tholr treasure whlto yield. ".
The sun is sinking through tho trees
To give place to the stars,
Ami to tha task the maiden bends i
Of letting down the bars. '-
Young neighbor John, of manly mold, 1
Dut timid as a quail,
Climb o'er tha fence and gain bar sido
And help" her move the rail.
Her warm blush tell a tale; but fear
From speech his tongue' debars
Till oye meet eyes, then of his lovo
Her glance lets down tho bars.
O woodland's breath and meadow's breeze,
And soft eyed kine and hirds!
Know ye the rapture in your midst
That cannot flow In wnrdsf
Nor wish for wealth, nor thought' of fame.
Nor aught the moment mars;
these guileless souls find all their world i
While letting down the bars.
A'ete Yorfc .Advertiser.
IIU.H0B OF THE DAY.
Erasures on account-books nre sure
signs of a bigger scrape comiug. Puck.
When a man fights in his mind ho al
wnya comes out victorious. Atchison
Globe.
When one dcuies his own statements
he is practising much self-denial. Dal
lat Seict.
Assignment is tho moral anaesthetic
that relieves a mau from payiu'. lluA
ington Pod.
Mr. Crossly "I tell you beforo I go
that I want beef for dinner, and wheu I
get homo what do I find J" Sirs. Cross
ley "Fault, every time." JVf( York
Hun.
Ho (accepted) "Ah, what happiness I
Now I can call you mine, love!" She
"Ah I You haven't got through with
your interview with papa yet." Tucas
Siftinyt.
A Sad Case: Mrs. Murphy "An'
sure, Mrs. O'Brien, did your poor man
die aisy, rest his soul !" Mrs. O'Brien
"Indade not, Mrs. Murphy. It nearly
kilt poor Pat to die."
Jako Jimpsou "You are the applo of
my eye, dear." Cora Bellows "And
you are the peach of mine." "Why tho
peach?" "You arc such a perpetual fail
ure." Ncio York Herald.
Mr. Oldgrad (Class of '00) "Ah, thii
Is our cluss picture. Ah, old boy, we
were younger then than we aro now."
Mr. Do Gree "Yes, and kuew a great
deal more." Brooklyn Lire.
"How will I enter tho money tho
cashier skipped with," asked the book
keeper, "under profit and loss?" "No;
supposo you put it under ruuniug ex
penses." Philadelphia 1'inut.
They say that a woman cauuot reason,
but as loug as she has her faculty of in
tuition she seems to get along all right.
Besides, sho can usually get a man to
reason for her. Somcrcille Journal.
Thero may not be any royal road to
wealth, but there is a royal road to learn
ing. When a man gets rich tho world
is willing to regard everything he says
as tho utterances of a sage. Sonurcille
Journal.
She "I am afraid that bell ringing
menus another caller." He (imploringly)
"You know there is such a thing us
your not beiug nt home." She "Yes;
and there is such a thing as my being
engaged."
Genius may bo merely a capacity for
hard work, but it is hard to make tho
neighbors believe that there is any
genius about the young woman who
practises tho scales four hour a day.
Indianapolit Journal.
Emcrsoniu Dorchester "Olivinia
Holmes is not tho recherche girl I
thought sho was." Itussellina Waldo
"What has occurred?" Emersouia Dor
chester "J uoticcd to-day that she was
wearing her wiuter spectacles." Jem
tlera' Circular.
Prudence "Why did you hurry
around the corner wiieu you met Briggs
a moment ago?" "Afraid of him?"
"Why?" "Yesterday lie paid me back
a dollar ho borrowed six months ago,
and I'm shorter thau usual this week."
Ac it York Jlccordtr.
"Aud what," asked tho youug woman
who is sometimes facetious, "is I lie rank
of the individual who brings up in tho
rear with a bucket and a tin cup?"
"Oh," replied tho member of the militia,
without hesitation, "he is a lcmouade
dc camp." Wanliitrlon Pott.
Alice "' met Minnio lteuee to-day,
and she showed me the engagement ring
that Horace Fledgely gave her." 11 wen
duliu "Is it a pretty one?'' Alice
'You remember the one he gave you aud
inc!-' Uweiidolin "Let inn think. Oh,
yes!" Alice "It's the same ring."
Jeicehrt' Circular.
They took the Fit 'hbui g from Hosto'j
to Troy. At the Falls the luakemiiu
thrust his head iu at the door and seemed
to interrogate "llousick? Hoosick?"
Alfred Kufus looked inquiringly around
the cur, und discovering no object iu
need of a physician's care, appealed to
his father "Papa, who is sick?"
J'iarin.i'CutioU k'ra.
A small Bath iioulb.y, who had
been sent home by his leacaer bcc uiso
liis sister had the meislci, was noticed!
by that teacher at the next rec .s play
ing with the other children iu the school
yard. "Johnny, didn't I tell you not
to come to school while your sUiers had
the measles?" "Yes, but I a, 11 not. going
in school ; 1 only eune to play with the
boys beforo it begins." Hit It Tiu,:j.
A candidate was being examined by
four professors. Feeling extremely U'i'V
ous his memory failed hi.11 several tiuus.
At lust oue of tho prol'issois growing
impatient, thundered out: "Way, j ou
c inn it quote a single p.is-a'e ot Scrip
ture correctly !" "Yes I i in eclaiined
the candidate'. "1 jict happen to re
lueniber tt passage in the Ki Vi bilious:
'And 1 lifted up my eves i,mI beheld
four jjix'ttt kettota,' " Vretdur Auieiaer.