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Job work oaah on del'vary.
Forest republican.
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Ninety-one por cent, of tho farmer
ia Utah own thoir farms.
Encouraging reports continue to
come from the cotton manufacturers
of the South.
The overage time epent by the
British House of Lords in the Nation's
work, according to ft contemporary, is
fifteen minutes per day.
I Australia is a country without or
phans or an orphanage. Each waif
is taken to a rocoiving house, where it
is kept until a country home is found
for it.
The new programme of public in
struction adopted in France do votes
more time to the study of English and
less to the study of German.
! Iu thirty-six State prisons, in this
country solitary confinement is used
as punishment, and in twenty tho
prisoner is handcuffed to the walL.
An English widower returns thanks
to a choir for their sweet singing at
his wife's funeral, "thereby enliven
ing and brightening up the dullness
and monotony which not unfrequently
characterizes a funeral service."
Bussia has decided to spend a quar
ter of a billion in the improvement of
her navy. This is a pretty expensive
outlay in pursuance of a plan to keep
the peace : but the leading powers of
Europe are not stopping at expense.
England will have to meet these fig
ures, and France can be relied upon
to slide several big war ships into the
water. It looks to the Detroit Free
. Tress as though the test of modern
naval improvements was not far off,
and it may be followed by very mate
rial changes in the map of the eastern
continent.
Says the Now York Observer : "Tho
poor we have always with us and the
lazy. To discriminate between them
is somowhat of a task. In some oases
the wood-pile marks the division.
They go to the right or left according
to their deposition. Some of the
hungry go right to work, while by
others the opportunity to labor, and
so earn a breakfast, is left severely
alone. If the newspapers are to be be
lieved, and we see no reason for doubt
ing their statements, then while in
Chicago the unemployed number tena
of thousands it is hard to get men to
labor at fifteen cents an hour on canal
work. When men were recently asked
for from Milwfkee by a Chicago busi
ness firm, tlit aswer came that while
there was pllf of steady work in the
Wisconsin woods for willing men at
fair wages, the men were not to be
had. There was work, and there were
workers enojigh, but the men were shy
and refused to be introduced."
The New York Journal of Commerce
aud Commercial Bulletin, which keeps
a daily ' record of the fires iu this
country, and is deservedly high au
thority on all questions of insurance,
reports the total loBsea by fire in the
United States and Canada in the year
1893 at $156,445,875, against $132,
704700 in 1892. In but one month of
1893 did the total of' fire losses sink
'below $10,000,000, and thatas in
February, when the return of the
Journal of Commerce place the figures
at $9,919,900. The same paper reports
235 fires iu Deoember of a greater de
etructiveness than $10,000 each. It
says that the underwriters attribute
much of the loss to careless installa
tion of electrio light and power
plants. Under these circumstances it
ought to be the oocasion of more than
insurance interest to learn that the
electrio risk is being investigated by
experts who are gathering particulars
of all the fires traceable to electricity.
Electricity is a good servant who will
bear a lot of watching.
The Baltimore Sun's tribute to tho
South is worthy of reproduction:
"Less ooraplaint has been hoard from
the South during the last eight or ten
months than from any othtir part of
the country, but this is not because
the people of this seojiou have not felt
the financial stringency, but because
they have learned to suffer and bo
strong and tilent, too. They are not
given to making an outcry every time
they oome to rough places iu the road
of life. For a people who, prior to
1860, enjoyed an exceptionally lux
urious existence, the manner in which
they bore the poverty and privations
that followed the war was amazing in
its .calm strength and quiet induranoe,
aud was fully as heroio as their bearing
during that conflict. The bravery and
patience with which they have since
struggled to redeem their fortune1
Lave been no less admirable, and their
progress toward Jirospertty has been
uoWJ with heartfelt interest by (kcij
ON THE ROAD TO DREAMTOWN.
Com here, my sleepy darling, and climb
upon my knee,
And lo I all In a moment, a trusted steed
'twill be
To bear you to that country where troubles
ar. forgot.
And we'll set off for Dreamtown,
Trot,
Trot,
Trott
O 111 ton! Bolls of Dreamland are ringing
soft and low t
What a pleasant, ploasant country it is
through whloh we go ;
And little, nodding travelers are seen in
overy spot,
All riding off to Dreamtown,
Trot,
Trot,
Trot!
The lights begin to twinkle above us in the
sky,
The star-lamps that the angols are banging
out on high,
To guide the drowsy travelers where danger
lurkelh not,
As they ride off to Dreamtown,
Trot,
Trot,
Trot!
Bnug In a wild-rose cradle the warm wind
rooks the bee i
The little birds are sleeping in every bush
and tree.
I wonder what they dream of? They dream,
and answer not,
As wo ride by to Dreamtown,
Trot,
Trot,
Trot!
Our Journey's almost over. The sleepy
town's in sight
Wherein my drowsy darling must tarry over
night. How still It is, bow peaceful, in this delight,
ful spot,
A we ride into Dreamtown,
Trot,
Trot,
Trot!
Eben E. Rexford, in Independent.
RESCUED AT LAST.
BY HELEN FOB REST OH AVE.
ORWARD, laeo
counter V shouted
tho floor-walker.
"Mi as Garrick,
what are you think
ing of? Show these
ladies heliotrope
chiffon and be
quick aboat it 1"
I s o 1 a Oarriok
hurried to her post,
with one haud
pressed to her fore
head. All day long
oho had suffered
from a racking headache, but in this
promising dry goods firm headaches
were not "business," and no allow
ances were made for them.
"Why, mamma," whispered a tall,
red-cheeked young woman, in a seal
coat and a velvet toque, nodding with
jets, "it's Cousin Isola !"
"Hush sh !" said tho other lady,
who was stout and short, with a gold
eyeglass and big diamonds in her ears.
"We are not supposed to recognize
her now. No" to the young girl be
hind the countor "this is not the
right Bhade. This is violet, and I in
quired for heliotrope. Some people
seem to be absolutely color blind!"
Isola looked wistfully at her aunt.
Surely surely Bhe could not intend
entirely to ignore her !
But Mrs. Pierson Garriok's gaze
was wholly nnreoognizing.
"We have heliotrope also, "said she,
taking down another box.
But the tall young lady tossed her
head impatiently.
"It isn't the right color at alll"
said she. "Come away, mamma."
The floor-walker administered a sharp
rebuke to Miss Garrick, when the cus
tomers were gone.
"Really," he said, "it would seem
as if a sale might have been made. "
Isola's eyes brimmed over with tears
which it would have been "unbusi
nesslike" to shed. Six months ago
she had come, a timid, inexperienced
orphan to New York, and naturally
her first idea was to go to her father's
brother, Mr. Pierson Garrick.
That gentleman, however, was not
at home he generally contrived to be
out of the way when any embarrassing
ciroumstanoe oocurred and his wife
gave Isola to understand that it was
quite impossible to do anything for
her.
In the old Connecticut farmhouse
generous hospitality had always pre
vailed, and the girl vuld hardly be
lieve that she was uu Velcome to these
relatives.
"I dare say," said Mrs. Garrick, ab
sently, "you can get something to do,
'for satan finds soma mischief still'
Oh, no, that isn't the right quotation !
'Where there s a will, there s a way.
was what I meant to say. But your
unole isn't at home, and Cornelia is
just going out, and the house is full
of company.
"I could wait a little while," haz
arded Isola, glancing at an inviting
easy-chair.
"It would be of no use," sharply ut
tered the lady. "We really can't uo
dertake to open a hotel for all our
country cousins. "
Isola rose, with burning cheeks and
indignantly-sparkling eyes, and bade
her aunt good morning. Where to be
take herself she did not know, but of
one thing she was quite certain she
would be no burden on these super-
oiuous people. .
A kindly oountry neighbor had a
daughter married aud settled in a
confectioner's shop on Third avenue,
and here she took refuge.
"Surely," she argued within her
self, "my good education must stand
me in stead here !
But she was destined to bo speedily
disenchanted, and after various inter
vals of sickening suspense, was finally
eterjorea w icvure situation, m tu
dry goods house whore she reoeived
the smallest possible salary for the
largest possible amount of work.
As it happened, Mr. Benjamin Gar
rick, of Rio Janeiro, was staying at
the house on Lexington avenue, the
one sole guest who represented the
"household of company, mentioned
by Mrs. Garrick.
In bis younger days Cousin Ben had
been the black sheep of the family.
But the Fiorson Gnrricks, who had
been the loudest in his censure whita
be was under a financial cloud, wer
his most devoted adherent, now that
he had come home the lucky possessor
of ruby mines, railway shares an'I
thriving ooffee plantations.
"You must do your very best, Cor
nelia, to make yourself agreeable to
him," said Mrs. Garrick to her tall
daughter. "Who knows how he may
decide to leave his money?"
"Oh, by-the-way !" said Cousin Ben,
the first day that he came home to
dinner. "I met Bnrley iu tho Ex
change, aud he was teiling me that
Alfred was dead."
"Yes "smiled Mrs. Garriok. "Some
soup, Benjamin? It's lobster bisque,
and very nice. Oh, yes wo aro all
mortal!"
"Well," quoth Ben, smiting the
table with his fist, "there isn't a soul
that I've calculated more on seeing
when I came back than Alfred ! No
body but myself ever knew how good
Alfred was to me in the days when all
yes, Louisa, you and Pierson, too
turned their back upon me. Ah, you
never knew it, but I went up into the
old garret one day, with a clothes line,
to hang myself. There didn't seem to
be anything else to do. And Alfred
came after me it was when that little
baby of theirs was so ill of croup, and
he was looking for herbs to make herb
tea and I tell you he talked to me as
no one else had ever done. And he
took his last five hundred dollars out
of the bank and packed me off to South
America with it. Oh, I sent back the
money long ago I But what could pay
for the kind words and the helping
hand eh? Poor Alfred! So he s
dead? And that pretty little wife of
his and the child? She crew up,
didn't she? What has become of her?
I mean to go out to Elmville to-morrow
and see after the child. They
called her some strange Spanish name
Isidora or Isola. Alfred's wife was
always fanciful. "
Mr. Pierson Garrick swallowed his
soup silently. Mrs. Garrick and her
daughter exchanged glances behind the
tea urn.
How lucky it was that thev had sent
their country oousiu away 1 For the
Garricks were money worshipers, and
the idea of diverting one cent of Ben's
fortune from their own coffers was
terrible to them.
Benjamin Garrick went to Elmville
the next day. but to no purpose.
The old house was closed, padlocked.
and drifted knee high with frozen
January snows, and no one could tell
him what had become of the solitary
child with the strange Spanish name.
And no one sympathized more deep
ly with him iu his disappointment
than Cornelia Uarrick !
Isola had heard her father speak of
the wayward oonmn who had drifted
off into the auriferous South, but that
was all. Of his return she knew noth
ing, or she might have felt more hope'
ful that evening when the floor-walker
notified her in an incidental way that,
as it was necessary to cut down their
expenses after the holidays, they had
decided to dispense with her services
thereafter.
Poor Isola! 'Did the floor-walker
know that she had but twenty-five
cents in her pocket? that she was in
debt to the oonfectioner's wife? that
iu all the great, dreary city she knew
not whither to turn?
The man made some little careless
jest as he counted out their week's sal
ary, minus sundry fines, to her and
the five other victims who were on the
discharge list.
- They looked blankly at ei-ch other,
but went quietly away. What else was
there to do?
"I must go to Mrs. Pierson Garrick
now," eaid Isola, "even though she
stared me full in the face and never
chose to recognize me to-day. She is
at least a woman, and she has a daugh
ter of my Awn age." -
The next day she paid her .small
stock of money to the confectioner's
wife for the board bill it was little
enough, and the poor woman had sore
need of it and walked through the
deep snow to the handsome house on
Lexington avenue.
As she stood hesitating at the foot
of the steps, a stout, elderly gentle
man, dressed in a tall silk hat and a
fur -trimmed overcoat, came down
them.
lie glanced casually at her, but she
had turned away her face. It seemed
as if everybody must know that she
was a beggar, and the shame of it
oh, the shame of it !
"Pretty girl," said Cousin Ben to
himself. "Hangs down her head too
much, though."
"He has a kind face," thought Isola.
"I wish Uncle Pierson was like him."
And then she timidly ascended the
slippery steps and rang the bell.
Mrs. FierBon Garrick was adding up
her housekeeping accounts in a pretty
little room opening from her husband's
library. Between the two apartments
hung a portiere of richly -colored Ital
ian silk.
She looked up indignantly as the
parlor maid ushered in the unwelcome
visitant. Fair Cornelia raised her
eyes from the novel she was reading.
"Well. I declare I" cried she. "And
wbtit is it that brings you here, Isola?
Did not mamma tell you that you must
depend on yourself?"
"I never saw such assurance in my
life!' said Mrs. Pierson Garriok, grow
ing very red.
Isola looked piteously from one to
the other,
'J ky UM to Upe4 outtjiolf,"
said she, "and I have failed. Please
don't look so cruelly at me. All I ask
in a little money to take mo back to
Elmville, I can get housework to do
there, or I can work in the factory.
But oh, this ornel city is killing me !"
She buret into tears; but Mrs. Pier
son Garrick did not relent one whit.
"This is all nonsense, Isola," said
she. "I have already told you that
wo can do nothing for yon. Why
don't you go to the intelligence bu
reaus or the employment agencies?
Mr. Pierson and myself have all we
can do without providing for all our
penniless relations. And I beg you
will go away at once. This is dear
Cornelia's at home day, and I can't
have her nervous system upset. I "
"Hello! what s all this? spoke a
deep voice, and Cousin Ben appeared
from between the rich Roman por
tieres. "Who is this girl? Not Isola,
Alfred Pierson 's daughter? By Jove!
I believe she has hor father's very
eyee ! And what are you bullying her
for, Louisa? Turning her out of your
house? Then, as sure as the world,
I'll go, too. Come here and kiss me,
Isola. I've held you on my knee many
a timo when you were a baby. I'm
your Cousin Ben, and your father was
the best friend I ever had in the world.
And I've looked for you I've hunted
high and low, and these people have
allowed me to believe you were dead.
Yes, Louisa," in answer to Mrs. Gar
rick's pleading glance, "I did go out,
but I returned after a papor I had left
behind me in Pierson's study, and so
I heard it alL I couldn't believe that
a woman could have been so false and
cruel. Little Isola, will you come to
me and be my adopted daughter? I
owe more than that to your father's
child."
And Isola ran, sobbing, into his
arms.
That was the last of all tho dark
days she had endured. Nothing was
too good thenceforward for Cousin
Ben's adopted child.
But Mr. Pierson Garrick shrugged
his shoulders. He was one who al
ways laid the blame of things on other
shoulders.
"You have outmanaged yourself,
Louisa," said he. Saturday Night.
Poisoned Arrows.
Poisoned arrows have been in use
since time out of memory. We have
it on the authority of both Strabo and
Aristotle that the ancient Gauls poi
soned both their arrows and the shafts
of their spears with a preparation of
vegetable poison extracted from what
is now believed to have boen a species
of hollobore. The Scythians went a
step farther and used the venom of
serpents intermixed with the virus of
putrid blood, the latter being one of
the most active and incurable of tho
poisons known even to-day.
The natives of Japan, the Ainos,
prepare their arrow poisons from a se
cretion of the bamboo, and the same
may be said of the Aborigines of Bor
neo, Java and Now Guinea.
In Central aqd South America the
"Woorora" poison was the terror of
the early explorers, as well as of the
modern scientific expeditions. Analyses
of several specimens of arrows rubbed
with this poison prove it to be a mix
ture of rattlesnake venom, putrid
blood and juice from the plant or tree
which produces tho strychnine of
commerce.
Among the North American Indians
the Sioux, the Apaches, Comanches,
tha Bannocks, the Shoshones and the
Blackfeet were the chief tribes which
used poisoned war implements. The
Sioux obtained their supply of venom
and virus by foroing large rattlesnakes
to strike- their fangs repeatedly into
the liver or kidney of a deer or buf
falo, and then allowing the meat to
putrefy. When a war party went out,
one of their number was made bearer
of t.his putrid, venom-soaked mass,
aud whenever a battle was imminent
each brave would take turns at jab
bing his arrows into the poison.
Among the other tribes mentioned, al
though the process of obtaining the
poison supply was not always inden
tion! with the above, the general mo
dus operandi and results were very
similar. St. Louis Republic
Much Like a Man,
The Kulu Kamba is more like a hu
man being, according to Professor
Garner, than any other animal. The
principal difference between the phys
ical organization of a human being
and a gorilla, aooording to the same
authority, is that the spine of the
gorilla is not so regularly jointed as
that of a man, some of the joints hav
ing seemingly gone into partnership.
The difference, or to put it more finely
the distinction, between the chimpan
zee and the Kulu Kamba is still a mat
ter of conjecture, Professor Gamer
says, as he does not possoss a skeleton
of the Kulu Kamba. Skeletons of
gorillas and chimpanzees aro the same
to him as a varied collection of pipes
are -to some men, and he expects to bo
just as well supplied with the inani
mate remains of Kulu Kambas Boine
day. Having been in Africa on scien
tific exploration bent, he naturally in
tends to go again. The African fever
seldom leaves a man upon whom it has
once taken a grip. Pall Mall Budget.
Remarkable Little Magnets,
A magnet which the great Sir Isaao
Newton wore as a set in his finger ring
is said to have been capable of raising
746 grains, or about 250 times its own
weight of three grains, and to have
been much admired in consequence of
its phenomenal power. One which
formerly belonged to Sir John Leslie,
and which is now in the Royal So
ciety's collection at Edinburgh, has
still great powers. It weighs but lit
tle more than Newton's curiosity
even 8 grains yet it is capable of
supporting 1560 grains, and is, there
fore, the strongest magnet of its tt
iatbe woilX at, Louw buMo,
THE POSTAL GRAVEYARD.
THE WOHK.IHGSOF THE DEAD LET
TER OFFICE.
A System of the PostofTlee Depart
ment About Which There is Al
ways Something New to be Told.
THE infinite pains taken by
this great Government of
ours with even the most
trifling interests of its 60,-
f 100,000 of people is most forcibly il
iuI rated in tho workings of tho Dead
Letter Office. Tho scrawl of the
illiterate receives as close attention as
the polished chirography t the uni
versity graduate, a modest penny aa
much care in the handling as a preten
tious $100. Six million pieces of un
delivered mail mutter are annually
received atthe Dead Letter Office, and
and not one, however insignificant, is
overlooked or slighted, according to a
writer in Harper's Young People.
Early each morning the great Gov
ernment wagons marked United States
Mail may be seen lumbering through
the stone aroh way leading into the court
of the Postoffice Department Building.
Here they are speedily unloaded, and
the great leather pouches quickly dis
appear, being borno by tho messen
gers to the elevator, and then to tho
Dead Letter Office. ' Each one of tho
20,000 dead letters received daily
passes at least through the hands of
three clerks, and should it chance to
contain anything of money value,
through at least three more.
A "dead" letter, strictly speaking,
is one that bears a correct address, ia
fully prepaid, and has been duly de
livered at tho office of destination.
Remaining there unclaimed for one
week, such letters are advertised lor
the period prescribed by law, and
then sent to the Dead Letter Office.
Here, first of all, each day's "dead"
mail must be accurately counted, and
a correct record made of the number
of letters and packages. There are
usually four clerks employed on this
work. Shonld any ignorant or care
less postmaster send in with his
"deads" a letter bearing a written or
printed card or request, a letter with no
address, one without a stamp, or one
bearing a foreign stamp, the counting
clerk must winnow them out and rec
tify, as far as he can, these errors,
Being counted, they aro tied in bun
dles of usually 100 each by the mes
sengers. They are now ready for the
second set of clerks, whose duty it U
to "violate tho sanctity, of tho seal"
with the long, keen knives with which
they are provided. It is curious to
watch these men. With one quiok
stroke the envelope is split lougthwieo
and in the next instant the contents
are deftly extracted and examined, and
if of no money value quickly laid aside
and another taken up. Each opener
averages about 2500 letters per day,
Should the letter chonce to contain
money, even a single cent, a stamp, a
postal note, a money-order, green'
backs, notes, drafts, checks or any le
gal tender, he immediately seizes a
pencil, notes the kind and value ol
the find on the envelope, and beneath
it places his own initials. Beside
this he has a small blank-book in whioh
he makes a duplicate entry, and in ad'
dition adds the name and nddresf
found on the letter. This work he
usually does at the close of the day,
and then both letters and book are
given in charge to the chief of the
division.
Whenever it is possible tho letter
with its contents is returned to tho
sender in care of the postmaster, who
is responsible for its safe delivery,
and who must return a receipt lor 11
to tho department. Every possible
protection is thus thrown around it.
When the money cannot be thus re-
turned, on account of the failtirre ol
the writer to sign his name or ad
dress, then it is held in tho office for a
year, in the hope that it may be op-
plied for. Failing in this, the monej
is turned into Unole Sam's already
corpulent money bags.
The oarelosHuess of the people in
sendiug money is almost incredible.
About 1500 letters that bear no ad
dress whatever are received each
month, and, curiously enough, they
very often contain money or its equiv
alent. I recall one that came undei
my own observation that revealed,
when opened, drafts to the amount ol
$2500.
Accurate records are kept of alh
valnable letters and their final dispo
sition. In round numbers about
$30,000 are received in cash annually,
aud $1,400,000 in drafts, notes, etc.
The remaining dead lotters, that have
only their literary merit to commend
them, or want of it to condemn them,
are given one last chance before being
consigned te the waste paper dealer.
They are placed in the hands of clerks,
who do their utmobt to return them
to their writers a thankless task at
best. Each clerk is expected to av
erage at least 250 per day, and tho
supply is never exhausted.
Iu addition to the "deads" there U
another class termed "unmailablo,"
that includes such as aro held for post
age, sent from hotels, fictitious and
misdirected. The oldest class of un
bailable letters are the misdirected.
These form a curious study, and are
accorded careful special treatment
They number about 2000 daily. They
are forwardod daily from the mailing
oflioes, not being detained or adver
tised asd letters are. Postmasters
are m Lb to deliver them on acoount
of some error of deficiency in the ad
dress, or because the writing is illegi
ble. Tho clerks ou this work have
from long experience become vory ex
pert in handliug these ldtters, and de
liver muuy thousands yearly.
The Sultan of Turkey has issued a
decree that three oopies of every book
and pamphlet issued since he ascended
the throne must be seut to his Ijew Ji.
brary at t'onstautiuyplvi
KCIEMIFIU ASD IXDUSTKIAL.
The English langttage contains forty
one distinct sounds.
When oxygen is in a liquid state it
is strongly attracted by a powerful
electro magnet.
The beef extract foctorios in South
America make one pound of extract
from thirty-four pounds of meat.
A cubic foot of new fallen snow
weighs five and one-half pounds on tho
average, and-has twelve times the bulk
of an equal weight of water.
It is strange, though true, that in
Asia and Africa, where grass will not
grow, the most beautiful flowers and
shrubs flourish to perfection.
In filing band saws, tic a string
where you begin to file, and then you
can tell when you get around, and
therefore all the teeth will be sharp,
and you will not file any of them twice.
Dr. O. V. Thayer, of San Francisco,
has successfully used the solar cautery
burning glass in removing facial
discolorations of the skin of large area,
also in removing tattoo or India ink
marks.
At the two large abattoirs of Lyons,
France, the guards protect the ani
mals to be slaughtered from seeing
anything connected with the slaught
ering of other animals ; a terror is
found to have an injurious effect upon
the secretions and flesh of dumb
creatures.
Refined erystalized sugar, whether
made from the beet or the sugar cane,
is almost chemically pure and sac
charose, and is the same substance in
both cases. Few articles of food are
so generally free from adulteration as
granulated not powdered or coffee
crushed sugar.
The rate of mortality of London is
shown by a recent report to have
steadily decreased with the introduc
tion and perfection of adequate means
of disposing of the sewage of the city.
At tho end of the eighteenth century
the annual average mortality was esti
mated at fifty per 1000, and in 1892 it
had dropped to 10.1 per 1000.
In South America among the moun
tains the evergreen oak begins to ap
pear at about 5500 feet, and is found
up to the limit of the continuous
forest, which is about 10,000 feet. The
valuable cinchona tree, from which
Peruvian bark is obtained, has a range
of elevation on the mountain slopes
running from 4900 to UoOO feet.
- In the prooess of extracting gold
from its ores molten lead is used in
stead of mercury. The lead is melted
on a shallow hearth and the powdered
ore is fed at oue end and carrie 1 for
ward as a film over tho surface of the
lead by means of an azitator moving
over it. It is thus brought to the
other end, where it escapes through a
hopper. Jn order to prevent oxida
tiou of the lead the chamber is kept
filled with carbonic oxide from a gas
producer.
A Man With Three Lpk.
Of late years I have lost all trace ot
my old and oddly malformed friend,
George Leppert, whom I first met at
Tiffin, Ohio, m 1HS1. ueorge was a
Bavarian by birth, and came to this
country twelve years ago, settling nt
Baltimore, where he followed the trade
of a wood-carver. Should you happen
to meet him on the street yon would
notice nothing peculiar cither in his
gait or general makeup, unless it was
that the right leg of his trousers was
something near twioe tho size of the
left, and too full to wrinkle besides.
This lopsided appearance was caused
by a remarkable malformation, Mr.
Leppert being the not over proud pos
sessor of two right legs aud one left ;
or, in other words, of three perfectly
formed lower limbs. I often remarked
that should nature, through some of
her odd freaks, choose to increase my
normal supply of lej,'S by fifty per
cent. I would do my best to play the
$100-a-wcek fiddle iu a dime museum
before the setting of the sun on the
day following the addition of the ex
tra member to my anatomy.
Ho often told me that when he was
a small boy in his Bavarian home he
had perfect use of all three of his legs,
but when I saw him last inl8S7 tho
extra member was slightly paralyzed,
probably the result of being bound to
its companion, an operation that was
uecessnry in order to get both into
one trousers leg. When I last heard
from him, iu 1801, he was at the IVllo
vue (N. Y.) Hospital, undergoing
treatment for rheumatism. St. Louis
Republic.
The First Iron Bridge.
The first iron bridge ever erected
in tho world, and which is in constant
use at tho present time, spans a little
river to the County of Salop, on the
railroad leading from Shrewsbury to
Worcester, England. It was built iu
tho year 1778, is exactly ninety-six
feet in length; total amount of iron
used in construction, 378 tons.
Stephenson, tho great engineer, in
writing concerning it, said: "When
we consider the fact that the casting
of iron was at that time iu its infuuey,
we are convinced that unblushing
audaoity alone could conceive and
carry into execution Bitch an under
taking." St. Louis Republic.
Effects ot Electricity on Lunatics.
It is said that when the electrio cur
rent was turned on the circuits at
Long View Insane Asylum, at Cincin
nati, Ohio, for the first time, the iu
saue patients were much afleoted.
They tossed their hands about, tell
iuto each other's embrace, danced with
glee aud displayed au exaltatiou such
as irrational animals sometimes do
when stirred by emotional music. Im
provement in many of tho patients
has been noted, due, it is believed, to
the buoyant effect on the system of tho
luryrUv. NW York, Xsltrauj,
POET AND PEASANT.
A poet and poasnnt, slds by side,
Together dwelt within the self-same townj
Tbe poet's fame was noted far and wide,
The peasant's not beyond the township's
bound.
The poet sang of love and household joys,
But nnithnr wife nor children made him
glad;
The peasant had a wife, two girls and boys,
Who with him lived and his small cot tag.
shared.
Tho poet roused, ''What la this gift of mine?
'Tia but a dream, a hollow drnam ot bliss f
I would exchange it gladly at the shrine
Of Hymen's altar for a yountf child's kiss."
The peasant sighed while nt his dally task,
Turning tho furroirs while he held tbo
rlow ;
"Had I my nelghhor's gift I would not ask
For higher honors to bodeclc my brow."
i
Ah ! such U life, common fate of all,
With pain and pleasure ever strangely
lilCDt ;
Tbe gilts we crave on othors lightly fall.
And with our own wo never seem content,
Boston Tost.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
The man who labors under a delu
sion works for a bad paymaster.
Anybody can see through peoplo
who make spectacles of themselves.
Dallas News.
The borrower is a good deal like pie
crust he is very "short" and very
sweet. Truth.
When a man has no bills against
him he must feel as if he belongad to
tho nobility. Texas Sittings.
Eating one's own words isn't exaotly
a love-feast, but sometimes our friends
enjoy seeing us do it. Truth.
A man's worth and what a man's
worth, are, it frequently happens,
widely different things. Puck.
If a man gets up when the day breaks
can he be said to hive a whole day be
foro him? Minneapolis Times.
Sneezing is probably an effort of.
nature to force lazy people to take
somo exercise. Milwaukee Journal.';
Cholly "Yaas, we missed each other
in tho crowd." She "That's juct liko
her. She's always losing things."
Life. ,
A large part, of tho average hack- '
man's success is doubtless due to his
knowing how to take people. Buffalo
Courier.
Clarissa "I owe you an apology,
dearest." Fred "Don't speak of it.
I wish to remain a preferred credi
tor." Puck.
"And do you ever invito your poof
relations to visit you?" "O yes, in
deed. You see they are all too poor
to get here." Judge.
"Bilkein's is a strong face, or I'm
no judgeof physiognomy." "Itought
to be. He and his whole family aro
living on it." Buffalo Courier.
Mamma "Aren't you home from
school earlier than usual to-day?"
Bobby "Yes, mamma, I wasn't kepi
in to-day." Harper's Young People.
"I wonder what this image repre
sents?" "The god of humor, proba
bly. Don't yon sea that it is full of
little funny cracks?" Indiapolis Jour
nal. "Why in the world do you want to
got your daughter a violiu, Jawaon?
She is not musical, is she?" "Not at
all; but violins have chin rests."
Judge.
Jinks "I don't think it looks well
for a minister to wear diamonds."
Ellkins "Why not? Aren't thero
sermons in Btones?" Kate Field's
Washington.
"I wonder how it was discovered
that fish was a braiu food?" She
"Probably by the wonderful stories
that meu tell who go fishing." Chi
cago Inter-Oceau.
He "Did you ever hear that Jag
son's wife speaks two languages?"
She --"Yes." He "What aro theyl
'The one for company and the othel
for Jagson. ' " Iuter-Ocean.
"Now, what must I do with this
wedding cake to dream of it?" asked a
gushing damsel of a matter-of-fact
young man. "Just eat it; that's
all," was the reply. Tid-Bita.
She "Tell me, now, have your af
fecous always remained constant?"
He "I can truthfully sny that they
have, though I admit that thoir object
has often changed." Boston Tran
script. Muggins "Some people are never
satisfied to know that certain things
are so, but are contiually wanting to
know the why aud whereof of it."
Buggins "Yes, I wonder why it is?"
Philadelphia Record.
"It's bad luck," said the bad boy,
"to give a person something sharp or
pointed. 1 shouldn't be a bit sur
prised if youug Mr. Jinkles and I
were to part friendship after I leave
this pin in his chair for him." Wash
ington Star.
Bartender--"Look here, there I
That'll do ! I've counted ten crackers
aud Bereu junks of beef you've eaten
already." Hungry Oue "They hire
you to tend here, dou't they? One
lunch counter is enough see?" Bos
ton Transcript.
Timid Young Author "Haveu'tyou
read uiy poem too hastily? I'm sure,
sir, it has some good features about it
that you would see ou a more careful
reading." Editor (with a sudden sus
picion) "You are not trying to work
off au acrostic ou us, are you, miss?"
Chicago Tribune.
Penelope (triumphantly) "I heard
last night that Jack was head over ears
iu love with tue. " Grace (jealously)
"You cannot believe ail you hear."
1'euelope- "No, but 1 should uot won
der if there was something iu it."
Graoo -"Why! Who told you?'" Fcua