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ovumucaueu.
Ono-sovonth of the" territory of
France in oomposed of forests.
American watches nro now made
equal to those that come from Switz
erland. Butter has not depreciated in price
like grain, note the American Farmer.
It in higher now than whon wheat wag
SI and rye and corn sixty oonts a
bushel.
At Washington, alleges the Detroit
Free Tress, there is a list of all the
known Anarchists in the world, and
their plnoe of residence when last
heard from. Tho French Government
has a similar lint.
Tho Southern States are said to
contain at least 70,000,000 acres of
waste land which might bo devoted to
tho production of rice. This would
increase the present annual crop of
237,000,000 pounds to 70,000,000,000
pounds.
In Nanking, China, a poor man can
limit his food bill to two cents a day,
and on $4 a mouth ho cau support a
family and lay up money. A good
farm hand can be hired for (12 a year.
A man cau be well fed and woll dressed
on a dollar a month.
Judge Colt, of the United States
Conrt of Boston, has denied the appli
cation of Shcbaxto Suito, a Jap, for
naturalization papers. He holds that
Japanose, as well as Chinoso, are ex
cluded by the expression, "white
mon," in tho Chinese exclusion act.
It is proposed to establish an inter
national marriage bureau, with head
quarters in Berne, Switzerland, for
the purpose of regulatiug marriages
between natives of different countries
and so doing away with the anomalies
nnd cruelties which at present too
often result from marriages between
aliens.
There is a dearth of good poetry in
these times, according to the poetical
editor of a New York magazine. He
says that the demand for it has for a
good while been greater than the sup
ply, and he believes that the pro
ducers of it have been discouraged by
the newspapers. For years past a
number of papers have often taken
occasion to Bneer at a great deal of
the poetry throwj on the market, and
the younger poets especially have felt
disheartened under the slighting re
marks of writers who were unable to
appreoiate their verse. It is evident
that these poets are determined to
withhold their products from the pub
lic until such time aj they can have a
reasonable assuraaoe of better treat
ment. The older poets are hardened
against abuse, but they cannot turn
out poetry every day.
' -Alaska has been a part of the United
States since 1867, and of late has been
rapidly growing in commercial im
portance, enforcing the need of the
statutes and the enactment of a sys
tematic code for the regulation of its
concerns. It is as large as England,
Ireland, France and Spain put to
gether, containing 585,000 square
miles, so that it is no pocket borough
or Northwestern Rhode Island which
is to be legislated for, but a spacious
and stretching territory likely in time
to beoome of the first commercial and
other importance. Its fisheries stand
in the first rauk, its production of
gold increases year by year, and may
some time be as abundaut as that of
California or Middle Africa, and it
possesses many other productive
capabilities likely to be rapidly de
veloped. Immigration thero shows a
steady increasing volume, as do its
tables of export and import, and alto
gether it is entitled to the most seri
ous and attentive legislative considera
tion. The statement that advices have
been received at Copenhagen, by way
of Greenland, that the two young
Swedish botanists, Bjorling and Kall
stenius, had started for Labrador in
a small open boat will revive interest
in these hardy explorers, thiuks the
New York Press. Bjlorling and Ilall
stenius, with five assistants, set out
two years ago on a voyage of discovery
in the Arctio regions. Their hazard
ous expedition awakened much atten
tion at that time from the fact that the
young men defrayed the expenses of
the journey out of their own limited
resources and were actuated purely by
enthusiasm for scieL title research.
Nothing had been heard from them
for a long time, although repeated ef
forts hud been made to fiud traces of
them, and it had begun to be feared
that they had suffered the fate of so
many others who have braved
the perils of the polar zone. Many
besides relatives and frieuds will hope
that the brave Swedish explorers will
yet be restored to their homes,
The value of tho steel manufactured
in tho United States every year is
abont $500,000,000.
The oombined assets of tho Roth
sohild family in Europe aro not less,
it is said, than 12,000,000,000.
Since Denmark established dairy
schools and made a science of butter
making 100,000,000 pounds of butter
have been exported from the country
annually.
The Japanese in New York have
formed a sooicty to promote tho wel
fare of their peoplo in that city. The
first Btep to be taken will be to estab
lish a free night school, where lectures
on pertinent subjects will be given.
It is estimated by the New York
Witness that $1,500,000 worth of fire
works are imported into the United
States each year three-quarters of
which are used on the Fourth of July.
How many boys bid farewell to fingers
or thumbs is not Btated.
The Atlanta Constitution observes :
An interesting plan is under discus
sion in the Legislature of the colony
of Victoria, Australia, for the relief of
farmers who wish to borrow money
on their land. The Savings Bank
Commissioners are to be authorized
to "assist produoors" by lending them
money to the amount of half tho value
of their land, under a plan by which
borrowers will repay principal and
five per cent, intorcst in extended
half-yearly installments. The Com
missioners would be recouped by four
per cent, mortgage bonds, issued
locally and guaranteed by the Govern
ment. The hatred of Italians in Franoe by
the French lower classes, intense be
fore the assassination of President
Carnot, has beoome so bitter that the
Italians are fleeing for their lives
from many sections of France, states
the Chioago Record. The people of
Italy are maddened by this unreason
able hatred, and in Turin and other
places reprisals have already com
menced against French residents. The
little fire of individual persecution
blazes brightly now. There is danger
that it may extend and beoome a con
flagration of international war. There
has been no love lost between the
countries for years.
Tho Louisiana Legislature has with
out opposition voted an appropriation
for the construction of a bust or statue
of Thorny Lafon, the colored philan
thropist, who died in New Orleans a
few months ago. The Governor will
have the selection of the statue, and
will deoido upon its location. It will
probably be placed in the State House.
It is asserted that this is the first
statue ever erected to a colored man
in the South, and one of the first in
the country. Lofon, who was eighty
years old when he died, left a fortune
of $600,000, nearly all of it to charity.
He founded an asylum for old people
and one for girls, and gave the rest to
other benevolent institutions. His
original intention was to make these
institutions open to both white and
colored, but he was persuaded to
abandon that idea because the whites
are already well provided with elee
mosynary institutions.
The Louisville Courier-Journal re
marks: "Congress was quite right to
make Labor Day a National holiday.
It does not matter what motives
urged Congress to do such a thing.
There is nothing the American peoplo
need more than holidays. We haven't
anything like enough of them. There
is too much striving and scraping1, too
much work and more worry, too fast
a pace and too little rest, too much
burning of the caudle at both ends,
too much high-pressure living. We
don't know enough about how to rest.
We too rarely invite our souls to mer
riment, but keep body and brain bent
upon the wheel of daily cares, and
pride ourselves more upon showing
how far we can defy nature than how
wisely we cau conserve it forces. It
is telling on us. Nature is beginning
to exaot its debt, sometimes all at
once in the suddeu breakdown of a
vigorous physique, sometimes with the
usury of a wicked mind, often in the
shattering of nerves and the enforced
rest that comes too late to comfort
and repair. We have been spend
thrifts of our energies, and have be
gun to think of economy none too
soon to avert bankruptcy. Plenty of
holidays, plenty of outings, plouty of
parks, plenty of nonsense, plenty of
fun aud frolic that's the prescription
for the overworked, overworried
American. He wants now and then
to lose the trail of the dollar and cool
the fever of chasing it. He needs to
coin some of his time into health aud
happiness and not all of it into
money.
FOUND THE YEAR,
Oh, beautiful world of green 1
When bluebirds enrol olear,
And rills outlenp,
And new buds peep,
And the soft sky seems more near.
With billowy green, and leaves, what then?
How soon we great the red again 1
Oh, radiant world of red !
When roses blush so fair,
And winds blow sweet,
And lambkins bleat,
And the bees hum here and there.
With trill of bobolinks Ah, then,
Before we know, the gold again I
Oh, beautiful world of gold '
When waving grain Is ripe,
And applos beam,
Through the hnsy gleam,
And quails on th ienoe-rall pipe.
With pattering nuts, and winds, why then
Bow swiftly falls the white again I
Oh, wonderful world of white t
When troes are hung with laoe,
And the rough winds chide,
And snowflakes hide
Each bleak, unsheltered place.
When birds and brooks are dumb, what
then?
Oh, round we go to green again I
George Cooper.tn New York Independent.
ANGEL,
BY MRS. It. L. BAYNE.
A-V-Y, oh, D-a-y-y,
o-o-m-e h-o-m-e ;
m-a-m-ni-a w-a-n-ts
y-o-u."
The mother's
call rang ont clear
and good-natured
ly shrill over the
long garden where
the convolvulus
M3 3 beWs were closing,
irA-' J and the nastur
tiums nodded their yellow heads, and
reached the ears of a little boy who
was playing "all by his lonesome in
the old-fashioned summer-house at the
foot of the garden.
"Tummin", mamma," came book the
quick answer, and Mrs. Pond, Davy's
mother, went back to her pleasant
sitting-room and the company of a
neighbor who had called.
"He's a strange child, Davy is,"
said the mother.
This was no gossip she was talking
to, and it was a relief to speak of Da
vid's peculiarities to one who would
listen to her, and aid her by advioe or
sympathy. The child's father looked
npon her fears as the expression of
rank heresy. His Davy his little
man I There never was such a boy in
the world, none as bright and com
panionable. At the same time the
father knew that his boy was not quite
like other children, or why would he
prefer to play alone rather than with
the little ones of the neighborhood?
"Yes," Mrs. Pond was saying, "he
talks to himself nearly all the time. I
can hear him ia the arbor, and I have
stolen down there often, but he was
always alone, playing with the leaves,
or talking in a low voice. And he has
hallucinations. I know it, beoause he
talks in his dreams of a plavfellow he
calls 'Angel.'"
"Perhaps," suggested the neighbor,
cautiously, "he really does see the
angels. I read in a book once a story
of an old lady who had died but
couldn't rest in her grave beoause she
had hidden her will, and her nieoe, to
whom her money was left, could not
find it. So she came back to earth to
try and show her where the will was.
The girl eould not see her, but walked
through and through her, but the dog
could see her and the child in the
cradle, and it reached out its hands to
her."
"That," said Davy's mother, "is
only a book story. I couldn't believe
it if I tried."
I "I believe there are influences we
do not know how to receive," said the
other women ; "some are born of flame,
some of flesh and some of the spirit.
Perhaps Davy is under control ; he
may have visions."
At that moment the little fellow
came running in. He was a pretty
boy, but not healthy-looking. His
soft, curling hair lay in rings on a
pale, high forehead. A blue mark,
said to predict early death, lay between
his delicate brows. The same blue ap
pearance fettled about his mouth. He
panted, with the exertion of running.
Mrs. Pond looked meaningly at her
iriend and began to question the ohild
in the lingo of mothers.
"Where has Davy been?"
"Play in' wif Angel."
"Why doesn't Davy bring Angel
home?"
"Angel won't come."
"Where does Angel go when Davy
comes in the house?"
"Davy doesn't know."
The child spoke with a sad regret,
even as the little boy in the story of
the Pied Piper, who all his life
lamented that because he was lame he
did not get to the cave in time to be
swallowed up with the other children,
but only caught one glimpse of the
wonderful country into which they
were gone.
Another year has passed over Davy's
yellow head. He is in a new country,
but he knows little of it. From the
garden of Iowa to the garden of Michi
gan is not a great change to a child
who is so ill he must be carried on a
pillow all the way. He had fallen
siok and faded from the day, almost
from the hour, when the family left
their old home, and he was torn, sob
bing aud unhappy, from the old arbor
and his "dear Augel."
His mother hud been very patient
with him and the kind neighbor who
came to see him oil told him that
angels went everywhere; they were
not subject to rules like other people,
aud did not need to be conveyed by
steam curs or boats from one point to
another. But Davy wai not comforted.
It was strange then and it seemed
stranger afterward when they thought
about it, although none of them sus
pected the truth. Davy's lather took
it for granted that the boy was play
ing that he had an angel visitor, just
as children play "house" or "com
pany" to amuse themselves. Once ho
had stolen on Davy unawares, not to
surprise any celestial visitor the big,
healthy man would have laughed at
such a delusion but to make the boy
scream with the happy surprise of see
ing him. And he had heard a strange,
low singing, something like the sing
ing of a bird, but of no bird he had
ever listened to, and it surprised him
greatly. When he ponnoed on Davy
from the door of the arbor the boy
was alone, but there was a strange
rustling of the loaves and bushes, as
if from some invisible presence.
"Were yon singing, Davy?"
"No, papa."
"Who then, my boy?"
"Angel," and the child hung his
head.
And Mr. Pond did what he was sorry
for long after. ' He Bhook the child
angrily, and insisted npon a descrip
tion of the angel who was supplanting
father and mother in the heart of the
boy. But Davy would only sob and
say, as he had often done before, that
his angel was "boo'ful, an' Davy loves
him."
It was circus day in the new town
to which Davy's folks had moved, and
Mr. Pond tried to interest the child in
the street parade, but his sick senses
were wholly inadequate to the task.
The disappointed man bore the little
white-robed form baok from the low
window opening on the lawn, and laid
him on the pillow with a sinking
heart. He knew now, what neither
dootor nor parson oonld have made
him believe, that the hours of the
boy's life were numbered. if the
prancing horses, the gay bands of mu
sic, the wonderful animals, could not
charm away his sickness, then noth
ing could help him, and the father
cursed, in the feeble fashion of impo
tent humanity, the unknown evil that
was destroying his child.
While the child lay panting on his
pillow, there was lively scene under
the big oircus tent where a great many
things were going on at once. It is
only with one part of the circus that
this story has to do, and that is known
as the side show. It was the tent of
the beautiful and renowned Mme.
Selika Houssan, the oriental snake
charmer. This lady was advertised in
mammoth posters as the Queen of
Snake Charmers, and she drew great
crowds, for this was really the part of
the show that answered fully to all its
advertised attraction,. Mme. Hous
san was young and beautiful, and
handled her snakes in the most fear
less and expert manner. She stood
within a railing, and close to her was
a glass case filled with baby snakes,
that looked like silver ropes as they
twinned about a blanket in whioh they
were wrapped. She wore snakes on
her wrists, clasping them like brace
lets. Big boa-oonstrictors wreathed
themselves about her white neck and
shoulders. She would lift their flat
heads, and they would dart their forked
tongues against her cheek, when she
said in her pretty voioe, "kiss me."
Then she would lay them on the shelf
that ran outside of the railing, the
crowd would fall back in a panio, but
the reptiles hung there slightly mov
ing their protruding heads, but not
offering to slip away.
"Now," said the madame, taking out
of its box a beautiful, brilliant-striped
snake of the variety known to natural
ists as the "Colubres Eximius," or
house-snake, "I show you my so uni
que pet, my beauty, lie loves me ;
he knows what I say. nee, how smart
ho is? the nice fellow 1"
Madame put the snake through his
paces, and he was indeed a pet and
prodigy. He saluted her with so many
varieties of Oriental kisses that the
young fellows wanted to strangle him.
Then he playfully bit her finger, and
was scolded, whereupon he sulked.
"Now you shall hear him sing,"
said madame, and, at her prompting,
he gave a little chirping sound that
answered very well for a song, and
was curiously sweet and fascinating.
"Now I shall show you something
so very strange, so uncommon," said
the snake-charmer, and she tied a
piece of bright blue satin ribbon
around the arched neck of the dappled
snake. "You watch, you see. What
you call a transformation scene so. "
The ribbon turned from bright blue
to a pale color. Soon it was intensely,
purely white.
"What does it?" yelled the crowd.
"It is how you call it? electric
snake."
Then to questions by the more curi
ous of the crowd she informed them
glibly that the pet had come to them
when they were performing in Guiana;
that it was a native of the Brazils, aud
that its classic name was "Trigono
cephalus inutus," and that the natives
of that part of the world regarded it
as sacred. All of which was a rodo
montade ont of madame's textbook on
the education of snakes. But the peo
ple swallowed it all and felt that they
were getting their money's worth.
Next iiimUmo laid her pet on the
shelf while she turned the baby snakes
loose.
The crowd lost sight of tho ribbon
decorated pet iu the excitement of
seeing the new excitemout, and so did
madame herself, aud it was not until
she had finished her performance for
that time and reached out for the
pythoness and the anaconda, that she
missed it.
There was an instaut clearing of the
place, people tumbled over each other
in their haste to get away, but never
again did the eyes of Madame Houssan
rest upon her "so unique pet." Hj
had vanished from her horizon forever.
The doctor, who had given Davy up,
his father and mother and a few sor
rowing friends, sat by his pillow and
fanned him incessantly to keep the
breadth of life in his frail little body.
There was no sound of talking or weep
ing, but in utter silence whioh was
suddenly broken by the sweet song
of a bird.
They all heard it and on each it
bad a peculiar influence, something
uncanny, like the spoech of inani
mate things. But Davy was transfig
ured. He lifted himself on his pillow
and, with incredible strength, screamed
at the top of his voioe :
"Angel my boof'l Angel !"
The astonished parents looked at
each other. Then, before they could
speak or move, a strange thing hap
pened, so strange that I, its historian,
will not ask you to believe it without
the evidence of Btranger things that
have previously occurred. A long,
sinuous, brilliantly-marked snake dart
ed in through tho open window and
sought Davy's bed. Those present
fell back in a fright. The next mo
ment it was clasped in the child's
arms, was caressing every line of his
wasted face, singing thst weird song
that sounded like a harp's vibration
and twining itself about the frail body
with a loving clasp. And Davy was
restored bofore their very eyes, say
ing over and over again in his blessed
baby patois: "Me love Angel me so
glad."
How the snake came into the pos
session of the circus can only be
guessed. In its long search for its lit
tle human playmate it had probably
been captured, when its beauty and
tameness made it an attraction. Natu
ralists familiar with- the species as
sured the child's parents that the
snake was as harmless as a kitten, and
as it caused the little fellow's speedy
restoration to health, it was endnred by
them, if not loved. That it had found
Davy by some powerful oocult faoulty
seems certain. It was soon known
that this was the attraction that had
escaped from the cirous, but the oir
cus had gone its way and knew noth
ing of its performer's fate. And Davy's
prior right to his Angel was never
disputed.--Detroit Free Press.
WISE WORDS.
Cupid is thinkless.
Love is the divino hypnotism.
Only a fool fishes with a gold hook.
Custom is oftentimes an ignoramus
grown old.
Occupation is the necessary basis of
all enjoyment.
A woman will do more kindly things
than she will say.
A certain amount of friotion is neces
sary to friendship.
Man's inoonstancy is no greater than
woman's inconsistency.
There are as many men angels as
there are women angels.
Men would be different if their con
sciences were not elastic
Truth is mighty aud will prevail
when there is money in it.
"Love me little, love me long," and
remind me of it occasionally.
An obstinate man does not hold
opinions, but they hold him.
There are many good women who
make bad wives, and vioe versa.
To kick the man who kicks your
dog is no satisfaction to the dog.
When impious men bear sway, the
post of honor is a private station.
"Put yourself in his plaoe," but
don't expect to stay there forever.
What a woman says to-day does not
apply to what she may think to-morrow.
The sunshine of life is made up of
very little' beams, that are bright all
the time.
The chains of habit are too small to
be felt, until they are too strong to
be broken.
Do not wait for extraordinary cir
cumstances to do good actions; try to
use ordinary situations.
Adversity has the effeot of elioiting
talents which in prosperous circum
stances would have lain dormant.
When a man asserts that all men are
rascals at heart, you may be certain
that there is at least one man who is
a rascal at heart.
One difference between wealth and
fame is, fume is what other people
think a man has, and wealth is what
he knows he has.
Curious Habit of Beetle,.
Certain! beetles have long been
known to ejeot or give out a repul
sive fluid from joints of their bodies,
or from their legs, or from eversible
glands. M. Cuenot has recently
studied the oases of . the ejection of
blood from these beetles. The fluid,
however, is not red, as the blood of
insects is either oolorless or slightly
yellowish. Lady birds, oil beetles
aud other vegetable feeders are such
as possess this habit. The winter ha,
added to this list one of our oommou'
beetles whioh sends out a pale milky
fluid smelling like laudanum, the odor
being exactly that emitted by oortaia
moths of the Arctiau family. New
York Independent.
Etna's Climate.
The variations in temperature at the
summit of Mount Etna, whose height
is nearly 11,000 feet, have been re
corded, after many difficulties, by
rrofessors Kioeo and nana. The
climate resembles that of the North
Cape or the Crocken. Automatic or
personal observations on 4'Jt days be
tween August 27, 18!ll, aud February
in, lH'Ji, showed a meau annual tem
perature of twenty-four degrees F.,
with a maximum of sixty-one degrees
aud a maximum of thirty-oue degrees.
the mean daily vunatious was about
thirty in winter and twelve degrees iu
summer. Atlanta J ournal.
A REMARKABLE LIBRARY.
QUEER ABORIGINAL BOOKS OWNED
BT AN ETHNOLOGIST.
Origin or Printing Hooks for the In
dians, With Interesting Facts
About the Cherokee Alphabet.
PERHAPS tho most remarkablo
small library in this country
is the property of James C.
Pilling, the well-known eth
nologist of Washington. It is the
largest existing collection of books in
Indian languages, and of these lan
guages there are no less than fifty-five
in North America north of Mexico.
All of them are distinct tongues, as
different from one another as Chinese
and English.
More than one-half of the 500 dia
lects into which the fifty-five languages
referred to are divided are preserved
in books. It is believed that the first
book printed on this continont was in
an Indian language the "Nahuati"
published at the City of Mexico in
1539. The first Bible printed in
Amerioa was in an Indian tongue the
celebrated Eliot Bible. This is one
of the most costly of all rare bonks.
Abont forth copies of it were specially
prepared with a dedication to Charles
II. One of these, in good condition,
is now worth about $2000.
The first printing done west of tho
Rocky Mountains was in the Nez
Perce language. It was a primer for
Indian children, turned ont from the
mission press at Clearwater, Idaho,
in 1839. Tho press that did the work
had been brought by the missionaries
all the way from the Hawaiian Islands.
The first book printed in Dakota
was a dictionary of the Sioux lauguago,
produoed in 1866 at Fort Laramie.
It was prepared by two officerj of the
United States army, Lieutenants Hyde
and Starring, to pass away the weary
hours during a long and cold winter
at that lonely outpost of civilization.
They were aided in the work by an in
terpreter and by the Indians who
loafed about the fort. The type was
set up by the soldiers, and fifty copies
were struck off on a crude hand press.
Only two copies are now known, one
of them belonging to General Star
ring, of New York, a brother of the
author, and the other to Mr. Pilling.
The only existing alphabet that is
the product of one man's mind and iu
which a literature has been printed
was the invention of a half-breed
Cherokee Indian. His name was
Se-quo-yah, and he had no education
whatever, but it occurred to him that
he could express all the syllables in
the Cherokee tongue by characters.
Finding that there were eighty-six
syllabic sounds in tho language he
devised for eaoh one of them a pe
culiar mark. For some of the marks
he took characters of our own alpha
bet, turning them upside down. With
these symbols he set about writing
letters, and by means of them a cor
respondence was soon maintained be
tween Indians of his raoe in Georgia
and their relatives 500 miles away.
At present this alphabet or, more
properly speaking, syllabary is iu
general use among the Cherokees. Iu
no other language cau the art of read
ing be learned so iiuickly. Whereas
a fairly bright child learns to real
well in English in two and a half years,
a Cherokee youngster is able to ae
quire fluency in reading books writ
ten in this syllabary within two
months and a half. In 1827 the Amer
ican board of foreign missions de
frayed the cost of cisting a font of
typo of the characters. The literature
composed with them is now very ex
tensive, numerous books and some of
the newspapers of the Cherokees be1
ing published in the syllabary.
Later, iu 1810, an improved sylla
bary wail devised by the Rev. James
Evans, a missionary anion? the
Crees. It was phonetic, and the char
acters were simpler, beiu? composed
of squares and parts of squares aud
circles and parts of circles. The zeal
ous clergyman cut his type out ot
wood aud made casting from the orig
inal blocks with lead from tea chest.
whioh he begged from officers of the
Hudson Bay Company. He manufac
tured ink out of soot and on a hand
press of his own construction pnntj.l
many little tracts aud leaflets for the
benefit of tho Indians. Wit h some mod-
incations uis characters nave come
into general use, not only among the
Crees, but also among many tribes of
the Northwest which speak luugii'ize
in no wise akin to that of the Crees,
and scores of books have been printed
in them.
A (Jueer African People,
Strange stories are told of the
Dokos, who live amuug the moist,
warm bamboo woods to the south of
Kaffa aud Susa, in Africa. Only four
feet high, of a dark olive color, savage
and naked, they hive no lire. Tuey
live only ou ants, mice aud Berpjiits,
diversified by a few roots aud fruits,
They lot their nails grow loujj, like
talons, the better to dig for auts, aud
the more easily to tear iu pieces their
favorite snakes. The Dokos use I to
be invaluable as slaves, aud they wer
taken iu large numbers. Tho slavj
hunters used to hold up bright colore 1
clothes us they cune to the Im n'm.i
woods, where these huiu-ia monkeys
still live, and tho poor Dokos coul 1
Hot resist the attractions otl'ered by
such superior people. They crowded
rouu 1 them, au I wd taken in thou
sands. In slavery they were do -ih-,
attached, obedinut, with a few wants
and excellent hjaltli. These queer
people have one fault a love for
nuts, mice aud serpents, and a speak
ing to Yer with their heads ou the
ground au I thuir heels in th air.
Yer is their idea of a superior power,
to whom t'uey talk iu this comical
manner when they are dispirite I or
angry, or tired of auts an I snakes,
and longing for uukuowu fojJ. 'w
York Witness.
BEWITCHED.
I know not If her Angers small
Were brown or snowy white .
How'er I strive I oan't recall
Their form and tint aright.
I know it seemed the softest hand,
The night when Brat we met i
And, oh, the clasp she gave me
I never can forgnt.
I know not if her eyes were blue,
Or jetty black, or gray,
They owned a very charming hue,
But more I cannot say.
Have I forgot I I frankly vow
I'm quite ashamed ; and yet
The gaze within them gleaming
I never oan forget.
I know not where her dimple danced,
If on her cheek or ohln ;
I only know I gazed entranced
And felt my heart fall in.
A dimple 1 'tis a tiny thing
To dream ot and regret ;
But how that dimple twinkled
I never can forget.
-Samuel M. Peok, In Boston Transcript.
HUMOtt OF THE DAY.
A lazy horse always knows his driver.
The eel is not bo slippery as a one
dollar bill.
There is no place like the home of
one's sweetheart. Galveston News.
There is no severer test of self-reliance
than a threadbare suit. Chicago
Herald.
Try as best as she may the woman
suffragist is no gentleman. Adams
Freeman.
Doubt others more and yourself less
and yon will have more backbone to
sell. Tammany Times.
Clerk "Are you going to discharge
me, then?" Druggist "Yes ; I think
we can dispense without you." Har
vard Lampoon.
Little Boy "How long have you
had that doll?" Little miss "This
is a girl doll, an' you oughtn't to ask
her age. " Good News.
Convince some men that it pays to
be good, and you couldn't keep them
out of the churoh with a shotgun.-
Barn's Horn.
"Just think, captain, the major has
actually married the rich old maid."
"Obviously he wanted to have his
golden wedding at once." Fliegenda
Blaetter.
Sadirn "You say Becklesshas sealed
his doom?" Cooley "Yes J I just saw
him lick an envelope which contained
a letter asking Miss Bossall to marry
him." Boston Courier.
Anxious Inquirer (to crnsty old gen
tleman) "When do you suppose this
rain is going to stop?" C. O. G.
"When it gets to the ground, of
course." South Boston News.
Foreign Visitor "Is it true that
one man olton hangs a jury in this
country ?" Litigious Native (with evi
dent rogret) -"Yes, stranger; but not
with a rope. " Buffalo Courier.
"Whur ye bin?" said Meandering
Mike. "Lookin' fur work," replied
Plodding Pete. "Well, you wanter
look out. Yer idle curiosity'U be the
ruination of ye, yit" Washington
Star.
Toby (to ecentrio man) "What are
you doing with that box?" Poperkaq
"Going to make a wagon of it."
Toby "Where'll you get the wheels?"
Popperkaq "Out of your head."
New York Journal.
"Did I tell yon that dear Mrs. Flim
sey has invited me to spend the sum
mer with her?" Madge "No. Then
I was right. You have not known each
other for a very long time, have you?"
Chicago Inter-Ocean. '
The Young Man "Graoie, what is
it your father sees in me to object to,
darling?" The Young Woman (wiping
away a tear) "He doesn't see any
thing in you, Algernon ; that's why he
objeots." Boston Home Journal.
"Can any little boy here," asked
tho visitor, "give mo an example of
the expansion of substances by heat?"
"I can," said Tommy. "Our dog's
tongue is twice as loug now as it was
last winter. " Indianapolis Journal.
Ho "I had my picture taken along
with Nero my big St. Bernard, you
know. May I have the pleasure of
presenting you with a copy ?" She
"Oh, I guess so. I always did admire
a handsome dog," Indianapolis Jour
nal. New Arrival (to subdued-looking man
in the hotel office) -"You are the
clerk of this hotel, I suppose, sir?"
Subdued-looking Man "Oh, you
flatter me, sir I I am only the pro
prietor!" Browning, King & Co.'i
Monthly.
Mrs. Yuarwed (besecchinsrlvi "Oh.
if I only knew some way to keep my
husband at home nights. Can't you,
from your loug married experience,
suggest a plan?" Mrs. Oldhaud (grim
ly) "Certainly ; chain him. "Buf
falo Courier.
Mr. E. Couomio--"Did you write to
that man who advertises to show peo
ple how to make desserts without inilk.
and have them richer?" Mrs. E. Co-
nomio "l'es, aud sent him the dol
lar." "What did he reply?" "lse
cream." New York Weekly.
"Fact iH, " said tho grocer, "there's
no mouey iucolTee nowadays." " That's
comfort, replied tho customer.
"but there's 'most everything else in
it. in the last pound 1 got there were
eight beans, three pros, six shingle
nana and a liaiullnl of gravel stones.
Boston Transcript.
"Did you ever notice," said Mrs.
N. Peek, "that about half the pictures
iu the photographers' windows are of
bridal couple? 1 wouder wiiv they
always rush oft' to a photographer as
soon as the kuot is tied?'' "1 gues
the husband is icmponsililo for it,"
said Mr. Peck, "tie realizes that it
is about his laat chance to ever lojlt
pleasaut. " Ikucinnati Tribune.