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II lie around at like a cloud.
A world wo do not ee;
Vet the sweet closing of an eye.
May bring tu there to be.
It gentle Ircezea fan cur cheek;
Amid oor worldly cares
lta centle voicei whisper lore.
And mingle with our prajera.
Kaeet bearta arouud na throb and beat,
Swett helping hand are attired,
And palpitate the veil between
With breathings almost heard.
Ti e silence awful, aweet and calm
'i hey Lave no power to break;
1 . r mc rt il words are not for them
To utter or partake.
Fo th n, ao soft, so sweet they gild.
So near to press they seem.
I hey seem to loll us to our rest.
And me:t into our dream.
And in the bash of rest they bring
Tis easy now to see.
How lovely and bow aweet a pass
The hoar of death may be.
To close the eye, and close the ear,
Wrapped in a trance of bliss.
An j get-tly dream in loving arms.
To swocn to that from this.
h caret knowing if we wake or alee p.
Scarce asking where we are.
To feel ail evil sink away.
All sorrow and all care.
Sweet touls around as! watch as still,
I'ree nearer to our aide.
Into onr thoughts, into our prayeia.
With gentle ktlping glide
Let death between us be as naught,
A dried and vauisVed stream;
Your joy be the realty.
Cur suffering Ufa a dream.
The Curate's Valentine.
A clerical prig:" said the eldest Miss!
Grantly. ;
"Something has vexed hiui," said the
second. "He looks worried !
"I know what," finished the thiid ; "it
would lie great fun to send him one." i
The three Misses Grantly put their heads j
toother, in order probably to oonverse j
more in private. They need not have been
frightened. Everybody was tired, and j
would have yawned, had such a luxury i
Urn admissible in the the Grantly draw- j
ing-room Tea iiarties are always slow ; :
this one had been very slow, indeed, as Mr", j
Grantly and the colonel, her busliand. j
would be ready to testify, when they hail j
smiled their good-nights to the young i
friends who were staying in their house. j
Amongst their few gui-sts had been the j
curate of the parisli, the Iter. Wilfred Sel- j
turn, called by his intimates. Will ; and he j
had been this evening what the young j
Indies chose to designate "Crawley." In a j
general way he was rather a pet with them, i
He had nothing but his curacy, and lie !
Wsted sometimes of his own cleverness in
making liotli end meet, so that he was not
a dangerous man to know; and then he
was of good family, and could talk well,
and was altogether a very useful creature,
since he never interfered with more eligible
individual. But t"-day something had j
evidently gone wrong with the curate ; he i
!iit only would n'rt exert himself to lie en-1
tertaining, but, w hen he -did speak, it was;
to put aside, with considerable contempt,
the subject on which the sisters were just j
then interested, namely, Valentines.
"In fact," said the eldest sister, "he left
iff to go and flirt with Bell I.indhiirsC Any
one could see that
"Are you sure it's Bell V said another.
"I thought it was Frances."
"Oh. either will do," said the oilier, j
since a man wilh a curacy can only flirt, j
But it's BeiL of course. Well, he has
spoilt our evening completely, and we owe
him something. I wish I could think of a
real good triek."
"I know of something," said tie young
est Miss Grantly. who was also the quiet
est, and had a sad, plaintive way of speak
ing. "But then he would never open a
Valentine."
"Not if he knew it," said the oldest ;
"but he need not. What's your plan f"
There was a go-id deal of whispering, a
little laughing, and then a lull.
"Yes, a large blue envelope official-:
looking und I've got a seal with a Cupid
on it, holding a letter on his arrow ; the
poor stupid man will never see that, and
one must have the sign manual of a Valen
tine aliout it. But then he knows all our
handwriting. I can manage a disguise for
the letter itself, but my disguises are
cramped. If we hud only a free, bold,
natural address outside, lie would never
suspect."
"There's Bell and Francos," put in the
plaintive little voice sadly, whereupon her
sisters applauded.
"A pat on the shoulder for that," said
they. "No, he has never seea Bell's writ
ing. Franky won't do it, she's starched;
but Bell we'll see,"
The three young ladies moved forward
simultaneously.
"Isn't it led time i I m sure you two
poor children arc tired to death. Ob papa,
asleep . You rude man !"
The colonel, of course, declared that he
wasn't, and shouldn't have thought of such
a thing, and then instituted a very wide
awake search after candles, during which
Miss Grantly whispered into Bell Lind
hunst's ear softly, "I'll come to your room
a bit, dear."
The result of that visit was that Bell ad
dressed a missive of whose contents she
was ignorant. It contained, however, a
pretended offering to Mr. Selturn of a rec
torship at Groenham-cum Oakes, by Sir
Harry Lindhurst, her own uncle.
It was not until it began to lie talked of
that Mr. Selturn was going to leave the
parish, that she saw she had been the
means of deceiving liim by a practical joke
Consequently she determined to rectify it
so far as she was able.
She was still at the Gramlys, and Mr.
Selturn was there on a visit. lie having
been a few minutes alone in the drawing
room, was startled by the appearance of
Sir Harry's niece from the conservatory
door.
"Mr. Sslturo," said the young lady, "I
want to speak to you I have done a
very bad thing, " she was going to say, but
checked herself. "I have lent my assist
ance to a practical ke, a tiling I detest aa
much as you can da In the pretended let
ter from my uncle, you should read Oakes
with an II before it. There U no such
place as I know of, and my uncle has only
two livings in his gift Lindhurst Magna
a lindhurst Parva. I directed the letter.
"You :" was all the curate could get out.
'yes," replied Bell ; "but indeed I knew
thing of the contents. You never looked
at the seal, or you would have known it
was a Valentine."
She was gone as quickly aa she bad come.
I don't know what were the curate's
thoughts in the interval which he had yet
to pass, but the other guests were of the
opinion that he was growing into a moody,
taciturn sort of fellow. It fell to bis lot to
take Bell lindhurst in to dinner, and, as
she put her fingers on his arm, he con
trived to touch them, and to say just two
words, 'Thank you."
Taey were all he did say to her. He
was very attentive to his neighbor, on the
other hand, and he exerted himself to talk,
and talked well better than usual, if pos
sible. "Selturn, "said the Colonel once, "what's
this I hear about losing you ?"
"No such luck, replied Will, shaking
his head. "I shall plague you for years.
I'm afraid;" and then be added, looking
amies Uie table "Miss Grantly, if you
were writing a business letter, what style
of seal should you choose P
He said it very quietly, but looked away
from her directly, for he saw that she was
crestfallen, and afraid lest the Colonel
should take up the subject, and investigate
it ; and Will did not bear malice. It was
. .
punishment enough for her that her trick
had. so far as she knew, proved a failure.
And strangely thinking of Bell Lynd
hurat when he got home, he took out the
unhappy Valentine, made a face at the seal,
put the letter the cramped disguise of
which he could detect well enough now
into the fire, and the envelope never mind
where.
It was February again, and the blinds is possible for this perceptive part of the
were down over the rectorv windows of ! brain .o be thrown in;o an active condition
Lindhurst Magna. There was a little re- i 1f independent of the normal stimulus
fc . ! conducted to it from the retina, and under
crct in the village, not much. A good , ciromigtauottl the person apparently
man had gone to his rest, but he had been 1 5,3 an object, which by the law of our
feeble for years, and past his work, so per-1 nature, is projected by him a certain dis
liaps it was as well. lance kefore the eye. This is common
.- ... ,, ,. . . , enough in fevers and in delirium tremens,
I p at the Hall, in the snuggest of snug , - animaIs
morning rooms, there was a young girl m a around tlem whose reality is such that the
riding habit, half kneeling, half crouching, j memory of these becomes a part of the cx
beside an old man, who sat in a big chair, ! perience of their future lives. In mental
grumbling with a gouty foot. And the j derangements these hallucinations are also
b ... , . - t common, and patients see objects and hear
young girl looked very well in her habit, wmVh ,ve no eltcrnal Uu.uoe.
with the col. of exercise on her cheek. ; it jn our dreams, fro-n which we may
and it s light in her eye ; and the baronet, as j lie suddenly roused by a great noise where
he looked at her, thought so, and felt his all is still around, the auditory perceptive
mouth twitch. j centre of the brain having been abnor-
, , .... , , . i mallv excited. In normal conditions the
"ou Gipsy! he said; "so you urlP j gij;h of an object implies the painting of
to hoax the curate, chf Well, I wouldn't ( it on the tiua, as the hearing a noise iiu
have believed it," and the baronet broke plies the vibration of the drum of the ear.
into a laugh, and bade her get on her horse I If sight and hearing occur without these
and be off, rememlH-ring that she was 0!xnial excitants of the nerves the brain
, . , , , . " , , , . . I must have been stimulated from within,
bntig her mother and sister to help him to , amJ Uje implessiong ahnormai aa(1 guw
entertain George's fine new wife, : jective. At the present time we 'have no
On this fourteenth or February Mr. S.-1- : knowledge tliat anything in the likeness of
turn received no Valentines; but he had l P" anything that has not a material
, . . ; basis can excite an image on their retina,
hardlv sat an hour over his unwritten j ,vheMg WC do know that under abnormal
mm when a cab stopped at the door, and 'conditions the brain may be stimulate! so
his landlady ushered in a visitor whom the ! as to produce a visual impression indepen
enrate just knew by sight an elderlv gen-1 dent of any such image on the retina. The
tleinan with a lame foot. I ! . lam f,w
of the appearance which the doctor saw
"I can't offTV03 Greenhara-cuni-Oakes, , 1)oing gui.jectfve rather than objective. We
said Hir Harry, when the preliminaries were have only to supixjse that those very corn
over, "because I don't know the place; but jmon abnormal conditions of braiu which
Lindhurst Mairna has just fallen vacant, as ! are observed in bad health may occur under
" ., ,, . . I exceptional circumstances in an otherwise
you will have seen by he papers tliat is for Uieoccasiona
if you read them. I have heard a good appearanoc f pu03ts. The probabilities
deal about you, though I really didn't know j jjg,, j favor of this view from other
theie was such a person last year when I ' considerations. First, there seeems no rea
bad the honor of receiving hem ! Yes. ' son why the spirits of another world should
Lindhurst is vacant, and it isn't a bad 1 Pfer midnieht f.r their visits, but the rca
.. . , 1 sons are obvious why we should conjure
thing. Will you have it! j them up at that time. Then, again, the
Whatever the curate said in reply, Sir J want of individuality shown by this partic
Harry didn't seem to be taking much notice, j ular ghost, no ordinary mortal would find
for he crumbled the whole time in an under- vnS "Put .W"'1'
' . , . , . .1 u 1 the same place and attitude as before 011
tone about his lame foot, the badness of . appearaurc , ,inlPt M Ma appa.
the railway arrangements, and keeping the rition diil ,ilen dependent was it upon
miserable cab horse in the cold. j the observer, that when the laf.er put his
"Very well," he said at last. It's set- i " UP il and ,I,e
j j- 1 ou the seHnd orcas.on on another move-
tleathen. 1 luo aespaicn. come ana uine ,L How these movements of the I)v
with me to-day. Only a family party. My tor could have affected a real object does
son and his wife, and my brother's widow
and daughters staying in the house, you
know ; no strangers, unless I look in and
see if Ned Grantly can bring his girls.
Catch the two o'clock train, Mr. Selturn ;
and mind, it's always before time in start
ing, and behind at the termiima. There's
only half a mile's walk from Lindhurst sta
tion, and you'll have ample time f 0 dress.
We'll give you a lied."
I don't know what became of Mr. Sel-1 nje had a pretty full growth of grey whU
turn's sermon. Perhaps he finished it be- ; kern. He came to Utica for the signatures
fore he started. At anv rate he did catch
the two o'clock train, and he bad the honor
of eating his dinner with Mr. George Lind
hurst's wife on one side and Miss Grantly
on the other.
"to you are to be the new rector !" said
the latter. "Sir Harry told us aliout it- I
congratulate you." Then, in a half whisper,
"It's better than Greenham cura-Oakes.
Will you forgive me now, Mr. Selturn ?"
But
her to
Will's attention had wandered from
the opposite side of the table. It did
. . i 1 11
not rest there long. He was a sharp fellow
enough, except in the matter of Valentines,
and he saw that his lively neighbor was
watching his movements. During the
whole of the" evening, therefore, he only
spoke once to Bell Lindhurst, and then
only a brief sentence, "I have you to thank
for it."
80 that Miss Grantly, thinking it over on
the way home, said, peevishly, "I can't un
derstand it. If there is anything between
them, they make love like crowned heads."
To which the plaintive sister added, with
a little mournful malice. "He need not only
flirt now, you know. He isn't a poor curate
any longer. I'm afraid you'll miss him,
Cis."
Will's chance came In the early morning,
when he found Bell stepping out of the
breakfast room window to the lawn.
"Ben," said the 0 urate, standing before
her, 'will you coma with ma to Lindhurst
Magna I" "
I don't know what Bell Lindhurst ought
to have said, nor indeed whit was hrr first
impulse ; but chancing to catch sight of his
face, she perceived that he was in spite of
his abruptness, quite as much in what is
called a "state" as the most exacting young
lady could desire. So she said, as steadily
as she could :
"Yes if you want me."
"I do want you," said he. "That Is just
the word. I have had no sun picture of
yon, you know ; but I have worn your face
in my heart ever since you came to mc
that day and saved me from making a
worse simpleton of myself than I was
already. I knew then that I had done
what poor curates should not do I had
fallen in love. I do want you. Give me
your hand, Bell, in token."
She put her hand within his arm and
they walked on, and it does not very much
matter about the rest of the conversation.
But when the Baronet tapped at the window
to announce that he wanted his breakfast,
and they went up to him, he looked at
them and began to grumble a little.
"Don't scold uncle," said Bilk "It can't
be heiped now.
"Can't it ?" said he. "And so this is the
way you wait is it P Then he turned to
the curate. 'I suppose I must wish you
all that's proper, eh ? lie good to her. All
this springs from just writing the address
on a hoax ! Valentines are not such bad
things, after all, are they, Mr! Selturn ?"
Scientific Gnoata.
Dr. Jessopp ot London, recently declared
be saw the ghostly figure of a man, while
engaged in writ ing in a friend's library at
night. Dr. Wilks, of Gray's Hospital,
London, writes as follows in relation to the
i mailer; rumuK bmuc iuf iipjf,x,iviu , w
Ja trickj lue gtoIT resolves itaelf into the
question whether the appearance of the
man beside him (l)r. Jessopp; was objec
tive or subjective. Under ordinary circum
stances, when we see an object the latter is
material, and forms an image on the re
tina; this is mentally known through a per
ceptive part of the brain; the mere retinal
image is not enough to constitute vision,
as pictures are constantly painted upon the
retina which are never discerned. Now it
not seem clear, nor whv it could not lie
gazed at from different points of view. It
may be noticed, too, tliat its nearness cor
responded with the focusing of the Doc
tor's eyes to objects close around him.
A Barbel"! Mutate.
An amusing incident occurred in a Utica
barber shop, which has created considerable
sport at the expense of a clergyman from
the town of Annsville or Ava. The donii-
i of the leading politicians to an application
for a chaplaincy in a public institution.
With mind bent on the subject of his mis
sion, he entered a barber aimp, Uiok a seat
in the chair, and asked to have his whiskers
trimmed. The barber was busily engaged
in talking politics and evidently misunder
stood his patron's order. He took out his
dye stuffs, and within twenty minutes the
whiskers of the dominie were blacker than
his coat. The odor of sulphur did not give
the barber away, and remarking that he
jdid not want his hair dressed he paid for
the Job mo went out. When he called at
!tbc office of a Lnited States othcial who
( him he wag no, lwogniled
had some trouble in making himself known.
When the official was satisfied he laughed
heartly and remarked to the clergyman that
be evidently was endeavoring to beat old
age by dying. The would-be chaplain did
not see the point of his highly colored joke
untd the ofileial spoke plainly. The clergy
man looked in the mirror and for the first
time saw how he had altered in appearance.
He took the affair good naturedly, but
lost no time in returning to the shop and
having his face shaved clean. It took him
some time to get acquainted with bis wife
upon his return home, but the joke was too
good to keep, and bis friends are enjoying
it. If he ever has an opportunity of fixing
the penance of that barber it will be a se
vere one.
A max, passing through a gateway
Id the dark, ran against a post. "I wish
that post was In the lower regions!"
was his angry remark. "Better wish
it was somewhere else, said a bystander.
"You might run agalust tt again, you
know."
A Mountain Itlde.
He threw the driver a signal, the horses
sprang away, and the work was begun of
tilliug the contract to get to IX'ihi m two
hours, tiirhteeu miles over a mountain
road, only just a suspicion of moonlight be
hind the threatening clouds, and no end ol big
mud. Four miles up the mountain for a
start, and the road went creeping about
lien- and there, sometimes clinging to the
hillside like a shelf, running away to hide
in long stretches of forest, dodging suddenly
out of sight around a piojecting hill,
doubling back upon itself in the most ac
curate angles, as though it was trying to
get away and leave us utterly lost on the
mountain side, running along smoothly ana
evenly on one truck for a quarter of a mile
and then suddenly swinging around and
hurrying back nearly the whole distance; a
changing, restless, mischievous road that
seemed to have forgotten that it started out
from Oneonta to reach the mountain top,
and was going to play hide-and-seek wilh
itself there on the mountain side forever,
and never go anywhere. But the horses
knew its ways, and all its tricks of turning
and driving and climbing, and clatter, clat
ter, clatter over the rocky places, and
tramp, tramp, tramp, where the clay was
heavy, and splash, splash, splash, where the
little pools covered the road keeping the
wandering road always in sight and never
losing it, while the rocky glens and stately
hillsides, and even the frowning forests
laughed back in the echoes of the clatter
ing hoofs as the chase went on. And One
onta.' A dimple of light in the darkened
valley, a cluster of brilliants in a set of
jcU what a dream of beauty has the village
as it too laughs at our hurry up the moun
tain side, chasing the v.jyward road,
laughed until its dimples of light made the
night sparkle w ith merriment. I hoie I
wi'l often sec Oneonta again, but I will never
see it looking prettier than it leoked that
night. And now at last we climb the
mountain top, and the road, sobered down
by its long climb sett'ts to its tusk and
stretches away to DrlliL No stop for any
thing, the mettlesome horses do not need
the w hip, and scarcely need the word.
Nine miles out; as we drive up to a great
roomy barn, a lantern flashes out and a light
buggy and two great horses drive out lie
side us. It is only the work of a second
to transfer me and my baggage, the impa
tient horses spring awav, and the land
scape lwgan to fade away liebind us agaip.
Down the long hills and up the grades we
spin, the big-sliouldercii horses laiigmng
at the hills with their feet; over tiie rum
bling bridges, past twinkling lights in the
farm houses, until at last the hills rise
alioreus loftier, grander, more beautitul
and graceful in outline, anil we swept into
Delhi, covered wilh the mud aud exhilar
ating excitement oi the tlnve, just two
hours from the time we left Oneouta; it is
lively going.
Havana ClKr t-'aetorlea
Entering the cigar factory in Havana,
one is at once struck bv the admirable cool
ness and ventilation of the place. The
wind passes through and through it, and,
although there are over Soo men, women
and boys at work, the air is as fresh and
cool as on a mountain top. ( in the ground
tloor is a long warehouse, w here over -2,Hl
bales of tobacco are stored. Besides this
stock, the proprietor has a warehouse in fie
city, where there are o,(khj bales. This is
all tobacco of the i:rop of l7ii, and, as the
present crop is almost an entire failure, the
manufacturers are making only enough
cigars to till their orders. They prefer to
keep as much on hand as possible, expect
ing higher prices very soou. The average
value of a bale of tobacco is aliout S"5.
Some of the very findest kinds of wrappings
cost as much as $400 a bale. Insurance is
verv high, the rate being one and a haif per
cent iixn the stock at the factory and one
per cent u-xn that warehoused At some
factories the rate is even higher, on account
of the w.x-den lining of the buildings.
When the tobacco is taken from the bales
it is distributed to the pickers, who take
the bundles, sort them, stretch the leaves,
remove the strong fibre that runs down the
middle of the leaf and place the leaves that
are to serve as wrappers upon one side.
For this work they receive ten centi gold
for every ten bundles. The fillings, or
pieces of leaf that arc too small for wrap
pers, are then carried up to the second floor,
where they are spread out and separated
into five different classes according to the
strength of the flavor aud the fineness of the
h-af. Five shafts run down to the floor
beneath, and each shaft is fed with toliacco
of a different class. These shafts dejiot.it
the tobacco in the room wher the cigar
makers are at work, aud each man, when
he wants more tobacco, takes a square piece
of canvas aliout the size of a large pocket
handkerchief to the attendant, who tills it
from the proper shaft Besides these five
kinds of lilliugs there is a still finer quality,
coiiipohed of th.'piecis cut eff the wrappers
of the liest cigars and used to fill the cigars
that are t commnnd the Ingest price in the
market. Meantime the wrappers are hand
ed over to skilful operators, who carefully
sort them according to their fineness and
color. This is the nuist important part of
the whole process as the 1 rolits of cigar
making depend upon the nice jugdiiient
shown by the men who separate the wrap
'rs and who give the cigar-makers the
kind suited to their fillings. Should a fine
wrapper lie used for an inferior cigar it
would lie clear was'.e, and if a fine cigar be
wrapped in a rough leaf it would lie thrown
out by the man wlio separates the cigars.
The room in w hich the cigars are made is a
large, lofty apartment, with a stone floor.
The cigarmaker sit in rows at ireiichcs,
which are divided off by low partitions, to
prevent the tobacco or cigars of two adjoin
ing makers becoming mixed. A little
board, black with tobacco juice, lies on the
bench. L'pon this the cigars are rolIciL
The cigarmaker takes from his heap of fiil-
iniis enough tobacco to make a cigar. This
he fashions into shape, aud then, taking a
leaf from his heap of wrappers he folds it
carefully round the fillings, beginning at
the small end, trimming it with a sharp
knife, and cutting it square off at the other
en'L Then he takes a smali piece ot grease.
smears it on ihe wrapper, aud Ihus closes
the smaller end of the ciar. Many cigar
makers give the end a twist in their mouths
and this is especially the case with the neg
roes engaged in this department. Each
operator has a little mould marked with the
size of cigar he is making, and the cigar
must measure exactly the proper length
marked on the mould, and must pass through
a hole bored in it. As soon as fifty cigars
are finished they are tied in a bundle, and a
slip of paper marked with the number of
the maker is stuck under the string. When
the time for paying comes the proprietor
goes over these bundles and pays so much
per thousand for the cigars made. The
rate varies from $11 to $12 per thousand,
according to the size of the cigars and the
excellence of the leaf. The best workmen
are employed on the very finest kinds and
can make as many as seventy-five cigars in
the day. The rough and cheap kinds are
much more easy to make, and a good folder
can turn out over 200 cigars in eight hours,
White men, negroes and coolies are em-
Dlored In cigar-making, but white labor is
found to be by far the most intelligent, and
coolie labor the least so. Indeed, the coolies
ara mostly employed In opening the bundles
and separating the fillings from the wrap
nets, aud verv few of them are al'owed to
fold cigars. The cigar-makera, at least the
white ones, are a thriftless. lazv Set, A
folder will work until he has enough money
for his immediate wants aud then he will
at once leave his work until he is driven
ba?k penniless. One young, good-looking
folder, engaged in making the best kinds of
cigara, was pointed out by the proprietor
aa a curious example of this want of appli
cation. He works hard during five daysof
the week, making a tidy sum of money.
Every Saturday night he visits a ready-
made clothes shop, buys a new suit, and
earlv on Sundav sues either to the seashore
or to the river, "strips bathes and, ou com- j H'S house was in Li I -city street m ar N'as
ing out, puts on his new suit. Leaving the au- During the U-isler anarchy, which
old one. bouirht the previous week, on the
bank, he goes on a spree which lusts until
his money is all smnl, when he returns to
work. Women are also employed in sort
ing tobacco, hut they are in a separate
building, as it was found that the co-education
of the sexes does not work as well in a
Cuban cigar factory as in the rethctic atmos
phere of a New England college. They
are of all colors ranging from a pure while
through every variety of cream and choco
late up to a shining black. They
ail smoke, generally the very strongest
cig.irs. I'nlike the clerk in the candy store,
who is allowed to gorge himself at first, and
who never cares for the aweet treasures
again, men and women in tobacco factories
do not lose their taste for smoking. 'Ihe
manufacturers forbid smoking during work :
hours for it distracts the attention, aud the
cigars are less carefully made. But the
supply of cigars is almost unlimited, aud
every workman is allowed to carry away
two or three. These cigais are made by
boys who are only beginning, and whose
prod tic: ions are not good enough for market.
When the cigars are counted and the mak
ers paid, the former are sent up stairs and
carefully sorted, fiist to remove the badly
made ones and those with rough wrappers
anl th'-n to divide them, according to the
color of the leaf, into colorados and ma
duros. hen this is done they are ready
to be placed in the boxes which are
made in a separate part of the factory. The
boxes when tilled, are placed under a piess
and the cigar is then ready for sale.
liiieketf Marksmanship.
At the Mission Dolores close to San
Francises a Western lad of twenty years
of age. had often supported apples and held
coins for Mr. Hackett to practice upon in
perilous fashion, and one day ou the invas
ion of a dinner party, a spechd exhibition
was to be had. The marksman was to
cleave
pact a.
n apple on the youth's h.ad at ten ,
Before the time came, however, an 1
ingenious gentleman, celebrated in the Fast
as well as the Wist for his practical jokes
brii-ed the lad to go through a carefully re
hearsed scene. He
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show. At the report of the pistol he was
to spin around, c ap the paint o hm fore-
hen las he turned his hack to: Mr. Hackett,
gie a yell, vault high in the air and fall to
the ground. All this was actually and
can-fully lione in the present e of five or six
persons who had dined together. The ex
pectation, of course, was that .Mr. llackctt
would he stricken with remorse and hor
ror, and rush forward instantly to his wel
tering victim, but w hen instead, the marks
man quietly sat down where hestiKsl. ami,
wiih bis no n peculiar smile, proceeded to
light a cigar, a tale was told thai the
amused witnesses never forgot. William
Tell was e- iiosiij.ve of his results with hit
crossbow than John Hackett with Ids re
volver. Six Ahea.l.
Some time r.go, in the southern part of
Arkansas an incident occurred which will
be spoken of upon the occasion of every
election in that part of the country, l'pon
the day of the noted event people in all the
townships exhibited their interest by going
enriy to Ihe polls. Two very prominent
men in a certain county were candidates
for sheriff, anil their supporters were so
efiuallv divided that a great concern wa
felt. Bets were made; fist figh-s were in-j
augurated, in fact, everything was engaged j
in to make the alectiou interesting
Aliout 10 o'tliick the excitement became so)
great in one township that a Man was se
lected to ride over to the next tow nship to
see who was ahead.
lue swiuiri nurse,.
wa selected. The man sprang into the!
saddle and dashed away. The rider was
intentlv wall lied until out of sight. T.ien i
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was seen coming back. He had List his 1 .. ,7.. tl .:,,.
. . ,, , i . u -. war, and t ol. Hew sua told how Kidd. with
hat and his long hair streamed out horizon- . ,. , . . ..i.-. r. ,,i
ii . tw o English ships, whipped six I renchnien
' n - i .in i . , , I in a desperate sea fight. The witnesses re
"Mi ahead Six ahead: he shouted, i ,. . ' ... - ,. . ,. ,.
when within hearing of the crow.L P?"!"ltw, ! "
"Who's six aheadr demanded Tera, bad ever known lun. to 1 pally of p.-y
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The Quays or Paris.
There is no odder, t"liereis no more at-1
tractive part of Paris than the quavs which
ie frmi Pont Koval to Pont Neuf on the!
south bank of the river. Here, on the para
pet of the wall which separates street from
the wharf (Ihe later is fifteen or twenty
feet below the street) are boxes tilled with
si-ci'ind-hanil lxmks. Culess vou aru a
known customer, vou cannot enter the reg-' to the character ol the great wing cn incei
ular liook shos of Paris and takedown the ; lor. while that of his fni mL A ilham Kid.L
volumes which you desire to examine, the New York sailor, has for six g nera
Som; of the most interesting of these shops j lions rested under undeserved ignominy,
are on a second floor, and a woman is gen- '
erally the keeper. A spring bell announces The :- Narrow Kseape.
your entrance, and she comes forward andj .
in a surly tone challenges you with "What On the 17lh of lebruary tue (. zar was
do you want ?" If vou cannot tell the book j in Ids Winter Palace discussing the politics
vou w ish and the price you are willing to of the Balkan provinces, theelcctions to the
mv. she will let vou know hluntlv enough Bulgarian Assembly, the loyally of the
that you are not wanteiL 1 here are some
shops on the ground floor which bear on
the door "Free Admittance. Do not trust
it any more than you would trust the "Walk
I in. Mr. i ly " seen on the door of a musical
cafe. where, as vou know, the instant you
appear a waiter pounces on vou wilh "What
shall I serve f" n the quays it is differ-
cut. If ou turn over the" volumes froui
moruiu ' till mVut, nobo.lv will say anv -
thing to vou. Do not iudge the ouav's
weaith. however, by the afternoon's store.
They are richest in the morning. Book
auctions commonly take place at night,
and purchases are put into boxes bet ore
noon : so that it is in the early hours of the
day that book hunters give chase. In the
afternoon you see only their leavings save
the casual purchases made from students
or literary men, whose divorce from their
books has been decreed by hunger.
To secure the total destruction ot the
tobacco fly, sprinkle the plants with a
decoction of one sixteenth of an ounce
of strychnine, dissolved la twenty
quarts of water. This application has
been known to destroy the fly absolute
ly; and cause no injury whateyer to th
young plants. An indefinite quantity
will be found to work no injurv what
ever to the plant. It can be applied
with perfect safety.
A York rounty, Pa., larme was
fined $13. 'J3 for using profane language.
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Capt. Kid.L
Ioug!as Campbell of New York, takes
: the gronnd that Capt. Kuld ms'ead of be
jig the lreebootcr aud murderer he is
j paiuteil, was in reality a loyal subject of
the king, and fell a victirj to the political
persecution of his friend aud whig patron.
Lord Chancellor Souiers, by the tory lords
who came into power in the last days of
S illiaiu IIL Kidd was by birth aa Jnsh
man or Scotchman (for both countries
claimed him), who distinguished himself as
a privateer commander in the war against
the French, and with the wealth acquired
from pnvateenug settled m ew ork.
Preceded the arrival of the eari of Bella
nionte, Kidd rendered the city valuable
services for which the governor and asscm-
bly presented him t'loi). So great was his
reputation as a successful naval otticer that
the colony of Massachusetts, in Di'il, tried
to hire him to lake charge of an expedition
against a privateer which was then ravaging
their coasts. 1'iracy and freebooting had
then crown to a most alarming extent, es
pecially in tiie Indian ocean. Many of
them were soi-disanl privateers from New
York and other American colonies who,
beginning with the pursuit of French and
Spanish ships iu th? end extended their
operations to those of all nations. It was
to put dowu these Re t sea mcu," as they
were called, that Kidd was sent out in the
Adventure galley with his crew of scape
graces and desperadoes. Among his patrons
I and partners 111 the e.-ediiion were bomera.
Halifax, and other powerful whig lords
and even the king himself offered to invest
3,000 in the undertaking. Arrived in the
Indian ocean, Kidd found his insuliordinatc
crew more ready to take sides wilh the
pirates than to light them. He captured
some vessel which he claimed were sailing
under French papers. It was his misfor
tune that this mutinous crew prevented bis
taking them before a prize court. Afier
his capture of the Qucdugh merchant,
owned by Moors, and which was ma le
the liasis of the principal charge against
him. 'JO of the crew deserted and joined the
piratec The others endeavored to per
suade him by threats to turn pirate and
take the I-oyul Captain, an armed English
ship, w hich was sailing in his company.
Kidd steadily refused, and in an altercation
growing out of the affair he struck William
onp OTCr ,hc
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head with a bucket inflicting fatal injuries.
He was recalled to Boston, where Lord
Bellumoiit took his picrs containing the
French papers of Ihe ships he had captured,
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had suffered defeat in the parliamentary
elections and a lory ministry had come in.
(lull Vil. 1.1 i mi uir . ui.
chancellor, Somer.s. by provin:
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finale ait'i turn illicit atioi o 'iu i s i' n ia'
ing athxed the great seal of England to
commission. Kidd, who had now
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Active, which hud lieen dispatched to bring
him. The lords of the admiralty, the sworn
enemies of the l.rd chancellor, subjected
him to long and torlu t:s examination, in
which they strove to induce him to impli
cate the lord chancellor in his transactions
but without effect. Kidd's fidelity was
not to lie shaken. Oa the S'Kh of March
17'I, lie was ordered for trial at the Old
Bailey, and twodays later Simon Harcourt,
the tory leader in tiie House of Commons,
introduced the resolutions impeaching
Smiers. The formal articles which were
not submitted till two months later, alter
Kidd's trial and conviction, charged the
j lord chancellor with being implicated with
"William Knl.1. a person ot cvu tame ami
reputation, ami since tint tune convicted
of piracy:" Kidd was really hanged in
order .o help out the irnp-auhment of
Somcrs. His trial, in which he wasdenie-1
access to his papers and confronted by a
host of law I"n Is and king's counsel all
anxious for his conviction, wasa monstrous
! farce. Even his two sailers who turned
j informers were forced to admit, on eross
j examination, that Moore was killed in an
angry altercation anil in a manner max
showed no premeditation or intention to
ca;:sc death. One of them testified tliat on
the capture of the foreign uierc:iant:nen.
K:dl showed hint paiars which he (tiie
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Chief Baron Wood put iuulting questions
to Kidd's witnesses and the cjurt un.ini.
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tin. i. mI rotins'l. wan liaiiuw-mi bv It'jral
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by the six partial judges on the liencn and
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tue five cunning lawyers opposed to him.
His trial was "railroaded." It bi-gan May
8, two verdicts one of 'murder'' and the
other "piracy." were brought in on Ihe yth
and on thelirh, three days following. Kidd
was hanged in execution dock. The im
peachment of Somen, which Ihe tories had
though! to carry by the aid of Kidd's death,
failed, the House of Lords throwing out
the articles. History has d-me full justice
Prince's subjects the attempted compro
mise between the two parties in the State,
when a servant announced that dinner w as
served. The t zar and his gufsts were so
intent upon the subject of their conversa-
non mat iiieaiinoiiiieeiueiu waauisresamcu.
! Shortly afterward the servant returneiL As
j he opened the door the Emperor rose. At
; that instant a terrible explosion was heanL
1 the Lzar ban laKen i mice .viexanuer sarin
I and was walking to the door. He stopped
short at the sound, lie tnen disengaged
his arm and raised his eyes to heaven in
gratitude. Neither 'poke a woriL The
Czar was perfectly calm, and an hour later
sat down quietly to dinner beside the great
gap in the floor. The Empress
was asleep in her room aud heard
nothing of the explosion, and express
n,.l!.M wi.m iscn.'il tli.it (the nhnu'.il lie
left in igncra.ice of the event. Others de- !
scribe the scene iu the Winter Palace after
the explosion. As soon as the news got
abroad the corridors were filled with an ex
cited crowd, each member of it giving a
different version of the affair. From ail
the private apartments poured 'he stream.
Court chamberlains, in. coats that gleamed
with rich gold embroideries hurried down
from the Hall of St. tleorgc : and an army
of white-capped cooks denied from the sulc
jterranean kitchens. Lour: lames with,
sweeping trains ana sparkling jewels is-
sued from their dressing rooms and the
watchmen, with their wives and families
came from their huts upon the roof.
Hound the statue of Alexander gathered a
medley throng of officers in full uniform,
maids of honor, coachmen, grooms, scul
lions and hundreds of the inmates of the
palace, whose names are supposed to be
registered by the Minister of the Imperial
Household, but who are in reality as little
noticed by him as the colonists who settle
in Russian forests are noticed by the pro
prietor of the estate. The first impulse of
all these people was to liasten to offer their
congratulations to the Emperor. Their
second was to return thanks for the preser
vation of the palace itself. In their eyes
the building is saoreiL The gilt cross on
the cupola of tiie private chapel, w hich sur
vived the tire of ls:;7. symbolizes to them
the blessing which rests upon it. It was
this feeling which animated the workmeu
by whose industry it rise again to its old
magnificence. It was this feeling that
caused the humblest mujiks to bring their
contributions to the expenses of reconstruc
tion. The news that no damage had been
sustained by the heirl.ioiiis of the palace,
that the portraits was undisturbed, the im
perial uniforms unsinged, the court jewels
uninjured, was received by the inmates
with extreme satisfaction. All along the
river side, between the Neva, and the
Palace, surged a mass of the ppulace, in
sheepskins and furs and torches flashed to
and fro upon the ice. .Many of the aristoc
racy hastened down to Newsky Prospect to
offer their congratulations but the poiiee
had strict orders to let no drovsky pas the
gates. At early morning the Emperor
drove to the Kazan Church and returned
thanks to the Virgin for his fifth preserva
tion from death.
VI" by Be Reformed.
Edward Delaney was an old-timer, and
be looked it every inch of him as be scraped
bis boot soles to his Honor in the Jefferson
Market Court.
"Back again," said the Magistrate, look
ing up and recognizing him. '"We haven't
seen you for many a day."
The prisoner tried to suppress a hiccough
and murmured very solemnly: '"No more
you have, sir, no more you have. I've
been a much altered man lately. You
wouldn't kuow me for the last six months."
"Indeed. Given up drinking, then?'"
"Not a drop of liquor did 1 iaste in all
that time, sir. Honor bright."
"You don't mean to say you gave up
loating?'' said his Honor, in surprise.
"Not a day's work did 1 lose, sir. I'p
early and at it rigut smart till night. Oh,
I did not waste my time, depend on it."
'Goodness me, what a reform'"
"le"fonii! You may well say that. No
one saw me out o nights gal'ivantm round.
o indeed; I went right home when work
was over, and kept to my room all night.
I didn't even take a s!ril.'
" Wonderful:"
"And besides I've got tobeuuitegent'e.
I didn't harm a fly all that time. Some
fellows were mighty rough on me, too, and
ordered me about pooty sharply. But I
didn't raise any rumpus; I didn't say a hard
word to tni at a;L
"Why, you have been quite a Christian."
"Indeeil, I have. You wouldn't believe
it, but I ve been to service regularly every
Sunday, and I've got heaps of tracts given
to me."
"Well, wonders will never cease," said
His Honor, hesitating to sign the commit.
incnt, "but where have you been all this
time?"
"In the Penitentiary, sir," blandly re
sponded the prisoner.
Jerusalem T-IaT.
The view of Jerusalem fnn the west is
us ialiy the first obtained by travelers from
Europe who have landed at Jaffa, the
ancient Jappa ; but the best is -from tU
Moun of Olives on the east of the city.
This last quite overlooks the town, and
the spectator who staiuls upon the .Mount
can see every considerable building and
mot (f the principle hoiL-es. The city
seems to slope from wist to east, with a
slight depression in the centre. On the
southeast is the Mosque of Omar, sur
rounded by extensive and licautifiil grounds,
occupying about one-eighth of the modern
town. The inelosure is covered by green
sward and is do ted over with olive, cypres
! and other trees, towering almve which is
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j angle of the II irem, as the sacred inelosure
is called ; and In yond, in the same dirt e-
lion, appears a huge Armenian convent. Iu
the northwest of tiie city we can see a
great Latin convent. Between these is the?
castle or citadel. The n rthc:ist is less
buiit upon, but the centre is crowded, and
in that direction rises the famous Church
of the Holy Sepulchre, or of Ihe Holy
Places with its conspicuous domes. Eight
or ten minarets also catch the eye, indicat
ing s- many mosques in different localities.
For the rest the observer will pause t.
notice the many low houses and the flat
plastered roofs of the humbler dwellings.
The survey from the top of olivet is on
the side of Jenisa'em, completed liy the
Valley of Jehosephat, which lies betweea
the .Mount and the citv wall.
A Delicacy.
A new Australian delicacy is finding its
way into the Lindon markets in the shape
of dried kangaroo tongues. The tails and
skins of these animals have long been
ntiliztd the former tor making soup, the
latter for leather; and the recent destruc
tion of kangaroos has given considerable
impetus o these two trades. Straek by
the wa-te of food occasioned by the slaugh
ter of so many thousand; of these marsup
ials whose bodies are frequently left to rot
where thry have fallen, a Warroo settler
made an experiment in curing the tongues
of some of the slain, and so highly were
they approved that a considerable trade has
spring up in this commodity. The tongues
are usually cured by drying in smoke, like
the ICussiau reindeer tongues; but a much
Iietter plan is to preserve them in tins like
tiie sheep and ox tongues prepared in
America. Tongues lend themselves to this
treatment better than almost any other por
tion of an animal, as they stand the exces
sive toiling better than beef or mutton.
The Hollar Mark.
Regarding the $ mark on our money,
gome think that the sign is a sirt of a
monogram of the United States, from U.
S. The American dollar, say others is
taken from the Spanish dollar, and the
sign is to found, of course, in the associa
tions of the Spanish dollar. On the reverse
of the Spanish dollar is a representation of
the Pilhirs of Hercules and around each
pillar is a scroll with the inscription l'l'lu
vlra." This device in the course of time
has degenerated into the sign which stands;
at present for American as well as Spanish
dollars, The scroll around the pillars
! represents the two serpents sent by Juno
to destroy Hercules in his cradle. Still
' others say : The sign is derived from the
Spanish fuertts, or hard, and was adopted
. to distinguish hard dollars from paper ones.
Ihe letters i-s were used at nrsi, om an
taey also stood lor francs anil norms iue a
was curved around the f, and forms the
' present dollar mark.
OLD ITUTKIIJil
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