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Editor and Publisher, FRIDAY JANUARY,I7 188 P. 1# EM licit AT It: STATE COMMITTEE. llakkisbcku, Pa., January 7, 1k). i The Democratic state central committee win meet at the rooms of the Committee, Market street, Harrlsburg, Pa., on Wednesday, January 22, 180), at 12 o'clock, noon, to elect one person to serve as chairman of Democratic Commit tees, and one person to serve as Permanent Sec retary of the State Democratic Central Commit tee, tor the ensuing year; and to transact such other business as may properly be brought bo fore tbe committee. The rules lhat relate to this meeting are as follows: Ktn.it on is—The Democratic organize:ton of i i he state of Pennsylvania shall consist of. First— A Chairman of Democratic Committees, | and a permanent Secretary. Second—A Democratic suite Executive com- ' mlttee, coinposed;of nine members. Third— \ state, Central Committee. Fourth -y\ue state Division committees. lifts Two—The chairman of Democratic Com mittees shall x-ofilclo, a member or all the committees a ut the Acting chairman of the Democratic Mate Executive and StateCenUal committees. Kit.k 'I intra: — 1 he chairman of Demo ratlc j committees shall be elected by the Democratic | state central cmimlttse at an annual meeting thereof to be hula on the llrst Wednesday after | tie third Monday m January, at such place as ! may be designated by the State Executive Cent- 1 fnltlee a*"* shall bold office for a period of ci:c year or until ids successor shall be duly elected. ! Any Qualified Democratic voter of the Slate ot Pennsylvania shall be eligible to said oltice. Ufi.R five— The state Central commute shall consist of one member from each county and the chairman of the local county organiza tion shall he ex-ofllclo the member of the Demo cratic state (eat ra! committee from said county, prorated that any county that Is entitled to more than one State Senator shall have an addi tional member for each additional senator which said additional member shall be elected In such manner as the local county organiza tions of the respective counties may determine, and provided that not more than one member of llie State central committee shall be elected In any senatorial district from the same county And this Committee shall elect one permanent Secretary who shall have charge of the records the Committee and transmit the same to his essor. "CMS six— Members of the state Central com mittee unable to attend, may, for any meeting d-ptd.ze In writing, substitutes, to act pro tein for them, but they must bo voters In the coun ties and senatorial district which; I heir princi pals represent. ltci.K Kouktkkn— (Partof old rule No. l) "it (refertng to the state central committee) may at this (refertng to the annual meeting in Jan uuryior subsequent meetings tlx the time fa- the stale convention and arrange therefor." EI.I.IOTT P. KISNEU, chairman. Uesjamin il. xk iii. i ernvinent Secretary • Joiiaxx Most says the Anarchists will! have nothing to tlo with tlie proposed | eiglil-limir law. lie seems astonished at I lire idea tint, any one should expect his ; const ii iients to work so many lion s a | day SOME curious facts are brought oil by ' the statistic-on executions for the war I IH8I). During ihe yeiu there wei ■ 273 execution i nlv ninety-eight of ihect be- I ing le_ Of lie 173 iynuhings 13!) were | in the v it : amt ninetv-tlvo of ilre men lynched. sligiii'y nvi i one-half, were ne- | groc- To read Ho northern papers one would Mtpp, sc lh the whole 278 execu- [ tion* were illegal, , i l nil oeeurrcd in the j SOulh. and ;1 .111 :: negro had been the vie- j lim in cue,i case. i. i:\hi: i. Vi-oorxr Woi.ski.RY will con- j lc ii to to tin' February number of liar- j jicr's .1/ v ■ he 'ti artieie on " The Stand- i ill'. Army ■ i (aft':.' Britain," whit ii has ! be , ■ labor. y illustrated by 11. ( atou I flu .ville. The an:!.or bus not hc.-itutc , it i- said, to criticise tlo itngiish military 1 mill . : 'ration v illi perfect frail k-hi .... ; For example, In r marl ■ " L*mil ;e.b lic i ;>:■ ii•• tl ! trees u- to keep the an ly ! sullh lenity .a leimbla i. L.i pi , erly cliseh i ihe dutifiimposed Up, nil 'vdli due regard to the health of the men, and | until we deal with >ur soldiers on (he j i>u-i: e.-s principles on which lire United Slide- i rem theirs u- l > food ami pay, slioit of resorting to some lorm or other j ot mpulsery .crviee it is impossible i that it can ever be us efficient and as use- ' fill as it ought lo be." Ux tiik Ulst of May, 18SI), thai , v. r-to be-tcrrrembered Hood that desolated lire | ('"iifmaugh alley with death and de struction* On the 12th of January, liilK), Governor Heaver's Relief Commission re- j ports +■200,000 on hand. Only the good Lord v. i.at wai,t ai'il misery tie impovi lishcd 'revivors of that awful dis aster Imve suffered in lire long interval since millions o' dollars were thrust into ' Governor Beaver's hand- for their hi ueflt. ' Hasn't there been a sore need for every dollar given—and more. Have tire Gov. < ' ■ methods even allowed prompt dis tribution of what has been given ? To he liouest about it, lias the so-called injustice of newspaper criticism ever set up such a ' shameful stains of his cases as does tire I statement of naked facts ? Two hundred j thousand dollars still held hack from : those for whom it was given. Do the Hood sufferers need nothing more? —Pittsburgh Post. THE PRESIDENT WILL DISMISS HIM Philadelphia Times. J. R. Mizell was appointed b/ Presi- dent Harrison United States Marshal for the Northern District of Florida some time last spring, a.id how shamelessly he has prostituted his office is proved by Hie following letter written by him on the ; sih of July last to pack the jurv box of the United States Courts for the Trial of j political prosecutions : ! ('. C. Kirk, Bji/.. DeLand, Flu.: Sin : You will at once confer with Mr. Blelby and make out a list of fifty or sixty names of true and tried liepubllcans from your county reg istration list for Jurors In the United states court, and forward same to Hon. P. Walter, j clerk of the United States court, and It Is neces sary to have them at once, as you can see. Please acknowledge t his. lam yours truly, JOUN It. Mizstt. United states Marshal. Please get the names of parties as near steam boat and railroad stations as possible Mr. Kirk, to whom the letter was writ ten iii.d who produced it in court, obeyed its request and sent over fifty mimes of 1 " tiue and tried Republicans" lo he sum moned as jurors ; and he testified also that the names lie forwarded were on the list of jurors in the order he bad written I hem. Tire United States Judge ruled the letter out of the evidence because the Clerk of Hie Court was not dirrctlv impli cated in tire criminal act, but the guilt of the Marshal stands out in nil its naked villainy. President Harrison will dismiss Mar shal Mizell, of course, and do it promptly. The wrong is so flagrant in its lawlessness | and its attempt to pollute the sanctuary I of justice, that ihe President can't refuse lo dismiss the criminal official without de grading the Chief Magistrate to the level of the common jury-stuffer. Only by lire prone lest dismissal of Marshal Mizell can lire President hope lo command respect from any law-loving citizen of any party. NK)V KNUI.AXD MAGAZINE FOR .) V NIC AKY. | The article which is likely to attract | most attention is the January number of I lire .Vnr England Magazine is that on " The New Englnml Meeting-llou.se and the . \Y ten Church," by Mr. A. R. Willard. Mr. Willard shows it. a very interesting manner how Sir Christopher Wren, who was rebuilding the sixty or seventy Lon don churches, after lire great Hre in 1000. just as our New England fathers were get ting able to build meeting-houses with lowers and steeples, set his stamp upon our entire church architecture, in city and country, almost from Hint time to this. Tbe article is very richly illustrated with pictures of Wren's steeples and ot our own old meeting-houses, ami ihere is much interesting gossip about Hie Old Souili, King's Chapel, Christ Church, and the Old Church in Hingha.n. The other illustrated articles arc on Montreal in Winter, and the Boston Musical Com posers. This latter article, by Francis 11. Jenks, the mimical editor of the Boston Transcript, is in continuation of the series of musical articles which is being made a prominent feature of the Magazine, and which has already contained Mr. Elsnn's article on the Boston Symphony Or chestra, and Mr. Du ight s on the Han del and I lady n Society. The present I article is embellished by good portraits of Julius Eichberg, John K. Paine, Parker, ! Wliiliog. Chad wick, and Arthur Footc. 1 Professor Jameson of Brown University'. I in a valuable paper entitled "Did Hie Pal her- \olc?" shows in a WHV that is gratifying to I hose who believe in pro i rrcss, that however neglectful we are of j our political duties, we are in this respect j vastly ahead of our fathers in Hie "good j old times" that the croakers talk about. | Air, William F. Dana writes about tbe I Reining Sea Controversy. Mrs. Nina j Moore 'I iffain begins a series of •• Stories i of the Fugitive Slaves," tolling here of tire . Escape of William and Ellen Craft. Ed | ward Everett Hale, in his delightful 1 "Tarry at Home Travel," tulks this ! mouth about tl •• Boston Parks and about Concord. Ivlwara Everett Halo, Jr., | contributes an < ntertatng chapter ol i colonial history, under the bead of \ "Edward Bendall and tie .• /lose." 'Candlelight in Colnnix Times," is another curious bit of New England his. ■ory. Blowing receives notice in two a , ieles, one by Mr. Robert Niven of Loudon, on " Browning's Obscurity," the other by Mi-a 11. C. Heraey, on " Brown ing in America," the latter accompanied by a tine portrait from a recent London photograph There is an " Old South Lecture" en • Thomas Jefferson and tire Louisiana Purchase," by one of the young Old South essayists, Robert Morss Lovctt, now a student in Harvard College. An excellent arlic'c it is, and it should prove a stimulus to many of our young historical students. Professor Hoemer's " Haunted Bell" moves on in an intcresl tig way ; and there is the usual assort ment of short stories and of pm • lieli* G"ii*alofffeM. Krom the New York fun. It was at the depot in Macon, Ga. A colored man front the country stood look ing at the locomotive wlten the colored tlrcmat) called out: " Iloy, yo' nigger, what yo* lookitt' at ?" " Who's nigger/" demanded the other. "Yo'is." " So is yo'." " Look <lar, nigger, I doan't take no sass off'o shuck.;!" " Yo' is shucks yo'seif." " Humph! Do yo' know what my fadtler sold fur befo' de wall ?" "No." " Fo'teen hundred dollars in gold, salt, and (ley reckoned dat was §2OO under price. Who was yo' fadder, salt?" " He was the gcm'lan who bought yo' fadder fur a waitah, salt, an' he alius 'lowed he paid §I,OOO mo' dan he was worth." I WHICH SHALL IT BEt Yes: It Is true I have lovers three. Do you wonder I'm In a quandary? for which to chose it is hard to tell When I lore them each and all so well. The first bears In his handsome face His passport to a woman's grace. Ills eyes are luminous gold gray mist, His cheeks an- roses tlio winds baro kissed; And shimmering gleams of sunlight thread The wealth of curls on his shapely head. And when 111 > lovo impassioned ho tells. My heart with a lovo responsive swells. To his fervent pleading I cannot say , A cotil. decisive, unfaltering "Nay." Tlie second is dark, and grand, nod grave; Night shadows among his tresses wave. In his great, deep eyes would seem to he Visions more than mere mortals see His simple "I love you" is eloquent Of wells of ulTection all uppent. And she who i < queen of his steadfast heart May tie sure of her reign "until death shall part " The third -uii. the story poets have told Of hair liito a crown of burnished gold; Of eyes that rival the sapphire's hue. And thai dance I ke waves of the ocean blue; Of lite dimples that play at hide and seek In rounded chiu and in cither cheek; While lire mischief that lurks in every glance Makes havoc with hearts like Cupid's lance lie never has told of his love for me. But 1 am as sure of it as can he Notwithstanding all this, it is often said That 1 will doubtless ho an "old inaid." Aud yet, perhaps, I must own the taunt. For these three lovers all call me "aunt;" And tlic first is five, and the second is three. And the third is one year old, yon see. -Carrie E Hall Nutmegs as a Medicine. Tlio medicinal qualities <>i nutmegs are wortiiy of a great deal of attention. They are fragrant in odor, warm and grateful to the taste, and possess decided sedative, astringent and soporilic proper ties. In tli ■ following affections tliey will he found highly serviceable: Gas tralgia (neuralgia of (lie stomach), chol era morbus, tlutulcnt colic, dysentery, cholera infantum and infantile colic. In all ca os nutmegs may be prepared for administration in the following man ner: Urate one or more nutmegs into a fine powder. For children, give one-sixth to one-third of a tonspoonful, aco, rditig to age, of this powder, mixed with a small quantity of milk. For adults, from a half lo two tcaspoonfuU may be given in the same way, according to the sever ity il" the case. F.very two hours is generally the best lime to administer this remedy. Insomnia (sleeplessness) is very often effectually relieved by one or two doses of nutmeg, when much stronger agents have signallv failed—New York Jour nal. " ' A Walking Advertisement. A new profession has been introduced into the city during the past two years, which the majority of citizens know little about. All largo prominent houses now hire professional dressers for the purpose of introducing new styles. You may have noticed often that some par ticular friend of yours ui, . is you well know, has no bank account, and does not seem to work but yet dresses in tlio height of fashion, wearing every new style of hat, chillies, shoes or necktie that makes ils appearance. Well, lie is em ployed by some house to popularize new garments by weaving lliein and making them familiar toall dressers, lie receives a salary and frequents all popular re sorts; in fact, lie lives oif of his shape and looks, its only handsome and w ell formed men are eligible to the new pro fession.—Merchant Tailor in Si. Louis (ilohc-Deuioernt. Win n Royalty Dis.-eliihli-il. "Little Tattler" in The Pall Mall Ga zette says- "The Pier hotel, Hastings, where the Ktnpn s.s Eugenie and the prince imperial took refuge after their flight from France, lived for a long time on the reputation it had thus acquired, aud quite lately I saw over the ports coehere of an old provincial French inn tlie words pompously itisivrihed, "Here royalty, sojourned one night:" the royal ties in question being Louis Philippe an" his queen. When they arrived, "got ; lip" as Mi. ;nd Mrs. .Smith, tlie king, hearing that llu-re was tit that time an : English my lord and ids family staying . there, called out gruffly to Marie Amelia, ' "Trot along, old woman, bring up Mrs. Smith," a feat which only a Frenchman who had taught English for a living would have boon capable of performing. ; t!.-ii!la will! tin; tin- <1 II was a largo man and 1 ulsior. A pair of glasses no •■! to li s int Hernial appear.: nee. Hew..', t st- I datcly up the stairs of the elevated sta- j tion at ( i iamb rn street. He had several j packages. One of them, a bag contain ing I. n was la id under his tirin. .sud denly a b . a i •■aped and rolled down ward, bouncing from step l > s op. it was foil iwed by another and another; I and die oily there was a stream oi beana : cascading down the stairs behind the un conscious man. Several people called to him, but lie did not grasp tlie situation until lie had reached the top Then, after a critic,". 1 examination of the ( mpty bag, he turned to thosmilingcrowd,and, with the air of one imparling a great truth, said- "There's a hole in it!"— New Yoi lr Sun A I.title Too Previous. A goo i siofy is going the rounds about j a certain married mau oil Pleasant street. He got up one morning in a terrible liurrv, rushed around frantically, built a fire, decided that he wouldn't have time to wait for breakfast, had his wife make him a cup of coffee till he could take time for swallowed the coffee, put on 11 i3 overcoat, said "good morning" to his wife, looked at the clock, found il was half past - a. m., and went back to bed. —Altleboro (Mass.) Sun. A I'ine Mu{>p;r. Mrs. Lucinda Jackson—ls yo' got any work ob any kind yo'd like done, lady? | Mrs. Housekeeper—What kind of work j can you do? Mrs, Jackson—Well, I does moppin* mos'ly, an' I kin do any kin' ob it from de plainest eb'ry day sort to de finest fix up fo' Sunday kind. If yo' want any real fine moppin' done, 'lady, I kin do hit up neat an' fine. -Detroit Free Press. __ HAVE YOU A DOUBLE CHIN? If So, 110 Proud of It, oh It Ik Said to In dicate Strong Character. The great justification of the (loublo chin rests, of course, on its unrivaled ! value as an index of character—and sucli a character! It is really nature's patent of nobility. This was long ago discerned by the great master of physiognomy. It is not difficult to divine what Lavater thought of a double chin. lie carefully points out that man differs from the ani- j mal chiefly by bis chin, laying it down as an axiom that the chin is the distinct- | ive characteristic of humanity; con3e- ! quentlv double chinned peoplo are doub- I ly differentiated from the beasts that per- j ish, which is greatly to their credit. He j expressly takes for his model of "the j thinker, full of sagacity and penetra- i tion," a man with a fleshy double chin, j coupled with a nose rounded at the end. The portrait lie gives is even better than the letter press, as the gentleman is limned with at least live chins, so that his lower jaw was a vista of magnificent dis tances like Washington. This happy physiognomy of the double chin, coupled with the rounded nose, characterizes, he tells us, the mind which can rise to heights, and which follows its designs with reflecting firmness, un alloyed by obstinacy. Lot. therefore, those with double chins rejoice, whether tliey possess rounded noses or not, and quote Lavater in gratitude. He give 3 again another example of the double rnenton, and the face so endowed, lie says enthusiastically, is reason's own image, lie quite revels in this feature, lie takes an example of Raphael with a beautifully rounded double chin, and in ! criticising it lie acknowledges that the profile is wanting in truth, harti.• -ny and grace; but then, asks he, how is il it so strongly takes captive our •sympathy? Where lies the illusion? Merely .in the chin, he answers, and, as the chin is a double one, the matter is no longer a mystery. lie points triumphantly to Cicero's magnificent double chin, and in a burst of eloquence says of Wren's that, if you can find a imm with (anion V r things) such a chin as thit 1 i >ill being gifted with some extra- - cy talent, lie renounces forever tin •i- nee of physiognomy. What Lavater litis thus laid down ex perience amply corroborates. The double chinned, therefore, should hold their heads up higher, in tlie consciousness of modest merit, and give free play and just prominence to their certificates of character, it is, as hinted above, rather difficult til present to tell whoisendowed and who is not. Portrait painters are craven enough to dissimulate a double cl'iin; they leave it to a caricaturist, who seeuis to think it great fun for a popular statesman or poet to have two chins, whereas those appendages are the secret of their success. Some of our more ob servant writers have got a glimpse of the truth: Wilkie Collins, for instance. He very properly credits Count Fosco, the man of daring, resource and deter mination, with a double chin, to which Fosco's pet cockatoo calls public atten tion by rubbing its head against it in the most appreciative inannor possible. Hut your ordinary noveli t would never have thought of ! hat. As an Englishman, by the way, one naturally turns to Shakespeare to see whether his appearance corroborates La vatcr's views. Shakespeare undoubtedly foresaw llie point, as ho foresaw every thing else, hut lie was sufficiently artful to wear just enough beard to place it in eternal doubt whether lie bad a double chin or not. Thus he leave-it open to all parties, single-chinned or double, to quote him as an instance of anything they like, which, after till, is the great i; which Khakcspenro has always been 1 put : ■ London Standard. I.ikes ant] tlistil.es. n -i iiie-i and repulsions are queer nil. S ene times they allow aualvsi at- o , nation, hut just, as often they don't. Our likes and dislikes dp not ■ appear i bo under our control any more • 'int, t: ,i-rv powerful emotional im ! pe! e , .ward a particular one which is lied love. It may he said generally ~i where there is esteem there can't •■•ny ! long dislike, though there may ■no attraction. Yet, curiously enough, . re n ,v bo love without esteem, j Women have been known to love the ! i.iost wiTtliless characters, for whom I tlx y could not possibly have an; ,i It is an enigma, after all. 'IT ! ■• : , , ! it!i i i one might .vm to slink -i Hi • i ; tion in one, but it doesn't. Affection I surviv s conlidctx.People are drawn I together who seta-tesau.l pursuits widely <1 i Tor by .- ate strong trait whs b they hold in common, and persons of wonder ful identity of tastes and psychological re ' .ablations never contrive heartily to ! lilt" each oilier by a collision revolving I | around some point of radical moral dif- ] fevence which makes till the point and ; kindred qualities go for nothing. And S" the queerest marriages and the queer est, friendships arc contracted on the one hand, and the apparently strongest an tagonisms kindled on the other hand.— Pittsburg Ohroniclu-Telegraph. Pictureti 'of Sanl. ; Parisians have lately been entertained : i by a remarkable artist, who displays I wonderful skill in her peculiar fqrnt of i painting. Willi plates of various colored sand before her, she takes the sand in her right hand and causes it to fall' in beautiful designs upon a table. A bunch of grapes is pictured with violet sand, a j leaf wilh green -and, the stalk with : brow n stud, and relief and shadows by other sand. : when the work is brushed away a bouquet of roses and other objects are represented with the same dexterity I and delicacy.—Philadelphia Ledger. Liicllhli Too Limited. Editor (returning a manuscript to an | aspiring genius front Jenkinses Corners) ( | —Yes, I perfectly agree with you that i | you are a grammatical heavy weight, for ] you have knocked grammar completely j out. I would suggest that you give some | attention to the study of Chinook, as I perceive that tlio resources of the Eng- j lislt language are utterly inadequate to express your ideas.—West Shore. ' i i No Place LIJ-e Home. To tlie Cape Codder, like the Icelander and the Swiss, hit native proviheo is the best the sun sliii.es on. So unique, em phatic and personal the capo and its towns have become to thoso reared here, that a cape man fluids nowhere else so glorious as home, so full of such sweet i memories. The cape colors hint all his life—tlie roots and libers of him. He i may get lieyond, but he never gets over i tlio cape. Make him. a merchant at Manila or j Calcutta, a whaler at the north pole, j ! mate in Australian waters, a millionaire j ; on Fifth avenue, a farmer in Minnesota, ! and the cape sticks to him still. He i | will feel in odd hours to his life's end j the creek tide on which he floated in- j i shore as a boy, the hunger of the salt j : tuarsh in haying time, the cold plash of ! the sea spray at the harbor's mouth, the | ipring of the boat over the bar when ho came home from fishing, with the wind rising on shore out of the gray night clouds seaward, the blast of the wet northeaster in the September morning when under the dripping branches he [licked up the windfall of golden and crimson apples, the big flaked snow of the December night when he beauod his lirst sweetheart home front singing school; and he will see in dreams per haps the trailing arbutus among tlie gray mosses on the thin edge of a spring snow bank, the bubbling spring at the hill foot near tidewater, the fat, crimson roses under his mother's windows, with a clump of Aaron's rod or lilac for back ground; the yellow dawn of an October morning across his misty moors, and the r of the chill pond among the pine • ir and above all tlie blue sea with its headland, on which go tlio white winged ships to that great far off world which the !. jy had heard of and the grown man . •uw i well. ' :w England Magazine. A .1 ipancse Trial. t lie 1 illowing detailsof Japanese legal procedure will be of interest. The court, is hoi I in a room, the largest portion of which is covered by a rostrum usually litre •or more feet high, the remaining part of the room space being 11 The object of the rostrum is N- < >lll mAdat" the judges, who sit behind small desks or tables, each table being covered with a green baize cloth. The number of these tables varies according to the court, ia the common pleas there being generally three of them, but not all are occupied by judges, lor lite judge only sits at the center one, at his right hand being the prosecutor or prosecuting law yer, and at his left tlio clerk, each with his table and a little paint box for writ ing in black the Japanese symbols, and of course such a person as a stenog rapher is unknown. Below this rostrum is what may be called the dock, where the prisoner stands supporting himself by a low rail ing. The only seats provided in the court lieyond those appertaining to the tables on the rostrum are one or two benches at the extreme end of tHo court for the accommodation of visitors, though prisoners awaiting trial are per mitted to utilize them. A jury is appa rently unknown to tlio Japanese legal procedure. At tlio trial the prosecutor states his case, niul then the judge ex amine- i the prisoner, who may, however, employ counsel if he prefer. On the completion of the ease sen tepee is pro- RoltuccJ and the n *:t prisoner called tip. —Law Journal. Literary Piirtarraliips. Collaboration in novel writing is get ting to be quite a common occurrence, writ .i Junes Payn in The Independent. One gentleman does the plot and the otli T the dialogue; or, better still (though surely a little dangerous in the case of i <\ sensitive natures), a lady is intro ! i n> the partnership, to do the In i from her view of the ques ■ a are apt to raako mistakes in ; b ai-iii vipo versa. An author . "tice b - vi red to be a spinster nun b , —rilling a husband and wife "ing on with a quarrel at the breakfast '.•! Til ■ i .' set point where they had li: i upper time. Still, collabora i ion does not do in everything. In atli liii -.-. for instance, it was recently dis covered that two gentlemen were in the habitof entering one another's names for r .. instead ( ! their own. The less spis dy "f the two modestly appeared on Ih ; !i>t. and v.-;:s v;i veil a start on account of the indiiTereeeo of Ids previot;.; per | fonuamv.-.. which the quick one i . nfur ! him ai d won. Untouched by ties spec tacle of So ranch fr; nl '-'p. . magis trate ut both Orestes and IVla to j .il for obtaining money under false pretense ' A New Color Ten!. In i'- .'.ence t • dm • ••jlnr test" i.a* tli" ; i lit of rallwt.y ,n n, ;i I. Ik-J.-cd ] iard.of tdtriisle, -ur. -'on to the railway j com; am •in the id .irk-t, has devised an i:r t rutnenl which In- thinks will serve all pur;. > Il ton i of a holder, with a revolving disk of colored glass --purple, mauve, green, yellow (tlio equivalent of a white signal lamp), blue and red, which, il will lie seen, include all the colors used on railways. The hold- r is held in front of a light, and the surgeon examines the color sight of the candidate by rev. ivni;; the disk and bringing the separate colored glasses i'i front of the < rifle.• through which the (lame -bines—tin; exactly imitating the usual signal lamp. He suggests that the addition of a piece of smoked glass would make the colors j much 'he •• tin as they would appear in a fog. it i t not convenient always to test on ti c'tual line of railway; but a j test with litis instrument, in which the | examiner can change the colors quickly, j would at least weed out those who are | positively color blind.—English Me : chanie. Thought 110 IVttU a Horse. i A Vermont farmer and his wife, on | their first visit to the capitol at Mont | pelier, paused before the statue of Ethan | Allen. They gazed long and thoughtful ly, and then the silence was broken by j Iho husband: "Gosh, mother, I alius thought Ethan Allen was a horse."— San ! Francisco Argonaut. i . I The Nitur© of Orchid*. The orchids, conquerors of the light, may well claim pardon for their triumph over their humble companions of the gardens, for their victory is fairly achieved. They astonish us when we first examine them, then charm us. Na ture has been liberal with them, and they have everything. Their flowers are full of that curious charm that cap ! tivatcs. Their colors are harmoniously ; toned, and always bright and elegant. : Their odor is sweet and penetrating, hut ! does not cloy. Notwithstanding theii i thin texture,which gives them a delicate and frail air, they last longer than other ornamental (lowers. Nothing, in fact, sr-euis to he wanting to them but a more lively and abundant foliage, and that can he supplied by mingling fern leaves | with them. I It was lon supposed that these won derful plains were extremely delicate and capricious. This was a mistake. To their other virtues they join the rare one of simplicity. Nearly all the orchids cultivated in greenhouses are natives of the inter tropical zone, and it was supposed froir r ~ this fact that they required considerable heat. But it haa gradually been estah fished that a high temperature really hinders their best development. A con siderable number of them in their native state grow on high mountains, under exposure to a bracing atmosphere; and they are now cultivated in moderately wanned and freely ventilated green houses. They are, therefore, relatively hardy plants, well adapted to the deco ration of our rooms.—J. Dybowski in Popular Science Monthly. "It'N (iront ( HO ODD A little ragamuffin, who had lost one oi his legs, hopped around on a crutch one rsisiy afternoon last week at the com r of Broadway and Park place. His sli • was torn, and it was natural tc. suppose that the foot inside of it was wet. The boy was determined that there shoa.M IKS no question about this, for he • hopped from one puddle to another, and stood i t each until the water began to „ ooze out of the shoe. Several other gamins played around with him. At times they tried to pull him down, hut ho was very quick and had away of bringing his crutch down on their shoul ders that made them wary about com ing within his reach.. Suddenly ho stopped and said: "I fee! hungry. Ciiicss 1 want some thin' to eat." lie loft ltis companions playing in the street, hopped up onto the sidewalk and accosted the first man that came along. The mail looked at his crippled condi tion aud gave him a dime. The uext man fumbled in his pocket and brought out a copper. The third and fourth paid no attention to him. lie gave it tip then and came back to his companions, toss ing the money he li:ul received as though tliis was no unusual occurrence. "(Join' to leave you fellows," he said: "goto* to get some beef and beans." > As he hobbled away the other boys looked at him with envy in their eyes. "Gosh," said one of them, "it's great-- to lie one legged. You don't have to work and you get more money, too." The others no Ided -cat.—New York Sun. Tlln Diamond Market, it v., rather an innovation t > the old time jewelers to ciscover in some of the leading m : ;azines ami newspapers ad vertisements oh'.Ting their wares at prices which strike the casual reader as being remarkably cheap. One of the oldest houses in New York, for instance, has offered to sell diamond rings, which "are lit for the hand of any lady or gen tleman ill the land," at prices varying from s•"> upward. The high standing of the house naturally stamps such an offer as being sincere an honest, but certainly i. ' I men would bo impressed with the i-. a thai a diamond ring for that amount • •' uld not present many points of value, A slight, invesiigatit:: shows that the general i Tripening agency of machinery is at won: in this branch of trade as in all the others. What formerly required the work of a single man for nearly a day—that is, the metal part of tho ring —is now slumped out and fitted ready to receive the stone with a rapidity which is astonishing. Tho only cost to bo con sidered is the rent of the machine anil tho Y .I':-! <.( the crude gold. Inserting a cheap diann 1 in the surfav of the ring is ab > it all the manual I ibor in volved. Tho journeymen ; welors do this work with great rapidity, aud prac tically there is very little cost to tho j. welry firm beyond tho first e < t of the gold and the diamond.—San Francisco Argonaut. by Deputy. Tlio I'aris correspondent of The Lon don Daily N ws, t-legrapliag iv-cutty, said: "A curious an nipt to shirk impris onment by substitution came heforo tho Paris a - ir.es thisafternoon. M Dubuso, landlord of a cafe, was sentenced tlia other day to forty-eight hours' imprison ment for having held concerts on his preuii tes without a license. In Franco a defendant who is a householder is not taken from tho court to prison, but is al lowed a it -pito of two or three weeks or a month at his discretion. At tho end of this pi riod ho receives a poiitu letter from tho pri am governor requesting him to call at his earliest convenience in or der to servi out tlio sentence. M. Dubuso during this respite found a pauper, who had just been discharged from Numeric, and induced hit. to go to prison for 20 francs. Boi -cho—■ was the man's name—went olf to the Petite Bonuette, introduced himself as Dubuso, which nauio he signed on lha visitors' bonk, and was locked up in a cell. His ragged appearance, however, aroused suspicion, and detection speedily followed, lluislacho was prosecuted for forgery and M. Dtibuscas his accomplice. The jury, however, acquitted them both." lie Got (he Quarter. "If 1 gave you a cent, Bobbie, what would you do with it? "I'd buy a postal card and write to you for a quarter."—Harper's Bazar.
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