The Poet. fhsra's never s robin that pipe of spring, Nor Mmn that runs or leaps, Nor a lies that dream on drowsy wing O'nr a pflrfura'd petal's dn, Dut ha Im rhyme and runes It rhymns and nmm, It subtle tunna, Whom rhythm In eilsncn slwips. Thorn's nver a Mar that spin In apnea, Nor a leaf that full to earth, K r a hlllow that wrinkle tho ocean's faro, Nor a rnln-drop hmiiht to hlrth. Hut hiw It rhyme and ruun It rhymsf and rum-, It mystic tunwt, 01 sweet, uiifnthom'd worth. Thorn' many a onl that throl In tlm With the roliln, tlm loaf, or tar, That may not voloo thn sllmit rhyme i IJut somn onn hnnr nfnr i And they, ye, tlmy have rhyme and runs. And thny can lii! tho mytl" tnno, For they the poet am. -Yt. J. Hisdksson, In ll irpr'n Woskly. Revaliore's Sacriflco UT OUT UR MAtiPASSANT. This adventure happened to mo in 188 J. I bad just taken hit sent in a corner of an empty compartment in the car, and hail closed the door, with the hope of remaining nlonc, whim it was suddenly reopened, nnd I heard n voice any : "Be careful, air, tho atop ia very high." Another voice replied: "Don't 1e afraid, Lawrence. I will tiilio hold of the hnndlcH." Tlion a head nppenred, covered with round hut, nnd two hnnd.-i, grasping the leather straps suspended nt each aide of the door, slowly hoisted a large body, whoHO feet made a noise on the car atepa like that of A enne striking tho ground. When the limn had drawn his body into the car, I noticed tho painted endH of two wooden leg. A head appeared behind this travel ler, nnd I heard it owner ask : "Are you comfortublc, sir?" "Yea, my boy." "Then here are your bundles nnd your crutches. " And a servant, who had the air of n old soldier, gut into the car, bear ing in his arum a lot of packages done tip in black and yellow paper, cure fully tied, end placed them one after the other in the network rack above his muster's head. Then he said : "There, sir, that is all. There are five bundles: tho sweetmeats, the doll, the drum, the gun and tho patv de foie fjran." "That's all right, my boy." "A pleasant journey, sir." "Thank you, Lawrence." The servant stepped down from tho ear, closed the door and went away, while I observed my neighbor. He was, perhaps, thirty-five years old, al though his hair was nearly white. Ho was decorated, wore a mustache, nnd had that pursy obesity of strong and vigorous men whom an imflrmity obliges to remain inactive. Ho wiped his brow, pulled, and, looking me squarely in the face, said : "Doea smoking incommodo you, monsieur?" "Not at all," I repliod. I knew that eye, voice and fnco ; but where and when hud I aeen them? I had oertainly met this man, spoken to him and shaken his hand. It was long, long ago, lout in that haze where the mind seems to obscurely seek and pursue its souvenirs, like fleeting phun toms, without boing ablo to prasp thorn. My fellow-traveller now began to examine me with tho touaoity and fixity of man who recollects slightly but dot entirely. Annoyed by this steady contact, our oyes turned away; then, after a few seconds, attracted by tho obscure but persistent action of mem ory, they again met nnd I remarked : "Keally, monsieur, instead of look ing stealthily at each other for an hour, would it not be bettor to try and recall togothor where we have met?" "You aro quito right," replied my 1 neighbor with good grace, "My uame ia Uuiiry Boncluir, mag istrate, " I added. He hesitated a few seconds; then, with that vngueuesH of eye and voice whjch generally accompanies grout tun ion of mind, he said : "Ah, yes I I mot you at the Poneels, before the war, a dozen years ugo." "Exactly. Ah ! Ah ! you are Lieut enant Ilevalierc?" "Yea, I waa cvon Captain Bevaliero until the day when I lost my feet both of them at a single, stroke from a pas sing shell." Wo looked at each other anew, now thnt we wore acquainted. I remembered porfoctly well having seen this man w hen he was a fine-look ing slender fellow, who led the cotil lions with a nimble uud graceful fren ty. But behind this figure there still floated something I could not grasp, some ktory that I hud kuuwn and for. gotten, one of those stories to which one lends ft kind and short attention and which leave only an imperceptible impression on the mind, There was no love in it. I recalled the particular sensation from the depths of my mem ory, but nothing more. Little by little, however, the shad ows cleared away, and the face of a young girl rose before my eyes. Then her name, Mile, de Mandal, flashed upon my mind. Now I remembered everything. It was, in fact, a love story, but an ordinary one. This young girl loved this young man when I met them, and people spoke of their coming marriage. I raised my ryes to the rack where all thoso bundles were trembling with the motion of thn train, and the ser vant's voice returned to me as though lift had just finished speaking. He had said : "There, sir, thnt is nil. There are five bundles; the sweetmeats, the doll, thn drum, the gun and the ;ir tie fle Ifm. " In a second a romance wn composed nnd unrolled in my mind. It resem bled all thn rnmnuces which one so often reads, in which the young man or the young womnn marries his or her choice after overcoming all tho obstacles. Ho this officer, mutilated during the war, had ngniu found, after the campnign, the young girl who was pledged to him, and keeping her en gagement, she hnd mnrried him. I considered that to be beautiful, but simple, jimt as we judgo to bo simple nil the heroic actions in books and nt the thentre. When wo read or listen nt these schools of mngnnnimity, we always feel that we should have sacri ficed ourselves with nu euthusinstic pleasure nnd a magnificent impulse. But we ore always in a bad humor on the following day, when n wretched friend comes to borrow money. Suddenly, another supposition, less poetic ami more realistic, replaced the first one. Perhaps this officer had been married before tho war, be f oro this frightful accident had i tit off his feet, and his wife had been obliged, grieved and rosigucd, to receive, euro for, con sole nnd sustain this hudiuud who had started off strong and handsome, but who now return d, after having lest his feet, a fright ul wreck, condemned to immobility, impotent auger and fatal obesity. Was he hap y or tortured? I was seized with an i. -resistible desire to know his history, or at least the princi pal points of it, which would permit me to divine what he could not or would not tell me. I talked with him while thinking at the same time. We had exchanged a few commonpluce romurks, and as I raised my eye to the rack, I thought to myself ; "So ho has three children ; the sweetmeats are for his wife, the doll for his little girl, tho drum and gun for his sons, and tho patei cle fote yraa for himself." Suddenly, I asked him : " You are a futher?" " No, "ho replied. I felt contused, as though I had com mitted an impropriety, and continued : "I beg your pardon. I thought you were, in hearing your servant speak of playthings. We often hear without listening, and draw conclu sions, in spite of ourselves." He smiled uud murmured : " No, I am not even married. I stopped at tho preliminaries." I pretended to remember all at once. "Ah, that's true; you were engaged when I knew you, to Mile, de Maudul, I believe." " Yes, Monsieur, your memory is excellent." I was excessively audacious, and iddod: " I also have a vague idea of having heard that Mile, de Maudul married Monsieur Mousieur " " Monsieur do Fleurel," ho inter rupted in a culm tone. " Yes, that's it. I remember, even, to have heard about your wound." I looked at him intently, and l.e bhiHhed. His full, puffy face, already purple from tho constant afflux of blood bcctimc still more highly colored. Ho replied with tho auimution and sudden ardor of a man who pleads a cose lost in advance iu bis mind and lieiirt, but who wishes to win it before publio opinion. 'Teoplo are wrong in. pronouncing Mine, de Fleurel'a name with mine. When I returned from tho war without my feet, alus 1 I should nev er have accepted her offer to become my wife. Was such a thing possible ? When a woman nia,rrics, it is not to make a parade of generosity, it is to live every day, every hour, every min uto and every second by the side of a muu; and if this man is deformed, as I am, she condemns herself in mar rying him, to suffering that will hist unto death. Oh, I comprehend and admire all the sacrifices und all the do votious, when they have a limit I But I do not admit that a woman should re nounce an existence which she hoM will prove happy, and abandon all her joys and dreams, for the sake ot satisfying the admiration of the gal lery. Do yon believe that man can induce a womnn to tolerate whnt be himself cannot support? Ami, be sides, do yon think that my wooden feet are attractive? " M. Itevaliere became silent. Whnt could I say to him? I felt that he wns right. Could I bhimo her, scum her or even admit thnt she wns wrong ? No. However, tho denouement which conformed to the rule, to the aver age, to truth nnd probability, did nut sntisfy my poetic appetite. Theso he roic stumps called for a noblo sacrifice thnt wns wanting, and I experienced profound deception. "Fas Mine, de Flenrel any chil dren?" I asked him suddenlv. "Yes, a daughter and two sons. These tovs ore for them. She und her husband have been very kind to me." Tho train mounted tho incline nt Hnitit Germain, passed through the two tunnels and entered the station. I was about to offer my arm to help tho mutilnted officer nlight, when two hniids were stretched toward bim through the open door. "(bunt morning, my denr Iteval iere." "Ah I good morning, Fleurnl." Behind the mnn wns a womnn smil ing rndieiitly nnd throwing her "g'l morning" with her gloved fingers. A little girl by her side jumped with joy, nnd two youngsters looked with enger eyes nt tho drum and gun that their father wns taking down from the raek Whcu the disabled man wns upon the platform, all the ehildreti kissed him. Then the crowd started off, the little girl holding iu her hand the vnr uishe 1 support of the crutch, as she would have been able to hold, in walk ing at his side, the thumb of her big friend. Translated for llomnuce. A J rent Texas Dam. The great dam ut Austin, Texas, is 1,200 feet long, sixty-six feet wide ut the base, and 10 feet on top, uud is sixty feet high from low-water mnrk. It is estimated in round figures that 22,01)0 carloads of material of the different kinds used were required for its construction. There ore over 111), 000 cubic yards of masonry hud with some 45,000 barrels of Portland co ntent. Tho material used, an stated by Secretury Oliphant, embraced 4,481 carloads of granite, 14,307 of lime stone, 450 of cement, anil 2,730 of sand. This louded into cars would mnko a solid train over 170 miles long. Tho estimated cost of the structure was $501, 150, and the actual cost 9005,000, the extra cost being due to somo exactions not originally contemplated. This difference, however, has been more than offset by securing superior water and lights, advuntuges below tho estimated cost, so that there will bo a considerable balance left of tho $1,400,000 bonds after the entire water supply system is completed. There is now on hand in round figures 902,000 in cash to the credit of the fund, with 8500,000 of tho bondu remaining. In addition to this there is 70,000 invested in tho dum railroad. Tho wuter works will have two pumps of a daily capacity of 4,000,000 gallons. Contracts have been let for forty-two miles of piping. The electrical plant will have ten dynamos of 12,000 sixteeen caudle power each for domestic nnd commercial lighting, and two dynamos of like capacity for street lighting. For moving curs and other motors thero will bo four dynamos each of 120-horse power. The witter horse power is provided w ith eight penstocks each, nine feet fn diameter, for regu lating the flow and distribution of water in the dum. Bernard Corrigun, contractor for building the dam, was two years engaged in that part of the work, and has 94,000 yet due him un der his contract. The dam ranks among tho largest in the world. Sau Antonio Express. What Makes the True Sailor. More is wanted iu a seaman than the nrtfullest acquaintance with the mochanism of his ship. He needs a spirit thut is in perfect sympathy with the whole bounding fabric, It is this spirit which in its perfection makes the exquisite helmsman, who feels tho life of tho vessel in a single spoke of her wheel as the uttermost link of the spider's delicate principal ity of silk trembles its sensibility to to the insect's fore-claw resting on single thread. Scribner. A Better Phrase. Do you know," said tho man who was going to have a tooth pulled, " I don't think ' dental parlor ' is a good phrase." "No?" "Drawing room would bo tuu'.i better. "Washington Stat. CURIOUS CATTLE. DOMESTIC ANIMAM4 OF ODD SB LPX'TIOK. Barred null of the Itrahninns roach Cattle and Horned Ponies Tar tars Milk Their Mares-Riding Tame Ostriches. ONPLAND, the traveler, in com menting upon thn curious influence of 7V hnliit, mentions the fnct that the Span- jyA Jsh-American ere r oles consider broad- 1 brimmed hats 4V whfillv InilimiptiH. able for the pursuits of outdoor life in the tropics, while in a still wsrmer climate the Arnbs dispense with hnts altogether and have for ages contrived to make their turbans compatible with longevity nnd pretty keen eyesight. But such freaks of fashion are not limited to the choice of wenring appnrcl, writes Professor Oswald in the Snn Frnncisco Chronicle. The Esquimaux at thn Chicago Fair are a taciturn set ot bipuds. but when urged to stnto their impression of Caucasian civilisa tion they confessed that they consid ered the use of such unprofitable animals as horses rnther inconsistent with tho Yankee claim to superior in telligence. "Why don't you people try reindeer or cariboos?" said their lender. "What n waste to mn!;e pets of big brutes that can't be milked and urn unfit for food, according to your own statement. And theso everlasting rnnawnys and com plaints of peoplo kicked by vicious horses! Do you know that in our country nc?itleuts of that kind never occur? A reindeer buck enn't hurt you with his flat horns nnd his kicking doesn't amount to anything at all. The deer can be milked for seven months in the yesr, and if wo have too many fawns we roust a few of them, or salt them for the next winter. And besides, reindeer will shift with tho coarsest food, nnd are tough to a degree that would make your Canadian teamsters stare. After galloping journey of forty miles they will content them selves with an armful of frozen moss WIXQF.n STEEDS and lie down in an ice-storm cold enough to freeze the ground twenty feet deep. But Yankees in their turn might question the wisdom of the Hindoos who share their last morsel of food with n lazy Zebn bnll. A Zebu, or Brahma bull, can be used as n beast of burden, but is weak kneed, stnpid and as lazy as a Holland prize cow. Warm weather makes him capricious, he will balk or turn in a circle with the per severance of an inspired dervish. The monstrous lump of fut on his back sometimes assumes proportions thnt make every ounce of additional burden grievance, and to climax nu.tters.the ungainly brute is holy, i. e. , supposed to enjoy the special protection of Brahma and his allied divinities. To beat Brahma bull is an indictable offense, and to kill him a crime that can be expiated only by life-long pen ance, if, indeed, the fury of the ortho dox natives should suffer the offender to snrvive. Should a Brahma bull enter the shop of n green grocer and help himself left and right the proprietor must be care ful t nbstniu from profanities of speech. Ho may coax tho bull to tlie door und gently assist hiin in appre ciating the necessity of departure, but verbal comments have to be couched in tho most respectful terms. On a crowded market place Brahma bulls mny be seen pushing their way through the throng with sublime indifference to the convenience of less sacred en tities, and trample down scores of re freshment tables to reach nn assort ment of attractive vegetables. And yet that four-footednuisauceisdeemed the pride of every Hindoo homestead, and the proprietor of a saddle bull will sit patiently waiting iu tho rays of the broiling suu to give the pet of Brahma time to get over a balking fit. A tOSa-HOKNBD PONT. Au equally sluggish quadruped, the ' tnk, or long-haired bison, is douiesti- I catud in tho mountains of Thibet, nnd recommends itself by its ability to ' survive tho wiuters of the icy high- j lauda, bat oould uoi .compete even I with knock-kneed donkey in ft conn try where time is considered an equiv alent of money. A pot-bellied buffa lo, slouching along with ft weary grnnt, aud every now and then stop ping altogether to browse the wayside herbs, could not try the patience of his driver more severely but the Buddhist Thibetans seem to bave no object in life lint to reach its end with minimum of trouble and are never THB TAK OX. in ft hurry. The highland sak is dressed in a fleece that makes it look like a walking bale of alpaca wool, but tho appearance of his foothill relative is even more grotesque. From the hips to the breast his shaggy coat hangs down like a misplaced mane, his rump would furnish hnir enough for ft pashaw of nino tails, but the top of his hack is as bald as the head of Mormon elder. With all his laziness the Thibet bnll is subject to fits of pig-like ferocity and will trot grunting after ft stranger trespassing upon his pasture grounds, aud in rough-and-tumble struggle has an ugly trick of flinging himself forwsrd to crush his opponent by the weight of his big-boned body. The females of the species are less stub born, and n white cak cow has the honor to be ridden now and then by his holiness, the Dalai Lama, the high priest of Buddhism. But if the Thibotans ride their cows their neighbors, tho Tartars, milk their mares. At Kuban Ueri, on the tableland of Asia, there are regular dairies for the preparation of milk beer, butter and cheese from the mare's milk. Curds, dried and pow dered in a sort of meal, are carried in bags on the long migration of the no tnudio Tartars nnd are enten with slices of drinl horseflesh, when game is senrce. A good milch mare is con sidered worth her weight in smoked OF SOtTA.f. meat. When a Tartar wishes to dis pose of a dairy pet he invites tho neighboring stockbreeders, treats them to samples of milk ando heese and gets bis squaws to milk the mare in their presence. Business consider ations make it advisable to keep the convention sober, but after the bar gain has been ratified caution gives way to liberality, and tho whole party gets howling drunk on koumiss, or fermentad mare's milk. Timur, the Tartar, celebrated his victories with solemn barbecues of broiled horseflesh and koumiss, and both delicacies have found West Cau casian admirers. "Milk tonic," as some of our physicians call it, can be bought by the bottle in hundreds of American drugstores, and the Dietetic Ileforra Clubs of London A few years a;o convened a meeting at the Lang ham Hotel, where horseflesh in twenty eight different forms of preparation was served under all sorts of fanciful nam os. In Paris, too, there are horse butchers, and ft correspondent of Le Figaro mentions tho freak of an ec centric sportsman, who got mad at the untimely restiveness of his race-horse, and ordered him "to be taken to Mouti'niieim and made into hippo granitic sausages." The introduction ot horses in South Americ has by no means yet super seded the domesticated varieties of the American camel, the Hams, nlpaca and vicuna. In the time of the Incas the uncouth-looking ruminants wero found in herds near every village, and often constituted the chief wealth of the thrifty mountaineers. The Spanish conquerors soon learned to appreciate their value und used them to transport military supplies over the dizzy bridle paths of the Andes, though, strange to say, nearly nil their early writers de scribe them as "ovejas,"or "ovejotes," i. o. , overgrown sheep. "In places whrs springs are scarce, " says Auguntin de Zerate 'a Spanish commissioner of the Sixteenth Cen tury), "the natives fetch water from con siderable distances by filling it into bags made from sheepskins and niakiu.3 other living sheep carry them, for it must be remarked that the sheop ot Peru are large enough to serve as beasts of burden. They cau carry 100 pounds or more uud the Spaniards used to rido th?m, though they will travel only about four or five leagues a day. When they are weary they lie down npou the ground, aud as thero is no means of making them get up either by beating oi coaxing them, the load must of necessity be taken oft'. When there is man on one of them, if the beast is tired he turns his bead around and spits in his rider's face." The Spanish hidalgo, it might be sup posed, would rather have dispensed with such saddle horses, but ft llama will travel at a steady gait along preci pices where even a Spanish mule wonld stumble, and, like the ship of the desert, the American camel has an al most miraculous faculty of surviving protracted famines and shifting with ft minimum of fluid refreshments or even with such queer beverages as alkaU water and brine. But the strangest of nil substitute for our beasts of burden can be seen in the southern Sondar, where the youngsters of the Donga natives trot about on tame ostriches. A full-grown ostrich cock can csrry load of 200 pounds, though only at a moderate rate of spoed, but with alight rider he will rush ftway at a" breakneck gait for a stretch of ten or twelve miles with out manifesting any symptoms of fatigue. For a short distance, and with an extra-light jockey, a trained ostrich might even carry off the first prize of an African derby, though, ae an American wag observes, "the rider could at best only hope to win on ft fowl." The Proposed New Headgear For the United Stales Army. The War Department of the United States now has under consideration ft change in the hoadgear of the soldiers and officers to replace the forage cap and helmet now worn in the service. The Detroit Free Press publishes cut of the proposed innovation. The foragecap, intended for all branches of the army, is what is known as the German pattern, and it is claimed for it that the visor, being turned down instead of being straight, gives more protection to the eyes. The top is soft and pliable and has the advantage of keeping the head cool. Many officers favor its adoption, while not ft few look npon it with disfavor, owing to the fact that it is almost the exact counterpart in shape, but, of course, not in material, of thoso so frequently met with on the heads of emigrants from the Fatherland. The other design, known as the bushy, is for the cavalry and is exactly similar to that worn by the Eighteenth Hussars, of the English Army. It is mado of black astrakhan cloth, and will weigh, complete, about ten ounces. It also has ft sloping visor, but very small. The cut shown is for officers. For enlisted men it will be the same minus the pompon or top or nament. Every cavalry odicer at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, t.v.oty in all, favor its adoption. Oni ot Arizona's Wen dor. For many years Heidelbarg Univer sity has hod the honor of owning the largest barrel, or "tun," r.s they call it, in the world. They have hnd the honor, although, according to the San Francisco Call, it does not belong to them, for Arizona bos a barrel that makes theirs fade into insignificance. The one at Heidelburg will not hold liquid, neither will the one in Arizona. In this they are the same, but are dif ferent in many other ways. Arizona's barrel is the work of nature, and it is on a high peak of mountain, about five miles from Aguas Calientas, which is in tho Catalina Mountains, about six teen miles from a railroad. The barrel is one of those peculiar rock forma tions and is about 20!) feet high, and the top of it is at least 2000 feet above the valley. It can be seen for miles before the traveler gats to it, and its appearanoe is most deceiving. It re quires no effort of the imagination to see the large utensil of Bacchus perched on its peak with a glass under its faucet TBTB LARGEST BARRKZ, IS THK WORLD. as if ready to be filled. A largo fissure in a certain: spot forms bungholo. It does not look like ft barrel unless seen from the plain ; on all other sides it is simply a rugged rock. It is a soft granite formation of volcanio origin, and is crumbling to pieces all the tiino. It is so soft that half dozen uieu with picks could kuock it to pieces ia ft few days. The National salute for tne Presi dent is twenty-one guns. This was fixed by law in 1819, and previous to that time tho Fresi leutial salute con sisted ot the firing o( one gun forever stale.
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