WAX FIGURES. ,
TnEMHTllOU OK MAKINU LIFE
lilKK MANIKINS. -
The Melted Wnc t Itnn n Mold,
Just Ids Candle Are-Then tho
Sculptor Models the llenutlful
fhir-Ylniloiv Ladles.
TWO Indies were looking in A
show window the other day,
nitmiriugsti imporfod lint
i, ilu vll nil a revolving figure.
The pretty wax lady, dressed in her
Hundny ticst, turned complacently
round and round with n elf-ntislled
iimior, her (futures wore "an'tless, her
tirtif done in the newest twist, and the
feathery creation r nil imaginative
foreigner crowning ti,r improbable
lirad was tin Hiiifthititf touch to fin im
practicable whole. Doth model mid
hat belonged just where they worn
under itIhms. Imagine tlw (Ii'hIi ami
lilood, everyday minmn, with a turned
up nose, windblown hair nii'l a mole
iutho wrong spot, trying to lie cunsis
tent in tlmt lint !
"It'll no 'me," iih"d the more prst
liral of the two women, "Von couldn't
s-xpeet mo to look like anything in n
leal Frenrhy hut! Tlmt' n French
tlgnre; f eon rue, it linn the proper
nir mill style to it !"
Sliu was riht about the lint, hut she
was mistaken nliont the Hgure. It si
n Atneriesn ns she wan, TIiomo "French
figures" nre Hindu right in this city snd
item-rally by nderninn, writes Frances
M. licnsoti in the New York Ueeonler.
They lined to lie imported nt consider
aIi!u xpeiise, Imt now we import the
mskers instead, mid they srekept busy.
1 enn tell yon. The three principal
lr .indicant their work nre for miiMcniiis,
fx rilK WORKSHOP.
retail stores and churches. Museum
work is the most diilieiilt, liecnnse it i
niunt he ns nearly exact in likeness as
possible; waxen images for cathedrals I
are purely iuiHginative, and the least j
troublesome, but the most profit comes
from the stores, which freshen up their I
nhow windows Hiiuiinlly nud change I
their exhibit ion Indies from delicate I
blonde to plump bruuette or back to i
rosy auburn at Fashion's dictates. The I
museums, by the way, frequently have ,
their own sculptors and workmen on j
the premises, and make their own
ttgnres, so that wheu anybody becomes
Hiimciently noted or notorious, sudthe
crowds are sulllciently curious, all
hands go right to work from a photo
graph, and have a home-grown celeb
rity ready iu a jiffy.
Up a flight or two of bare stairs
there is a sculptor's studio and work
shop, scattered over two entire floors.
The sculptor himself is n typical tier
mail. . Everything is white with plas
ter of Paris, and plaster easts stand
around like tombstones, while dis
tressing inanimate heads and limbs and
half figures are shelved in rows or
scattered around promiscuously. In
a baby's bathtub, right in the centor
of tho floor, floats the prettiest, pink
est, plumpest baby's foot and leg you
over saw, out off half way above the
kuee, and you turn away from it only
to encounter a dimpled arm and hand,
with the tapering finger pointing
straight at you from the uesrest shelf.
The sculptor sits unmoved by his
grewsome surroundings. He hns a
big apron on aud is modeling a child's
head out of clay. Sometimes he
works from a living model a profes
sional poser sometimes from s photo
graph, sometimes from his fancy, ac
cording to the needs of his customer.
MASINO THC MOLD.
When this child' figure is completed
it is to be one of a Christmas group iu
tho bIiow wiudow of a big dry goods
house, which is already working on its
display, aud it is to be an ideal Santa
Claus child. When the clay head is
finished, it is giren to a young man,
who puts it on a pedestal, and with a
broad, flat knife, covers it with plaster
of Paris in two auctions, being careful
to grease the edges, so the front and
back sections will fall apart readily
when the plaster is stiff enough to
come off. This plaster cast faithfully
copies every ontLoe of the clay figure,
veu to the tiniest curve, and when
the melted was is poured into it the
j o el Q olllo
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outlines are re-rcverseil and the figure
comes out right side twain.
The wax come in bulk, in ft pnrn
white state, anil wheu nielteil is tinted
only in the groundwork or flesh color.
For the iklicute coloring of a hair
srwiNo im raiti itain BFrARATRt.r.
store brauty, the wax must lie the
dnintiest pink ; for man's face it is
dnrker, and for an Indian or mulntto
darker still. The melted wax. is thin
ns water, nud when poured into a mold
tills it completely. Curiously enough,
when it cools it solidities to such an
extent that there is barely two inches
thickness of the wax, and it is per
feel I v uniform nud as smooth as satin
on the iuside. The face side, however,
from the contact with the plaster mold,
is rough, and hss to lie serHped with a
knife, the little airholes lilted with
wax liy a hot iron, and the whole sur
f"o polished with line sandpaper.
Then the smooth, Imld lieiided figure
is hnnded to a hairdresser, who has a
hunch of human hsir and a stick with
a needle in the end of it. This needle
is nu ordinary sewing needle, with
half of the eye lirokeu away, leaving
a little fork to cntch the hnir with.
Maybe you thought these dummies
wore wigs pasted uu, but let me tell
yon that each hair is put in sepnralely
snd quickly, mid poked in to a depth
of half an inch, so that when finished
tho hair can be combed mid dressed ns
rendily as if on a human head; more
so, if anything, for it won't come out.
The eyebrows, eyelashes aud on oc
casion whiskers are put iu iu tlw
snmedelilierate fsshiou, and are as real
as thev look.
The next process is to burn out the
eyes and mouth with specially shaped
hot irons. (Hums eyes come by the box
nnd pearly teeth, such as doutists put
iu real heads, come strung ou a wire
iu separate sets. An eye is impnled
on a stick snd inserted iu place, while
drops of hot wax from the outsido
holds it in place temporarily; the
teeth are nlsoput up through my lady's
throat aud occasionally get loose from
their moorings and rattle iu my lady's
head. They are dually got into place
and a thin coatiug of wax put on the
iuside of the head with a brush holds
them there, and the lady is ready to
have her cheeks and lips painted, and
the fitshiousble shadows put under
her eyes.
This finishes her as to head anil
shoulders. The purt of her anatomy
that is unt to be exposed to public
gaze is, 1 am sorry to say, something
of a sham. Pasteboard is cheaper,
lighter aud more durable that wax,
and when it is to be covered up an
swers the same purpose. However.
the pasteboard outlines are just as
faithfully carried out. The molds are
thoroughly greased aud layer after
layer ot heavy paper well soaked in
paste are pressed carefully into them,
and when dried this paper is as firm
as one thick piece. This pasteboard
dummy is lined with stroug cloth aud
a thin coating of plaster of Paris, and,
while light, is so tough t hat it is hardly
possible to break it.
The Father of Expositions.
a The originator of National exposi
tions was Napoleon. He began in
1798 a series of National expositions,
which continued at intervals of from
four to seveu years until 1859. They
were intensely National in their spirit.
A gold medal was offered at the earliest
ot them to the manufacturer who
should deal the hardest blow at Ene
lisu trade. At the French Exposition
or is li) tins spirit still survived so
strongly that the Minister of Com
merce publicly declared that a prono-
sition tii admit foreign exhibitors and
their products "could only have ema
nated from the enemies of France."
To England, as a Nation, nnd largely
to the late Prince Consort's personal
influeuoe and exertions belongs the
uouor oi organizing tbe first great ex
hibition in which merely National
lines were overstepped aud au inter
national scope giveu to it. The exhi
bition of 1851, held iu the Crystal
Palaoe, London, which, in its day, was
one ot the wouders of the world, was
the first truly large aud couimeheu
sive international enterprise ot the
kind. JiawOrleaus Picayune.
A Plymouth Hock Inr Ihp West.
California ulso lias her I'lynioiilh
Itoek. It Is the spot where tho II rat
recorded church service wns held on
the Pacini) slime, more than three
centuries ago, nud it Is to be marked
by n mi'tuoriiil -., the gift of tleorje
W. Child", of Philadelphia. The me-
('AMFORS'IA H MKVOIHAfc rnmi.
mortal is to be plnccd about three-quar-ters
of a mile from the lighthouse ou
Point tteyrs Peninsula nud will h:ivu
the following inscription:
: Cnim-r.itd I) 'tuiior in. H'U. liy itnv
:('hup'li Missinti'iry Cniiuull ha A memo-:
Jrlnlof Ilia service IihM on tli hnr of :
:lirak"' llnv sliout HI. .Inbii llsillst's:
:l)sy. .Inn til, A. I).. liVJ'.i, liy Fran-Is;
; Fletcher, Priest of Hi Church of V.nit-;
.Ininl, Chaplain of Mir Fran 'Is links,1
; Chronicler ot th Marvin. :
The design is a copy of an ancient
Celtic cross, iiinl the stem is to be
richly carved nfter the manner of the
early Celtic Christians. The princi
pal device above the arms on the facu
jt the cross will be the "Hook of Com
mon Prayer." On the reverse will be
the arms of the Episcopal inn diocese
'.if California and three inscriptions
-ecitiiig that it is a memorial of the
first Christian service on the coast, of
the first use of the "Hook of Com
mon Prayer" in the country, nud one
of thelirst recorded missionary pray
ers on the continent.
The sub-base will bo seven feet high
and ornamented with Itunic desigus,
each facade presenting a cross like
that ot the main shaft above it.
The Oldest Poslmlslrpss.
There are, according to a recent
compulation, ll&l") women postmaster
iu the I'll i ted Htates, Pennsylvania
hnving llill, the largest uuinbcr, Alasks
having only one. In this position
women hnvu won highest praise ful
the excellence and accuracy of t licit
work mial the conscientiousness with
which it is executed, says the I'.oston
.Ion mill. They nre almost nlwayt
jMipular, both with their patrons aud
with the Government Department,
simply because, working with all theii
tact aud business ability, they are
courteous aud try to please the people
thev serve. Thev are sometimes tut
GO
TUB OI.PR.ST POSTMJ8TBESH,
roost importnut persons in their own
towns, and, without reading the postal
cards that pass through the office, are
well iuformed regarding what is going
on around them. Miss Martha E,
Stone, of North Oxford, Mass., is the
oldest woman postmaster in the couu
try. Hhe received her commission
April !27, 1K57, from Horatio King,
who was tueu first Assistant lost
muster General. There were then
only two mails a day at North Oxford,
but since that tiuio the business is
nearly quadrupled. Miss Stone has
always had the office in her sitting
room. Hhe assisted ex-Senator George
iu compiling the history of "Davis
(leueology, anil also Judge Learned,
of Albanv, in compiling the geueology
of the Learned family. From the
Learnud familv, which was one of the
wealthiest aud most influential in Ox
ford, Miss Ktoue traces her descent,
as she is the great-grauddaughtei' of
Colonel Ebeuezcr Learned, one of the
pioneers of the town, which was
settled in 1713. Miss Stone was for
nineteen years a teacher aud has also
served ou the School Board.
A school boy at Abilene, Kan., La
a four years lease on acres of ground
near town. He expects to get through
high school und make money enough
off the laud by 1897 to take him
through college.
In India 25,000,000 acre are made
fruitful by irrigation. In Egypt there
are about 0,000,000 acres and in Eu
rope about 6,000,000. The United
States hss about 4,000,000 acres ot ir
rigated lauds.
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M lo rn U SdUI'S.
One spider thrend Is composed ot
several hundred separate fllainuuta.
ft is now quito possible to seo tho
lurger sun spots without gluia or lens
ot ntiy kin 1.
A factory chimney forty-eight feet
high, composed of pnper, hss just been
erected at Ureslsu. It ij nirid ti be
absolutely tlre-proot.
Tho hornet's nest Is sometimes two
feet iu dinmeter. The outside layers
have a siimll interval between ench,
so tlmt if til - rniu should penetrate it
is soon arrested.
The density of things nt the center
of the globe is so great, t tint, it is
reckoned, if a block of steel four feet
in cubical dimensions wers placed
there it would be reduced to n nine
inch cube.
Frogs are m iinlv juice. If they try
t i make more thnn n short journey
nwsy from moisture, in a drought, they
will perish for want of water ; and then
their bodies will drv awnv. The frog's
bones are so soft t'nt he scarcely
leaves ntiy skeleton.
Frogs nnd toads lay numbers of
smnll eggs. They nre dropped in the
nl -r like fish spawn, iu long clusters
or strings. The Huriiinm toad carries
her eggs soldered together like n hon
eycomb on her back. T Aliphes
carries them between its legs rolled up
lu a bunch.
Iliini'icles, beside fnutcnin'.r them
selves to ships und piling, have been
known to f listen themselves to a spe
cies of fish, nnd which are known lis
bullheads. Specimens of this fish
have been found completely encrusted
by this little nnimnl, soirMiiues to such
nu extent ns to cause death.
The sound of a strong brass Ixind
cannot be heard lit a greater distance
slid the report of a musket is scarcely
perceivable at a distnnceof '20,0011 feet.
In the Arctic regions, when th" spirit
thermometer murks 1(1 degrees or more
below zero, Fahrenheit, a common
conversation nmv be carried on by per
sons separated from each other ly up
ward of 7,0011 feet.
According to Mr. Teg.-ttueier tho
rabbit iu Australia hns been forced by
his environment to niter his Eiiropesu
habits. Tho forepsws of some have
n rcmly become adapted for climbing
trees iu snsrch of the food which they
enn not find ou the ground, nud others
hnve begun to litter on the bare earth
The Antipodean rabbit ulso enters tho
witter nnd swims very well, both dor
ing his migrntiuiisHtiil when he is pur
sued.
It is computed by lending pliysiolo
gists thnt since ono-third of u second
suffices to produce an impression on
the brain, a limn who has lived to be
100 years old must have collected upon
the folds of his brain matter nt least
9,487,380,0(10 impressions. Or, again,
take off one-third for sleep, and wu
still find notlessthati 0,311,520,000 in
dentations memory's finger marks
on and in the brain. Thin would give
8,l.",7t0,000 separate waking impres
sions to the tiiau who lives to be but
CD years old.
What the Dug Knew.
I hnppencd one day to be in a Ten-
acssee mountain town wheu an elec
tion was taking place, aud there was
oue fellow who was doing more talk
ing than anybody else ami getting into
repuated rows. He was followed every.
where by a shepherd dog, aud lute in
the evening I found him on the edge
of the towu iu a most dilapidated con
dition, the result of a tight with the
wrotig man. The dog was tryiug to
lead him home.
"Well," I said, "what's the'matter?"
"Fightiu," was his brief response
"Von look it," said I, quite fear
lessly, for I felt safe uuder the circum
stances. "That's a good dog you have.
Do yon wont to sell himV"
"No, siree," he replied, brighten
ing up a little. "Here Curio," he said,
snd tbe dog faced about aud sat up.
Then he put him through a lot ot
difficult tricks, appureutly forgetting
U about his own battered condition.
"Why," I exclaimed, "blamed if he
doesn't know as much asyou do."
The man looked at me aggressively,
"More, mister," he said, "he knows
enough to keep his mouth shut."
Detroit Freo Press.
Long Way Off.
"Let me see," said Brown to Jones:
"isn't this Jones that we were just
talking about a relative of yours!"
"A distant relative," said Jones.
"Very distant?"
"I should think so. He's the eldest
ot twelve children aud I'm the young'
est." Youth's Companion.
During the present century 8,000
ton ot gold have been miued the
world over.
KEYSTONE STATE COLLINGS.
( ItOKF.fi BY MAHKKI) MEN.
rnRKK ftlMKM SRSTAI.l.T TRRAT A 70-TIAS-
oi.sms.
Ksir. Birlhslsasw Crewtty, a firmer
tO years old, living feur ail 11 esit of F.rls,
wis choktd te InisnsiblUtv by thrse ra asked
men, ksvmua he refuted torsvt si ths hiding
pise of money supposed to be In Ills pot-
iilon. Hit daughter, Mrs. ( arey, was
first brutally treated, but Ih rohbert lt
tier In a barrsd room while Ihry poured oil
on Crowley, threatening to burn him isllv
snd continued to nearch ths bona.
Mrs. Carey jumped from second story
window lo the ground, sustaining terloul
pin al Injuries, but reached th bouse ot
neighbors to give th alarm. '1 be house nt
Mrs. John Crowley, nearby, 'was ransacked
snd no on being there, the furniture ruin
ed with sn x, but lb Ibieres aicnred only
11,'illn cash. Three suspects arrested bf
th Krle police hare been released.
ISI'I mtK AT PA I'KKR.
ICVCRAI. Rl'StSRts HH'SSS DrsrROTIB ASS
.10,000 nAMKIS tlflSR.
r isxsn Klre started In Clint tlder's bil
liard hall and before it was aubdued It had
Jost roved T. J. Illsir' stationery itore.Mrs.
Wilkin's millinery stor. Diirbln Mobley's
gent' furnishing store, Knight' barber
shop, ths poaloftlc and Mrs. White's res
taurant. Ths property owner sustaining
losses re: Henry lloliem, Mrs. Wliklns,
Mrs. l eaiherslon. Mrs. Kldar. Henry Htirk,
Mr. Wallroblnttein and Mrs. K M. Tarter.
The Ion l about MO.OOO, with 1 12.000 in
surance. rilll.AIKI.rHIA B SKS.
Pinr..tDf i.fhia The weekly sta'ement of
ths banks in this city for tbe past week
show an Increase in the reserve of 1121,000;
due from other binks an Inorease ol f 107,
000; due to other banks a decrease of 12:12,
two. The deposits increase I It 1,000: thcir
(illation Increase, 121.000 and the loans am
discounts show a decrease of t'7,000.
- - sv -AWAKPSn
f2.2.'0 DA'I.V.U.
IIeavcr The cas of Lawrence Dllwortb.
et al. vs. th Pittsburg A I. ike Kris nail-
road Company resulted in a verdict for tbe
plaintiff lor I2,2'r0 When th company
changed its ro dbed it abut off tbs water
supply of the plaintiffs, who were operating
the paper mill factory at Beaver tails.
nous wtsrsoviNo stirrr.
Ho'.MntYsst'Ro Blsir county farmers
are troubled by ths onslaughts made upon
their stock by rosining dogs. Farmer It. U
Walker, of Duncsnsvill lost. 23 sheep
slaughters ! by a pack of dogs.
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At Hszelton while Albert Sponelmrg,
wif and child weredhviuc across the I'enie
ylvaoia track, they were struck by a freight
engine.Mr. poneDiirg was insiatmj kiiivu
and lliehiisbaud bad If Injured. The child
escaped without a scrstch.
Thrsx hunter discovered a bnd ot
counterfeiters in a cave In the Laurel Hill
mountains, near Ureeniburi, the conn
terfeitera gut away, but tU hunters colitis
es ted their tool. A hunt lor me counter
feller is being msds.
HtmnY evening while Mr. and Mrs. Wll
Ham Hell, of West Kerry, were nut wslklna
their house was ant on tire and destroyed
by ons oi their nve little children upsetting
a'lsoip.Nsighbors rescued the children.
(iinsiiR Kniri.itR, a wealthy farmer living
near Pleasant duty, was swindled out ol
I'i.hoO by the farm buying and tin box
gam by two unknown huncosrs.
A oiscsai that is nsir.ling th veterinary
iirgeons boa broken out among tbo horses
In tbe vicinity ot Mt. t'leasan; and many
animals have died.
Mk hari. Mii.i.ir. employed In the mines
near Avonmor. was instantly killed by a
fall of slate. II was about '.'') year old
ana unmarried.
Tnr. 11,700 raised a year ago by employes
to help start tbe Wit hero w iron plant al
fc ' II, L ..... ....... .
lew isiie win urn rviumcu wiiilj or mm
Mm Baihisohr was fatally crushed by a
fall of limestone near MoClellandtowo
wuila milling under tbe faca of th (ton.
Emma Br.oow, a domestic employed at ths
Kromer House, Mrottdalo.lml Irom a second,
story window and was fatally injured.
J. M. P ii KwiTif. a New York tewelrv
saiestnan, was robbed of 1 1, two worth of
diamonds at r.ne Saturday.
RmpvRST of anthracite coal tliroagh
Philadelphia up todats show an increase
of 042, 13J ton oves last year.
BcRnr.AR robbed th hardware store of
8. W. Hort it (ireensburj rjunday night ot
a tot oi vaiuaoi goous,
At Meadnw T.snda flnndav nlirht Mr.
John Kdwarijs drove a burglar trom th
bous witn a not poser.
David G. Poxohtr. Assoclaf Judge of
Adam connty died suddenly teunday night.
Hi was tj years oiu.
ItAi.ru P.Honrs of Vnlontown.aged 13. has
died of lockjaw, induced by a blow with a
V.on on in jaw.
Ororsr Hriltox. aged I'l.of C'onnellsvill.
was killed by th accidental discharge of
oiigun.
Tri soldiers' bom at Erie bas it full
quota of inmates, 400, at present.
At Dunbar 130 coke ovens war fired.
Fortune In the Field.
Tteccnt experiments point to the
grovtu or a new and prod table In
dustry lrom the prolific scrub growth
ot tbo Florida forest and fields.
It has beta proved that the leaf ot
the saw palmetto curt be ground into
a pulp which makes an excellent
article of ho'low-wuro for domestic
and other uses, and the present ex
periments are expected to prove the
adaptability of Mi material to the
making ot all kinds ot paper. For
some time past the peculiar cabbage
like substance Id the top ot the cab
bage palmetto has been used with
tho tender tops as -'ell, ai a fiber In
the manufacture oi parchment. It
la now proposed to obtain cheap pnper
fiber from tho ordinary scrub plant.
Some of this pulp has been success
fully worked up into pails, tubs,
basins and other hollow-ware. The
supply ot saw palmetto is practically
inexhaustible In Florkla. Millions
of acres are covered with it, and
when cut down to tbe ground it
grows up again two or three times
year. A crop that grows without
cultivation and lu such very large
quantities bids fair to have "uiUIloui
In It"
SOLDIERS' COLUMN
THE OLD 66th.
A Qraphie Sketch of One of the Hooalef
Beilmiot in Ksntuoky.
PERMIT a f
words lrom on who
wss a ntenuer of
i. C nf th Mth
Ind. regiment. The
orsnniiallnn was
composed of mi ls
and ends from dif
ferent parts of th
dtat. culled out to
guard prisoners at
tamp Morton. I
do not mean thai
the mti wcr ' odd
snd ends," but th
compsny.
W wcrn muster
ed Into aervic on
MT "7 Urt !rl in Jnl (lr Murlnii
ddre'Sed lh regiment and elated that there
wss urgent ceil lor troops in rtenmcsy. sn i
while we had enlisted to guard prisoners he
would beglail If w wonldconsent to go to Mi
front. Ilesavcaiiy who might not desire to
go the opportunity of stepping oth rear.
I Inly two of Co. C did. 1 do not know how
many oi otner companies, Dill not many.
We at once msde readv to stsrt. snd la
twodajrs ws wr hlng hurried from louis
vllle to Kraukfort.K y. , where it wsseipect
ed Morgan would make in s'tr.ck that Hun
dsy p, in. As our train pulled Into Bended.
s lew nines irotn rrsnsio-' we uisrovsreii
that grest excitement p all si, anil fti were
hailed with joy by somen, our own rela
tives, citizens of til place.
We reached Frankfort late In th after
noon and were marched to th Hiathou
grounds, where thalovsl ladies of ths city
had provided a line lunch for th whole
regiment.
rlcfiiu reported that Morgan wss advsnc
Ing and Dent-Col. Job It. Mahon. torn-
msnding th regiment, led ns out and up
the long hid ou th l.oiilsvills turnpike at
double-quick.
As w Aisrteti w were weii loaied down
with all sorts of "comforts" rolled ud in
and upon our knapsai as. We had not gone
tar, however, before ths bsggag was loos
ened snd th knspssrks were chasing each
other down the til. I and many of them wero
never seen by the owners again.
After reaching th top of the hill w
marched a short distance aud were drawn
up in 1 ne-of-battle In Ih woods nn tint
right of th turniiik. expecting (very mo
ment 'o he attacked by twice our number.
Ths elements seemed tooonspire to make us
lennui, lor ine st finraeneii arm witinar
a id lightning played havoc with our feel
ings After waiting for nme llru w were or
dered to lie down in line of-battle till morn
ing. News then ranis that Mnrgsn bad
crossed th Kentucky Itiver above us, sod
was hurrying toward Georgetown.
For some time we were kept busy chasing
these bold riders, but never overtook them
esrept a rear ffusrd. To Oeorg etown, to
Paris, to Winches er. to Levins on ws went,
but nothing mure than a skirmish was th
result.
During th latter part nf August ws were
at Nicholasvill where we learned of Huell (
rear movement and Bragg advance, Our
rations consisted mostly nf roasting ear
gathers i from the held", when we received
orders to march toward Cumberland ap,
where Kirby Hmithwas entering Ken ucky.
We marched all night wading the Kentuc
ky I'.ivr and reached P.ichrnond about 9 .
in., exhausted and hungry. but drew rations
In plenty. though not of the choicest kind.
Hare word reached ns that Kirby rtmith
was marching from lltg Hill. snd a fight was
e i pec te.l soon. Our time had expired, but
(leu. .M anion urged us not to leave him. as
we were Ih onlv drilled men he had, eieept
a portion of nf the 18th Ky. ( a v.
We consented to see him through. and on
Aug '20 the picket-tiring announced that ths
tight wss nn. We were marched out on
double quick toward th tiring and during
the afternoon captured a small held piece,
which gave us grest eatiafsction, as we sup
posed that wss only th beginning of our
achievements.
On that night w lay In line of-battle nd
a little after minrise we resumed ths march,
a we supposed, lo victory and glory. W
bsd not proceeded far when batteries ripen
ed nut upon us with grape snd canister.
Tbeliihiing waashsrpand th loss heavy.
Fevsral regiments Just organise I in Indian
and Ohio etood by us nobly, but er th
night came our men had been routed and
retreat was on.
Our loss in killed, wounded snd prisoners
wss heavy snd many poor fellows, whose
term of enPstment had expired three days
before were killed or maimed lor life.
Hsck we went to Lexington, thence to
Maysvill and by boat and rail to Cinein
nsti and Indisnspnlls where we were paid
off and iit to or homes. For some reason
no discharges were mad nut and given to
th men. Mo tar is 1 know, not nn of that
reimiit has ever received a discharge.
Oso. W. Head in "National Tribune."
A Good War Btnrr.
On of th best irinv stories I have bssrd
for a long time was told by a Johnstown
veteran of th Foriy-Hfth regiment who was
her st this reunion recently. Tbe hero of
the story ws a Jew. Th veteran announc
ed that lie was noin,; to the suiter' quar
ter, som two miles away, to niuk some
psrchaso. The Jew, Conn, lying in bi
i"t. heard this, and tailing th vc'.eran in
raid:
I give you 30 cent, you buy m tobac
co "
Th 3) cents was handed over. Th veteran
made his trip to Ihe eti t-r s quarters, but
could get no tobscco. Ins'ead. he bought V
cents worth of cigsr. all of which, ei ;epl
two, he Rave away tn the boys snd one ot
thoesl.'fthe himself smoked. The remain
lug on be ctrefullv wrapped np in half a
doen papers an i handed them into th
tent to Conn. Th Jew spent nni tint
gttting all the wrappers oil aud was alraoac
paralyzed when h found it contained a
ini" cheap cigar.
"Wuat you do nilt mine 60 cents," said
tbe Jew.
Hi riend told him th sutler had no to
bacco so he hid douirbt cigsrs. Conn gsied
long sud earnestly at th small rrturn he
bad got for b half-dollar, snd than leak
ing up at his ii-iri.d said:
"Veil, de next urns I send a fool 'or to
bacro I goes myaeu, "Suiuti art (Pj.) V'e
dtttt. Wise Advice.
In the "Life of Rowland Hill." by
Mr. C'harlesworth, published iu Lon
don some years ago, there are many
anecdotes of that remarkable man.
At one time when Mr. 11111 wu
preaching for the benefit of a charity,
a note was handed to him, the writer
of wbicn asked whether It would be
right for a bankrupt to contribute to
the good cause. '
"No," said the preacher, after he
had read the note: "but, uiy friends,
I would advise you who are not In
solvent not to pass tbe plate this
evening, as people will be sure to say.
There goes the bankrupt,' "
a ons Kofw ma vseaaneaa.
Somebody challenged Jones to tight
a duel, thinking to scare htm.
"Well, It's a go," replied that cheer
ful lunatic, "but only on one condi
tion. You know how near-sighted I
am? Well, to make things equal I
insist that I shall be placed ten pace
nearer my opponent than he Is to
me, for the fellow's got an eye like
hawk.' .