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A DESPERATE STRUGGLE.
Osptain Jack Crawford's Midnight Adven-
2 tore With an Apache Indian. :
When ‘within a few feet of where 1
stood, the stalwart savage, his eyes
gleaming with barred, lifted his krife
and sprang toward me. [I leaped for-
ward to nreet him and. saeeseded in
grasping the band which held the weap-
on, and with a grip like a vise held to
ft. He clinched with me, and « terrible
stroggle ensued. We fell to the ground
“and rolled over and over in our desper-
‘ate struggle for the sapremacy, vet I
clang to his wrist, for my ite de pended
on preventing him from using the knife
In our struggls I noted that Wa were
nearing the brimk of the 1recipice, and
§
I hoped we would po oxed, far death in
that manner was prefei-ble to ba
slanghtored Uy a savage basd, and wn
was keen satisfaction mn tke thor:
that my ere: conta dio wit
Nearer and rear or we voided noo fear
fal struggle for the mastery, | cndeay
- ¢ring to roll over the brinl, Fo to pre
veut it, until at last, tO my great safis
faction, I felt the adge of the elit begin | i : :
m, 1 } a : i ol refresh ént in the station, bot
| in a little bh p in 3 street outside | ogot
toeriebe beneath me, and down w
went.
. We ¢t-nck the bottom heavily, and r-
my aster chment neither of ud scomod
£0 bo grenily injured. I fell almost un-
elerneath hi: and ina moment he gno-
oeeded in gotting mae on my back and
LY
#at astride «i my prostrate form. He |
had dropped Li: knife in our fall, and
seizing mo by the long hair nesr each
ear begin to beat my head against the
ground in an ende vor to stun mo into
insensibility. :
Thump! themp! thomp! ray head was
“beaten against the ground, and an angry
voice greeted mv ears
““I'il teach yom to grab mo that way
snd choks me half to death {thomp!
Ysimp)) and then roll ont of bed with
we. (Thamp!thomp!y What's ‘th mate
“.. fer with you? Are yon erazy?
It was my wife. she gt astrido of
rae, and at almost every word zave my
head a thump noainst the earpeted floor
of our bedroom.
It was all a hidecas dream. In my
desperation I Lad seized her, and we
bad u terrible stroggle, finally falling
‘out of bed npon the floor.—Captain
Jock Crawford in Home and Country
‘A CHICAGO TRICK.
Heat Somchow the Drummer Conlde't Seem:
to Make It Work,
“1 saw a queer trick: in Chicago the
other day,’ said the drummer as he
lighted a fresh cigar and pared his nails
with his pocketknife.
Of ecmrse two or three of the group
= wanted to know all about it, and he
‘oom tineed
“One of you let me have a clean $1
bill for a moment. Ah, that's a daisy
«of & Lill—just off the press last week.
Now, then, I lay the bill face down-
ward on the floor—thus The chap who
did the trick was not a professional jug-
gler, but he did it with neatress and
dispatch. 1 dou't say I can do it myself,
but I'll try.”
“But what is the trick?"
“Why, I take my knife and cut the
"bill Jengthwise—sa. Then I cut it cross-
wino—=s0. That divides thé bill into four
equal pertions, doesn't itl’
Every cue in the group answered that
is did, und the drummer gazed at the
pieces awhile and said:
““The trick is to blow the pieces to-
gether so that the edges will unite. The
Chicago man did it, but jost bow 1
e¢ouldn’s find out. Let's see. I will now
blew. Ah, théy do not unite I will
_ bld¢w again’ —
*“What in tae Old Harry ro you try-
ug to Co?" demanded tho owner of the
“Why, I's tivinvg to blow the pieces
together, *” inunder iy replied thio drum-
taer.
“But you can 't do ny
“No, 1 see | can’t. Tho Chicag: man
Qid it, but [nm uot on to the trick. Here |
are the, four piiees, and 1 goes you'll
bave to got-a bottle of mucilage and a
shinet of paper and paste them together.
Awilully cute trick, but I can’t do it
Wiel I could, bat I can't.”
and, strange ly enough, the owner of
the bill! losked at the pinces, and from
the pieces vy the drummer and back,
and than calizd the drammor a double
dyod idiot and walked off with th © ¢'
ration thas he'd like to + uu somo
: body's head. —Detroit To [>
Has Fua Wit" ii Coflve.
“Come fo! 4 cout drink coffee unless
tn bot, seid Mr. Goslington, ‘and 1
tnt like cofive unless it is freshly
pen iy and served hot, but 1 like to
drick it through all its varying phases
from hot to pretty nearly cold. I like a
“sip of it, when first poored, without
sugar or any milk or eream, when its
‘aroma i fresh and pungent and com-
plete and Tilte unmarred by the admix-
tary of samy foreign sabstance whatever.
“Then 1 pot in the penal quantity of sag-
ar und of cream, and then youn have tha
sup of coffee fu its highest normal state,
vane how delightful it js! Then, as |
weietnk 10, | odd nore cream. The re.
suainder becomes more and more dilut-
L- ER $5.04 22.3. ha :
wd, coohir and lighter: and: Lighter in
calor. The codes flavor becomes mors
and more attenuated, but it isneverthe-
Tess keenly defined, and it so continues |
to the end, The last of the cap is culy
tinged with the color of the coffee. Itis
not cold, but nearly so. By contrast
with what you have drank it is grate
fully coal. A sip of cream with a coffee.
pouguet, and you set down the cup with
a friendly feching for it for what it has
contained. »—Ne w r York Sou.
Honest People.
Pross, writing from Normandy, says:
“gq few tourists pass this way that the
answers to your first inquiries are like-
ly to be discouraging. ‘Which is the
hoase of Charlotte Corday? *Shecannot
belong to these parts. | We do not know
her!’ ‘But she died a long time ago,’
persists the tourist. ‘They guiliotined
ber becanse she killed Marat.’ Sir,”
‘this is 8 country of honest people. There
are no ussassing hero.’ '’
i I had to book. by a quick train starting
i pie
what gloomily away. But bis privy
BRACLAUGH'S LECTURE,
The Money fia fade and the Easy Life He
I bai lectured in Edinburgh in mid
winter. Tho audience was small, the
profits microscopical. After paying my | worl y
bill at the Temperance hotel, where |
then staid, I had only a few sinllings
more than ry parliamentary fare
Bolton, where [ was next to lectur:
was cat of bed at Hon a free zing mor;
ing and conld ave no i fast {
people wera not np.
gage-—a big tin box corded rou h
then held the books and clothes, au
small black bag—far I eculd not
any of my, scanty cash for a convoy:
or porter. :
Th» train from. Edinburgh tu ing de-
sponding pavliamentary had left Car.
lislo long before our arrival In order
to redch Bolton in time for my lectere
in about three-quarters 6f an hour, but
could only book to Preston, as the in:
} Creasy] fare took all by money «xo 2
41; pence. With this small sum | cond
a mug of bot tea cod a little hot eat
From Pr
enity on to
bag tothe station master ther
ty for my fare fram Preston anti] the
morning. I arrived in Boltom about 1:45
The lecture commenced at 8 amd 1
having barely time to run to my lxdg
ings and wash and change, wont on the |
platform cold and hungry, I shall never |
forgat that lecture, It was in an old Uni |
tarian chapel oh
We bad no gas; the building seemed |
fall of a foggy mist and was mp ect.
ly lit with candles. Everything appear:
ed cold, cheerloss and gloomy, Tha most
amusing feature was that an oppoaent
endowed with extra picty and forbear.
ance chose that evening to especially
attack me for the money making and
easy life I was leading. —{( harles Brad- |
as sear:
i
i
laugh in ‘'A Record of His Life by Hix |
Daughter, ”’
Cn WASP ey agave ataas Caaf URTCE 0
AN EXPENSIVE CURL. !
The Origin of a Story Attributed to Twen:
ty Handsome Wonien. t
Lady Harriet I)'Orsay was reall?, ac
cording to Mr. Sala, in his reminiscenees
| published recently, the heroine «f a
story ‘which has been told in at least 20
forms of 20 different ladies of fashion. |
She was presiding at a stall at a vente |
de charite, or bazaar, held in aid of |
the fund of some asylam or another, |
when there camo wp the Duke of Or: |
leans, son and heir of King Louis Phi-
Hppa. The duke, after som polite sniail
talk, began to extol the beauty of ber |
hair, and indeed her Henrietta Maria |
coiffare bad never looked glossier or soft. |
er than it did this day.
“Oh, "" said his royal highness, “if I |
could only possess one of those enchant. |
ing ringlets!’’
“How nminch would monseignenr give |
for ome,’” asked Lady Harriet gravely,
‘“Five thousand francs!’ repeated the
duke. “A mere bagzatelle!”
‘Six thousand francs?’
““ Anything so charming a Jag chase
to ask.’’
“I will not be extortionate,’ pursued |
Lady Harriet. ‘Wo will gay 5,000,"
And then she very composedly pro
duced a dainty little pair of scissors,
snippd off the adorable Henrietta
Maria ringlet, wrapped it in silver pa-
per and handed it with digaity te the
duke. His royal high ws looked very
straight down bis nose, and retarning
Lady Harriet's salute stalked some
parse duly forwarded the money noxt
day. :
GEORGE Iv NO GEN TLEMAN,
He Sald So Once, and at Another Time He
Proved It. !
When Lord Liverpo 1 ‘was forming
his ministry in 18.22, he thooght it ab-
solutely necessary to bave-Canning at
the foreign office, although aware that
the appointment would ba obnaxions to
George IV. Tho Dake of Wellington
un ertonk the unpleasant task of com
i rating Lord Liverpool's determi.’
LALiOn. ;
As soon as tho king know what waa
wanted of him he broke out: **Artnur,
it is impossible. I said, on my honor as
a gentleman, be should never be one of
my ministers again. I am sure you will
agres with mo that I cannot do what |
said on my honor as a gentlemun I
wonld not do.”" +
Another man would have been si |
lenced, but the great soldier, always
equal to an emergency, replied:
“Pardon me, sir, but 1 don't sgres
with yon at all. Your majesty is nit a
gentleman.’ . :
Tha bold assertion startled the king,
but the duke went on, Your majesty ia
not a gentleman, but the soveriign of
England, with duties to your pecpla far
abovo any to yourself, and these duties
render it imperative that vou should.
employ the abilities of Mr. Canning.”
“Well, Arthar,’’ said the king, draw:
ing a long breath, “if I mast,
Although be did not like bel
he was not a gentleman, George Tv had
once, at least, while regent IE inten he
was one. This was when he flung a
glass of wine in Colonel Eamlyn's face,
with “Hamlyn, you are a blackguard!”
Tha insulted ofeer could not return
the compliment without commiting
| something like treason—it was out of
{ tho question to challenga the prince,
| while to let the insult pass unnoticed
: : | was equally impossible
A correspondent of the Philadelphia |
The colonel fille d his glass and throw
the contents in the ot his neighber,
saying, ‘His majesty’s toast, pass it
oni"
“Hamlyn,” cried the regent, “you're
a capital fellow! Here's your health.”
And they were fast friends from that
syening. — Xow York Advertiser,
© msn Sm ana 4,
Was Leading. |
fi
; seg whether Ives or SBchaefor réallv fi .
a Captain Dumnresque sailed for fur
thing to nimsedl.
{ Europe
CUSHION AND BALK LINE.
Billinrdist Sivmon win Baek Himself—\ |
Defi to Ives or Schaefer,
George Slosson, the billiard expert,
{bas spreng a serprise on the billard
rowing down the gauntlet
[to apy cxnert in the country to play bin
two ianiches next month Slosson bins
i repeats diy sald that he was going to r
tire from the billiard arena permanent- |
iv, but he 1s apparently nettied Ly some
Ceriticismy attribmted to his rivals con
Ta } CRON STEIN AS ONO 8g : j
Sorin hs pr nt } FAS Hens star: The model of the #hin was that of an |
“extreme clipper.
[When nearly completed, the projec. |
Muosts, spars and |
0] wiil BE ] iy Ally cob Wao matches, i
‘
he Bays, tone at en oars, 400
points ‘up, and the sce toh al 1d)
meh balk hoo, Jp sian, hoth
| matches to be Tl : vy within
ia fortnight after his intent the
layed by a severe snowstorm, the carre- | Bo
first gama 1 wf i“ ai, 00h
[OWR money cn IE flere is ud as .
} i ernor Gonawin of Forlsin
{ each contractor to take his pro rata
his contract. +
When completed, the ship, under i
I mechanics’ lien, was transferred fa dhe
{ governor, brought to Boston, purcipased |
hy Sampsos & Tappan, named the |
chance for Jres or Schacter to play Bl
{ liards if either wants a gnme Espoo:
{ ly is it an opportunity for Ives. [ nam
i New York as the playing ground
L cansy every professional knows th
such events draw better here than soy
whers else in the world © Now wo wi
wants a gam,
George Wheeloek, the well knoses
| horse lover, told Sicson that he wanted
to take his (Slosson’s) part of the gama ;
as aeninst either Ives or Schaefer. [ves | the Soa501, co per toy for Londo
test hor mors AY
is with Schaefer and Catton an Califor
i
nia, but they ars not doing any billiard’
| pli AVing.
MUSIC HATERS.
mony’s Sweet Strains,
No greater mistake can be made than
i to imagine that all royal personages ara
| necessarily musical. Trae, there is 5
i large number of melomaniacs amon
them, one of the mast conspicuous ir
\ . ”
stanees having been the late King Low
{of Bavara 3at, on the otner han
thera are not a fow who are entirely d
i void of any ear for music and who ew
{ dislike it
Thus Finperor Napoleon ITI was e;
{ eeedingly averso to melody of every kit
and character, while his uncle, the fir
{ emperor, complained that the sound
music used to jar on his pervee and
give him a headache. :
King Humbert of Italy is equally de-
void of ear, simply loatiies the sound of
instrumenal music, and has so little
| notion of what is a false and what is a
| trna nota that tim most efficacious threat |
| that he can use when he wishes to in-
| duce his wifa to stop playing an the pi-
f ano is the declaration that he will com:
menos to sing.
The great Empross Catherine of Rus-
{sia used to say that, no matter how she
{wished to appreciata music, the finest
| harmony and. thh most celestial melodies
sounded to her ear as a buzzing noise,
I have more than once discussed with
eminent aurists in Germary the causes
of this absence of what is known as the
ear for musia.. They attribute it to one
{of two osuses—either to a cerebral J»-
| fiefency or to a defect in the drum of the
ear. Strangely enough, one dram will
45,000 francs?’ A
ier not, and they cited the well known
sometimes be thus affected and the oth-
{case of a famous scientist to whom the
"sound of mosie was a source of neurotic
trouble and evan downright agony om-
til one day he happesed to stop up one
ear with cotton wool, when for the first
‘time music became to him a source of
| pleasure and even delight.
A king who objects. to mwmsic is King
George of Greece, whose pet aversion is
‘the national hymn of the eountry over
i which he reigns. Neo matter where tho |
canfortunate man goes, either at hog or
abroad he is ours pe led to listen to the |
| chocolate and white, known as Tennes-
swe marble, is regarded with favor for! Companio n.
P|
strains of this melody, which ix invaria-
bly struck up in his honar, and 1 havo ]
been frequently amused by observing
i the look «of positive asguish upon his | i
t ton, Va, buat 3 is rather. difflenit toy
electric light at Elm Rond Baptist
"chapel, Southsea, and, curiously encugh,
| the pastor had chosen for his texts,
face when the band began ita work, — |
"1 Chitago Record,
TAURUS IN A NEW ROLE.
Untoward Flesnita of Substitut! - 8 Ball |
i man of Chicago,
For sn Horse In “Mazeppa.”
Jim Larkin was a noted character of
‘Cheyenne in te seventis Larkin was
ons of those harmless « me ious fellows |
and bad his fie into everything. There
was never a dog fight but in some way | IBY
x
he got bitten, neéver a fire but he go
burned, and mover an accident but he |
was thers in time to get hart. Larkin
was something of a showman, . During
his Pesidenioe in Cheyenne acolored tra-
gedian filled an engagement in that city,
playing Hamlet" and “Othello”
Larkin saw in the eclored man a great
{with the serntinizing air of an epicure,
| and then, i
{ push 4 them to one side; noticing which
t hig hi se said: :
apportanity to make money and induced
him to play “*Mazeppa,”’ using a wild
bull instead of a wild horse. The trage-
dian fell into the idea, and rehearsals
for the great event were had. The per-
formance was given in a large ball, |
which was crowded to the doors.
he play went off Jovely until it was
tine for the wild ball of Tartary to be
brought on, and then there was a slight
hitch. ‘The bull bad suddenly become |
reluctant nbout going ou the'stage. Man-
ager Larkin got behind him, and gave
the atimal’s tail a twist. It had the de-
sired effect. The bull rushed upon the
stage and tere out eve 3 foot of scenery,
and then jumped off into the orchestra
landing on top of the sli le trombone
1 and jumped
doors, and in
the ball had every-
The *'Mazeppa’’ en
night. — Anaconda
a very few minutes
i
gagement ciosed that
Standard.
Tha ori
cloth bottio
brida at a Saxe
blashes of the
Josfs that ver
such oocas.ons
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£304
Between 1846 amd
i ents for producin
taken ont
Mauch Chunk, Pa, 1s an indian
i pame moaning bear moenntain
|
C Where the Ii Te
' dead of winter at
THE STORY oF A CLIPPER.
| she Salted Like a Wite. » and TF guoed In
More Trades Than One.
A young Swede came to this conat
in 1851 with some mono ud thos
tention of bodlding a erat: to be Site
np for passengers to the World's fiir iy
¥
ship of aboot (000 tons, with ¢xion
sive cabin arrangements for passeng os
tor fell short of money
enils had all been contracted for and
wore ina fate off forwardness, The
veabianies conoladed to complete the
ship aint pt her in the hands of Cov. |
uth for silo
Nightingaie and onder the comma | of
Tf
tralin with os cargo valu 5 at ®1:17
From. ther she proc
i
whetro sho took tho
Hiatio xt freight
$
Yi
wk for £1
HY wn
[toy abonnt
| Some There Are W ith an Aversion to Har. | Yerrd oe
P ward a
I her to Rio,
Land sent te i Fi
LRlaver, wis o { by a Vidco
cruiser, the liberated and
| vessel gent lio he was sghseand:
v Iy tsed by tiv
roment doring
P rebellion, and tis elowe of the w
| was sold and ato the Califo 1
trade. Tro gate made the sl
est known ri © athe equator to M
bourne 25 Her whale pass
from New Yor! a8 days — Prope:
ings of the {J Han Society.
VARIC TIES oF MARBLE.
A Kinds Are Foand and
Thcir | intive Value,
Tha selec | { marble for a monn:
ent ix allio or a matter of taste
ihe finest at ary marbles are found
1 Italy ana Gareecw, hut sre ve ry BX
oeosting from $15 to $230 per ube
t. In the United States good statuary
ride has for several years been guar-
4 at West Ratland, Ve, where a
ayer from turee to four feet thick is in-
ter iratified with 40 or 30 foet of cloud:
ad marble. The finest of statnary mar-
| bla is found at Pittsford, Vt, where
thers is a bed 20 feet thick, from which
blocks bave been taken capable of tak-
tng a very fine finish. This marble belt.
extends north and south of Raotland
eonnty, through Vermont and Massa.
chusetts, bat in loses in quality in both
‘directions. Toward the north it is finer
and harder, but less sound, and toward
the south it becomes coarser. Anothor
belt of white marble extendas along the
flanks of the Alleghanies, through a
part of Massachusetts, through New
York and Miakyland and into Virginia
beyond the Potowsao river. tis quarried
at varions places in Westchester eonn-
ty. N. Y., and atv Baltimore. At Ca-
naan, Conn., and at Lee, Mass, and
other places in New Eagiand, good
| from Les was used for the extension of |
| the eapitol at Washington. Variegated |
marbles are found in several localities |
i
in tha Uni ited] States. A mottled 1llae
mantels, tables, ets. Another of red,
kraw n and white is quarried at Barling
work an account of the silica it con
| tains. — Mc Biri a Star.
Afraid of Lasuries.
“Last winter,” said Mr. H. H. Cole:
naire townsmen, at which
was an invited gnest.
Sian as a writer is in
nt of thrifi 1s
sadly Ww anutin 3 his mskenp
“There were many good things td
teript the palate, amis them straw.
berries, whi ty lnxary mn ths
‘When Fields bowl
placed beside him be looked at them
emphatic way
4 ‘Xren't you fond of strawberries,
Mr. Field?
‘Yes, very minch ind feed, but they |
spuil my appetita ks F proves.’ *—Wash-
4 ington Post.
is Girla.
Mr. Wileoz, the husband of the poet-
4
{ess Of passion, 15 a come Meise. Dual
Less man, with n soon JY sent
ment ia his (C-pesition
»
-
i for his wife, Un
was traveling, hie
Fphotagrapis
of bis room
bermand, wii
eather dn
wth,
boy who had
is boots,
Whervupon threo richly
wis who wern hurrying
pansed a moi
ab the speaker —-(hic
His Object on
She-—Even though yon do not wditriee
| Brow nieg, yeu must admit he makes |
one think, Mr. Chapleigh.
He—Ya-a-a-s8. That's Progisely whyl
| object to him, — Harlem Lif®,
London. For this poroese he jocated |
! himself at Portsomonth, contracted with
ghipbuilders who had shipyards at |
Eliot, jost opposite: Portsmoath, fora |
SLANDER.
: "Twas but a breath
And yet a woman's fair name wilted,
And friends onee warm grow eold and stilted;
And fe was worse than death. -
One wonamed word,
That strnek 159. ox noisnned blow,
la oral it bow
hee ard.
That mut | { very ie,
That thing the oaderer t name,
And * wer) ‘
And
A human
Lies rrostiesd bets
f MM y
|
i Father Prout, Made It Hi Business to Hoax |
Notably Characters,
lie, bat a man who made a business of
piystifying professional writers is a not
{ able character. Soch a one, however,
was the Rev. Francis Mahony, oetter
| known as “Father Prout. "His favorite
| trick was to take a well known and pop-
ular poem, translate it into another lan
i i we, boldly assert that in its new
crm it possessed great antigqoite and
charg the author with having stolen it
wo played on mors than one
bn ol author during arly days of
tho present century, aud cacl
sxplain th
hes Ruew to he |
foreign langnage
ator Maora's ©
Waits Tass’ init
nod verse, aftribited 38 to Moe
| RGRED fot waoriand and charged
Moora with Laving stolen it bodily, The
song, ‘Lesbian Hath a Beaming Eye"
be rendered into choles Latin and
claimed it as a yonthful production of
i his own, which be had once sl
Moore. Another
¢
W Prout’ sachinvéonts
was the transistion of Wolfe's “Banal
i
{ of Sir Jolin Moore" into French, eham-
| ing, at the same tims, that the lines
tb wero written by Colonel de Beaumanots,
+ | who was killed at Pondicherry in 1749
Not satistled, with this, be procondad
d+ | farther and transiatid the lines into
| Gierman verse and stoatiy declared that,
while Wolfe had stolen from the French
poet, the latter had in torn piifered
from the German, the latter poem hav-
Ing, as ho stated, bein written to com-
memorata the death and burial of the
Swaodish General Toistenson, who was
ied at the siege of Dantzic. Poor
Wolfe was damfounded at seeing his
popularity disappear and was not much
comforted when, the boax was disoov-
ere. Philadel phia Press,
: Usefal Parrots.
It has hitherto been customary to frit-
tor away the intelloectnal force of par-
zots by meraly teaching them to say
“Pretty Poll’ and things of that sort;
but the municipal authorities of a
French town have instituted what it is
to be hoped ‘will become a general ro.
form.
The poor box at the town hall, it
- poems, had for a long time been in a
condition discreditable to the more pros-
perous of the inbabitants. To remind
them of their duty toward their poorer
neighbors a parrot was purchased, which
was installed close tothe box and train-.
od toory, “For the poor, if you please!’
‘The result, it appears, has been high-
ly satisfactory, penco and silver coin
having been freely given in FeSpOIsSe to
the bird's appeal.
: { swicked shall
{ had the pleasure of |
attending a swell dinner given by one
| my darkness,’ a
: gruel to the electrio light, for when the |
biilly a8 a money |
of berries were |
(self taught, enerall
dictionary anil a grammar to master |
any language be chose to learn.
The idea is capable of betog applied
wed, for exataple, to warn passersby of
daring a bonse to wipe thor feet
: . x ; iim on variety of ways. Parrots might be |
| building marble is quarried. Marble | |
THE PARIS BOULEVARDS.
A Raleldossopie View af Eife 45 Be Fount
Nowhere Kise,
In no other streets in the wide world
can one see smch varied types as on the
grand bonlevards of Paris. Why, a trip
through them, on top of an omnibus,
from the Bastille tc the Madeleine
and it takes perhaps an hour—will give
von a kaleidoscopic view of life to be
found nowhere else. At the Bastille,
the Boulevard des filles du Calvaire.
and du Temple, you mneet the laboring -
classes, on Sandays in their '‘bestost
host” and on weekdays in white
blouses and cotton jackets. Beyond the
Place de Ia Republique the pictore
changes Here are the little nv rchants
apd shopkeepers and somi larie ones
i on Farther ¢ on, up near Rue Viviénue,
i
Authors have often mystified the ab-
Pp
new blood cnters this great artery of
Paris—it is tinged with a golden sheem,
for wa arc in the beart of the exchanges,
among brokers and conlissiers—aye,
among just such types as Zola drow
from for his book entitled “Money
Now the shops are becoming more guy
and beautiful, the cafes mors elegant,
and the siren volees of Paris make ite
joys even more alluring and more tempt.
ing. To appreciate it yo. must do mare
than view it from an- outsider’s stand:
point. You must take part in it live in
it, and for the time being forget that
you over wera anything but a confirmed
and hardendd bonlevardier :
Thera, follow my advice, and I will
guarantee that yoo will ses Paris as
Paris is and not as tourists see or de
gscribsa ft. Bit down with me at the ter
rasse of yonder cafe’ and watch the
stream of humanity as it flows by.
What a cosmopolitan throng! Rich and
poor, merchants and clerks, unmistakn-
bla Britishers, blase journalists, fetch.
ing looking actresses, chio little Pari.
siennes of tho petite bourgeoisie, pews.
boys and beggars—ayn, and Americans,
too—all “‘tovching elbows,’ as the
French say. sit not dizzy to look upon,
in ite whirling activity, its abandonsd
merrymaking ?
Hea that young exquisite with pointed
patent leather boots? Poor fellow! He
nas mislaid his brain and might find it
there. Be is ope of the society men of
the bonlevard. —F. R. Layland in Home
and Country.
Little Superstitions,
*1 don't believe there is a man living
who is without his pet superstition, ”’
romarked a secondhand furniture man
“We constantly have people who sell os
articles of household use and come in
alter a few weeks—sometimes only days
~and try to buy thetx back again, with
the explanation that they have had ‘bad
Juok’ ever since the snle was made and
never would have good luck again until
the bargain was undone.
“One woman who had sold us ber
grandmother's clock fairly wept be
cause it was gone before she could buy
‘is in again. This idea is not confloed to
- uneducated or ignorant people by any
means.
**At this very time I know a Louis :
ville business man of great culture and
refinement who is vigorously pursuing
an old wooden desk which he owned
many years ago—a. desk on which he
made an enormous amount of money by
a few lucky strokes of his pen. The
desk passed from hand to hand and ont
of his possession. He is now earnestly
endeavoring to trace it aud purchase it,
believing that recent business yeverses
and hard times will flee away if he can
only stretch his legs ones mera under
61 | that same old desk. "'—Louisville Con-
he proximily of wet pains on fences or | .
thop fronts, or to remind people on en |
In fact, parrots might bo made really |
i aseful members of society. —Youth's
Electric Freak "= » Church.
Recently thers was an eclipse of the
Proverbs 1xxiv, 20, “The eandlo of the
bo put cut,’ and Psalm
xvii, 28, “For thou wilt light my es
éle; the Lord my God will enlighten
combination rather
lights went cut scine of the congrega- |
tion went out also and obtained can-
dles aud lamps, whereupon services pro-
ocveded. The pastor could not conven-
jently change his texts in consequence
| of what had bappened, and ho may have
been prepared for the general fitter
which followed their announcement.
Lately n somewhat similar case ocourred:
| in'an American church, and the amuse.
| ment was hoightened by the action of &
v | deacon who absentmiy Wdedly lighted a
i match aad applied it to one o if the eleo-
| trie lights. —-London Lightniog.
— So ——————————
African Grosbecks.
i
Tha soctal grasbecks of South Africa
live in large societivs. They select a tree |
{ of consideralile size, and Literally cover.
. is with grass roof)
common dwelling 18 constructed. The |
"st
purpose of keep-
Toe man, amd abuor
4 ¢ 3
Wil ti
i carmsd Diack
saith, © koole ts languages. He was
Buskins wwig high 1 boots made of vel-
vat or other cloth and worn by ladies
and by ecclesiastics when celebrating
| the rites of the charch.
der which their |
needing only a i
rier. Journal.
With the Charcoal Brazier.
Many cases of suicide have thus ben
brought about by means of burning
charcoal, of which one example may
suffice, that of sen of Bertholiet, the
celebrated chemist. This young man bye
came affected with great mental depres.
ston, which rendered life insanpportable
to him. Retirmg to a small room, he
locked the door, closed up orevices which
might admit fresh air, lighted a char
| conl brazier, and with a second watch
before him nated down the time, to-.
gether with his sensations as the gas ac
cumulated. :
Heo detailed the approach and rapid
progress of delirium until the writing
became larger and larger, more apd
mare confused, and at length illegible,
and the writer fell dead upon the floor
~Notos and Queries
Count. D'Orsay.
The most splendid persen 1 ever re-
member seeing had a little pencil skoteh
in his hand, evidently intended for
publication through Thackeray's good
offices, which he left behind him on the
table.
It was a vorv feeble sketch. It seemed
scarcely yossible that so grand a being
should not be a bolder draftsman
He seemed to fill the bow window with
| radiance, as if he were Apollo. He
leaned against his chair, with one sl
bow resting on its back, with shining
studs and SaYie and boots. — ‘Chapters
From Some Me Oirs, > Mrs. Ritchie
Doesn't Get Arcund In The.
Tammy—D0 You say Four prayers ev-
sry night?
Jimmy=— Yop ;
“And dees your maw say hers?’
“Yep
“And dos your paw
“Naw: Pawdon’t n
moss daylizht when he g
Cincinnati Tribune.
As a Gentle Reminder
Dimpleton— My father-in-law has a
birthday poext week, and 1 must give
him something
driggs— Have vou decided what is
shall be? g
Dimpleton— Yes, [think 1 shall send
him a motto with tho words, “The Lord
Joveth a cheerful giver. —Now York
Herald :
Wis *y Burns. The
.
“Bonnie Doon”
i Emperor Napoleon at St. Helena made
| the droll mistake of saying that the
i English had but one melody worth lis-.
tening to, and that was ‘Bonnie Du on.”
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