OTHERWISE AND PERSONAL.
Secretary Endicott is a voracious
liovol-dcalor.
Clara Louise Kkllogo is singing
in concert with Esther Jacobs, tho
contralto, in tho interior of New York.
Mr. Chahi.es Loder, England's
largest personal taxpayer, is assessoil
on property of that description at$15,
00,000. Thomas Gareield, n brotlior of tho
late president, is enjoying life on a
Michigan farm. Ho has not appeared
in public sinco tho lato president's
funeral.
Marshal MacMahon is engaged in
writing his memoirs, from tho small
beginnings of his military career to
his retirement from tho presidency of
tho French republic.
Emends of Samuel J. Tildon say that
the Gramorcy park sago has developed0
a great love for canaries recently. An
other thing that is dear to tho groat
man's heart is rhubarb pio.
i ' The wedding gift of tho clansmen
of Sutherland to Lord Staflbrd is a
silver gift conterpieco, eighteen inches
high, forty-eight inches long and
weighing nuarly livo hundred ounces.
Mlle. Blase de Bury is tho plain
"Jane Brown" who lias written such
an excollnnt seric. of studies upon
Siiakspearo that tho University of
Franco has authorized tho use of her
work as a text-book in tho Paris
schools.
Mr. Jeremiah Milmi.vxk is build
ing a $1,000,000 house at Grcuwich,
Conn., on "Put's Hill," down which,
till tho story of tho affair is rehabilita
ted, Gen. Putnam is alleged to havo
ridden at breakneck pace to escapo a
volley of British bullets.
Alt. tho Kathorines in England are
contributing to a fund to place a
memorial of brass on Queen Kathe.r
ino's tomb ip Peterborough cathedral,
that poor old lady, though immortali
zed by William Siiakspearo, never
having had a suitable monument.
Joaquin Miu.hr boasts that "tho
latehstring is always out" at his log
cabin, just outsidoof Washington, but,
though lie does not toll it, lie some
times locks his outer gate, so that vis
itors can not get beyond that to
pull open his cabin door by tho latch
string. Mrs. Frederick Douglass, who is
quito white, while Frederick is only
approachibly so, has considerable lit
orary culture, and will accom
pany her husbund abroad, note-book
in hand, to record their mutual im
pressions, with a view to a future book
of travels.
The diarv of Lieut. Lookwood, of
tho Greoly expedition, is being tran
scribed by an export lady stenograph'
or in Philadelphia, Ilo wrote his
journal entirely in shorthand. His
account of tiio lifo in the Arctic re
gion is thought to bo an interesting
story. Tho transcription is almost
complotod.
The rotations botweon tho grand
duko of Hesso and iho Gorman om
poror continue as strained as ever in
fact, nono exist. Only tho other day
tho emperor refused to receive tho her
editary grand duko on his recont ap-
noiutment to a sublioutennev in the
Hessian guards. Tho grand duko
koops up considerable correspondence
with the crown prince, in hopos of be
ing able, through his intercession, to
soften tho old emperor's heart.
The houso or sobbing wron is a
bird peculiar to southwestern Texas.
Its melancholy noto is described as
very impressive. It begin3 in u fiigh,
clear koy, liko tho tinkling of silver
bolls, and, descending gradually from
ono chime to another, it suddenly fal
ters, breaks oft", and sobs liko a child
tho song dying away in a gasp. Tho
song U hoard only in tho opening light
of dawn, and is repeated but a few
times. Tho singer is rarely scon through
tho dav.
Paul de Cassaonac, equally noted
as journalist, politician, and duelist,
says his skill with tho sword is not
duo to assidious practice iu youth. "I
nover was a good fencer," ho says,
'and nover cared to be. I fenced on
ly to amuso myself. All that is caid
about my studied tricks is puro inven
tion. Tho whole secret is this: I am
pretty strong and very quick of hand
and oye. Then, I don't mind getting
hurt. If I am proud of anything it is
of boiug a good shot. I modestly
consider mysolf one of tho best lu
France."
The dispute concerning tho will of
tho lato duko of Brunswick has boen
amicably sottlod, says London Truth;
tho duko of Cumberland will get about
800,000, and tho king of Saxouy
about 250,000. Tho dowager duchess
of Hamilton (Princoss Mario, of Bad
en) gets 50,000, and tho saino amount
.tlls to tho Prince Aloxander, of Hesso
vfathor of tho princess of Battonborg),
to whom it will bo an opportuno wind
fall, as ho has boon iu poor oircum
stancos sinco tho death of his sister,
tho lato empress of Russia, who gavo
him a largo annual allowance during
tho last twunty-llvo years of hor life.
Two member of the royal family of
Bavaria get 26,OO0 ouch.
THOMAS F. MARSUALIj.
Anecdotes of the. 31ost Ilrllllunt Orator Ken
tucky Has Produced The Crmlilns
Defe.it He Administered to a
Itlvnl Jinny Years Aro.
I havo alluded to John Quincy Ad
ams, writes a correspondent to The
Louisville Courier-Journal. His namo
recalls that of Thomas F. Marshall, tho
most brilliant man that even Kentucky
has produced. In an evil hour Mar
shall had a discussion with tho "old
man eloquent" upon a matter of fact,
and as a result was badly worsted, as
Henry Clay himself was worsted, by
an appeal to Adams' inevitable diary,
which tho ex-prcsidont invoked on all
such occasions. Marshall was tho
most oloquont man of his day. His
speech had tho dulcet sweetness of tho
harp of Orpheus, and was as per
suasive as tiie plea of Phryno betoro
the hoslilo court. It would havo soft
ened tho marblo bosom of Khadainan
thus and planted the germ of mercy
in his llinty heart. Marshall was a
singular genius, as erratic as Fetors
boro and as gifted a. Adjuirablo
Crichton, though a slave to his (pas
sions and without individuality of
character sufficient to resist tempta
tion or reform a broken life. L'ko
Sir William l'ongo, "nothing but such
a character could drig down such
parts, and nothing but such parts
could sustain such a character."
Until ho was elected to congress
Marshall's convivial habits hud not
obtained tho mastery over him.
Ho onco went to Philadelphia to do
liver a lecture, iho subject of which
was tho "Lifo and Character of Na
poleon tho Great." Thero was much
curiosity to hear him, for li is fame as
an orator was nationaL and tho lect
ure had reniurkablo excellencies in a
litorary, historical and critical point
of viow. Tho hall was tilled with tho
beauty, grace, and culturo of the Qua
ker city. When tho lecturer appeared
before his audience ho was "pretty far
south," that is.
he was no1 fu' but just had plenty,
and ho bogan to ropent his lecture af
ter lirst interpolating tho following:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I havo not
a doubt that Napoleon Bonaparte was
a direct lineal descendant and heir-at-law
of a 'woods colt' of Julius Csesar
begottten whilo that hero was sowing
his crop of wild oats on tho banks of
tho Adriatic or in ono of the isles of
the Mediterranean."
Tho thought was well received, and
ho delivered his lecture with his ac
customed eloquence. Ho was a great
lover of Siiakspearo, and know tho
best plays from stem to stern. Ho
possessed a brilliant, luxuriant, gorg
eous imagination, which gave a hue to
everything that emanated from him,
while thero was a happy originality
exemplified in all his utterances. Ho
illustrated Cable's sentence: "You
may dwarf a man till lie be the mere
stump oi what ho .should bo and lie
will yet put fortlt green leaves."
Ilo defended Matt Ward for tho
murder of Prof. Butler in Louisville
about thirty years ago. It was indeed
a celebrated case. Communities all
over tho stato were divided. His guilt
or innocence became a political issue.
Tho interest was groat beyond tho
limits of the state, Goorgo D. Pren
tice, tho lifo long friend of tho father
of tiio acussed, championed tho son of
his friend in tho columns of The Louis
ville Journal and narrowly escaped
mob vongance. His otlioo was sacked
and gutted. A change of venue was had
and an array of counsel, such as has
rarely been equaled, appeared for the
defense. Besides Marshall there wero
Crittenden, Helm, Wolfe, Wood, and
othors, but it was universally conced
ed that Marshall's speech surpassed
all others. An eye-witness says that
ono sentence in his spoecii cleared tho
accused. With an attitude Garrick
would have studied and a tono Talma
would havo envied, and at the eloso
of a climax, ho oxclaimed: "Will you
tear him from his girl wife?" Thero
was not a dry 03-0 in tho room, and
the judge upon tho bench sobbed liko
a child. Ho was onco ono of a party
of hunters in tho mountains of Ken
tucky. Thof had been encamped for
moro than a week, and wore composed
of tho llowor of Lexington, cultured
gentlemen, yo.ing and old. When
night overtook them, and tho evening
meal prepared and eaton, tho part'
gathered around tho camp-tiro and dis
cussed ovory subject that oll'10'ed food
for tho contomplativo mind. At that
hour Marshall was tho leader. No other
moinbor of tho part' was so daring in
speculation or illustrated his theories
with such splendor and copiousness
of miagory. Till long past midnight
ho held his audience of moro than a
score of cultured and learned gontlo
111011 entranced. Ilo was moro oloquent
than when on tho stump, and often
his listeners wero still enchained when
dawn appeared in the east. Ono night
it was proposed that ho preach a ser
mon from a 113 text that ho might se
lect. Ho choso tho passage: "Tho
foxes havo holes and tiio birds of the
air havo nests, but the son of man iias
not where to hi' his head." For a
long time ho commented on tho lifo
and character ot tho Savior. Ho pro
sentod tho theology of tho Nazareno
111 a novel and attractive light. Ho
discoursed of love and preached all of
humanity, all of human longing for
peaco and security. Ho brought a tear
to overy oyo, and sent a thrill through
overy heart in that company, moro
than ono of whom had been skeptical
until that da', but were so no moro
forovor.
When Henry Clay died, Marshall
delivered an eulogy "upon his lifo and
character that has becomo a classic.
Longfellow declaimed that it surpassed
anything ovor uttered by tho lips of
man, and Daniel S. Dickinson said
that ho had rather havo been tho
author of it than to havo written
"Hamlet."
With ono or two anecdotes I will
close this sketch of this most gifted
man. Marshall wont into tiio town of
Versailles ono day when John J. Crit
ten lind an appointment to make a
stump-speech. Marshall asked and
received a division of time, and tho
"wool-pulling" began, Many ladies
woro present, and to show tlieir dis
pleasure with Marshall's online, as
well as to compliment Crlttemluii,
they covered the latter geiitluiuuu with
flowers and wuvod their liaudkoruhlufd
in approvnl. Crittenden ncknowl
edged the compliment in a graceful
and happy manner, and Marshall roso
to reply. Ho was moro than usually
eloquent, nud matte a splendid speech.
At its close he turned to the ladies and
said:
"No bouquets for me! Ladies. I was
born at that oarlv day in Kentucky
when tho (esthetic had not supplanted
tho utilitarian, when girR instead of
cultivating tho useless graces that at
tract tho frivolous, practiced tlioso
habits of usefulness that fitted them to
bo wives of bravo 111011 and mothers of
sturdy children. In that primitive
day the maiden had no bower whero
Flora held her court, but, on tho con
trary, thoy planted and nourisned am
plo "beds of mint and tansy. In tho
early morn tho patriarch of tho house
hold took down his 'stirrup cup and
brewed a beverage whose basis was
'old Bourbon, such as Bacchus nover
offered to Olympian doity, and all tho
family, from eldest to youngest, par
took 01 it in copious draughts, and, t i
dies, yoft never heard of a child dying
of worms in that day. If Fahnestock
had lived tho.y ho would have starved
to death." o
Shouts of laughter greeted tho con-
coits, and the ladies precipitately lied.
Ono more anecdote: Thero lived in
Kentucky, thirty or forty years ago, a
mffu named Pilcher. It'w'ould require
tho pen of Fielding and tho license
that permitted tho portraiture of
'Squire Weston to properly sketch his
character. Ho was a rude, uncult
ured, sapient man, with great natural
abilities; a scorpion tongue, laden
with tho poison of asps. lie was as
dissolute as John Wilks, and his tem
per is littingly described by O'Con
nell's epithet, "ram cot." Ho was a
sort of political Dalgotty, and, with
tho vulgar herd, a considerable force.
Ilo had vanquished overy opponent
who would consent to nieothiin even
Ben Hardin, whom John Randolph
said1 was a "kitchen-knife whetted on
a brickbat." But in invective, his
most powerful weapon, ho found his
master in Piloher.
Such ,was the man who was pitted
against Marshall. The met at Louis
ville on Corn island, a lively spot near
tho Kentucky shoro in Ohio. Tho
crowd assembled just at nightfall, and
was composed of tho beauty, wealth,
and worth of tho city. It was in tho
early days of Marshall's career, when
his budding genius gave promiso of
tho richest fruition. Tho crowd was
with Marshall, though Pilohor had
friends iu tho throng.
Marshall delivered tho groatest
speech even ho ever made. Tho audi
ence was with him, and ho reveled iu
an ecstacy of eloquence. Ho scorned
inspired with more than mortal power,
and swayed strong men and beauti
ful women as tho storm tho ripening
harvest. In closing, lie pictured the
scene before him, and niailo it as vivid
to his hearers as to his own prodigy of
imagination. La Bollo Riviere, tho
silvery moon and its soft light and
balmy air laden with tho delicate and
delicious porlunio of a season's frui
tion, tho vaulted skies; studded witli
countless sparkling gonis, all passed
in review and received tho impress of
his matchless fanc3'. Uis audience
hung breathless on his sentonces. In
tiio midst of a burst of deseriptivo elo
quence ho turned to whero Pilcher sat,
a few feet off. Pointing his expressive
linger and throwing into his classic and
mobilo features a look of unutterable
horror, ho exclaimed: "But, O God,
there is Pilcher!" It was tho devil in
Eden. Tho audience broke all bounds
and cheered, laughed and wept. Tho
orator sat down and Pilcher, con
quered onco, declined to speak. Ho
said afterward that at tho moment the
look canio upon Marshall's features
and his voice uttered those words, ho
felt himself to bo tho vilest of created
beings.
ilo Evened it Up.
Thoy havo a lighting dog in a saloon
on Michigan avenue. Thoy not only
keep him to light any dojj iu tho Stato
for spot cash, but ho "furnishes a hoap
of fun to hangers on by the way ho
picks up such canities as happen to
drop inside at tho heels ot tlioir mas
ters. It is a poor week when ho
doesn't cripple threo or four, and ho
has killed several outright. Tho
othorday a roughly dressed man, car
rying a whip iu his hand and looking
liko a callous-handed son of toil, en
tered tho place and called for beer.
Ho was followed by a broken-hearted
dog of respectable size, and as soon
as tho loafers caught sight of tho
canino there was much winking and
chuckling.
"Better send that dog out," suggest
ed one.
"Is it agin tho rules of the houso?"
"No, but ho'll got chewed up."
"I don't seo anything likoly to do it,
though ho nin't no lighter."
"'1 hero's a dog in tho back room
which can snake him out in ten ticks
of tho clock," said tho bartonder.
"Wall, I dunno. P'raps ho might
and p'raps ho might'ent. William
Henry alius kinder manages to squeak
along somehow."
"Would you havo any objections to
my bringing in my purp?"
"N-o, I guess not, though I never
oncourago dog-fighting."
Tho saloon lighter from tho head
water of fighting crook was untied
and ushered in. William Henry was
half aslcop in the center of tho room,
and the hrst thing ho know ho was
rolled ovor and ovor, and somotliing
had hold of him by tho throat. It was
a Heeling grip, howovcr. Tho fignt
ing dog seemed to get hold of some
thing to discourage him and ho let go
ami uogan sneezing aim cougning.
Then It way William Henry's turn and
ho sailed iu. In threo minutes' time
he had run tho lighter out doors and
across tho street and would havo kill
ed him in tho gutter if pedestrians had
not Intel fered.
"Say, stranger, how was It done?"
asked tho bartender as he picked up
the remains to carry thorn iu.
"Well, William Henry hain't no
groat fighter, as I told you before,
and to kinder help him out I used a
pound of snuff around tho vital parts,
It's awful good for Ileus ami it sorter
ovens up a put-up thlngl" Iktroitl
Free inn.
DOMESTIC HINTS.
GOLDEN 1TOPINO.
Bread crumbs, marnialail., brown
sugar and suet; of each, ono quarter
01 a pound. Beat two eggs and mix
tho ingredients well together. Steam
in n basin for two hours and a half.
lTDPINO WITHOUT MILK.
Two cups of cake, cracker or bread,
crumbs two cups warm water, two eggs,
linn cup ot sugar, half euo 01 raisins
fresh or canned truit, a pinch of salt
and a little nutmeg. Serve with sauce.
rt'KF ri'PDlNC.S.
Beat six eggs: atld six tablespoonfuls
of milk, six of Hour, ono eui of sugar
and two leaspooutuls ot baking pow
der; pour into cups: bako quickly
turn mem out and servo with a sauco
made of butler, sugar, water and nut
meg.
o
KANAKA CREAM.
After peeling tho bananas mash
them with an iron or wooden spoon;
allow equal quantities of bananas and
sweet cream; to one quart of tlto mix
ture allow one quarter of a pound of
sugar. Beat them all together until
Mlnoereain is light.
DRINK TOR AN INVALID.
Beat well tho yolk of ono egg, place
iu a glass? add white sugar and lemon
or vanilla to taste, till up the glass
with milk. Take tho white of tho egg
and beat to a stiff froth, and add sugar
and llavoring. Place on iho top of the
glass. This is excellent for invalids.
HOT l'OTATO SALAD.
Slice thin eight boiled potatoes: cut
up a white onion and mix with the
potatoes; cut up some bacon into small
bits, sullicient to fill a toacup, and fry
it brown; remove t ho meat and into
the greaso stir threo tablespoonfuls of
vinegar. Pour over tho potatoes anil
servo hot.
SPANISH RUN.
Beat the yolks of four eggs with two
cups of coffee sugar; add three-quarters
of a cup of butter, two cups of Hour,
Uirco tablespoonfuls of baking powder,
one dessert spoonful of cinnamon, one
of cloves and a half nutmeg, grated.
Make a frosting with tho whites of
tho eggs.
CHICKEN 1'IE.
Cut the chicken up, put it in a pan
and cover it with water; let it stew as
usual, and when done make a thicken
ing of cream and Hour, adding a piece
of butter, and pepper and salt. Havo
made and bake a pair of short-cakes,
made as for pio crust, but roll thin
md cut iu small squares. This is
much better that chicken pio and moro
simple to make. Tho crusts should 1)0
laid' on a dish and tho gravy poured
aver wliilo both aro hot.
CREAM CAKE.
Beat up tho yolks of threo eggs with
alio cup of white sugar; add threo tab
lespoonfuls of water and a cup and a
half of Hour iu which you havo mixed
two tablespoonfuls of baking powder.
Then stir in tho whites of ten eggs
beaten to a stiff froth. Pour into four
mallow tins and bako iu a hot oven.
Cream: Beat one egg with threo cups
Dt white sugar. Stir in half a pint of
.nilk witli a tablespoonful of corn
starch and one-half cup of butter.
Ileal till boiling and spread between
tho cool layers of tho cake.
ROILED SWKETI1READS.
Sweetbreads boiled and served witli
canned pons, and with a whito sauce,
or a cup of cream poured ovor, inuko
tin excellent dish. Sweetbreads and
mushrooms aro also nice; tho sweet
breads should bo parboiled; about
eight to ono can of mushrooms is tho
propor proportion; after parboiling,
cut them into small pieces and stow
them in a little water, add tho mush
rooms after slicing them, and lotfthoni
siniinnr gently for an hour; add a cof
fceeupful of cream, a lump of butter
tho size of a butternut, and poppor
nil salt to your taste.
u Caleb dishing.
Wlion Calob dishing was nominated
a minister to Spain, and afterward as
chief justice ot the United States, ho
hailed from Virginia, bv virtue of his
proprietorship of tho Glebe, a small
farm about seven miles from Washing
tun, where ho used to pass Sundays.
Mr. Cushing's tomporaincnt wns
liko that of all men who work dogged
ly intense ami preoccupied, and
prone to go to all lengths. Ho had it
in his power in Pierce's cabinet to ro
viso iiis character or tho historical
estimate of it, and servo that adminis
tration as well as his own famo. Ho
did nothing of tho kind. Tiio southern
inlluonces in the cabinet used him, as
a northorn man, todoall the disagree
able work, such as suppressing news
papers iu tho mails, anticipating con
trovertible decisions by opinions, otc.
lie worked for that part of the union
which ho did not live 111, and got oven
more opprobrium than boforo in that
part whoro ho must stay. As a conso-
quetico his application for a commis
sion iu tho northorn army was repulsed,
and as early as 18011 ho shook tho dust
of Massachusetts from his foot and
choso a homo at tiio age of threescore
and threo in tho midst of tho forti
fications on tho Virginia shoro. Ilo
now attended wholly to tho law and
increased ins very very respectable
widower's fortune.
But a tough constitution and tena
cious faculties doomed our old attor
ney to a third wrestle with public life,
in which, as usual, ho was beaten
again. His acquaintance with Sidney
Webster, son-in-law of Secretary Fish,
and also ox-socrotarv to Frank Pierce,
throw him into intimate relations with
tho stato department, the head where-
of, Mr. l'ish, was a senator wlion
Cushing was attorney genoral. Hero
ho portormod a great deal of hard
work, nono of it very superior in qual
ity, but dogged and passablo, and ho
had readied a very good position witii
tho press and nubile when tho presi
dent did him tho despite to name him
for chief justice.
Tho consoquoncc was almost start
ling. His record was unrolled. Fair
sneaking turned to bltier upbraiding.
Now tho man who had spent so many
years of his life suspended between
two parties was probably giaii 10 escapo
from both to his old retirement and
private occupation. Thero was no
lesson lu this life nor its episodes. It
wan, perhaps, a strong iiiiuirauon 01
the iiduge: "Tho moro huvto the logs
I speed." llotion JJmlgel,
Legal Tender.
Tho Niagara Falls hackman contends
that he belongs to tho natural sconory
nud shouldn't bo removed.
Friction matches nro now mado at
tho rate of 21,000 per minute, and tho
children can havo plenty to play with.
l)io Lewis has lived so high while
recommending everybody elso to
starve that ho does'nt feci very well
himself.
The pooplo who rent houses in New
York city havo mado no demand for
rents to cgaio down. All thoy ask is
for tho wiwls to stand up.
It takes two weeks to recover from
tho effects of pepper thrown into tho
eyes. Bo satislied to take theso fig
ures instead of tho pepper.
Recent ovonts prove that Riol had
moro blab than light in his composi
tion. Ho probably expected to bo
bought off instoad of attacked.
Nicolini not only played billiards
when lie should havo been singing lor
Mapleson, but ho plaved such a poor
game that everybody stuck him.
A wildcat, which escaped from tho
Cincinnati "Zoo" thiv 'months ago,
has been tho moans of keeping 10,000
boys homo o' nights ever siiice.
A Now York Stato woman pointed
nn old pistol at a tramp anil it blazed
awn and killed a $:i5cnlf. Sho ought
to have pointed it at the calf.
Tho Roy. Tom Beeciier has mado a
request in his will that his body bo
cremated and that his widow avoid
wearing black. Nothing captious
about him. n
What on earth tho army wants of a
$10,000 balloon is a mystery, but tho
Ordnance Board has" ordered ono
made. Perhaps it is to give the olli
ccrs an airing.
The building inspectors of Chicago
havo held an inquest on a structure
wliicii tumbled down, and come to tho
conclusion that "it probably was not
substantially erected."
They took threo ounces of brains
away from a Pennsylvania man with
out injuring his smartness in tho least.
There is a gieat deal of waste material
about the human body.
A horse at Charleston tipped over a
couple of bee-hives to seo if they con
tained oats or bees. It pained him
considerably to discover that oats
weren't left lying around in that shape.
Ono reason why England shouldn't
allow Russia to sei.e Herat is because
sho intend to give it a new namo in
case of possession. It will bo called
Popoffkoskovitch or some such thing.
The son of Barrios, who is in school
at West Point, wants to go to Guate
mala and avenge the deatli of his
father, but his landlady has lorbiddcu
him to leave the house until his board
bill is receipted.
The newspapers iu Liberia havo
formed a ring, and run tho price of
advertising a lost cow or a cook want
ed up to twenty-live cents. Tho ex
citoment is intense, and indignant
crowds aro Holding public meetings.
A Now Yorker wants a divorce 011
tho grounds that his wife, who was a
widow when ho married her, said
nothing about her children, but had
live whom she suddenly rushed in on
him before tho honeymoon had waned
Tho Lowell Citizen lias learned that
a melon growing upon a shrub is the
latest lrull novelty 111 California
When this now style becomes general
Jy adopted melon stealing will not be
near so hard on a fellow's back as it is
now.
James Fonton took a walk iu Chica
go. A female at a window smiled on
him. Ho rang the bell, was knocked
down by a mun, and finally recovered
sense enough to understand Unit the
sniilo was intended for a poodle dog
on the street.
If you havo a country-seat (fashion
demands mat you must name it altoi
tiio maples or beeches. If you don't
happen to have one, and can hardly
pay your rent in town, fashion will
permit you to call tho old shanty
"idlowild," "Elm Hall." orsoniething
of that sort. Detroit Free Press.
A Win- Editorial.
Tiio editor sat sadly at his desk.
His mouth was puckered with tho ex
pression a man assumes when ho tries
to cut a tough piece of moat with a
silver pio-knifo. His cheeks wero
distended on ono side by a chew of
tobacco, 011 tho oilier by a mouthful of
Asiatic wouls.
"A-f af g-a-n gau no, g-ali-n
hang it! g-h-a-n! Afghanistan, James!"
"Yessir."
"Run up to Iho honso and toll my
wife to send Tommy down with Ids
geography tho minute lie gets home
,troin school."
"All right, sir."
"Lot me see. How had I host advise
Gladstone? 1 wonder whether Mur
gha is a man or a place. But it's get
ting lato, so hero goes:"
To tho thoughtful student of interna-
tlniuil tmlltlns the recent notion nt
Gladstone cannot but appear weak iu
ine extreme. 11 no nau oniorcu 1110
troops to attaek Rawil-Pisode instead
of waiting for Gun. Kiishlc on tho
banks of the IComarolVa front advan-
cago to England would certainly havo
followed, and Sarakhs, as "far as
Kolin-Dilain was concerned, would
"William!"
"Yessir."
"Brim? mo a fresh dictionary and
an icowator bandage for my head."
Detroit Free Pre.
Kiiskin on Labor and Intellect.
It is a no less fatal error to desplso
labor, when regulated by Intellect,
than to value it for its own sake. Wo
aro alwas in these days trying to sep
arate tho two; wo want ono man to
bo always working, and wo call one a
gentleman and tho other an operative;
whereas tho workman ought often to
be thinking and tho thinker often to bo
working, and both should bo gentle
men in the best sense. As It is, wo
make both ungentle, tho one envying,
the other despising his brother, and
tho mass of society Is made up of mor
bid thinkers nud miserable workers.
Now, it is only by labor that thought
on 11 ho made happy: and tho profes
sional should bo liberal, and thoru
should bo lens pride felt lu peculiarity
of employment and more In excellence
0 achievement,
Our Spectacles.
BY REV. DE WITT TALMAGE.
A man never looks more dignified
than when he takes a spectaclo case
from his pocket, opens it, unfolds a
lens, sets it astride his noso, and looks
you in the eye. I have seen audiences
overawed by such a demonstration,
feeling that a man who could liandlo
glasses in that way must bo equal to
anything. Wo havo known a lady of
plain face; who, by placing an adorn
ment of this kind on the bridgo of her
nose could give an irresistablo look,
and by ono glance around tho room,
would transhx and cat up tho hearts of
a dozen old bachelors.
Ql'hcro aro meiQwho, though thoy
never read a word of Latin or Greek,
have, by such facial appendage, been
made to look so classical, that tho mo
ment thoy gaze on you, you quiver as
if you hail been struck by Sophocles or
Jupiter. We strongly suspect that a
pair of glasses on a minister's noso
would lie worth to liini about
threo hundred and seventy-six
dollars and forty-two cents ad
ditional salary. Indeed we havo
known men, who had kept their par
ishes quiet uy this spectacular power.
If Deacon Jones criticised, or Mrs. Go
about gossiped, tho dominie would got
them iu range, shove his glasses from
the tip0of his nose close up to his eye
brows, and concentre all tho majesty
of his nature into a look thatconsiimcd
aljopposition easier than tho burning
glass of Archimedes devoured tho Ro
man ships.
But nearly all, voting and old, near
sighted and far-sfghtod, look through
spectacles. By reason of our preju
diees,or education, or temperament,
tilings aro apt to como to us magnified,
or lessened, or distorted. Wo all seo
things differently.
Some of us wear bluo spectacles,
and consequently everything is bluo.
All is wrong iu churches, wrong in
education, wrong in society. An un
digested slieo of corned beef has cov
ered up all tho bright prospects of tho
world. A drop of vinegar has extin
guished a star. We understand all Clio
variations of a growl. What makes
the sunshino so dull, tho foliage so
gloomy, men so heavy, und tho world
so dark? Blue spectacles, my dear.
An unwary young man comes to
town, lie buys elegant silk-pockct-liandkerchlefs
for twolvo cents, and
diamonds at a dollar store, lie takes
a greenback with an X on it, as a sure
sign that it is ten dollars, not knowing
that there are counterfeits. He takes
live shares of silver mining stock in
the company for developing tho re
sources of the moon. Ho supposes that
every man that dresses well is a gent
Human. Ho goes to see tho lions no
knowing that any of them will bite.
He has an idea that fortunes lie thickly
around, and all he will have to do is to
stoop down and pick 0110 up. Having
been brought up whero tho groatest
dissipation was a blacksinith-sliop on
a rainy da', and whero tho gold on tho
wheat is never counterfeit, and buck
wheat Holds never issue false stock,
and brooks are always "current,' and
blossoms aro honest when thoy prom
ise to pay, he was unprepared to resist
tho allurements of city life. A sharper
has Heeeed him, a policeman's "billy"
has struck him on tho head, or a pris
on's turnkey bids him a rough "Good
night." What got him into all this trouble?
Can any jnoral optician inform us?
Green goggles, my dear.
.1. Wilkes Booth's Personal Appearance.
Ilcii! I'urlcy 1'oore.
John Wilkes Booth was, when ho
committed his great crime, 27 years of
ago. Ilo had played stock parts at
Washington and other southern and
western cities, where ho had given un
mistakable evidence of genuine dramat
ic talent. He had, added to his native
genius, t ho advantage of a voice musi
cally full and rich; a faco almost clas
sic in outline; features lfighly intellec
tual; a piercing black oyo, capablo of
expressing the fiercest and tho tendor
cst passion and emotion, ami a com
manding figure and imprcssivo stngo
address. In his transitions from too
quiot and rolleetivo passages of a part
to fierce and violent outbreaks of pas
sion, his Midden and impetuous man
ner had In it something of that electri
cal force and power which mado tho
elder Bootli so celebrated, and called
up afresh to tho memory of men of tho
last generation tho presence, voice and
manner of his father. Convivial in his
habits, sprightly and genial in his con
versation, John Wilkes mado man
any
'his
trieniis among 1110 young mun of his
own ago, and ho was a favorite among
tho young ladies at tho National llotol,
where he boarded.
His features in repose had rather a
somber and moloncholy cast; yet, un
der ugreeablo influences or emotions,
the expression was very animated nud
glowing. His hair, jet black and glos
sy, curled slightly, and sot off in duo
relief, a irgli, intellectual forehead and
a face full of intelligence. Botli chin
nud nose were markedly prominent,
and tiio linn-sot lips, and lines about
the mouth, indicated firmness of will,
decision and resolution. Ho was scru
pulously neat in his dress, and selec
ted Ids habits with a raro perception
of what was becoming to ids figure and
complexion. Ho would pass anywhere
for a neatly but not over dressed man
of fashiou.
Building a Railroad at Night.
flilUdelphU Tlmei.
If tho Suakim-Berbcr railroad should
bo bu It, which now seems doubtful,
tho contractors aro prepared to u'so
electricity to overcome tho obstacles of
climate. European engineers and la
borers would Hud it diilicult to do
heavy work under tho blazo of the
tropical sun, bo tho contractors have
provided portable elcctrio light appa
ratus. A ear truck carries a steam
engine, boiler and dynamo, which runs
an are light or a series of aro lights
mounted upon light iron tripods. By
tiio illumination tiius obtained tho road
can bo built entirely at night, and tha
men can rest during the hunt of tho
day.
There aro MU.aoa.nt) aoros of land
cultivated by the farmers of thu Unltd
Muted, wliicii is valued at l".lV7,WV
770.