The Medford mail., March 24, 1892, Page 4, Image 4

f - -"J The Coming Maa.
A pair of Tery chnboy legs.
Encased In scarlet hose:
a pair ot little stubby boot,
With ratner doubtful toes:
A little kilt, a little coat.
- Cut as a mother can
And lot before ns stands In stats
' The future's "coming man."
His eyes perchance, will read the stars.
And search their unknown ways:
Perchance the human heart and sola
Will open to their gase:
Perchance their keen and flashing glance
Will be a nation's light
Those eyes that now are wistful bent
On some "big fellow's" kite.
Those bands those little busy hands
So sttcky, small and brown:
Those hands whose only mission seems
To pull all order down ' '
Who knows what hidden strength may be
Hidden within their clasp.
Though now 'tis but a taffy stick
In sturdy hold they grasp.
Ah, blessings on those little hands.
Whose work Is yet nndonet
And blessings on those little feet.
Whose race Is yet nnrnnl
And blessings on the little brain
That has not learned to plan I
Whate'er the future holds In store,
God bless the "coming man I"
Somervtlle Journal.
Where Liquorice Comes From.
The British consul at Bussorah, in an
interestm? report on the growth of the
liquorice plant on the bants of the Tigris
and Euphrates, say that these srreat rivers
in the part where the root is found flow
through flat, treeless prairies of unculti
vated and nearly uninhabited land. For
three months of the year hot winds blow.
ana the temperature reaches 104 decrees.
Ffir ftir mnntha thA AlimiitA !a mrairtttA
and salubrious and for three months
rceak and wintry, the thermometer going
down to thirty degrees at night. The
liquorice plant is a small shrub, with light
foliage, growing to about t'iree feet high,
where its root can teach the water. It
grows without any cultivation. No lands
are leased for the purpose, and no objec
tion is made to its being cultivated. It is
found in abundance from Ctesiphon, ten
miles from Bagdad, down to Kut-ul-Anara.
half way between Bussorah and
Bagdad. It grows on red earth soil, where
the wood is best, provided it has plenty of
water, and the ground is not more than
fifty yards from the actual river or stream.
Only one firm works it in Bagdad, and it
Is well known that the business is a pros
perous one. The wood, after being once
dug up and cut, grows again better after
ward, ihe time of co.lectmg Is, generally
speaking, during the winter, but it is
possible all the year round. The root
when dug is full of water and must be
allowed to dry, a process which takes the
best part of a year, especially in hot
weather. It is then sawed or cut into small
pieces six Inches to a foot long. The good
and sound pieces are kept, and the rotten
ones are used for firewood. It is then
shipped in native river boats to Bussorah,
whence it is shipped in pressed bales to
London, and again from there to America,
where it is used largely in the manufac
ture -of tobacco. The consul thinks the
trade is capable of expansion. The de
mand in America is great and shipments
are easily disposed of. After sorting there
still remains some useless wood in the
bales, perhaps seven per cent From fig
ures supplied by the Bagdad firm engaged
in the business it seems that the total net
cost of a ton of liquorice root laid down in
London Is about 4. London Times.
Gigantic Desert Oysters.
Oysters 11 inches in diameter, and others
,32 inches in length, are of the classes that
. the ancient inland sea, now called a desert,
lying" jasi west of Yuma, once produced.
. At ste. different periods has that great
- baaf, been tinder water. Three times in
' anaa, rt has the salt sea covered it. and
"three times las the fresh water claimed it
lor its owb. Each water has left its writ-
tea history recorded on the rocks, and the
vast hell -deposits of its hills and mesas.
Thousands of acres covered hundreds of
feet in depth with solid rocks, or the
debris of ages, made up solely of oyster
shells, and hundreds of varieties of clams
and shells of other bivalves are to be seen
to-day by any one who will take the
trouble to make the pilgrimage thither.
There lie the shells, go and gather them.
Hundreds upon hundreds of varieties cover
the ground, make up the hills and
form the country rock. Ancient his
tory is repeated. The historiaas of
Alexander's expedition mentioned by
Pliny refer to oysters 13 inches in diame
ter, found in the Indian Sea. Those found
at Port Lincoln in -Australia measured
tram 10 to 12 inches in diameter, while
those at Kottier, near Trincomalee, were
inches in length by 6 inches in diame
ter., .Near jiesqaite. JSpnngs. near signal
Mountain, "oa the west side of Cariso
"WeUa,'on the desert west of Yuma, these
freat oyster shells can be gathered. Many
of them are In perfect pairs, every line
and ridge, eurve and mark are perfect;
even the eokr has been preserved, and yet
the shells are perfectly petrified and solid
as any limestone rock, trrol. U. K. Or
cutt. the well-known scientist, has one
that was picked up near Cariso Creek that
measures 14 inches in diameter, and is
probably the largest and most perfect one
ever found in this or any other country.
This section is worth a visit. Only 100
miles over a level road, not Just yet, but
when the Salt Sea has drained the water
off, and you are in another portion of our
"Wonderland. Yuma (Ariz.) Sentinel.
Xatnral Shawiua; Strop.
There are now blooming In St. Augus
tine, Fla., sixteen plants of the agave Vic
toria regina species, or what is commonly
called the - century plant. A towering
column rises out of the centre plant to t e
height of sixt feet, but it is often relegated
to the rubbish heap as worthless, for the
reason that as a thing of beauty it has no
further charms for the eye. Yet many thou
sands of the shaving people of the old world
I utilize this shaft of the plant. They
-, v nse of it as a razor stroD. Mr.
W. Chambers, auditor of the East Coast
railway line has bad one In use for many
-roars, and it shows not the slightest de
fect from wear and tear. The strop is
made by taking the shaft of the agave
and cutting it into lengths of twelve
inches; these are split into fcir, or as
many "quarters" as possible, allowing to
each piece a sufficiency of the pulp or
heart of the stalk to present a surface of
not less than one inch on which to strop
a razor. The heart naraens in time and
presents a fine, soft and naturally lubri
cated surface for stropping a razor.
Washing Paper Money.
Have yon ever washed filthy lucre? I
mr heard of such a tbinguntil recently.
when I happened to be making a social
nail at the home oi a wen-mown pnysi-
in In this city. Pausing a moment at
he onen door of his office to give him
friendly greeting I noticed a row of
"greenbacks" hanging on a string that
was stretched from the wasnstand to the
-chimney-piece. " I am just washing some
ioney," he said. " Have you ever seen it
dote? I do it because I get money from
all kinds of people and it is often so nor.
rkilvejrtvtbatlknow it is a breeding-
place fdinicrobes, so I wash every grimy
-and rairged bill that comes to me. Give
ima one at vours and I will show you."
. .- With some misgivings I handed him a
$10 bill, which was excessively uiiapiuatea
nhimieian lathered its face gener-
w with soaD. and began a vigorous
robbing. Then rinsing it off in cold water
he squeezed it dry, and, smoothing it out
I uain hung it in tne warm uumm. i
ray Surprise in a i
I - . i i n 4lcjin erlan new
L Kasir up aim , r -- "
itatesTreasury instead of the limp die
Zrknr, hat I bad been carrying about in
y pocketboo.; -If TT tLat
this S true, try iu y o
.Wlifna Oat a Church Debt.
for extinguishing a church
dabt has been hit upon io Melbourne,
atxalla.- The Church .mmittee-or
veW. the ase may be-divide the
total oVbt among themselves, and each
man insures bis life for the amount that
Jans, to his share.1-, The policies are trans
ferred to the church, ad the annual pay.
merits 00 them are made out of the col
lections. Tefl.- course as the mem
t , f th oommittee "drop off," the
sums insured on their lives drop in, and
X,ondon ruuuc upimuu.
The Value of Healthy Thought.
Among the laws laid down for the self
treatment of the sick in some of our large
Sanitariums is one ordering that they.shall
think only healthful thoughts. Simple as
this seems, its effect, both upon tl e physi
cal and the morai system, is thought to be
very valuable.
Yet it is very evident that if one is al
ready ailing, to allow the mind to dwell,
for an instant, upon the possibilities of
one's own Illness, or upon any of the fea
tures of physical disease in general, is to
weaken the action of the heart, to lower
the vitality, to put one's system into sym
pathy with such possibilities, to make
one's self an easier prey to the attack of
disease, to invite its approach.
Bnt, on the other hand, to think of re
covery is, in the mysterious power of the
nerves upon t! e rest of the HxKly; to put
one's seir into t'.e attitude of recovery,
and is to brighten and freshen-'the whole
condition of things. A daring .speaker
once said that it be had made the world
be would have made health catching in
stead of disease; he did not pause to re-,
fleet that leclth is already catching;
that to be in the close neighborhood of
healthy people is to absorb some portion
of their health and cheer, is t mnke the
sapping and mining of disease more diffi
cult, is to provide an atmosphere of
health, and that it las been plainly
proved fiat health is often engendered by
that is to say. caught from a healthy
habit of thought.
And the same is even more strikingly
true in relation to the moral system. To
think only healthy thoughts is to keep a
pure mind, an honest purpose, a brave en
deavor, is t build a wall between the
whole being and sin. They who do not
suffer themselves to Imagine anything
about the taste of forbidden fruit are not
going to hanker after it, are most proba
bly never going to taste it, and so injure
themselves by it beyond, repair. They
who do not look too longingly on the
bounties and luxuries beyond their reach
are not going to compass those luxuries by
any dishonest thrives' giasp at last.
Those who do not cherish a grudge and
privately gloat over the opportuni
ties for revenge are not going to de
base tl:emse ves by spitefulness, by little
ness, by hardness, by cruelty. Those who
do not picture unwisely the joys that fate
has denied them are going to turn their
efforts and their strength into channels
where they can attain greater happiness.
Those who think only healthy thoughts
will have- no room in the r minds for any
other. To think only healthy thoughts
is, after all, then, not difficult or impossi
ble; it is simply refusing entrance to the
other ort refusing place to envy, to re
pining, to sensuality, to cruelty; and so.
by feeding the soul only upon what is best.
to attain the normal stature of spiritual
growth. Harper s Bazar.
WhooplBf; Cough.
Common thyme, which was recom
mended in whooping cough three or four
years ago by Dr. S. B. Johnson, is regarded
by Dr. eovius. who writes a paper on the
subject in a Finnish medical journal, as
almost worthy the title of a specific Dur
ing an epidemic of whooping cough he
had ample opportunities of observing its
effects, and he came to the conclusion that
if it is given early and constantly it inva
riably cuts short the disease in a fort
night, the symptons generally vanishing
in two or three days. They- are, he finds.
liable to re: urn if the thyme is not regu
larly taken for at least two weeks. Re
garding the dose, he advises that a larger
quantity than Dr. Johnson prescribed be
taken. He gives from one ounce and a
half to six ounces per diem combined with
little marsh mallow sirup. He never
saw an undesirable effect produced, except
slight diarrhoea. It is important that the
drug should be used quite fresh. Lancet.
Brewer or uPuuch."
Mark Lemon and Henrv Mavhew were
the original makers of London Punch,
which was first brewed in July, '41. its
famous old cover was designed by Richard
Doyle, who shortly aft Twards left the
staff because Punch criticised the church
in which he was a member. John Leech.
schoolfellow of Thackeray at the Char
terhouse, made bis first caricature for
Punch August 7, 1841. and Tennvson and
Lytton fought a duel in its pages five
years afterwards. Thackeray's "Ballade
of Bouillabaisse" was the most successful
Punch poem of the time. Shirley Brooks
and Tom Taylor succeeded as editors and
Burnand followed Taylor. John Teuniel
has always been the cartoonist par excel
lence, though Du Maurier is better known
in the United States N. Y. World.
MATCHLESS MAXIMS.
There is no remorse so deep as that
which is unavailing. If e would be
spared its pains, let us remember this in
time.
No man or woman of the humblest sort
can really be strong, gentle, pure and
good without the world being the better
for it.
Women accomplish their best work In
the quiet seclusion of the home and fam
ily. The influence they exercise, even
though it be unrecorded, live after them.
and in its consequences forever.
You must desire to improve your heart.
and so become good. You must desire to
improve your bead, and so become well
informed. But.you must desire first to
become good. Tuat is the first and great
end of life.
Trained heads, polished manners and
accumulated wealth may all be good
things, hut they are not the qualities that
can make a trustworthy and honorable
man nor a solid and safe community. The
cultivation of the mind and senses may
lead a man to be shrewd, keen, elegant.
courteous, but it never has lead, and it
never will lead, a man or a class to be un
selfish, self-sacrificing, self-denying,
bumble and virtuous. The virtues of the
intellect are not the virtues of the soul
and the latter are not to be found in gram
mar or arithmetic.
If to be free from debt be a good and
desirable thing, we should at least work
towards that freedom, not away from it.
For most persons this is simple and prac
ticable. If we expect a very small minor
ity who from unusual misfortune or
thriftless ness are unable to provide neces
sary fojd and shelter, we my safely as
sert that for the spending of money, at
least, debt is unnecessary, and should be
avoided. Every one who has a fixed in
come of any kind can and ought so to reg
ulate his expenditures as to bring them
within it. This is a habit which should be
inculcated in the very' earliest years
Once a Week.
A Luminous Buoy.
Experiments' with a luminous buoy in
vented by M. Dibos have been made at
Havre. By improvements, effected since'
a previous experiment, in the arrange
ment of the phosphuret of calcium in the
apparatus, the inventor has obtained
fewer intermissions in the production of
the light and a prolongation of the dura
tion': A first buoy thrown into the
channel opposite the semaphore emitted
a powerful light upon coming in con
tact with the water. During this time
a boat left the harbor, and when about
a mile and a half out, another of the
buoys was thrown into the water, which
lit up the sea within a very large radius.
The power of the light was such that
the men at the lighthouse, two miles
and a half distant, saw it clearly with
the naked eye. It has. besides, been
proved. in former trials that the light
can be seen at a distance of Ave and a
half mil- s. The French authorities in
tend maklnir trials of lighting the chan
nel on the Seine, from the Amfard bank
to where the dikes commence, by means
of decked boats with masts about two
meters high, on the top of which will be
placed a light -of this kind. Scientific
ou. ..A
Men itt-
-': Did your sister get many
- Little JwhuBle'Oh.' no?ni
e Is a
summer girl.1
ludge.
CURIOUS PETS.
Leopard, Wolves, Foxea, Bears and Mom-
keys That Are Tamed.
The Russian humorist, Pushkin, tells a
pretty story about a widow who had sur
vived four husbands, and was going to
ratify the preliminaries of a fifth .alliance
with a Ci im Tartar. "
Do you know that your Admirer car
ries six pistols and a bandit's knife?" in
quired the anxious friend.
Yes, I have seen them, said the woman.
calmly; " but, judging from expotiouce, I
do not believe thaithere is-any such thing
as an untamable creature.
Zoological experts Incline to a similar
i pinion. The most perfect embodiment of
i-ckless..fury is a tran-caught leopard
during fits first week's experience of pris
on life. He-will rush to and fro with a
persistency worthy of better success; his
eyes glare defiance at every visitor; every
now and then he will attack the -bars or
his Cairo' with absolute disregard of con
sequences, or roll about the. floor, biting
hispwikuaws in his fremy of despair, let
In-Hindustan a near relative of that four
footed demon, the cheetah or hunting
leopard,, has been so porfectly domesti
cated that-he can bo trusted to run at
large, and" return from a night expidition
to suarVihe proceed of his enterprise
with hlsf jCrtiiner. "': ':-.-
Wolves terrorized our pastoral forefath
ers in a way that has made the name of
the canis lupus a synonym of tierce hostil
ity, says the New York Ledger, yet that
adversary of stock-raising manklud "is
more than probably the aucestor of the
faithful shepherd dog. On a stock farm
near Zacatecas. in Northern Mexico, I saw
a tame wolf that seemed to get along on
the best terms with his canine relatives,
and in the morning was always on hand
to greet his master with romps and ca
resses, and if kicked away would cringe
in a manner suggesting the deprecating
maneuvers of a fawning spaniel. He
could not be trained to find his way home
from an extensive bunting trip, but was
often left to guard the " farm-yard poultry,
and to the best of his owner's knowledge,
had never betrayed his tru9t.
Foxes, too, can be trained to restrain
their predatory instincts, and a Tennessee
neighbor of mine raised a litter of fox
whelps with his puppies and induced them
to stay about the house by treating them
to an occasional dish of their favorite del
icacy fresh milk, sweetened wfth sor
ghum treacle.
Young bears can dispense with such
premiums. After a few week's petting
they will stick to a farm house with the
tenacity of loyalist office-holders, and
never leave the premises after dark. A
half-grown specimen on a Georgia high
land farm would now and then take a
stroll In huckleberry time and stray a few
hundred yards beyond the clearing of his
proprietor, but any unusual noise, a shout
or distan report of fire-arms, was suffi
cient to send him back racing to the shelter
oi the old homestead. Like a cat, ha
seeiued, indeed, to concentrate his affec
tions upou the dwelling house rather than
on its proprietors, and could never be
coaxed to follow the family more than halt
a mile from headquarters unless they con
trived to counteract his homesickness by
liberal slices of pumpkin pie.
The pet monkeys of the East India coun
try town manifest a similar disposition In
an even more demonstrative fashion. Tea
or twelve of them will congregate on the
roof of a .l;udu farm house, waiting for
lunch or utiiiziug the palmleaf thatch for
a rain shelter, but, on the whole pay for
their board and lodging by making a
watchdog v holly superfluous. At the first
glance of a saspicious biped they will give
the alarm by a chorus of coughing barks,
and often a-.-tually attack an iutruder with
all the pluck of a resolute bull-terrier.
Their personal safety remains a secondary
consideration in engagements of un
doubted risk
"Our Mary's" lliur Life.
"It was in the drawiug-nxim of one of
the pretty country houses ou the hill
slopes about Tunbridge Wells tl at I met
Mr. and Mrs. de Navarro a May or two ajro.
Of course. I had heard dim rumors that
"Miss Mary Anderson' was completely
broken down in health, that she was 'a
wreck of her former self," listless, pale,
and a favorite society phrase 'gone off"
altogether. H was. therefore, with con
side: able surprise that I looked up to fie
radiant woman entering the room, her
figure as queenly as ever, her face as
beautiful, and flushed with the heal' by
tinge that fol!oS an out-door life in pvre
air and pleasant surroundings, and her
eyes flashing with happiness and hi?h
spirits. Her dress nas elegant but
very-simple; she wears the close-
fitting sace-green costume with
the unequa'led grace we have learned
to appreciate s'nee we saw Miss Marv An
derson a; Oulatea.but which is considered
to 'go' only with the clinging d .-a pedes of
of ancient Greece. To see Mary Anderson
on ttie stajre was an artistic pleasure; to
see her in private life aud to listen to her
as she talks is a far greater one. She Is
simple and natural as any child ; and even
while she is saying that we are all born
actors, and regrets that fact, you thtnk
that if the study of acting brings about
such results as are exemplified in the wo
man before you. whose every gesture and
every movement is perfect grace, the bet
ter for art and the worse for nature.
"Mrs. de Navarro, though she has left
the stage, has not lost her interest in her
art, nor does she aff-tt to look down upon
it from 'the heights by great men reached
and kept,' or to legard her past career
with sublime indifference. She is tired of
acting; the eternal ma;e 'make-believe,'
the si am grief and wrath and happiness,
grew intolerable to her. as she went on
delighting others, but never for a moment
forgetting even amid the most enthusias
tic applause how far short ber representa
tion of a e nra -ter fell of the Ideal she bad
formed f t.
The end of it all was that Miss. Ander
son, after a terrible, breakdown in conse
quence of overwork, from .which she has
only just recovered to complete health,
fled from the stage, and will give no ear
to the host of tt.eatricai managers as
eager as ever to offer her the most bril
liant engagements. Mr. de Navarro, If
his wife expiessed the w ish to return to
the stage, would never think of prevent
ing her; he has far to much of the artist's
soul no to sympathize to the full with the
longings to express in acting, or painting,
or music, what stirs the heart and mind.
But not she had the choice between a
public life of triumph and success and a
very simple, retired home life; she has
chosen the latter, and is radlently happy
in it. Pall Mall Gazette.
A Story of a Loving Cup.
A Boston i an who had been In London
good deal relates that not long since hs
had the honor of diniug with one of th
oldest of the companies in that city, when
he was shown the loving cup which was
passed at the conclusion of the dinner, th
Gate if?.
He had been told earlier in the evening
that the hall of the company had been
burned to the ground in the great fire oi
London, and that everything which tb
company bad had been consumed, so that
he remarked that of course this cup was a
reproduction of an older one.
"O.-no." was the answer, "this is ths
the original."
''But how was this preserved in ths
great fire?"
It was then explained that the company
was so heavily assessed at the time of ths
establishment of the commonwealth
when, as everybody knows, levies wer
made on most of the city companies that
it had hard work to raise the necessary
funds.
It managed to scrape along, however,
until the restoration when fresh demands
were made by the government of Charles
II on the ground that the company had
contributed funds to the support of Croin
welL ,V
The company had already mortgaged
its land and now there 'was nothing left
for-it hut the pawning of its plate, which
was accordingly pledged to the Lombards,
who carried it to France. It was owing to
this state of things that the plate escaped
the great fire, and although it was a long
time after that event before the company
was In a position to- redeem the silver,
ultimately the whole came back to the
original owners in London. Boston
Courier. ,
Two attorneys at St. Joseph, Mon-'who
are associated In business, have both been
retained in suits against their fathers.
THE CHICAGO ARTIST.
The man who wrote McOlnty Is something of a
saint
Compared unto the maiden who Insists she can
paint.
who show rnu plaques aud sketches and oils
and studies, too.
And while you study what thoy are. awaits the
praise that's due.
It really makes you uerroua, aud you are not to
ulnme.
For mutlorliiK some fool remark that fills your
iiroaHi wuii Hiinmo:
Sue looks so swootly trustful, soruro from harsh
crltlquos,
That you cauuot liear to tell her what your
nonest juiiKincut sjeaks.
Bo you lie to tier like sixty, and she knows
you're lying. tM,
But It won't disturb her ousctent-e. and she'll
tliluk the more of you.
Chicago Post.
Able lo Held 1II Own.
"So this Is vnur grandson, eh, Rastus?"
"Yassir. He's a line boy too. Leads his
classes at school."
"lud e I ! Come here, boy. Suppose you
had two dozeu wat rmelous, and another
boy took live of them, how many would
there be left?"
"I gueth ef I done git a holt o' two dozen
waterinlllions, they ain't no boy on ills
yere ulrth 'ml git live of 'em," replied the
youngster. Harper's Bazar.
The Mosquito's Hons;.
I enter tho door
Of the rich and poor;
1 sit ou the nose of the ktuf ;
And no one hath pla-e
For hiding bis fiu-e.
Where I run not find It to atlug.
On mountain aud hill
By river aud rill.
1 wait for my euemy man
He likes uot my song.
Ha hated me loug.
And strikes me whenever he can.
Aud as ugas the auu
In his txiunw shall run, . -
When the days of Summer return,
1. too. will come back
My foeman lo rack,
Aud cause him to smart aud to burn.
New Orleans Times-Pemocrat.
The Same Guage.
An application for an annual pass wss
once made to Co n mo lore Vanderbllt by
the president of a road about twenty-five
miles long. "Your road doesn't seem to
cover a great amount of territory," sug
gested the Commodore to the applicant.
"No." said the npp leant, "it isn't quite so
long ns the New ork Central, but, by
gracious, Mr. auderbilt. Its just as
wide'" The pass was Issued. Excliauge.
Oue Thins; Larking.
She Is Tersed lu Ichthyology, psychology.
Blok-gy.
Aud ran hold her owu with any Ph. D. :
She ran discourse ou Astronomy. Qaslroaomy,
Phlebotomy.
And on physics can talk most perfectly.
She's accomplished on the baujo. piano, obeo.
And can warble as the nlgbUugale slugs:
She exactly kuows what are pueumallcs.
Ilamatlc. Emphattcs.
And numerous other dainty little things.
She has studied the latest fasblou. poems of
passlou. atrs of mashln.
Aud gttMy yout.i consider her t)Ulte
But she lacks one little quality, not
a ealcu:
frivolity.
neither Jollity.
She mere. y du'l know how to wind
ber
watch.
Jewelers' Circular.
A Disappointment.
"Yes" slirhe 1 the disappoint I mother.
I brought my son up very caiefully aud
piously. A soon as he was old enough
got him to joiu the church, aud made him
gi ru his solemn promise Uial wheu he
m.i rri' d he would marry a Christian wo
man." "And didn't he?" "No; he married
one of t;.e girls of the cLolr. Musical Cou
rier.
Only a Gotham Koadtfer.
I'm only a G.tbam roadster.
Fourteen hands blgb In mysh,.
1 run In a gig, a rickety gig.
1 be sort that farmers use.
I'm kept lu a stuffy stable.
I'm fed o gritty oata
Tbey leave my straw for a montb or more.
Till It Isn't Si for goats
I'm only a Gotham roadster.
An ugly old dapple gray.
But It gave tne a pain wbec tbey clipped my
mane.
And paired me with a bay.
Illder and Driver.
The Height of EirlttdvvseM.
Mrs. Havse.-l Talkin' 'bout airs, the
most airish. ex.-lusive. stuck-up thing
ever saw is that Mrs. Hayfork ou tho next
farm.
City Guest Proud, is she?
Mrs. Hayseed -Haughty as a princess.
Why. she's so stuck up she vn't take a
summer boarder uutil July. Good News.
Seasonable Saylag Illustrated.
A HEATED TERM.
Life.
Neglected to Flatter Her.
Long I know an artist who painted
runaway ho se. It was so natural that the
beholders jumped out of the wav.
Downing Humph! My friend McGllp
palnto I a portrait of aladythat was sc
natural that he had to sue her fur his bill
-Life.
People Called III Great.
'How big was Alexander, pa?"
"As big as all creation,
Butouly half as big, my son.
As tho galoman at the station."
. : . Detroit Free Press.
Only Three.
Frlttnd. The gopslps hnve formulated
regular Indictment agninst your charac
ter. They, say you were a terrible flirt
while abroad. Do you plead guilty?
A nierican Girl Ye-e-es; to three counts
-New York Weekly.
A Wills line Well.
in tne town or ureal valley, Cat'arau
gus county, there Is an Interesting curi
osity familiarly known as the "whis
tling well. It is on the farm of Colonn
-Wesley Flint, and was dug by the col-
oners ratner some torty-nve years ago,
to the deptn oi lorty-nve reet, when, no
water accumulating. It was abandoned
Some time after a strong out rent of air
was noticed rushing In aud out of the
well, and a flat stone,, with an Inch and
tbree-quarlei s hole bored in It was llltad
over It. Into this hole a whistle was
fastened, which changd its tune as the
air was drawn up or down, and It was
soon found to be a reliable weather ba-
roinetor.
In settled weather the whistle was si
lent; but if a storm was comuiicon its
approach was i eralded by a warning
shil k of the wuistli as the air rushed
outo: the well. Wnn the storm passed
and clear weather came the ou rrent of air
changed, and was drawn Into the well
and the faithful whistle tol t the story
by its changed tone.
. The whistle itseli has long been worn
out, but the well still fortells the
changes of the weather to those who un
derstand the meaning of the varying
eurrents oi air. in rainy weather
stream of spray is forced uu through the
opening. Journal-.,..
AN AFRICAN REPUBLIC,
LIBERIA, HOME OF THE PROGRESSIVE
BLACK MAN.
u Experiment In Republican Govern
ment Whut the Future May Have In
Store Monrovia, the Capital .How It
Looks Wot Very Inviting.
No country should be so. much inter
ested in the welfare of tho Kepublic of
Liberia as our own nutloii. Twenty
thotisaud negroes, who wore born aud
reared within our borders, are now living
along tho old Feppor coast of Uppor
Guinea, and the republic they formed many
years ago has for forty-two yoars been
rocognlzed by the civilized world as an in
dependent ower. Tho voluntary coloni
sation of nogroes on so largo a scale has
nowhere else been attempted, aud the re
sult of the experiment must Interest the
whole world.
Liberia has had manv trying days, and
she Is still poor and weak. There Is reason
to believe, however, that uot a few of our
negro citizens will choose some day to re
turn to Lilierla, and that a prosperous
future is before the country, whose
natural resources well adapt it to be tho
home of a largo aud thriving ooplo.
The Island in midstream of the Mesurado
River, at Monrovia. Is of historical inter
est, because it was hero thut the Lilieri-
ans built their first houses, and the grit
and determination required to make new
homes in this African wilderness are
honored In the name of this sKt, which Is
called Perseverance Island. There are no
horses, oxen or wagons in this country,
which might be inferred from the fact
that grass and hushes are seen covering
nearly the whole of Ashinun street, there
being only footulhs at the sides of the
Streets for the use of pedestrians. The
only laud highways leading out of the
towu are the typical Africau footpaths.
tears ago, wheu several large shiploads
of colonists were luiiih-d every year lu
Monrovia, the town was more prosperous
than at present. The colonists brought
considerable monoy, nud many a large
bouse which they built is now tenantlcss
and half buried uuder tropical climbing
plants picturesque ruins in the very
heart of the towu. There are about 3,000
people in the capital, whtt-b occupies a
narrow tongue of laud between the Allan
tic Ocean and the Mesurado Hirer. Those
famous boatmen, the Kruiuen. carry pos
sengeis and cargo from the steamers into
the river, for uo steamship can cross the
bar.
The stores, or factories as thev are
called, of the European traders, line the
rirer bauk. and across the rirer beyond
rVrseverauee Island stretch hundreds of
square miles of fever-breeding swamps.
which give the couutry its reputation of
unhealthfuluess. liehiud the factories
rises a ridge with a rather steep oseent,
and along this ridi;e. where breezes from
the sea mitigate the torrid heat and di
lute the poison-Infected atmosphere from
the swatus. Monrovia was laid out in
broad, rectangular streets. Pigs wallow
in mud puddles iu the chief thoroughfares.
and goats and sheep graze everywhere. It
is lmpoteMble to photograph the whole
town, for it Is nearly hidden by big mango
and other trees. Large houses of brick or
quarried stoue. with verandas and wooden
outhouses, line the street, and cocoa palms,
orange and lemou trcs nourish in the
gardens. Great tumbled-down dwellings,
lacking doors and windows, are seen In al
most every block, the monuments of more
prosperous days. They would give a very
gloomy impression, if climbing plants,
clinging to the crumbling walls, did not
make them the most picturesque of ruins
1 he residences of the most prosperous
citizens aud the government buildiugs are
found in this highest part of the town,
where Ashiuuu aud Broad streets are the
chief streets, tin Broad street Is Repre
sentative Hall, a plain stone structure.
where Liberia's laws are made. Hight Un
bind representative Hall, is Government
Square, full of palm and tuaugo trees, aud
containing a statue of the Rev. Kiij-th
Johnson, founder of the city. This is the
oolv statue of which Monrovia can yet
boast. On Ashmun street is the Mansion
House, a large square building once occu
pied by the pint office department, but
now the official residence of the president.
Churches, of various denominations, lift
their bell towers skyward, but one small
jail is enough for all offenders against the
law. IyooUing down Ashmun street.
toward the se t. this top of the lighthouse
Is seen above the tree tops the wonderful
lighthouse which many sea captains sav
they pass in the dark without noticing. It
has been likened to a cigar, which it is
said to resemble, both In shape and in the
amount of llluiuinsilon it dispenses.
l.verv few days, little fleets of canoes.
manned by natives of the country, or U
berian planters, make their way down the
liver bank at Monrovia. They bring their
agricultural products for sale. Saturday-
Is a particularly busy day with the mer
chants, who can hardly attend to all the
crowd of haggling negroes, who will argue
for hours to get a few cents more for their
produce. Mr. J. Buttikofer. who has re
cently written a very interesting book on
Liberia, says the householders in Mon
rovia buy beef on the hoof in novel fashion.
One day he saw a man getting up a sub
scription list- Each signer agreed to take
so many pounds of beef at twelve and a
half cents a pound. It did not take long
to dispose of the still living bullock. In a
warm country, where there Is no ice to
preserve meat, the butcher's trade can be
carried ou in this way without risk.
The Li be rain rivers are shallow and car
ry comjuiratively little water to the sea.
They would lie navigable for steamers
only of the lightest draught. Cataracts
bar the way a little inland. On the Su
Paul river, where the colonists are most
thickly settled, navigation is interrupted
twenty miles front the coast. The longest
stretch of navigable water is in South Li
beria, on the Cavnlly Kiver, which is for
sixty miles a highway for canoes. Along
tills river Bishop Taylor has planted a
chain of bis mission stations. These riv
ers, such as they are, afford as yet the only
commercial highways. Along this bauk
the Llbcrinti farmer has cleared the tim
ber aud planted his orchards of lemon
and orange tm-s and his fields of coffee
and sugar. He loads the fruits of his farm
into his highly prized canoe aud paddles
down the river to Monrovia or the other
coast settlements. Nome of the planters
are quite well to do, and their amply furn
ished homes show that they eny the
comforts and some of the luxuries of life.
Most of them, however, are still leading
the lives of pioneers, still waging warfare
with sarage nature iu a land that is rich
and fruitful but rather hard to subdue to
civilized uses. Iu the towns. lso, there is
no prevailing air of generous well-being
among the people, and not a few of the
best citizens are able to support only scaut
furnished homes. Uoldtbwaite's Geo
graphical Magazine.
A Vn'qn Wi l. Ins r .
Last Spring, when oue of tho younger
ministers of the c ty was devising ways
and means for a Summer vacation trip,
there was a ring at- the door bell and a
caller upon the in I ulster announced. The
stranger Introduced hlmsell, explaining
that he was recently from Buft.tlo, but
now of Albany, aud a salesman of
barb r's supplies. W.th very few In
troductory words the geutloman asked
the minister to perform the marriage
ceremony for him iu two weeks' time.
Promptly at the hour appointed the
couple came. An fllcer of the church
had been Invited in to witness the cere
mony. While the uecessary p .pers were
being 11 Led out the groom opened a
small traveling bag and produced a bait
pint bottle, with glass stopper.
"There," said he, placing the bottle on
the minister's desk, "Iloive this with
you a a token.!' Tuen the marriage
oi'remony was performed, congratula
tions offered, and the certificate placed
in the hand of the bride. As the happy
couple were leaving the study the groom
drew from his pockM au envelope and
handed It to the m'nlster. A few min
utes Inter the envelope was opened and
the following found: "Albany, May 29.
I will call on you, on S.ilurduy Night
and Pay you my fea what you may a-k."
Mauy Saturday nig its have oome and
gone since then, but the enthuslastlo
sa.esmsn of barber's supplies has not
I been seen by the minister, but be still
has the bottle. Albany Journal.
A CLOCKLESS WORLD.
NO MINUTES, NO HOU"
NO TiMc.
NO YEARS,
People In Btereary Never Grow Old, and
They Ball on Boiling Oceans Meroury
Circles Round th- Sun Just as the Moon
Clrclrs Round "ho Karlb.
Mercury lias recently been the object
of now and scrupulous Investigations
and from what has been made out it
would soo m that he merely circles round
t he sun in such a way that he constantly
presents to that luminary the same un
varying hemisphere. This Is certainly
something novel and altogether unex
pected. Astronomers have hitherto thought
that Mercury rot ited like our earth in
twenty- onr hour", and for the follow
ing reusiW.; M liters had thus stood
for nb Hit a hundred years when one of
I' e most laborious and skillful o living
astronomers, M. Schlaparelll, director
of the observa oiy at Milan, to whom
science is already indebted for the dts
cov ry of the enigmatic canals on the
placet Mars, and the st II more enig
mtlic duplication of t'tose canals, re
solved to app'y that excellent I list ru
men; which lad wrougiit sm-h wonders
In the cas - or th planet Mars to the
minute study of Mercury, and he at
one- went to work.
As Mercury sets almost immediately
after sunset or ris-s but shortly before
sunrise, the great Ital at a tronomer
soon found tht he lia i nothing to ex-i-ct
from a single hour of observation
eoc i day, mid that some other mode
must be adopted to overcome the diffi
culty. This was the more evMent, as in order
to be able to explore the full disk be
had perforce to s-le-t those epochs
when the pla .et npproac tes the time of
Its greatest eking .Uo s. The only
means left was to observe Mercury, not
in the morning or the ev -u ng, but bids)-,
iu the full blnz of the sun, aud
wheu t ie planet was In close propin
quity to t;ie d- zzllug orb.
That Is what the Milan astronomer
has done, and success has crowned h e
endeavors. For seven years he com
mence I his ob-et vatious of Mercury In
1S-2 he has lurnel to p- fi.i'de ac
count those best flays wai-u suu and at
mosphere w re most ca ni and pure, di
recting bis equatorial toward the planet
when nearest 1 1 the solar oru, and mak
ing drawiug-t of what his eagle eye
could discover on Its surface.
He has thus te-en able to obtain s ver
al hundred sketches. Ou all of these
drawings, each of which confirms the
otner, may be seen long gray streaks
that possibly represent seas and forests.
Tne streaks do uot move over the plan
et's disk as clouds might do. b-jt ren.ain
immovable, fixed as the soil of M -rcury
itself. Several of the streaks assume
rather singular shapes. Fjr iuatanoe.
there Is lu the west an srrangciuent
which figures to all appearance a ouge5.
The e streaks do not move away ; at
whatever hour of the day or p nod of
the yevr t hey are aougnt they are to be
found. Wbetber the planet is to the
right or left beyond the sun. and wheth
er nffording to our eye a full disk, a bal -moon
or a cresent, those streaks are al
ways to be noted at the same spot on
M -rcury 's globe.
They are permanent. Mercury re
volves round -.be sua la eigbtye.ght
days, constantly presenting to tnat
luminary the batue hemisphere strea-ied
with the geographical outl.nes in ques
tion. Ttiu Mercury circles round the
sun Just as the moon doe . round the
en I j. w:tb the same side always turned
toward the central orb of our system,
with this difference, that the clrcl ng
motion of M rcury affords pe 3etu.il
daylight to tt-at side of his sph.re
which is turned toward the sun, aud
perpetual darkness to the opposite side.
Tils alternate movement has tor
rffe. t to give sunlight to tne dark 6ide
of Mercury's spb-re. but all the central
regions of the elde oppos te that facing
tie sun are condemned to perpetual
darkness, it is endless day on one side
and endless night on ths other.
On the one side is light and always
light : on the other never en ling gloom.
Fancy yourself in Columbia. Gu ana.
tue Congo, to the souta of Senegal, in
Zinztbar. Sumatra, at Borneo, New
Guinea, or in the Islands of the M i.ay
sian sea. wt h t- sua at Its zenith
vertically darling down its rays upon
your head, writes Camilla Fiammar.on
m the CosiuoiKiJitan Magazine. And
n-bat a sun ! M -rcury is on an average
only 3C.UM.ti.iJ of miles from the suu.
while we are at about tU.OM.OU) of
miles.
The great orb of day appears seven
times largei as viewed irom bis surface
than as seen by us, and sends on an av
erage seven times more light and beat.
It is as If ten suns converged over our
heals at the Summer so'stice whose
united rays poured down at noon their
concentrated heat upon us ; and this
not for a season only, but ever and ever.
Mercury's seas must be ocea-is of boil
ing water.
A perpetual day I There is neither
even.ng nor morning. There Is no
night. Ti ere are no stars, and conse
quently there is no astronomy, no ap
parent movement of the heavens. There
are no hours. M -rcury has no satellite.
It follows tb -re are no months, no
weeks, no measure of time that wav.
Neither are there any years. Wnen
would they begin or end! H -re on our
earth the year is made up of a certain
number of days and nights. But how
conceive a year where the day is with
out end?
Doubtless the sun. periodically seems
to Increase and diminish in s se and the
temperature also varies considerably
these would constitute seasons of a
new order. Have Mercury's Inhabit ints
guessed that they circle round the sun
and that the variation in the distance or
that orb accounts tor the difference in
the eise of the brazier suspended over
their header These strange seasons
seem to be the only measure of time na
ture bas given them.
No night! And doubtless no sleep.
Do tbey live bet er and longer? Do they
grow old? They sscm lo be without
days, years or auy age. Perhaps it is
the land wbers people never die.
in AiMe 9M& tate.
The Junction of noses is sj general and
described as so forcible in Africa aud
O.-oanica as to have given rise to a fanci
ful theory that It had occaslouod the flat
tening of the nosos of the (KHiples. Hut lu
the accounts of many of t w tribes of the
Dark Continent, and of the islaudersof
New Zealand. Kotouma. Tahiti, Tonga.
Hawaii and other groups, the essential
action does not seem to be that of rubbing,
but of mutual smelling.
It Is true that t!io travelers geuorally
call It rubbing, but the motion and the
pressure are sometimes uo greater than
that of the muzzles of two dogs makiug or
cementing au aciiuaiiitaiu-e. The pressure,
and rub are second try and omphalic, Tlia
juncture only means the coiupliiuout.
" You smell very good 1"
It is illustrated iu tlie Navigator group
when the noses of friends are saluted with
a long and hearty rub and the explanatory
words, "Good I Very good; I aiu happy
uow !" The Calmucks also go through a
suggestive pantomiiie of greeting. In
which they creep oil their knees to each
other and theu Join noses, as much as pos
sible like the two dogs before mentioned.
luthe Navigator Islands only equals mu
tually rub their noses. The Inferior rub
his own huso on and smells the superior's
hniid. The rcsOftfiil greeting of Fiji is to
take and smell the hand without rubbing
It, Iu Gambia when the men salute the
women thoy put the woman's baud to theii
noses aud smell twice at the back of it,
Iu tho Friendly islnuds noses are joiued,
aiding the ceremony by takiug the baud
of the person to whom civilities are paid
and rubbing it with a degree of force upou
the saluter's own nose and mouth. The
Mariana Islanders formerly smelled at the
bands of those to whom they wished to
tender homage.
Capt. Beechy describes of the Sandwich
Ialauders: " The lips are drawu inward
between the teeth, the nostrils are dis
tended, aud the luugs are widely inflated;
the face is tbeu pushed forward, the ntea
brought into contact, aud the ceremony
concludes with a hearty rub.
A New Book for Farmers.
Headers of this paper, who desire to
Inform themselves on modern machinery
adapted to farm work, should write to
Baker & Hamilton, San Francisco, for n
copy of their latest catalogue of Agricul
tural Implements and Vehicles. It is a
hundHomcly illustrated book of 21G pages,
anil describes every implement used by
the farmer. It will be sent free to any
one Bonding for it. In writing state that
the catalogue mentioned In this paper is
tho one desired.
Th., Oilfl lller rMmly.
People near Munson, Pa., claim to
have the queerest family as to physical
peculiarity in the wholo country. Jason
Hiers, a farmer In moderate circum
stances, has seven children. The oldest
Is 16, a bright boy, but having thirteen
fingers and thirteen toes seven fingers
onlone band and six on the other, his
toes being similarly divided. Next to
him is another boy, 14 years old. As
longas this boy is quiet no one would
suppose he had any unusual characteris
tic, but the moment he opens his mouth
to talk he loses all control of bis hands,
arms, feet, and legs, and tbey Jerk and
thrash and kick around as If they were
on wires. The boy is as slow of speech
as bis limbs are active, and in answer
ing a simple question it is no uncom
mon thing for his legs to have carried
him a rod or more away before be is able
to articulate yes or no. The boy t oes
not seem to mind his affliction, and not
only does not hesitate to respond, or
try to, when he is addressed, but is
always ready to begin a conversation on
the slightest excuse. He can be seen
almost any day arguing with or explain
ing some point to some companion, who
Is kept constantly busy either in avoid
ing the Involuntary kicks or blows of
the boy's sprightly feet or hands, or in
following him briskly to keep the run of
the subject.
The third child Is a girl, who Is a
hunchback and a dwarf. She is 12 years
old. A boy next to ber Is deaf and
dumb. The firth child has a bright red
birthmark encircling her neck like a
piece of.red flannel. It is an inch and a
half wide. The other two children are
twins, three months old a boy and
girl. The boy's head is covered with
hair enough for a grown person, while
the girl twin hasn't the sign of a hair
upon the bead, the little poll being as
white and shiny as a billiard ball. The
girl is fat and the boy lean. When tne
boy laughs the girl cries lustily, and
when bis little sister is merry the boy
sheds tears and yells.
Every one of these seven children are
handsome and mentally bright. Mrs.
Hiers is a fine-looking woman, and her
husband is sound physically and men
tally. N. Y. Sun.
An iinstH-cessfiil attempt wo mailt
to blow tin the Spanish embassy at
Brussels March 5. An infernal ma
chine with htirnintr fti.e was li-ov-
ereil.
At a bull fight at Guanajuato, Mes
just before lent, a hull killed two
men and a horse and was led away
forfuture service in the nog.
The British povernment was de
feated on a protioseti credit fur the
Momlmssa railroad survey in parlia
ment March 11.
CONSUMPTION.
1 h. po-ttx-e TLumt dj for Um tw dtss9; bjr r
oa Lboofl d oi nri at tb worst kiod sad at toe
sttadmi b-vv bm. c-rml, 1-4 to iSi-ctc - Bjr ( it
ta It rftOfJ. t avl 1 Will aWOd T0 afcTttJ - Mm. Wtlh
-VALL ABI-K TRr-.ATlSK OBthdrwtoaryKif-
T. A. c-m. C. 1S3 Prj4 St N- V.
Old EnnlM Clasp il-md
Gori:e T. Timer, an actor, who is
playing In ti e smaller towns of the
State, was a scMier iu the Northern
army during the war of the rebellion.
At the battle or Lookout Mountain he
was lelt in mraaian'l of a ceary field
plec. A farly of Confederates made an
attack, and to defend himself at c ose
range Cliuer drew his pistol and shot
one of the rebels three times, wounding
n:m severely.
On Monday Ulraer came to this city
from Stockton to look after some show
printing for his comnany attb- printing
bouse of Francis Valen'.ine & Co., on
Sausome street. While there he stepped
into the ensraving department to ex
amine a slock of wood cuts, mueniy
he heard some one exclaim :
" My G d ! There's the man who shot
me!"
TJImer turned like a flash and found
himself lace to face with the rebel
soldier whom he had shot at the famous
battle twenty-eight years a-o. Tae men
glared at eac i other, but only for an in
stant. Then there was moisture in their
eyes, and George T. Ciiuer. ctor, aa I
William W. Garrison, enslaver, clasped
hands. Gr. ison has lived here lor sev
eral years and is still a -ufTrer from the
p stol wounds received at the hands of
Ulmer. Before leaving the printing
bouse TJImer said to Garrison :
"O d man. from this date I will give
you one-.ial( o: my army peus:on." San
FrancU.o Cironlcle.
Order of tae Tall Hat.
Among the peoples at the back of Lnko-
lela, on tne L ppe" Congo, there is a cus
tom that a big chief in a district od hav
ing proved to the satisfaction of the as
sembled chiefs that he is the -wealthiest
and, physically speaking, the srrougest.
is invested with the order of the Tall
Hat. This resembles very much the
stovepipe hat of civilired life, only with
the brim at the top. and is made of
plaited fiber. Once a Week-
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others have tiicd do tauoo fur not now reeemng a
core. Bend at ccee fur a tre-tiae and a free ivxUe of
my infallible remedy. Git Ex pre and Poat Offict.
If. 2. ROOT. M. IW3 Pearl N. Y.
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paisTKBg scppij a Stbclu '
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flcaiiou. 13
SCYTHE SONG.
Mowers, weary aud brvwn and bUtha.
What 1 the word met bin it s ye know.
Endless owr word that the scythe
Stngs to the blades of the gra' below!
Scythe that swing iu the grauv and elovwr.
Something still they say as they pass;
What's the words that owr and orer
Slugs the scythe to the flowers and grass.
Hu?h. aha hush! the kythes are saying.
Hush, aud heed not. and fait asleep:
Hush, they say to the grasses swaylug:
Hush, they slug lo the ctowr deep;
Hush, 'tis the lullaby time Is sluglug:
Hush, aud heed uot. for all things pass:
Hush. ah. hush, the scythes are swinging
Over the clover, over the g rass!
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