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ALBANY,
OBEGON.
FRESH TOPICS.
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"Tra hardest winter ever known," is
the chorus of all the newspapers from
every part of the country.
AiPosso has undergone that coveted
"baptism of fire and returned to Madrid,
.the happiest boy in all Spain.
Three great ladies are at present fill
ing professional engagements in Chicaco
Charlotte Cushman and Jananwl
itjxjm: uxusis, and Mrs
Van
,ott, the powerful religious
They draw full houses.
exhorter.
Paul
DE
Cassagnac, the fio-l.f
"" " iisj jana of a man
to take anything back. He rose in court
the other day, while Gen. Wimpffen's
1,'fn. t T 1 ... , . - .
nuei smi against mm was being tried
and repeated his charges against that
officer, retracting nothing whatever.
A man named Muybridge, who had
tilled the seducer of his wife, has just
been tried and acquitted in San Fran
cisco. The jury scorned to take advan
tage of the plea of " emotional insanity,"
but boldly acquitted the prisoner on the
.ground that he served the seducer right.
The fare fore passengers between Clii
cago and New York has been reduced by
the Baltimore and Ohio Company to
16.25. The inducement is almost great
-enough .to justify a prudent housholder
in taking a pleasure-trip to the me
tropolis, and wasting his substance there
in riotous living.
Gbaxvtlle Stcakt, of Deer liOdge,
Montana, suspecting cold weather, sent
to New York for a fine spirit thermometer.
To his surprise it never marked more
than thirty degrees below, and then he
found that was its utmost limit. He says
it will do for a summer thermometer,
but is too short by forty-eight inches for
a Montana winter.
Peoria can claim . the honor of having
made a woman a bank director, Mrs.
Lydia Bradley having been elected first
director of the First National Bank of
that flourishing city. But there is noth
:ing unusual in ladies being bankers.
Iiady Burdett Coutts, for example, is the
head and proprietor of the old banking
house of Coutts in London, and Lady
Jersey is or was chief owner of the still
older bank known as "Childs" in
London.
Thee- New England Congressmen
have passed away within a few weeks
whose combined wealth aggregates near
ly ten millions of dollars. Alvah Crock
er, of Massachusetts, left between three
and four millions; Samuel Hooper, of
the same btate, left an estate estimated
At nearly five millions ; and the worldly
-goods of the late Samuel Hersey,
Maine member,
-2,000,000.
are . appraised at
"We may look for exciting times in
English Parliament. Not only have
the
the
-Home Kulers determined to submit to
the House of Commons a demand for the
repeal of the act of union, threatening to
withdraw in a body if the request should
be denied, but Tipperary has elected
John Mitchel to represent it in the Im
perial Legislature. To cap the climax,
-the electors of Stoke-upon-Trent, an En
glish constituency, have sent Dr. Kenealy,
of Tichborne trial notoriety, to the lower
house.
The project for the erection of a Terri
orial government, over the country
usually known as the Tndian Territory
is effectually Bquelched for the present.
The committee of the national House of
Representatives to whom the - bill for
that purpose was referred have reported
Against it They state that they can find
no authority to justify, but much in the
many treaties with the Indians occu
jsying the Territory which forbids, the
proposed legislation, and express the
hope that Congress will set the seal of
its displeasure " upon this and kindred
movements calculated to destroy the
binding force of the nation's obligation
-to the persecuted people who are thereby
to be affected.".
The Judiciary Committee of the United
."States Senate, having been directed by
-that body to report what is the meaning
and extent of the so-called Press-gag law
enacted by Congress last summer, sub
mitted a report the other day, in which
they declare that " no person can be
brought into the District of Columbia
under it, either for libel ' or any other
-crime," and that the act is "necessary
.and proper, and in perfect accordance
with the principles of justice and the
cause of civilized jurisprudence," and
-that " without provisions of this charac
ter, the District of Columbia would be
an asylum for offenders committing
crimes against the laws of the United
States, and escaping hither." The report
is signed by Senators Edmunds, Conklin,
Frelinghuysen, Wright, Thurman and
Stevenson.
Ail the signs in Europe point toward
another great war. Germany has re--cently
strengthened her enormous army
by virtually adding to it the Landsturn,
-and the other .nations are oppressed by
the burden of immense armies which
cannot be reduced until a final setUe-
ment by arms of all questions in dispute
permits a general disarmament. ; , At the
same time, a crisis in the political affairs
in France is undoubtedly close at hand.
The success of Alfonso in Spain has
greatly increased the chances of the
young Napoleon's success ia , France.
The presence of Bazaine in Spain is
-doubtless with a view to approaclnng
-changes in Paris, and the sense of lose-'
curity as to the future has a strong influ
ence in inducing timid Frenchmen to re
turn to the empire. The Imperialists,
although in a minority in the Assembly,
are vastly more powerful among the
voters, and as they are led . by men of
boldness and experience, they are more
than a match for the inexperienced and
impractical Republican leaders.
The Commissioner of Patents has ro
oently made a decision in regard to pat
ent medicines which will be read with
interest by every man, woman and child
in the United States, except, perhaps,
some quack doctors, who see their occu
pation gone. An application was made
some time ago by a party for a patent
for "a chemical compound for the cure
of piles." The examiner, Mr. E. G.
Dyhrenfurth, in refusing a patent on the
application, said that section 24 -of the
Patent act of 1870 provided that any
person who had invented or discovered
any new or useful composition of matter
might obtain a patent, provided that an
examination be had, and it should ap
pear that the proposed patent was suf
ficiently useful and important. By a
number of decisions it had boen held
that invention was necessary, and that
mere judgment and skill were not suffi
cient. Therefore, while patents might
have been granted on so-called ; niedieal
compounds and " discoveries," the ex
aminer thought it was not too late to
stop, no number of wrongs making a
right, and he therefore refused a patent
on the application under consideration.
First because the applicant had not in
vented or discovered anything ; second,
because the alleged invention : was not
useful ; and third, because the produc
tion of this and similar preparations
was a mere matter of skill. i
POLITICS ASP POUTICIAXS.
Axdt says he is going to Washington
with his war paint on.
Senator Ferry, of Michigan, former
ly was a dry-goods clerk in Elgin, in the
store of B. W. Raymond, now an hon
ored and respected citizen of Chicago.
C. W. Jokes, who was recently elected
United States Senator by the Florida
Legislature, is not an Irishman, but a
"Welshman. His age is fifty.
Old Parson BnowxiiOw, of Tennessee.
whose term as United States Senator will
expire March 4, announces that he will
at that time resume 'editorial control of
the Knoxville Whig. He intends to die
in harness.
They have a story at Albany that
"William Cullen Bryant after dinner pro
posed the health of Mr. Tilden, describ
ing mm eimer as the next President or
the next Democratic candidate for Presi
dent. Drunk standing and with enthu
siasm. "Washington letter to New York
Times: "Who will be the next
Speaker? is the great political conun
drum nere just now, and the answer
most frequently heard is, Mr. Randall,
of Philadelphia, although 'society'
prefers Mr. Fernando Wood."
The Des Moines Register says : "A
correspondent asks, How. will the next
Senate stand ? ' It will stand with six
Republican majority, at the worst and :
in this estimate the new Senators from
JNebraska, Wisconsin and Michigan are
not counted as Republican."
Some one having said that Gov.
Samuel J. Tilden is at present the
man most likely to receive the Demo
cratic nomination for the Presidency,
the Cincinnati Enquirer remarks : "Our
observation is that very little attention is
being given just now to the manufacture
of Presidents. If a Democratic conven
tion was held next week, however,
William Allen would be discovered to be
a very troublesome man. Samuel J.
Tilden may be very popular down in the
East, but in the West and South he is
not, as the sports say, deuce high." "
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Concord
sage, Judge Hoar's fellow-townsman,
was never known to get off but one joke
in his life, and that had an asperity in
it totally foreign to his nature. It was
just after Judge Hoar's little experience
with the Senate on the subject of a Su
preme Court Judgeship. The papers
had all had their say about it rather an
unamiable say as far as the Judge was
concerned. So, still smarting slightly
from the sting, he strolled down to hs
friend's one fair afternoon, and went up
into the orchard with him. "How do
you kill your canker worms?" asked he
of his host," seeing the trees had black
bandages around them. "Well," said
the philosopher, in his mild voice, " I
kill them very much as they do politi
cians with printers' ink.
Photograph of Pinchback : " His most.
particular biographer says he was born
in Georgia, educated in Ohio, and en
franchised in Louisiana. His complexion
is of a light yellow shade, his. manners
are gentlemanly, his attire is fashionable,
and his decided passion is cockfighting.
He it was who threatened to apply the
torch to New Orleans if the whites con
tinued their persecution of his race. In
the fight between Governor Warmoth
and the late Lieutenant-Governor Dunn,
Mr. Pinchback took the side of the
former, and when the whirligig of pol
tics developed many antagonistic ele
ments, he suddenly became Lieutenant
Governor of the State. He is said to be
a sharp debater, and to possess an inti
macy with all the tricks of modern
representation. "
One Hundred Years Under One Sign,
In 1770 William Williams carried on
the nautical instrument business in King,
now State street, having as a sign an im
age called ''Admiral Vernon." In 1794
Samuel Thaxter, who married his niece,
succeeded him and carried" on the busi
ness in his own name thirty years. Then,
taking in his son as partner, the style of
the firm was changed to S. Thaxter &
Son, under which name it has been con
tinued the last fifty-one years at 125
State street, corner of Broad street
Samuel Thaxter Cashing, grandson of
S. Thaxter, has been connected with the
business thirtv-eieht years, and for t.
last thirty years the only surviving part
ner. For all that time the "Admiral,"
with his quadrant, has stood guard and
stands guard now on -State street, fit
prototype of the smart little
played by Walter's uncle as chronicled
in 1' Dombey & Son." Over against the
Admiral tne late Samuel May's sum
was put up on the northeast corner of
Broad street in 1804, and but recently
removed. Boston Transcript.
Spain's debt, aeoordinsr to thn Utot
official statistics, is $2,000,000,000.
FABM AND HOME.
After and Over.
After the shower, the trmnqnil iran ;
Silver stars when the day ia dose !
After the raow, the emerald leaves I
Alter the harvest, golden sheaves.
After the clouds, the violet sky ;
Quiet woods when the wind goes by.
w.ter Jhe etnIe"t, the lull of wares !
After the battle, peaceful graves.
After the knell, the wedding boll : i
Joyful greetings from sad farewells.
After the bud, the radiant rose; !
After our weeping, sweet repose.
After the burden, the bUsnful meed !
After the furrow, the waking seed.
After the flight, the downy nest
Over the shadowy river rest.
'Barley vs. Wheat.
The Mark Lane Express, in reporting
4 K n 1 w-. 1..,,, .. 1 i : l i K .
time, sells in the British market at a
higher rate than the best red wheat, says
that " a very remarkable change is about
to take place iu the history of agricult
ure, consequent on the change in the
value of English wheat and barley."
Reckoned by measure, barley is quoted
at 48 shillings, and wheat at 46, per quar
ter ; by weight (barley being 7 pounds
per bushel lighter than wheat), while 456
pounds of bailey bring 48 shillings, 456
pounds of wheat bring only 41.
Size of Itarrels.
A President of an agricultural society
calls attention to the fact that there are,
in a standard legal barrel, only 100
quarts, while the ordinary flour barrel,
most in use among farmers in the sale of
potatoes and apples, contains nearly one
eighth more. Farmers sell their pro
duce in flour barrels, and merchants
ui uuuuw uariev. tor tha tirnt
transier tne same to standard barrels,
making a profit on quantity, as well as
on the price. In the sales of 800 barrels
of potatoes from a farm, the proprietor
loses 100 barrels, worth 250, for which
he might as well be paid. The middle
man, not the consumer, profits by this.
Farmers, see to it that yon employ the
100-quart barrels hereafter. Pacific
liural Press.
A Cause of Horse-CribMns.
We
scarcely take up an agricultural
paper that has not some specific for this
troublesome practice in horses. A letter
from Mississippi to the New York Farm
er's Club seems to have found the
cause, always an important step towards
cure. It " is a disease occasioned by
whisky. Horses addicted to cribbing
have contracted the habit at cross-road
drinking establishments, by being tied to
posts or fences long after the hours for
feeding, and becoming impatient at the
protracted stay of their masters, who are
seen through the cracks of the log-house
drinking so frequently. They bite the
rail, imitating the gurgling sound of the
imbibers, and in the act swallow wind
and become fond of it. No cure for
cribbing, stump, or wind-sucking.
TK Farmer's Son. ',
Why is it that most of . the great and
successful men, either in politics, finance
or letters, in this country, are the sons of
the farm, or of poor parentage? This is
a question of fearful import to the
wealthy and business men now treadine
a-. . .. . . r 11 il . . . .
ouuucaoiuuji tne pauis oi wealth.
vvnence cometh the Lincolns, the
jrrants, tne Wilsons, the Wrights, etc..
uio puuuem. neiuf wnat wealth or
royal prestige of parental position bol
stered up their early or later struggles?
Or where was the education or the sur-
leited exchequers of the ancestors that
hud the financial foundations of Allen,
Blair, Stewart, Vanderbilt, and thou
sands of others scattered all over the
country? They were orphans or sons of
farmers unknown to fame, and whose sig-
uatuirea were un Known to Dank counters.
As a general rule, successful business
men, (merchants, politicians or bankers),
were members of large families. No
hot-bed influence of wealth, or the petted
training of an only child, dwarfed their
early efforts at self-reliance. No extrava
gant use of unearned money Bmothered
the great lesson of economy, without
which no solid foundation of wealth was
ever laid. In early life no lessons of
caste or exclusiveness of blood chilled
their sociability, but their minds were
imbued with the idea that true worth
made men and women of the first-class.
The farmer's son, raised on the scanty
farm, or the half orphan of a poor
widow, has no carriage in which to ride,
so the son soon learns to walk to fame
and fortune. In his youth no wealthy
hand reaches out to sustain and steady
his steps, so he learns to save himself,
and pushes forward with self-reliance
and conscious ability to distinction. His
father, with his scanty purse, sets an ex
ample of economy which clings to the
son through life. In this way the poor
boy from the farm, removed from the
fashionable vices of 'society, comes to
manhood, and strikes out boldly with a
determination to hew his own way to
character and comfort. Look around
you, poor toiling son of the farm, and
read the history of those whom the
world now worship for their learning,
their talents and their purity in the day
of trial. In early life they trod the
same thorny path you are now trying.
Self-reliance is the foundation on which
to build, adding industry, honesty and
perseverance. How good it is to feel in
life's young manhood, with the smiles of
Providence, we can enter the arena of
conflict, uncontaminated with evil asso
ciations, and not enfeebled by an early
life of idleness, and be permitted, un
aided, to hew out, with a strong and
willing heart, a position with our coun
try's true nobility. Des Moines licgister.
: DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
Keep your canned fruit in a room
where it does not freeze; but do not keep
it so warm that it will ferment.
Cream Candy. Two cups white sugar;
one-half cup water; one tableopoonful
vinegar; one-half teaspoonful cream
tartar; flavor to taste. ' :
- New Flannel. Scald flannel before
making, as it shrinks in the first wash
ing. This shrinking is usually caused
by using too much soap and washing
in too cool water. Never use soda for
flannels. ".' "r 1
Crisp Gingerbread. One pint mo
lasses, two tablespoons butter; boil up
twice cool it. Add one teaspoon saler
atus, a tablespoon qinger, salt, flour to
roll it out. It should be rolled very
thin. . '
A Simple Mold. Wrap any firm,
smooth paper about a round stick. Re
move it and pour the melted beeswax
into the mould. When cold, tear off the
paper and you have a smooth, nice stick
of wax, to be cut in any length.
Method is necessary to a well regu
lated house. Without it the work drags
heavily along from Monday morning till
Saturday night. - Begin the week prop
erly, keep everything in order as you go
along, and the chances are fair that yon
will find yourself in a fine condition at
the end of the week. A judicious man
ager will never suffer her domestic affairs
to become disarranged, because such a
contingency involves too great an ex-
penditure of good temper and peace in
the family. ; )
Perhaps the very best dish e-f pre
pared apples for the table is to bake
slowly, with just heat enough not to
break the skin. When done, lay open
and remove the core; sprinkle with sugar
(granulated is best), and work sugar
and pulp together; work to a fine con
sistency, which a few strokes of the
spoon will do; then close the skin upon
11 ana lay away vj cuui; lb ougnt to be
eaten cola. An Esopus Spitzenburg is
the best fruit for it, and the best time for
it is about tne nonoays.
Professional Burglars.
Some of them are men of fair educa
tion and refined manners, capable of
earning a good living in a square wav
But criminals seem to be bsrn as well n
poets, and no amount oi education ap
pears to be of effect in m airing them
honest. - . -. j
Contrary to popular belief, the pro
fessional burglar is rarely if ever addicted
to liquor. As a class they are abstemi
ous, and some of them are thoroughly
teetotal. They need clear heads and
still tongues. The aristocratic bank
breaker affects kid gloves, broadcloth
clothing and the opera, and has as thor
ough a contempt for what he calls a
mean thief " as a Church of England
Bishop has for a dissenting rninister.
His wife is always arrayed in purple
and fine linen, and gorgeous in dia
monds, and his children attend fashiona
ble boarding schools. The former
almost always privy to the affairs of her
husband, and is sometimes an invaluable
assistant in arranging the preliminary
work of a difficult job. She can do the
pipmg as well, if not better than a
man, as she would hardly be suspected
of burglarious purposes. She finds out
the habits of the bank officers and the
watchman ; what time the latter enters
and leaves the bank ; whether there is a
dog to be got rid of, and whether the
adjacent buildings, if any, are occupied
by persons who would be apt to notice
any unusual noises in the bank.
Every point that is important is thor
oughly known to the cracksnAn before
the attempt is made. The children are.
utjiuriy every case, ignorant oi the an
tecedents and real character of their
parents. We refer solely to the higher
classes oi criminals, xney are sent awav.
wueu not more wan nve or six years old,
to another city or into the country,
where they are frequently visited by
uiieir uiuiner.
There is at present at a private and
fashionable educational establishment
for young ladies in this city, a beautiful
and talented girl of 16 or 17 years of
se, me uaugnter ot a notorious
New York bank robber, who seven
years ago was tried for manslaughter, and
was oniy saved by the liberal use of the
money ne Had been hoarding for years,
It
must have cost him S80.000 to keen
his neck out of the halter. Of this and
other facts concerning her father the
girl has not the slightest knowledge To
her he is a prosperous lawyer, moving in
the best social circles, and she looks
eagerly forward to the tune when she
shall return to that home for eami.
which she has never entered half a dozen
times since she can remember. Instead
of that she will probably be taken to Eu
rope Dy ner mother, where her accom
imniuusiHa ana money may nnd her a
husband. If not, she will return to find
her father " retired from business " and
settled m Boston, Philadelphia or Balti
more that is, if he is lucky enough to
keep out of the hands of the police all
that time.
The lower grade of , house-breakers
are for the most part a ruffian
ly set. Bank-breaking and j safe
opening are above their canabiiities.
They break into private houses and carry
away plate and spoons, and everything
eie oi a portaDie cnaracter which . is of
value, ready at all times to kill 'of maim
any one interfering with them. Boston
Commercial Bulletin. j
A Dandy on the Scaffold, j
Csesar, when he received Brutus fatal
stab, took care to fold his mantle and fall
with the dignity becoming a hero ; and
Mary Queen of Scots bestowed much
pains on her execution toilet. But per
haps these instances only show a sense
of lofty decorum triumphant over the
last terrors. When one always notorious
for pride of dress retains his dandy habits
under the stroke of fate, it may truly be
called a case of
. " The ruling passion strong in death.'
The first Earl of Holland was a great
dandy, who played a prominent and not
altogether a reputable part in the history
of his time. He was a favorite at the
courts of James I. and Charles L ; but
when the civil war broke out, he at first
sided with the Parliament against the
King. In an unlucky hour he went over
to the royalist side, took up arms against
the Commonwealth, was defeated, made
prisoner, put to trial and duly sentenced
to lose his head. He appeared upon the
scaffold in a white satin vest and cap
trimmed with silver lace. His costly
garments were lawful perquisites of the
executioner, to whom the Earl said, as
he approached the block :
"Here, my friend, let my body and
my clothes alone ; there is ten pounds
for thee, that is better than my, clothes,
I am sure. And when you take up my
head, do not take off my cap."; Then
laying his neck upon the block, he added,
" Stay, while I give the sign." j .
After a brief nraver ha nfrefTioA vn
his hand, savincr. "Now! nfm!" Tha
word had hardly left his lips when the
ax fell, and the head was severed from
the body at a single stroke. Galaxy.
His Honor as a Farmer.
" Yon .'farm, do you?" asked his
Honor, as John Taylor, a man aged 46,
slid out and made his bow.
"Yes, sir." . ' '! ' ;'
" Farming is a noble profession," con
tinued his Honor. "I used to be an
agiiculturist, and I believe that the hap
piest hours of my life were spent in hoe
nig cranberries, digging dried apples
and husking cucumbers. Nothing pleased
me so well as to run out before breakfast,
mck up a corn-cutter and mow three or
four times around the meadow. And
such noble sunrises, and such moonlight
nights as we used to have ! Ah I John
Taylor if I were back again among the
: , o i-'s", tsiuuuiug sneep ana crow-
uig uunosx oeueve 1 would ba
better
Off." .. , . j;
"Iam sorry, sir." saiM
the prisoner.
as a long pause ensued. ,
Ja?' 0h yeT8 I M charged
with drunkenness. T
the merry days when T f
waving apple-trees and looked Out upon
tiie blossoming corn-fields and the bud
ding Early Rose potatoes. Yes, Mr.
I JrLi0 chFLee drunkenness, and
f-7 lJp like, .hard-fistedlon of
toil, and tell me if it is true or false."
i',1 SOSr up the larboard
side of Woodward avenue, when a fellow
carrying top sails ran roea my bows!
; " Hold on, sir," said his Honor, lean
nig over the desk, " PEach youfsS,
tolieto an old. man like'me ! I7U make
HootSrreon'
CHIT-CHAT FOB LITTLE FOLKS.
TV- Chips I
now an oH couple that lived in a wood
A. . Chipperee, ehipperee, chin !
P "6-tP their dVelliAgTtP.lod-
Th- , Chipperee, chipperee, chia i
The summer t came, and &e.umert went
i ..Chipperee, chipperee. ehinl W
".ere tnejr lived on, and they' never paid rent
Chipperee, chipperee, chip I arent-
Their paxlorwa. lined with the sottert of wool-
m,,- t,..tChlPPeree. chipperee, chip !
fuii-T was warm, and their pantry was
.. . 1"'n,PP',ree. chipperee, chin!
And four lltte babies peeplj ollt ,t the sky
v... Chipperee, chipp. r,-e, chip!
ou never saw rtarhngs , pr'tty 'an "?hv
Chipperee, chippere, ch.p:
Now, winter came on with Us frost snd its snow-
Thev I
hiow ueara ine wind
For, wrapped in their
Chipperee, chipperee.
aleen-. J uown lO
ed in thiT fmu v .iT i
peep!- "PrUlg how "" eyee win
Chipperee, chipperee, chip I
George Cooper, in Xurtry. v
How a Detroit Boy Turned Pirate
CHAPTER X. THE BOY;
xie was one of that uinA k i
n6ed good whipping about twice per
week, but who think tlm-- i A
..iiiyjjcu more man onca in two vears.
... . . S IT .
nounng, bluftinff some bo vs. tmA
paring cayenne pepper lozenges for un
suspecting cats. He was often Leard to
-turners has cot to rit nv. v 1
nu j-icuiuuus is around I
CHAPTER II AT TWTT.TdlPP
Time, sundown scene, the int-Jni. f
a well-preserved woodshed. The sound
oi diows ana cries rent the solemn still
ness of twilight's mystic hour, and the
WAV, uiau woes utiUXU Haying ;
liiere, I guess that'll lagt you for a
oy vi lwu i -L ve put up witix vour sass
net I j-.-. t J9
.wo repiv nothiTifT hnfc
sobs and quavermc sisrhs.
The old man threw Hio cfo ..
walked into the house, and Leonidus sat
on me corner ol a table to meditate.
CHAPTER m. A BLOODT Tmam.irv
" That's the last linking T'll v
uuiii my monai man 1" whispered the
m "'-o ' a vcena
rnu, snasing nis list at the kitchen door.
Ana a 11 mane tne old man sorry that
ne ever laid a strap over his only son 1"
He resolved to run away and become a
f""1 ; -qo wouiu sail tne raging main,
revei in murder, acquire ducats, and
tlien come home and take revenge on his
father. With Leonidus to resolve was
to execute. He entered the house,
passed up-stairs and was soon engaged
in making up a bundle, consisting of
one pair of patched pants, one photo
graph of his girl, one jack-knife, one
cotton sock and a few walnuts. The
uuiuue was tnrown out of the window.
."ir. LEONID US LOOKS AROUND
ior me last tune. The bedstead looked
familiar, the old blue chest in the corner
ana a thousand tender memories con
nected with it, and the broken-down
cnair seemed to hold out its arm and
pieaa ior mm to stay.
" I would if the old man hadn't licked
me, answered Jjeomdus; "but IU
snow mm what kind of a coffee-mill I
ami.
TT . . .
a.e passed down-stairs and halted to
embrace the baby. He wasn't down on
ma mouier, ana ne gave her a sweet
same, ne crawled in behind the stove
ana wnispered to the dog :
"tiood-by, old Sampson. I'd like to
stav here, but T'm inn rl.l Ka
v.v wv. JUhUJVCU
And he passed out of doors and the
great wide world was before him.
CHAPTER V. SOLEMN THOUGHTS.
oecurmg ins bundle, Leonidus crept
into the back yard to see if it was really
best for him to become a pirate. The
polar wave chewed at his ear and red
dened ins nose, and he wondered if the
pirate Dusiness wasn t pretty cold busi
i.v-oo. jj.ci null if imow wneiner it was
best to make for Toledo or Chicago in
order to become a buccaneer, but he
finally passed through the gate. He
walked around the house several times to
catch a glimpse of his mother. It was
nara to tear himself away. He knew
how she would take on next day, and
how the papers would call it another
iiariie jkoss case, and he decided to
go into tne yard and think it
again.
CHAPTER VL A BAT OP LIGHT.
over
Alter a little time snent in- thmrA
Leonidus decided that if his father would
agree never to lick him again, and would
give him $2 per week to buy candy, he
would not run away and become a pirate.
He would go in and make his proposition
to he old man, and if it should be re
jected farewell to -home welcome a
career of blood.
-tie went in. No one haA nntfrWI Ma
absence, and each face looked as natural
as if he hadn't been cone twentv-irii
minutes. He felt some little delicacy about
broaching the proposition, and as a " feel
er " he asked the old man to Inrl hi
his knife. It was handed to him and re
turned after awhile, and Leonidus de
cided to put off makincr the DronomtinTi
until morning. He got into his little bed
ieeung that it was positively his last
uuk uie lit. xl lurfnnon ma
neara splitting wood in the back yard
and saying to Jack Sparling :
" I've concluded to wait until h bVfca
me just once more, and then nothing can
uiup me nouung on eortn. irree Press.
Mother Goose.
" Hickory, dickory. dock, the
ran up the clock, ".quoted Aunt -Fanny
from Mother Goose, to a little three-year-old
nephew astride her foot.
" Hickory, hutery 'ock,' " and Char
ley tried to repeat the words. . ;
"No, not quite. Hickory, dickory,
dock, the mouse ran up the clock, "
she said again.
" Oh, yes," and this time the little fel
low got it quite right. Aunt Fanny
gave him a final toss and landed him lm
a cricket near.
" Now. Charley. I'm trainer nn-ntnim
little while, and I want you to take this
Mother Goose book and look at the pic
tures till I come down. See. here's the
'Little pig that went to market. ' and hera'a
where 'Jack and Gill went up the
hilL'" . " ..... ...
Charley teok the book, and althono-H
he could not read he had heard the
" Melodies " so often that he knew manv
of them by heart. He sat still quite a
long time, then he turned the leaves to
where " Hickory, dickory, dock " was
illustrated. There was an old-fashioned
clock just like the one in the corner of
the room where he was sitting one that
belonged to his grandfather. - There
was the long mahogany case that reached
nearly from floor to ceiling; the great
dial, v and above, the ever mysterious
changing pictures; a lady in a rocking-
chair ; a ship; a house, and a face with
rosy cneess ana Onght eyes; these
showed the changes in the moon, but
Charley understood nothing about that.
He often wondered why the lady did not
fall out of her rockinfiHmair. and he al
ways liked to have the face come round,
it seemed to smiie at nun; he often
talked to it as though it had been a
child. At this time ho glanced from the
book to the clock and then becran to
philosophize. ,
... - V - .?-'
" . ..v .-.., w.jw.-v'.s.-.iwif-sv,-, m .tmtM .--. &-iaswsn.. .., w
i 1 -mmmmMmmmam
" XT ee mouse tan run up ee took, Tar
ley tan it's plenty big nuff." ;
So what does he do but push a chair
np to the clock and open the door. There
was the old pendulum with its steady tick
tack, tick-tack, swinging back and forth.
He looked at his book yes, the mouse
was on the pendulum, so that was the
Place i or him. He stepped up in the
door, took hold of the pendulum and
swung himself off. But he found he
couldnt climb much. The old clock
thus disturbed commenced striking ; it
sounded ten times 1nni in t nn.i J.
. . wv VJUT 11U W
ne was in the cam;. TT Kr.
The pendulum took
back and forth, back and forth, bumping
his head first on one side then on the
Other : the more he atynarAaA T,
it bumped. He tried to rest his feet
there was no place. His cries grew
louder and louder. The door of the
clock swung shut then he was aU in the
dark now. , Aunt Fannv AftTTIA in aha
heard his smothered cries. She looked
in the bedroom, in the closet. No Char
ley. '
" Where are you?" she called. 1
" In ee tock 1 In ee tock I" came faintly.
" Why. Charlev. what
for?" " " :
" I fought I tould run up ee tock like
mousey," he sobbed.
Aunt Fanny couldn't heln l.ri0-t.inr
And the eld clock received such a shock
and strain that it never could be induced
to Keep good tune afterwards. But grand
pa says he shall alwavs keen it. for it.
seems bo like an old friend, and thinks it
will warn Charley from useless experi
ments. Hearth and Home.
Where' John?
"Where's John?" thought the , old
cow. as she put her head out of t.l win.
dow at the back of her stall in the barn.
" The son is an hour hich. and I
hungry that I am chewing the straw of
my bed. 1 wish John would come I I
want my breakfast. Moo-oo-oo!"
"ure enouarh. where'a .Tobn 1"
thought the old white hen. " It s time
for John to come with the meal for me
and my chicks. Just hear them cry!
They want their breakfast. Cluck,
cluck, cluck 1"
"Cock-a-doodle-do f That will rnnoA
him, I guess," thought the old fighting
cock. "Cock-a-doodle-do! Come along,
John! you are wanted. The cow wants
her breakfast; the hen and her little
chicks want theirs; so do the ducks, the
turkeys and the doves. And I want
mine.) Cock-a-doodle-do 1"
' Gobble-ffobPil A-o-nViKl ! T rln .1,
John would come!" thonfrlit i lri
turkey. " I have been off my roost more
than two hours; and the ground is so
dry that worms are scarce. Why doesn't
oome Gobble-gobble-gobble!"
' Coo-oo-oo I I.
thought the dove. "Some crumbs and
seed and corn, if you please, John ! Here
we are all waiting. -Coo-oo-Oo !"
SjaaoK, quack I Will that boy never
some with our breakfast?" thought the
two old ducks, who
ico.. ti o wani vj go and swim in
the pond ; but we must have our break-
lass nrst. umack. auank !"
And so they all waited and waited "R
it was almost 7 o'clock before John came
and unlocked the barn door. What had
een the matter ? I will tell von - v,nt it
me whisper in vour ear. for .fnhn fi.
niue mornned about it You must know.
uueu, ymi rfonn, instead of jumping out
vi um tvL uucb wnen ne woke, turned
over and went to sleep again ; and when
he woke the second tima fha arm
high, and he saw that he had been very
remiss. He will not do so amiin n.
oesi way is to jump out of bed at once.
j.ne jyvrsery.
The Losses of the French
and German
Armies.
To the Editor of the London Times :
SlB Your Prussiancnrreanon.lont: 4-1
. r- - . .H w-
Am4ivhAl xl . . . . .
v.udu juu uu me xata. instant a
Bunemeni wmcn appeared in your im
pression of the 14th a statement likely
to interest the men who study everything
connected, with the war of 1870-71, and
at the same time calculated to mislead
those who have not. fha rvn-......;
consulting the works to which your cor-
jcopuuucui, reiers namely, the omcial
worK upon the losses of the war,
- ysa.y WU1 , , ; A uivilUiO VQCU
piled by Dr. Engel for the German gov- keP4 m one cage in Barnum's hippodrome,
ernmsnt and the publication upon the The lions are separated from their corn
same ' subject by the eminent French panions through the night by iron bars.
surgeon. Dr. Chenu, which, though un-
Mi " uenvea rrom omcial sources.
Upon the authority of the latter writer.
your correspondent states that 44.000
uu ana iz,uw wounded were record
ed in the German ofiicial lists. The
French translator of Dr. F.nowi'. umi-t
in which the said lists are found, is ap
parently imperfectly acquainted with the
German language, and his incorrect ver
sion of the lists in Question has Kt-ro,,l
ir. Chenu into the nublination of tha
figures above quoted, which convey a
false impression of the extent of the Ger
man losses.
The real figures shown in the German
ofiicial returns are as follows : Killed,
24,031 ; wounded, 89,728 : missine. 14.
138 ; total, 127.897.
Among the wounded are included
4,248 who subsequently died of their
wounds, making up the total number
of deaths by the hand of the enemy to
Of the missing shown above. 4.000
were still absent at the end of the war
and may fairly be included among the
dead.
Again. 12.599 died of diseasA dnn'no-
The mortality, then, in the German
armies was as follows : Killed, or died
of wounds, 28,279 ; died of disease, 12,
599 ; still missing. 4.009 : total. 44..8S7
The details above criven am taton rmm
Dr. .Kngel's work, pacres 250 md qah
There is every reason to believe that this
work is to be depended upon, though, as
" unuir luiuiKU MimiM, BOme m timer
errors may have crept into it ; whereas,
that of Dr. Chenu is avowedlv founded
upon returns of very doubtful sxscuracy
uie i ieuBu mosses, ana, as has
been shown, upon a mistranslation as
regards those of the German army.
x our ooedient servant, G. L. ,
A Baggageman Hade Happy.
xuuuiik uie umer niAamnt nnMnnn.
wmcn maris me nolidavs. n, frinnd o .
Burlington and Missouri baggageman
presented him with a patent trunk-lift-
It is made of steel and brass. Two
damps clasp the trunk at either end, and
a turn of a knob in the hand of the bag
gageman pulls both straps out by the
roots, while, at the same time, an iron
ball weighing nine pounds hammers away
at the bottom of the trunk, and a neat,
tiiree-jointed, self-acting rake, with
twelve teeth, reaches in m onilr
a hole is made.' and Rv(wns
from end to end of the trunk, finally
emerging through the lid, where it
chnohes, and, by a sudden backward jerk,
turns the trunk inside out No baggage
man should be without it Burlington
Haftkeye.
a! FEICAZJi kwnr -in WmmiiiD -wna
obliged to suspend her argument before
a Justice in order to administer to the
wauls of her baby, who was bawling for
its dinner in an adjoining room.
: rcrsons and .TMngsi
Texas has 90.000. OftO nrraa f
The man who works with a
wiUTa
lrobate Judge. -
Greelet, CoL, has just shipped twelve
bales of buffalo robes. ; t .
Chinese maxim Never rub your eye
Fipteek years ago there were scarcely
ten millionaires in America. , .
PnTxDEijpHXAhss more variety haHa
than any city in the country.
In Japan there are 13,716 schools, and
the scholars number 1,5289,307. u - : ...
Pennsylvania still produces &40,000,-'
000 worth of lumber annually. y
Thebb were 606 deaths in New York
last week, and only 504 births. . -
Anegho is to be executed in JacmeL i
j iux uaumoaiism. XXO
ate his victim all but the head. , . ;
, Srx " mock suns" and an inverted rain
oW iW Been loann8T about the . son at
uuui ueoio, uoi., a lew days ago, r
Richard Grant White holds German
to bo "the most horrible combination of
sounds with which the human ear can bo
tormented."
The fisheries on the coast of Scotland
r11?,-1 sea have yielded more -than
800,000,000 of herrings, affording
an unusually good harvest to the people.
Congress consists of seventy-four f74
Senators (when all the States are fully
HVel?-rVld two hundred and nkS-ty-two
(292) Representatives. The basis
oi representation is about 130,000.
v5!tR8: GiABACH of Omaha, killed her
httle step-daughter by stamping on her.
bhe says she was possessed by a deviL
which is not complimentary to Mr. oZ
RntW 8he -wafi given'in marriage!
-tiut politeness is not characteristic oftho
species.
roieve Prevails in the city of
London and vicinity to an alarming ex
tent Several members of the royal
household, including Prince Leopold.
hVbee very sick with it, and several .
deaths of military officers have resulted
In the preparation of epitaphs, says
Lord, a noted writer, nothing jo de
sirable as concisemess. We do not re
member to have seen a more concise
statement of a man's virtues than is
contained in the following, from an Ore
gon paper :
The angels to-night, in their mansions of light.
Are a waltein' round Anthony Mink S i
He was faithful and kind, as any you'll find.
And gin was his favorite drink.
The production of "Henry V." at
Booth's Theater, New York, requires '
forty-four actors and actresses, 412 su
pernumeraries, and fifty-five ballet girls.
In the battle scene at Agincourt there
will be more than 300 persons on the
stage at one time. The production of
the piece involved an outlay of 840,000.
There is a woman in Paris who pro
poses that she shall be declared Queea
of France and Navarre, and immediately
married to Alfonso XTT. of Spain, in or
der that by the union of the two king
doms there may be no longer any Pyr
enees. The police, not appreciating poli
tics, have sent her to a lunatic asylum.
The government has derived an in
come from Alaska, since the acquisition
f that Territory, from taxes on seal
skins, of $1,150,219; rent for fur-seal isl
ands, $170,180.72; sale of seal-skins taken
by government agents, under section 6, -act
of July 1, 1870, $29,529.18; total
income, $1,350,229.67.
At the beginning of the last year the
German army consisted of 31,830 officers,
1,329,6000 men, 314,970 horses, 2,700
field-guns, snd 820 siege-guns. The fig
ures do not include the fourth battalions,
consisting of 3,400. officers and 152,100
men, which are to tie formed in case of
war, or the landsturm, to be raised under
the new law, which would bring into the
field a force of at least 3,718 officers and
202,500 men. -
Barnum's Happy FamilyOne Member
Hats Another.
Two lions, two leopards and a tame- .
black Ttanthar
out in tue daytime the bars are with
drawn, and the animals form a " happy
1BUIUJ .
No sooner were the bars taken out
yesterdy morning than the leopard made
a spring for the panther's throat Tha
panther was young, but bis muscles were
like iron and his skin as thick as sole- .
leather, and he struck the leopard a blow'
with one of his fore-paws that laid bint
sprawling on the floor of the cage. In
an instant the leopard was on his feet
again, and the animals stood face to face.
For fully a minute they glared and
growled, and then, with a shock that
nearly turned the cage on its side, they
met again, each trying to grasp the other
by the throat
The employes of the hippodroue7"at
tracted by the noise of the conflict, tried
with bars and spears, to separate the com
batants, but without avail. . Seasoned.
spears were snapped in two like straws,
and even the keeper of the anim dared
not approach the cage.
The leopard with an unexpected spring,
fixed himself on the panther's back, and -taking
the loose skin on the back of the
latter s neck between his teeth, gave the '
panther a toss against the side of the
cage that bent the thick iron bars nearly
double. For a minute there was great
dancer that all tha haufai .
would escape. The top of the cage was
broken, and the floor was split But the '
uiua wis over ; ior tne panther, without
; sound, struck the floor of the cage, ,
lifeless.; . ,
But the leopard wan not mtinflod ;t.
the death of his antagonist No sooner :
was he convinced that he could approach
with safety than, seizing the panter 'a head
between his (fore paws, he gave him s
tearing with the sharp claws of his hind .
feet that nearly stripped the skin from
his body. Then he bec-an with hia '
and before" the employes could interfere
nearly half of the dead panther had been
eaten by the leopard. t
When, at length, a sufficient force had
been collected around thn mo-a. th.
keeper who had tamed the panther en
tered the den. There upon the floor lay his
pet's silky black skis, almost entire. Hit
body, notyet cold, quivered and his eyes
glared. The leopard crouched in & .
ner of the cage, satisfied with his moaL
The iron bars were soon replaced and tha
leopard was prevented from -doing fur-
Ulva UUDUAUCA. ' ' i
At the afternoon performancA tha
ard was so unruly that it was ' deemed
uiwuio ior wus srmner to enter the cage,
but the bars were kept in their placeeuid
no more damage was done. New York
BbTJTZRB OBOe said: " An innonniatHnft
woman is one who is no 1ah ;
f false woman is one who is already in
love with another person; fickle woman
is one who neither knows whom she
loves nor whether she loves or not, and
the indifferent woman one who does no.
lore at all."