FALLEN FLOWERS.
One of tha workara of Hi world
Llvlne; lolled and tolling died:
But ot ban morked and the world wanton,
And in not clianrad whan he waa one,
A ilronir arm alrlcken, a wldu tall furled;
And onlj a few man ilgbed.
Ona of tha beroei of tha world
" Fought to roDqaer, then fought to fall,
, And fell dowu alaia la bU bU.od-atalned
: mHil,
' And orr bli form thajr atept;
: Hlcne wmiloitand bis banner furled;
And only a woiaan wept.
Onaof the atn(araaaon mankind
Hnriii hmluic hooks from o'orwrougbt heart;
But er wen ll-teued tba a rati and wind
wr wuhlni thereat udidiii like a wavei
And now of lilt lame that will never dtpart
He baa never beard In bia grave.
Ona of tha women wbo only lovo
Loved and grieved and faded away;
Ab mcl are tliene gone to the God above,
What mora of each can 1 aayT
' They are human flowera that flower and full,
ThlalatheongaudtbaudoftbemklI.
AK ECCEXTKIC MIXSTKEL.
Tbo recent illness of Mr. Cbarlei
Backus and tbo death of Janios Clark, a
noted negro minstrel, wore snbjecta of
conversation in Mr. Sandy Spencer's
restaurant one evening recontiy.
Reminiscences of Mert Sexton, Nele
Beymour, Daddy Rice, George Christy,
Dan and Jerry Bryant, Tom Briggs,
Fred Buckley and other happy minstrels,
possibly performing in a shadowy world,
were exchanged over glasses of sparkling
wine.
"Of all the band bow dead and gono,"
said Mr. Bpencer, "Eph Horn was the
brightest. Although he could neither
read nor write, he had tho keenest sonse
of humor and was tho readiest at repar
tee. At timos he made plenty of money,
and promptly invested it in ivory 'chips.'
He was an inveterate player. I remem
ber that once I had noma business in
Boston, and I took Eph along for com
pany, While there I had an opportunity
to buy a line watch and chain at a low
figure. I gave tliem to Eph. 'Handy,'
ho said, 'I'll keep 'em as long as I live.'
I had boen bock in New York three or
four days, and was going up Broadway
one foggy morning at daylight when I
aw Eph standing undor a gaslight at the
cornor of l'rince streor. no was gazing
out into tho fog, a perfect picture of
misery. ' His watch and chain wore gone,
his studs had disappeared, and his cuffs
stood out from his wrists like tho wings
of a bird. Why, even his gold collar
. r' tt .1
, Puiion was missing, no wm uubuiiivuij
aufforing from a luck of jowolry. 'Eph,'
I said, 'what's tho matter-"where have
you boon? With a weary amiie ne joriceu
hi Oinmli tnwnnl JJarnov Jackniun's faro
bank and replied, 'Why, Handy, I've
just come through a sieve 1
. Tho laughter that followed was drown
ed in wine, and Mr. Bpenoer oponed his
ropertoire afresh. "1 never saw a man
stuck himself up against a bank with
more energy than Eph," ho began. "I
remember that he onoe gave an enter
tainment in Buffalo, and oleared over
$500, The next morning he took a bath
and sauntered out on the street. The
old passion for gambling ovoroams him,
and he asked a hock driver to direct him
to faro batik. The driver did so. Eph
went np stairs and tackled an old striped
tiger. Ho got terribly clawed. In loss
thaa hour every cent was gone. Ho had
descendod the steps and turned into tho
street when he mot a friend it wasn't
Neil Bryant who stared at him in
amazomont. 'Why, Eph, lie said, 'what
wore you doing up there? Don't you
know that's a skin game?'
"'You don't toll me so, my good
Samaritan,' Eph replied, "fhon I'vo
boen cooked, sure enough.' He returned
to his hotel with a downcast face. On
that evening, however, he ro-onterod the
bank and asked to see the proprietor. A
white-finned shark with white teeth
showod up, 'Do you rim tho bank?' Eph
inquired.
" 'Yob, and the bonk runs mo,' the
hark responded. 'What do yon want?'
" 'Well, I'm out of business und look
ing for something to do,' Eph answered.
'What do you allow your ropers?'
" 'Fifty por cent.,' said the shark.
" 'Very well,' Eph remarkod. 'Then
yon owe mo Jiwt f200. I roped myself
in hero this morning and lout $5001'
After the merriment was smothered iu
a freBh bote of wino, Mr, Bpencer again
launchod himself on a sea of reminis
cences. "I remember tho timo." said he.
"when Frank Browor, Charley Fox and
Eph Horn wore playing with Buckley
Serenadors np Broadway. Browor lived
in Philadelphia, and always went home
on the midnight train on Saturday, re
turning in time for rehearsal on Monday
afternoon. One Saturday night he foil
among the Philistines, in Louis
Schwartz's, and missed tho train. On
Sunday aftornoon tlie trio stood before a
restaurant, on Broadway, opposite tho
St. Nicholas Hotel. Browor was stretch
ing and gaping, and didn't know what to
do with himself. 'I never saw such a
dead city as this is in all my lifo,' he
said.
"'Whafa the matter?" Charley Fox
asked.
" 'Look over there!' said Brower,
pointing to the St. Nicholas. 'There's
the largest and most fashionable hotel in
the city, and there isnt a ttign of life
about it. Everything's dead. You can't
even see a lady's face at one of the win
dows. Why, if you were in front of the
Continental Hotel, in Philadelphia, this
minute, I'll bet $100 you'd see more
than MX) people standing ou the side
walk.' " 'Yes said Eph, after a second's re
flection, 'and all waiting for tho New
York papers."'
There was another flow of wine and
good humor. The sparkle of the cham
pagne was reflected in tho ryea of those
around the table.
"I remember," continued Mr. Spencer,
"when Kph flrt organized a bond of
minstrels and travoled over the country
giving entertainments. Times were
hard, and be had a struggle to make
both ends meet. He quartered his
troupe in fourth-rate hotels, and, to save
expenses, they sletit five and six in a
room. Every night Eph deliberately
foiled his Teat and tucked it under his
pillow before retiring. He did this for
two or three weeks without comment.
One night, however, a member of the
troupe said: 'Eph, why are you ao care
ful with your vest ? St know that yon
haven't got a cent, and that you haven't
had any money for a fortnight.'
'Well, that ao Eph replied, with
great gravity; 'but I expect to have soma
pretty soon. I'm only rehearsing that's
"J rexD.en.ber, continued Mr. Bpen
cer, after a third bottle of wine had been
cracked, "that Eph wee traveling with
Matt Peel or some of the boys at one
time. ' Tbey had S. C. Campbell for
ballad singer, and a nrst-ciass company
throughout. Among them was old
Abecassia, tho harp player. He carriod
a harp eight foot nigh that weighed
nearly 100 pounds. At first they had
good luck, but times got hard, and they
began to reduce expenses. One of the
troupe suggested that old Abecassis'
services were surperfluous. 'No,' Peel
said, 'we can't spare him. He helps
fill nr..'
" 'Yes Eph put in, 'helps fill up the
baggage car beautifully.
By this time the company at the table
was well filled. Wine was flowing like
water, and with preceptible effect.
XT nn.nn.liA1 " Ain f I n 11 A1 Ml flnfllllWf
"of hearing Brower tell a story of Eph
away back in the 408. There was noth
ing doing in the city, and they raked to
gether a banjo, a fiddle, and a pair of
bones, ana went out to Jamaica, uong
Island, and hired a hall. Handbills
were posted announcing a grand enter
tainment, and the boys anticipated a big
rush. They took in jnst H'i 50. That
night they held a council of war in tlioir
room at tho Jiotci. aji tnoir traps wore
contained in two parpet bogs. They tied
the two'carpet bags together and throw
them out of the window, intending to re-
covor them and walk back to New lork
The bairs fell astraddle of a New Found
land dog. The door was open and the
dog dashed into the barroom with them.
Tho landlord comprehended tho situation
at a glunce. He made a rusfrfor Eph's
room, and mot the party stealing down
afford to rnn a hotel and keep negro
minstrel troops for nothing.'
" 'Whv in thunder don't vou sell out
lo aomeuouv tuut vu, tucui x.iu id-
f - 1 11.. 1 f..1. ..-
plied."
There was another hilarious outburst,
followed by a call for more wine. "Yes,
and I romembor," resumed Mr. Spencor,
"that Eph once had a room in Charley
Smith's placo, np in Howard street.
Charley had urged him to come there,
UIJU UUv VI a I'UlO niiMiv ut iuoiwivmv.
and to help Smith along, he had accepted
the invitation. He staid there eight
weeks and made no returns. One day,
while in Lewis Swartz's, he received a lot
tor from Smith. As he conld noithor
read nor writo, ho asked a friend to of
ficiate. The letter read thus:
"New Yokk, Juno--, 1802.-Mr. Uoru
Dear Sin: This is to inform you that
your trunk has boon removed from No.
14 to the office. Your bill, at three dol
lars per woek, is twenty-four dollars.
Kespoetfully, Chableb Smith.
" 'Coming from such a source, that's
worthy a reply Eph remarked. 'Take
a pen and write it for me.' His friend
wroto:
"New York, Juno, 1852. Mr. Chat.
Smith Deab Siii: I am a gentleman.
If I evor meet yon on the street I'll warm
your law. ltospootfully, Eph Hoiin."
"Only those who knew Charloy Smith
can appreciate this letter," Mr. Snoncor
oontiuuod, as ho drained a sixth glass of
wine. "But a score of Eph's storios
come to me as I get warmed np. I re
membor that years ago ho met Zoke
Chamberlain, clad in an old groy suit of
clothos, on Broadway. 'Why, Zoke he
said, 'where have you been? I haven't
seen you in nino months.
"On, i ve just got Often irom uamorj
nia Zuke answered. 'It's a great coun
try " 'Yes Eph remarked, looking at Zoke
from head to foot. 'I boo that it's not
hard on clothes out there.' "
The seventh glass was drained, "Eph
had a hand as lurge as the hand of Provi-
donee," said Mr. Sponoor, " and thumbs
of a peculiar shape. They were ourved
... -.I? , . -i i
line a cnniwr. uis uanuB were ho iurgo
that ho could never got thoni into his
pockets. So he carriod them at his sides,
the thumbs sticking out like horns on a
snail. One summer ho was playing an
ongagoment in Boston. Whilo lounging
in Beacon street an acquaintance acoost
ed him, and noticing for tho first time,
tho peculiarity of his thumbs, said,
iI'llf "UHV lUHVa WU v... JW,.
thumbs that way?'
" To show people the way to tho Post
office," he replied, working his thumbs,
"its a haudy habit to have in Boston.' "
A moment's hilarity Bttpervened, and
Mr. Spencer again lot himndf out. "I
remoiubor," he said, "that whon Eph
was in San Francisco he was a great
friond of Tom Maguiro's. This friend
ship was all the stronger when he learned
that Tom, like himself, could noither
read nor write. Like most such men,
however, Tom kept the fact undor oover
as long as possible. He bought news
papers and iorod over them as regular as
an old stockbroker. One dny Eph saw
him intently pcrusiug a copy of tho Attn
in iront oi a cigar sioro uu jeni m-j
street. He looked over his shoulder at
the newspaper, and in an off-hand man
ner, said, "1 see there's beon a big storm
at sea I"
"Where do you see it?" Maguire
asked.
" 'In the paper, relumed Eph, point
ing to the Alia, 'the ships are upside
down.'"
This capped the climax. A fresh bottle
was uncorked, the lever was pulled, and
Mr. Sponeer rattled off another remiuis
eenoe. "The Ueenan and Bayers fight in
England," he said, "hauled a host of
sporta from this country to Europe.
Dan. Bryant, Eph. Horn and a dozen ne
gro minstrels wore drawn along in their
wake. Eph. spread himself over Lon
don, determined to see all the sights.
One day ho got into a cab, ami alighted
after a short ride. He asked tho cabman
how much he wautod.
" 'One an threpponoe said cabby.
" 'There'a an English shilling for you
said Eph. 'You've got it. Bo off. That
is all you're entitled to It was all Eph
had.
"But, mehue replied the English
man, 'I drove you past " Vr Majesty's
palace, you know, and the 'Ouse of Par
liament, you know.'
'"You re entitled to just a ahilling,
and no more said Eph. 'You've got it.
Be off.'
"'But, mehiie began the cabman,
'you aaw both 'Oases of Parliament and
'er Majesty 'a palace "
"'Now interrupted Eph in a severe
tone, 'I'll give you just ten seconds. If
yon ain't off in that time, by the Lord
that made me, I'll tell the Queen.' "
The nansl rcf reahments were furnished.
"I recollect a story that Eph need to tell
of his adventures in California along in
the '50a," said Mr. Spencer. "The min
atrela were always on the lookout for a
Btake, They went for the minea wherever
there was a great rush, and coined
money, uccasionallr a murderer es
caped lynch law, and was executed in
public oj tne constituted authorities.
Most of Buch executions occurred in
small towns, and drew a bit crowd
These towns usually had but one hall,
and showmen were always on the qui
the to secure it. I have heard
Charley Backus say that ho has
known them to go to the Sheriff on
the morning of an execution and say
'See here, Sheiiff, can't you got this
thing off at 11 o'clock and give the boys
a show for two performances?' And tne
Sheriff rarely failed to oblige the boys.
At one time a man was to be hanged
dawn in Santa Clara or San Mateo I've
forgotten which, but it was inadnll
season for the minstrels. Eph got wind
of the day appointed lor the execution,
and ho pawned his watch and jowolry,
and he sailed off to the little town and
encfiured the onlr hall for a minstrel per
formance. By borrowing money here
and there he organized a temporary
tronpe. They reached the town after a
day and a night, arriving there on the
day of the execution. They got a terrible
set-back. The Governor had pardoned
the criminal three days before, and there
wore not enongh persons in town to raise
the frame of a barn. The pardon
bursted the company. They all walked
back to San Francisco, and Eph never
forgave the Governor.
More wmo was ordered, and there was
a poceptible swelling in the heads of the
party. "I was running the Globe
Theater," said Mr. Spencer, when Eph
was in the sere and yellow leaf. His
stacro jokes were stale and profitless, and
his voice was harsh and cracked. He had
not kept pace with tho popular taste, and
was like an old horse turned out to die.
I gave' him a week's engagement. One
Saturday aftornoon Backus and Birch,
and Gus Abel and Tom Welsh, and all of
the boys turned out to give him a rous
ing benefit. The theater was packed.
Every joke and action was applauded to
tho echo. In one of tho lulls the old
minstrel advanced to the footlights with
a graceful bow. 'Boys said he in a sod
tone, 'you re too late Youd ought to
hnve done this last Tuesday. The pro
gramme for the coming week has been
made out and sent to the printers A
roar of laughter told how the hit wan ap
preciated. The programme had been
printed, and his name leit out.
After a prolonged cunning oi glasses,
Mr. Spencer resumed. "One. day, eaul
ho, "Eph was going up Broadway, when
ho met Miles Forron on the way down
town. Farron was elegantly dressed.
His hands, a trifle larger than Eph's,
were hiddon in great yellow kid gloves.
He was swinging them at his side, when
Eph said: 'Farren. why didn't you send
them down by one of the boys?'
" 'Send what down? Miles nsKed.
" 'Thoso two Cincinnati hams Eph
replied, curving one of hm thumbs at
the gloves."
Here a violent listener accused Air.
Spencor of plagiarism. "That hum
businoss," ho asserted, "was got off by
Tweed on Tom Crammer, after Tom had
got in with the swells at the Union
Club." Mr. Sponeer denied it. A dis
pute aroso, and three glasses and an un
finished bottle of wine wore broken.
There was much excitement. The vio-
lont gentleman got to his foet, and
swayed to and fro like a Lombardy
poplar in a strong wind, "Gon'lemen,
aaid he, "l line a goou story sweiis any
othor man, but when Tom Hponcer
orodits William M. Horn with a story
told by Eph Tweed, I say 'D
Sandy Creamer!' Now, who wants to
take it up?"
With muoh difficulty the violent gen
tleman was elevatod to the sidewalk.
IHb escapado, however, had broken the
chain of Mr. Sandy Spencer's memory,
and figuroatively closed the lid of a box
that contains many untold reminiscences
of the dead minstrel. JV. Y. Him.
Tea Topers.
Au interesting article in the Journal of
Norton ami Mental Disease gives an ac
count of what is called "The Tea Drink
ers' Disorder." This is described especi
ally as a malady of dealers in tea, or
more Btriotly of tho "tasters," whoso
judgment on the quality of tea is sup
posed to gnido the operations of whole
sale buyers. It is said that these men
have in their mouths in the course of a
day, though they do not always swallow,
an inf union of about half a pound of tea,
usiug from fifteen to twenty grains of
each kind sampled. As a- disease inci
dent to an occupation, this is classed with
the painters' colio, the poisonings of wall
papor makors and other "occupation dis
eases." But tho train of symptoms as
cribod to the poisonous effects of tea
the onfeebled action of the various func
tions of the syttem, especially of the
brain, are naturally involved in some
decree in the ease of those who use the
infusion of this shrub as a beverage.
Most men and women use tea in modera
tion, bnt great numbers use it immoder
ately; and in proportion as in their ex
cess they approach tho quantities con
sumed by the professional tasters they
will of conrse suffer in a similar way,
allowance being made for tho fact that
drinkers ordinarily confine themselves to
ono variety, while tasters must go
through the whole arsenal. Loss of ap
petite, incapacity to digest wholesome
food, sleeplessness, irritability, and all
the well known features of a broken
down nervous system are depicted as the
general consequence of tho prostration
that follows regularly upon the stimu
lant effects of tea, and in thia respect
coffee is olosted with it. People who are
attentive to the various arguments pre
sented by doctors and others as to the
effects of their beverage will presently
lw troubled to kuow what they may take.
There are before them all the fearful
arguments of one side of the faculty
agaiust wine, beer or any distilled or fer
mented beverages; and here is an in
dictment against the paralyzing cup that
cheers but not inebriates. Neither wine
nor beer, ner coffco nor tea, and of courae
no whisky then. Will you take milk? All
the typhoid fever, half the diphtheria
and two-thirds of the consumption, say
yet other doctors, come to na in that
mild fluid. Will you take water? Dyv
pepsia, aay all the doctor together,
marks the water drinker for Iter own.
What will yon Uke?-JV IV Uenld.
An exchange saya that Mary Anderson
ia notably deficient in her kisain, and
the Albany Tiitut finds a reason in tha
fact that Mary waant brought p la the
ministry.
A Journey to the Sun.
,. BI JULES VZBNE, 7B.
Sir Fillemup Frog was an English
Baronet. He was a cold, calm and pas
sionless man, almout as cold, calm and
passionloss as he was English. For
years he had been a member of the Lon
don Beefsteak Club. Regularly every
morning he took his breakfast, ne was
a man of methodical habit. Nothing
was allowed to interfere with his break
fasting in the morning. During the dov
he ate two other meals. At night he took
his supper. Early in life he had con
tracted the habit of eating. In his old
age his habit was his master.
Sir Fillemup had three friends at the
club. They met every evening to bet.
They would bet on everything. One day
they bet on the length of their re
spective feet. Sir Fillemup won by two
laps.
"I would be willing to bet I could
climb up to tho sun," said he.
His friends bet him twenty thousand
pounds, and tho money was staked.
"I will start in three days," he said,
calmly.
"And how long will you be gone?" they
asked.
"Ten days," was the cool response. '
Vvsim l.nf mnmatlf Kir FHlplTinn El'Off
A A UIN lt M4vr.ui.MV . - a . -.
absented himself from the club. He was
preparing for his fight.
His preparations were 6imple. First
he procured a suit of Japanese silk, light
and flexible. Then he pulled on a pair
of boots of his own invention . 1 he legs
reached to the armpits. The soleB wore
of gun barrels, arranged perpendicu
larly, From a belt at his waist de
pended two lour tuousanu ton cumm
ln'a.U The crnn barrels and colurabiods
were bo arranged as to load and fire
themselves sixty times a minute. The
process was bo simple as to make ex
tilnnntinn tinnocessorv. With the recoil
from the firing of these pieces Sir
Fillemup proposed to secure a velocity of
a millinn milnnan hour. ThisWOUld en
able him to reach the sun in four days
and twenty-three hours, tie coicuiuieu
to remain there for two days. Then re-
..n.a;T)r. 1.,'maalf lia nmnfiHfld in turn his
guns looso again and return to' the
earin in uie same tuuo uwuwu
ascent.
Ho had fixod the 7th of May at 1
o'clock in the morning. A framework
l.n.i iiAon Vini H. to suspend him until he
could get his ordinance in working
ordor. At a signal the guns opened and
Sir Fillemup dashed into the air. Ho had
not miscalculated his velooity, though it
seemed to him that he ought to reach
his destination in about ten minutes at
the rate he was going. Still his
nnilnm fiter allowed onlv a rate of a million
miles an hour. He had no way of know-
.. iia i 1
ing wheu he ion the eariu s nimospuere
save by the darkness by which he was
surrounded. Light is. the result of
reflection. There was nothing upon
which she could reflect, and Sir Fillemup
nna in .lfirL-nfiHs after leavinsr the earth's
atmospheres, except when ho looked
straight at the sun. it was w mm men
a perfectly round ball affording neither
Hi'tit nor heat, nis cuns and cannons
did not produoe any report. There be
ing no atmosphere to ecno tueir rever
harafinna tlmv did not reverberate. He
did not feel that he was moving. He
secmod suspended in space, aim ne was
nearing the sun. He could see it draw
ing closer.
At the end oi the seoonu uay no ap
peared to be surrounded by a yellow neb
nlm Tt was dense, but a series of not
unpleasant Bhocks Bhowed that he was
passing through a magnetic luuuuuce.
The yollow bolt appeared to be composed
nf mrla tlmt nnmnollflil liim to cover
VI (J I ' 1 . u u ..
his face and hands. They were appar-
1 1 . - ' 111 .... a Cava. r9 tna.nn
His dress was protected irom oanger oi
fire by a preparation of alum.
Toward the middle of the third day he '
emerged from this zone and entered an
nthnr .if intense cold and fearfully dark.
Beyond, ho could see a peculiar mass of
matter, urownisn in coior anu ovui m
shape. Fassing through tho frigid bolt
the detonations of his cannon almost
doafoned him. It was clear that he had
again entered an atmosphere. The tem
nnrni.nrA wna lncrher bv sevoral feet. Dur
ing the afternoon he passed through the
warmer zone, and nt tweivo o ciocn, jus.
ninety-five hours after loaving the earth,
he stood on tho duu colored mass. He
had reached the sun.
What struck him as most peculiar was
tha warm, even temoernture. There was
no intense heat. Everything around him
gave the impression oi iron, not m
Btato of fusion, as he expected to find it,
but moderate.
No sooner had he landed than his can
nnni ami Dunn wero torn from him.
They stuck fast to surface of the sun.
lie recognized the reason, uo was on an
immense magnet. How large he could
not tell. He thought of the yellow zone
ami the cold belt through which he had
passod, aud saw the solar principle at a
glance. The sun was but a iountain oi
electricity, generating heat and light.and
feeling but little of either.
He had two days and two hours at his
disposal. He was alone. There was no
sign of vegetation or animal life. There
were no shadows. Even the inequality
of the surface cast no shade. He walked
lonely and shadowless on the barren
all l.frt Arnnnd him. like an
aurora, gleamed the yellow mist of the
. rt.. i nM .
outer circle, mere were no stars, inera
were no worlds. He occupied the life
giving essence, oblivious to every living
thing save himself. He put in two days
on this line and then prepared to depart.
But his cannon and guns were immov
able. Ho couldn't wrench the smallest
rifle from its fastenings. The magnet
held them like a vise. How should he
return to the earth?
Then he remembered that there was
no gravitation except to metal. Slipping
nff . luvni h. fnnnif h waa liahter. be
cause the nails held him down. Should
he take off the other and take a step He
T T . 11 .
wouu remain in mid-air. xie couiu aui
full atrmin tn ilia . Ha COuld not
leave it, because be waa not within the
influence of any other gravitation or at
mosphere. Then he must die in space, a
few feet from subatanoe. But he conld
not die. The conditions were inimical to
death. Already he felt an exhilaration
unknown to him. Life waa pouring into
bia veins at a rate then oppressive. He
would be amouierea wiia iua, wiiuou.
power of dissolution.
Suddenly he bethought him the mag
netism can be beaten out of iron by a
sharp blow. He had no atone to beat it
with, but dripping water i more power-
ful than rock, since it will -ear rock
away Ho began w i..
hourhe hod pit onecanDSwM
another hour the onJ4,colm"
free. He had now exactly time, to the
minute, to return. But he ne
to release the smaller weapons and with
ot thHecoil could he effect his return
in the prescribed time? He woul d try
it. Starting his columbiads he found
himself in space. He had no idea how
fast he traveled. His face was turned
from the sun and there was no light.
Composing himself he slept.
When he came to consciousness he was
in tho hospital in London, with his three
friends bending over him, congratulat
ing him on having won his wager lie
had struck the earth, but not hard
enough to injure him seriously, ine
reason was that he had been ten days
without air, and when he struck the at
mosphere he had inhaled so muoh that
he swelled up like a balloon. The swel
ling burst his boots off and bis colum
biads dropped in the sea, while he floated
softly down and reached the ground with
one minute to spare. . An air pump bad
relieved him of the extra pressure, and
he was almost as good as new.
Milk Biscuits.
At a late moeting of the New York
Farmers' Club a member read a
paper on milk biscuit. lie said the
question in bis mind was: In what
way other ' than converting into
choeso can skimmed milk bo made a
desirable article for market?
Whether the article can be prepared
so that it would retain all the ingre
dients of milk excepting tho great
portion of buttor which baa been re
mnrfld in tho eroamorieB? To pro
duce an article which could be easily
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preserved, packed ana snipped.
SnmethiniT that would not lock UD
capital for a long time, as cheese
does, before being Drougni to mar
ket. Which 6hould not be liable to
flecBV. ns cheese is. through lack of
very skillful handling. Those points
he considered ol great importance,
and an article answering this waB
found in the production of milk or
Bkim milk biscuits or crackers.
Tho enormous production of butter
in tho United States leaves behind a
great amount of skimmed and butter
milk. Very nearly an DuuermiiK. is
given to pigs, whilo most of the
skimmed milk does not share a better
fate, although just what is containod
in these refusos is the richest part of
tho milk, inasmuch as it serves to
build up bone and muscle. And
what skimmod milk serves for the
production of cheese makes, as a
rule, a verv poor article.
The first step to tho production of
biscuits is, to concontrato tne nuia to
& certain consistoncv. thus removing
the largest bulk of tho water from
tho rnillr. Further, to mix it With
such materials as would facilitate its
farther dosiccation. which would
give to it and keep its form, which
would set aside the necessity oi cane
ful packing, and which would make
it a ready and agreeable food. All
this is acedmplishod by the admix,
turo of any kind of flour, principally
bv wheat flour. The last process is
tho baking of the biscuit.
The best-flavored biscuits he found
to raniro between ten and sixteen
pounds of milk to one pound ot flour,
with the addition oi two or tnree
por cent, of Bali Tho analysis of
the now article ho' could not L'ive;
but to get a fair idea of it, we can
deduce it from tbo analysis ot inuK,
deducting that of butter and adding
that of wheat flour. From analysis
wo Boe that the new article is very
rich in all tho ingredients of tho men
tioned articles, containing a greater
variety of tho ingredients than any
one of the compared articles taken
singly, and porhaps in an easily as
similable form, and without doubt is
more palatable than the best ekim.
med-milk cheese can possibly bo.
For the compact form of the bis
cuit and the case with which it can
be preserved, it is necessarily an arti
cle that can be used whore compact
nous nnd keenin? oualities aro of
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prime consideration. It would thus
be well adapted as a food lor mari
ners, soldier, travelers, etc.; in fact,
in all cases where a supply is needed
for a considerable space of time.
Again, as it is a prepared and baked
food, it Is at all times fit for consump
tion without any further preparation.
Such an article, too, will undoubtedly
replace tho common cracker in every
household.
An Axt-Eatkh ih New York. A
tamanoo, or ant-bear, was received not
long since, by Charles Reiche & Bro., at
No. 55 Chatham street, which, it is
claimed, is the first of its species ever
brought to this country. It is a female,
and came from Para, Brazil, on the ship
Tom Williams, Captain Edwards. While
on the voyage she gave birth to a cub,
but it died. The tamanoo in Eeiche's
possession is about six feet long from the
tip of its snout to the end of its tail, and
about two and half feet in height. Its
head is elongated, and is covered with
coarse, brown hair, which, on the tail,
forms a very heavy plume. Its front
feet havo claws two or three inches in
length, while its hind feet are like those
of a bear. It has no teeth, but feeds by
means of ita tongue, which is nearly two
feet in length. Owing to the peculiar
shape of ita claws, it ia obliged to walk
en the outer edge of ita feet, which gives
it a vi ry awkward appearance. When
sleepiag it covers itself completely with
its tail, and presents the appearance of a
rough bundle of hay. Charlea Reiche k
Brother intend to place it on exhibition
at tho Aquarium for two weeks, after
which it will be sent to the Berlin
Zoological Gardens. N. Y. Tribune.
"Mamma," aaid little Henry, putting
his arm around his mother's neck, and
laying his cheek against hen. "will God
wipe the tear away from my eyes, if I
rant find yon when I get into the new
Jerusalem?
Burdctte on Commercial Traveler.
What would I do without "the boy,
How often they have been my frii'i
when I go to a new town. IdoiwS
know one hotel from the other. I dos?
know where to go. Tho man with tt
samples gets off at the same station T
follow him without a word or tremn,
He calls the "bus driver by name ami
orders him to "get out of this now "
soon as we are seated. And when I f0i
low him I am inovitably certain to K0 ta
the best house there is in the place. H
shouts at the clerk by name, and fires !
joke at the landlord as we go in. p?
looks over my shoulder as I register after
him, and hands me his card with a shout
of recognition. He peeps at the register
again and watches the clerk assign me
08. "Ninety nothing," he shouts, "ho'i
in 15?" The clerk says he is saving 15
for Judge Dryasdust. "Well he be
blowed," says my cheery friond, "giTt
him the attio and pnt this gentleman ia
15. And if the clerk hesitates, he seizoi
the pen and gives me 15 himself,
then he calls the porter, orders him to
carry up my baggage and put a firoin 15
and then in the same breath adj
"What time will you be down to supper'
Mr. Burdette?" And he waits for me'
and seeing that I am a stranger in tl
town, he sees that I am cared for, and
that the waiters do not neglect me; he
tells me about the town, the people and
tho business, He is breezy, cheery,
sociable, full of new stories, always good
natured; he frisks with cigars and over
flows with "thousand mile tickets;" he
knows all of the best rooms in all the
hotels; he always has a key for the ci
seats, and turns a seat lor himself and
his friends without troubling the brakes
man, but he will ride on the wood box
or stand outside on the platform to ac
commodate a lady, or he will cive hii
seat to an old man. I know him pretty
well. For three years I have been trav
eling with him, from Colorado to Maine,
and I have seen the worst and the best
of him, and I know the best far out
weighs the worst. I could hardly get
along without him, and I am glad he is
numerous.
Adventure With a Grizzly.
The Petaluma Aryus of a recent date
prints some reminiscences of Thomai
Wood, recently deceased, was known to
old settlors of Sonoma as Tom Vaquero.
We quote the following: Once, while
riding over the low, rolling sand-dunee
skirting Tomales bay, he discovered 1
large grizzly in a little valley or fiat,
quietly feeding on the clover. With 1
riata gyrating over his head, he swooped
down upon bruin, and with unerring
precision hurled the noose around the
bear'e neck. With the other end of the
riata given a few turns around the horn
of his saddle, and a horse that had been
thoroughly trained as a "lass" animal,
he considered himself entirely master of
the situation, and concluded to take the
bear home and picket him out. By
sometimes driving, and then dragging,
he got the bear within a half a mile of
home, when the grizzly lost his temper
and showed fight. As every step the
horse took he sank his fetlock's in the
sand, an hour's struggle with the bear
had nearly exhausted him. The grizzly
had become the attacking party, and it
required skillful maneuvering to keep
out of his reach. In the excitement
Vaquero's rawhide got caught in a half
hiteli around the horn of his saddle, and
he could not cast it loose. The
bear, as if realizing his advantage, sat
down on his haunches and methodically
commenced taking in the slack of the
riata with his paws as a man would a rope
hand-over-haud. He hod already
pulled in half of the 50-foot riata, and
Vaquero said he could see deliberate
murder in the grizzly's eyes. The case
was becoming desperate, when Vaquero
botheught himself to his sheath-knife,
and with it succeeded in severing the
wiry rawhide coil which had fouled on
the horn of his saddle. Thus freed, he
beat a hasty retreat, leaving the bear
victor of the field, and winner of a riata
worth at the time not loss than $10.
Thk Late Abyssinian Prince. The
death of the young Abyssinian Prince
Alamayu, at Leeds, is a uienancholy ter
mination to a carrer which even before it
came to a close did not hick pathetic in
terest. The son of the late King Theo
dore was not a possible successor for nil
father, and he thus became, as it were,
ward of his father's conquerors. This in
volved the same difficulty which has so
often presented itself In similar cases.
Alamayu could not be left in his native
country, where he would have not only
been out of place politically, but would
also have been without the advantages of
education, which conld only be given to
him in England. He was accordingly
brought to England, and here he has suf
fered the same fate as that which has been
undergone bv so many strangers to our
climate befo're him. The change from
the happy valleys of Abyssinia, even
though these happy valleys may lack
eomeoftbe delights ence attributed to
them, to the chill and the bleak air of
England, has once more been to much for
a native of summer lands. Prince Ala
mayu was only 19 when he died, and be
was well spoken of for moral and intellect
ual qualities. Had he lived, it is doub
ful what career might have opened itseir
to him. But the ill luck of his hotixe pur
sued him, and he has fallen a victim to it.
London Isews.
Tub Three Ose-Lrogkd Jims. Sergt.
James E. Barnes, of Westport who
known as "one of the one-legged Jin?:
at the request of the Commander MciJ
related how the three Jims lost their le
legs at one and the same time by one
rebel shell. Prefacing his remarks by
stating that he was a veteran of the Seventy-seventh
repiment New York btate
volunteers, he added: "Well, boys, it w
down in a rifle-pit before Petersburg, on
the 21st of June, 1864-lote of vou re
member the day myself (Jim Burnt I.
Jim Lawrence and Jim Allen, all of Com
pany A, and from Westport, bad finished
our coffee and were lying down smokinj
our pi pee. My head was supported by
arm, which rested on my knapsack, taa
my right leg was curled up under mt,
left one being stretched out. The other
two Jims were lyinjr near me in abo
the same poaiUon. The rebel ihell came
-ttdid-and three Jims lost their le
legs; and here's rapid time innde 01
three houri oar legi were amputated H"J
we were in the general hospital aeveru
miles away at City Point. And thankJW
the Lord! the three one-legired Jim
still alive and as happy M vets en crutcn
es can be."