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EDWIN BOOTH'S DEBUT. Ilia Vint Apttrarsnre na Wlrharl III. aa Ufa tither'a Own Rabat! loir. Kr'haiig. In 1x51. his fa her lining announced a Hielmrd 111., led indirectly to Edwin attempt n- thut character. One par ticular night, a he ami his Hon were .,, preparing to go to the theatre, he sud denly changed his mood and refused to start, suying lio was ill and unable to jierforin. Edwin suggested that lie iibould rouse liiniKcIf to the effort at least present hiniHtilf at t!io theatre, thinking when within the building he wonM forego hi strange resolve. He reminded hi father how well he had rehearsed, and how well in health lie had been all day, but no argument could move him. "What will they do without yon father ?" the win said in despair. "What ran they substitute at the lust mo. ment?" "(5o on and aet it yourself," wan the enrt reply. After noino further altercation liia father insisted that his Ron should as sume and act the character of Hichurd on that night, There ru great dismay at tlio old man' Hidden freak. "No matter." said John E. Scott, "yon an can do it?" "That's what my father says ; he is at the hotel, and ha Rent me hern to act in hii place." So he dressed himself in his father's clothe and, greatly excited, he "went on." The costume was "a world to wide" for bin slight figure. All was eon fusion behind the Irenes, and the un willing substitute hurried to the ti rut en trance. The theatre was crowded. At his appearance the applause rang out in wild burst, but it suddenly ceased. No apology had been made, and the aston ished spoctutor allowed the play to pro ceed, lie, who bail almorbed into his own lioing every word, look and tone of liia father, soon wrung from the audience gratified applause. John it. Heott showod great concern throughout the play, fearing the breaking down of his young Kichard, but in answer to tlio prolonged call at tlio close, ho led him proudly before the curtain and intro duced him as the "worthy avion of a noble stock," adding in sotto voce, "I wager they do not know what that means." On Edwin's return to the hotel ho was questioned coldly by his father as to his success. Tho elder liooth was found apparently exactly as lie had left him, unchanged in mood or position: but it is believed now by Edwin that he witnessed tlio wholo performance and was not dissatipflod with the result. te. Hhrrniaa Abroad. K. V. Hiimlley.l Iu 1871 and 1H72 Oen. Kherinan snout a vear in Old World, visitinir tho Mediterranean countries, Turkey, the Caucasus, llussia, Austria, Germany and the nations of western Europe, He kept a journal of the tour a big, solidly bound volume, written in a clean, graceful hand, intended only for a per sonal record, but abounding in vigorous doscriptiousor people and places, i riunds who are privileged to read it do not tlnd much about the armies of Europe, He attended reviews when invited, but he cared more for the affairs of peace tlio people, tlieir ways of living, and their comparative standing in the scale of civilization; the cities and tlieircliar actoristic; the railways, ports, agrinul tine and manufacture of tho regions lie visited. In tinio of peace ho is evidently more a citizen than a soldier. He went ti tlio battle-Ileitis of tho then recent Franco-Prussian war, however, and romonilieriiig with what vigor his an tagonist at Atlanta, (leu. Hood, had resisted tho movements to coop him up, what tremendous Mow lie had struck in quick succession at different p.iints on the steadily enveloping line, and how ho had finally escaped with his wholo army, ho came to tho conclusion that, with courage and good general ship, Napoleon could huvo cut his way out of Sedan, or Jlaaiuo out of JUeU A l ire Pana Over All It.illioiiit IKxi'liniiKtv Mrs. James 1'. Caldwell rodo on free pass the other day from Mexico, Mo., to l.cadvillo, (Hi., to sec her son This pass w as given to tier husband and herself twenty years ago, and is a lifo pass for both, and will pass them over any railroad in tlio t inted Mates, it was given thorn by the North Missouri ltiulroad company after tliev had res poctfully declined tho company's otler of A gift of $10,001). How the com puny happened to offer the couple -who were well-to-do in the world - a gift of $10,000. is told by The Hannibal Journal: In January, 1 Slit, tho Confederate bushwhackers set lire to the bridge over Young's creek, and Mr. Caldwell got out of bed m season to chock tho Mames with a pail of water. Then he hurried to Cen tralia to givo tho alarm, leaving his wifo and children to keep the tiro in cheek. It was a bitter cold night, and Mrs. Culdwell had to wrap her children iu blankets, but despite tho cold they worked and extinguished the flames. The bridge, however, had boon re duced to a mere shell. Mrs. Caldwell knew that it could not War up a train that was almost due, and, hurrying to her house, sho got a lanteru and stood on the bridge in the biting blasts of a January night until that train with its freight of human life had been warned and stopped. A "Wurlng" Chirkea. (IVtroit Free. Press. 1 "la this a spring chicken?" asked a traveler at a hotel dinner. "Yes, sail," answered the waiter promptly. "How do you know !" asked the cuter, solemnly. '"Cos, suli, when do cook tried to pull do jinta ojcn dy spring right back again, sound as ever sah." "Conclusive," said tho traveler with a sigh as ho "passed" on spring chicken. .'!: Ueaaett (.rawing old. Cliicj0 Herald ) Mr. Bennett, the owner of The New York Herald, is said by persons who havo seen him in I'aris lately to have bo come "prematurely old. His bair is turning gray and he is as slow and pre cise in movement as an old man." Poetry and Jlnaele. dr. PhrenolojrfcalJoliniHl.) Neither can tlio poetical gift be ex plained on physiologic il grounds. Nothing is m or o common than to n persons of either sex, with the cranial and physiological conditions united, which, according to popular belief, should furni.li the possessor w.t!i light and heat div.nn iu tropical abundance. Hut, however, much the lustrous eve may roll, the cheeks grow hollo , an tbo Jiyroinu melancholy ho nut or tuned to come at once and come to stay, still the anxious friends are only rewarded, in most instances, with the nervous irritability of a poetical pa tient, and the disgusting doggerel of future maniac. He may get dyspepsia, "get up on his ear," got drunk, or get his menu uui oi paueuce wim uiiu, use a full grown poet, but the inspiration of the latter he can never got. On the other hand.it is not hard to call to mind mighty monarchs iu the realms of verse, who might, with proper training, have rivaled John C. Hoenan in muscular power. Burns "lloliort the plowman, ""Love-sick ltobin," "So cial Hob," or "Hunting Hob," just as you want him could not only write the best poetry of any man in bis timo, but lie could out-lift, "for the drinks," the stoutest stonemason in Ayrshire. Keats, "the most poetical of all the poets, could write "Hyperion," "Endymion, "Odo to a Dead trn, or whip butcher, just as be saw tit. Hyron could draw up from his soul-wells tho finest aud sweetest draughts of poetical nectar, or could whip fellows, get fat or swim tliu Hellespont at bis pleasure, Hiiro Hen Jonson do you think ho had no flakes of fat lining his ribs, or oily chunks tiling to his laws.' If so, read a description of his elegant anatomy and bo corrected. Shakespear (no matter how you spell him) had no chucks hollow enough to hold a gill ol water, but the most obstinate mustcou fess thut Mr. Shakespeare, deer poacher, was a good-sized poet, not withstanding. A MKiry of W hiltler. I Harr iet Pinwott KpofTorrf hi Harper's. People coiuo to him, also, iu their grief and trouble, and to more than one tortured soul has he given pence. The story is told of a friend of his curly (lavs, in the tune when religion .held men by cruder bonds than now, who whs pursued by the idea of the sin against the Holy (ihost, and folt him elf doomed to damnation. "And so thee really thinks thee will go to hell?" said Mr. Whittier, after listening to tlio tale of torment. "Oh, I am sure of it," cried the suf ferer. "Docs thee hate thv fellow-men?" asked Mr. w hittier. "No, no," said his unhappy friend "Don t thee hate I iotl, then .' came tlio next question. "I love Him," was the pnswer, "what ever happen to me. "Don't theo hate (lod, who would send thee to hell, and lot others, who thee knows have led worse l.es, g to heaven?" "No. I am glad of every ue tint is saved, oven if lam to be u castatr.ty." "Now what does thee think the devil will do with then? How can he use theo ono who loves tho God that con demns him to torment, one who loves his fellow-men. and would keep thorn out of the clutches of Satan -how can the devil employ theo oreudure thee?" For the lirst time in mouths the wretched man laughed with his old heartiness, and from that moment be gun to shako oil' his morbid terrors. Horace Urerley a.iu .i.- ..miko .11 an I New York World. I Horace Greeley, although be '"took the papers, was 01110 sought to bo vic timized at the well-worn "dropped pockctbook" guino. The man who picked up tho book, plethoric with hi gus money, right ut Mr. (Ireeley's feet was compelled to go out of town im mediately to his sick w ifo, and begged the loan of y.iil 111 advance of the award which would surely bo offered if Mr, Oreelev would keep tho book. Mr (Ireeley consented, and only saved him self bv taking the $.1(1 out of the book The man remonstrated. "It will not do to touch tho money," he said; "you had better give me $M out of your own pocket." "ltless mv soul, my friend," ex claimed the innocent Horace, "1 never carried as much money as that with me in my life!" The man impatiently smitchcd the book out of Mr. G.ooley s hands and hurriedly left to visit his sick wife. A rroffHSlonal Ailonla Nnggeated. (Now York World. Hy the way, why should hot the prin cess of Wales discover hoiuo Adonis some exquisitely handsome young man and havo his portrait painted hy a dis tinguished artist and set in a diamond mounted frame? This professional lieauty game, us at present conducted, is very one-sided. If married men mav go into raptures over a professional beauty aud sit enthralled over ber puv ture, w hy may not married women havo a similar privilege in regard to profes aionul Adonises? What is sauce for the married goose ought to be sauco for the married gander, and tho husband who runs after the portraits of lovely women cau not fairly object if Ins wife should run after the portraits of handsome men. Which of our enterprising artists will start the enterprise of tho professional Adonis as a companion to the profes sional lieauty ? :i Madhl aal Hla Kollowera. Chicago Tritaina.) The Hov. Dr. Dichtl, an Austrian missionary priest who spent some time in the Soudan, gives the following description of tho Madhi: lie is about 40 years old, tall, and of copH'iy-red complexion. An emissary sent to interview him aomo time ago found tho Madhi at Abba, surrounded by 500 or (100 followers, all of them naked, with iron chain In ks round their waist, and with broad drawn swords in their hands. The Madhi occupied a raised sent iu their midst, and in his right hand ho held a prophet's staff. The three marks by which lie knew the Egyptian government to bo falsa to Islam were that they allowed Christians to have churches of their own, that they afforded them protection, and that the government levied taxes. CANARIES FOR THE MARKET. Where They Are HnUed Methods of Mualral Train lag. PliiladelibiaTlme. Most of the bird brought to America are bred iu the Hart, mountains, of Hanover, a range in the famous Hlack Forest of Germany. Here the industry is carried on extensively by the peas ants, who derive from it their chioj means of subsistence. The majority of thorn are so poor that the agents of the two New York firms who enjoy a mo nopoly of the importations are obliged to advance at tho beginning of the breeding season enough money to pro vide the food necessary to rear the young birds. One firm at the o-iening of the present season thus laid out about $10,000. The superiority of the German birds lies in their training, great attention being paid to improving their song qualities. Tho canary is a great imitator of sounds, and will learn almost any thing that is thrust ujton his attention when young. He may ac quire the chirp of tlio robin if ho hear no other song, or may be taught the air of a popular song. A dealer on Kidge avenue exhibited a canary at the Centennial exhibition which could sing Yankee Doodle, and which he sold for $100. Another, own id by the same man, rendered "Die Laudorbach Maidchen" in an excellent manner. I have even known of a ca nary that could talk. Its owner got it when it was young and kept it where it could hear no other bird sing, and finally succeeded in teaching it to pronounce its own name, the name of its mistress and one or two other words. The Ger man easauts take advantage of this faculty in teaching the voung birds to sing. One plan is to place them in a large cage, partitioned so as to prevent its inmates from seeing each other; any fine singing bird, either a canary, a sky lark or nightingale, is placed out of sight but within hearing of tho young canaries. After six months of this imprison ment tho pupils, who havo never seen their teacher, will havo become perfect musicians. Another plan is to place the young ones in a room hurelv light enough for them to see to eat, where an instrument called a bird-organ is played for an hour or more each day in the hearing of the learners, who listen very attentively if they are not disturbed, aud, by practicing the notes heard, are soon able to sing them perfectly. Birds trained bv this process are known as "Andreasherg roller's," and become very protlcieut 111 the "water roll," the bell and flute notes and various trills. After this course of tra.ning is com pleted the birds are separated. Each one is placed in a small cage, made by the peasants froln flr wood, and fast ened together with peg instoad of nails. lhey remain in those narrow quarters until they cease to be merchandise, aud are Anally domiciled in the homes, where they become the pets of the fam ily. Uoaalp About Menalor Joe llrown. "Carp" In Cleveland leader. So Joe Hrown is being denominated the chain gang senator because he has a lot of penitentiary convicts who work in his coal mines in ( ieorgia. They cost him less than $20 a year apiece, and I warrant 'you they have to work hard, for Hrown was brought up to labor. He was born iu the l'ickins dis trict of South Carolina t!2 years ago. aud when a boy used to haul vegetables to the county seat, and had a team with which he used to plow the garden plats of tho villagers. He has u brother iu South Carolina who now ha a good plantation, mid is worth soino money, hut nothing like that of the saintly Joe, who is worth, I am told, perhaps $.".. 000,000, and keep adding to his pile by compound interest. Senator Hrown lives here at the Metropolitan hotel, where bo ha three rooms and an ollice. He has a seat down near the speaker's lesk, nnl is the most patriarchal-look ing 01 the senators, lie has a darn complexion, flat cheeks, and a long beard of yellowish gray. Ho is not fond of newspaper men, and w ill seldom submit to an interview, lie is now the biggest man 111 Georgia, next to Hub Toombs, but 1 believe that Toombs is the better liked. Toombs and Hrown have been run ning on dillerent platforms since tho war. Hob l oombs would never con sent to reconstruction, but Hrown ac cepted the inevitable at once and turned the change 1 1 his own udvan tugo. It is said that this difference of opinion came once near causing a duel between Toombs anil Hrown. The challenge was issued, but for some rea son tho matter was adjusted without flr mg. 1 ho actions of the two men in re gard to this duel, if reports tell the truth, show well tliu character of each. (Ion. Toombs, easy and confident, trust ing to luck, made no preparations for the tight. Gov. lirown did just the con trarv. Ho put all his papers in perfect order, drew up a will, and then sot up a target and commenced practicing. Long before the duel was to have come off ho was ready for it, and I doubt not be would have shot to kill, r ortunately for both parties, for Toombs is a dead shot, the quarrel was peacefully settled. Hope for Mr. Ilirch. ll'tica (Jlm-rver. I Hillv Hirch, of tho San Francisco minstrels, has experienced religion, and is confessing all of Ins former misdeeds. To a reporter ho admitted to have told one story for rive years; aud to have dropped it then only lecanso he was tired of it. Tho public, he said, laughed just as heartily over it the last time he told it as on tho first night. The storv wa undoubtedly tho ono about his uncle "Jim" Hlackstono, of Kirkland, tending him a bag of pippin apples, and then going to New ork and remaining a week with him, iu en- eavonng to recover the pillow case that held them. There is hojie for Hilly in this world if he jrscvere. I'rof. Joseph Landon: To teach so as to bring children frequently into tears is not difficult to one w ho knows them, but it is in the highest degree mischiev ous. Eoger A. Eryor says that they havo very peculiar newspaper reimrteni in London. Wbeu be told them he had nothing to say they left at once. ! Varlaua Waya lo Wed, a Prartlred by IMffereat Satlonalltle. Chicago Newt, In Bavaria the peasant girl tells her love, and after her engagement dunce, her mother relieves her of all house work, and sets about fattening her up for the wedding-day. Though relieved of domestic cares, she is by no means idle, and finds the days and long nights too short for finishing her sewing, which inuludesdressesand underclothes, sheets, pillow-slips, quilts, mat, tidies, table-linen and stockings enough to lust Iter for a dozen years. Any fantastic goods will make her toilet, but be the . 1 1 . it. -ii :i 1 . color or 1 a uric wnai it win a veu is in dispenMble, with a wreath 01 orange blossoms and a little satin pillow on which the wedding-ring is carried. This cushion is usually about eight inches square and radiantly decorated with embroidery or bead-work, iu which all the village maidens have a finger, if but to do a single stitch. The Russian bride wears a trousseau of blue, with a short, fnll veil fastened on the hair with a wreath of silver leaves, which may be made of solid silver or fine wire, but where this extravagancs is beyond the means of the brido, silver paper or tin-foil is substituted, unless a coronet is piaueu wuu silver riunuu. In the ceremony two rings aro used, the bride decorating her husband after acceotintr his rinir. In farther India the couple aro married while seated on a circular matting placed in the sun. All the cirls in the place constitute the bridesmaids. Each carries'a staff bound with blue and finished at the end with a bunch of fiery-red feathers. They dance round the happy couple, who aro not permitted to rise till the girls havo exhausted their vocal selec tions, and are too tired to vary thoir graceful motions. An Egyptian bride wears a gorgeous robe of blood-red satin, einbroiiieren with roses, birds of gay plumage, and graceful little cupids, thrown out into broad relief by outlines of silver thread or gold lace. the veil is carelessly draped over tho left shoulder, so as to partially obscure hor face from the view of "the croom. and fastened 011 with a diadem of glittering gems. In Natal the bride wears a dress of feathers, with metallic flowers in her hair. She knoels on a brass wire mat, with a shield in one hand and a knife in the other. Hor attendant, who are solectod because of strong lung power, dance round her in circles, stamping, jumping, kicking any impediment that conies iu their way, and making the air resound with their hideous screaas. In some of the Harbury states the bride is confide I to the care of her mother-iu-law for forty-eight hours, in which time her hands are painted with ugly figures aud coiulpicated ditliculties, and miseries that will certainly cross hor path. An Australian groom has to face the village maidens, who force him to run a ihowerof spear-shaped arrows. Trlrka of Sew Vor twirls. rdnra Belle hi Cincinnati Enquirer. 1 Bewitching magicians are what a good many of the New lork girls are trying, with variable success, to make of them selves. Thoir dear little finger (and I have observed that only those with nice hands take to the diversion ) are apt to be deft and decoptivo in manipulating such simple apparatus as they select from those originally intended for boys to play with. Among the apparatus which they employ is the marble and vase, consisting of a pedestal of hard wood, in which a ball is placed and caused to suddenly disappear, appar ently shot into tho ceiling or into the air out 01 sight, it smiiieuiy reappears in your liana, or at any place that may lie designated. Also the magic nail, an illusion in which the performer exhibit a common sixpeuny nail, which may be passed round among the spectators. Immediately upon its re turn she pusses it through her finger Still another is a box for a wedding ring. It causes the greatest conster nation at the supposed loss of a wed ding ring that slips out of it in the most mysterious manner, and is as suddenly recovered. Then there is a handerchie'f that showers bon-lwns on tho table and cau bo mailo to disappear in a twink ling. The magic finger can be had. This trick enable. the performer to thrust ono of h;r lingers through the crown of a hat, which is distinctly seen, and after exhibition she pull her ringer out of the hole and returns it uninjured to the owner. "Goodness me!" she exclaims, as she hand an impressionable caller his hat, "what ha. happened to this?" Ho sees what looks liko one of her digits thrust right through his new tile, and the sensational situation is dra matic. An Kdl iiin of Mix. Charles Franci lams, Jr., is amus ing himself in a de. iitful, if somewhat exponsive fashion sa a Boston letter to The Chicago Tribune. He lias written a book and had six copies printed for his ow n use. More properly speaking he has written only the first volume of what is in the end to be a four-volume work. This first volume is printed in admirable style, and contains about 4."H) pages. About two-thirds of it is' occu pied w ith an account of the early settle ment of Boston, while the remainder is taken up with tho narrative of the An tinomiau controversy. Several papers which have before appeared in print are substantially included in the work; as the account of Morton and Merry Mount, Sir Francis Gardener aud Blaekstone, the first settlers on tho peninsula. The six copies are none of them given away; they aro loaned to men who are adepts in Boston history, and the criticisms of tho readers are invited. Ultimately the work, revised, if revisions from these criticisms are necessary, will be nub- ished. SoDlrlhlng Kenides Music. 1 Hiwton Trausrript. j "Oh, bother!" exclaimed Banger; 'what's the use? The boys are m -k of music. Music, music, muse: that sail you give them, week in and week out. At our meeting to-night why can't we get up something new something. 1 ion t care what, so long as it isn't music?" "A good idea, Banger!" eriil Fogg: "a splendid idea. We have had little too much music, ss vou .iv, au it is time we hail something new. Sup pose yon sing for us, Banger." WANDERINGS IN VENICE. Ural lespreaaloaa Bridges and Cn-naU-The Charm ef the Uaadolas ...Venire's Pleloreaqne Beauty.. fHan Francicoo Chronicle.) It takes a good many days to get ac customed to Venice and many more to appreciate it. First impressions are not always agreeable ones. It is damp and chilly, and the canals are full of none too clear watr, and the hotel u too quiet and large, and you lose all identity in its vaulted sulons and inter minable corridors. At first you do not know of any place you can walk to, ana gondola riding is for a few days monot onous. You came jwrhaps for rest and quiet, but there is too much stillness. The buildings are soiled ; the posts in front of the houses are clammy and wet; the windows are vacant; the guides are too loquacious and too preserving, as they offer to show you the treasures of the city. You have heard so much of Venice, and yon see so little of it at first that you are disappointed, and al most feel ready to vote the place a fraud. The interior of St. Marks is dark, the galleries in the ducal palace are dark, the pictures by the masters are faded and blackened. Beggars are as numerous as tba pigeons that fly about the piazza, there is too much listlessness and too little activity. You cannot throw off all ani mation and life at first and you feel cramped, and the water makes you feel cold. Altogether one gets impatient and is inclined to pay his bill at the hotel and get away. He begins to feel that Buskin, Byron and Howells are rash enthusiasts and that they have overrated the beauties of Venice. But one does not go away. The inclination to do so grows less and less as the weather begins to brighten and the sun to shine upon the canals and out upon the lagoon. We had wished to leave on our second day and now regret going for weeks to come. Tho silence op presses us no longer. We like it be cause it lets us hear the bells of the city and tho songs of the gondoliers, who sing every evening in front of the hotel. We have found, t jo, a succession of narrow alleys leading from the hotel to St. Mark'B square, and when we do not wish to lie rowed over there we w alk. It is a quaint stroll this, and the way leads in and out between long row s of high houses and across half a dozen little bridges which spau the side canal. The path is narrow, to be sure, but there is always a doorway to get into when a vegetable seller comes toward us with hi. goods, and at the bridges there are alw ays boats to 1) seen coming aud going up the twisting roads. I have grown immensely fond of these Venetian bypaths, which are so narrow and so quiet, and where there are 110 horses or heavy teams. Y on see the real life of the city in them, too, for here are the shops and the people who work. In some of the stores I have found choice bit of woodwork and old brass goods, and odd and ends of every description. Here I meet the dark eyed women aud the men who wear rings in tlieir ears, and a slouch hat and knee-breeches. Here Venice is natural aud not 011 exhibition, as she is in the better known places, and there are no guides to trouble you. I wander where I please and take as much time as I wish, and linger on the bridges and ask questions of the traders. In eome of my walks I have been led into walled gardens where there were flowers, aud where the sunlight was warm and delightful, and where a fountain played. I here is a deal of hospitality in watery Venice when once you know the town. I have found it an easy matter to gain entrance to the houses I know and to the balconies that look out upon the canals or into secluded gardens. Some of these places are owned or oc cupied for the season by American artists or men of leisure, or writers, and they form a little colony of their own, and enjoy Venice every day of their stay. 1 should think they would, and I envy them. 1 am ready even now to defend the city in its claim of being attractive, picturesque and beautiful. It has been iu existence for nearly eighteen centuries, and why should it not bo richly stored with attractions? It was a rich metropolis year ago, and for ceuturie its merchants ruled the commerce of tho world. Were not the Doges, the grand dukes who ruled the city from 097 to nearly 1500, the most fastidious and richest men w ho ever held the sceptre of power? Why lhouldn't they have the best of everv thing ? In the days of the Doites the irondo- las were brilliant with the work of dec oration lavished on them ; and to-day, robbed as they are of all tlieir finery and having a uniform blackness, they are the treasured carriers of the people. They fill the grand canul as thickly as wagons do Broadway; they swing grace fully around sharp corners, dart up narrow but still watery wavs. ohm under bridges and are rowed over the lagoon and across to neighboring isl ands. And these strange boats, gliding up streets of water, these curious car riages without horses that meet von at your doorstep, that are hired to go on errauus wnu, that are so comfortable, so easily managed, so fleet, so silent, so well rowed, constitute one great charm of Venice. No other city has them : no other ever will. Tliey are purely local ; as niuh a part of the city as tho churches are, or as the ducal palace is. They meet you on arrival at the station and carry yon to your hotel, and they never leave you. By their aid you see the city. Lazily settled back in their embrace yon be hold the sunsets from near San Giorgio Maggiore, or see tho tall Campanilo rising beyond the water out of St. Mark's square, Thev earrv von f the Lido and to Delia "Salute, and under the Hialto. Seated in them aud noiselessly darting here and there and every w here, one needs not the presence of Gothic column and Byrantine architecture, and the tim. stained works of the old masters to tell mm that he is in an ancient city and in one that has the richest art and the moat novel features of any in Europe. Venice is an unnatural reality; it is an xistiug curiosity that seema 1 though it must have been forced rp out of the Rea. upon which it rests, instead of hav ina been built where it is because Ha founders had nothing but aubmerged wnd burs to use. HampH"-" the tiroeery Man. New York Tribune. "Tbera are samplers and sampler," said a down-town grocer, as ho carefully covered up a barrel of cut-loaf augar with a wire protector and took a seat on . soap box. "Talk about mean people. I don't believe there's anbody in this world moaner than a full fledged sampler. There are two eenoral classes of samplers-those who are honest and ask for sam ples for the purpose of testing the de sired article, and, if satisfactory, of purchasing quantities of the same after ward, and those who aro dishonest and got samples simply for the purpose of sponging their supplies out of the grocer, I have had considerable expe rience with both classos as I have been in business on this corner for twenty years, aud have bad plonty of opportu nities to i tudy human nature. "I will give you an illustration of the way in which some of those samplers .onduct their little game. A richly dressed lady one day entered my store and asked to look at some of my best grades of coffee. The clerk showed her samples. She examined them with much care, und at length turned to the young man and said : " 'Would you be kind enough to give me samples of this coffee to take home? Mv husband is particular about his eoilee and so I would like to try these throe kinds before purchasing. ' She looked sweet and innocent as she said this, and her face lit np with a grati fied smile as the obliging clerk re luctantly complied with her request. I had been watching the transaction from behind my desk, and feeling some what suspicious of tho lady I called one of mv bos aside and told him to follow her when she left the store. In the course of an hour he returned and re ported that the woman had visited four other store, and had obtained from each samples in the same way as from us. I made inquiries, and found that she was the wifo of a well-to-do mer chant down town. She tried to play the same game on us afterward, but didn't succeed. "There's another class of people who give us trouble," remarked the grocer, as he bit off the end of a cigar and passed another to tho reporter. "I mean petty thieves. If your clerks are not supplied w ith eyes in the back part of their nock you will lose enough groceries in the course of a year to sup ply a boarding-house. A woman wt ar ing a shaw l, or loose cloak, can grab a handful of sugar, or a potato, or some thing of that sort, and couceul itqnickly, when no one i watching her. I caught an old Irishwoman trying to get away with a cabbage which she bad deftly slipped into her bosket when the clerk's back was turned. There are some people, too, who have no idea that it is thieving to appropriate things in this way. How hard it seems to be for folks to learn that honesty is the best policy, especially when deal ing with the grocer. When I catch any of my substantial customers trying to confiscate a codfish or something else of value, I say nothing about it, but charge it on the books. I never knew one of them to object when he saw the items in his bill. I will toll you con fidentially that I never have any scru ples in charging such persons a double price for the articles they have stolen, "lis a sjrt of reminder, you know, that tlin vav (if tliA tratiHirvesnr is bard." and the grocer laughed till the tears rolled oil the end of his nose and a clerk shouted "Cash." Cigar-Box Label. (Chicago Herald.) An important item iu tho manufacture of cigar-lioxe is the label, which costs from liO c.mts to $G a thousand. A few especially fine labels, made for special brands, cost and $10 a thousand. Tho larger box factories have a printing-room attache 1 to their establish ments, and print the ordinary quality of labels themselves, while the more elaborate qualities of more or loss artistic design, and printed in from three to a dozen colors, are made by tho lithographic establishments, where de signers for this particular branch are kept steadily at work. It is a noticeable fact that in a great many cases one may judge of the qual ity of cigar by the kind of label at tached to the box. Tho "loud" labol with flaming colors, presenting all kinds of impossible birds and flowers, or females more or less docollette, do not, as a rule, speak favorably for the quality of the cigars. The habitual smoker knows bis label, although some of the favorite brands of "three-for-a quarter," or "straight ten's," such a "Corono,""Prof.Morse,""Mark Twain," "La Kosa," "Henry Clay" and others, are sold in numerous imitations. The better quality of cigars, like the lietter quality of men, do not "show off" in a very elaborate stylo, they have a well designed and artistically executed la bel in unobtrusive colors, and some of the very best cigars have very plain packing. Cigars for private salos are generally packed in boxes which are fastened with brass clasps instead of tho old-fashioned silk ribbons. There is one firm of lithographers in this city who do nothing else but print cigar labels, and there are eight box factories, employing 250 hands, and a capital of $100,000, vhile the annual production is valued at $400,000. lon"t Know lo Whom They Belong. Philadelphia Praw.) There is said to be a little piece of territory in Germany whoe citizens actually do not know" to what sover eignty they belong. The size of this strip of land is about 370 square yards. It is situated on tbe rrusso-Wurtem-borg frontier, between the villages of Dettensee, in Prussia, and Nordstotten, iu Wurtemberg. The archives could not settle the dispute, and the inhabi tants of tho little plat had a hard time of it when the tax-gatherers on their last rounds swooped down on them from both sides. A partial adjustment of the boundary has been reached, but even now one family cannot solve the conundrum "Under which king?"