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OPTIMISM. . Ells Wheeler In Manhattan. I'm no reformer; for I see mom Unlit Than darknou In the world; mint) eyes are quick To catch the Brut dim radiance of the dawn, And slow to note the cloud that threatens storm. The fragrance and the beauty of the row Delimit me ao, U)ht thought I give the thorn ; And the awoet muth of the lark'i clear ion? Btays longer with me than the night ban k' "ry. And e'en in thlt great throe of pain called life, I And a rapture, linked with each detpair, Well wortu the pr e of anguish. 1 detect More (rood than evil in humanity, Love lights mom Urea than hate extlngulhe, And nien grow bettor an the world grow old. WHITE HOUSE CRANKS Craiy taller on the I'rrMldrnt The He l .Man of Itcvrlatlonx. Cor. Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. ThoWhito House is a very popular ro ort with cranks. Every crank who comes to Washington imagines lie has Home important business with tho presi dent, bonio days the lynx-eyed ser geant on guard at the White limine door turns away ten or twolvo crazy people. The sergeant was asked how he managed to dis tinguish the cranks from the ordinary business callers. "It's not much trouble," ho said. "But since tho shooting of Garfield we have been es pecially watchful of all the president's visitors. Usually wo spot a crank on Bight. There is a wandering of the eyes, or an abruptness of speech, or a wildness of gesture, or some peculiarity of dress or manner. "This, however, is not always the caso. I remember a short time ago 1 was on duty in tho grounds one night when a reception was gcjing on. I was ap proached from the Whito House portico by a tall, clean-shaved, middle-aged man, neatly dressed in a black walking suit, who askod in a tone as if he merely wautod a chat with some one: 'Aro you a watchman hero?' 'Jn that line,' said I. 'Tho president is giving a reception, Ibolieve?' 'I believe ho is,' said I. 'A public reception, isn't it?' askod the stranger. 'I don't know anything about that,' I answered. 'Would you tako mo to bo a respectable citizen?' was tho next ques tion. 'Hardly able to judge on so short an acquaintance,' said I. Tho stranger chuckled quietly at this and suid, 'Quito right; but from my general ap pearance now, my mannors and conver sation, would you set mo down as ro spoctablo or otherwise?' 'liespectable,' said I. 'Just so. And yet, in this great and glorious land of tho free,' sarcas- 9 tically said ho, 'a respectable citizen is suddenly turnod away from tho door of the executive mansion by Hunkers when ho simply seeks, with other citizens to pay his respects to . the officer they have chosen by ballot to preside over them ; at a tune, too, set apart, it is understood, for tho purposo.' 'But perhaps,' said I, 'there must have been arcasou. l'er haps you are mistaken, and this is not a publio reception.' 'Asked if I had a card,' continued tho strangor, indig ' nantly (iguorintr my last remark ij questioned and cross-examined as if was a felon or conspirator, and tno door then shut in my face. All right, if this is St. Petersburg, and this is the palace of tho czar,' pointing to tho White House. 'Infamously wrong if this is Washington and that is tho Whito House.' "So far thero had not been anything in the man's mannor or talk to indicate that ho Was anything more tliau a visi tor to tho city, disgusted and indignant at his disappointment at being Mini niarily deprive! of what ho perhaps considered his only chance while hero to seo tho president; but suddenly changing his manner after his last remark, ho abruptly asked mo in tho sepulchral tones of tho ghost in 'Hamlet,' 'Do you uvor read tho biblo?' 'Sometimes,' 1 answered. 'lid you ever read tlio book of ltevelutions?' 'Yes.' 1)o you remember the red man, in that book? I eaut say that X do, Well, read it attain, iruurdiun of tho night, rend it again,' said tho stranger, adding ouicklv, 'I am tho red man there mentioned. 1 hold in my hands tho fates of nations ami their ruler. 1 inako uud unmake presidents Wash ington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, (Irant, and this man Arthur They were elected, yes, but idee tions can not change destiny That I control. Let the present oo cupuut of the White House beware,' and with a threatening shako of his long forefinger at tho mansion, tho niiiu started down tho ting sidewalk toward tho t'atowav. Jsow.ifthat fellow had cot in ho niiuht have behaved as well asanvbodv. Hut in case he had tot started on the bock of l'ovelations there is no knowing what might have happened." Meal In the lo'cimlle. Exchange. The manner of serving meals in tho forecastle is as simple us is the system nf cookery in votrue in the uallev. The cook gives out the made dishes in the nana in which t hev have been prepared One man in each watch is appointed to go to the galley for tho food, lie places it on the deck in tho middle of the lore- castle and the men take their shares one bv one. Tho man who takes more than his just share is not regarded with favor by his shipmates. If he persists in his niL'L'ish method of helmnir hilll self, his shipmates will not only reuion strato with him, but will go to the length of reducing his share to the proper limits; and if ho protests against this treatment a committee of one ir more, according to his size, isapointod to thrash him. The sailors sit on their chests while at their meals. Xo tables are provided for them. The Klfht r Pannage. Chicago Herald. Ceuturies ago oak was by far the most valued forest tree in England, m account of acorns fattening hogs. Jn ancient records it is put dowu how many hogs such and such woods would carry. Tannage was the right of fee-ding swine, and to this day persons ad joiuing tL Xevr Forrest lntvo thf right of pannage for six weeks there ou pay ing a small fee. THE TWO QUATRAINS. Ivan Tour,'uem-fT. There was once a town whose in habitants worshipped poetry so ar dently that, if home weeks elapsed without new and masterly poems com mit to light, such a poetical sterility was regarded as a public calamity. Every one t ion would put on ms nest clothing, would strew ashoi upon their heads, and would gathor together in an open space to wail, to shed tear, and to murmur bitterly against the Muse, who had forsaken them. On one of these davs or mourning, a youthful poet, Juuius, appeared in tho square, which was densely packed with sorrowing people. He mounted the rostrum m naste, and made a sign that ho w ished to re cite a poem. Tho lictors nourished tlieir staves, and hhouted tho stentorian voices: "Si lence! attention!" '1 he expectant multi tude were silent. 'Friends! companions!" began Junius, in a clear but slightly faltering voice : "Friends and companions! The lover of 1'oetry, God of harmonious beauty and light, Charms away trouble and vanquishes sor row; Ajiollo arises and fled is the night:" Junius had concluded; the answer was a universal burst of laughter, howls and whistles from every sido. , Tho upturned faces of the multitude glowed with indignation; every eye sparkled with rage; every hand was raised threaten ngly and clenched. "loes he wish to mock uswitli that.' yelled the furious voices. lear mo paltry rhymester dowu from tuo ostium! J 'own with the blockhead 1 l'elt the fool with rotten apples and stinking eggs! Stones! bring stones!" Junius rushed headlong from the rostrum ; but scarcely had ho gained his dwelling than ho heard tumultuous np plauso, shouts of praiso, and acclama tions. Tortured with doubts Junius re turned to tho square and endeavored, if possible, to mingle unobserved in tho crowd, for " "lis dangerous to rouse tho grim lion." And what did ho see? liaised high upon tho shoulders of the multitude on a Hat, golden shield, clothed in the purple mantle, his locks crowned with laurel, stood his rival, the youthful poet Julius. And the people shouted "Glory and honor to tho immortal Julius! Ho has con soled us in our trouble, and in our great sorrow ho has refreshed us with his sub lime poetry, which is sweeter than honey, more musical than tho sound of tho cymbals, more fragrant than the odor of roses, and purer than tho blue of heaven ! Lift him in triumph, per fumo his inspired head with soft clouds of iucenso, fau hiui with palm branches, strew all the spices of Arabia before him! Honor and glory to tho divine poet!" Junius approached one of tho wor shipers: "Kepeat to me, O beloved fellow-townsman, tho words with which Julius has euohantod. Alas! unfortun ately, I was not present when ho recited them. I pray you, do mo tho favor to repeat tLein, if you cau remember them!" "How could I over forgot such verses!" cried the questioned one eagerly; "for what do you tako mo? Listen and shout aloud, rejoice with us! The versos commence thus : '"The lover of Poetry, my friends and com panions, God of sublimity, toauty and light! Care disappears, and all sorrow jseuilod! .When i'lui'lms arises then vanishes night !"' "N'ow, what do you think of that?" "But I pray you," cried Juuius, "those aro my own verses! Julius was among tho crowd when I was reciting them, ho heard them, and has repeated them with a few trilling alterations, which, alter all, are no improvement!" "Ah! now 1 recognize you. you aro Junius!" replied the other, with frowning brows. "You aro either envious or a blockhead. Recollect your self, miserable youth, with what sub limity spnko Julius: 'When l'hubus arises, thou vanishes night!' Compare vonrnnnscnsowith.it: 'Apollo arises, 'and tied is the night!'" "Yes, is it not exactly tho same?" began Junius. "Another word," interrupted tho other, "and I will rouse tho people, they will tear you in pieces!" Junius prudently held his tongue. A gray-headed man who had overheard tho conversation stepped toward the un fortunate poet, laid his hand on his tdiouldcr and said: "Junius 1 you re peated what vou had composed out of season. This one certainly repeated borrowed words, still ho hit upon the risiht moment; henco his success. Your own conscience must console vou." So his own conscience must console him; well or ill to speak truly, ill cnouuli Ins own conscience must con sole .. unius, who stood in tho crowded background, amid the acclamations w hich were lavished upon his rival. 1'roud, lofty and majestic, Julius moved along in the golden, glittering dust of the beaming, all-conquering sin, splendid in purple, crowned with laurels, surrounded with perfumed clouds of inceiiio; palm branches fell before him as he approached, and the veneration for him which tilled tho hearts of his enchauted townsmen knew no bounds. Arthur n an Abstinent. (Ivtroit l-V-e Piths. 1 Tho present president of the United States dors not, like Ins predecessor, (irant, "turn Ins glass down" atdinner; nor, like h's other predecessor, Hayes, refuse to have them oa the table at all. Arthur has them on the table, right side up, and kept tilled all the time. Ti.e reason why they are kept tilled is I ecaiise he does not dunk from them l.e has, according to a friend whom he t ld s , leurued that ho must eat very li tie und abstain entirely from wiu uud 1'ijnors. It sues him expl.ma'ions to Im e them I II.'. i and let tin m a one. ,feeivbody were to drink li ,u.r in ti.is .asliion a prohibition law wuid be suj.ei lluoiis. Mrs. W. K. Valid rbilt lias the repu tatio-i of being the owner of the finest wardrobe iu America. THE STAGE FALL.. A ft Whirh w Aftora Have A uairrd-Kxptunatlona of How It la Done. Croffut't Lett In Bonton Globe. How to fall gracefully and safely be fore an audience is a feat which only a few actors have thoroughly ocquired. A good many fall so awkwardly as to excite mirth, and a good many hurt themselves. I remember a young lady in one of Daly's plays a few years ago to whom he said, "Here! You must fall at this cue." At that cue, accordingly, she fainted and fell, but she knocked over a chair auo a ' stand, broke a lamp and set tho stage atlre! The cur tain was rung down, the tire put out, and, indignant, he asked her what she meant by such clumsiness. "Well," she said, "you never told me how to fall, ond nobody ever showed me." She had never thought of taking a lesson in so important a matter. Fanny Daven port is now a largo and solid woman, but her fall in "Fedora" is one of the most effective bits of stage business, she reels fainting to tho sofa, quivers and dies in on instant, half lying on her face, oud as her horrified husband runs up to look and learns tho dreadful truth, she rolls entirely over by sheer force of gravity and drops with a startling thud upon tho floor. Tho best fall I remember having seen is that of Francis Wilson in the "Princess of Trebizondo" at tho Casino, lie posed amo:ig the comic statuary on a pedestal a foot and a half high, with a brass-drum on his breast. Ho would fall directly over, backward, or on either side, without putting ont a hand or bending his body fall straight upon the floor, like a stono figure. I wonder it didn't kili him especially when he was encoie.l a half a dozen times. I don't think a death or a fa'ol injury ought to be repeated too often. Agnos lio ,tli doesn t Know now to urn easily unless she has learned lately. When she was playing tho wife in "Tho Celebrated Coso,"she nsod to hurt her self every night got black and bluo till she finally threw up tho part, and Miss Cowell took it and "foil into it gracefully. These recollections nave neon sug gested by a technical losson. Iho other afternoon I dropped into rro bishor's collego of acting, and found him engaged teaching a class of thoatro bound young ladies how to fall, illus trating Irs teaching with thorn ono by one. "llemembor this," ho said, "per sons fall either from fainting, drunken- Doss or sudden death. They dio either by dagger, sword, pistol or poison except an occasional caso like Mans field, who dies of apoploxy. Sudden death is followed by sudden relaxation, which causos the knees to bend as one of tho first visible signs. Tho kueos bend, tho shonldrs droop, tho victim turns partially in his tracks so and fails so "not," he resumod on recovering his feet, as if he were built of iron, or wood, or even of flesh and bone, but as if he wore made of snow or of sand melting away at the bottom first." "Now, Miss Wright, let's see you fall at tho cut, 'Wretoh, hero I am!' There are two things to be avoided, re member. Don't crouch dow n as if you were afraid, and don't flop your feet and show your stockings, for that is not impressive. Now, then 'Wretch! here lam!'" Tho young lady gathered her ;elf up and fell. "Ah, .that isn't fair!" ho said; "you sat down ! You must always striko first on tho side of your knees." "I am afraid it will hurt mo." "Nonsense! Do you waut to ba an actress?" "Yes; I will do anything. Give mo the cue." It was tried again with better suc cess. "Always fall diagonally," ho con tinued, "head toward ono of tho corners of tho stage. Another thing, in recov ering from a swoon tho head should bo tho last to riso. In regaining conscious ness tho heart stirs first, then tho hands and tho franio the man rolls half over, perhaps, before ho lifts his head at all. Sometimes it is necessary to fall on being struck with tho fist men usually. It is a back-fall, and is effected by holding tho body rigid, withdrawing tho tongue from between tho teeth, raising, the head slightly and falling straight on tho shoulders. I can teach anybody in an hour so as to make tho back-fall un erringly and safely." Then l'rofessor Frobisher resumed his lesson aud I came away. This back fall I remember seeing Charlotte Cushman make in a surpris ing manner. I think it was in "Meg Merrils." .Sim jumped up a foot from tho floor and took the back fail with tremendous effect. In drunkeu falls tho most reckless I ever saw was that of Harry Watkins, the well known actor, who has probably played more parts ami written more plays that were put on tho boards than any other living man. I remetnbor see ing him jump fifteen or twenty feet during the delirium tremens scenes as Midddleton in "The Drunkard," his own play, and I asked him hov ho could stand it. "Well," ho said, "my right 8 do is terribly bruised, and 1 have skinned my arms, but I am pretty well bandagod, and I am having some pads made to Paso mv fall." By the way, Harry Watkins, James allack and Out Burton were tho only actors 1 f vox saw whose drunkenness seemed real. As for Sot hern's drunken ness in "David Gorrick" and living's in tho last scene of " 1'ho Lvon's Mail," it is the veriest caricature. It is a sol t of s'azgerinjr dance an irregular hop. When men are drunk they do not hop or dance. They put their feet down ou the ir:ound mid take them up as seldom as possible. Barton and Watkins would both gbio tlieir feet to the stage as if they had suckeis on them, and their drunkenness) wan very drunk indeed wonder why Watkins' "Drunkard" isn't on the road now. Iu theso piping times of temperance it ought to be a go Enseal : One of tho greatest artifices the devil u-es to engage men iu vice and debacclierv is to fa-ten names of con tempt oa certain virtues and thus to till weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they dc- s le to put ti.em iu practice. A Ktory that Mulnrd UN Prexpecta. Indianapolis Sentinel. At a meeting of the Washington Press club the other night, Col. Wintorsmith, of Kentucky, told tho following story : "I was a candidate for senator from Kentucky in 1H7C," he naid, "when I told one story that do feated me, liuflcan tell it now w.th out any such danger. One day I was in the gallery of the sonate when Mt Creery, of Kentucky, rose to make a speech. Every senator on the floor sought the cloak-room, except his col league, (iarret Davis, and the presi dent. I could not help thai, but when a stampede from the gallories began I felt tlmt my oppor tunity had come. Jumping to my feet, I shouted: 'Senator McCreery is a Ken tuckian, so am I. The first man who moves out of this gallery hhall die.' All took their seats under duress, and for more than five mortal hours even, wo sat still, listening to his address. When it was over I lowered the pistol which I had held ready in my hands, and tho crowd cUrted. With a gesture one man stopped the rush. 'Col. Wintersmith,' he said, 'wo have stayed here under duress at your request. Now let me ask you a favor.' 'It is granted before it is asked,' I said, not to be outdone in courtesy. He wont on. 'Col. Wintersmith, we have been here nearly six hours because we preferred to stay rather than be shot. But, if this emergency ever happens again, we ask you simply this shoot, without any parley.' Some newspaper men go hold of it. McCrerry's friends were so angry with me that rather than see mo elected they turned in and chose Beck. It does not pay to bo in discreet, and telling this stury spoilt my beiug a senator." Coffee In the Went I mile. lialliV Enquirer letter. "Is coHeo uativo to tho Westlndia islands?" "Oh. no. It was taken there, and tho first coffeo was grown in Martinique. The coffee of Martinique is still very fine, and the whole of it goes to France. Tho coffee plants aro raised from scods, and are transplanted in a year and a half from nnrseries into the fields, and set six foet apart. It takes three years for them to bear any, and they con tinue to bsar belter and hotter, till at tho age of '2D years they are in full strength. It blossoms beUeeu Febru ary and May, and bears be- tweeu August and January, ana iney nick tho coffeo off carefully, leaving the green berries, and taking only the ripe. Tho moment tho berries are re moved the tree commences to blossom again. The fruit is red, looks like a cherry and has two kernels. A nia chino" is used to divido tho rod skins from tho kernel. Then tho gummy kernel is washed in cold water, dried in the sun. and to get the romainmg por tion of the rind off tho grain is beaten iu pestles like hominy; then a fanning' mill takes the chaff off, and the product is spread on large tables and the imper feet grains taken out to make the best coffee." "Is coffee expensive there? "Yes: it formerly sold at about 23 cents a pound bought from the planters. The government gave a premium oi s-iu for everv two acros planted in coffee "when I looked into the question. The coffee estates are on the mountains, while the sugar estates are down near the sea shore. There are about one thousand cofl'eo estates in Guadaloupe alone. Within a few years past, how ever, coffee has come down very much on account of tho enormous increase ot production from Brazil, Mexico aud al most every warm country. An Immenne California Vineyard. San Francisco Call. In the immense vineyard of Gov, Stamford at Vina there aro, at present, 10,000 acres planted in grape vines of different varieties, tho greater portion of which are young, ami as yet havo not been productive. Tho old Gerko vinevard, which forms tho nucleus, covers a snaco of sovontv-fivo acres; to this 1,000 acres of young vines were added iu LSH'2. and 1.500 acres in lbSo1. 1 hey are all very thrifty, and form a beautiful sight w'heu viewed from any direction. The irrigation of this vineyard is, norhnin. the most completo in tho world. At regular intervals thron the vinevard avenues aro cut which are forty feet in width; through these ave nuos are run irrigating ditches, with a driveway on each sido. The blocks thus formed bv tho irrigating ditches aro about fifty yards w ide, but extend a ereat leucrth. and coutain about 100 acres each. In this way tho svs' tern of irrigation is made com plete, and all tho land receives an equal proportion of water. Every two of theso blocks aro planted to a different variety of grapes. Tho main ditches run east and west across tho field, and whero tho field is uneven in tersectinii ditches are made. In somo cases it has been necessary to construct Ilium's to carry tho water over lower lands. A flume 1,800 feet long has been built to carry water over the alfalfa fields. Besides tho 10,000 acres planted in vines, the governor owns 10,000 acres more that ho has lately acquired by purchase. Ho is contemplating, how over, extending his vineyard, making new additions to it each year. A Chicago Wife's Warning. Philadelphia Call. "Will you be homo to dinner?" asked a Chicago woman of her husband as he was about startine for business. "No, I think not," he answered. "I expect to be verv busy. Besides, a new saloon is to be opened just around the corner from my oflice, and 1 will drop in there and get a little free lunch. "Well," said his wife, while a wave of foar swept across her face, "be careful not to get hurt iu the rush." A W ent Indian Prut. Cinciunali Enquirer. One of the worst pesti in tho West Indies is the jigger, which they call there the chegoo. It gets und.r the skin and lays an egg there, and the,n a tumor follows, and unless these eggs are taken out they sometimei make ulcers, create large holes in the feet audcasis are known where negroes have had all their toes eaten away, or have ee:i lot a leg from the Jigger. FEMALE DETECTIVES. What They Are l ilted For and W hat They Are Xet laeful at Heeep- tlona. . New York Run. . "Are female detectives ever regularly employed in the detection of crime?" "We don't employ women," a super intendent of detectives replied," because it is our firm conviction that women cannot be relied on. We have trind them and found them wonderlully quick at divining the source of a mys terious crime, patient in testing a plan for capturing a suspected person, and yes, uncommunicative, luoie n jusi one reason, and onlv one reason, why they are not to bo trusted no ono can toll who has the most innuenee over them. Anyhow, we can t afford to take the risk of employing them and being betrayed by them. Another experienced manager oi de tectives said: Sometimes persons apply for a fomalo detective to act as an attendant to tane care oi wraps at fashionable receptions. Ihey are well known in society, who have had trou ble after receptions in getting the wraps, overshoes and umbrellas to the owners. Sometimes they get so mixed. ud that the owner of an old overcoat ot shawl or umbrella sauntors innocently off with a new and more expensive overcoat, shawl or umbrella. ink ing with a wicked expression: "Hats, you know, are notoriously successful in '.. -1. J !.-. ClUUlllg llieir uiiern ntuitu n iuiij ore good hats. If the occasion is fitting ono for a dotective, we send one. it is not generally understood that female detectives are employed onlv at these largo receptions, nnd then only in the waiting-room and in the room set apart for tho ladies especial use.. Somo per sons imagino that fomalo detectives po to tho receptions as guests." That would be an insult to the genuiuo guests. io sides, in society hero every one knows her neighbor, and tho female detective would herself be detected as a stranger. Then introductions would necessari.y follow under an assumed name, and the subsennent explanations the hostess would bo compelled to make in account 1 . ing for the disappearance of Mrs. So- and-So would mako her life a burden. I feo no good reason, though, why fe male detectives should not be employed in the ladies' room. It is a convenience to have a skilled eye on tho property, instead of one liable to mako mistakes or to be out of the way when wanted" The UiantA or Thote Days. Chicago Inter Ocean. In Tlinv's time it was customary to describe the warriors of a few genera tions beforo as giants. Alexander the Great very well understood the strength ening effect of a little substantial ovi dence on such descriptions. On one of his expeditions he caused a tomb to be constructed and placed in it arms and armor of an enormous size, and marked the whole w ith his name. It has been suggested that this clever fraud was practiced by William the Conquoror, w hoso supposed tomb was opened in the sixteenth century and found to con tain tho bones of an uncommonly large person. The attempt made to destroy a dear beliof, however, received a se vere blow by a discovery made in Rouen in 1500. On the authority of Le Cat a stono tomb was uncovered in which was a copper plate bearing the inscription, "Here lies the noble and puissant lord tho Chevalier Ricon de Vallemout and his bones." The skull of Ricon held a bushol of corn, aud his skeleton indicated that when clothed in flesh tho chevalier stood nineteen foet in his stockings. As unsettling to a serene mind ns his ap pearance may have beon on a dark night, ho was quite a pigmy besido Thontobechus, king of the Teutons, who towered up twenty-live feet. Le Cut says his monster bones were found January 11, lol.'J, mentioning tho ditto particularly. The skeleton of another monster thirty feet long was found ut Mazaeno. Si ilv, in liilo, and still an other at l'aiermo in 154H, which meas ured the same. Tho appearance in tho flesh of theso creatures had better bo left to the innvirination. As if determined to show that his country was eminent as a producer of tho skeletons of giants, an Italian of the fifteenth or sixteenth century re lates the finding of a skeleton 300 feet high! It was immediately announced to bo the skeleton of thegmnt I'olyplio mus. and treated with various ceremo nies bv tho awe-stricken discoverers and the neonle of tho country. Tho bones, tho author naively observes, differed somewhat from those of tho ordinary human frame, but that was to bo ex' pected in a man so tall. Tho evident compounding of prehis toric animal relics with human remains was ono of the many cases. The stories of human skid, t.ms'of 100 r.nd -00 and even 50 I foet h gh, which begun with the Polyphemus incident, belong to the same categorv of mistakes." There is, however, good ground for snppoMii; that Farrag is, the tvrant, slain by ur lando. nephew of Charlemagne, was a linen man. eighteen feet high. Bncait of Vivans. whose bones were found on the banks of tho Morderi river, in the mountains of Cru-sol, on grave author ity was stated to be twenty-two feet six inches. Richard, a celebrated nnato mist, saw iu tho suburbs of St. Germain in 1011 the skeltou of a man twenty feet tall. I p In Alaoku. The Current When it is remembered that, even at Point Barrow, tiie most northern point of Alaska, the overage temperature is only 7 below zero, according to the I'nited States signal service report, it is evident that the people or Illinois, Wisconsin, iowa, Minnesota aud Da kota are qualified to receive certificates as to the.r ab.lity, tiirough severe tests, to endure Arctic weather. W au't III" W ife. jMTi-haiit Traveler. A man rushed up to a woman looking id a Aliow wi:.do , and grasping her by the arm, angrily exclaimed: "t ome ou; lmtued waiti.ig for you. 1 hen no ticing ha had made a mistake, he drew back with, "Oh, 1 beg your pardon madam, 1 mistook you for my wife." "J thought so," she unsa'eredouith scorn fill sueer, and passed ou. A Huurr Kort or Trnre Cnstom. IA. u. aiarsnail -Army Life." As time wore on, by gradual process without any formal agreement, we cam to a mutual understanding with the Confederates in our front. After thin firing ot night practically ceased on o ij part of the line. A sort of spontaneom truce would spring up each night. The way it worked was this: As tho sua wont dowu tho artillery would cease firing; after this the rifle firing would gradually grow less, and by the time daylight would pass away it would cease entirely. A few minutes after the lantshot was heard somo one upon one sido or the other would rise g little above his works for & second ond then drop out of sight. If no gun was fired upon either side, some soldier on the other side woulj repeat the action. If no gun was now heard, a soldier upon our side or the rebel sido would openly stand up in sight of the opposite line, aud his action would be replied to by one of his op. ponents. Theso two soldiors, Uqion and Confederate, would look across at each other a moment, and then, no firing beiug heard, one after another on each sido would get up, oud then we would have a line of Union sharpshooters sit ting upon top of their works looking over at a line of Confederate soldiers sitting upon theirs, each within easy riflo range of the other. When this wag done it was understood that all firing was over for the day. As it began to grow dark each ije would send a line of guards over a front of their works to remain during the night. These lines wcro often within a short distance of each other. As we had much work to do upon out uew lines, the enemy was usually first ready, and it would be on his side that the movement for the night's truce was made. If for any reason we were not ready, tho soldier who exposed himself for this purpose was not fired at, but i gun would bo tired in the air, which was notice for all to again seek protection. In tho morning it was the same. If tho guards who had advanced upon the ground between the two opposing armies tarried longer than the other side desired, a warn- cun would be fired m the , . , , ..i. li. air above tnem, out no one wouiu oe fired at until ample time had been given for all to return to tueir own works. One of tho strangest tilings connected with these nightly truces was that they were confined to different imrts of tho line. The Union troops at our immediate left and the rebel troops in their front never had any such understanding, and with them it was a continual fight day and night." Tho reason for this the author states to have been want of confidence in each other, those rebel troops being con sidered "the most inferior and worth less in tha rebel army despised by the braver men in their own army, as weu as by us." A llamiliatlns Reflection. Tew York News "Art Babble." Th other ofternoon I stood in i sculptor's studio as the evening closed in. Among tho Heavy uraperios unu in fim nlnnmv corners chosts of his art .. " 1 --- . .1 loomed with tho exaggerate", anu sol emn vastness such forms assume wneii their details are only imperfectly re vealed. Out of the populous snaue one figure, pallid, lofty, sinuous tun t weird and superhuman grace, started forward in the motionless andsilentaii, into an absolutely startling activity. Twisting up out of the snauows, wiia nut. nntummt base or support, the charming vet sinister genius of the ... ii i i 1 1 whirlwind seemed to oe mown u)ara over us by the fierce blast she typified. "You ought to put that figure in mar ble," I said. , , . "And starve? the sculptor asKeu, m ... i 1111 1 .... a voice which eciioeu noiiowiy auwns the shadows. There was something m this answer wbieli mmlnmn shudder. The tone in which it was uttered was not one of sarcasm or of anger. It was the quiet and commonplace voice of a man mas- . .1. . 'A nlrt. im: an every-dav remans; n uw quent in the simplicity of its resigna tion ; it was horrible in tho positive fa it suggested. There was no despair is it, for tho speaker was a u.: not a coward; but there was k hope iu it either. It rebuked w for a question which I had mea:' in all honesty us a tribute tj tho artist's greatness, and wktf circumstances had turned into i dagger to stab him. What wow bo tho result, indeed, if lie put this figure into the pernu .1'.. i ill - farma nent material it suouiu ou iu ? Want while he labored on it an waut while it went begging for a pf chaser. It is a painful, a huuiiliutit reflection, for mo at least, that in i a. mini does not ell' .llllVULK Ul " ' . . who will sav to tho creator of the i' conci ption "of its kind ever given s' "Finish tho work ;.o i have begun. .llasaxine Wooil t'flts Sew York Now. J , Apropos of wood engraving it teresting to note how thoroughly tu of tho ma a.im s has eomo ooa to hard-pan basis of common seu.-o. absurd straining for novelty made their pa ;esayear ago a speeiw incoherent pictorial puzzle, has P place to sensible work. The rj!; who used to do their best to ma ' drawing look as little like a drawing they could havo now got back to ous" labor. However, tho trans eu1 tal rage in engraving did one l'w demonstrated what can be done vv woo I block and a burin if tho man handles them is competent to h ' A 1'liiel.j Hy Violin's'- L'hicnsn 1'rihuno.j .., bov of 13 vears, whoso violin ly ing had lo ig b. en the wonder Cos ack village, recently reaeM 1 ;ersburg ader a journev oi n..,s on foot, allured by the ho obtaining free instruct" - , ,-ervatorY. Hut hardships ond o. ertionha l worn the little fr'" aud he was take i to a hospital . onsly ill of typhoid fever. recover he w.ll certainly tmd opportunity to how whether his -is eiiual to'his courage American pork is now l'1,,;'J France, Germany, Italy, Ail" Uu-si.i.