A COY COQUETTE.
Zeokcl Mono, Iran, mo ah!
Don't lo crowiliu' t"lt o clu:
Luff dat lump alone, loo, pleniio, sab,
KIo doy'i ifwinu to bo a fu.
Took dHt hn" from off my shoulder
P'rap ye tlnk I'm no miiiiI trash;
Elwry nitdit e if11 u,,iro loli!or
Tins yer iiuart to be so brush.
What d'ye nrnian dat Tallinn foahf
If dat iral o mltrlity dear,
Lrnb ill kllohiml dar n do doah:
Court dat t'allino. What do I kecr?
Courno I kcor I don't Iw lonbln";
Hut yer miff to rile a oalnt!
Ain't yer shamed yoelt for bloabln
I'alllim's Imu itomo when f he hain't?
Ploaso, now, don't srlt wim'o eubor
Keep dar now ih. well,
If yer 'tannlncd ki'mc'? Nether!
8up (1. luittep or I'll yell I
Well, If yon ain't turned hasnfun
Hshawl who'd hub a man wid nkecrs?
Dar, now. don't irit ober ruahful,
'o' dt fuck I'll box your cars.
Blem me! what' do ueoh ltln'?
'CaiiKO yer boon' to hab yer way.
Not afore one week now. listen
8uy Jess one week from di day?
Marry now! and what' de harm In't?
Zcckel Mow! why, fo' ahame!
How I bluh! Well, If yer tarmined,
(Dat beats Culline jes do suine.l
-C. II. Turntr, in X. 1". Matt au i Exprtts.
THE HUMAN MOSQUITO.
A Creature Which Exists But to
Torment
How He Wound and Torture hi Itap
leu Victim The Different Varletle
of the Kperle A I'oaslble Ilea,
on for hi Kxlatence.
He Is ubiquitous; and, taking him
morally, ho has solved the problem of
perpetual motion; (or he is never quiet,
nover tranquil, and as for letting well
or his fellow-creatures alone, ho docs
that as littlo as ho pays the national
debt. Like his entomological proto
type, the human mosquito has various
methods of attack. Now ho comes on
you slily, without note of warning pro
facing attack, and tho first proof of his
presence a sting: now tho shrill dis
cordance of his challengo rouses you to
attention and the vain attempt at do
fonso and retaliation. For you can not
defend yourself nor yet retaliate. Tho
human mosquito is too sum io in ins at
tack to bo evaded, too quick in his ro
treat to bo caught: and vour bauds only
light tho air, when they do not fall, like
boomerangs, Willi a soumimg wow on
vour own pate.
Tho life's business of tho human
mosquito is to wound, and his mildest
pleasure is to annoy. Woo to you, poor
hapless wight if, In a weak moment,
you have allowed tho tormentor to find
out your soro places or discover the
secret ol tint weaK joint in vour armor.
Henceforth you may bid ailieu to peace
for so long as thU creature is within
hail. He never lets drops subject which
ho knows is painful; and when he has
once iuH'ii aolo to make you wince, he
nover wearies or repeating tlio experi
ment It is such fun to him to seeyour
lip quiver, your check blanch, your eyes
Hash with ill-suppressed fury, if you are
a man with voiceless scorn or darken
ing tears, if you aro a woman such
fun! He would not forego that pleasure
(or worlds, life, indeed, having no
greater to bestow. iviseetion? Arc
there not mon who would vivisect for
the mere love of torturing, and tho
brutal curiosity of seeing the victim's
behavior under pain? So in like man
ner does tho human mosquito torment
and torture you for the mere love ol
tho sport ; and to make you dance to
his piping, shod in the red-i ot shoes of
tho dcrman fairy tale, is as exquisite
a delight to him as were the
cries of tho racked heretic to Torque
in ad a, as are the fluttering agonies
of the woulided bird to the snake. Ha-)
your favorite son proved failure, with
passages In his history vou would
rather not remember, stilt less have
remembered by others? The human
mosquito never meet you without ask
ing carefully after young (iraeeless
where is ho what is he doing and has
he paid his debts yet? and is that sen
tence of outlawry' rescinded? and what
a grief it must be to you that one who
promised so well when he was a lad
should have kicked over the traces to
such an extent as ho has done! Hid
vour daughter run off with the penniles,
Lieutenant, and aro you notoriously un
reconciled to the marriage hopeless
as is your displeasure? The human
mosquito lakes every opportunity of
speaking in your presence of the regi
ment to which your unwelcome son-in-luw
belongs: and though he can not tell
vou personally, does tell your neighbor
in vour hearing, where it is, what
it fs doing, ami how this ollicer
and that have distinguished themselves
and been rewarded, your undesirable
connection being conspicuously absent
from the mil-call of merit. If your old
aunt has died and left you nothing,
while she favored your cousin and made
him her heir, to your not unnatural dis
appointment, the huiiiau mosquito de
velops tho most extraordinary interest
in that cousin's doings, and either asks
Ton of his well-being under his new
honors, or gives you anecdotes of the
splendor of bis surroundings and the
astounding luxury of his home anec
dotes which set your teeth on edge,
hampered as you are in all your goings
and comings Or, if it be the other
wav, and vou have been the favored
and the rightful heir has been dispos
sessed, then does the tormentor resale
you with harrowing accounts of the d s
gracod one's trials and penury, and the
bitterness of his disappointment, which
clings to him bke a Nessns shirt, poison
ing the very current of his blood.
Not to be successfully fought, not
to be captured, not to be barred out,
this tormentor of men's lives is as ter
rible as are thoe germ which float in
the air and bring woe illimitable to all
who breathe them. Your only chance
with him is inienctrable reserve; wrap
ping yourself up in silence which noth
ing can cause to break into confidence
or self-betrayal; showing a demeanor as
stolid as a triple wall uf brass; suffo
cating your feelings, your very thoughts
as though they were crimes which would
land vou In the county jail if repealed
aloud. This is your only chance -the
o:e kind of mosquito-net which will pro
tect vou. No appeal to reason will b
successful; still less will have a chanet
of an apieal to feeling, humanity, plat
itude. Of gratitude, indeed, he has no
more knowledge than he has of tho ori
gin of life or tho cause of crystallization;
for ingratitude is his characteristic, as
with some kinds insolence is the
method. Like the brute which turns
and rends the hand that has fed him,
this kind of creature, this human mos
quito, turns against you, when you
have done all for him that he de
sired and when he has no more
hope of vour help. Then you learn the
truo quality of his nature, and find out
for yourself of what base material it is
made. It is only after repeated trials,
however, that he is convinced of your
finality in tho way of help: for he is of
tho same cms as the daughter of the
horseleech, and cries ever "(live! give!"
When you have once allowed a man or
woman of this kind to prove that you
are puncturable, that you are so much
nutriment for bold suckers, you are
done for; and noihing short of a lawyer
will free you from attacks which, made
at first insidiously may bo with
flatteries, mute appeals, humble repre
sentations, gentle pravers grow by
time and success into Bold and burglar
ious assaults, accompanied with threats
and enforced by moral bludgeons. Then
you must address yourself to tho law,
which is to the human mosquito of de
termined attack what petroleum is said
to lie to his winged prototype, the only
efl'cetual defense known. To do good
to a man or woman of this kind is to
Illustrate tho truth of tho hard old
Cornish saying: "Save a man from the
sea, and ho becomes your enemy.
To sow golden grain on the barren
fields of such a one is to reap sorrow
for yourself; and to give your coat is
but 'the preface to the demand for your
cloak. Your inch ever becomes his ell;
and when vou do not concede all that is
demanded, then nre you stung, as a
kind of waymark between what you
have dono and what you have not.
At home tho numan mosquito Is rest
less and exacting. Ho interferes in
cvervthinz alloat, and always adds a
drop of bitterness to such honev as tho
. . , , t. '.
lamiiy may nave garnereu in us nivc.
Is there a fete-day on hand? Ho takes
out the sweetness, rubs off the gloss, by
restrictions if ho be in the place of com
mand; by temper if he he a subordinate
who can only unniage ami not uestroy.
As the former, ho harrasses his wifo by
finding fault with her arrangements,
substituting his own; ho ajinoys tho
servants by contradictory commands;
irritates tho governess by doubting her
capacity for taking caro of her charge;
and causes the children to weep or lo
sulk, according to their natures, bv
scolding them impartially all rouml,
with reason or without. Then, when
he has made every one thoroughly
miserable or uncomfortable, and more
inclined to perform penance than to
undertake pleasure, he puts on a
hilarious manner, and, when this is not
responded to, rates the wretched little
Hock for their gloominess on a iioimav,
and says, if this is to be tho manner in
which they thank him for the treat he
has given them, ho will take good care
how lie allows them to have anotaer.
As a subordinate, ho is just as worry
Ing if not so domineering. As tho
servant whoso functions are vital to tho
thing on hand say the cook on the
dav of a dinner party tlio human
mosquito makes every ono suffer. For
lust as "l-.tiglaiuls extremity is ire-
land's opportunity," so is tho day of
social consideration in the household
that wherein the cook, who is also a
mosquito, is most troublesome and
most annoying. To believe her, there
will not be a dish lit to eat, mid (here is
not enough of anything. Something
has gone wrong with the stock for soup;
tho fishmonger has skimpe I the weight,
which was already too closely calcu
lated; and the butcher has not sent the
proper joint for the roast; the chickens
are skinny and the "birds" are
tough; the cream is deficient and
the milk is turned; and tho veget
ables aro not fresh nor is the fruit ripe,
l'erhaps she shams the siillenness of
despair, ami will not give nn answer, or
one only of pessimistic forebodings,
when her mistress tries to put the best
face on the matter; or she may assume
a falsely heartsome air, and, after she
has plunged her poor lady into the
depths of despair and nervous appre
hension, says she will do what she can
to remedy the long tale of disasters re
counted, but the dinner will not he up
to the mark, let her do the best she can.
It all depends on the proportion of her
cruelty to her love of annoying,
whether sho sends in) a dinner really
damaged, orotic In iier best styl and
perfect throughout. In either cue she
has had her pleasure in seriou ; hurt
or in simple teasing.
We need not go through the whole
list of domestic mosquitoes. From the
lady's-maid who pulls her m'-.ress'
hair when brushing it, and lets her go
lo a state ball w ith a siring unfastened
and a tape showing below her tran. to
the page-boy who breaks in a month,
the worth of his year's wages, they all
make their service tho cause of annoy
ance to their employers; and some add
to annoyance, graver disaster. Hut
what can you do with them? Accidents
will happen, you know, and an unfor
tunate servant is not necessarily a bad
person. Your page-boy. for instance,
is smart in taking messages,
and quick to learn the niceties
of his office; he is clean in his
person and reseetfiil in bis manners.
How can vou say that his unlucky fin
gers are tlio result of malice prepense?
audit is not worth while to keep him
ou,. vou hoping that he will learti more
deftness in handling china and gl.is
his past clumsiness condoned bv his
future improvement? Just so; an I yet
we may be very certain ol one thin.;
oniH a mosquito, aiways a niosqii to :
once the love of annoying or hurling
gets hold of the moral system, and there
it stays rHteil, like couch-grass, or trial
Australian enemv the thorn-grass, a
source of damage to even thing that
lives near it.
As a child, the human mosquito is the
limb-' of the nursery, according to the
vernacular of the niirse. As a boy, he
i the bully over his little brothers and
the incarnate plague of his sisters. As
a man, he is the tyrant and tormentor
of bis household, "if he runs to prig
gUhness, he makes his children's lives
a burden to them because of fractions
and declensions ; if he is an athlete, he
maybe ruins them for all time by the
brutal vigor of his training ; if he is ef
feminate, he interferes with the maid, j
takes the reins of domestic government
out of bis wife's hands, orders the din
ners, and looks after the children '-ke
an Indian bearer or a supernumerary
Durse, Ho is at all times the mosquito
of the establishment buzzing here,
stinging there, creating fever and irri
tation everywhere ; making one wonder
for what purposo such as he are
sent into the world at all, and what
good end they subserve. , In politics,
the restless obi'.roctive and the pert
querist, the oppositionist for the sake of
opposition, and insolent to the extremcst
point, ho keeps things alive in the sense
in which a fire of thorns can make the
water boil. But suppose you want the
water to be cool and fresh and still,
what good then does your crackling fir
of thorns? Is it not a hindrance rather
tkan a help? and a bane instead of a
blessing?
No! view him how we may, we are
forced back to the name position the
human mosrjuito is a mistake in anthro
pology, and in no sense a creature to he
preserved for its uses in the general
economy. Whon we shall have mended
all tho moral fractures and put society
straight and square, then will there be
no room for the human mosquito; and
the force expressed in his ugly energies
now, will have merged into nobler and
better forms. Meanwhile, seeing that
fighting is useless and all defence-work
illusory, we must bear him with what
patience we can command no other
moral catholicon having yet been dis
covered able to heal the hurts made by
the creature in its attacks. And per
hapswho knows? patience being in
itself one of the sweeter virtues it Is in
the teaching and the exercise of this to
his fellow-men that tho human mosquito
has his raison d'etre Chambers' Jour
nal. GENERAL GRANT.
Ill Connection With the Wall Street Af.
fair Mot Generally Understood.
Thero has always been a matter of
wonder that so intimate afriend of Gen
eral Grant's as Anthony J. Drexel,
tho keen and wealthy banker,
of this city, did not steer him
away from the whirlpool of Wall
Street. As a matter of fact tho General
thought that he was simply a special
partner to tho extent of $50,0X1 with
Ward, and that the operation was an
ordinary business one, and he did not
discuss it with Mr. Drexel. There are
a good many things indeed about this
Wall Strect'horror that are not gener
ally known. To a friend who warned
tho General that Ward's scheme was
visionary, and that no business could
yield such profits as were promised,
Grant repeated that in anv event he was
liable only to tho extent of $50,000, and
added, "i'here are able and experienced
business men who are engaged with
Ward. They would not be likely to take
part in any foolish scheme. Ward has
a smelting machine in Colorado, too,
that yields very largo profits." The
General, at Ward's suggestion, put some
capital in the Colorado enterprise. Ac
counts were presented monthly and sub
mitted to Senator Chaffee. The Senator
did not knowanything about this particu
lar machine, but he knew that there were
a few concerns of a similar sort in Col
orado reputed to be making money, and
tho accounts presented by Ward were
cheering. General Grant, however,
withdrew his capital from tho smelting
enterprise and put it with tho rest into
the N all Street business. Long after
wards a relative of Ward called on him
and said: "General, I want to tell you
that Ward is a rascal. He never had a
snieltitig-inaehinc of any kind in Colo
rado. His representation that ho had
was fraud, and tho monthly accounts
that ho submitted to vou were all cooked
ii)."
The hold that Ward got upon General
Grant was so absolute as to seem almost
incredible. He robbed not only the
General but the General's family and
relatives as well. For example, here
are sotno facts and figures that have
never before been made public: The
house on Sixty-sixth Street in New York
that was bought for General ("rant
chiefly by gentlemen of Philadelphia
was valued at $75,K)0. It was ascer
tained that there was a mortgago upon
it for $-t."i,iHMi. The mortgage for some
reason could not lie removed at once,
and a check for the amount was placed'
in the General's hands. Ward by skill
ful maneuvering soon managed to get
hold of the check. Before the failure
General Grant made over to his wife a
quarter of the $10,00 which he derives,
after certain payments, from the trust
fund of jfe'.IO.OOt) raised for his benelit
Ward got that. too. He also succeeded
in gettiug $12,000" that Nellie Grant had
saved up from her pin-money; $:'.").IHKI
from Mrs. llonore. of Chicago. Fred
Grant's mother-in-law; $ti,000 of the
savings of Mrs. llonore' s daughter Ida,
Fred's wife; and $2o,000 from Mrs.
Kractner, the General's sister, besides
the thousands that he got from General
Grant, Ruck, and the rest of his victims.
When the crash came the Grants had
been so completely bled that they had
less than $loo in 'cash, among them.
Philadelphia Cor. Chicago Tribune.
A correspondent sends the follow
ing ace Mint of a mistake made bv a
littlo girl in his vicinitv. She always
joins I lie ianiuy in renting ine wnpi
ures during the family devotions, taking
her verse in turn. She easily reads the
shorter words, but needs some ! elp on
the longer, but is alwavs eager to pro
nounce all the words herself and some
times guesses. Recently it came her
turn to read the verse: "Xo man can
serve two masters, for cither ho will
hate the one and love the other, or else
he will hold to the one and despise the
other. Ye cannot serve God ani Mam
mon." She made a slight variation at
the end and finished the verse: "Ye
cannot serve God and women." CAi
eajo Tribune.
A young man in Abbeville, S. C.
suffering from pneumonia, called in a
physician, who left him a small vial of
veratrum. to be taken internally, and
a liniment composed of hartshorn, tur
pentine and chloroform for external ap
plication. The patient reversed the
directions, swallowing the liniment and
the next day was well. Louisville
Courier-Journal.
m
Vr Ynrk harher nut mintaehes
In curl papers in order to give them a
linn rnrl bv the time their owners have
been shaved or had their hair cut
CANCER.
The Life HUlory or Epithelioma or the
Tongue.
Although scirrhous carcinoma of the
tongue is occasionally met with, the
most Important of the neoplasms of
that organ is epithelioma, the natural
history of which has a special iuf t
at this time, In connection with the
case of a distinguished citizen, in
which minute examination has dis
closed that tho disease is a cancer of
that type.
Lingual epithelioma, as a rule, rap
idly progresses toward a fatal termina
tion. When left to itself, tho life of
the patient from tho first appearance
of the disease varies, in accordance
with the estiraatesof different observers,
from 10.5 to thirteen months, tho av
erage being 11.7 months. Ih-ath en
sues, first from the generalization of
the disease; secondly, fronisentie pneu
monia, from the inhalation of the pu
trid emanations which result from tho
decomposition of the products of the
ulcerated surtace; th r lly, from starva
tion, through the pressure of tho in
fected lymphatic glind i and surround
ing parts upon the ces eihagus, there
by interfering with deglutition, and
lastly, from hemorrhage proceeding
from the ulcerated lingual arteries, or
the vessels of tho neck.
Tho duration of life of those who
survive an operation averages nineteen
months. Not only !o 's operative in
terference prolong life and relieve suf
fering, but it effects a final cure in four
teen per cent, of all cases. In attain
ing those results it must, however, be.
remembered that excision of the tongue
is attended with a mortality of twenty
three per cent., tho principal dangers
being shock, hemorrhage, o dema of
the glottis, septic lung affections,
pvicniia and erysipelas, some of which
risks can be avoided by taking careful
precautions during tho operation, and
by the perfecting of antiseptic meas
ures during and after the procedure.
When, in nddition to disease of the
tongue itself, the palate and the tonsil
are involved, the prognosis is far more
grave, whether tho disease be permitted
to pursue an unaided course, or whether
it be subjected to the knife. In the lat
ter event, not only will the tongue have
to be extirpated, but the disease of the
palate and tonsil will have to be
reached cither by Langenbeck's or
Mikulicz's method of operation. In
the former, the jaw-bono is divided
just in front of tho masseter muscle,
while, in the latter, tho ramus of the
jaw is resected. For carcinoma of the
tons'd alone temporary seecion of the
inferior maxilla has been practiced by
Cheever, Gensmer and Von Hergmann.
InCheever's case tho disease continue 1
to progress; in Gensmcr's t icre was
freedom from recurrence for thirty
three months, wh le we nre not aware
of the fate of Von Hergmann' s patient.
In Mikulicz's case of resection of the
ramus tho patient was well at tho ex
piration of six months.
So far as we can learn there is no ex
ample of the performance of tho double
operation on record, and it is, in our
opinion, not justifiable. Tho only
ava lablo measures arc those directed
toward tho relief of suffering, the pre
vention of septio complications and
supporting the powers of the system.
Should dcglut;t'o:i be greatly interfered
with gastrostomy might be resorted to,
but this procedure, under the circum
stances, is of such a quest'onable na
ture that the prudent surgeon would
doubtless not take it into cons'dera
tion.I'hilnlelphia Medical Journal.
GRANT'S SELF-CONTROL.
Mow He Kestrmlneil II Appetite tor Smok
ing at the IleRlniiliiK of Hi Dlsritae.
His extraordinary power of self-control
has not been lessened by his dread
ful malady, death, from which, as Dr.
Da Costa of this city, who first attend
ed him, said the other day, "was the
most terrible in the world." Tho dis
ease first made itself apparent last Juno
while the General wits at his villa at
Long Branch. Whileeating fruit at
lunch ho felt a lump in the roof
of h s month. Ho mentioned the
fact to Mr. George W. Chihls,
whose cottage adjoins his, t io
lawns being in common. Dr. Da
Costa, whose brother-in-law was chief
of Grant's medical staff, was visiting
Mr. Chllds. and at the hitter's sugges
tion he tidied on the General. Having
examined the throat he advised Gen
eral Grant to consult Dr. Fordyce Mar
ker, his family physician, at one;-. The
General made littlo complaint
about the matter after that untl
autumn. Your correspondent, who
was then correspondent for the
Tribune at Long Hraneh, was at
the General's house and met him fre
quently dining out, but the old soldier
did not for weeks again refer to the
malady, which all the while was in
creasing its burning, choking forces,
due afternoon in early September,
however, the General quietly inqu red
of Mr. a'hilds: "What did Dr. Da Costa
say about my throat?" Then, for the
first t me, Mr. Childs, who, like all of
the other fr ends of the General at Long
Branch, thought that the adinent had
disappeared, had his suspicions
aroused. Dr. Da Costa was seen ag;vn
by Mr. Childs and tsked whether the
disease could be incipient cancer. The
physician avoided a direct answer, but
repeated that the General should sec
his family phys cian immediately. It
was not until almost the bust week in
IVtober that the old soldier thought it
necessary to consult Dr. Harker. What
he suffered in tho intervening mouths
only he can tell. In addition to his
other troubles, he ha I a severe attack
of neuralgia, and upon the advice f
his dentist had four teeth extracted,
so that now nearly all his teeth are
cone, li s physicians r-conimcn I th.it
He sdiould limit his smo' ing U the
first half of three cigars a day. Hav
ing followed this advice for a few days
he gave up smoking, the habit and so
lace of a lifetime, altogether.
His control over his appetite was
such that he showed none of the
craving that might be looked for in
an inveterate smoker abruptly giving
up the indulgence of years. Before
be fell upon a New Vork sidewalk,
an accident that was the l-cginning
of his physical troubles, he was
broad, robust and we ghed nearly 200
pounds. tor. Chi aj1) Inhune.
SHE MEANT BUSINESS.
4 Woman Who Wouldn't Stmnd Anjr Non
ene from Her Untighter1 Lover.
"You see," she was explaining to a
lowyer, after beating his counsel fee
down to three dollars, "I have a daugh
ter Maria,"
"Yes'm."
"Maria has a beau."
"Exactly."
"Has been waitin' on her for six
years.
"I see."
"And I've been waitin1 on him for
tho same length of time waitin' for
bim to marry her."
"Just so, ma am.
'How long should a couple spark?'
"Well, that deuends. It takes some
folks a long time to make up their
minds."
"Isn't three years long enough?"'
"I should think so."
"Ami I irnvfl bim six. I've been tret-
ting madder hud madder for tho last
threo months, and finally last night I
could not hold in any longer. I went
into the parlor and thero he was,
giggling and winking and loving around
same as five years ago. There was
Maria, simpering and cackling and act
ing like the same fool she a lus was.
Don't talk to mo! A gal can bring a
beau to time inside of two years if she's
got any marry in her. You didn't fool
away six years?'1
"No m.
"Nor I, either. Well, I stood it as
loner as 1 could, and when 1 went into
the room says 1 to WilJiam, says I:
" 'William, you ve sot anu sot, ana
it's mv duty as a mother to know if you
intend to marry Maria.'
"Maria she give a screech, and Will
iam he turned liery red, but says I:
"If you love why don't you marry?
If you are hanging around here to pass
aw'av time vou'd better skip!"
"Well, William coughed and gasped
and stuttered around, and said he
wanted to write to his ma, in Iowa."
"Your ma in Iowa!" says I, feeling
my dander climbing up. "Mebbe you
uiu't weaned yet!" .
"Then he soys ho couldn't be bull
dozed, and that "one objection to marry
ing Maria was having me for a mother-in-law.
Then the cyclone broke loose.
Al-o, the whirlwind. Also, two or three
earthquakes. Inside of four minutes
Maria had fainted, William was a wreck,
and we had upsot the stove and broke
throe chairs. He como to and slipped
out while I was holding camphor tc
Maria's nose, and I've heard to-day thai
ho is after a warrant for me for assault
with intent to kill. Can he get one?"
"Yes'm."
"Can ho do anything?"
"Well, you want a jury."
"Sarlin sartin. I'll go before a jury
and tell 'em how he and Maria have sot
and sot for seventeen hundred nights
how I've had to be soft on him how
I've poked up Maria to bring him to
time how I stood it and stocd it until
sunthin' had to break how it cost me,
$200 for fuel and oil how, but that's all.
If they are men they can't find no ver
dict ngin me."
"Xo m."
"Well, I'll go home and wait Maria
lies there sighing and weeping, and
there's tho stove to put up and the
cha;rs to mend, and if William gets the
warrant I'll let you know. His nit iu
Iowa! I'll let him know that some
body's ma in Detroit is alive and kick
ing "and alius on deck!" Detroit free
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A CUBAN CITY.
The Ynl:ie' Opinion of Santiago de Cuba.
Santiago do Cuba is a very strange
city. The houses and stores are so
built that the walls can be almost en
tirely thrown open, while the interior
have courts that are unroofed aud un
obstructed to the sky. The money of
the coun'ry is strange, and nothing
about the city is familiar to an Amer
ican. A real Yankee just lauded spoke
as follows:
"Somehaow I can't tell when I'm in
doors and when I'm aout I've got a
room, or sonicthin', in a hotel here, and
I've b.en into it, quandarying araound,
but I could not tell when I was iu tho
parlor or when I was in the kitchen or
back yard, so I'm standin' aout here in
tho park not to make any mistake. 1
started daown the street a minute ago,
but I got afraid I m;ght make a mistake
ami git arrested for bciu' found insonie
bodv's back parlor.
I've got a lot of the money of the
place, but I can't make heads nor tails
M it. I took some of it back whar I got
it, and passed it over the same couuter
-so I reckon its genuine.
"I could write the history of the place
already. All I need is the dates. It
was evidently built the year after the
flood; it's been shook down by auearth
iiiake, burned up by a volcano, reset
tled, and left just as 'twas found. The
uholo countrv is best where's it's been
let alone. Wherever the people hev
touched it they hov made a mess of it"
Portland Transcript.
Bay Windows in Railway Cars.
The bay window parlor cars differ
from the old style parlor car in many
Important detals. The bay window
feature is tho most striking point of
ii:i'erence to the casual observer. In
stead of the ordinary flat wiudows,
;hese cars are fitted with a series of five
bay wiudows, each about seven feet
w.de and a trille higher than usual.
They are composed of a central light
ibout three feet wide, from which two
less lights dctlect in contrary directions.
There is no projection beyond the outer
line of the car, bin the central light
(alls within the in'erior line of the car's
side, and the dellection of the wings be
ing inward there is no extension beyond
the limit of safety. The full effect of
this novel arrangement can only be
gained from tho interior, where in
creased lighting surface, unusual facili
ties for observation and other marked
advantages readily appear as the re
Milts of the improvement Thiladclphia
Tines.
m
"Derailed bv a Sun Kink" is the
picturesque heading which an enterpris
ing newspaper uses for an account of
lars being thrown oft the track by the
xpansion of the rails from the sun's
beat
The Irish Poet.
JOUlf BOTXB O'BEILLT.
Few men have had a mora romantic
career than John Boyle O'Reilly, the poet
editor of the Boston Pilot Born in Ireland
in 1844, he was from early youth a revolu
tionist, and his restless disposition caused
him to leave home early. lie went to Eng
land, became a printer and reporter on
papers in the manufacturing districts; here
he acquired that sympathy for the workman
that still clings to bim, At the age of 19 be
enlisted in the British army, not to fight for
England, but to learn to fight for Irelani
For three years he drilled and plotted, till
at last be was suspected, tried and con
demned to imprisonment for life. This sen
tence was afterward commuted to twenty
years. The prisons in England being full,
be was transported to Australia, that land,
as Mr. O'Reilly ay, "Blessed by God and
blighted by man." Here he planned es
cape, attempted it and was caught several
times. Finally be succeeded in getting
to sea in an open boat After days
of privation he was picked up by
an American whaler and devrted himself
heartily for the next six months to the pur
suit of whale catching. He had made such!
warm friends of every one on boat . that the
captain to further his plans transferred bim
to a ship bound for Liverpool, giving bim
papers of a shipwrecked sailor and twenty
one guineas f r pocket money. Finding it
dangore remain in Liverpool he came to
America, wrote a few magazine article and
drifted to Boston without knowing a friend
in the New England states. His poems,
which were e: gcrly purchased by the maga
tines, soon brought him friends and made
him famous. This was in :70. He secured
a position on the Pilot of which be now
owns a quarter interest and Is -ts sole editor.
As president of the Papyrus and Press clubs,
of Boston, he has drawn around him many
of the most brilliant young writers of the
time, a favorite resort of theirs being his
home in Charlestown, which, owing to his
wife, is a model of good taste and comfort
Mr. Reilly is a lover of manly sports and
through his magnificent physique is able to
excel in many ot them.
"Old Uoey.
WILLIAM 8. BOSECRA.NS.
Gen. William 8. Rosecrans is probably the
leading Democrat in congress from the
Pacific slope. He was born in 1819, at
Kingston, O. ; began life as a civil engineer,
was a professor at Wost Point prior ti the
rebellion, when he joined M.C'lellan as a
major-general of volunteers; took part in
the operations in western Virginia; army of
the Mississippi, Juna and Corinth; Murfrees
boro; Chlckaniauga; department of the
Missouri in 1S04; mustered out of volunteer
service ISliC, and resigned his position of
brigadier-general in the regular army in
1807; minister to Mexico in 165-69. His
name was mentioned for the vice-presidency
at the lu.. Democratic convention.
At the recent conference of tho
Jewish ministers in New York City, it
was reported that the Jewish syna
gogues are increasing every year.
Rhode Island occupies only one
thousand square miles of territory, but
it has about nine hundred schools, with
about eighty per cent of the children of
school age iu them.
Fifty-six new Baptist Sunday
schools were organized in North Caro
lina during the year 18S4. many of them
in communities where no other religious
services whatsoever are held. .V. 1.
Examiner.
A clergyman in Boston a man
well versed in the Bible, devout earnest,
a good worker and a fair preacher is
a settled pastor over a church which
pays him only $12 a week, and that is
his whole salary. Bonton Traveller.
Mortimer F. Reynolds, of Roches
ter. N. Y.. has given' $-25,000 to the Uni
versity of Rochester for a chemical lab
oratory, as a memorial of his brother,
William A. Reynolds, who was a mem
ber of the Board of Trustees.
The University ot Virginia recently
dedicated an observatory and telescope
presented by Leander J. McCormick, of
Chicago, at a cost of $75,000. The ob
servatory has an endowment of $');
000. one-half of which was given by W
II. Vanderbilt. Chicago Times.
A few weeks ago Solemn High
Mass was celebrated in Copenhagen for
the first time since the Reformation.
The occasion was the twentv-fifth anni
versary of the priesthood of Rev. John
Euch. 'Apostolic Prefect in Copenhagen.
Complete religious toleration now exts
in Denmark.
Dr. Moorehouse, Bishop of Mel
bourne, has refuses to order prayers for
rain in his diocese. His lordship gves
as his reason that, before complaining,
people should do something themselves
towards storing up the superfluity in the
wet season against the drouth.
An Illinois doctor thinks he has
found a sure cure for rheumatism in
geranium leaves. Perhaps he argues
on the principle that like cures like; for
spooning over geraniums in the garden
after dark during the summer is s
favorite way of catching the disease
with many susceptible young persons.
l.o'idl Citizen.