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EUGENE CITY GUARD. f.L.CAnriirxii, Proprietor, EUGENE CITY. OREGON. ; THE HUSBAND DETHRONED. II IU the monarch of realm, Where all obeyed my (way, Until thla young usurpor came I And took mjr crown away. H la a den, ot: bis desire Of power nHiirht can cloy. ' Who la tblt tyrant, do you atkf lie it our baby boy. , Mr motbere, alatera, brothers, all Of old looked up to me, Tot I before thla new-crowned king Am a nonentity. ' yor now they par tbelr court to him; My empire melts awar. "The King Is dead I Long live tbe King I" ! Meiblnke 1 bear them aay, If r wife, who oiu e apoke English well, And used to talk with me Quite sensibly, speaks gibberish Tbe tongue of Infancy; Thla uncouth laniruuire she tnslste The baby understands; But I can not quite comprehend , How paltut can mean hands. Although thla tytannout youth hat made HIS father abdicate , Tnt I, at ttranyn at it may teem, Witb (truce accept my fate; No subject such unselfish lore I To monarch evei gavo; I am bis humble servitor Hit most obedient tlave. !f. T. Ltdgtr. POOR .1 "BUT" MAN. Bomethlrgr Lacking to Gain Suc cess and Happiness. One of the best-known men in Now York is the Colonel. Everybody who has lived long enough in the city to know Broadway from the Bowery bag eon him a score of times or more, and those who have lived in hotels or board ing houses are intimately acquainted with him. The appearance of the Colonel varies with circumstances. Hit) usual age is somewhere in the elghborhood of fifty years. He is sometimes tall and beardod, sometimes abort and smoothly shaven, but he is always a shrewd observer, a ready talker, and has a fund of information at bis command which canio to him largely from observation. His name also shares the variable quality of his appearance. Ho is often doctor, not infrequently Major, sometimes Gen eral, and most generally plain mister, bnt for the purpose of idnntiliuation in tiiis case he is Colonel, iifty years of age, tall, neatly formed, with the easy bearing of a man of the world, shrewd in his observations and communicative to a degree It was at a side table in a cozy chop house, Just off Broadway above Madi son Square, to bo particular, that the Colonel sat one evening a short time ago with the writer for his vis-a-vis. "Speaking of different types of peo ple we moot in boarding houses," said the Colonel, "did you ever know a 4ut ' nionP" "A 'but' man?" "Yes. Ho is one of the commonest f all tho men I know. You meet him eworywhore." "Not by that name though?" "Well, perhaps not. Ho is generally a moderately good fellow. He has some weakness though, some damnging fault which blights his career and is impressed invariably by this qualifying conjunction. He is always described aa 'a very nice fellow, but,' or 'a very good business man, but.' Of course you have heard of him. Ho is typical In all countries and in every rank of life. Great Generals, commanding statesmen, und wen inoimrel.s have toppled and fallen below the lowest levels of humanity on account of the one fatal omission in their characters denoted by this potent monosyllable. "I know a young man," continued the Colonel, "whom I will call George.' Ho was a winning fellow, with a bright, haqy, cheerful, sunny temperament which lightened tho at mosphere of every room ho entered. His face was handsome, open und In genuous as a child's. He was tidy in bis dross, an easy talker and generally managed to say something entertain ing. So, soon after ho engaged a hall bodroom in our boarding house he bo oniuo a prime favorite with everyone. Even the silent husband of our little, over-worked landlady liked him, and tiiia was a compliment shared by no one else In the house. "I took great interest in the boy and ho made a confidant of me to an extent Hi at was oftentimes burdensome, for wo none of us care about assuming the entire control of our acquaintances, however much we may like them. George whs employed in a wholesale dry goods house as entry clerk not an important place in itself, but one likely to lead to something bettor. He was a fairly good entry clerk, too, barring a alight tendency to carelessness and a lack of interest in tho details of his work. The head of the firm was Mr. Caldwell, dead these many years, I am orry to say. He had occasion to see a good deal of George, and oue day, when there was a vacancy in tbe of fice, he translated him from tho base ment to a desk in tho glass-walled room on the main floor. George was highly elated with the change and con fided to mo that he was on the high road to success, as ho picturesquely put it; 'All I have to do now is to reacn out my hand and pluck fortune from the stem where it grows.' And so it looked to me. Mr. Caldwell was gen erous, wealthy, and had a habit of ad vancing his employes as far and as rapidly as they could go. George re mained in the otllce a year or more without making any particular ad vancement. He did his work fairlv well, but in spite of this he was not ad vanced to anything better, When the tiay'a work waa light he spread it over the seven hours he was iu the office, and when it was heavy he managed to finish it within the tame specified time. This was strictly just to (he firm, but the fact remained that after two years' aorvice he was absolutely unacquainted with anything else than the duties which appertained to his own position. During this time Gcoige managed to become acquainted with Mr. Cald well's motherless daughter Mildred, a obanniug, vivacious girl, full of life and spirits. . She often camo to hor father g ofllce and George was so enter taining, as he well knew how to be, that an Intimacy sprang up between them, and in the course of time he be- came a regular visitor at the merchant residence, with Mr. Caldwell's entire consent, for he never denied hla daugh ter any wish which should not be in dulged, and George was a gentleman both by breeding and instinct. When the merchant observed, as be 'did in time, that his daughter was beginning to think rather more of bis clerk than she did of her other friends, and he too took an added interest in the young man, in a variety of ways ho snowed his friendship to the boy. George was not unmindful of this, but with good taste he never attempted to impose upon him, but continued modestly at his work, content to wait for what the future might bring forth. "After George had been in the office three years a vacancy in the position of European buyer occurred, and he men tioned the fact to Mildred. " 'Why don't you speak to papa about it?' she said. 'I will,' he replied. " 'He likes you. I know ho does, and you have certainly been there lonr, enough to expect something better than the work you are doing.' " 'Yes, you are right,' answered tbe young man. 'I will speak to him to morrow. Because you know, Mildred, dear, I have reasons for wanting to get along faster than I am doing.' "The girl blushed, as girls do, you that night filled with rose-colored hopes, know how, and George left the bouse and the future looked to nira like a gorgeous rainbow. So beautiful are the hopes of the young. The next day at noontime George ventured to address Mr. Cald well upon the subject nearest his heart. After listening to him patiently, the merchant replied kindly : "'I am sorry, George, but I am afraid you are hardly well enough acquainted with the business.' " 'Haven't I been here long enough, fir, and done ray work well enough?' " 'Yes, you have certainly been here long enough, but I am afraid you have not learned enough of the business. That was what my partner and I thought whon we talked about the matter last week, so we have decided to send Mr. Jones.' " 'Mr. Joneg 1' gasped poor George. 'Why, ho has only been here three years all told, and was my assistant entry clerk when I came into the of fice.' '"I know that, George,' replied the morchant, 'but he has managed to pick up a good general knowledge of the business and he has a faculty for learn ing what he isn't called upon directly to Know, and we concluded he was the best man in the store for tho place' "That was a sad day for Georgo. He looked the picture of misery when he came home that night, and even con templated leaving the store and going out West 'whore he could have a chance,' as ho expressed it to me. I consoled him the best way I could, for I sympathized with him in his disap- fiomtmont, but I am afraid it did him ittlu good. "To cut the story short," continued the Colonel, "live years later George was still at tho same desk in tho same oflice. Mildred had nover married, and they were as muoh in love with each other as ever, but he had nover asked for her hand from her father. He had never made advancement enough in the business to warrant such a request. They were both young and ho was very patient. Finally tiring of delay they agreed one day that he should speak to the merchant upon the subject, so tho next evening George met the merchant by appointment in his study. "'I want to speak to you about a matter of the gravest importance to both of us,' observed the young man after an awkward pause. "'Yes?' replied tho merchant, en couragingly. i our daughter.' "'Well?' U'. Ui each other, sir,' said George, mpulsivuly, 'and I want to marry. , '"This George,' is not unexpected to me, responded the merchant gravely. '1 have been waiting for either you or her to speak about it for several years. I like you, George,' he went on, while George's faco lighted up with hope, 'I have never met a young man who appealed to me more directly. You are honest, faithful, and, on some accounts, I think you would make Mildred a good husband.' " 'Thank you, sir,' exclaimed George, gratefully. " 'But what I was about to say,' con tinued Mr. Caldwell, 'is this: On some accounts you would make her a good husband. But I am afraid 1 shall nave to refuse my permission. You are a good fellow, George, a good clerk, an honest employe, but ' Benjamin Xorthrup, in N. Y. Uraphic The Widows of India. Lady Dufferin's great plan for the improvement of the condition of wo men in India has met with tho encour agement it deserves; but we are sadly ignorant of the real position of a Hin doo woman. In India the Education Committee state that there are twenty one million widows, and a large pro portion of these are children between five and fifteen. A Hindoo lady, her self emancipated from the bondage of her caste, has written to the Times of Imiia in very forcible language on the subject of enforced widowhood, and painting in sadly true colors the terri rible position which a widow holds in India it is a positive stigma. The sight of one draws forth a curse from the orthodox Hindoo, and she is de graded to coarse food and menial work in the household. A man may marry many wives, aud probably does; but a woman, once a widow, must remain so all her life, be the a child of tender years or a woman of sixty. London Sort. m a When Mandalay was built the king (of Burraah), in order to render it im pregnable, buried seven young women alive under each of iu eight gates. The superstition did not avail King Ihoebaw, who was too much of an old woman himself to test its efficiency by defending hit capital. Bottom Journal GERMANY'S NEW ISLANDS. Interesting Information Concerning the Marshall and Gilbert Group. The Rev. Dr. Jud'son Smith, D. D., Junior Foreign Secretary of the Amer ican Board of Commissioners for For eign Missions, wae interviewed recent ly in regard to the seizure of the Man shall and Gilbert group of islands in the South Pacific Mr. Smith stated that he had received an intimation some time since that a seizure of the islands by some European Power, most probably Germany, would likely take place shortly. Although the mission aries and other agents of the Board bad been chiefly instrumental in elevat ing the natives of the group to their present state of civilization, and oftea tendered their counsel In the govern ment of the islands, still it could not exactly be said that the Mission bad ever laid any olaims to the real propri etorship of the islands, either in their own or the name of the United States. True, they had done their utmost to foster trade with tho group with satis factory success, and naturally souglit as much as possible to direct that trade in American interests, but outsido f this they allowed the natives to govern themselves. Foreigners upon tie islands were few. The missionaries have for years past been almost tie exclusive representatives of the .white race. He did not know what'.fectib'n tho Board would take, if it took any at all. Ho did not think tho German finvfrnmimt would 1n aiiv war inter fere with their work outside of divert ing the trade of the Islands into Ger man channels instead of those of the United States, as formerly. In conclusion, Dr. Smith gave some very interesting information about the Gil bert Group. Although lying immedi ately in the center of what is known as the cannibal region, the natives have never been known to be cannibals. and in intelligence have been consider ably above the natives in the neighbor ing islands. Tho Gilbert Group is com posed of a number of islands, tho eight lareer ones being named Butarrtan, Maraker, Apaiang, Tarawa, Maiana, Apemama, Nanonti and lupitenea. These islands aro tire scat of govern ment, eaoh being ruled independently by a native chief. These chiefs have no connection politically with each other except in case of war, wnnn tney unite for the common safety. The en tire group does not number in all over twenty-five thousand persons, of whom two thousand six hundred and fifty are Christianized members of the church. The report for the last year stows that on the islands there arefluven mission aries from the Hawaiian Group and six from Kusai, the headquarters of the Mission Board in Micronesia. There are thirty-eight church buildings and twelve teachers. The deaths were forty-three and the Christian marriages four hundred. The Board of Missions has a school established at Kusai, one of the Caroline Islands, tome five hundrod miles to the westward of the Gilbert Group, and here every year are brought a number of young natives who wish to be educated as teachers or preachers. Whon they have oompletod their course the missionary vessel the Morning Star takes tbom to tho vari ous islands to which they belong, and brings back such others as desire to bo educated, it is due to this that the in fluence of the missionaries has been almost supreme. Boston Journal, A CHINESE BARBER. IIow lie Manipulates Ills Raaors, Tweetera and Scrapers. One of the most important person ages In Mott street, New York, is Lee Ah, the Chinese barber. Unlike his American colleagues, ho does the larger part of his business in the stores or res idences of his customers. The chair is a low three-legged stool, on which the customer sits bolt upright. Coat, waistcoat, nocktie and collar aro re moved, and a common long cloth put around tho neck. The face and throat are washed with perfumed water and dried with a soft towel, any remaining moisture being removed by a vigorous tunning. I he shaving that follows re sembles our own styles, except that almost no lather is used. After going over the face aud throat, Lee shaves the back of the neck and tho temples, and if the eyebrows aro irregular cuts away onough hairs to produce tho sym metry desired. The second part of tho operation is what he prides himself upon, lho razor is dried and putaway; from his kit he produces two small ear razors, callipers, tweezers, scrap ers and sponges, and with these pro ceeds to embellish tho cars. He first shaves off the down on the outside, and then with a dextrous sweep of the wrist the hair on the inside of the ear. Tho blade of this car razor is about as large as a match, and is concaved al most into a crescent. The sensation it pleasant rather than otherwise. With his other instruments he rubs and pol ishes the ear until its color is bright pink. Tho third part of the job is a Swedish movement cure on a small scale. Tho muscles of the face, scalp and throat are kneaded, pinched and pulled, even the eyelids being exer cised. Then the large muscles of the arms and trunk are alternately flexed and extended, the tinsrer iointa "cracked" and the head twisted into a dozen positions. The finishing touch consists in being patted and pounded with Lee's fist and open hand, from the top of the head to tho small of the back, and. the job is complete. Time, thirty minutes; cost, "hap dollee." Christian at Work "Remember, Mr. Crimsonbcak, that there are older ones than you at the table," said Mrs. Shavepcnny, in reply to a remark the gentleman at the head of the table made. "I am pain fully well aware of the fact, ma'am," was Crimsonbeak'g only reply, as he shut his teeth and mado another at tempt to saw the bird. Yonkars States man. Han Qua, ohicf banker of Canton, China, is worth one billion and four hundred million dollars. Great Csrsar! What a vision of Han Qua chiefs, shim and things that calls op Binghamp- Ion Republican. A tramp when arrested gave his residence aa "all over." y. Y. Sun. GERMAN-AMERICANS. Indnstrloua and FruBl I'eople Who IIa Done Much for the West. The German settler is not over par ticular about tho quality of his land, so long as hi title to it is clear. If he can find a good tract of prairie land, at a fair price, he buys it; if not, he goes into the woods, "grubs out'.' a farm, acre by acre, and in the course of years securea a property which compares woll with that of bis prairio neighbor. It really does not seem to matter much with him whether the soil is good, poor or indifferent. If it is in tho slightest degree workable, he will make it pay, and pay well. There is something almost mysterious in his success. It would be called mysterious, were it not so common. But this phenomenon has been witnessed again and again in Wisconsin. Some portions of the State might never have been settled at all, had not the German immigrant found his way to them, and built his humble home, and broken the unpromising soil. But there he is, prosperous and contented, and his children are grow ing up around him. In some places he has caused the desert to blossom as the rose, and he does not seem to be grudge the years of hard toil that he baa spent in this effort. He is not afraid of work. His fathers always worked hard. Why should not he? The German is not given to launch ing out for himself, alone and single handed, in new aud untried enterprises. He is conservative in disposition. Furthermore, his social instincts are stronger than those of the American, and he will not isolate himself. Even if by living far apart from his countrymen he could owl richer land and more of it, ho would gen erally prefer to remain in the com munity which he and his neighbors have formed, enjoying its advantages and sharing its mishaps. With him society means a great deal. Had he not been assured of the society of his compatriots in the New World, no vis ions of broad acres would ever have tempted him to leave the fatherland. He builds up communities hero which are as distinctively Teutonic as any villages of Saxony or Wurtemberg. There are certain streets in Milwaukee, the German-American metropolis, on which one may easily imagine himself in the Prussian capital. There are towns in the interior of Wisconsin in which the predominating spoken lan guage In the stores and shops is Ger man. Because of this tendency to gather in communities, some people say that the German is clannish. And yet this accusation is hardly just. We do not make enough allowance for differences of temperament and tastes between him and us. He does not adapt himself easily to his surround ings. Amalgamation is a difficult problem with him. but in his slow, dc liberate way he is working out a solu tion. Despite his tenacious sooial no tionsand can we deny that they do him honor? ho is gradually letting down tho bars of nationality, and adapting himself to the conditions which he finds in the land of his adop tion. Take him as he is to-day, on his Wisconsin farm, and no one need de spair of his future. He has the making of the substantial American citizen and we can not doubt that time will complete the product satisfactorily. t THE PHANTOM SHIP. A Sailor's Tarn About Hia First Meeting With the Flying Dutchman. Sailors are proverbially a supertitious class, but among tho many supernat ural things in which Jack believes there is none better known than the tale of the Flying Dutchman. Tho story goes that in tho early days of the East India trade a vessel left Arast rdam bound for the Indies. She had fine weather until she reached tho vicinity of the Capo of Good Hope; when she encoun tered gales and head winds, against which she was unable to make head way. After trying for several weeks to round the Cape, the Captain, who was noted for his profanity, swore that ho would accomplish it if it took until the Day of Judgment. His oath waa heard, and to punish him for his pro fanity he was condemned to battle ceaselessly with the elements off the "Stormy Capo" until tho great trump shall sound which will arouse the dead. Many an old sailor has thrilling stories to tell A" his meeting with tho Flying Dutchman, and if these stories may bo believed a meeting with the phantom ship is a sure sign of wreck and disas ter. An old seaman who spent his early days in tho merchant service, but who is now a Captain in the United State Helpline Mnrine. in snpnl-ino- nf the phantom ship to a reporter said": "I well remember, the fright 1 once had on her account. I was a boy then, ou my first trip to sea, and the sailors speut all of their spare time in telling mo stories ol the sea, and particularly blood-curdling stories of the Flying Dutchman. We were homeward boniut from Manila at the time of my fright, and as we neared the (Jape, of Good Hope I began to think over the tale of the phantom ship, and by the time that we rounded tho Cape I had worked my self into such a state that the appear anee of a sail on the horizon would send a chill over my body. The sail ors noticed my condition and deter mined to have some fun at my expense. One night, during my watch on deck, soon after we had passed the Cape, one of the seamen touched mo on the shoulder and said: 'There's tho Flying . ...... . . J . n mitenman! l looked over the weather rail, and although we were under reefed topsails, I saw a large ship bear ing down on ua under a cloud of can vas. I stood with bated breath and with my eyes fixed on the ship until she had passed us and disappeared in we darkness to leeward. As she had neared ns my hair seemed to stand on end, and it was not until she was out of sight that I regained sufficient con trol of myself to speak. It was not until afterward that I found out that a ship running before the wind could carry sail with perfect safety that would swamp ship that was close-hauled. The men who bad been watching me were delighted with the success of their plan to frighten 'Greeny,' and it waa many a day before I heard the last of the Flying Dutchman." K. Y. Tri bune. .wu., TIDAL WAVES. The Tremendous Wt Which Bwept the Coasts of Chill and rem m moo. A former seaman, who was on board of the U. 8. flagship Powhatan, In Au gust, 18G8, at the time of the great tidal wave that swept the coast of South America, savs: "I noticed that the papers describing the explosion of 275,000 pounds of dyna mite at Flood Rock, say that the wave following the explosion was no more than the 'wash' of a Sound steamer. The conditions were not exactly those of an earthquake, but 1 can noi noip i,nf tha fnrpn nf an earth- quake must be immeasurably greater . ., . . I j nrtmn I num. than inai oi me uyuuuuio, ,.. pare this little wave with the great one which swept the coast of Chili and Peru in 1868. ' "I was on the Powhatan at the time, and we escaped destruction by the merest accident. Wo had been bound for Africa, but returned to Callao for r-nnl und while there were sheltered by the island San Lorenzo from the tidal wave, which, however, shook ns up cirlerahlv. The vessel 'boxed the compass' twenty-three times in as many minutes, but the anchor and chain cable held us fast. "Afterward we went down the coast to Arenuipa, Iquique, Arica and other towns that had been destroyed by the great wave. "Its size and force can scarcely be realized. ' At Arica the United States war shin Wateree was carried com pletely over the town and landed a long way inland. Only one man was lost from her, the vessel riding safely over the buildings, which were, of course, destroyed. "The captain of the mail steamer Santiago, lying in Tacna, seeing the wave approaching, ordered all hands below, battened down hatches and drove the vessel, under a full bead of steam, into the wave. Sho emerged safe on the other side, but with ner decks swept clean of masts, rigging, smokestack and everything else. Not a soul was lost. "But these were exceptional experi ences. Nearly all the vessels on the coast went down with all on board, and probably one hundred thousand people perished on land or sea by this terrible tidal wave. "It is assumed, of course, that this wave was caused by an earthquake under the sea; but what an awful con vulsion of nature it must have been to raise a wave that could sweep the shores of a continent, when the great est change of explosives ever fired by man only occasioned a wave compared by imaginative reporters to the 'wash of a steamboat.' " Qolden Days. i BURMESE PONIES. Where the Wonderful Equine Jumpers Come From. The famous Burmese ponies are not Burmese at all, but Shan, and are brought down from the confines of China, somo four or five hundred milos beyond our frontier. They are very sure-footed, and many of them are per fectly beautiful in symmetry. They are speedy for their size, and wonder ful jumpers; they are very docile, for they are like the pure Arabs handled from their birth, and only require shoe ing whon brought upon our macadam ized road.-f. They have a good deal of Arab blood in them, too, for a han has as keen an eye for a horse as a Yorkshireman, and many of them pur chased oflicors' Arab chargers in days gone by and took them to their own country. Tho ordinary Burman pony is very like the "tat" of India, but they get through a lot of work, and a Bur mau will prefer one of his own breed to that of tho Sbans probably because they cost a tenth of what is asked for tho latter; but they are hardier, and will live where a Shan pony would starve. The saddles, bridles and stir rups in use among the Burmese are very peculiar. A Burman rides prin cipally by balance; the knees are well away from the saddle, and when nec essary they hold on by their heels. Only the great toe is inserted in the stirrup. Ungainly and unsafe as ap pears their seat, they get over the ground wonderfully well and seldom i..ll i 'TM -11 1 , i . lan on. i lie pomes are un uiugui ui amble, and a good pacer will fetch a long price. All the lear Bound, m THE OPIUM HABIT. The Hold It Had Upon Samuel Taylor Cole ridge, the Great English Foet and Theo logian. In 1813 Coleridge's face was sallow, his eye wild, his band and step totter ing. Tho cause of his condition was no longer a secret. Cottle, as his old est friend, expostulated with him. Coleridge in answer discloses his dreary history. Ho wishes to place himself , in a private madhouse, and concludes: "You bid me rouse myself; go, bid a man paralytic in both arms to rub them briskly together and that will cure him. Alas!" he would reply, "that I can not move my arms is my complaint and misery." His sense of his degradation was keen. " Con ceive," ho writes, "a spirit in hell em ployed in tracing out for others a road to that heaven from which his crimes exclude him. In short, conceive what ever is most wretched, helpless, hope less, and vou will form a notion of my state." The sums which he spent in opium were large. Meanwhile he left l T i ,11, . . .. nis wue ana cnuaren to be mainly sup ported by friends, and his son Hartley was sent to college on alms collected by Southcy. He "never," wrote Southey in 1814, "writes to his wife or children, or opens a letter from them;" no uiu noi even answer the letter in which Southcy told him of the scheme for Hartley's education. He might have made money by his pen, buthe preferred to accept the charity of a Cottle. Edinburgh Review. a no uc3v wiuu iur a young man to take his girl sleighing is durinn a tv v, . -uiiung now storm. lie can then use both h: arms to hold hia e-irl in tha sleigh, and let the anow storm do the Two English l.ldlea ra Greek brigands a few months ago have bern released on the payment of a ran aom of twenty-five hundred dollars. -GENUINE ENTERPRISE,, ani.tf.M.utf'til Rn.ln... Sful , . ...i...,iu, or n. City Street Fed.llers. "Just watch that little game fa more is worsg as siiok as If ft ' greased," said the big polieem." front of St. Paul's Church vaster i ...v.-.mu reseyitf, Fifteen yards further down Brotd in the middle of the block, was a J young man with a big push cam vi uituu iuiiiuio, ui unties and cnrni which a bir nlacard nrnnl;..,j .. " o i i -'n;u ; the last of a bankrupt stock at half u t cost price." In frout of the Jrl which stood up against the curb I an ingenuous looking man with iV ulster and a well brushed silk hat bad just bought five hand mirron was looking at the brushes as the porter came up and began exaraini rhn "hnnkmnt ntnek " "Well, I declare! Did you ever anything so cheap?" exclaimed th. genuous man as he turned to the h porter. "Here they're sailing mirrors for twenty-five cents apie Real Venetian mirrors and solid br framos. lean tell that, for I wai i me importing uumncss once. fliev' worth one dollar apiece at the lov I've just bought hve. I'm goin k give uiio iu utj miu aim uno 10 cj, my girls." "You're right, sir," said the bri. young man behind the cart; "th! almost given away. Just look at . sir, and you, too, mauame," u J stopped wrapping up the parcel tmv uigenuous man, ana inrust one mirr into the reporter's hand and anott. into the hand of a lady iu a sealski; sacque who had heard tho culogiu ; the ingenuous young man and h stopped for a moment in an undecM, sort of a way. "Upon my word," continued tie jJ genuous man in an enthusiastic tot that floated forty feet away. "I neTJ saw anything like it yes, it g a rn ivory comb and a genuine ivory back-: English mado hair brush I've dealt j 'em myself. How much did you u my man? What! only a quit- apiece? You may wrap mo up four each, i never saw anything so ches; in my nio. J use given away; jf, given away is tne word, sir," uf again he turned his radiant count nance upon the reporter. The lady's doubts seemed dispell bv this emnhatio annroval and il bought a band mirror, brush and com A dry goods clork, who looked as if was going to see his best girl, mm splendent was he, waa also encouraM to the point of buying a mirror. This Bnop gins nuiterea up ana nougni ti hair brushes between tnem. MesH ger boys sprang up from nowhere it! stared. Small girls appeared my;:- rimialv anil travait with lnrriniy aviu , the mirrors and celluloid-tacked bii brushes. Before tho ingenuous nJ bad gotten bis change there wsti crowd of fifty people around the cr wanting to buy something. I "What's the game? I don't seeiK except that twenty-five cents is abc:: twice as much as those things s worth," asked tho reporter, whenh had at last disentangled himself fici the crowd. "You're not very fly," said the b policeman, pityingly; "that man i the ulster is only a 'capper.' Ue'U n on now ana wait tut this croa. i away and business gets dull &;.. Then the feller at the cart'll push down or up Broadway a block or t and the 'capper' '11 turn up again a buy a whole lot of things, lie U thuse about their quality and chi ncss and another crowd'll collect i buy a lot tumble? I tell yon. couple of fellers working that will sell as much as a good sized A will. I've seen that cart there enip: six times in a day. It's what It gen-u-iue enterprise.". Y. Beni ITALIAN ETIQUETTE. A Nationality Which la Not Given ts N mlllarlty. No one gets very intimate with a Italians. They are very warm-heart sociable and easy up to a certain poi.; there it ceases. Tho young dipom who live in Rome notice this; alt hod they have lost their costumes, U have kept their customs, and one these is a certain repellnnt atmosph when extreme intimacy is expert There is in Rome the moro's the p a slow vanishing of the pictures but although a Roman Princess n wear a modern gown, and retain nc ing of the past but her splendid jew sho is tho same proud lady that was, or that her great grandraoi! was, and she, like hor, vepels intimil or lamumrity beyond a certain po. One very important point is that It never wish to be touched. In i country a lady talking with anor will often lay her hand on her friw arm; this is considered a very f and objectionable familiarity by Italian. "Never touch the person is sacred," is an Italian proverb. lady in Italian society, to be t' polite, will shako hands wheu in"1 duced to an American tlie first ti; but she rarely extends her hand 4 second time; she makes a deep graceful courtesy. If her friend affliction, she comes, takes her bl and presses it to her heart; but ther nothing of the free, easy care" none of that intimate kissing, nott like the superficial intimacy, which observe between American wornc- Chicago Interior. 9 a A person struck by lightning & not know it. tho fluid being 01 quicker than thought The nerl wnicn convey pain are ratner in their power to convey inform Stick a pin in the tail of an elepb and quite a perceptible intcrval eff before the noble animal gives his of ion of the man or boy at the end of nervous svstpm nn trial. Liffh"1 does its work before the victim anvthino-. Two men wpra struck taking refuge under a tree. Both j carneu into me nonse, ana iai" . dead. One of the men revived after weeks of suffering and inarm he got out again, and is still He said that he knew no more havino hnon fif-mlr lis linhtnin & -"- "J "-o .. "1 Jf he waa consciong of having "Tea, fnra fh. flnwl Tf .11 neWS Wk1 when told of the fact Boston