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FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Hydrophobia h. unknown In Lap
land, bill Pasteur Inu just Bliovvn tlntt
-. dog limy bo inoculated with the dis
ease. M. Galignnni' aIms-houe for
broken-down men of litti;r I nearly
finirthiMl ut Neuilly, at a cost of several
million franc.
It id estimated tllHt lt least 25.0)i),.
000 fill"'' teeth urn in mi uf ;ict u - annti
nil -. Of tliin ninniint Iondoii alone
manufacture 10,000,000.
A daughter of Richard Cobden
wa t iiuM'ii Ui unveil H statue of Inn'
distinguished father, whirh linn just
been erected at Manchcter, hug.
M. Pasteur, being urged by hi
family to rest for a time from hi la
bor, replied: "When I am not work
r .. if ... I... ...... ut. Wtitw
111 1 Pn"!!! HI IllSaill W IIV iiriiiiiiiiviug
theft."
Marcus Jordan, of Iliclefcld, Khcn
lull Prussia, in tin oldest man in Ger
many. Ho ha -(nrilct-l IiIh 1071 It
year In sound health, ami read the
rrahlieil German letter without specta
cle.
Tli Raphael "I.a Vicrgeau Seln,"
which discovered aliout a year ago
in a dealer'" hIio) at Lausanne hy Prof.
Nieolie, who bought it for 8. ha Imm-ii
oold at (Geneva to a French collector for
LH,M).
Princes Louise ha a particular
charm of manner in dealing with
young children, who meet her over
ture with the instinctive confidence of
lillle one who know they have found a
friend.
One of the Urgcst, bird show of
llm neuron in a great hlid-cago show in
Loudon, iii which llm total number ot
bird exhibited i morn than l.'-' IH. Tho
crested canary form thn chief feat lira
of the canary exhibit.
Pivviou to IS?'.), when the city ob
tained its water from the Danube river,
typhoid lever win almost epidemic in
Vienna. In thai year they put up new
water work, and since that limn not
one ca-e ha- developed.
M. Paul dc Casagnae can light or
not a he please. An ollemled fellow
editor recently telegraphed to him: "
tdiall have the honor to scud yon my
ceonds to-morrow," and the lire-eater
coolly replied: "Yoii neeil not hohI
them, for I shall hot receive litem."
Several Russian engineers were re
cently tried on a charge of having de
fraudi'd I In (iovernmeul. Anions lliose
w ho were found guilty was the chief of
the department, Colonel Iti'i'iianl.
When he was put into the prison suit
and his decorations were removed from
his breast, lie was struck w itli apoplexy
and died on the spot.
-- "Grape cure" is practised in France
and (iei many in the Autumn, and is re
garded as a cure for many diseases due
to high feeding. The patient is given
n pound of grapes to cat the lirst day.
This amount is added to until the per
son can eat live or six pounds a day.
The other food Is gradually lessened,
mid the diet at last consists entirely of
grapes. It cures obesity and many
other complaints, and si arts the person
nil' on a new lease of life. Fruit is
necessary in a rational diet, and of im
mense value In dietetic medicine.
It is said that whenever an eruption
of the Itronio Volcano, Japan, takes
place, the natives, as soon ns the lire
(the molten lava no doubt it meant)
ponies dow n the mountain, kindle at it
the wood they use as fuel for cooking.
I'hcy keep In t In- lire thus made for
years, and . h never it goes out,
through neglect or for any other reason,
I hey never kim I it new from matches,
but they get a light from their nearest
neighbors, who.n tire was originally
obtained from lie' volcano. The tires
in use, up lo the latent outbursts, in the
unlive cooking places were all obtained
from the llroiui) eruption of IS;).'.
EGYPTIAN LUXURIES.
Ilia IMIrlmit ('iilTi-ft mnl Mimtlontj Nr-
dWIrli of lh,i Klii'illva' MtilOt'i'U.
Inquiry into th method uf preparing
the delicious inft'ee of pt coll'ee
nerved in minute cii;is, even smaller
than the after-di'iacr eoll'ee cups of
France and of tin saaie straight-sided
ithape - brought to light the following
facts:
First, th eoll'ee should be pure Mocha
from the little island so near out in llm
Mediterranean mid, Vy the way, It Is
almost impossible to get the real article
d'nice it is nil engage I years ahead.
Then (he coil'ee is ground as tine as
flour. Next, a small amount of the
I'olVee and the necessary amount of
nugar Is put into n bras or copp r yes
He I shaped exactly like an ordinary
baby's tin rattle, with the cover taken
o.Tofoneof the feet ends. The cup
thus formed and containing the
mixture of coffee and sugar
is tilled nearly full of water and Is held
ley the handle over the lire until
the eolfee boils; then It is w ithdrawn
Hud allowod lo cool a moment, and is
then held over the lire and the cotl'ce
allowed to come to a boil again; once
inoie it is cooled and after the eaiff. e
fume to a boil the third time it isicady
and i Miiiivd inti, tlu little cups. The
brass cotVee boiler generally holds
vnougli for two cups, though larger ones
are noun limes used, some holding four
I'lipfiils. The liquid Is thick and
liiovvnish-black with light rolotvd
froth on the top, and it is delicious.
After the coffee is drank, nt the bottom
of the cup remain about three tea
.spoonful of sediment that i like thick
mud ami is the cotlee deposit. This
iilW ami a gl.is if water and an am
Nr nioinh -pieet on the end of (he ten
fei-l long flexible stem of the llalhileh
nre the i-ht. uliove the tables in all
directions, searching klow, we
lind se.ittti'd around the' . glass
xeels half lilhsl with water to which
the unak-y ku-iu may bo tr.icel.
It i decidedly alay nmn'llnlok a
tlio tobacco is very mild and half an hour
i required to get half a unioke, and how
long a pipe will last know one know.
An hour a ml half J a long a
have smoked on one, and then it was
pulling away better than ever. It may
take an Inveterate smoker to enjoy one
of these water pipe, but when the In
velerate doe "ret one lie obtain a real
treat after he has gotten the hang of it
and does not tiro liiins.tif out drawing
too hard. Smoking a narghile!, differ
from other kind of smoking In that
the smoke all iroc through the watr
below and I thus purilicd, ami also in
the method because In place of nhort
puffs I substituted a deep breath ami
tlin smoke is taken into the lung.
is not possible to smoke the nargliilcli
a a pipe is ninokeil, so that those
fearing to inhale tobacco should never
attack thi water pipe, also called the
"hubble-bubble," which seem a very
ffixal nanus and appropriate, too, a
it expresses the noisu inado by the
Hcpuratn bubble a they riso to the
surface of the water from the bottom
of the vertical pipe that lead up to the
tobacco.
The natives take their coffee and f
strong pull at the pipe, which is a regie
lar piece of furniture, a soon a I bey
iret up in the nioruiucr. and seem to
keep at it all day. too. They claim
aNo that the nargliilcli is good for colds,
and Ihev deserve credit for having
f inn) an agreeable thing that is good
for any ailment, and that will replace
fried onions around thn neck of the un
fortunate soul with the cold.
The cafe is as great an institution
with the iieople of the Orient as it is
with the French, and the warm cliinnti
make (he shaded out-door tables tin
popular ones, mid they are crowded all
dav, whether along the Mohammed Ali
square and in the crowded business
place or in the back alley-way where
the vi-ilors sit or recline on cine-liot-
tomed lounge ami meditatively draw
long draughts of peace. here all
these men get a living is a mystery, as
thousands of them sevni to do nothing
all day but drink coil'ee and smoke.
The shop-keeper in his little lOxlOstom
mokes his nargliilcli while waiting for
a customer. I he thing is as necessary
to an Egyptian a his liat, ami possiluy
more so; and the comfortable expres
sion on the face of one of these .smoking
good to see. Alejtitiulriii (t'lnint)
lor. ii iroil tn r I'ri n.i.
EUGENIE'S CROWN.
The XliiRiillli'Fiit Imperial lliiulilo In a New
Viirk .Irwrlrr Sln.
'This is xe-F.mpress Eugenie's
Town, sunt a prominent, nro.uiwav
evveler to a reporter, as he held up a
lianiond-deckcd crown.
This intercs'iiig ami valuable sou
venir of the Napoleonic dynasty ha a
most interesting history, and the man
ner in which it came into the posses
sion of a laiikee lewder is a most
unique ami remarkable story.
Shortly before the Waterloo of Sedan
the Kmpivsscamc to the conclusion that
the old crowns h iug around the house
were hardly up to the requirements of
the latest My les in crow lis and she de
cided to have a new one made, and so
she iient to Puriqtiel, the leading jew
eler of the gay city, and ordered him to
get up a crow n entirely of diamonds,
beside which all the other crowns of the
effete monarchies would pale their in
significant lire.
The F.nipress had the usual royal dis
regard of other people' money, and
told him not lo mind the expense. The
crown in the Itroadway jeweler' a win
dow was the result.
The F.nipress thought the crown the
nicest one she had ever worn, but she
was linally obliged to part willi it after
many year. She kepi it, in fact, until
after her son, Louis, w as killed while
lighting the Zulus. Then, despairing
of further use for the insignia of her
royal rank, the costly toy was returned
lo it maker al the original price, $10,-
0011.
I)iiriquet was a zealous Royalist and
adherent of the limine of ltonapartc,
and preserved it sacredly as a relic of
the monarchy until one day an intimate
friend gave lhiriqiiet a surprise party j
by offering to buy the crow n just as it
wa and making an advance on the
price paid by the F.inpivs. The crown
was sen! to the American's hotel, and a
few day after was brought by him to
the Tailed States.
The gentleman was a well-known
man about town, and especially noted
as an opera-goar at the Acadi'iny dur
ing Colonel Maplcson' management.
1I wa said to have bein an
especial admirer of a prima-donna,
and after having for a long time paid
her assiduous attention he one
day sent a letter to the fair prima-'
douna offering to place the historic
crown upon her brow. She showed the
letter ta lier husband and he intimated
indirectly to his wife' adorer that he
had Wst transfer hi amnions to a
more conga'iiial soil.
The news that the prima-donna was
wedda'd was new to the wealthy owner
of the crow n, and in the continuation
of it truth hew a taken suddenly ill,
and has since havn a confirmed invalid.
Ua'ceutly he ha placed the ti.tia in the
hands of the javwcler mentioned to dis
pose of.
. The jeweler showed the precious
N bauble to a reporter. It U compoM'd of
two thousand tine-eut, old mine slum-,
set ill adl-.t)le silver, with gold lining,
(he stoiii-s averaging from one-quar!T
carat to cighli-en carat each. The
center stame in front i fifteen carats
weight.
The crown i twenty indie in cir
cumference, designed in a w real h of
iola-t leave, with a blossom f the
viob-t as a center ornament, in tin
center of w hieh is the fifteen curat gem.
A. Y. Jvurttiit.
A NOTABLE JUDGE.
A Wratrra Court with th l.ra.t Crim
inal JurU.llrllr.n Id thai Wnrlil.
Of the many eminent and learned
jurist in the United State, none pep
form more ardiiou duties than Hon.
Isaac C. Parker, Judge of the United
States Gmrt for the Western district of
Arkansas, which I. pcrh ip, the largest
criminal court in the world. Hi court
I in M'ssion the year round, there being
four terms annually. To administer
justice properly under the law govern
ing thi court require extraordinary
firmness, a quality which Judge Park r
poseses to a higli degree. All classes
of people are brought before him for all
manner of crimes, and during hi term
ofotlieeho ha tried upward of six
thousand criminal case, and passed
sentenco of death upon eighty-two mur
derers. Of the latter thirty-eight have
been executed, three died in jail while
under sentence, one wa killed near the
court-house in attempting to escape
while being taken back to jail after re
ceiving sentence, two were discharged
foi want of jurisdiction, one granted a
pardon, and twenty-nine had Iheir sen
tence commuted to imprisonment for
life.
Judge Parker has held the position
he now occupies for eleven years, and
during nine year of that time the court
over which ho presides has had criminal
jurisdiction over the whole of Indian
Territory, a part of which jurisdiction
ha now been transferred to the District
court of Kansas and a part to the North
ern D!.rict of Texas. The law of tho
United States for the punishment of
crime are extemteii over Tin imuan
country when the crime is committed by
or upon a citizen of the United State.
Because of its extended jurisdiction ami
the great number of crimes coiiunittei
in Indian Territory, this court i one in
which are tried more case of murder
and other high crime than in any other
tint in the whole United States, if not
in the world. Judge Parker i a judge
who know what a crime is, and who
ilso believe in piinishingcriino by the
aws of the country, fully recognizing
the fact that by this means alone can
protection for the right of the people
be secured.
Many (lillicultie attend the adminis
tration of the law in the Indian coun
try, yet amid all these dilliculties no
ourt in all tho laud is such a terror to
vil-doer as the United States Court
for 'thn Western district of Ar
kansas. It is the great protecting
power thrown around the Indian coun
try, giving protection to the law-abiding
people, and keeping under restraint
the class from which desperadoes and
rimiual are recruited. A large por
tion of t In criminal class in that coun
try is made up of refugees from justice
in the Slate and 'Territories, and if jt
were not for the vigorous manner in
which the law is administered in Judge
'arkcr's court, life in the Indian coun
try would be scarcely endurable. He
als out justice to rich and poor alike,
ind the man brought before him who
(iimnands thousands of dollars and has
influential friends present to lend him
the weight of their moral influence, has
no better showing, so far a the judge
concerned, than the man who has not
the means of even employing an attor
ney, and receives no more favors. He
is a courteous to the poor a he is to
the rich, and deals out justice without
ar or favor. lie renders hi decisions
itli discretion ns well as liriiiuess, and
wlien tliey are one;' rendered tliey are
ddom, if ever, reconsidered. His (le
sion in regard lo the statu of the Li
lian country are quoted as the best
uilhoritv in every quarter of the Union,
ami most of them have been rendered
after week of careful research ami
much labor. Fort Smith (Ark:) Cor.
St. 7,oni (ihiln:-lk'morrnt.
VISITING THE SICK.
How Poor It Most IVnim Dlnrhnree Till
IiipvIIuIiIh mnl liiiiiirlant Duly.
It is a curious fact, and one not quite
creditable to the good sense of the hu
man race, that the one duty which is
sure to devolve on every body first or
last is so often ill done. F.very body,
from the roughest frontiersman to the
most luxurious city-bred woman is
pretty sure, in the course of years, to
be called on to visit some person who
is ill. Having been brought, through
circumstances, somewhat in contact
with invalids, I have never rc;, etl tc
be astonished to see how poorly, on the
w hole, we discharge thi inevitable and
most important duty.
The first error is in regard to quan
tity, the second in regard to quality.
We can not, perhaps, visit the sick too
much, if we have time for it; but we
can easily visit them a great deal too
much at any one time. Many a sick
room would lie helped and gladdened
by a glimpse of a friendly face every
few day, for three minute at a time,
tint wait for a month, and consolidate
these scattered minute into three
quarters of an hour, mid how different
the result! The new face soon be
comes a burden, the new sensation an
old one; the news is told, the excite
ment is gone by. The patient's face,
at fu M bright and eager, becomes tired
and jaded ami long; and still the vis
itor sits. At last she. too in case it be
a woman notira-s the change in her
friend's look, ainl she spring to her
fca-t and says, w iih sincere but tardy
contrition: -I am afraial I have tired
you." -Oh. no." says the patient;
"not at all." It h. r la-t gasp fair
Mial nioiniiif ; she tan sa-aively muster
strength ui say it; but let us be polite
or die.
Ibevity i the oul of visiting, as of
w it. and in loth eases th, soul is hard
to gra-p. A saiine preacher used t
follow- a somial maxim for his ser
mon, Ni, soul Mved after tho first
twenty minute," so you can not aid in
. , a i . 1.. -ft..- al.A T,af tivn
avlngtne sick oouy unci m -
Harriet Martineou. in her "Life i the
Sick-Koom," says that Invalids are fort
unate if there is not ome intrusive per
son who need to l: studiously kept lit
a d'wtanee. IJ.it the peril of which I
gpeak come not from tho intrusive
but from the affectionate and
the conscieiitiou those who bring
into the room every conceivable
qualification for kind service except ob
servation and tact Tho invalid' foe
are they of hi or her own household,
or, at any rate, are near friend or kind
neighbor. The kinder they nro tho
worse, unless they are able to show this
high quality in the right way. If they
could only learn to plan their visit on
the basis of Sam Weller's love-letter,
which was criticised by his father as
rather short, "She'll wish there was
more of it, "said Sam; "and that's the
wholo art o' letterrwriting." For want
of this art, the hulplcs invalid i hurt
instead of helped; she can not, like
other people, assist the departure of
the guest bv pleading an engagement,
or even by rising from the chair; she
must wait until the inconsiderate visit
or is gone. Under such circumstance
she really need to be saved from her
friend. I remember a certain Colonel
in the army who wa sometimes sus
pected of hhaiiuning, nnd of whom hi
sub-ollicers would say, sarcastically,
some morning: "Ho is very ill loo
ill to see his surgeon." 'J here are
really many invalids who are too ill to
see their friend ami sympathizer and
cousin, except with the aid of a three
niiiiute glass, like that by which egg
are boiled.
lint there is a difficulty of quality
more serious, than that of quantity.
What is there in the outer world from
which it is the hard lot of invalid to be
excluded? Sunshine, fresh air and the
healthy life of mankind. These, then,
are what the visitor should bring, figur
atively at h'ast, into the sick-room, In
stead of these, how many bring very
opposite clouds ami shadows, and that
which is unwholesome and unhealthy !
They keep the invalid talking about the
very thing she needs to forget her
own symptoms. They discus the va
rieties of medicine as toper debate the
merit of different wines; and is dear
Amelia quite sure that it would not be
best to change her physician? Worst
of all, they tell the distressing symp
tom. of others; the mournful cases, tho
bereavements, the approaching funer
al. Strange to say, professional
nurses themselves are very much given
to this sort of talk, ami would be much
more beneficial companion were they
limib. Perhaps the visitor chime in,
ami joins with the nurse i:i a incl.in-
holy duet. 'It is, I take it, alnio-t
inipossitile lor any one in
health to appreciate the hold
that these things take upon an
invalid. The visitor goes away into the
outer air and the very bree.e soon car
ries away all memory of the untoward
conversation; but the invalid remains
anchored to one spot, and broods, and
oroods, and broods. She is fortunate if
her sleep i not broken that night by
the odious phantoms for which her dear
friend has. with studious care, furnished
the materials.
There are other ways in which a
visitor may hurt while intending only
to help. There are the cross-question
er, who make the invalid do all the
talking; the lingerers, who displace her
cushions, drop her orange, and leave
her glass of water just beyond her
reach; the gazers, who fix their eyes
scrutiniziiigly on her, and never take
them off. 15ut enough has been said to
show that there is a way to do every
thing well or ill, and that the art of
visiting the sick is not one of the thing
which are so absolutely easy as to re
quire no thought or apprenticeship. It
is one of the finest of the tine arts; it
must have disinterested kindness at the
foundation; and then implies, like all
other form of good manner, the most
delicate observation, and that, prompt
and, clear judgment which can neither
be dispensed with nor described. liar
per' Bazar.
War on Aniline Dyes.
Strong measure are being taken in
Persia to'pivveiit the importation of
aniline dyes for use in textile manu
factures, such a carpels and brocades.
It i maintained that these dye are not
only less artistic and stable, but also
that they are positively injurious to
health as compared with indigenous
dyes. A similar movement is being
felt in India, where large quantities of
aniline colors are used; and it is ex
pected that, unless action be speedily
taken, Indian fabrics will lose much of
their reputation. Science.
Arlmr day ha been observed in
Colorado, Wisconsin, West Virginia,
Indiana, Vermont, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsyl
vania, Florida, Kansas, Minnesota,
Michigan and Ohio. The observance
of the day, promoted as it has Wen by
State si-hind superintendents, ha been
a wonderful stimulant to tree planting.
In Nebraska, the banner State, there
are growing over 700,000 acres of tree
plained by human hands. Ciiicayo In-tcr-Oi-can.
In Host on i being elected a
gymnasium to be used exclusively by
women. I; is one humlrid by seventy
nine fa-it, lias six Ikiw ling alley, agooal
tennis court, a pcrfcelly-nppoiutcd
gymnasium hall, a running track of
twenty laps to the mile, made of a
patent composition ,,f gw .! f,.lt; hot
and coM wafer baih. and, indot d, every
appliance that women could desire in a
gymnasium, even to a piano. Miss
Mary Allan was the author of the pro
ject. lloshm Journal.
LIFE AND WEALTH.
AWell-to-Do Mlnar l.an l"lh InanEf
fairt to Kind (Silver Ha-po.lt.
Antcloi Charley, a noted Indian
hunter and trapper, brought into tho
Shoshone Agency, in the northern por
tiod of this Territory, not long ago, a
human skull and a handful, of silver
siiei-illiellS almost mire in their charac
ter. The ghastly relic and the bright
silver the Indian had founU in a
deep mountain gorge of the Owl Creek
Mountain, in the vicinity of those not
ed local landmarks, thoWasliaku Need
les. The skull wa lying with its kin
dred portions of a human skeleton, and
the silver ore was contained in a mold-
ering and rotten buckskin sack, yet
hehfin the '-rasp of a bony hand. The
Indian lifted the sack from the hold of
the skeleton' fingers and it fell apart,
the clittering ore rolling upon the
ground amid the dry and bleaching
bone. Antelope Charley gatliereil up
the ore specimens, and taking the.
skull to verify hi story, brought both
skull and ore into tho agency. The
Indian's tale aroused the recollections
of several old-timer at the agency, and
furnished the key to a half-forgotten
mysteVy of the mountnin frontier. In
the spring of 1873 there appeared in
the camp of a party of prospector lo
cated in the shadow of the Washnku
Needles a man well equipped for pros
pecting. He wa a stranger and a
(ierinan, and soon became known U
the camp he joined a Dutch Joe. Like
most of his race he was industrious and
steady, and it was not long before
Dutch Joe became the most indefatig
able prospector of the party.
No distance was too long for him to
traverse, no mountain journey too lone
some for him to undertake; scaling
precipices ami descending into can
yons, lie searched the mountain far
and" wide for the glittering ore on
whose possession lie had centered the
hopes of his life.
At last, late in the summer, he re
turned to camp one evening from one
of his wild and rugged trips, wearing
an elated look, ami it soon became
buzzed around that Dutch Joe had
struck it rich. Ilcvond a certain re
pressed triumph in his manner he wa
reticent. He was watched closely, how
ever, and a prospector, dogging his
steps from camp the day after his re
turn, saw him take from hi. bosom a
buckskin sack and pour it on a fair spot
of soil a mass of silver specimens, whose
brittle ncss and evident purity took tho
astonished watchman's breath away.
The lode those specimens, came from
must have been of fabulous richness.
Dutch Joe was now watched closer than
ever, w ith the intention of tracking him
to tin; mountain treasure. Hut the suc
cessful prospector was wary and suspi
cious, and one day the spying camp
found that he had eluded its interested
vigilance and was gone. In vain lie
was searched for. Not even a trace of
his departure could be found, and when
a few days afterward a furious moun
tain snowstorm set in the disappointed
plotters were forced to abandon the
hunt and bid farewell to the hope of
enriching themselves, at Dutch Joe's
expense. Hut Dutch Joe was never
seen or heard of afterward. He and
hi mountain treasure had alike van
ished. The next spring ciiine around
and brought neither Dutch Joe nor any
tidings of hir.i. The belief became
general that he had perished in the
mountain storm immediately following
his disappearance, but the story of the
lost prospector was long told around
frontier camp-fires, vith many specu
lations on the value of the silver treas
ure, of which he alone knew the loca
tion. And now, tliirtei years after
his disappearance, the discovery of the
Shoshone hunter comes to confirm the
fate of the lost prospector. He hud
really perished in that winter storm,
and had kept with hi m to the last in the
grip of his horny lingers the buckskin
sack, with its precious content.. A
party of men went from the ngelicy un
der the guidance of Antelope Charley,
and gave the bones of the lost discov
erer of the treasure Christian burial. A
strong effort will be made to find the
rich silver deposit for the sake of whose
riches Dutch Joe perished amid the
snow of the Owl Mountain.. Laramie
(H'i. jf'.) IloomraiKj.
A Good Story from France.
There is a good story still told in the
French War Office to the effect that for
ten year a soldier was stationed in the
passage-way leading to the minister's
private apartment, with orders not to
let people touch the walls. Hut no one
seemed to understand why this wa
done. Now, a new Minister of an
inquisitive turn of mind, who de
termined to find out the explanation of
a circumstance that his fifty predeces
sors hail never remarked. But no one
could give him any light; not even the
chief clerk, nor the subordinates who
had been in office half a century. Hut
a certain door-keeper, an old fellow
with a good memory, recollected that
on a certain occasion a soldier was
placed there because the wall had
been painted, and the Minister's wife
had got a spot on her dress. The paint
had drieal, but the sentinel had been
Ml Truth.
The pre-eminence of Webster, Clay,
Calhoun and other "giants in those
days" ovcrshaalowed men xvho would
otherwise have proved themselves mas
ters. Ability of the first class is now
dwarfed and cramped for similar rea
sons. Capable leader w ill spring up
when given an opportunity. How many
of the great Generals of the late wa
were know n outside of limited circles a
quarter of a century ago? Wheneve
iia'cala'al the man and tho opportunity
will step forward and Miako hands.
I .'.''.' Lock Ark.) Uazctlc
EX-PRESIDENTs.
Illitorleal FiirU of Intrraot .
an of tho I nlta.i stiit "i
iwr. naye is now tiiu only uvj ,
President of the United States "t
President Cleveland had takentfw
of office in March, lxxj, ,l
.1 .1.1....... a . .. I
lliree ex-pia-snn-ius, nut t lie d,.,
ucneiai uruiit in ine Sliniliicf 0(
and that of Mr. Arthur in X0T
1886, ha reduced the nunilxTtn'5'
Washington, as is well known, d
December, 171)9, during the PrT
of hia immediate successor, JJr. '
nn. l... I. ! . 1 ' !
iiieu me ionS ciiou oi a a-'tiark,
century elapsed before another .
sidetit died. At the heginnin
lS'-'G, John Qtiincy Adams being
dent, four ex-Presidenu ,an
John Adams, Jefferson, Madia,,.
Monroe. Tho number was rwlu,,.
two by the death of Adams and j,
son on July 4th.
Monroe died July, 4, 1831; 1
June 28, 1836; Harrison dicj j, ,
April 4, 1841; and Jackson died;
H, lo to. from lo-'o to the cloncni
Tyler's administration there vej J
times at least two ex-fresiilonu
and during much of the tim
were three, from March 4, 1845, 1
Jackson s ocatn in June of the J
year, there were lour, nainidr ,
Qiiincy Adams, Jackson, Van I
and Tyler.
Jackson's death again reilm:
number to three, and when Hie a.
Adams died, February 23, 1XS,:
were nut two leu. roin wm f
dent at the tune. Hi term
pired March 4, 1810, ami he
three month later, June 15; a,
the increase of the number
transient. Taylor's death in
July 9, 18."i0, made no change u
number. Then come a long j.r
over twelve year during whi.
President had a second term t
ex-President died.
From .March, 18(51, unlil the !,
ning of the year 18(52, live ex-Pi:
were living: Van liurcn, Tyler,
more. Pierce and Iiiichanan.
was the largest number in the I
of the country. Hut Tyler dicilJa:
17, and Van Huren July 21 of
year, and reduced the n umber to i
Lincoln's death in office A;ir
18(55, made no difference in thenir
but when Huehanan di al June I,
only two ex-President were lift,
expiration of Mr. Johnson's pns
in March, 1809, was followed ft
9 of the same year, by the death .:
Pierce, and again there were on!
ex-President living.
Fillmore having died March 8,
and Johnson July 31, 1875, then
left no living ex-President, forth,
time since March 1801. General l
liowever, became nn cx-Pri'siil
March, 1877, Have in 1881, nnd A
in 1885. President Garfield' 1vj
office in 1881 made no change t
then niiinberof two ex-Presidents
as we have said, Mr. Arthur's
following that of General Grar
brought it down to one. Youth':
panion.
at a
THATCHED ROOFS.
A Warm Sha-llrr TliHt Mujr lie Mi
Trlllliiii Kipelise.
A thatched roof makes a war
durable shelter, and may often l
at little cost.
Rye straw threshed with a ft:',
kept straight with tho short or I
straw rakeil out, is tho nest n.
for thatching. Wheat or eve
straw would do, and possibly
straight grass. The roof is maih
for thatching by nailing sti
bium! or laths, one by twoi.
across the rafters, putting them
apart. The pitch should be stew
a third pitch) to insure a water-
or durable roof. Cut the strawo:
form length and have it st might
beirin. tie the straw in buinl
inches in diameter. The batl
be quite close to the tipper 1
one which is fastened to the
strip. Twine may be used hyp.
it around the butt end of the lumall
other prefer straw with which h'i
the bundles on. This is done by t
a few straw from each side
bundle, after it is laid on the
strips, and pas them over the nc
laid and under the strips, ami
again, then adding more str.i
the bundle just tied. In this '
continuous rope is made until l'1
of the course is reached. The
should overlap so as to make uV
he thickness of three bundles, or
eighteen inches, and the pitch
be one-third. The side of a ha
may be '.'latched in the same nu
and in this way very warm poitl'"'
hog house may be made. H
cattle or sheep would be liable to
the thatching of any portion '
their reach. Farm and Firctuk-
The Effect oC Drink.
A minister with a rather fhriJ
plexion went into the simp of
one of his parishioners, to be s1
The barber wa addicted to dr
after which his hand was. i" f
queiiee, unsteady at his work. lc '
ing the minister he inflicted a
ciently deep to cover the lower p
his face with blood. The minister'
to the barber and said, in ''
solemn severity:
"You see, Thomas, what f'r'
taking too much drink."
"Aye," replied Thomas, with'
most composure, "it makes the
tender." Texas Sijliiiy.
-
A man from Michigan vW'
to Springfield, ()., and oflrivd to
bank if the citizens would g'vf
brick building and one hundred
sand dollars in cash. We are h-1
add that his offer was not
We can not afford to ioe ?'' '
terprising. liberal-hearted nan-'
VUruit Free I'rcss.
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