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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1889)
A SMART YANKEE OW Tw.n Vaara QM, IM Caa ! Oraal Many Thing. In bt(irliif-hou at Pieston. Ct. thero U an American servant-glrl pgti ...niv-wven year, who was born in ie . .... i ichool til thirteen years of age, leav- ith an award for the best schol- -hln in booic-ueeping. nne lmmoui- 1 . 100k acle:kship In the local post, office- and although so young. handled he mail and performed othor duties in toe stre adjoining aatisfactorlly. After ix ui0"1"8 lle worK8l in a fac tory in Watertown. mailing ferules for nmbroltiis. After that she took a clerk ibip In a dry-goods store In Waterbury, wblch she kept for three years. She then went to Helhel to luarn the hatting trndo, and became so expert flat she made all the samples and was appointed forewoman. The man In whose store sho had been employed la Tattrbury proposed to open another ,tore in Meridon and to give her entire charge and a good salary. She ac cepted, and did all the buying, book keeping writing nnd general manag ing; but just as the enterprise became asuecoss. the proprietor died and she was thrown out of employment She then went to Philadelphia, whore she learned cigar-making and worked at the trade for threo years. She came homo and obtained a situation as stage driver, going twice a day to meet pas sengers at the station, Uvo miles dis tant. Sho managed and ofton harnessed the two horses, lifted and strapped on to the stage all baggage and carried the mail. Mr Kinney, the owner of the stage says ho has nover since had his business so thoroughly nttendod to. At the end of six months, sho learned car riage painting here in a factory, and for some time earned two dollars and a half per day. When work gave out here sho went to Hartford where for a short time she did copying in the olll ;o of the tiro de partment. She afterward went into the carpet-sweeper factory, and took con tract for cutting and dovetailing tho woodwork. Before loaving she made several entire sweopers horsolf. even to putting the stamp of the maker In Urge letters on the top. She came homo for rest, and a resi dent gave her two mustang ponies that he had been unable to manage. They had been harnossed but a few times and were unshod. Sho caught them in the field, harnessed and drove them, and In a few weeks had them completely undor control. Between times this unusual girl has mended shoes, planted tobacco by the acre, ridden the horse with a cultiva tor and rakod hay with a patent ra'io. She had laid a now kitchen floor in her he s houso, built a vo -unda for her unco and shingled and sided an ice bouse for a neighbor. She takes care of the home garden and mado and koep9 in order tho winding walks about hor house. She is also an adept at shaving and hair cutting, and wuita upon gcntlumon at their residences in the village to do this. She is fond of hunting and fishing, and in tho fall bags many partridges, woodcock and rabbits, and in the season catches bass from the lake and trout from tho brooks. Last spring she caught the champion trout that weighed two pounds and a half. The lish broke tho pole, but sho jumped into tho water waist deep, secured tho disappearing eec ion of tho polo, and safely landed the trout Sho catches frogs and dresses tho legs for her own taste. She is much interested In natural history, and has spocimens of snakos, lizards and many other curious things proserved In alcohol. She had a tame water-snake that camo about tho door, but her mother disliked the familiarity of the visitor and killod it. Sho alo climbed a tree to examine a crow's nest, and took ono of the young ones home. She brought it up on Indian meal and bread crumbs and taught it to laugh and say Hello." This girl has also inventod a kitchen utensil upon which steaks can bo broil ed, potatoes fried, and anothor vegeta ble cooked at the samo time. It might bo concluded that this girl must be masculine and unrefined, but this is not the caso. A recent caller found her reading "Milton s l'aradiso Lost," with sovoral musical instruments In her room. She is a fair musician, and sings in the choir of the village church. She is a church member in good standing, and w.ll not read novels or play cards or in any way desecrate the Sabbath. Her house is adorned with erabroidored lambrequins and draperies that she has made, and sho makes her own dressos and takes work homo from reaidont hero when time permits. She clothes entirely a sister and child whose moans are limited. She is a proficient housekeeper and good cook, and gives the greatest satis faction to her present employer. She does not prefer housework as a means of livelihood, but during July and Au gust when trades are dull she accepts a domestic situation rather than live In idleness. Boston Herald. In a cigarette there are five poi sons: The oil of the paper, the oil of nicotine, saltpeter to preserve the to bacco, opium to make it mild, and the oil In the flavoring. The trouble with the cigarette is the inhaling of the smoke. If you blow a mouthful of smoke through a handkerchief it will leave a brown stain. Inhale the smoke nd blow It through the nostrils, and no stain will appear. The oil and poi son remain in the head or body. Cigar ettes create a thirst for strong drink; and there should bo anti-cigaretto soci eties, as there are temperance societies. Prof. Lafliu. Very often the duly difference be tween something unfortunate and some thing funny lies in whether It happens to you or somebody else. -Merchant Traveler. A wife is never o happy at when he it a successful humorist. The more the humor her husband, the More, usually, she has her own way. Somerville Journal. Manager "How many character I you aay there are in your playr Author "I didn't aay there were any. J U a French society dram."- INNOCENT CARL DUNDER Ms. , toUyi Am.rc. Jat I Lllllt MIL -Hollo, M,-. Dundor! I thought you hl Lung yourw5i, or R0M JTJ lQ Ju( toiny. saluted Sergeant Kendall a Carl DunUer enured the Woodbrldge Street Station. "Sergeant. I vh. pooty near right now." was the rmlv. . , "" bl" he.- much petter ash I Thafs good. Any thing new?" "tell, not o werry mooch I learn W understand Amcr ca a Laadl. m dy- I vhas pooty green ven 1 first come oafer he., eh?" "1 should remark!" "Everybody makes some fools of me U der time, und 1 vhas ducourage l. I vhas hayseeds, eh?" "Yes. you wore.'' "Und more ash one million flies vhas on mo?" 'Yes.'' "Und I vhai so green dot cows like to eat ine oop? ' "Exactly." Veil, dot makes mo laugh ven I think about her. but my eye-teeth vhas all cut oil iiow. I vhas on to all tho games now. ' ''I see." "A feller comes Into my place twj days ago to make me his victim. I spotted him so quoek you can't wink. He tajn he likes to show me a new puzzle. It vhas called: 'Now you see Ma and now you doan' tee her.' He takes der shack of s ados, dor ace of carta und the queen of clubs und throws 'em all around und den likes tc bet mo I can't plok out dot sohack. 1 pick him out fifo times right oil. und dot fellow says I vlus lightning," "But you didn't bot?" "Oh. no." "It was lucky you didn't That puz zle, as you call It is the old three-card monte business. I warned you about that n year aa" "Oh. ho doan' catch me on dot If ho belief I vhas a suckor ho finds out dcoforcnt But I vhas a leedle mixed oop, und I like you to explain." "All right what is It? ' "In about two hours later an oldt man mu a white bjard comes In und says vhas I Carl Dundor? I vhas. I vhiis werry glad to see you. Mr. Dun der, I hear aboudt you In Toledo, Cin cinnati und Chicago. Eiiforybody says you vhas sharp as some razors. Did some young man come in iiore mlt a puzzle? 11 did. Did ho boat you? Not much! Voll. dot vhas all right He vhas a sharer, und if he doan. bent you dot makes me laugh ha! ha! ha!" "And I suppose you sot up tho beer?" queried tho Sergeant "Veil, If he vhas my frendt I like to use him nice, you know. Pooty soon lie sits down und pulls out three cards und suys he explain dot puzzle He throws 'em so, und so, und so, und den tells mo I can t pick out dor shack of spades. 1 put my finger ou dot shack, und dot oldt man says I vhas shain lightning." "And you tried it again, of course? ' "Yes, I pick dot shack oudt four times." "And then-?" "Veil, next time ho says ho likes to bot me fifo dollar, und I took him oop so queek as wink." "And it wasn't the jack?" "No; he vhas der ace! I like you to explain how he vhas mixed oop lika dot?' For answer tho sergoant took Mr. Dundor by the hand and led him to the door and dropped h.m oil tho step and pointed to tho river. "How you mean? ' "Go and jump in!" "Vhas I some haystacks?" "Yes -a dozen of them!" Und I vhasshwindled again?" "The worst way " "Um! Veil, good-bye! It somebody dras oop my bo ly I like der papers to say I vhas poor but honest unu uoi i died trying to understand how sho vhas in America! Oldt frlendt farewell!" Detroit Free Press. The Pleasure of Cutting. Mr. Society (roading) -Clique teas are the latent The hostess gets some friend lo mate out a list of invitations, to include only such persons as tho friend caros to meet This list the hostess usos wiihout emendation, and tho guests, while knowing that the hostess did not mako the selection, arc not allowed to learn who did. Unusu ally pleasant gatherings ol people of similar tastes aro tho result Isn t that a good idea? . . Mr. Society-Yes, they might b, called "birds of-a-feather sociabloa Better have one. You can cut ali the chumps without being held responsi ble. Huh! What's thouseof cutting peo ple if they don t know who did it?"-N. Y. Weekly. S Had Been I here Be'ore. A nephew to his old and wealthy uncle -I am debate, and unless you send me $2,000 by this evening 1 shall tae my life; by midnight 1 shall be no "llll of the uncle -Your of this date received. When, some time ago you sent m-a, nissive of similar import Ltd 1 you my revolver what did Too do? Vou "spouted ' the weapon, "i have no more rovolvor -Judje. No Need of Detail. Mrs Newsy (reading) -Bowieville. Aug 32. -UH lMt "nutveral I,ron" in;rsX8('n"-rr.tir.g)--Sklptha, paVdear. Whom did the prominent citizen hang? ( rre'.aenl Harribn and Blaine, say. a writer 'gWaJtaj wn Post are Jl; matter of eomp exioo. the peculiar "lor of which defies sunburn, tan or ' CllnoT ho- long the e ure u.tbe sun to which they may In company wiw lUts, led an """ trh-even. ting, of brown to .howforhU.umnierutinf. BURYING THE DEAD. ow Various I'aonls ol Asia Dispose m II ii man L'urpaa. India, though a swarming hive of people, did not impress me as a "coun-1 try of cemeterlee," a did Turkey and , Penis, Thl 1, of course, owing to the Hindoo custom of cremation and the fact that the burying races form but a small proMrtion of the popula tlon. But a soon an China was reached the silent citte of the dead came again to the fore with greater prominence than ever. One stands on the walls of I'anton, near the flve-sto-ried pagoda, and sens the hill to tho north all covered with grave. It i the same near any Chinese city The I living occupy the city and the level ' ground, the dead the hill. No corpse 1 Is allowed to be buried within the walls of a Chinese city, and without, the vast cemeteries cover the hills, with no fence or rtther limitation about them. The Chinese family which can afford It, builds a "horse-shoe grave," or bricked vault on the hillside, with the end built up in the horso-hoe form. Poorer jieople stick their dead in shallow graves, on whi.h a small tablet of wood or stone Is put In some districts of Quang-tung, near the head-water of the Pc-Kinng river, the cemeteries consist of big jar set in niches of the rocky cliffs of the Mao ling mountains. A you pass along the foot trails you see the steep rooks above, thickly studded with those big earthen jars. In each of which is a human body in a sitting position. In the rich alluvial plains, where no nMUltiVatad hills are available for burying the dead, a gravovard, rosem- blos very much a white ant village in Africa. The graves are sugar loaf mounds, thickly clustered together While John Chinaman pays great re sect to the dend, he takes care that they do not appropriate much ground that is of value to the living. The cemetery of a Chinese village among tho rich rice fields cover very little ground in propOTHM to the numl'or of graves. It seemed to me that lxdie must have been placed one on top of another, or stood upright, so thick were the tapering mounds. Tho Chi nese graveyard is, on the whole, a less disreputable looking place than the Turkish or Persian ; yet the horseshoe vaults are sometimes soon in a very dilapidated condition. When passing through them I have freqitVntly pooped in and seen the crumbling coffin and the skeleton. In some parts of China one seems to be traveling through cemeteries most of the time. Particularly Is this the ease in thiokly-opulatod districts, where the toxgraphy is undulating plain. Tho ridges, where the soil is thin, are then the cemeteries, and a rigid spirit of economy has re ogated tho alignment of the public roadB thero, too, rather than through the Holds. In such a district the traveler is in the company of the dead all day long. Among some of the aborigines of China their ceme tery is a bamboo grove. Tho dead, swathed in matting, are lashed In an upright position to tho steniB. Here they remain until the ravages of time. birds. Insects and the elements have reduced lli"in lo skeletons, when the bones are washed in hot water and buried. These (Hjople tie up the male b dies in one grave and the female in another. The Japanese in tho matter of ceme teries, as in so ninny other things, are more in consonance with our ideas than any other Asiatics. Tho cemetery Is usually inclosed in a neat wall or fence, and, like tho houses and gardens and every thing else in that country, is ofton n work of art The graves aro miniature flower-beds, and one sees there marvelous stunted trees, trimmed into fanciful shapes, quaint bits of rook, shells and other adorn ments. From the Sea of Marmora to tho Gulf of Pichill, all across broad Asia, the Western eye is offended by the bald obtrusivoness of the millions Unit have gone beforo, but the Japanese have learned, like us, to cover them up with flower and fence them In. A'. I'. Ant Impure Water and lc "It Is very hard," says Prof. Tonry. "to convince some people that a glass of jierfectly clear, colorless water, with no odor or taste, may lie more Impure than water coming from tho kitchen sink which has been used to wash cooking utensils, yet In many cases I have found such water as to the direct communication of which with a stable yard or privy vault there could be no possible doubt." This is a striking statement, but Mr. Tonry is able to domonstrato that it is based on a multitude of well-studied facts. There is no absolutely pure water in nature, but thero are limits beyond which tho contamination of Hrlnkine or cookitiL' water can not be safely allowed to go. The presence of chlorine in water inui"alos me Kino oi organic impurity dangerous to health. A drop of solution of nitrate of silver is a convenient test. If it produce in a tumbler of the water In question a white cloud, chlorine and its relate Impurities are present to a probable dangerous extent. Boiling will, a a rule, destroy disease germ. The pop ular theory that freezing purifies water Mr. Tonry thinks is incorrect "Pure Ice." he ay. "i almost as hard to obtain as pure water." He mentions a case where typhoid fever was traced directly to the use of Im pure Ice. Uultimon Suit. Some Jacksonville physicians de clare tnat in no instance h i the yel iow fever been known to attack per ions with rW hair r.of. F. V. Ilaydoo wa the nnder of tho system which developed into the Geographical Survey of the United States He w is a man of great fenius and renowned scholar, bnt rratic and peculiar. It wai not un mmon for stranger to follow him for everal block, tholr attention ar ested by his bowed figure a he alml ran for a few steps then suddenly topped, with hi gray harp eye lied on the pavement then ran again u if a sudden thought had (truck him; then they would inquire, "who can that poor insane mu be?" POINT. When von Introduce moral lee- ton let It be brief. Fortune doe not change tho char acter, but It reveal it It l not good that repel or evil that attracts, but the monotony of good and the variety in etril. Atchison Globe. What a glorious world this would be If people lived up to tho epitaphs on their tombstones! Hutchluson (Kaa.) New. Most men' experience t like the tern light of a ship which illumine only the track it ha passed. The character of men placed la lower stations of life are more useful, ( as being imitable by great number. Atterbury. Every man has his chain and hit olog, only It I looser and tighter to ono man than to another. And he Is more at ease who takes It up than he who drag it Man doubles all the evils of his fate by pondering over them; a scratch becomes a wound, a slight an Injury, a jost an Insult a small peril a great danger, and a slight sickness often ends In death by brooding apprehon slons. In all that wo do we have a right to consider the effect it will have upon our character, or upon tho upbuild ing and development of our higher natures. No man 1 required to do what will belittle him. United Pres byterian. If a man wish to rightly grow In grace he must accustom himself to see and look at the larger things In lifo, and the larger world In which he lives. A coustant attention to the lit tle will dwarf him, and finally unfit him for his place among other men. He that will not permit his wealth to do nny good to others whllo ho Is living prevents It from doing any good to himself whon he is dead, and by an egotism that is suicidal and has a double edge, cut himself off from tho truest pleasure and tho highest happl nos hereafter. Cotton. Mon may experiment In certain lino In social Intercourse after mas tering tho forms long usage has proved good, but to cling to peculiar ways of their own. that are not agreeable or that fail to show the heart's kindness, limits tho man's power as tho uso of a cradle In tho wheatfiold limits the man who scoffs at tho solf-bludor his neighbor uses. It is not usually those who aro In the dlrost poverty that aro tho most In vetorate borrowers. It 1 much more frequently those who allow their desires for superfluities to outrun their ability to obtain them that resort to this dangerous and Insidious practice. All such desires grow by what they feed on. and become more and moro exacting; while tho strict rectitude which can not brook tho long continu ance of a debt Is gradually Impaired. Onco a Week. NOTED CONCORD MEN. ill.- Kcrrntrlrltr or llnwtnnrnr, Thorsaa and s.-i.'i .1 Other. Mr. Edward Waldo Emerson's book on the Concord life of his father, Ralph Waldo Emerson, says that Emerson never could road far In tho books of his Illustrious fellow-townsman. Na thaniel Hawthorne. Thlais somen hat remarkable, perhaps, since Kmerson showed no lack of appreciation of mon or works of gonitis. Though these two great men lived for a long time In tho samo country tywn, they saw very little of each oth er. Hawthorne, who was vory shy, only onco visited Emerson's house. Mr. Edward Waldo Emerson's volume tells the story of this visit: "To cover his shyness, he took up a stereoscope on the center-table und be gan to look at the pictures. After looking at thorn for a time, he askod whore these views wore takon. "Wo told him they were pictures of tho Concord court and towu houses, the common and the mill-dam, on hear ing which he oxprosed somo iiirprlso and Interest but evidontly was as un familiar with tho center of the village where ho had lived for years as a doer or a wood-thrush would be. He walked through It often on his way to tho cars, but was too shy or too rapt to know what was thero." Thoreau, anothor famous resident of Concord, was not so unconscious of what tho town contained. Though he pilled the pooplo who "never saw Bati- man s rond, or wine-acre corner, or Becky Stow's Swamp," be also bad a pot In his heart for tho town Itself. Though ho said that "the man who hoots tho buffalo lives bettor than the mau who boards at the Graham House," he nevertheless knew his way to the Graham House. It was not however, that he ever went there for convivial purposes. Ho was quite too abstemious, as well a too little fond of oclety, lor HUM Emerson said of him: "He was bred to no profession; he never married; he lived alone; he never went to church; he never voted; he re fused to pay tun lo the state; be ate no flesh, ho drank no wine, he never knew the use of tobacco; and, though a naturalist be used neither trap nor gun." Several of the famous men who have lived at Concord have possessed the eccentricity of genius. Their example, howerer. should not Inspire others to Imitate their eccentricities. Genius may often be accompanied by such Ir regular! t lei of conduct, but we can convince no one of our possession of genius by the exhibitlcn of eccentric ity. Strong common-sense will serve much belter to help ua in the estlm ti9o nf others. - Youth' Companion. He who doe not engage in the quarrel of other will have but few of his own. A man may be vary great and very good, and then not attract half the at tention that a captured horse-thief doaa. Exchange. The one who will be found In trial capable of great acta of love la aar the one who 1 alway doing oouider ate mal I one - Robertson. There are two reason why soma people do not mind their own buslnesa One is they haven t any i bus in a, and the o,br U they haven't any PITH AND PORTUOUESE MEN-OP-WAR. Twu Km - Si, , tin, I,, uf I hi I lui-ri I 1 1 T - llsli In American Wale, Two objects half a foot long were discovered floating off Cone l-lnud a few days ago by a fisherman. They were evidently jelly flsh, but of a species known to very few fishermen In this part of the world They seemed to be a transparent bag of jolly, long and narrow, with a beautifully tinted comb running from stem to stern, and their backs rose far enough above the water to catch tlui breeze, so they ailed along right merrily. They were captured In a inll of water and carried bank much on dignity. When In enp ashore, where an old sailor said they tivlty his principal occupation Is work were Portuguese men-of-war, and that j lug his ears and reaching for apple they were a strange sight north of the ! and confectionery, and he feels every Antilles I pound of his lniortance. He doesn't Tho fish are very common In tropical kill a man or upset a menagerie wagou eas. They usually grow to bo six or every day In tho year without a break, eight Inches in length, but have been I but he indulges himself often enough oen longer. Above tho surface ; to keep the rust rubbed off his trunk, of the water the physalla (the Elephants aro supposed to live five scientific name of the flsh) appears ' hundred years If no one puts rough on like a big bubble-like envelope filled rats In their biscuit or croton oil In with air. with a raised crest divided their Ice cream. Tholr object In living longitudinally, and brilliantly colored ! tlx times as long as a man has never with blue or yellow or pink or deep been ascertained and is much won- purple. On the under side of the physalla are a great number and ' memory for faces, times and places, variety of appendages, some of which and the boy who feeds an elephant to are fee. ling mouths having flask- bacco in Syracuse to-day may got shaped bodies with the mouths of the knocked out In Now Orleans fifty years flasks oiK'iiing downward, while others aro magnificently tinted streamers which trail far behind the fish as It Is wnfted along by the wind. The body of the physalla is usually perfectly white and transparent Some times It is opalescent or topaz or sa- phlre or aqua marine tinted, while an Iridescence plays over the surface In a cactus plant, nnd to live In and en lambent flame. The crest is elevated liven a section of country which even or depressed at tho pleasure of tho I tho buzzards refuse to fly over. Ho fish. It is the most beautiful of all j was therefore made after certain plans jelly fishes. j and specification, and he fills the bill It Is a common sport with sailor to ! as nothing else could Thero Is but got a grevnhorn to pick up a Portu- little to drink lr, tho camel country. gueso man-of-war out of the water, Tho sailor who performs this simple aot doesn't forget It for many a day. A ho takes up the flsh tho tentacles entwine around his hand, and imme diately there is a most Intense sting ing sensation on every spot of flesh where the filaments touch. In fact, tho pain Is so pungent that tho sailor often faints. To remove the stinging nettlos every particle must be torn off piece by piece, so closely do thoy ad here to the skin, and so long as the mlnu est fragment remains so long does tho poisonous nettle torment the poor sailor. In fact, oven after the tentacles aro pulled off, the hand wells and white ridges appear on tho kin like those causod by tho poison ous nettle weed, and instances havo been known whore the arm and shoul dor have swollen frightfully ami tho lungs been so affected that breathing became difficult. In twenty-four hours after this experience tho sailor is well again. It is on record that a sailor who had hoard of the poisonous nature of tho Portuguese man-of-war, and who, re fusing to believe the story, proceeded to cook and eat one, died la a few hours In groat agony. Fish sharps affirm that tho Jelly fish, by means of the long, poisonous tendrils bononth It, paralyzes fish thai come In Its way, nnd thus render them a helpless prey. Fishes have beeu iound In Its stomach half digested. It will not endurn long confinement After great storms In tho tropics Por tuguese men-of-war are ofton found stranded on the bench. Sailors de clare that tho appearance of Portu guese men-of-war so far north fore bodes something perfectly awful, but what it is they don't divulge. N. Y. Sun. A HINDOO UlRfS DAY- The Mhael OeaajMsttiea nt i.ittu Wur- alitprr nt Ju(-rnaut. The following document has been translated by the London Queen Into English from tho vernacular Indian dialect in which it was written by a young girl of about sixteen. At the examination of a girls' school In the Deccnn by the local committee of man agers tho pupils wore requested to wrlto tho story of tholr dally life and avocations. The exercises which they produced were very similar In many points, but this w. one of the bost: After getting leave from school on Saturday I wont home and put away my slato and books. I next took off my school dress, and after having put on other clothes, I attended to house hold work. When evenln came I lit the light in tho house, and taking my beads I went to worship our god Jug onnt h Having prostrated myself be fore our grent Lord Jugonath, 1 went into the house, and tnklng my book at down to read. When tho night was somewhat advanced I put uway my book. Then having taken my food and washed my face and hands, I spread my bed on the ground and sat down. Then I gave praise to the great Father and supreme Lord, and went to aleep. In the early morning I got up, and. having performed my household duties, I t -ok my book and sat down to rend. When the sun was well up I anointed myself with oil and went out to bat to- Then I came home and changed my wet clothes and put them in the sun to dry. Than, having made my reverence to our household spirit ual sacher. I made my prostration to tha sun. and, having received spiritual comfort, returned to the house. I than look food, and, having washed my face and hands, I ate some betel nut and sat down lo write. When the day was sent I returned to my house hold work and again worshiped the god-lugonath. Now I have come again to school, and if there are any faultt or mistakes in thl eierciae 1 bop they will be forgiven." In several towns near Bombay of fer have been made to the missionaries to open schools among the native, no objection being raised to the assurance that the education would be on strictly Christian principles- A lack of money to occupy these centers was the only reason for refuaal, aa freedom to teach the Bible waa fully granted by the Brahmin, who desired the thorough teaching and high moral influence of tfca mlMlonarlaa. Several societies of Brahmin in Southern India have bean formed for tha sola purpose of studying the Bible. . NATURAL HISTORY. I wo IVsjassjw Tor liniiulu owail Hoys mi ( art a MM) inn.. m BUMARTi The elephant could have been made great dial larger, bnt ho was sawed IT and trimmed up to present size for the convenience of circus mon In get ting him around tho country. There was no Intention of making him honu tiful or ornamental, hs ho would then have come In competition with tobog gan slides and haystack. In his native state the elephant doe more or less gamboling and doesn't dered at. They have an excellent hom o TUB CAMKL At first sight It would seem as If the mnie I had boon manufactured from the craps left over after all othor beasts had boon created, but such Is far from being tho case. He was mado as a companion for tho sand-bar and tho and that only second-class walor, and the beast was thoroto o provided with two stomachs one to act a a receiv ing basin and cleanse the water of sand-bars, brickbats, mud turtles and othor foreign substances, and tho other as a reservoir to hold a week's supply. A camel has boon known to go thirteen flays without a drink after his reser voir was full, but that was rather im posing on good Uturt Nature probably Intended all eamolB to have two humps, but there wasn't hump-backed material enough to go around, or ono of them somehow got lost The object of the double hump Is two-fold. One was to hold a saddle In placo, and the other was to store up fat against a call. When he can find nothing to eat he draws on these humps, and Ills drafts are always honored. While hard on the humps It U a good thing for their owner, and tho economic Arab only wishes that his camels had boon all humps and stomachs. Those who have mado a voyage on a camel's back have thereafter been perfectly satisfied that there is nothing llko It on earth. The motion Is sort of cross between falling down the cellar stairs ami being picked up by a cyolone, but no one should blamo the camel for It It wasn't his fault that he was not born a canal boat or a gondola. In ono respect tho camel Is like a newspaimr editor -ho is patient and long suffering and ho will not turn un til tho limit has boon reached. Then look out! If loft to tako euro of him elf the camel would live sixty or sev enty year, but whon carted around with a circus ho gets tired of life at about thirty, nnd Is found dead in bed tome morning with a sad smile on his 9011 nl en iliee The one-hump camol Is a sort of one horso beast, under-sized and looked upon with the samo distrust that U felt toward tho average alderman. Thero a never a day that hu doesn't feel that he might to havo been born a whale or tome other hnrdsomo and useful ani mal, and his span of life is reduced anc-half in consequence. Detroit Froe Pross. at a A Sample of Chicago Wit. Doctor (to patient) I havo hausted overy othor resource. ax- my dear sir. and with your permission I will now give you a hypodermic In jection of Dr. Brown-Sequard's elixir. Patient (Kansas City man) Have you ever tried It on any b'dy? "Yes, I havo usod It with excellent results on several persons. I remem ber ono In particular a gentleman from St. Ixiuls upon whom I attend ed a few days ago. and " "Did the elixir help hlmP "Made a now man of him, sir " "Actually put life Into a St. Louis man! Go ahead, doctor, go ale-ad! ' -Chicago Tribune. a 1 The savage who has recently been discovered in the depths of Africa proudly wearing in tha lobe of hll right ear a bishop that had strayed ur been stolen from a set of chess men. is doubtless determined to utilize all the resource of civilization that come within reach. A while ago an African chief was making a silver watch case do duty a a tobacco pouch, and an other wore around his neck as hit chief ornament the gilded knob of an explorer's tent pole Even trouseit can be utilized by the most scantily Iressed native, a wa recently shown by a chief to whom a pair was pre sented with the requost that he wear them. He appeared In public soon after with the garment carefully ar ranged over his shoulders. A good pasture with plenty of water Is Indispenslble in the growth of the best hogs. A clover pasture la -st, but any thing la better than tha tloae pen. There were seventy conversion r cently In Cobleigh Seminary, Nagasaki, Japan. Tha Kohl are said to be mora in clined to Christianity than any other native of Assam. True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind of all true pleasure, and even procure for u the highest It doe not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of tha truth of tha Bible. It require aa nanl heart and a willinguea so obey God.-Barnoa. IN BONANZA DAYS. Wli.n All California Wn Wild In tha llaat for Waalth. The report that Mr Mackey. wife of tho California millionaire, had en tered suit against an English news paiier for publishing the statement that her mother was a washerwoman, has revived talk about the old bonanza days on the Pacific coast One of tha California colony, who makes his headquarters at the Gault House, chatted pleasantly about linn - times the other night "Did vou ever know," said he, "that It was In a sa loon on Washington sUoct San Fran cisco, that the bonanza princes of tha coast laid the foundation of their wealth? It was kept by Flood and O ld ion. nud was a great reort for the truckmen iu the neigh borhood. Occasionally an old winner, who had come down to tho bay. as they called It, to have a good time, visited the sa loon; and among them was Mackey and Fair, who soon picked up an ac quaintance with tho proprietors. Flood and O'lirien had some monoy to Invost in mining stock, and it was agreed that Mackey and Fair would furnish the point and they would all stand In together. The syndicate soon grow, and long before the bonanza was discovered, or, rather, known to the public, the stock of tho Consolidated Virginia and Con solidated California, thou selling very low, was largely held by the four, and. In fact, thoy controlod tho majority of tho share. When It became known to tho gen eral public that an almost Inexhausti ble body of ore assaying up In the tnousands and estimated aa being worth billions of dollars had boon dis covered In tho two groat Comstock mines, San Francisco wont wild with excitement Shares that were selling at $.16 to $40 jumped In a week to $M40, and. though beared from day to day by brokers for speculative purposes, their value kept on Increasing until they were, in March, 1876, worth $1,300 each. Tho failure of the Hank of California had no effect on the passion of gam bling in mining stocks, and money wa just as plentiful as ever in the early part of 1H7& Consolidated Vir ginia alone was putting out $8,000,0110 a month, and the entire yield from the Comstock lode for tho year wa $74, 00,000. In this year Bonanza shares had reached tho top notch, being sold for close on $1.4l. Thoy went down considerably the following year, and were watered, but the mania for spec ulation was strong aa ever. A young lad of sixteen named Kuchel stole $80, Q00 worth of stock from Dr. Fox, a millionaire broker, who was paying him 10 a month while allowing the boy to handle millions. By speculat ing with the stolen seeurltes the boy made $200,000. The securities were missed, and the lad. when arrested, told the detective he had lost all ho had made. In court he broke down and cried bitterly, and enlisted the sympathy of the judge, who gave him only flvo year in Slate' prison. Ho was pardoned out In a cat on account of good conduct and his gallant efforts to put out a fire In ' tho prison. On being set free he cool ly told tho warden of the prison that his mother had $100,000 of the monoy he had mado. and that he wa going over to Germany, whore she was, lo , help her spend It There were multitude of tragedies ci clod ith the bunanza days, and ' suicide was epldomlc The records of the coroner's office showed that two per cent of all the deaths In the city, including Infants, were thoso of sui cides. Among the prominent onoswa that of "Sandy" Austin, the city I treasurer. Ho was supposed to have ! mado a few millions, had a town resi dence and a magnificent mansion la San Meteo County, near that of Sena tor Stanford. He was extremely pop ular and a shrewd politician One morning, In his bed-room at his ooun try rerldonco, without apparent cause he blew his brains out An examina tion showed that he had lost all his own money, and, in an effort to re cover It $70,00J belonging to the city. N. Y. Star. How to Make a Kaleidoscope. A delightful entertainment for tha children can be given by making a kaleidoscope of the piano and a few bit of different colored worsteds or tissue paper, or both. Open tho piano, then raise the cover that forms the front of the Instrument when olosed, not upright, but an angle of forty-live degrees, and keep It In place by muslo book (or a board) plaoed the entire length of It, at the same angle. Plaoe a lamp where It la usually plaoed, at the left of the key-board, the light from It will then strike the two pol ished surfaces of the cover. Stand at the side of the piano before the triang ular opening, and slowly move or en tangle the worsteds or paper, taking care not to hold them so close to tho opening that the light can not strike the polished wood Let the children stand at the other end of the piano and look through the opening. Listen to their exclamations of delight and you will feel repaid for whatever time and labor the display ha cost - Cor. Country Gentleman. i An old negro walked into one of the store at Vienna. La., lately and offered some eggs for sale. The mer chant proffered htm 15 cents per dozeo for them In trade. The negro scratched his head a minute, and said: "Boss, dem white folks dun tola me uot to take leas than 12J cents fur deaa hare eggs, and 1 'spools I better take mm horn" The Mission of tha American Bap tist Missionary Union among the Telu gus Is reaping astonishing results. Since tha beginning of 1889 there hava been over 1.000 baptisms In the Angola district, and 471 In tha Vinukonda dla trlcl. The Bishop of Tennessee Is building a substantial dormitory near Fisk Uni versity for the accommodation of young colored men whom tha Diocese will aim to train for the ministry of the Episcopal church in connection with tha University and by arranga- wUh Its authority.