MARRIAGE IN ASSYRIA.
KatkM- Hon at Matter of Barter Tbtra
Thin In tb Laud of the Free.
Men live on six cents a day in Assyria.
Assyrian women ore bought and sold,
are made to work with oxen at the plow,
and bare as little liberty as in the days
of Cadmus. Men who pay six dollars a
day to lire and ladies who ride to shops
in victorias thought over these things as
they left the Irfncoln Park church Sun
day night. Amen Rasi, born on Mount
Lebanon, told these things in broken
English.
Amen Rasi is a tall, handsome Assy-
rian. with a skin as rich as the cinna
mon silks made at the foot of the moun
tain on which he was born. He looked
into the curious, bright eyes of girls
" and told them that, had they been born
Assyrians in Assyria they conld not go
npon the streets nnless their faces were
concealed: that they could neither re
ceive nor make a call among women
without their husbands' consent, and
that if at any time, even by accident,
they vsre seen by any man or in any
way recognized no one would marry
them.
He said that once two couples a tall
man and a short woman, and a short
' man and a tall woman 6tood before a
priest to be wed. .The priest placed the
tall man and tall woman and the short
man and short woman together, and
uone of the four knew whether it was
right or not, neither of them knowing
the other. But the parents hastily ob
jected, and placed the tall man by the
short woman and the short man by the
tall woman, as that was the way of the
contracts.
Then Mr. Rasi showed how these con-
tracts were made. He left the pulpit,
and presently a man wrapped np in rich
Assyrian raiment went np and sat upon
the floor,. Mr. Rasi came back and
squatted beside him. . ,
"1 would very much like," he said,
for a girl who is yours to be wife to my
son Isaac.'"
"1 would be honored," returned the
man, with a very unmistakable Ameri
can accent. , ......
"How many' have you?
Three." "
"How mnch years have they?" -"One
is fifteen, one twenty and one
twenty-five."
"Don't talk to me about the twenty
five nor the twenty; they are never fit to
marry. How mnch do yon charge for
the little oner .
ilTl ' . 1 j, 1 ,, ,
utiuoiD, auilt uuraes. Luree sneep
and fifty dollars."
"Bah! I can buy 100 women for so
much.'"
"But no little one."
"Oh, I think so." '
."Well, you can't have mine for a cent
"lpay."
But even then Isaac did not get the
little one, because a few minutes later
Mr. Rasi returned as another man, and
by. doubling the price secured the girl
for his son Jacob.
fTl r. - t , a, . ,
mas. wnose patent learners cose mem
seven dollars, and told them that people
in Assyria paid fifty cents for a suit of
clothes. The common -people, he said,
paid three cents for twenty-five pounds
' of cabbage and four cents for five pounds
of turnips. Fifty loaves of bread were
turned oat at a baking, and men some
times ate four and five loayes at a meal.
He waited ror a moment, and then, turn
ing to a black boy behind him, said,
"They are so big," and he drew circle
that wonld inclose a Thanksgiving plat
ter. Chicago Herald.
'... It Looked Great.
Mr. Q. Si. Clinton placed "Coventry,
England," after his name on the Audi
torium register the other morning. A
, reporter asked him what he thought of
thiscountry in general.
" "Oh, I like it pretty well," he replied.'
"Have yon traveled very extensively
in the United StatesT
"All over it.
"Have yon been in Chicago before?"
"Often." .
"Do yon intend to remain in this coun
try long?"
or tiie resi oi my me.
"Then you like it so well that you in
tend to settle here?"
"1 think I will. Tve been in the
United States for twenty-seven years.
It suits me first rate. . I register from
Coventry because it looks better than
Hell Creek, where 1 live, and so that 1
can remember to write letters to my
people in England. Haven't seen Cov
entry since 1 was a small boy and don't
want to, 'but the name looks simply
great on a hotel book. Don't you think
so?" Chicago Inter-Ocean. ,
Tli Scales on m Flair.
If yon look at a human hair under the
microscope you aill find that its surface
is formed of successive overlapping
scales. The bristles of the hog bear
mnch resembles to the human hair,
though their diameter is greater and the
tilelike, scales are much finer. Sheeps'
hair has mnch coarser scales. It is
owing to the existence of these scales
that a schoolboy is able by a peculiar
process to tell which is the tip and which
the other end of a hair, rolling it be
tween his finger and thumb. Thus
manipulated, the hair always travels in
the direction of the base, because the
edges of the scales prevent it from going
ton Star. '
V Tho Cultivated .Oyster.
When your host places before you
oysters that are plump and round and
thick and deep and light colored and
mantled "narrowly by a fringe quite
thick to the very edge, then yon may be
, sure that! they have not only lived with
few distnrbances, but under a high state
of cultivation. Edward - L. Wilson in
8cribners. .
or Lit lie Faith.' , - .
Mrs. Blink Dear mer it's raining.'
How am I to jet this letter mailed?
Friend Ilaiid it to the letter ck rrier.
Mrs. ... Blink Hnh! He'd forget .all
about . it , 1 He's a man. fev York
Wwfciy. . v
Box Office Queries. ' .
' Charley Metcalfe was telling some
stories illustrative of the box office man's
tribulations. "If it weren't for some
people's flirty . thumbs," said he, T4
wish the Lord had made me in book
form. I don't put in much time in the
box office, but the few minutes I am
there . is enough for - a lifetime. The
average ticket buyer asks enough inane
questions, but what do you think of a
man who sticks his head .through the
window and wants to know the name of
a big teamer he saw going down the
East river day before yesterday? Well,
my boy, that's what happened this very
mornings and that's not.' a marker' to
the questions some people ask either. ' '
"There's the man who knows every
thing and wants you to recognize it, the
man who knows nothing and proves it.
and the woman who is nothing more or
less than a perpetually animated inter
rogation mark. Why, two . days ago a
man came in and told . me all about the
piece then being played to the house,'
After getting rid of him 1 had to choke
off a long breath to -inform a fellow
that the theater was neither a hotel nor
a lodging house. He said he was sorry
that he liked the location first rate. Be
fore I had recovered from the fit he gave
me, a man with three baskets, four chil
dren and a woman walked into the
lobby! ., .
'Be they a-actin or anything inside?
asked the man. "'No, sir," said L 'Per
formance at 8:15.' Then what do you
suppose that man wanted? He actually
had the stupendous gall to ask zne'if he
and his family couldn't go inside and
sit down for an' hour or so while they
ate their luncheon!" New York World.
Women and Mice. '
- 'I wish somebody would find some
thing to' take the place of the exceed
ingly stale and silly 'women and mice'
paragraph which has been going . the
rounds of the papers, with divers and
sundry changes rung on it, ever since 1
can remember, and goodness knows how
much longer," said a charming little
woman as she opened ' the mousetrap
and let two or three of its occupants out
into the jaws of a number of hungry kit
tens. "I wonder who started .it any
way? Of course there are women who
are afraid of mice, no doubt, but I never
saw a woman make herself more ridicu
lous over a mouse than a certain man
did when one of these harmless little
creatures scooted up the leg of his trou
sers. . . ' ... . .. . -. : .
.. '.'f don't imagine any one would ' feel
especially comfortable with any such
foreign element meandering around one's
preserves; but why 'women and mice'
in particular, is what 1 don't understand.
I think there are very few housekeepers
but what have frequent occasions to
come in contact with ratsas well as
mice, and. as far as 1 can see,' tney-seem-to
survive at all events, I . never heard
of anybody dying from fear of .them. , 1
suppose that the mouse paragraph must
be near akin to that of the mother-in-law.
- Be that ' as it may, both are so
threadbare and faded and frayed out
and bleached with time and hard serv
ice that it would be a work of mercy
for some benevolent and intelligent para
grapher to get op a new Bupply of am
munition." New York Liedger. .
"JU 4sj r "Poor" (employees.
To look after the city's standing army
of dependents and delinquents requires a
big official force. . There are three com
missioners with- $3,000 a year -each, a
secretary who gets $2,300 and a staff of
eleven at the central office, besides the
superintendent nf the outdoor poor and'
six assistants. . . . ,
There are 45 employees at - the Tombs,
including 4 physicians, and 4 matrons.
There are 81 employees in the district
prisons (Jefferson Market, Essex Market,
Yorkville and Harlem), 72 employees at
the Bellevue hospital, besides 54 trained
female nurses, a chemist and 3 assist
ants, and CS male nurses and employees.
There is a staff of 13 at the Gouveraeur
hospital, of 10 at the Harlem hospital,
of 130 at the Charity hospital on Black
well's island, of 83 at the penitentiary,
of 42 in the almshouse, of 45 in the work
house, of 250 in the city insane asylum,
of 50 in the Ward's island hospital, of
300 on Randall's and Ward's islands, of
22 at the Hart's island workhouse, of
150 at the Hart's island asylum, of 75 at
the Islip asylum and of 18 in the store
house department on Blackwell's island.
New York Sun.
Remarkable Feat of Strength. -
E. P. Kendall gave a remarkable ex
hibition of his skill and strength with a
ten-pound dumbbell at. noontime. He
matched himself against eight strong
men employed . upon , the grade work
about : the county court house, and
agreed to put up from shoulder to arm's
length a ten-pound dumbbell more times
than the eight men could. Kendall has
a limb which makes it necessary for him
to use crutches, and as he is of very
slight build the result of the contest ap
peared to be a foregone conclusion.
One after another the eight men took
their places, Kendall keeping time with
each one, ,nn,d after the eighth had
dropped his arm from sheer exhaustion
Kendall smiled pleasantly and ran np
his score of consecutive lifts to an even
1,000. His best score with a twelve-pound
bell "is 2,600 lifts, and he has a brother
who holds the world's championship.
Seattle Press-Times.
Living on Eighty-four Cents a Week.
While on the subject- of abstinence in
food, may I be pardoned for mentioning
that many years ago, when a schoolboy,
I tried bow- cheaply I could live, and
found thai 1 was able to get, in summer,
everything I required in the shape o
good, wholesome food for three shillings
six and a' half pence a week. Of course
I had little meat, and kept principally to
fruit and vegetables, which I could buy
cheap, as 1 was near a large town.
National Review
The phrase, "castles in the air," has
been attributed to Sir Philip Sydney.
Swift. Fielding ' Churchill and Shen
stone. It was first used more than 250
years age by .Robert" Burton in his
"Anatomy of Melancholy." "
! PUFF! AND' OUT THEY GO.
A Carom In Colorado That Kesents the
Intrusion or Stranger. ,
There Is a cave near Rockwood, a sta
tion on the Denver and Rio Urunde rail
road, which has been visited by many
persons. No particular mention of the
cave has been made, as it seemed to be
little worthy of notice. On Sunday last
a number of pleasure seekers left this
city to join a party at Rockwood who
had planned to visit the cava "About 4
o'clock in the afternoon the members of
the party, having disposed of their din
ner, began to climb the hill. near, the
top of which the month of the 'cave is
located." , -. , ' - ., ' - ,:
After mnch exertion the foremost of
the party readied the mouth of the cave,
and being in irlvance of his companions
they were startled to see him fall back
ward into the low oak brush as if he had
been thrown from a catapult Bos com
panions pushing forward more vigorous
ly, soon came to His rescue and found
him recovering, not "mnch, hurt, put
slightly scratched and somewhat dazed
He could give no explanation of his sud
den removal from the opening to the
cavern." "' .
- Curious to know what the cause was
the entire company in a body pushed up
the hill, which has a particularly steep
descent near the month; of the cave. To
the. astonishment of the ..whole number
the instant after stepping into the cave ;
they found themselves nil piled together
in a spot near where the first had landed,
it took but a little while to recover from
the entanglement, when they began to
inquire the cause of this sudden excite
ment. They.all agreed, that they bid
seen nothing to cause such a thing, and
they were curious, to know the reason
for the phenomenon. "'.'But how to Jind
out what they wished was -the thing .to-
aeciae. . ... ..r. . ., . . ;
At last it was determined , that the
strongest gentleman of the party should
gain a position, at the side, of the en
trance, and,;-thnsprotect get an op
portunity to reconnoiter. So. taking a
circuitous route and avoiding a position
directly in front of the opening, they
soon found themselves ' close beside the
entrance. Cautiously' putting bis head
out beyond the protecting wall, the fore
most peered it His hat. mi mediately
took flight down the declivity, but 'he
was thus nia'le aware of the exact state
of affairs.-' .' .. ; .. ;. .
The philosophy of the current of air
in. caves suddenly dawned upon him.
As is well known the air of .a warm day
in summer is much, lighter' on tthe- out
side of a caye or cellar than it is inside.
Consequently the cold, heavy air rushes
out with great violence enough in this
case to cause the trouble' spoken of and
throw the party down the hill. ' - -i
Later, relating this tale, an old timer
told your correspondent of former ads
venture of his at the same place. Onc
cold day in -the ; early winter be was
tracking a deer along this liUside, when
ne was astonisnea lo see. .tne cave open
up before him, and he -noticed that.the
snow, seeined to -.have -a been disturbed
very recently,- a, though iai body vbad.
been dragged into the entrance. - -,
. Without thinking,, he stepped forward
to -examine into the r cause -of . the.,, dia
turbed condition of -the snow.'when.he
felt himself violently-- pulled , into the
cave, the forte pulling ; him - from Jiis
feet. He felt a shock, and for awhile
was oblivious to all around him. When
his senses returned he found he was
lying by and , partially .upon the body" of J
a fleer. - lpon examination he found the
body of the deer yet warm. This led to
a still vcloser' examination.' He at last
determined that the force of the current
of air blowing into, .the pave had drawn
the 4eer in. "killing it, but that when he
was drawn in the shock was somewhat
obviated, by his striking the ,deer, thus
saving him from death. The explana
tion is just the reverse of the-other, the
air being, warmer inside the cave, than
ont. vThe current flows' into the.: caye
during the winter, rthus .accounting foe.
the strange affair.. Denver Sun. v
' - Taming a ebra.
Zebras can never be tamed, unless the
process is begun while they are still very,
young. ' BL A. Bryden gives an instance,
of a tragic fate which befell one of them,
captured when he was 7 or 8 years old
: He had joined a troop of horses belong
ing to one of the author's, friends, and
finally allowed himself to be driven with
them into a kraal or. inclosure.. It was.
then determined to keep. him. and if pos
sible to domesticate nim. , ,
For this purpose- he was lassoed and
tied to a tree, but so ferocious was he in
the presence of man .that 'the greatest
precautions had to be . observed in ap
proaching him. All possible' means were
taken to induce him to feed... When cap
tured he was in splendid condition, and
his coat shone in the sun. Herbage was
brought from the mountain tops where
he had been used to graze, and every
conceivable food placed before him, but
in vain; he steadily refused to eat.
Water he drank greedily,1 and would
dispose of three bncketf uls at a time.
At length, after three weeks of vain
endeavor to tame ,the noble creature,
during which time he subsisted entirely
on water, he died. Youth's Companion.
-The Use of the Word Telepathy.
The term telepathy must not be In
troduced without . explanation. Some
term not yet in common use must be
employed when mental phenomena in
fluences of mind on mind not generally
seen to be closely related have to be
classed . together ' and. if possible,
brought under one law. ' The familiar
term "though transference" has much
too limited a meaning. And ''telep
athy" is already in use. '' It has been
adopted by the Society for ' Psychical
Research, and among othjir -writers, es
pecially by Mr. Edmund" (i'urney.
Blackwood's Magazine. - ' ' ' '
Met, Loved. l el and l.'ii-:--'.r.'.- j -.
Albert Tolbert is one of tin best known
young men abont town. He was em
ployed in the. Southern iiaiKvay'bffice
and also in the Fidelity bank.' -TO his
friends he was known as u' confirmed
bachelor. Great was tijoir surprise whed'
lie returni'il t tlie city two wefks vago
with a pretty lady whom he introaucea
as his wife. She was a resident of the
neighborhood of Georgetown. Her father
is a rich Blue Grass stpekman.
The happy couple after their marriage
visited Florida and contemplated atrip
to California, when all of a sudden they
agreed to disagree. ' .,
Mr. Tolbert magnaninonsly says, that
he cannot make her happy.. Mrs! Tol
bert, so far as appearances are concern
ed, seems to be willing to proceed in the
old lines, but Albert called a halt They
consulted counsel. 1 " -:
Tolbert gave his bride $1,000 in jewelry
and $3,500 in United States liondsyfind,
as a measure of arood luck, ho laffc at
tached thereto, the coupons which are
1 T, a no. To .... . - mi . j.i . - -
- vauuai . j.iit;ii iixcy jtisseu,
embraced, took one more look into each
other's eyes and parted. She returned
to Georgetown.. He is in this cijty.
Cincinnati Jor. e biiadelphia Record.
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J. V. 8.' Is tlio only Srsair:!l.i tliat. !.! or
feeblo pcoplo should take, ni liio mineral Hitao!i
Which is In every otlicr.Sari:a;a:-illu limt v. c kiunr
of, is under certain conditions knimu to lie
emaciating, JV- S, on the roulmir in purely
TCgetable aud stimulates ui-estioii nod creates
new blood, '.the very thins fi-r old, Oclicate or
broken dbivn. people. It luiilils tl-m tip and
prolongs their lives. . A case in iinl:
Mrs. BcIdeR an estimable and elderly lady of
610 Jlnso-.i St.'S. F. w as for months declining so
rapidly as to seriously alarm l.cr family. It got
o bad that she vras filially aillii ted with faiutine
spells." She Writes: "While in ttralU dangerous
condition I taw some of the -testimonials con
ceruing J.V.S. and sent forabottle. That marked
the turning point-.-: I regained rayjost flesh aau
strength and;, bare not felt to well in years."
That was two"yeaxs ago and Mis. Belden is well
aad hearty to-day. and still taking J. V. 8.
If yon are old or feeble and want to be built np.
Ask for
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Same price, $1.00, six for $5.00. .
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Banltv and- leadinsr to miserr. deeav and death.'
Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Loss of Power,
in eiuier sex, i ii voluntary 'losses ana Bpermat
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abuse or over indulgenoe. . Each box contains
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in cure any case. With each order received b
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. .. PMsertptlon Druggists,
179 Second St. '- .The. Dalles. Or.
V.y4 ,. CLEVKLAjfb; ' Wash,i " i
y'- Z. June 19th, 1891.f
BiJiMedicine Cbg' '. .'- . ' " ''-' ::'
Gbstlbmes Yohr kind favor received
and in reply would say that I am more
than pleased witlr the terms offered me
on the last shipment of Vonr medicines.
There Is nothing like, them ever intro
duced in this country, especially for La
grippe and kindred, complaints. I have
had no complain ta so far, and everyone
is'ready with a" word "of praise for their
virtues. Yours, etc.; ,
' M, F. Hackle y.
A Revelation.
y rtm fxopm snow uw taa
DrigBfe nuNrsRW color OX
the ordinary tea exposed in '
the windows la not the na-
ural color. Unpleasant as the
fact may be, it is nevertheless
artificial; : mineral coloring
matter being used. . for this
purpose. The effect is- two
fold. It not only makes the
' tea a bright, shiny green, but slo permits ti e
. mae of " off-eolor " and worthless teas, which,
once nder the green cloak, are readily
worked off as a good quality of tea.
An eminent authority writes on. this sub
ject: The manipulation of poor teas, to give
them a finer appearance, is carried on exten
sively. Green teas, being in this country
especially popular, are produced to meet the
demand by coloring cheaper b'ack chid by
glaslng or facing with Prussian blue, tumeric,
gypsum, and indigo. Thit method U so pew
rai that eery Utile genuine uaeolored green tea
'. st offered for tale." " - -x
. Jt was the knowledge ef this condition i l
affairs that prompted the placing of Beech's
- Tea before the public. It is absolutely pure
and without color. Did you ever, see any
genuine ancolored. Japan tea? Ask youj
grocer to open a package of Beech's, and yon
will see it, and probably for the very first
time. It will be found in color to be just be
tween the artificial green tea, that you have
been accustomed to and the black teas. '
It drawsadelightfol canary color, and is so
fragrant that It will be a revelation to tea
oMnkera,. Its parity-makes it also more
-economical than the artificial tt.-a.i, for lew
of it Is required per cup. Soldouly iu pound,
packages bearing this trade-mark:. , ,
BEECH'? TEft
:Pure:AsWdhood:
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SUM
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. It for you. Price GOo per poand. i"or sale al,
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The Daily
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