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SEEDS !
HER LIGHT GUITAR.
James W. Riley.
She twankled a tune on her light guitar
A low sweet -jangle of tang led sounds.
As blurred as the voices of fairies are,
Dancing in the noondawn dales and downs,
Ann the tinkling dip of the strange refrain
Rau o'er the rim of my soul like rain.
i
The great blonde moon in the midnight skies
raused aud poised o er the trellis eaves,
And the stars in the light of her upturned
eyes.
Sifted their love through the rifted leaves
minted and splintered In crystal mist
Down the glittering string that her fingers
kissed. f
O, the melody mad! O, the tinkle and thrill
Uf the ecstasy of the exquisite thing I
The red rose dropped from the window-sill
And lay in a long swoon quivering:
While the dying notes of the strain divine
Rippled in glee up my spell-bound spine.
SEVRES PORCELAI N.
The Ted Ions Processes of Prepara
tion of the Material Used.
J. H. Haynie in San Francisco Chronicle.
Sevres porcelain Is composed of a mix
ture of feldspath, a kind of rock which
is a silicate of aluminum and potassium ;
of kaolin, which is j a pure silicate of
aluminum and of Bougival chalk.
When each of these three substances
has been triturated, carefully cleansed
of all foreign elements and reduced to
an impalpable powder, they are mixed
with water in. plaster-troughs, called
cogues (shells), which absorb the super
fluous water, and the paste thus ob
tained is called the pate, or dough, of
the porcelain. Kaolin is infusible, but
the silicate which comes from the
feldspath is fusible, and the chalk aids
it in becoming melted under the action
of extreme heat. It is, therefore, upon
the proportions in which they are mixed
that depends the greater or less perfec
tion of the porcelain in its two most
important and distinguishing features
resistance to the heat and translucency.-
vv hen the pate has been mixed there
remains the shaping of it into the re
quired article.
At Sevres there are two processes
of doing this turning and molding
and nob frequently I the two are com
bined m the production of porcelain.
In the first process the workman takes
a ball of this dough, and after having
thoroughly kneaded it, places it upon a
potter's wheel in order to give it the
desired form.. In the other process
the dough is mixed with water until it
has the consistency of cream, when it
is called barbotine. This is poured
into a plaster mold, on the side of
which a thin coating o' the stuff is
quickly deposited. As it dries this
coating detaches itself by a natural
shrinking process. ; The drying is some
times accelerated (by various means,
such as the centrifugal force resulting
from rapid turning the mold on a
wheel, or compressed air acting on the
interior, or by placing the mold under
an air-pump. When the article has
been shaped the workman adds the
handle, if one be needed, and then it
passes into the hands or a skillful
turner, who carefully finishes it on a
lathe.
Any ornamentations which are to be
added in relief are fixed, in place and
finished by hand in colored pate on the
white articles and in white pate on the
colored ones. The colored pate is ob
tained by triturating the pate in its
natural state it is white in a little mill
with various oxides, aocording to the
color desired. This coloring an easy
matter for the pate tendre is a very
delicate operation for the pate dure, as
a very high temperature being indis
pensable in order to obtain the glazing,
the oxides are liable to decompose,
either fading or changing in tint, and
giving dull colors instead of the bright
shades desired. But when the color
has been fixed by the baking it is un
changeable. Sometimes there is a lace
like pattern cut on the article. This
is done while the pate is soft and gen
erally by women, who acquire such
skill that their work has all the fineness
of real Valenciennes.
After a first baking, or the degourdi,
as it is termed, the glazing is added
This is a wash made put of a solution of
feldspath and quartz, and it melts and
vitrifies under a high degree of heat.
The real baking! is with the highest
degree of heat that can be obtained and
takes two da vs. It produces in the
pate a demi-vitrification, after which it
becomes porcelain.
A Story of Registrar Bruce.
(Washington Letter.
Anent the story that Mrs. Bruce,
wife of ex-Senator and Kegistrar of the
Treasury Bruce, was snubbed at the
president's reception qn New Year's
day a story since denied, though it is
believed to have some foundation the
following incident, showing the true
gentlemanly character oi air. uruce.us
related : vv hen Mr. uruce was sena
tor from Mississippi, a young lady,
whose relatives before the war were
immediate neighbors of the family with
whom Bruce lived, and who, through
the misfortune of war, lost everything,
applied for a position in the treasury
department. Her application was
vaguely made, and met with equal suc
cess. She was in desperate financial
straits.
"As a dernier ressort she applied to
Senator Bruce. What do you suppose
he said to her ? j What he said was this
'Miss . I have an appointment left
at my disposal in the department
I well remember your family down m
Mississippi in old tunes, lou shall
have that position, and at once. I
know, of course, Miss , that you
on account of our difference in color,
and on account of things generally,
would be disobliged if I were to offer
to go in person with you, but my
brougham is outside, and 1 will see you
to it: tell mv driver to drive slowly,
and I will take a street car and be at
the department before you and have the
secretary appoint you. And he did it.
That act I know to be a fact."
A. V. Dicey t Classes whose voice
cannot be heard are neglected, not be
cause they are disliked or because any
one wishes to ! oppress them, but be
cause their existence is forgotten.
Ticknor . Curtis: We do not rest
our belief in what is called the laws of
.gravitation upon any chain of proof in
uhich it is necessary to supply a unx
THE WEST INDIES.
The Land of the Palm, Sutmex and
Clove, Hnakes, Lizards and Earth-
quakes.
"Gath" has been interviewing a gen
tleman just returned from a tour in the
West India islands, and the following
extracts are from an account given in
The Cincinnati Enquirer :
"I suppose that you get all kinds of
bugs and reptiles in those islands ?"
"O, yes. There is a lizard there
called the iguana, which is perfectly
harmless, but it looks like the devil. It
has alligator scales, long, powerful tail,
a pouch under its throat, and is of sup
pressed green and yellow tints, and has
a rich, darting eye. The people eat it
like chicken. It grows to the length of
five feet, or almost as big as a man,
though you generally find them about
two feet long."
"Do they raise cocoa in those islands ?"
Tes, and caoao too. Cocoa is a
palm-tree, which bears a nut, the cocoa
nut; but cacao is a very small tree or
bush, which grows the material of
which chocolate is made. The plant
was discovered in Mexico very early,
and Cortez found the Aztecs using it.
The oacao-tree looks like a chestnut.
It produces the third year, but bears
the best at seven or eight, and requires
to be planted under shade. This
cacao grows so spontaneously and
brings such a good reward to the negro
planter that, like the bread-fruit, it is
a cause of his laziness. With about
one acre of ' these trees he can live
pretty well."
"What does the cacao look like?
"It looks like the cucumber whioh
had turned yellow or red, and is six
inches long, and grows something like
a lemon or a citron, from the tree,
changing color, as it develops, from
green to crimson, yellow and purple.
The seed is taken out of this cucumber
and dried and cured, and then put into
bags for shipment. The trouble with
the cacao is that it is adulterated with
vanilla and other beans. Monkeys and
rats are very fond of eating these cu
cumbers."
"Did you see much of the sugar cul
ture?"
Yes. Coolies hare to some extent
succeeded slaves or negroes in the cul
tivation of sugar, and get very low
wages 4 cents a day for children, 16
cents for women and 20 cents for men.
In these islands the laborers can lire
for 2 or 3 cents a day on fish, bread
fruit, yams, plantains, sweet potatoes
and bananas. They only work five days
in the week, taking Saturday for them
selves, and Sunday nobody works. They
drink rum. The coolies beat the ne
groes saving money, buy goods and cat
tle, and when they have served out
their time they go to the little towns
and set up shops, often rum shops,
whioh make things worse.
"Do they cultivate the spices in the
West Indies?"
"Yes, they cultivate mango and cin
namon, the clove and the nutmeg. Some
of these seeds were sent Irom the main
land of South America. They do not
do well in the West Indies, however,
the nutmeg making out better than any
other. The nutmeg tree looks like an
orange tree trimmed down. The clove
tree, where successful, yields about
seven pounds of cloves.
"What is the bread-fruit?"
"It i3 a tree which was intoducedinto
the . West Indies that grows lumps of
fruit several inches in diameter. In
side of the shell is a sort of watermelon
flesh, which is just as nutritious as
bread, and the laboring classes there eat
it for bread. With twenty of those
trees a man can live all his lifetime, and
need do nothing else but sleep. The
tree does not want to be cultivated at
all, but takes care of itself. It bears
eight months in the year, and for the
remaining four months is kept like po
tatoes under the ground or under
leaves."
'Where did the bread-fruit
come
from?"
"It came from Polynesia, and to bring
that tree to the West India islands the
ship Bounty was fitted out in 1797. As
she was coming back, with l.UUU roots
in pots, tubs and boxes, a mutiny broke
out, and the officers were set adrift by
the crew, and did nob reaoh land for
forty -one days. The mutineers were
afterward executed, with the exception
of a portion of them who got to Pit-
cairn island and founded a colony there.
This same lieutenant who commanded
the Bounty was given another vessel,
and returned to Otaheite. He brought
the bread-fruit to St. Vincent's island
in 1798."
"Do they have snakes in the West
Indies?"
"Yes; in Grenada there are plenty of
them which live in the forest and oc-'
casionally steal out and rob the planta
tions. Indeed, there are no animals in
the Antilles, no four-footed animals of
much account, except the monkey, the
armadillo and the agouti. The peccary
is extinct in every island but Tobago
There are some wild hogs in Domtmca
and St. Vincent, and, what is very sin gu
lar, there are wild cats in some of those
islands which are descended from tame
cats, and yet are just as wild as wild
cats, though not as powerful. There is
a sort of opossum from South America
in some of those islands, and there are
a few raccoons. I have seen monkeys
tearing down bananas and plantains."
"What other island did you visit?"
"Grenada. That is a portion of what
are called the Grenada islands. All
these islands are thought to be portions
of a sunken continent. Another theory
is that they were thrown up by fire.
There are a good many volcanoes still
in them, not very active, and mainly
sulphuric oozes and chimneys. In
Grenada there are a number of extinct
craters, some of which are filled with
water, and one of them makes a lake
two and a half miles around, 2,000 feet
above the sea. Nearly all these islands
have forts, and you can see the South
ern Cross standing out magnificently in
the night. By ' the way, on that island
vou can see oysters climbing trees. It
happens in this way: The tide rises
verv high, and the oyster goes up with
the tide and takes hold of the branches
and roots of trees that grow on the
shore. The tide goes out and the oys
ter stays there; so he seems to have
climbed up the tree."
The "White Lady" of the lloheasol
lerns.
Foreign Letter. '
A few nights ago the famous " Weisse
Dame," or White Lady, spintus famil
iaris of the Hohenzollern family is re
ported to have been seen - by the senti
nels before the Alte schioss in .Benin.
Nothwithstanding their profound skep
ticism, the Berliners, strangely enough,
still believe the story of the White
Lady. The capital is quite excited
over the pretended apparition. All are
talking about it and wondering what
member of ihe dynasty is next destined
to die.
The White Lady is a ghost who has
frequently been seen in different castles
and palaces belonging to the royal fam
ily of Prussia. She is supposed to fore
bode the death of some of the royal
family, especially one of the children.
Her last appearance was in 1879, jusl
prior to the death of Prince Waldemar.
A soldier on guard at the old castle was
witness of the apparition, and in his
fright fled to the guard-room, where he
was at once arrested for deserting his
post. --'m4'?J r-vf
Twice she has been heard to speak.
In December, 1628, she appeared in the
palace at Berlin and said, in Latin, "I
wait for judgment." Again at the
castle of Neuhaus, in Bohemia, when
she said to the princess, in German, "It
is 10 o clock, and the lady addressed
died in a few weeks.
There are two White Ladies in fact-
one the Countess Agnes, of Orlamunde,
who is referred to by our Berlin cor
respondent, and the other the Princess
Bertha von .Rosenberg, who lived in the
fifteenth century. The former was
buried alive in a vault in the palace.
She was the mistress of a margrave of
Brandenburgh, by whom she had two
sons. When the prinee became a widower
Agnes thought he would marry her,
but he made the sons an objeotion, and
she poisoned them, for which crime she
was buned alive. Another version is
that she fell in lore with the prince of
Parma and made away with her two
daughters, who were an obstacle to her
marriage, for wmch crime she was
doomed to "walk the earth" as an ap
parition.
The Princess Bertha is troubled be
cause an annual gift which she left to
the poor has been discontinued. She
appears dressed in white and carrying
at her side a bunch of keys.
Opera Singers Before the Opening.
Chicago Herald
"Does Mme. Nilsson commence sing
ing as soon as she enters the theatre be
fore a rehearsal ?" repeated Herr Kash
mann when The Herald reporter put a
question to inac enecc. "vny, cer
tainly. We all sing before the per
formance in our dressing-rooms. You
know one cannot risk to open the
mouth after a long silence only after ap
pearing on tne stage, une is very luceiy
to hit a false note, and if that should
happen at the very open'ng of an im
portant part it would not only confuse
the singer himself but the others also.
We always sing a few bars while waiting
m tne wings lor the sign of a prompter.
There, of course, we have to do it sotto
voce; but in the dressing-rooms we
sing right out to have the vcice clear
and ringing when our time comes. We
don't do that because we like it, but as
a matter of necessity."
"Do singers use any correctives during
a performance i" inquired the reporter.
"1 have heard that Wachtel eats dried
prunes and Mme. iucca munches
ngs, saia tne singer, put i can t say
wnetner mat is true, a lie great iei
mann, oi the Berlin opera, always has
ii ii a. z a riri- i m,T
half-and-hait that is, porter and cham
pagne ready for him when he does
the heavy parts in Warner's composi
tion. Coffee, either with or without
the yolk of an egg, and hot water is
much liked by - some singers. Others
take coffee with an addition of strong
liquor ; but 1 do not believe m any cor
rective. It may stimulate the voice for
the time, but a reaction is sure to fol
low. The best thing in the world is
continual training and practicing, and
a good protection and care of the
throat while the voice is nob in use."
Disinherited Knights of Wall Street.
"Oath's" New York Letter.
It would be a curious piece of litera
ture lor luture centuries it some man
would take the 1,100 brokers of New
York and docket their names and write
the history of each, just as carefully as
some of the chroniclers of feudal times
write the records of the knights. Manv
of these men have at one time
touched supreme possibilities of
wealth. Some have consideied that
they were worth $500,000, others
$1,000,000, others $2,000,000 or
$3,000,000. Generally speaking, their
minds are occupied in referring to that
day, and wondering whether it will
return. Some of them who are now
obscure private persons once handled
great speculations of a physical sort,
like steamship companies, new towns,
telegraph lines, summer resort places,
etc. The moment they fall out of these
schemes they turn into nothings; and
yet, while we are asleep, they are seek
ing in some way to compass another
chance of life. That is generally done
by finding somebody who has got some
money and operating upon his confi
dence. : '
One of Spurjeon's Stories. "
Exchange.
In Mr. Spurgeon's inexhaustible fund
of illustrative stories is one of a man who
used to say to his wife : "Mary, go to
church and pray for us both." But the
man dreamed one night, when he and
his wife got to the gate of Heaven,
Peter said: "Marv, go in for both
He awoke and made up his mind that
it was time for him to become a Chris
tian on his own account.
Xot In Proper Ctarae.
Brindbeau, the famous sporting fop,
had a costume lor every Kind of game
that he had shot at. One day, invited
to the duke of Orleans' shooting patty,
the duke drew his attention to a hare,
suggesting that he should fire. "I can
not. monsigneur," said Brindbeau, "I
am in my partridge toilet."
Arkansaw Traveler: When a man
comes ter de conclusion dat's he's gwine
ter be jes ez happy ez he ken, de worl'
will begin to imprube frum dat bery
mimt.
COOKERY IN VIENNA.
Xovel Kxhtbltlon lllustratlns
the
Culinary Art.
Eastern Letter.
An exhibition of a novel kind, illus
trating the culinary art, was held re
cently in Vienna. The keepers of all
the most renowned hotels and restau
rants exercised their skill and powers of
invention to please the eye' as well as
the palate; so that the jury, whose
honorary president is Count Kinsky,
the chief of the kitchen department at
court, had some difficulty in making its
awards.
A telegram from Vienna to The Lon
don Daily News said : The cookery
exhibition has proved a wonderful suc
cess. The King and all the streets
surrounding the horticultural halls are
blocked. Long rows of carriages and
dense crowds make movement all but
impossible. The exhibition doors w ere
closed three hours ago. Owing to the
large number of people admitted the
crowding became dangerous. Thous
ands, however, waited outside and
clamored to be let in. The emperor
atd the archdukes visited the exhibi
tion yesterday, and expressed their
satisfaction with what they saw. The
empress last night sent word that she
would visit the exhibition early this
morning. It was cleaned and lighted,
and at half-past 7 his majesty, with the
Archduchess Valerie, was received at
the gates, where electric lights were
shown in the wintry morning.
Among the most remarkable objects
to which her attention was drawn were
the gold dishes, in original and most
splendid forms. One hotel disguises
its game pies, fish and cakes in various
shapes a lloman emperor, Gothic
b .ildings, Chinese towers, fortresses,
Greek temples, and ships. A beefsteak
is decorated with bulls' heads small
masterpieces of plastic art. Pies show
their contents by having heads of
pheasants and grouse upon then. Two
sucking pigs dance upon their hind
legs on either side of a pie over which
a fluttering hen seems to protect the
eggs under her, which are already made
into a savory dish. A very remarkable
object is a large wild boar, whose
skeleton is exhibited side by side with
it. Pheasants, peacocks, game of all
kinds are shown in their natural form.
yet ready to be served. Besides these
luxurious dishes, are exhibited economi
cal dinners. All the paraphernalia of
kitchens, dining-rooms, cellars, are also
exhibited, and among this mass of deli
cate objects crowds numbering over
3,000 persons slowlv move.
When the doors were closed to pre
vent the public from storming the en
trance a panic siezed the people inside,
who did not know how to get out. At
last officials from the balcony explained
that one small ba.k-door was open,
but a disaster well-nigh happened.
While this' one narrow outlet was alone
open a curtain caught fire from an
electric wire. Happily few noticed it.
When the people outside became very
clamorous an official from a window
begged them to disperse, as it would
endanger their lives to let them in. The
crowds dispersed for a quarter of i an
hour. JNow, at 11 o clock, they are. as
dense as ever. The exhibition was
prolouged by one day, but the general
cry was why objects of such interest to
all were not exhibited m the rotunda.
Sons of Siberian Exiles.
Prince Krapotkine in Nineteenth Century.
as tne party enters some great vil
lage, it begins to sing the "Miloserd
naya the charity song. lhey call
it a song, but it hardly is that. It is a
succession of woes escaping from hun
dreds of breasts at once, a recital in
very plain words, expressing with a
childish simplicity the sad late of the
convict a horrible lamentation by
means of which the .Russian exile ap
f teals to the mercy of other miserables
ike ! himself. Centuries of sufferings,
pains and misery, of persecutions that
crush down the most vital forces of our
nation, are heard in these recitals and
shrieks. These tones of deep sorrow
recall the tortures of the last century.
the stifled cries under the sticks and
whips of our own time, the darkness of
the cellars, the wildness of the woods,
the tears of the starving wife. The
peasants of the village? on the Siberian
highway understand these tune? ; they
know their true meaning from their
own experience, and the appeal of the
itnvie of the sur.erers, as our
people call all prisoners is answered
by the poor ; the most destitute widow,
signing herseit witn tne cross, onngs
her coppers, or her piece of bread, and
deeply bows before the chained "suf
ferer' grateful to him for not disdain
ing her small offering.
The British House of Commons.
The Current '
The British house of v commons is to
have a new speaker when it meets next
month. The election of a speaker in
England is an entirely different affair
from the election of a speaker by our
house of representatives. It is unat
tended by any throes of political parti-
zanship and is usually quite a tame
affair. The position is not a party one,
Whig majorities have elected Tory
sneakers and Tory majorities have
placed Whig speakers in the charr.
Once, about hity years ago, tne
Whig, declined to re-elect Speaker
Sutton, a Tory whom they had placed
twice in the chair, because he had ven
tured to make a slight partisan ruling.
In later years the Liberals have re
elected Tory speakers and the Tory
parliament of 1874-1880 kept Speaker
Brande. a strong liberal . in the chair.
The speaker of the commons is under
stood to divest himself of all partisan
ship, and business m the house is m
consequence transacted witu greater
facility than would otherwise be the
case.
It Does Not.
Joseph Cook asks : "Does death end
all?" Not muchy, Joe; death docs not
nd all bv a larore maioritv. The fun
begins just about ihe time that the law
vers are called in to
interpret the con-
ditions of the will.
Alta California A
metropolis is a
draws men to it
powerful magnet and
bv many influences.
The reporter intended to say
looked au fait ;" the types had it
looked all feet."
"she
Hsh
Modern Life In Athens.
Providence (R. L) Star.
The following extracts from a private
letter recently received by a Providence
gentleman from an American student in
Athens, Greece, will prove of general
interest : "I live in a Greek family," he
writes, "where we speak only Greek.
The house is on, JEolus street, with
Socrates, Euripides and Hermes streets
not far off; so that you oan easily im
agine the hallowed associations that are
daily suggested. Our 'maid-of -all-work'
is named Athena. There are
twenty-eight newspapers in the city. I
can count a dozen dailies on my fingers,
and I presume there are others of
which I have not yet heard. With that
number of papers and 250 lawyers, as
many priests and 12,000 soldiers, the
80,000 people in Athens are pretty well
supplied with these appurtenances of
life. The city is very modern, though
in some parts it does not look so; but
where dirt is allowed to accumulate it
soon makes things look hoary. -
I suppose Athens is the type, or bet
ter than the tpye, of all Oriental cities,
and that where people can make a meal
off a piece of bread and a bunch of
grapeaindustry is not necessary. But
1 have not seen a manufactory - in- the
city, aside from the little shops of a
few handicraftsmen. The whole town
has grown up about the palace of the
king. The noh men are those who have
made or are making fortunes elsewhere,
and live here for society. The Univer
sity of Athens has 2,500 students, 1,500
of them in law, and two-thirds of them
destined to be farmers for many of
the law students will never practice that
profession. There are hundreds of
wine shops always well filled. The
streets are full of business men, but
they are bound for nowhere. At the
Piraeus (the harbor city) there are 25,-
000 people engaged in active industry.
Beside the foreign shipping there is a
considerable coasting trade in farm
produce. The people-here are very
proud, but the glory of a dead past
is only a bond of unity and patriotism,
not a support of individual life. There
are no parties on public questions,
only cliques supporting certain leaders
with their policies, which may or may
not be different.
An Adroit Swindler.
TNew York Letter.
At my elbow, in a Wall street tele
graph office, a girl was writing a mes
sage. She wore mourning clothes,
which were strikingly neat and cheap,
and she doubtless seemed prettier than
she was, for her sex is scarce in that
part of the city. A face that would not
command a second glance up-town is
there an object of staring interest.
Will you please tell me, she said,
"how I can condense this message to
ten words ? I don't wish to have to pay
anything extra.
This was what she had written on the
blank, in the unmistakable manner of
an educated hand: "I am friendless
here, I have only a dollar left. Send
some money." Her name and address
were appended. I looked her square
in the face, and found it charming, but
not to a delusive degree. I saw that
the pallor was artificial and the . dolor
ous expression mimicry, but how she
got the tears into her eyes is more than
I can explain. Perhaps some kind of
drug may have caused them, or violent
winking may have done it. She was a
fraud. Every day for a week she had
written that same message without ever
sending it over the wires, but with more
or less success m luring Wall street
men into a lucrative acquaintance.
An Economist's Project.
Scientific American.
There is a project on foot for the
establishment of a textile laboratory,
under the auspices of the New Eng
land Cotton Manufacturers' association,
It was estimated at the last meetmg
that the expense would amount to
$100,000! Liberal subscriptions were
then made for the object, and a com
mittee appointed to work up the mat
ter. The plan was presented by Mr.
Edward Atkinson, who said he wanted
to get at the actual value ot the pro
ducts of the country, and how those
values were made, from the field to the
warehouse, or to the hands of the" con
sumer. He thought our people needed
more exact instruction instead of their
present generally very vague ideas, and
added: "The most startling thing is,
that in respect to food at least one
third, and perhaps one-half of the cost,
to the poor classes in the cities, con
sists in the expense of retail distribu
tion."
It costs more in this city of Boston to
get the food from the mouths of the
bakers ovens into the mouths of the
people who eat it, than it does to bring
the wheat from Iowa, manufacture it,
and prepare it for consumption. - The
people need instruction, and the remedy
for the evil mentioned is in the direc
tion of instruction which should be
carried in some degree into the public
schools. The problem is how to live on
small profits, and how to save in cook-
ing food after it is put into the houses,
And this textile laboratory lies at the
foundation of such instruction.
At the Feast.
f'Mahlstick" in Courier- Journal 1
Ladies and gentlemen, as you have
seen by the journals this entertainment
cost me $50,000, but don't let that
appalling sum stand between you and
enjoyment; sail in and devour. Jones,
that pie cost $500; it is intended to
surpass the one that contained the four
and twenty blackbirds, but don't hesi
tate cut it open. Take a peach, Miss
Brown; they have a delicious golden
flavor they cost me $25 apiece. Yes,
Wolfe, that's a superior old Chamber-
ton ; cost me $325 a bottle bv the case.
That dry Sillery is not to be despised
$10 a bottle. That claret is out of old
Lord Shoelicker's cellar has the real
aristocratic flavor. Am going to invite
him over to pass eight or; ten' years
with me.
Slendlnx a Suspension Bridge.
The Scientific American describes the
method by which the great cable of the
Pittsburg (Pa.) suspension bridge was
lately repaired. W hen a defective piect
of wire was found it was cut out and
new piece of wire nicely spliced in so as
to bear the strain it ought, to s-istain
nd no more. When the wires were re
newed the whole was coated with lin
i seed oil and then with white lead.
MARVELOUS JACKKNIFE WORK
Pinters Made of a llateh Balls
Wltbln Balls All Sorts or Whittled
Wonders. -: , '
San Francisco Chronicle. j
"What will you have a pair of pin
cers, a fan, a orossa butterknife, a chain
or a wooden snake? I will whittle any
one of those articles out of this match
in hiteen minutes, said tne speaker,
and he held up an ordinary parlor match
to the reporter's view.
"Let s see you make the pincers.
"All right," said the whittler, a red-
whiskered and gray-eyed man of about
40 years, whom his acquaintances call
Major Forbes, and he began work in
earnest on his diminutive material with
the small blade of an old knife. The
outside of the match was first smoothly
shaved, the head cut off, and then mi
nute incisions were made about the cen
tre of the stick. Twisting, turning and
cutting very quickly, but carefully, the
article approached completion within
the promised quarter-hour, though the ,
minuteness of the labor and the dex
terity of the performer rendered the
whole process utterly inexplicable to
the uninitiated beholder.
"There you are," said the whittler,
triumphantly, and he held up a perfect
wooden imitation of a pair of pincers,
capable of as complete working motions
ftJ a. TAftl Tm?r tliontrh Tint (la -nrnnHnal
in their operation.
"But that s nothing, continued the
major, ".book here, and he brought
down a little tin box lined with cotton
gauze, which he proceeded to open.
"Now I don t show these to everybody,
remarked the whittler as the lid was re
moved, "but they are the smallest and
most difficult specimens ef this kind of
work that I ever executed." The con
tents of that box proved most unique
and interesting. There were ten pairs
of pincers cut out of. a parlor match,
joined together perfectly, the different
sections opening and shutting in a sur
prisingly neat manner. Another match
was made into four pairs of pincers and
a fan, and two others were worked up
into more fantastic but less difficult
shapes.
"Now I will show you my ball tree,"
and the whittler retired from the room
for a moment, leaving the reporter to
look around at the other wooden curi
osities there to be seen. Immense
wooden chains were suspended from
the ceiling or hung around the walls of
the room, while fans of immense size,
figures, canes, belts, knives, nut crack
ers, cups, wine glasses and other arti
cles were displayed on shelves or pegs
in great profusion.
"Here is the ball tree which I brought
in to show you." A novel object was
displayed to the reporter's gaze. It
was a small scrub-oak tree, about two
and a half inches in diameter at the
base, having several branches. In the
body of the tree and branches were cut
seventy-five balls. These balls were of
various sizes and were all of a dark
color, corresponding with the inner
growth of the wood and contrasting
with the white outside surface.
A "ball monument" was also dis
played, through the interstitial spaces
of which could be seen balls of differ
ent sizes. One large ball had six
smaller ones inside of it, each within
the other, the smallest one being barely
visible, so thick were the bars of the in
tervening "globes.
"Do you sell the articles you whittle
out?"
"No ; I do this work for amusement,
though I have given away many small
T.Viiricra t.n tritAa T xrnnlln't. fata a.
fortune for the collection I have on"
hand at present. The knives I use now
iita nnlv wvmninn nnAH thnntrh T rata
one Sheffield knife that I have used
for sixteen: years, and I wouldn't part
with it for $100."
The Death of George IV.
Mulloy's ."Last of the Georges.
So his useless, burdensome life.
voluptuous and pretty, magnificent
and mean to' the last, passed on.
In these his last days he was friendless,
and would have been alone save for his
paid sycophants. All his life he had
posed as a fine gentleman, and had
found many to believe him such; he
had dressed himself in gaudy stuffs, had
worn 5,000 beads on his hat and
had inve'-'d a new buckle for his
shoes ; his bows outrivaled those of his
French dancing-master, his smiles were
pronounced irresistible, his deportment
grace itself. But behind this outward
show all was false ; the puppet, perfect
in its dress and movements, was stuffed
with bran, and there was no trace of
heart, honor or manhood to be
found in his composition. He
lied to and deceived men; he
flattered and ruined women ; was in
sincere to his friends ; cajoled and
cheated his creditors, hated and im
posed on his ministers, and burdened
his people in the days of commercial
depression by boundless extravagance.
VV ith prize-hghters, jockeys, tailors and
money-lenders he was familiar, but the
nettv fiflrman rride he inherited never
permitted him to be friendly with his
onafofriuvr. Rnchha had been fhrontrh
life, and, now that his last days had
; w
come, none were found to regret his
inevitable death. On the night of June
5, 1830, he retired to bed, without feel
ing any symptoms of illness ; but at 2
o clock he suddenly awoke in great
agitation, and called out for assistance.
Sir Walthen Waller was soon by his
bedside, and raised him up. "They
have deceived me, he whispered, fear
fully, his bloated face wild with terror,
his whole frame quivering; then came
the terrible cry, "O, God, I am dying V
and with one short gasp he fell back
dead.
Looked Sllshty Pale.
Prairie Farmer.
Old Hank Allen, who had been list
ening as an outsider, here gave in his
experience. Said he:
"Some years ago 1 took a bedbug to
Wood's iron foundry and dropped it
into a ladle where the melted iron was.
and had it run into a skillet. Well, my
old woman used that skillet for six
years, and here the other day she broke
it all to smash; and what do you tliink,
gentlemen? that 'ere insect just walked
out of his hole where he'd been layin
like a frog in a rock, and made tracks
for lis ole roost upstairs. But," added
by way of parenthesis, "by ginger, he
looked mighty pale."
relief. -----
by assuming it exists.