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VOL, IX.
ROSEBURG, OREGON; SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1884.
NO. 3.
THE niDEPELTDEIIT
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J. JASKULEK,
P1A0TI01L
ftlcMtir. Jmlsr tni f Optician
ALL -T7AEEUrrED .
Bealer in YTaUhes, Clsks, Jewelry,
StMlt ant BjtflMMi,
: ajt A.TWU. ww :
Ois&ss, Tobaooo & Fancy Goods.
Rw aalf iwMaUa Ovtoaaar bi ton f ar tea proper adjwrt-
ii ai ai immi ; nwiji om nana.
Omn First Door South of Postoffice,,,
MNGffiHBEEG'S
Boot and Shoe Store
BOSKBUBG, OKEGOJr,
m 7tktn Street, OfpeiiU tke Fort Offloe,
Xaapa o kad tii largart and bart aaaortaaa&t of
Bastern and Ban Francisco Boots and
Bhtti, Gaiters, Slippers,
ad aTarrtaJ&f la taa Boot and Saoa Una, and
SELLS CHEAP FOR CASH.
Boots and Shoe Made to Order, amd
Perfect Fit Guaranteed,
I us the Best of Leather and Warrant all
my work.
fctptirinf Keatly Bone, en Short H otiot.
I keep always on hand
TOYO AND NOTIONS.
Musloal Instruments and Violin Strings
a specialty.
LOUIS LlUGEJfBEBtf,
DR. M. W. DAVIS.
t3 , DENTIST,
BO0BOUB6, OBEGOJf,
OmcB On Jackson Street, Up Stairs,
Over m. Marks & uo.'s Kew more.
HAHONEY'S SALOON,
Vastest tks Ball r tad Dajet, Oakland.
JAM. MAnOXEY, ... Proprietor
The Vlnest Wines, Liquors and Cigars In
.Douglas uounty, ana
THE BEST BUHARD TABLE ffl THE STATE,
OH I2f PKOPBR RXFAIR.
Tartiaf ararallns on tha railroad will tad tala plaoa
Tkaady to Tint Aurlnx
taa OaMaai Dapat. OWai
atoppus oi ina anun ai
ma a oaa.
JAS. MAHONEY.
JOHN FBASER,
Home Made Furniture,
WILBTJB, OBEGOJf.
UPHOLSTEET, BPELKd MATTRESSES, ETC.,
Go&itanUr oa hand.
FURNITURE.
I have the Best
stook or ixrxwrruM
Souta af rorUand.
ii all of my own naaafaetura.
Be Two Prlees to Customers.
JUatdaata a( OoaslM Ooiutjr ara raquaatad to stra ma a
aU bf era pwrahaalns aUawhara.
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
DEPOT HOTEL,
Oakland, Oregon.
EIOHAED THOHAS, Proprietor.
This Hotel has been established for a num.
her of years, and has become very pop
ular with the traveling public.
TDUT-OIAII ILZEFUro ACOOXXODATIOFI
Ttkls imf piled with the Sest the Ksrket affords
Hotel at the Depot of the Railroad.
H. C. 3TANTOrL
staple Dry Goods,
Xaaaa aonttaatir on hand a aanaral aaaortBaant af
Extra Fine Groceries,
WOOD, WILLOW AKD GLASSWARE,
CROCKERY AND CORDAGE,
full atoak of ,
SCHOOL DOOKS,
Soak aa raqdrad by "tha Pnbllo County Sahoola.
All
kinds of Stationery. Toys and
Vaney Articles,
to atm sots tou ajkd old.
Buys and Bells Legal Tenders, furnishes
uneeks on Joruana, ana procures
Drafts on San Francisco.
SEEDS! SEEDS!
ILL KINDS OF THE BEST QUALITY.
ALL OBDBS
Promptly attended to and goods shipped
witn care.
Aidrata,
UACHEXT a BOO,
. Portland. Okigox.
V At the recent sale in Baltimore of the
effects of the late W. W. Carter a hair
from the head of Henry Clay was sold
for 30 cents, a piece of the towel used
in stanching the blood frbm Abraham
Lincoln's death wound for $1.35, and
an autograph of Chief Justice John
Marshall for 53 cents.
:,,.,.A
Chesterfield: I look upon indolence
- as a sort of suicide : for the man is ef-
fectnally destroyed, though the appetite
of the brute may survive.
WHEN I A SI DEAD.
p-anklln P. Daly in The Guardian.
When I am dead!
I wrmld not have the rude and canine crowd
Around me 1 rather, and, 'mid lamentation
loud. S
Tell of my rirtues, and with rain regret
Bemoan my loss, ana, lea vine me, xorget.
But I would have the few of kindly heart.
Who when misfortune came, so nobly did
tneir part,
And oft Ly thoughtful deeds their lore ex-
nrese
These would I hare, no more, no less,
w nen i am aeaa.
When I am dead
I would not have the high and storied stone
But I would have some things I once did j
Flsywl n'AT mv o-ravfl And thMi na left nlmvi
r love, !
Ere I did leare the joyous world above, "
Placed o'er me. And each succeedine year
I'd have my . friends renew them, and oft
hncrer near. :
With loving thoughts upon the dear one laid
Deiow, ,
And talk of times departed long ago,
i nen l am aeaa.
-i
i When I am dead.
Foradve Oh this I orav far more than all
The anguish I have caused, the deed beyond
recall.
Think kindly on me as I lie so still,
So poor a subject for an angered wilL
Think of some generous deed, some good
word spoken,
Of hearts bound up I found all sad and
broken;
Think gently, when this last long rest is mine,
And gaze upon my form with looks benign,
; w nen i am dead.
KEEPING THEIR END UP,
HOW the; great west's marvels abb
I APT TO MULTIPLY.
Denver Tribune.
As last Tuesday's west-bound train
passed Cape Horn, a large party of
Englishmen, of the "direot-from-Lun-non"
variety, crowded out on the plat
form and loudly expressed their dissat
isfaction at the scenery, which was "not
at all up to the guide books, you know,
by Jove!"
As they returned no their seats to en
joy a jolly good British all-around
grumble, entirely oblivious of the indig
nant glances of the native passengers, a
meek-looking, gentle-voiced journalist
from 'Frisco approached from the other
end of the car and volunteered to give
the jourists some valuable facts con
cerning the country. In an ingenious
and plausible way, he answered their
questions in a manner that reduced our
critics from over-the-pond to a condi
tion of profound amazement, not to say
awe. I
The next morning the journalist was
lniormea oy tne reporter tnat a com
mittee of gentlemen wished to see him
in the baggage car. As he entered the
latter he found a dozen travelers, all
native and to the manor born, waitinar
to receive him hat in hand. The spokes
man advanced and said:
"You are the party who was giving
those globe trotters in the rear sleeper
some points about the coast, I believe?
I am, sir, said the quill-driver, mod
estly, i
" You told them, I understand," con
tinued the chairman, "that Mount
Shasta was 76,000 feet high?"
"The same."
"You divulged the well known fact
that trains on this road ere often de
tained four days by herds of buffalo, and
that they frequently have to use a Gat
ling gun on the cowcatcher to prevent
the locomotive being pushed off the
track by the grizzly bears ?"
Xes, sir.
You further acquainted them with
the circumstance that the Digger Indi
ans live to the average age of 204, and
that the rarefication of the air on the
plains is such that an ordinary pin
looks like a telegraph pole at the dis
tance of forty-two miles ?
I think I wedged that in," re
sponded the newspaper man.
"And we are informed they all made
a memorandum of your statement that
at the Palace hotel an average of two
waiters per day were shot by the guests
for bringing cold soup eh?"
"They did."
"And, finally, we believe that you are
the originator of that beautiful that
b-e-a-utiful er fact regarding that
fallen redwood tree up at Mariposa I
mean the hollow one into which the six
horse-stage drives, and comes out of a
knot-hole 165 feet further along ?"
"1 told them all about it."
"Just so! just so!" said the com
mitteeman, grasping the patriot's hand
and producing a well-filled buckskin
bag, "and I am instructed by this com
mittee of your fellow-countrymen to
present i you with this slight token of
our appreciation of the noble manner
in which you have vindicated the honor
of our noble land : God bless you,
sir!" !
"Gentlemen," said the true Califor-
nian, mucn anected, "1 understand
your feelings, and although I blush to
be rewarded for simply doing my duty,
I accept the gift as a sacred trust to be
devoted to the further exaltation of our
common country."
EE WOULDN'T BE SATISFIED EITHER
! WAT.
Boston Post.
A man in Judge Geddes's district in
Ohio was in the habit of visiting a
neighboring town and getting drunk.
One night on his return home with
several i sheets in the wind he ap
proached his house, saw no light, and
suspected that his wife had gone to
bed. "Now, Mary has gone to bed," he
said, "and hasn't anything for me to
eat.
111 make it warm for her. J3ut
moment he saw a light, and then
"111 be blessed if the extravagant
in a
said
thing isn't sitting up till this hour of
night burning out my oil. Now, dura
me if I don t make it hot for her.
NIAGARA'S POWER.
New York San."
A Boston engineer has been turning
i his attention to the power going to
waste in the Niagara river. He esti
mates that a motor could be submerged
in the river which would furnish half a
million horse power sufficient to run
all the machinery in Buffalo and pump
all the city's water. His plan is tb
place a giant iron wheel in the river
perpendicularly, so that it shall be
turned by the current. The power
would be taken from the shaft of the
wheel by either belts or gearings, or
would be sent through electric cables.
Inter Ocean: The word "whisky" is
-j a corruption of the Gaelio words "uisge"
and "beha," signifying "water of life."
DICKCnS AT HOME.
The Bright aad Faaajr Genius of the
noMTflBlsur the Children fer
the Play.
Mamie Dickens in Youth's Companion.
He had a peculiar tone of voice and
way of speaking for each of the children,
who could tell, without being called by
tl.l il - -i, i I
name, which was the one addressed.
He had funny songs which he used to
sing to them before thoy went to bed.
One in particular, about an old man who
caught cold and. rheumatism while
driving in an omnibus, was a great
favorite; and as it was accompanied by
sneezes, coughs and funny gesticula
tions, it had to be sung over and over
again beford thesmall audience was
satisfied. '
I can see him now through the mist
of years, with a child nearly always on
his knee, his bright and beautiful eyes
full of life and fun. I can hear his clear
and sweet voice, as he sang to those
children, as jbe had no other occupa
tion in the world but to amuse them.
And when they grew older, and were
able to act little plays, it was the father
himself who was teacher, manager,
prompter, to these infantine amateurs.
And these theatricals were under
taken as earnestly and seriously as were
those of the grown-up people. He
would teach the children their parts
separately teach them what to do, and
how to do it, acting himself for their
edification.
At one moment he would be the
dragon in Tortunio;" at the next, one
of the seven servants; and then taking
the part of a jockey, played by the
youngest child, a mere baby, whose
little legs had much difficulty to get
into the top-boots until he had taken
every part in the play.
And before these children were old
enough to act regular pieces, the same
pains were taken about any ., little
charade they might ask for, any song
they were taught to sing, each child
knowing well that such pains had to be
taicen before his approval could be won.
As with his grown-up company of
actors, so with his juvenile company
did his own earnestness and activity
work upon them and affect each per
sonally. The shyest and most awkward
child would come out quite brilliantly
under his patient and always encourag
ing training.
Then again, at the juvenile parties he
was always the ruling spirit. He had
acquired by degrees an excellent col
lection of conjuring tricks, and on
Twelfth Nights the eldest son's birth
dayhe would very often, dressed as a
magician, give a conjuring entertain
ment, when a little figure which ap
peared from a wonderful and myster
ious bacr, and which was sunoosed to
be a personal friend of the conjurer,
would greatly delight the audienoe by
his funny stories, his eccentric voice
and way of speaking, and by his mirac
ulous appearances and disappearances.
Of course, a plum-pudding was made
in a hat, and was always one of the
successes of the evening.
It would be almost impossible even
to guess how many such puddings have
been made since.
But surely, those made by Charles
Dickens must have possessed some
special fairy power, no other conjurer
being able to put into his pudding all
the love, sympathy, fun and thorough
enjoyment which seemed to come from
the very hands of this great magician!
Cents by the Car-Load.
Cleveland Herald.
As is well known, certain western
and southern cities scorn to use any
coin less than a nickel. When a news
paper corporation started a cheap even-!
mg paper in St. Louis it bought and
circulated in that city several barrels of
cents.
It would surprise the reader who has
never investigated the matter to learn
how many cents have been coined. At
the close of the fiscal year of 1881 the
total coinage of cents equaled 6,071,
039.59. "You have no adequate idea
what such a bulk of cents would be,"
said the cheerful statistician who im
parted the facts. "Granting that they
were all of the size now in use,
although many of them were much
t il . .e a
larger, tney wouia nil over iu cars
carrying twenty tons each."
The first American cent was author
ized to be coined by an act of congress
of July 6, 1787. It was first coined by
James Jarvis, of New Haven, Conn.
The weight was 264 grains, whioh was
reduced to 208 grains in 1793, and,
being still too large, to 168 grains two
years later. The coinage was discon
tinued in 1857, after $1,562,887.44
worth had been made.
In 1857 the nickel cent waa first
coined. It was smaller than the old
fashioned predecessor, weighing 72
grains, 88 percent, of copper and 12
per cent, of nickel. In 1864 the coin
age was discontinued after $2,007,725
worth had been made. The bronze
cent of the present time came into
being in 1864. It weighed only 48
grains, of which 85 per cent, is copper
and 5 per cent, tin and zinc The total
amount coined at the end of the fiscal
year ending June 30 was $3,077,720.
The grand total of all the cents coined
up to the close of the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1881, was $6,071,039.59,
Tennessee's Dos Question,
Chicago Tribune.
Statistics show that Tennessee has at
least 300,000 dogs. The food for each
dog would raise 100 pounds of baoon,
which would be 30,000,000 pounds of
bacon. This, at 10 cents per pound,
would be worth $3,000,000. This is
not all. These dogs probably destroy
50,000 sheep, worth $2 per head, and
they prevent the raising of $1,000,000
worth of wool and mutton that other
wise would be raised. Thus it costs
more than $4,000,000 to feed these
worthless dogs. The food of these dogs
would feed 100,000 able-bodied laborers,
and the wool lost would clothe 1,500,000
people. ' r
New York Independent :
lesson which, more than all
The one
others, is
being taught by the progress of sani
tary science and art is that most of the
physical evils of this life are the direct
result cf breaches.of law.
jciver since x can rememuer anjioxng, i part ox me county, tuu cismmug w uv i xeoiing tneir iiusDanas. . xxxe men neany i age,
I remember him as the good genius of I a part of the Confederate states, to pay always fix that tip among themselves. I and
T7 T 1 it I - m A A- as A k a & I V m m m I
tne nonse, ana as tne nappy, ongn ana fall value m legal tenaer oi, tne reaxmj i a bold warrior sees a girl whom he He
xonny genius. Ool. Joel Moinerson was cierK oi tne loves in another tribe. He rides ut at 1
Bared the County Credlh
Charlaston (W.Ta.TCor. Daijoit Free ftesa
The neighboring connty o! Green
brier issued during the war a great
deal of county sonp, which was noth
ing more or less than a promise on the
oountr court of Greenbrier county at
the time this scrip was issued, and
every piece bore his signature
i m ' , t i
Our old friend Broughey walked
into CoL McPherson's office one day,
several years afte the war, laid his
heavy walking stick down on the table,
nulled a big bowie knife'Tout of its
heath, and laid it by the stick, took the
mate to the bowie out m his boot and
deposited it alongside its twin, nnstraj
pod his belt to which w?- appended two
navy six-shooter revolvers in their cases,
and then tasong irom nis pocket an
enormous wallets pread out before Col,
MoPherson hundreds of dollars of the
old county scrip.
"Now," said he, when he had it all
displayed, "I want this redeemed. Your
name is on every piece, saying that it is
good for so much. I want my money.
The oolonel looked at the speaker,
then at the array of scrip, then at the
arsenal. The scrip was genuine, the
artillery ready for action, and the old
man in earnest.
"Why, my dear sir," said the colonel,
"I have no funds with which to pay
you. I was but the officer of, the
county, and am not personally respon
sible for any of the county's debts."
"Don't know anything about that,"
was the reply, "your signature is on
there saying that the scrip is good.
Now I want my money, and I mean to
have it;"
"Those things were to be paid in Con
federate money, anyhow," said Col. Mo
Pherson. "That was all the kind of
money we had in those days."
"Well, that's what I want," said
Brousrhev. "Confederate money is
good enough for me."
Col. McPherson drew a sigh of re
lief. Excusing himself for a few mo
ments, he went out and soon returned
with enough Confederate money to re
deem all the old man s scrip, ne was
out of a bad box, and the credit of
Greenbrier county had been saved.
A Kovel Life-Boat.
Denver News.
One of our enterprising inventors has
patented a life-boat,- which seems to
meet nearly every want of shipwrecked
people. His boat consists of a hollow
globe of metal or wood, ballasted at the
bottom, so that it will always right
itself immediately on touching the
water, and can never capsize even in
the roughest sea. This boat has com
partments for water, medical stores,
and provisions bull's-eyes to let in
light, a door for ingress and egress, a
uort hole for hoisting signals to the
mast, comfortable seats all round the
inside for the passengers, and a double
hollow mast for snmjlvincr fresh air. and
tJ v - '
for carrying off that which has become
vitiated. On the outside of the globe
boat runs a gallery, for the use of
sailors in rowing, hoisting sail, dis
charging rockets, or steering. Of course,
the cases would be very rare when
rowing, sailing, or steering would be re
auired. but in case of need all three
could be easily managed.
A glance at the model will show how
completely the passengers would be
proteoted from rain and wind, and con
sequently, to a great extent, from cold
Thi3 is a very important point in Mr.
Manes' design, as we all know that very
many persons, not merely women and
children, but often hardy men, only
escape drowning to perish from expos
ure to the weather. Mr. Manes sag
gests that a propeller might be attached
to the boat to be worked by a cranic
turned by the passengers on the inside,
It is calculated that a boat, twelve feet
m
diameter, would carry about fifty
passengers. The boat can be carried
on deck or hung over the stern on
davits, in 'either of which positions it
may be used as a cabin during the
voyage.
Costume of Fifty Years Ago.
. St Louis Republican.
"The style of costume," says Gen.
Mallet, "and even the manners of the
present generation are not, in my opin
ion, an improvement on a half century
ago. The manager would not admit a
gentleman into a ball-room with boots,
or even a frock coat; and to dance
without gloves waa simply vulgar. At
commencement ball (when I graduated,
1818), my coat was broadcloth, of sea-
green color, high velvet collar to
match: swallow-tail, pockets outside
with lapels and large silver-plated but
tons, white satin damask vest,
showing the edge of a blue
undervest: a wide opening for
bosom rufflers, and no shirt collar. The
neck was .essed with a layer of four
or five three-cornered cravats, artis
tically laid and surmounted with a cam
bric stock, pleated and buckled behind.
My pantaloons were white canton crape,
lined witn pins musiin, ana snowed a
peach-blossom tint. They were rather
short, in order to display flesh-colored
silk stockings, and exposure was in
creased by very low-cut pumps with
shiny buckles. My hair was very black,
very long, and queued. 4 I should bo
taken for a lunatic or a harlequin in
uch a costume now.
Woman "SnfTerage.'
Chicago Tribune.
Miss Anthony said : "I have been
roundly abused and ridiculed for allow
ing a female clerk of mine to send a let
ter in which woman suffrage was spelled
'sufferage,' and was not corrected.
There is a little secret history about
that letter that will be amusing to
those who are laugning at me and my
female clerk who cannot sptiii suhrage.
The fact i that my clerk made a cor
rect copy of the letter, which I ap
proved, and wnicn was tuen sent to a
male clerk, a college graduate, to make
a large number of copies. Every4 copy
which this gentleman prepared read
'sufferage,' and, what is still more
startling, a number of members of con
gress, in replying to the latter, adopted
the same unique orthography. This
may turn the laugh a little on to the
other side," was Miss Anthony's closing
comment, and the reporter thought so
too.
A ROVINQ PE0PL5,
aTeC Courtship and' Btmrriace Amosur
the ArSBfc,
Col. De Funk in Courier-JoumaL
The girls have little to do with se
night, finds where she is sleeping,
dashes up to her tent, snatches her up
in his arms, puts her before him on the
horse and sweeps away like the wind.
If he happens to be caught he 1b shot.
Ifheisnot, the tribe from which he
has stolen the girl pays him a visit in ft
few davs. The dervish, ft Driest of the
tribe, joins ihe hands of the young I
man and the girl, and both tribes join
in the merriment..: '
All the bravest men steal their wives.
but there are some who do not. Their
method is a little different. Of a calm,
moonlight night and moonlight in the
tropics is far more beautiful than here
you may see an Arab sitting before
the tent of his inamorita picking a
stringed instrument something like our
banjo and singing a song of his own
composition. This is his courtship.
They are the most musical people in
the world. They talk in poetry, and
'extemporization is as easy with
them as it was with the Scalds of old.
If the girl is obstinate he goes else
where and seeks to win another girl by
his songs and music.
Sometimes the fathers make no the
matoh, but always the girl is the obedi
ent slave. Her religion, her people,
her national instincts, the traditions of
her ancestors, all teach her to be the
slave of her husband. The power of
life and death is in his hands, and she
bows before his opinions with the most
implicit obedience. It is only when the
fair-faced Frank comes, with his glib
talk of woman's highest duties and
crrander sohere. with his winning man
ner, with nis marked respect, so flatter
ing to a woman's soul, that she leaves
her husband, forsakes the teachings of
her childhood, gives up home and
friends, and risks death itself to repose
in his arms. They are as fine riders as
the men, and as fearless. They can go
almost any distance without fatigue.
They are fine shots, and don't know
what personal fear is.
The women of these people are mod
est and far more faithful than the
women of civilized life. Indeed, it is
the rarest thing in the world to hear of
conjugal infidelity. The women mature
at 11 and 12, and are old at 35. When
young they are beautiful. They have
soft, dark skin, black, flowing hair, and
soft, languishing eyes. They are pas
sionate in their loves, but after marriage
all their affection is centered in their
husbands. If a woman is found to be
untrue to her husband she is instantly
killed, together with her lover... But
this seldom happens.
tteorse Bancroft.
Youth's Companion.
George Bancroft is now 84 years old.
and he still continues his long, hard
rides every afternoon of his life. He
told me that he wa3 feeling well, and it
may be that he will yet make out his 100
yea.rs-. . . .
Me nas not so mucn nesu as ne
had ten years ago, but what he has is
all good solid musole of the same ma
terial as the famed shay of tne good old
deacon, which dropped to pieces all at
once.
His wife, perhaps the most cultured
aw a rV .
woman in wasnington, was ou years
old the latter part of last month, and
she looks much the healthier of the
two. Her eyes are bright, and her
cheeks full and rosy.
She is a verv orettv ladv. ana one
would not think of taking her for more
than 60 at the most. She has a won-
derful eyesight, and can see at long dis-
tances without glasses, though she uses
them to read by.
When she went to Newport last sum
mer, she was far from well, and had to
be lifted in and out of the , carriage
when she went to drive. Now she is
in perfect health, and I suppose the re
ceptions which Mr. -bancroit used to
give will be resumed tnis winter.
Babies on the Cars.
Burlington Hawkeye.
And the babies 1 Little bundles of
fleecy white cloaks, blue cloaks, warm
crimson cloaks, indescribable bundles
of shawls and wraps and hoods and
swan's-down shaneless and motionless.
until the car starts. The door is shut to
with a bang like a Mississippi shot-gun,
and the unwrapping process begins, and
baby crawls out of his chrysalis, a fluffy
tuft of crinkled hair ; a fat, dimpled fist ;
then a plump face, rosy with tne kisses
of Jack Frost; a pair of big, round,
wondering eyes, and a dancing head
that goes swinging around on that little
crease that passes for a baby's neck,
while the baby takes in the whole car
and begins at once to make friends
with the ugliest and bashful est man
he can see, and buries the poor fellow
under mountains of confusion by call
ing him "Papa."
Cooled Him Down.
Atlanta Constitution.
A gentleman of Athens, Ga., once
had a lover's quarrel with his sweet
heart, who gave him back his engage
ment ring, a $250 diamond. Deliber
ately walking to the hearth, he threw
the memento of his blighted happiness
on the stone and with his heel ground
it to pieces. He then returned the
ladv a ring she once had given him.
But she was guilty of nl such outburst.
Calmly placing it on ;the manteL she
t ouuu vutsio.
remarked, v ell, ill need it . for my
t 4
leed it for my
next beau. The quarrel was soon
made up, and the hasty lover had to
invest in another ring. , : .
Just Bight. i
Brooklyn Eaele.1
1 "Madame, you've destroyed five dol-
lars worth of merchandise," angrily
remarked a dude to a lady, as she seated
herself in a chair in Which he had de
posited a new Derby hat. "Serves you
right, she replied, slowly rising irom
the ruin, "you had no business to buy
a $5 hat for a 60-cent head." " v
. Animals dwelling at high elevations
resemble those of colder latitudes. The
fi&ma Rnfwr"s of insects arc found on
I Mount Washington as in Labrador and
i ureeniand.
A Bevel Batrtmenlftl Experlsftsnfc !
The Biographer had an account el
the eccentric Thomas Day, author of
"Sandford and Merton," who under
took to raise & wife to order. When
Day, who was a precocious lad, came of
he succeeded to an ample fortune,
began to look about him for a wife.
met one lady who suited him, but
he did not suit her. Then he conceived
the notion of educating a girl to be his
Bpouse. He chose two girls, in order
to have a better chance of success; one
from an orphan school, a flaxen-haired
girl of 12, named by him Sabrina
Sidney, after the Severn and Algernon
Sidney; the other from the foundling
hospital in London, whom he named
Lucre tia.
lie took the girls to f ranco,
where he hoped in quiet to discover and
discipline their talents.
s In the course of the process they all
three qUarreledtTuad; to add to the dif
ficulties, the girls caught the small-pox.
When they recovered, he was glad to
return to London, where he apprenticed
Lucretia to a milliner. Subsequently
she married a linen draper, and Day, in
his gratitude, gave her a dowry of 500.
Sabrina was given a further chance 'of
educating herself to become Mrs. Day,
but it was impossible to eradicate her
sense of pain. When melted sealing
wax was dropped on her arms she
flinched, and she started and
screamed when pistols were fired
at her garments, When Day tried her
fidelity by telling her pretended
secrets, she divulged them in gossip
with her servants. He sent her to a
boarding-school for three years, but,
although she fell far short of his ideal,
he was not altogether pleased when she
married his friend Bicknell.
Day finally fell in love with Honora
Bneyd, who was engaged to the un
fortunate Maj. Andre. She didn't want
Mr. Thomas Day; neither did her
sister, to whom he proposed. At last,
however, he met his reward in the
person of Miss Esther Milnes, a lady
of wealth and culture.
Douglas as a Slave-Owner.
New Orleans Cor. New York Tribune.
Last week while hunting near Mag
olia, Miss., I came across a crooked
and lame, but pleasant, darkey well ad
vanced in years, getting out rude pine
, J , . .1 , A
emngies. Alter learning soma inter
esting facts concerning his slave life he
gave me to understand that he was of
noble extraction, having been the prop
erty of "Massa Douglas, frum de norf."
He recollected the brilliant and power
ful senator very well, but had a much
clearer remembrance of "Boss Strick
lun,' " the overseer of the plantation.
"How many slaves did Douglas
own?' ;
"'Bout 175, sah, chillun' an all.
'Mighty good niggahs too, sah ; but Boss
Striokfun,' he wuk us poVful hard," was
the unhesitating answer.
On going to dinner my inquiries dis
covered several'persons who recollected
that Douglas once owned a slave plan
tation in Lawrence oounty, and one
could tell me how to reach the historic
spot, which is on Pearl river, a pleasant
stream of yellowish, pearly color. No
one knew how the slaves came into the
Eossession of Douglas, but "reckoned"
e bought them .'"bout forty year ago."
Old In Sew York, Bat Sew In Chicago
Indianapolis Sentinel.
As. Mr. DeWitt C. Pease, of New
York, stepped from a Michigan Cen
tral train in this city yesterday a hand
some young lady skipped up to him,
threw her arms rapturously about his
neck and kissed him many times, say
ing:
"Oh, papa, I'm so glad you have
come."
Mr. Pease threw both arms around
her and held her firmly to his breast.
Soon she looked up into his face and
horror stood in her eye.
"Oh, my! you're not my papal" she
Baid, trying to free herself from his em
brace. ,
"Yes I am," insisted Mr. Pease, hold
ing her tightly. "You are my long-lost
daughter, and I am going to keep you
right in my arms till I get a police
man.
When the officer came and found Mr.
Pease's diamond pin in the girl's hand
he said: "That's a new trick here."
"Is it?" said Pease. "Well, it's old
in New York."
An Advance In Photography.
Chicago Current
Edward W. Fell, of Cleveland, is re
ported to have invented a process by
which absolutely permanent pictures
may be instantly photographed upon
any substance having a smooth surface.
The process is expensive, electricity
being employed. Through his inven
tion engraving is made an easy matter;
entirely accurate copies on stone, wood,
metal or shell may be made without
the great labor and care now involved.
There is always a feeling of melancholy
engendered by the news of such in
ventions, for it is another blow ' at
handicraft. Of course it must be ad
mitted that the world is made to
progress by the inventors of labor-
saving methods, but their introduction
ordinarily causes temporary hardship
among those who have trained their
hands to do that which the scientific
application of nature's forces more suc
cessfully accomplishes. .
Wendell Phillips In College.
A corresoondent of The Worcester
Spy, in an account of a conversation he
once had with Wendell Phillips, says :
"I asked him if he had any pleasure in
1 . , r -
fighting; if contest gave mm any saws-
faction. He said 'not a o.i, mat no
hntA fichtintr. and was the very last
man who ought to have to do it, but,'
he added, 'when I was in college one of
my classmates found fault with me for
always standing up for any person or
thinor that was denounced;" he said:
"Say anything against ' ia man, and up
jumps Phillips to defend him, no mat-
ter whether the man is right or. wrong,
or whether Phillips knows anything
about him or not, it is enough for him
that the man is attacked." Now, said
Mr. Phillips, I thought that the best
compliment ever paid me; and x sup
pose it was the bent of my character
to defend anything that was attacked.' "
If eggs keep on getting much higher
I in price millionaires will wear them as
I sniri siuos.
THE OLD BALLAD SINGER,
The Besss That Soften the TSeart
Babies, trovers, and Touching Sen
timents. Cincinnati Timea-Star. f
The other day I met an old- ballad
singer who was still devoted to his pro
fession, though he had followed it for
years without achieving much more
wealth than was required for the dajrs
sustenance. I observed that musio of
the simpler 'kind was not aamuch ap
preciated now as in years gone by when
the custom of the people was plainer, i
and their knowledge f music less cul
tivated. The man is new a scene shifter
ftt one of our theatres. '
"Music is the only thing you can
ketch a mob with," said the old singer,
as he planted his patent leathers on a
box, and shifted
the position ox nis
Henrr Clay cigar. -
iS .
"What kind of
music?" asked a by-
tender.
Why, ballads,
of course," replied
"You don't suppose
the man of song.
you're a-goin' to soften anybody's heart
with a opperer, do you? I'd have been
fired through a drugstore winder wunst
if it wasn't that I was able to sing."
"What did you sing?" iV,
"The most beautiful of all songs:
Don't Tread on a Man When He's
Down.' Here's a verse of it :t
" Don't tread on a man when he's down,..
For the world looks black enough then,
Just rive him a smile not a frown
And let him begin life again.' .
"Now, there's sentiment in that, and
it stopped the fight right off."
"What songs are most popular V
"Well, that's hard to say, Some
likes one thing and some likes another.
Mothers always like this : . , .
" 'I wish I was a baby,.
A darling little flower,
Td smile at winter scowflakes
! And laugh at summar shower.'
"The words is simple, and it ain't,
hard to wrestle with the tune; but it's
wery touchin', wery touchin'. It's so
true to life, you know, and that's what
th' people wants. But that sort of
thing is aU right enongh for a flyer.
It wont do to give it to 'em all the time,
you know. Some people don't know
nothin' about babies, and you've got to
give them plenty of love. I never saw
the man yet you couldn't get the upper
hand of with a good love song, and as
for the girls, you can't give 'em enough.
It's human nature, you know, for
they've all been there, and them as
hasn't is willin' to be. Here's a daxdy.
I always got to sing it twice."
The old ballad singer threw out his
chest, and, in a voice that had evi
dently seen better days, piped the fol
lowing: "You call me sweet and tender names,
And softly smooth my tresses,
And all the while my happy heart -Beats
time to your caresses.
You love men in your tender way, .
I answer as you let me,
But, ah I there comes another day,
The day when youH forget me.'
"rve seen th' handkerchiefs come
out every time I ever sung that song,"
said the old balladist, as he wiped a
silent tear from the corner of his eye.
"Ifs saddenin', wery saddenin', to
think of them old songs. Here's an
other: M 'Little sweetheart, come and kiss me
Just OJBC6 mere before I go; ,
Tell me truly that you miss me
As I wander to and fra' :
"That there, you see, is a sort of a
descriptive song. First he wants his
girl to kiss him, and then, when he
wanders to and fro, he wants her to
miss him." ,
"But why does he wander to and
fro?" asked the scene shifter. .
"Why, that's a poetic license, of
course," growled the old ; balladist.
"Yon want the man to stand there a
kissin' and a slobber in' all the time, do
you? He'B got to go away som'ers and
wander.' Folks like the idea of lovers
separatin' and comin' together again.
It works on the feelin's sorter. I tell
you pard, if a man can sing a good
song hell get through the world andv
land on his feet on the other side.
Bain' president of the United States
ek't nothin to it" -
Boyesen's Slip of the Tongne.
Syracuse (N. Y.) Standard. '
The presentation of H. H. Boyesen's
play, "Alpine Koses," at the Madison
Square theatre, in New York, recalls a
story told by students at Cornell about
the talented Norwegian, who was for
several years a professor there. Pro
fessor Boyesen used to lecture upon
German literature to the students at
Cornell. He was at the time writing
his "Goethe and Schiller," having be
come a Goethe enthusiast; and he wjs
also & fact that was familiar to the
students- enamored with the lady who
has since become his wife, and who was
tho daughter of a New York banker.
The professor's voice has a peculiar,
rotund, impetuous quality, and it was
never poured forth in greater volume
than when he said, in one of his lectures :
"About this time Goethe fell in love
with a rich banker's daughter in New
York city." There was a roar from
the students, while . boots and canes
rattled upon the floor like an avalanche
of cobble-stones in - a shot-tower.
Boyesen covered his crimson face with
his hands and turned his back to his
class. The lecture was resumed on an
other day. :- ,;v'.;.y . ' n
The JLio.ve Story of Wendell Phillies.
' ' - T. G. Appieton to an Interviewer.
i I sunbose vou are familiar with th
story of Mr. Phillips marriage how a
gentleman asked Mr. Sumner to act as
escort to a young lady wno was going
a a
lady
1 V- i: i l l, . - i -l r
w wo uuiivtwuu " -aioany, ana sax.
i Dimmer, ueing unaoie 10 go, resignea
in favor of Mr. Phillips; how Mr.
Phillips acted as her , escort and lost
his heart to her before he got back ;
how he called upon her often in this
city, but was not admitted, owing to
her feeble health, but finally he almost
broke his way to her and offered
her his hand. .. She said . she
would never marry a man unless he
would swear eternal enmity to slavery ;
but it was not necessary for Mr.
PhUlips to take that oath he had al
ready sworn it in his heart. So they
.were married.; A -: : t - :- v:-'; - .
A painting of the Lord's Supper
made by a French artist of the revolu
tionary period represents the table as
ornamental by a tumbler filled with
cigar lighteri .