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Oxford (Miss.) Falcon: Any person
who is devoted only to himself, and
' - works only in Ms own little cornei', be
he a professional, a merchant, a mechanic
or a man-of -all-work, will pooncr or
later havo his heart consumed by the.
dry rot. - - - .
Camel's Hair.
There is a peculiarity in camel's hair
which is worthy of scientific investigation.
it continues to grow after it is cut off.
line attached to the animal it grows in
length, and when cut it grows in value.
OPTIMISM.
Ella Wheeler in Manhattan.
Vm no reformer; for I see more light
Than darkness in the world; mineeyea are
quick ' f
To catch the first dim radiance of the dawn,
And slow to note the cloud that threatens
storm. ! .
The fragrance and the beauty of the rose
Delight me so, slight thought I give the thorn;
And the sweet musi-j of the lark's clear song
Stays longer with me than the night hawk a
- erv.. ' :, .!-. r . - -
And e'en in this great throe of pafn called
life, ,
I And a rapture, linked with each despair,
Well worth the proa of anguish.
1 detect
More srood than evil in humanity.
Love lights mora fires than hate extinguishes,
And men grow Detter as tne woria grows oja.
WHITE HOUSE CRANKS.
Crazy Callers on the PresidentThe
Bed Man of Bcvelatlons.
Cor. Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
The White House is a very popular re
sort with i cranks. Every crank who
comes to Washington imagines he has
some important business with the presi
dent, borne days the. lynx-eyed ser
geant 'on guard j at the "White House
door
turns - away , ten . or - - twelve
crazy.
people. ! The sergeant was
asked
how he managed to dis
tinguish the cranks from the ordinary
business callers. "It s not much
trouble," he said. "But since the
shooting of Garfield we have been es
pecially watchful of all the president s
visitors. Usually , we spot a crank on
sight. There is a wandering of the
eyes, or aa abruptness of speech, or a
wudness of gesture, or some peculiarity
01 ares or, manner.
"This, however, is not always the case.
I remember a short time ago I was on
duty in the grounds one night when a
reception was going on.: I was ap
proached from the White House portico
by a tallj clean-shaved, i middle-aged
man, neatly dresged in a black walking
suit, who asked in a tone as if he merely
wanted a chat with some one : 'Are you
a watchman here? In that line, said
I. 'The president is giving a reception,
I believe ? 'I believe he is' said I.
A public reception, j isn't it?'
asked the stranger, I 'J dont
know anything about that,' I
answered.! 'Would you take me to be a
respectable citizen ?' was the ne$t ques
tion. 'Hai'dly able to judge on so short
an acquaintance,' said I. The gtranger
chuckled
quietly at this and said,
Quite rigl
:it; but from my general ap
pearance how, my manners and conver
sation, woaid you set me down as re
spectable ;or otherwise?' 'Eespectable,'
said I, Just so. And yet, in this great
and glorious land of the ; free, .sarcas
tically said ha, a respectable citizen is
suddenly turned away from the door of
the executive mansion by flunkeys
when he simply seeks, with other
citizens to pay his i respects to
by ballot to preside over them: at a
time, too, set apart, it is understood,
for the purpose.' 'But perhaps,' said
I, 'there must have been a reason. Per
haps you are mistaken, and this is not
a public reception.' 'Asked if I had a
card,' continued, the stranger, indig
nantly (ignoring my last remark; ;
Questioned and cross-examined as if I
was a ieion or f conspirator, ana iue
a s "lit.
door then shut in my face. All rjght,
if this is St. Petersburg, and this is the
palace of the czar, pointing Jo the
White House, j -Infamously wrong i
this is Washington and that is the
White House.'
"So far there had not been anything
in the man's manner or talk to indicate
that he wa3 anything more than a visi
tor to the city, disgusted and inJignant
at his disappointment at being sum
marily deprive 1 of what he perhaps
considered his only chance while
here to see the president ; but
suddenly changing his manner after his
last remark, he abruptly asked me in
the sepulchral tones ot tne ghost m
'Hamlet,' 'Do you ever read the bible?'
'Sometimes,' 1; answered. "Did you
ever read the book of Kevelations ?'
'Yes 'Do yon remember the red man,
in that book V I can't say that I do.'
'W6ll. read it ; again, guardian of the
night, read it again,' said, the stranger,
adding quickly, 'I am the red man there
mentioned. I liold in my hands the
fates of nations and their rulers. I
make and unmake presidents Wash
ington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln,
Grant. and this man Arthur.
They were elected, yes, but elec
tions can not change destiny.
That I control. ; Let the present oc
cu pant of the White House beware,
and with a threatening shake of his
long forefinger at the mansion, the man
started down the flag sidewalk toward
the gateway. Now, if that fellow had
got m he might have behaved as well
as anybody. But in case ; he had got
started on the book of Revelations
there i no knowing what might have
happened.";
Steals In the Fo'castle.
Exchange. :
The manner ot serving meals in the
forecastle is as simple as i is the svstem
of cookery in vogue in the galley. The
cook gives out tne made tushes m the
pans in which they have been prepared.
One man in each watch is appointed to
go to the galley for the food. He places
it on the deck in the middle of the fore
castle and the! men take their shares
one by one. I The man who take3 more
than his just share is not regarded wuh
favjorby his shipmates. If he persists
in his piggishs method of helping him
self, his shipmates will not only remon
strate with him, but will go to the
length of reducing his share to the
proper limits; and if he protests against
this treatment: a committee 01 one or
more, according to his size, is appointed
to thrash him. f The sailors sit on their
chests while at their meals. No tables
are provided foir them.
The Bight of Pannage.
Chicago Herald.
Centuries ago oak was by far the
most valued forest tree in England, on
"account of acorns fattening hogs. In
ancient records it is put down how
manv hogs such and " such woods would
carry. Pannage was the right of feed'
ing swine, and to this dav persons ad1
joining tL ' New Forrest have the right
of pannage for six weeks there on pay
ing a small fee.
THE TWO QUATEAINS.
Ivan Tourgueneff. .
There was once a town whose in
habitants worshipped poetry so ar
dently that, if some weeks elapsed
without new and masterly poems com
ing to light, such a poetical sterility
was regarded as a public calamity.
livery one then would put on his best
clothing, would strew ashes upon their
heads, and would gather together in
an open space to wail, to shed tears.
and to murmur bitterly against the
Muse, who had forsaken them.
On one of these days of mourninff. a
youthful poet, Junius, appeared in the
square, wnicn was densely packed with
sorrowing people.
He mounted the rostrum in haste.
and made a sign that he wished to re
cite a poem.
The Uetors flourished their Btaves.
and shouted the stentorian voices: "Si
lence! attention!" The expectant multi
tude, were silent. .
Friends! companions!" began
Junius, in a clear but slightly faltering
voice:
"Friends; and companions t The lover of
Poetry,
God of harmonious beauty and light,
Charms away trouble and vanquishes sor-
tow; ".
Apollo arises and fled is the night 1"
Junius had concluded : the answer was
a universal burst of laughter, howls
and whistles from every side.
The upturned faces of tbe multitude
glowed with indignation; every eye
sparkled with rage; every hand was
raised threaten ngly and clenched,
-.uoes ne wisn io mocs us witn that r
yelled the furious voic3. "Tear the
paltry rhymester : down - from the
rostrum ! Down with, the blockhead !
Pelt the fool with rotten apples and
stinking eggs ! Stones ! bring stones !"
Junius rushed headlong from the
rostrum; but scarcely had he gained his
dwelling than he heard tumultuous ap
plause, shouts of praise, and acclama
tions. .
Tortured with doubts Junius re
turned to the square and endeavored,
if possible, to minglerunobserved in. the
crowd, for 'Tis dangerous tq rouse the
grim lion."
And whap did he see ?
Raised, high upon the shoulders of
the multitude on $ Aft, golden shield,
clothed m the purple mantle, his locks
crowned with laurel, stood his rival, the
youthful poet Julius. And
the people shouted "Glory and honor
to the immortal Julius ! He has con
soled us in our trouble, and in our great
sorrow he has refreshed xm with his sub
lime poetry, which is sweeter than
honey, more musical than the sound of
the cymbals,' more . fragrant, than the
pdor of rose3, and purer than the blue
pf heaven! Lift him in triumph, per
fume his inspired head with soft clouds
of incense, fan mm with palm branches,
strew all the spices of Arabia before
him! Honor and glory to the divine
poet!"
Junius approached one of the wor
shipers: "Repeat to me, O beloved
fellow-townsman, the words with which
Julius has enchanted. Alas! unfortun
ately,! was not present when he recited
them. I pray you, do me the favor to
repeat them, if you can remember
them!" !
'How could I ever forget ; such
verses r cried the questioned ; one
eagerly; "for what do you take me?
Listen and shout aloud, rejoice with us !
The verses commence thus:
Jlne lover of .Foe try, my friends ang com
panions,
God of sublimit, beauty and light!
Care disappears, and all sorrow is ended I
vv nen .r nop bus arises tnen vanishes
night I"'
"Now, what do you think of that?
"But I pray you," cried Junius,
"those are my own verses ! Julius was
among the crowd when I was reciting
them, he heard them, and has repeated
them with a few trifling alterations,
whinh: after all. ara nn imnrnvftmfint!"
Ah! now I recognize you.
' J ' "
you are Junius r' replied the other,
with frowning brows. " STou are either
envious or a blockhead. Recollect your
self, miserable youth, with what sab
limity spake Julius: 'When Phoapns,
arises, then vanishes night!' Compare
your nonsense with it : 'Appllo arises.
and fled is the night!'"
les, is ip not exactly the s,ame? '
began Junius.
Another word," interrupted tha
other, "and I will rouse tbe people,
they will tear you in pieces !"
Junius prudently held his tongue, A
gray 'headed man who had overheard
the conversation stepped toward theun
fortunate poet, laid his band on his
shoulder and said : "Junius I you re
peated what you had composed out of
season. This one certainly repeated
borrowed words, still he hit - upon the
right moment; hence his success. Your
own conscience must console you.
bo his own conscience must console
him; well or ill to speak - truly, ill
enough his own conscience must con
sole Junius, who stood in the crowded
background, amid the acclamations
which were lavished upon his rival.
Proud, lofty and maiestic, Julius
moved along in the golden, glittering
dust of the be&iaing, all-conquering sin,
splendid in purple, cpowned with
laurels, surrounded with perfumed
clouds of incense; palm branches fell
before him as he approached, and the
veneration for him which filled the
hearts of his enchanted townsmen
knew no bounds.
Arthur as an Abstinent.
. Detroit Free Press.!
The present president of the United
States does not, like his predecessor,
urant, Jurn his glass down" at dinner:
nor, use ms oiner predecessor, Hayes,
refuse to liave them on the table at alL
Arthur has them on the: table, right
siae up, una Kept niied all the time.
The reason why they are kept filled is
because ne does not drink from them.
He bas, according to a friend whom he
toltbs, learned that he must eat very
Irtlc and abstain entirely from wine
and liquors. It saves him explanations
to hare them tilled and let them a'one.
If everybody were to drink liquor in
this fashion a prohibition law would be
superfluous.
Mrs. W. K. Yanderbilt has the repu
tation of being the owner of the finest
wardrobe m America,
THE STAGE FALL.
A Feat Which Few Metors Have Ac
quired--Explanations of How It Is
Done.
Croffut's Letter in Boston Globe.
How to fall gracefully and safely be
fore an audience is a feat which only a
few actors have thoroughly acquired.
A good many fall v so awkwardly as to
excite mirth, and a good many hurt
themselves. I remember a young lady
in one of Daly's plays a few years ago
to whom he said, "Here! xou must fall
at this cue." At that cue, accordingly;
she fainted and fell, but she knocked
over a chair and a stand, broke a lamp
and set the stage afire 1 Tbe cur
tain was rung down, the fire put out,
and, indignant, he asked her what she
meant by such clumsiness. ell.
she said, 4'you never told me how to
fail, and nobody ever showed me." She
had never thought of taking a lesson in
so important a matter. 1 anny Daven
port is now a large and solid woman,
but her fall in "Fedora" is one of the
most effective bits of stage business.
she reels faintingjfco the sofa, quivers
and dies in an inaiant, bialf lying on her
face,' and as her liorrined" husband funs
up to look and learns the
dreadful truth, she rolls entirely
over by sheer force of gravity and drops
with a startling thud upon the floor.
The best fall I remember having seen
is that of Francis Wilson in the
"Princess of Trebizonde" at the Casino.
He posed amoag the comic statuary on
a pedestal a foot and a half high, with
a brass-drum on his breast. He would
fall directly over, backward, or on
either side, without putting out a hand
or bendmg his body fall straight
upon the floor, like a stone figure. I
wonder it didnt kill hmi--especially
when he was encorel a half a dozen
times. I dou't think a death or a fa'al
injury ought to be repeated too often.
AgneiBooth doesnt know how to fall
easily unless she has learned lately.
When she was playing the wife in "The
Celebrated Case, she jised to hurt her
self every night got black and blue
till she finally threw up the part, and
Miss Cowell took it and "fell" into it
gracefully.
'1 V. AAllAf mna Vnvn l-rw n-vt
J.UCBO ICUUliCLtiUiiO UDIII uccu pug-
gested by a technical lesson. The
pther afternoon I dropped into Frp-
bisher's college of acting, an4 foun4
him engaged teaching a class of theatre-
bound young ladies how to fall, illus
trating h's teaching with them one by
one. "JKemember this, he said, per
sons fall either from fainting, drunken
ness or sudden death. They die either
by dagger, sword, pistol or poison-
except an occasional case uke Mans
field, who dies of apoplexy. Sudden
death is fol'owed by sudden relaxation,
Which causes the knees to bend
as one ol the first Visible signs.
The knee3 bend, the i shoulders
droop, the yictixn turns partially
in his tracks so and falls so-
"not," he resumed on recovering his
feet, "as if he were built of iron, or
wood, or even of flesh and bone, but as
if he were made of snow or of sand
melting away at the bottom first."
"Now, Miss Wright, let s see you fall
at the cut, 'Wretch, here I am!
There are two things to be avoided, re
member. Don't crouch down as if you
Were afraid, and don t flop your -feet
and show your stockings, for that is not
impressive. N ow, then' Wretch ! here
lam!'"
The young kdy gathered herself up
and tell. i
"An, mat isu t ia.r! ie saiq; you
sat down !
I ou must always strike first
pn the side of your knees
it
"1 am afraid it will hurt me.
"Nonsense ! Do you want to be an
actress?"
"ies;xwiiiao anytnmg. uive me
tt IT Y Ml 1 r-
the cue."
It was tried again with better sue
cess. "Always fail diagonally, "he con
tinued, "head toward one of the corners
of the stage. Another thing, in recov
ering from a swoon the head should be
the last to rise. In regaining conscious
ness the heart stirs first, 'then he hands
ana cne irame tne man rqiis nan oyer,
perhaps, before he "lift's bis head at all.
Sometimes it is necessary to fall on
peing struck with the s,t men usually,
It is a back-fall, and is, effected by
holding the body rigid, withdrawing the
tonguafrpm between tbe. teeth, raising
n i i i s i . t m mt .
pne neaa siigmiy ana iaiiing straight on
the shoulders. I. can teach anybody in
an hour so as to make the back-fall un
erringly and safely," Then Professor
Frobisher resumed his lesson and I
oameaway.
lnis oaoK lau l remember seeing
unariotte uusnman ma ice m a surpris
ing manner. I think it was in "Meg
Merrus. She jumped up a foot from
the floor aid took the back f tut with
tremendous effect. ' ;
In drunken falls the most reckless I
ever saw was that of Harry Watkins,
the well-known actor, who has probably
plaved more parts and written more
plays that were put on the boards than
any other living man. 1 remember see
ing lain ramp nfteen or twenty feet
dnnug.the delirium tremens scenes as
Miaddleton in "The Drunkard," his
own play, and I asked him ho ,v . he
could stand it. " ell, he said, my
right s'de is t rribly bruised, and I have
skinned my arms, but I an pretty well
bandaged, and I am having some pads
mWlfi i.n pnsfl mv fall." ;
v. tha W ,r Horpv Wfltlrnia JftTnAs
Wallack and Old But ton were the only they could have now got back to seri
Rctors I ever saw whose drunkenness ous labor. However, the transcenden-
saw
seemed real. As for Both era's drunken
ness in "David Garrick" and Irving's in
the last scene of " The Lyon's Mail, it
is the veriest caricature. It is a sort of
staggering dance an irregular ' bop.
When men are drnnk they do- not. hop
or dance. They put their feet down on
the ground and tike them up as seldom
as pcssible. Barton and Watkins would
both glue their feet to the stage as if
they had suekeis on them, and their
drunkenness wa very drunk indeed. I
wonder why Watkins' "Drunkard" isn't
ou the road now. In these piping
times' of temperance it ought to be a go.
- Pascal : One of the greatest artifices
the devil u es to engage men in vice and
debar cher is to fasten names of con
ten it on ceitain virtues, and thus to
till weak souls with a foolish fear of
pausing for scrupulous, should they de
s.re to put them in practice.
A Queer Sort of Truee Custom. -
A. O. Marshall's "Army Life."
As time wore on, by gradual process.
without any formal agreement, we came
to a mutual understandinsr with the
Confederates in our front. After this.
firing at night practically ceased on oar
part of the line. A sort of spontaneous
truce would spring up each night. The
way it worked was this : As the sun
went down the artillery would cease
firing; after this the rifle firing would
gradually grow less, and by the time
daylight would pass away it would
cease entirelv. A few minutes after the
last shot was heard some one upon one
side or the other would rise a
little above his works for a
second and then drop out of sight.
If no gun was fired upon either side,
some soldier on the other side would
repeat the action. If no gun was now
heard, a soldier upon our side or the
rebel side would openly stand up in
sight of the opposite line, and his action
would be replied to by one of his op
ponents. These two soldiers, Union
and Confederate, would look across at
each other a moment, and then, no firing
being heard, one after another on each
sideJKOuhi get up,, and then we would
nave a line ol union snarpsnooters sit
ting upon top of their works looking
over at a line of Confederate soldiers
sitting upon theirs, eacn witnin easy
rifle range of the other. When this was
done it was understood that all firing
was over for the day.
As it began to grow dark each side
would send a line of guards over in
front of their works, to remain during
the night, These line3 were often
within a short distance of each other.
As we had mucn work to ao upon our
new lines, the enemy wa3 usually first
ready, and it would be on his side that
the movement for the night's truce was
made. If for any reason we were not
ready, the soldier who exposed himself
for this purpose was not fared at, but a
gun would be fired in the air, which was
notice for all to again seek protection.
In the morning it was the same. If
the guards who had advanced upon the
ground between the two opposing
armies tarried longer than the
other side desired, a warn
ing gun would be fired in the
air above them, out no one would oe
fired at until ample time had been
given tor au tq return io tneir own
' m 4 t lilt
works. One of the strangest things
connected with these nightly truces
was that they were confined to different
parts of the line. The Union
troops at our immediate left and the
rebel troops in their front never had
any such understanding, and .with them
it was a continual faght day and night."
The reason for this the author states to
have been want of confidence in each
other, those rebel trqopa being con
sidered "the most inferior and worth
less in tha rebel army despised by the
braver men in their own army, as well
aa by us."
A Ilumlllatins Reflection.
New York News "Art Babble."
The other atternoon l stood in a
sculptor's studio as the evening closed
m. Among the heavy draperies and in
the gloomy corners ghosts of his art
loomed with the exaggerated and sol
emn vastnes3 such forms assume wben
their details are only imperfectly re
vealed. Out of the populous shade one
figure, pallid, lotty, sinuous witn a
weird and superhuman grace, started
forward in. the motionless and silent air,
into an absolutely startling aotivity,
Twisting up out of the shadows, with
out apparent base or support, the
charming yet sinister genius of the
whirlwind seemed to be blown upward
over U3 by the fierce blast she typified.
"You ought to put that fagure in mar
ble," I said.
"And starve? the sculptor asked, m
a voice wnicn ecnoea nouowiy among
the shadows.
There was something in this ans wer
which made me shudder. The tone in
which it was uttered was not one of
sarcasm or of anger. It was the quiet
and commonplace voice of a man mak-
mg an eyery-aay remark ; it was eio-.
auent m the simplicity at its resigna
tion : it was horrible in the positi re fact
it suggested. There was no despair in
it, for the speaker was a man,
not a ooward: but there was no
hope in it either. It rebuked me
for a question which l nad meant
in an nonesiy as a muuie io
the artist's greatness, and which
circumstanoes had turned into a
daearer to stab him. What would
be the result, maeed, it ne aid
' .. .. .. .. ......
put this figure into the perma
nent - material it should be formed
in ? Want while he labored on it and
want while it went begging for a pur
chaser. It is a painful, a humiliating
reflection, for me at least, that in all
America the rich man does not exist
who will say to the creator of the best
conception of its kind ever given shape,
"Finish the work you Have begun.
Jlasazlne Wood Cflts,
New York News,
Apropos of wood engraving it is in'
teresting to note how thoroughly that
of the magazines has come down to a
hard-pan basis of common sense. The
absurd straining for novelty which
made their pages a year ago a species of
nlace to sensible work. The artists
who used to do their best to make a
drawing look as little like a drawing as
tat rage in engraving did one thing; it
demonstrated what can be done with a
wood block and a burin if the man who
handles them is competent to his task.
A Ploeky Boy Violinist.
Chicago Tribune.
A boy of 13 years, whose violin play-
rncr naa loner Deen me vtuuuw ui u
Cossack village, recently reacnea oi.
a ... . . i r, i
Petersburg after a journey of 1,500
miles on foot, allured by the hope of
obtaining free instruction at tne con
servatory. But hardships and overex
ertion had worn the little fellow out,
and he was taken to a hospital danger-
onslv ill of typhoid fever. Should he
recover he will certainly find abundant
opportunity to show whether his talent
is equal to his courage.
American pork is now excluded from
France, Germany, Italy, Austria, and
Russia.
FEMALE DETECTIVES.
What They Are Fitted For and What
Thejs-. Are Xot Useful at Beeep
tions.
rNew York Sun.
"Are female detectives ever resrularly
employed in the detection of crime?"
- J 7 A 1 . fa
ts uuu ii euipiuy women, a smer
intenaenc oi detectives replied," because
it is our nrm conviction that women
cannot be relied on. We have triad
them and found them wonderfully
quicK at aivining me source of a mys
terious crime, patient in testinsr a olan
for capturing a suspected person, and
yes, uncommunicative. There is just
one reason, and only one reason, why
they are not to be trusted no one can
ien wno naa toe most innuence over
1 I I T. A. T i SY
them. Anyhow, we can't afford to take
the risk of employing them and being
oetrayea oy tnem. '
Another experienced manager of de
tectives said : , " Sometimes persons
apply for a female detective to act as
an attendant to take care of wraps at
fashionable receptions. They are well
known in society, who have had trou
ble after receptions ; in getting tha
wraps, overshoes and umbrellas to tbe
owuers. 'oomeiuaes mey get so mixed
up that the owner of an old overcoat oi
shawl or umbrella saunters innocently
off. with a new and more expensive
overcoat, snawi or umbrella." Wink
ing with a wicked expression : ?Hats,
you know, are notoriously successful in
eluding their owner s search if they
are gooa nats. u tne occasion is
a fitting one for a detective,
we send one. it is not generally
understood that female detectives
are employed only at ... these large
receptions, and then only m the
waiting-room and in the room set apart
for the ladies' especial use. Some per
sons imagine that female detectives go
to the receptions as guests. That would
be an insult to the genuine guests. Be
sides, in society here every one knows
her neighbor, and the female detective
would herself be detected as a stranger.
xnen introductions would necessarily
ioilow under an assumed name, and the
subsequent explanations the hostess
would be oompelled to make in account
ing for the disappearance of Mrs. So-
and-So would make her life a burden.
I sea no good reason, though why fe
male detectives should not be employed
in the ladies' room, It is a convenience
to have a skilled eye' on the property.
instead of one liable to make mistakes
or to be out of the way when wanted."
The plants or Those Bays.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
In Pliny'a time it was oustomary to
describe the warriors of a few genera
tions before as giants. Alexander the
G reat very well understood the strength
ening, enect of a little substantial evi
dence on such descriptions. On one of
his expeditions he caused a tomb to be
constructed and placed in it arms and
armor of an enormous size, and marked
the whole with his name. It has been
suggested that this clever fraud was
practiced by William the Conqueror,
whose supposed tom,b was opened in
the sixteenth century and found to con
tain the bones of an uncommonly large
person., lhe attempt made to destroy
a dear neiiei, nowever, received a se
vere blow by a discovery made in Rouen
xn 1509. On tne autnonty of JLe Cat a
stone tomb was uncovered in which was
a copper plate bearing the inscription,
"Here lies the noble and puissant lord
the Chevalier Ricon de Vallemont and
his bones."
The skull of Ricon held a bushel of
corn, and nis sKeieton indicated tnat
when clothed in flesh the chevalier
stood nineteen feet in his stockings. As
unsettling to a serene mind as his ap
pearance may have been on a dark
night, he was quite a pigmy beside
Thentobechus, king of the Teutons,
who towered up twenty-five feet. Le
Cat says his monster hones were found
January 11. 1613, mentioning the date
particularly. The skeleton of another
monster thirty feet long was found at
Mazaeno, Sicily, in 1516, and still an
other at Palermo in 1548, which meas
ured the same. '' The appearance in the
flesh of these creatures had better be
left to the imagination.
Aa if determined to show that his
country was eminent as a producer of
the skeletons of giants, an Italian of
the fifteenth or sixteenth century re
lates the finding of a skeleton 300 feet
high ! It was immediately announced
to be the skeleton of the giant Polyphe
mus, and treated with various ceremo
nies by the awe-stricken discoverers and
the people of the country. The bones,
the author naively observes, differed
somewhat from those of the ordinary
human frame, but that was to be ex
pected in a man so tall.
The evident compounding .of prenis
tone animal relics with human remains
was one of the many oases. The stories
of human skeletons of 100 and 200 and
even 500 feef hfgh, which began with
the Polyphemus incident, belong to the
same category of mistakes, x nere is,
however, good ground for supposing
that Farragus, the tyrant, slam by Or
lando, nenhew of Charlemagne, was a
huge man, eighteen feet high. Buoart
of Yivans, whose bones were found on
the banks of the Morderi river, in the
mountains of Crussol, on grave author
ity was stated to be twenty-two feet six
inches. Richard, a celebrated anato
mist: saw in the suburbs of St. Germain
in 1614 the skelton of a man twenty feet
tall.
ITp In Alaska,
The Current
When it is remembered that, even at
Point Barrow, the most northern point
of Alaska, the average temperature is
only 7 below zero, according to the
United States signal service report, it
is evident that the people of Illinois,
Wisconsin. Iowa. Minnesota and Da
kota are qjoalified to receive certificates
as to ther ability, through severe tests.
to endure Arctic weather.
Wasn't His Wife.
Merchant Traveler. -
A man rushed up to a woman looking
in a show window, and grasping her by
the arm, angrily exclaimed : Come on;
I m tiled waiting for you." Then no
ticing he had made a mistake, he drew
back with, "Oh, I beg your pardon,
madam, I mistook you for my wife." "I
thought so," she answered with a scorn
ful sneer, and passed on.
FROM THE WIGWAMS.
Fifty Indian 2Xaldens eave the Prai
rie and Go to Philadelphia After an
Education.
Philadelphia Record.
The family of twenty-three Indian
girls who have been living for some
time at the Lincoln institution, Elev
enth Btreet below Spruce, was increased
to fifty on Thursday afternoon by the
arrival of twenty-seven girls from the
Indian training school at Carlisle, Pa.,
from which place they were sent by or
der of the interior department of the
United States government. 1 Tha fifty
who are now in i Philadelphia will, in
the course of a few weeks, be joined by
twenty-five more, which will complete
the number to be taken care of in this
city. :
The new arrivals are apparently per
fectly satisfied with their Quarters. -
They ranged in age from 6 to 20, and
were all neatly dressed and wore their
jet-black hair in plaits. The fifty
scholars are divided into two divisions.
each of which goes through a regular
routine of study and work daily; They
rise at 6 o'clock, and after breakfast
one division goes tto: the rlBchool-rOoma
and studies from 9 o clock until noon,
the other girls spending these hours
in learning to sew, cook, and attend
to the general housework of the institu
tion.
In the afternoon from 1 o'clock until
4 the second division attends school
and the first is instructed in the useful
branches just mentioned. Each day the
scholars are taken out for an hour s
walk, but as a general thing they do
not like this, as they are very sensitive
about the attention they ' attract. On
Sundays they attend divine service at
the Church of the Ascension. The
hours when they do not have to be in
school-rooms or at work are spent in
the pi ly-rooms of the institution.
Some of the girls are very clever at
making Indian dolls, which they dec
orate with beads, bits - of metal, and
strips of bright flannel. During -the
day they are obliged to talk to each
other in English, but in the hour that
intervenes between supper and bedtime
(8 p.-xa.) they are allowed to converse
with each other in their native lan
guages. Tnis, nowever, is impossible,
in many cases, as they represent a num
ber of tribes, and do not understand
one another's dialects. Prizes are given
at the-end of each month to those who
have talked English only during that
period, and they make rapid headway
in learning the language. They are re
ported to be bright and quick "at their
studies. -
Among the tribes represented by the
fifty now at the institution are the
Pawnees, Sioux, Cheyennes, Coman
ches, Diggers, Osages, Omaha3 and
Dela wares.
A large number have Christian
names and civilized surnames, but
some are still .known by their Indian
surnames, witn a Christian name at
tached, the effect of which is often
rather amusing, as in the following
cases : Bessie Big Soldier, Edna
Feather, Frankie Bear, Ella Man
Chief, Maud Echo Hawk, Fannie Crow,
Eunice Bear Shield, Sarah High Pipe,
Lizzie Spider and Olive Battle.
The maiority of the girls.will remain
in Philadelphia five years.
John Brown's Mission.
Senator Ingalls in North American Review.
Out of the portentous and menacing
cloud of anti-slaverv sentiment that had
long brooded with sullen discontent, a
baleful meteor above the north, he
sprang like a terrific thunderbolt,
whose lurid glare Rluminated the con
tinent with its devastating name, and
whose reverberations among the splin
tered crags of Harper's Ferry were re
peated on a thousand battle-held s from
Gettysburg to the gulf. From the in
stant that shot was fired the discussion
and the debate of centuries was at an
end. He who was not for slavery was
against it. The north became verte
bratedand the age of cartilage and
compromise was at an end. The nation
seized the standard of universal eman
cipation which dropped from his dying
hand on the scaffold at Charleston, and
bore it in triumph to Appomattox.
Carlyle says that when any great
change in human society is to be
wrought, God raise3 up men to whom
that change is made to appear as the
one thing needful and absolutely indis
pensable. Scholars; orators, poets,
philanthropists, play their parts, but
the crisis comes at last through some
one who is stigmatized as a fanatic by
bis contemporaries, and whom the sup
porters of the systems he assails crucify
between thieves or gibbet as a felon.
The man who is not afraid to die for an
idea is its most potential and convinc
ing advocate.
The Dancing Anaconda.
. Corpus Christi Critic.
Baron Non Schoeler, of Corpus
Christi, has a strange pet. It is an im
mense snake of the anaconda species.
The baron's influence upon his horrid
prisoner has been such us to reduce it
to a lawning aocmij. At me merest
sound of the baron's voice the reptile
immediately manifests a sense of per
fect delight by describing such a vari
ety of evolutions as to amaze one. It
will actually assume , a perpendicular
position, resting upon its head, and in
a twinkle assume the reverse by resting
upon its tail, and all this and much
more while the baron stands
in tne den oi the writhing, squirming,
acrobatic monster.
A Leap Year Party.
Jefferson City Tribunal
The gentlemen wore toilets of sur
passing richness and elegance, thone in
all their lovely and radiant beauty, and
made themselves utterly and entirely
irresistible. The young ladies all wore
handsome hand-me-downs, -purchased
at a fire sale of damaged goods ct Osage
City, and were simply enchanting in
their loveliness.
A TERRIBLE INFANT.
Frederick: Lockyer. ,
I recollect a nurse called Ann,
Who carried me about the grass,
And one fine day a fine young mau
Came up and kissed the pretty lass
She did not make the least objection.
Tbinkal, "Aha!
When I can talk I'll tell mamma."
And that's my earliest recollection.