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RANDOM CUPPINGS.
Jefpkksox Davis seveutY-sevcn
ronrs old la3t week.
MlLLION'AIUK MACKKV 13 SOOn to
join his wifo in London, where tlio
latter has rented a house.
Mb. John Lucas Walker lias loft
10,000 to the National gallery, Lon
don, to bo spent in buying a picturo
or pictures, which aro to bo labeled
with the donor's name.
Cait. Cykus Stuktevant, tho tem
perance advocato who was tho instru
ment of Francis Murphy's conversa
tion, will bo GG years old on Sept. 4,
ind his friends aro gomg to give him
i grxjul reception.
Mu. Musuuus, the Turkish ambassa
dor in Londou, has occupied that post
tor over forty years. Tho lato Mr.
Van tie Wcyor was Belgian minister at
London for over thirty years, and
Baron Brunnow represented Russia
ihero almost as long.
Mu, Jonas, tho recently appointed
:ousul to prague, has published a Id
ler to the efl'eot that a cablegram from
Henna, which appeared in a Now
fork paper, concerning his person
ind his relations to tho Austrian
Government is false in ovory partic
ular from beginning to end.
Bakon Hkutkic, whoso stupidly slow
igency for gathering foreign news is
it last arousing the iro of the English
oapers, started on a small ecalo in
kix-la-Chapollo in 1819. Not only has
;ho agency yielded him millions, but
lis prolits in .speculation through his
sarly knowledge of important events
havo boon enormous.
A cokkesi'ONOENT of tho Now York
Morning Juurnul gives this hint:
Should cholera givo us a call this sum
mer 1 beg to repeat tho advico given
oy a medical man to his patients dur
aig tho cholera year of '18 in Great
Britain: Wear a band of rod Hannel
round tho abdominal regions and prao
iico temperance in all things, with an
ccasional nip of whisky and red pop
cr. Tin: king of Italy has ordered, at
his own expense, eight life-sized mar
olo statues to bo plauod in tho exist
ing niches in tho facade, of tho palaeo.
1'ho uersonages to bo remembered aro
io be eight kings of Naples, viz: Rog
jr, Frederick II., Charles I. of Anjou,
Alfonso of Aragon, Charles V., Char
les 1IL of ISourbon,Joaohim Murat,
ind Victor Emmanuel. Tho sculptors
soiccted aro all Neapolitans.
An electrical tooth-pulling machine,
which is quick and almost painless in
Its operations, is said to pull seven
tooth m live seconds. A pair of for
jeps protrudo from a niokol tube
svhich is connected witii a wire. Tho
torccps aro applied to tho tooth, tho
Dperatur touches a spring, a spiral ar
rangement within the lube winds up
In a wink, draws down the forceps like
i Hash, and in an instant the tooth is
jerked from tho jaw and cast on tho
floor.
JULIANO DE SotJZA, tllO chief Of lllO
jcmi-royal state of Wydah, who pos
sessess a fully-equipped battalion of
women warriors, is a tall, broad-ohest-sd,.nian,
witli a brownish complexion
and striking face, llo wears at cere
monies a lonsr, shirt like cotton garment
coaching to his foot, high European
boots'? an embroidered smoking cap and
i black jnotal cross on his chest. Sou
sa's son was odueatod in an English
boarding school, and was married by
i French priest, although tho king is
a feticli worshiper. His six huudrcd
amazons are nominally his wives, and
thoy form a bodyguard which is said
to bo suporior to tho regular soldiers
in courago, discipline, and royalty.
In viow of the rumored dissensions
in tho Gladstone cabinet provious to
its fall tho following passago from a
3peech f Sir Charles Dilko, dolivorod
just aftor that event, is of groat sig
nificance: "Mr. Gladstono is a man
who difl'ors from otlior men who aro
growing old, and ho di flora from thorn
in this that while other men as thoy
grow old havo too often their minds
cramped or warped with time and
ago, his political principles grow and
expand with those of tho country and
tho times, until now, when ho has bo
conio an old man for tho groat leader
of a great party, ho has bocomo in
moro comploto sympathy with tho
nioro advanced section of tho party
which ho leads than ho over was at
any timo before "
John H. Stallo, who was last week
appointed to tho Italion mission, is
ono of Cincinnati's bost-known Gor
man citizens. Ho sorved a term as
judgo of the court of common pleas of
Hamilton county, and has for a long
timo stood among tho leaders of tho
Ohio bar. Ho is a man of studious
habits and tho most varied acquire
ments, not only capablo but fond of
drifting from law into metaphysics,
languages, or chemistry, and in thoso
deparmonts of learning maintaining
himself against all comers. In his j
youngor years ho used to writo ooino
what liorcely against religious orcods,
but about throe years ago ho publish
ed a book against what he considered
tho unwarranted assumption of sci
ence, ami, as Mr. Dana oxprassod it at
tho time," caiuo out ou the Lurd's
aide,"
rouM)f:n ov man pills.
A (ilimpsp of the Drue Clerk Sflxlnc Op Poi
sons In Little White Pellets.
Thcro is little doubt that tho youthful
mind of Theophilus, John or Dicky is
often lired when reaching up after a
glass of soda-water, witli a wild desire
to becotno a drug clerk. Tho aspect
of the gorgeous person who stands be
hind tho marble-topped counter and
ever beams on the army of the heated
who besiege him tor a draft of the tizzy
fluid minds tho boy to imaginu that a
whole summer long with free soda
water constantly within rcacli would
bo quite an ideal state of existence.
Yet the urchin would lind tho reality
which lurks behind this romantic
vision quito a diil'erent sort of thing.
It may bo that somo persons can see,
as it is claimed, a certain distinction
of bearing in the manner of the clerk
according to whether ho is selPng a
tooth-brush or wrapping up a chest
protector. But such a fanciful halo
transcendent spirituality invests him
only in tho eyes of a few hero-worshipers.
To ordinary people he is only
a hard-worked mortal particularly
interesting when he is recommending
some new patent nostrum, or pounding
pills himself in tho little shop back of
the store. For him, to be sure, quart
measure, yard-stick and rough scales
became graduated glasses, horn spoons
and spatulas and linely adjusted scales
on which a hair is a large quantity.
I lis hours are long, for he appears
among his perfumes and his poisons
at 7 o clock, nor does he crawl away
from them much beforo 10 at night.
When he does retire to dreams of mix
ing Epsom salts with castor oil to re
move tho glanders he has a bell within
an inch oFliis elbow and a speaking
tubo as near his mouth. Ity these ho
is often summoned at the" dead of
night to dolo out medicines.
llo is prolioont at washing bottles,
fpr when he entered tho store as a
small boy ho was sot to doing that,
with many a warning not to leave any
straw in tliom. Hut ho renieuiberes
his "David Copporlield," and with tho
knowledge that Charles Dickens was
his partner in tho trado, cheerfully
learns long Latin names for herbs and
drugs witli their common English
equivalents. Ho is rather an interest
ing figuro when ho takes up one of Dr.
Phussyman's prescriptions, written in
that barbarous hand in which tho
physician always indulges. The pa
tient or tho patieut's relative who
conies in with tho important bit of
paper usually is very curious to know
"what that medicine is for." But the
young druggist is an adept at talking
a good deal without say ing anything
and tells his inquisitor something that
satislies the mind without disclosing
the doetot's secret. For tho physician
often does not want the patient to
know for what the treatment is being
administered, and your keen druggist
always keeps on tho sunny side of as
many doctors as ho knows how. But
it is "especially when lie retires into tho
seclusion of his pill-pounding don to
polish up tho knob of It is pestle against
drugs of all sorts that the young man
really holds our interest. Here it is
that ho most nearlv approaches tho
old alchemist witli which he is inevita
bly more or less associated, and with
hundreds of poisons, aromatic or
malodorous herbs all about him with a
potion of some sort in a pot at his side
lie becomes almost uncanny. Tidied
up for visitors to inspect, the pharma
cist's don is a neat" and business-like
room in appearance, but lake it when
tinctures, pills, face-wash, bitters or
powders aro in preparation and tho
very confusion ploasjs one as much as
"a sweet disorder in the dress" did
old Robert Derrick.
Behind his table, with glass funnels,
graduated glasses, spatulas, scales,
jars, a hand-press ami a grinding-itia-ciiino,
whose very arrayproinisus tho
brewing of somo sanatives, stands the
apothecary. Poisons in such quality
and number that Medea's eyes would
havo fairly glistened are about. But
the sceno is hanilv a peaceful ono.
Tho modern combination of a witch,
herb doctor, and seokors for tho
philosopher's stone putters briskly
about. Now ho cuts up those herbs
and pressing thorn in a solution, strains
oil' ins desired fluid, llo grinds chunks
of solids in his coltee-mill to powder.
Near by haus his metric weight tables.
Thoro is a little, mortar for plasters,
another for pills and a third for emul
sions. Ho rubs the ingredients rapid
ly together and then runs in gum
arabio to make tho mass plastic. Got
ting it of the required consistency, lie
places it on a wooden board, on ono
end of which is a grooved brass plate.
Flattening tho compound out on this,
he takes another board made to lit
down on this and with alternate
grooves. Pressing this down and rub
bing it along on the other, the mass is
nut into long, slender pencil-like
bodies. Tho pills are picked oil' from
this and rolled to a sphorical form be
tween the palm and the smooth board
in tho rear. Tho young druggist is
often patronized by several physicians,
and inasmuch as they aro accustomed
to prcscribo the same pill for certain
diseases, ho can make up 300 or moro
of theso at ono time. He makes all
tho syrups for tho soda-water fountain.
He makes a standard ha'r-oil, bottle
of bitters, common or rare pill regu
larly and lias to keep his stock of bot
tles tilled. Like all moil dealing in
tho dangerous things ot life ho meets
many a cranky customer. Ho learns
that it is well often to inquire into the
antecedents of a cat to whom arsenic
must bo given. Ho becomes acquaint
ed too with tho poculinritios of that
frightful habit, morphino eating, and
though no words pass betwoon thorn
ho comes to loarn the secret of victims
perhaps that conio to him for tho drug
only too well. When ho makes a mis
take ho receives tho universal oursoj
but for the many helpful doses put up
in a long day or whon waked from
sleep his thanks are as meager as ono
might expect. Sprmtjwd JkjiuOlican.
Iu Cuba, vhfii the government want to
dltclpJlne an editor It auapend liU paper for
forty day. Thlt ia great fun fur I lie odltor.
He geta a reat, (coea flailing, baa a good lllll,J
generally, and hit aubu-rlber eau'l reoorer a
tuu t for the paper, the; didn't KuLiiuriinyUiu
Frtt J'rti.
The way of Ilia wli-lcd-Tue roJ to C'aua
i". OH lily DtrricU.
Tho Ministers of To-Day.
Every year ministers aro becoming
moro liberal, and if thev keep on in
creasing in liberality the timo is not
far distant when the majority of them
will look as pleasant as anybody, and
tho long faces that people have Ih'oii
accustomed to seeing on their minis
ters will givo place to sniilos, and
there will bo n hearty friendship bo
tV'fon pastor and people instead of
coldness. Ministers that aro coming
onto tho stage now seem to be endow
ed with the same propensities as other
healthy men. The colleges where
thoy got their education for the minis
try aro not tho hide bound n flairs they
usod to be, and when they turn out a
preacher, lie can not only preach right
from tho shoulder, but ho can do lots
of other things that the congregation
does not take into account. Nowduys
when wo see a bright young man in
the malpit, using splendid tactics to
bring the sinner to repentance, wo
know that he can also land a black
bass as well as the best of us. When
wo see his gestures in the pulpit, as ho
sends theological blow after blow into
the ranks of sinners, wo feel that if
wor.-o comes to woro ho would be no
slouch in a boxing match, and that ho
could knock, out a bad man in three
rounds, Marquis ot Queonsburv rules, (
if such a man attempted to put any
scallops around him, and wo rejoice
that the good man would not bo as
helpless as the old-fashioned ministers
who preached turning the other oheek
also, which the now minister does not
believe in. When the new minister
exhorts his congregation to flee from
the wrath to come, we know that
if there should bo a general flee
ing match, the good man could outrun
the whole crowd, at a thousand yards,
because ho has practised fleeing in
many a footrace at college. It is not
exactly right, pftrhaps, to think of it
in church, but it is human to prido
ourselves that the innocent looking
man who is telling us of the glories ot
the beautiful beyond, can kick a foot
ball higher than any deacon that is
listening to Ins eloquent words. When
he tells the sinner to'stop short in his
career, and strike home the now resolu
tion to turn from the evil of his ways,
one cannot help thinking that as a short
stop in a base ball nine the minister
has few equals, while ho can bat a
ball from a cross-eyed, left handed
pitcher clear over tlio fence, make a
homo run, and bring inthr.ee men that
are loafing on tho bases trying to steal
in. When he tells us of the fishermen
of Gallileo going out in their boats lo
catch lish wo feel that he can cast a fly
farther with his live ounce rod, and
nearer where the lish is located, than
the best fishermen Gallileo over turned
out, and that, lie could take a pair of
oars and pull the everlasting socks oil'
of any olfl-litno boatman that we ever
read about. The minister of the pro
sent day takes an interest in manly
sports, and is often seen at tlio base
ball matches, and if ho can't go on
Saturday afternoons, on account of
having to wruo his sermon, lie has a
neighbor drop iu on the way back from
the ball match to tell nim'tho result,
and he lets up on his sermon for a tow
minutes to listen to a disoription of
some of the good playing, and resumes
the writing of his sermon rofrojhod by
tlio caller, and the bettor for the call.
If you call upon him at his study or
his residence of an evening, and want
to talk about religion, ho is loaded for
bear, and will give you good advico
enough to make you a happy Christian
if you follow it, but if you want toseo
his Ashing rod am! his flies, lie will
put his rod together anil show you
how the tip will bend clear to tho butt
and not break, and lie will show you
tho most killing flies and toll you
where he caught tlio largest trout, and
how miieli his health was improved
by his vacation hist year, llo will tell
you that a vacation, to him, means
going away to the woods and streams,
to commune with nature, and broatho
tho pure air, instead of exchanging
pulpits with some other worn out
brother, preaching old back-number
sermons for "rest," to bonches made
vacant by tho congregation taking a
vacation and going to tho woods. If
you casually allude to shooting, in
connection with lishiiig, ho will pull
an old gun case out from under the
lounge and show you an old Parker
gun that ho lias "shot ton thousand
times, and make tho casual remark
that it gets thoro Eli, and ho will toll
you of an old bob-tailed setter dog
that ho has shot over for sovoral sea
sons that has got moro sense and is
truer and moro friendly than many
church members ho has come in con
tact witli, and you will imagine that
ho has hopes that there is a small
heaven somewhere for good dogs
that never make a mistake on a point,
and never chaso rabbits. Tho minister
of tlio present day, with rare excep
tions, is a thoroughbred, who will sit
up nights if necessary, to steor you
towards St. Peter's gato, and will givo
you all tho points ho knows of about
learning the combination, and ho will
sincerely liopo you willmako thoriillo,
but aftor ho'hns done his duty by you
and all nion, he is not going around
groaning and sighing, and crying for
fear you will rioc catch on, but on tho
contrary ho believes in having a little
fun himself as he goes along, and ho
will smile and act hearty, as though
thoro was nothing catiru? him. A Wis
consin man was completely broken of
swearing, ton years ago, by going out
fishing with a yaung minister, who is
ono of tho host known iu this country.
Tho profane man got a bass, and after
playing witli it for twenty minutos,
got it near the boat, whon it slapped
us tall against tho boat, said good bye
John, and got away. John looked
mad, and ho swallowed a good doal of
something that seemed to stick in his
throat, when tho reverend gentleman,
was reeling in a four pounder, said,
"Spit it out Johh! I know what you
want to say, and it is better out than
in you. But hand that landing not
this way first." John helped laud the
bass, nnd thou said, "Myron, swearing
is all d d foolishness, and I will nev
er swear again," ho never has, to this
day. 'eofc'j Suit,
Railroad i'reldeiit "Don'l you think that
rulher exorbitant, Mr. Iladuer, 1 11,0 JO for tlio
loaa of your wife and her diamond In the
mcldeuti" Mr. badger (liidlguutly-Kx-brilliant
I Well, J abould ay not. i value
the dluioudat f Uyxw alone. Diily UrajU.
The Poof nnd the Noble.
A young poet had written a mosl
scurrilous poem, m which ho had tic
scribed and lineled not only the em
press, but also the grand dukes and
duchesses. Some one, the censor of
tlio press, went and told tho empress.
"The man had better bo sent oil' to
Siberia at once." he said; "it is not a
case of delay." "Ono," .said the em
press; "w.ii't a little, but tell the man
1 desire to.see him at (5 o'clock lo-nior-row
evening. When the poor man was
told this, he felt as if tho last hour was
come, aud tho emperor Alexander II.)
must intend himself to pronounce a
sentence of eternal exile. Ho went to
the palace, and was shown through all
ihe graud staterooms, one after yv
other, without seeing am one. till at
hvst he arrived at a Miiall common
place room at the end of them all,
where there was a single table with a
lamp upon it, and here he saw the
air.prcss, the emperor, and all tho
grand dukes ami duchesses whom lie
had mentioned in his poem. "How do
you do, .sir?" said the emperor. "I
hear you have written a most beauti
ful poem, and l have sent for yon that
) on may read it aloud to us yourself,
and l havo invited all the grand dukes
ami duchesses to come, that they may
h.ive the pleasure of hearing j ou.
Then tho poor man prostrated himself
at the einneror's feet. "Send me to
Siberia, sire," lie said; "force me to
oeconui a soldier, only do not compel
me to read that poem." "Oh, sir,
you are cruel to refuse mo the pleas
ure, but you will not bo so ungallant
as to refuse the empiess tho pleasure
of hearing your verses, and she will
isk you herself." And the empress
asked him. When he had finished she
said: " 1 do not think ho will writo
any more verses about us again, llo
need not go to Siberia just yet."
A nobleman hud entered into a con
spiracy against tho emperor, and was
sentenced to Siberia. His yos were
bandaged and ho was put into a dark
sarriage, and for seven days and
nights they traveled on and on, only
stopping to take food. At last ho felt
they must have reached Siberia, and
in tlio utm ost anguish ho perceived
that the carriage stopped, and tlio
bandage was taken oil' his eyes, and
ho was in his own homo! He had been
driven round and round St. Peters
burg tho whole timo; but tho fright
V.iite cured him. Studies in lltmit.
A Mongolian Legend.
Those interested in folk-lore may
perhaps bo glad to read the following
legend as to the origin of tlio Russians
found by Col. Prjovalsky to bo current
among the Mongol inhabitants of
(Caidau, and published iu the Jliisski
Invutidc:
"In former times thoro lived iu a
;ave, far away from all people, a good
icrniit lama, or priest, who passed his
ife in praying. A pair of nomads,
consisting of an aged mother and her
daughter, happened to go that way,
ind the daughter, while tending cat
tle, came upon tlio cave of tho holy
lama, who "was at that timo ill. Tho
.'ompassionnlo maiden ollered him
some sour milk, but ho did not like to
taste it. At last ho gave way to her
sntreaties, and took tlio sour milk
evorv day until he got well. Eventu
ally, out of gratitude for tlio euro, tho
l:i ma married tho maiden.
"As soon aa tho czar of that country
heard of this ho sent his troops to kill
tho priest who had so flagrantly broken
his vows and committed the sin of
marriage. When the troops ap
proached the lama gathered a bunch
jf reeds and stuck them in the ground
found his tout, and then by force of
prayer caused them to bo all turned
into soldiers, who defeated I ho troops
of the czar. The latter sent a second
and a th'rd army, but both were beat
3ii, as the lama continued to pray and
turn into moro lighting nion the reeds
broken oil' by his first created defond
srs, so that tho holy lama soon had a
prosit number of troops. After the de
tent of his third army the czar loft tho
lama alone in peace," but tho latter did
not wish to hvo any longer on tho
Dartli. Tho lama left his wife to rule
the people created from tho reeds, and
from those aroso tlio Russians. Thoy
liavo white bodies and their hair is
af ton fair, because the steins of tho
reeds wore of a yellowish color, and
ihe tons somowhat darker." London
Times SI, I'dcrsbunj Correspondence.
MM.ll.il I. P. II l.ll.ll --
Family OmuTolfl in Spain.
The Madrid correspondent of tho
I'ctit Maricillais relates a striking in
stance of tlio intensity of family quar
rels in Spain. About a year ago a
vypay named Moralis was assassinated
at Zorza, in tho Provinco of Cacoros,
by one of his comrades namod Silru.
Tho lattot was iu duo course tried and
condemned to death, but his execution
did not satisfy tlio vongoanco of tho
victim's family. Thcro had been ill
feeling between tho two families for
three years, but thoro had been no
open quarrel until tho murder of
Moralis. Soon after tlio oxoctition of
tlio murdcror, which took place last
moiitn, the two families mot on their
return from a fair noar tho town of
Caceres. Thoy had thoir mules and
cattle with them. There wore about
lifly on each side, including women
and children. A regular pitched bat
tle ensued, revolvers, knives and
sticks being freely used by tlio men,
whilo tho women employed thoir nails
with considerable efl'ect, and the chil
dren thtew stones indiscriminately.
Tho rosult of tho struggle was that tho
heads of the two families woro both
killud, two of tlie womon and sovoral
of tho children. Thoro were ton or
twelve wounded, and tho bodies of tho
doad woro horribly mutilated. If tho
mounted police had not interrupted
tho light thoro would havo been many
more lives lost. Several mules wero
killed, and tho buggago of tho two
faiuAlos wore strewn about in such
disorder that tho road for noarly half
a mile lookod as if a largo army had
beaten a retreat along tt. London
Times.
The only couutrlua upon the n'obo lo which
cholera liai not been carried are the Ulaoda
of the aoutli iVifle Auttralania, tlm Cpe of
(iood liopo, tho UlaiiUi of Ihe North Atlantic,
ami the weitoru coait of fcoulh America.
Thr.f couutiiea ere all ae pa rated from India
by a wide expaiiae of ocean, and hare no con.
wcrclal luttrtour.o with ttiat couutry,
FACT AND FANCY.
Tho most elegant summer cottages
havo exteriors of polished, unpaiiited
woods.
A Genoral Hospital association has
been incorporated at Seattle, W. T.r
with $50,000 capital.
Happonsborger's statue of Garfield
will bo unveiled in Golden Gflto park,
San Francisco, July I.
Monroe H. Corbin, census taker in
Webster, Mass., has found ono woman,
40 years old, who is tho mother of
nineteen children.
An Arizona man has stopped taking
an agricultural paper, lie wrote to
the editor asking how to get rid of
gnats. Tlio answer canio in the noxt
issue of the paper, "lvill them."
A druggist .it Quinoy, III., advertis
o d knufl'-dropti to those sufl'ering witli
colds. Abraham KaulV, a citizen of
the town, called on the druggist, and
put out his loft eye as a reward for
being funny.
A largo painting representing Cus
ter's last light with the Indians, tho
work of a Virginia artist, was tlio
jhief work of art contributed by tlio
south to the New Orleans exhibition.
U drew well.
In Siualoa. Mexico, a woman is be
ing exhibited who is seven feet high
and weighs live hundred pounds.
She is as young as she is charming, hv
ing only 'J(5 years of ago. Sho was
born iu Paohuea.
An experienced educator says that
the ideal commencement programme
should always contain three features
a production by a member of tho class,
alio by an alumnus, and another by a
well-known speaker.
"A curious negro superstition is
that a man who has been struck by
lightning can not swim," says an ox
chango. Wo havo noticed tlio same
thing, loo, about negroes who havo
died from yellow fever.
Tho cash ier of the East Saginaw
Savings bank, who recently skippcdjto
Canada with $:io0,000 has just sent
back a check tor 10,000, to bo used in
Qiilargiug tlio almshouse at that town.
He says that no one shall aeciise him
af not feeling for the poor depositors.
"John, did you go around and ask
how old Mrs. Jones was this morn ing,
is I told you to do last night'" "Yes,
sir." "Well, what was tho result?"
"Sho said that seeing as how you had
the impudence to ask how old she was,
iho'd no objection to tolling you she
was 71."
Tlio huge group of sun spots which
was seen coining around tho eastern
edge of tho sun several days ago has
now nearly advanced to the center of
tho disk. It is largo enough to be
joon without teleseopio aid In pro
tecting the eye with a dark glass. In
tho telescope it is a wonderful phe
nomenon, and a rough measurement
shows that its length exceeds a hun
dred thousand miles, and its breadth
thirty thousand.
"1 havo sold hundreds, I might al
most say thousands, of lots to Ger
mans," said a Ibill'.ilo real-estate man,
"and havo noted ono significant fact.
Tho momenta Gorman takes to whisky
he's gone. Ho may swallow boor, ale,
wine, aud cider enough lo float a ship.
and vet pull through and pay for his
lot, but old ryo will lay him out.
When a whisky-drinking German
wants to doal with me I say 'no' with
an emphasis that makes his teeth rat
tle." "Yo' wan' tor know what fust
' Harted mo for to preach do gospil,
'nhi"' repeated an old darkey minis
ter. "Yes, Undo .lake." ' "1 will
tolo you 'zaetly all 'bout it, eah. Ono
day I war workiu' out in do oo'nliold,
ni do sun war hurry hot, an' do
1 grotin' war stony, an' it's mighty
pow'ful work liouiu' co'n in du hot
sun on stony groun', boss, an' I war
berry tired', an' I loaned back on do
hoo an' got tor thiukiu', an' all ob a
sudden, like, I feel dat do good Lord
called 'pon mo for tor nroaoh do gos
pil, sab.",
Some persons aro apt to look upon
Mexico as a half-civilized nation.
Journalism iu that section varies from
tho sensational work put into somo
American papers. A niiirdor is briefly
aiinouiiood, with only the loading facts
ami names, and with no artistic elab
oration of details. Tho taste of tho
Mexican reader does not inclino to
ward crimes. Still less does ho do
light in the miseries of unfortunate
families. The family circle is the
last pltico the reporter invades. Tho
rattle of tho family skeleton is rarely
heard, and when it is, truth is rarely
lost sight of in an unseemly scramble
to bo the first to exhibit it.
Why do tho revisors of tho Old and
Now Testament, asks The London
i Lino Times, insist on using the spoil
ing "Judgement" instead of judg
ment? Tho word being ono of special
ly legal use, it says: Wo should have
thought the universal practice of law
yers in modern times, supported as it
is by all contoinporary English litera
ture, ought to havo boon followed.
Wo can only answer our own question
by supposing that the revisers havo
gone back to the spelling of 1011; but
this is n totally nisiiiiicieiii reason tor
adopting a mode of spelling which
must bo an oyosoro to ovory hWyor,
not to speak of literary men iu genoral,
and which gratuitously adds to tho
confusion through which ovory school
boy has to struggle his way to a mas
tery of English orthography."
The Ynquls hold thoir title from tho
king of Spain and do not recognizo the
republic of Mexico. No taxes or im
ports are levied on them, or if lovled
they have not been oollootod. They
are a hard)', agricultural race, living
ou small patches of fertilo soil on the
Yaqul river. Thoy steal stock when
an opportunity oilers, but have rarely
iu the last few years committed any
murders. Cajemo, their chief, is ol
fair education for Mexico, and Is a
stern ruler. He has absolute control
over them. Tho nations combined
number over lifteen thousand, of which
at least live thousand are adult iiialos.
Thojr principal arms aro bows, arrows,
spears, aud a throe-cornered bludgeon
iiitule of iron wood. Some of the arrow
am poisonous. Thoy also carry
powdered stono in small sucks, usod
by tlioin to throw iu the oyos of thuli
udrurmle.
Buckwheat Cakes in Summer.
Wliile a down-town flour merchant
watched an employe load a truck with
buckwheat flour," the other day, ho
.laid: "You would hardiv expect to
see such a large sale of buckwheat as
that at this timo of the year, would
you? The fact Is. the use of buckwheat
is increasing. The restaurants hero
serve buck wheat cakes the year around,
though it strikes a countryman as
rather odil to seo buckwheat "in warm
weather. The increased use of this
flour is duoo the great improvements
iu its mnhufaqtjuro within the last
three or four vears, Whon 1 was a
boy the straw witli tlio grain in tlio
head was piled on thearn floor and
pounded with a flail. The straw was
then forked oil' and tlio grain swept
into piles. When the wind was blow
ing briskly tho grain w thrown into
the air with shovels, so that the chart'
could bo blown away, and then the
grain was ground between tho old
iashioncd millstones. The bran was
separated from the meal by sifting
witli a wire-bottomed sieve. The first
Improvement was made when a silk
bolting reel was substituted torn wire
cloth sieve. After a great many years
an old York state inilieV concluded
that tho meal would havo less shuck
or bran in it if the shuck could bo re
moved from tlie berry beforo it was
ground. To do that he run the grain
through a series of corrugated rollers
which simply cracked open tho shuck
ami allowed the kernals to drop out.
Tlio broken shucks and kernals wero
separated by screens, and thereafter
buckwheat Ilour was about as white as
any oilier. Tho demand for it in
creased rapidly, but it was not quite
perfect, because the line fuzz and dirt
adhering to the outside of tho berry
foil through tho screen with tho
kernels alter the shuck had been lm
ken open by tho rollers of thoshucker.
To get rid of this it was necessary to
polish each berry of tho grain sep
arately before it was shucked. Tho
machine for doing this has just been
put on tho market. It consists of a
cast-iron cylinder, say throe feet long
and ono foot in diameter, which re
volves within a jacket made of 6teol
wire-cloth, '"'he cylinder is eoverod
witli square knobs a half inch large,
which project to within a fraction of
an inch of tho jaekot. Tho cylinder
is set a whirling at the rate of 750 rev
olutions a minute, and tlio grain aftor
passing over tlio screen to get tho
straw out falls down betwoen tho
jacket and the cylinder. There it goes
around and around, knocking against
tho knobs and jacket, an upward cur
rent of air carrying oil' the dust until
it falls out below as clean as a hound's
tooth, then it slides over a magnetized
plato to remove any trace of metal be
fore going to tlio shueker. Thatinako.s
what wo call perfect buckwheat flour.
Most millers havo had to reloarn their
trado within tho last live years on ac
count of the improvements introduced
in the process of manufacture, but in
no branch of the business lias tho
progress of improvement been more
marked than in tlio handling of buck
wheat." AW Vork Sun.
Service of Premiers.
Tho limit of Mr. Gladstone's pres
ent premiership will be the date ou
which his successor takes olliee. Cal
culating merely to tho Dili inst., when
the ministry determined to tender its
resignation, Mr. Gladstone's premier
ship is sixth in length of service sinco
the accession of tlio house of Hanover,
iu 17 M. Tno duke of Newcastle, Vis
count Melbourne, Viscount Piilmors
tou, and Mr. Disraeli held tho reins of
government longer for a single torni
than has Gladstone in either of his
terms. Tlio hitter's first premiership
lasted o years '1 months and 12 days;
his second, to Juno !), years 1 month
and 11 days. Newcastle sorved 8
years 6 months 8 days, from April 21,
17M, till May 2'J, 17u'L Melbourne's
first government iu 18:11, lasted less
than live months, his second, from
April 18, 18:tf, to September 1, 1841, ti
years 4 months 1!1 days. Palmors
ton's first premiership lasted ti years
18 days. His second 0' years, t) months
18 days. Benjamin Disraeli's first
government began and ended in 1858,
covering a period of I) months 12 days;
his second extended from Fob. 21,
1874, to April 28, 1880 0 years 2
months 7 days. Mr. Gladstone's two
lonsoscof power aggregated 10 years ii
mouths 2;i days.
Flvo premiers of tho forty-two bo
tween 1711 and 188,0 havo held tho
reins of government longer tliiiu the
"grand old man." Hubert Walpole,
the first oabinoLohiof undor tho Ilan
ovors, was in ilflieo 2 years and six
months, from Oct. 10, 1714, until
April 10, 1717, and ngatn from Anrif
20, 1720, until Fob. if, 1742 a single
continuous leaso of 21 years 9 months
and 21 days, and an aggregate of 21
years ii mouths nnd 21 days. Henry
Polham was premier from July 26,
1743, until April 21, 1751-10 yoars 8
months aud 2o. days. Lord North
took oflice Jan. 28, 1770, and held it
12 years 2 months and 2 days. Wil
liam Pitt's sorvlcoof 17 voars 2 months
and 10 days, from Doo. 27, 1783, till
March 7, 1801, and of 1 year 7 months
and 20 days, from May 12, 1801, till
Jan. 8, 1800', ranks second iu length
ID years 10 months ami G days. The
fifth long-timer, the third in length of
consoouiivo service, was Lord Liver
pool, who took ollico Juno 8, 1812, aud
gave way to Canning April 11, 1827,
after 14 yoars 10 mouths and 3 days of
power. Tho prime minister whoso
single lease of power was briefest,
since 1714, was the marquis of Rock
ingham. Ho succeeded Lord North
March 30, 1782, and 3 mouths and 3
days later gave way to Shelborno. On
an earlier occasion 1705-CC Rock
ingham was premier for little moro
than a your. Tho avorago duration of
tho 42 ministers that havo conducted
the government of lltltain sinco 1714
lias boon 4 yoars 25 days. Mr. Glad
stone is tho only premlor of all thoso
called a second time to form a cabinet
whoso loaso of power each timo ex
ceeded tills average. Utiea Herald.
It tho Illuming had struck tbe otllco seeker
luaU-ad of the Wiuhlngtou Mouutmut It
would hare ahown gome aenie,
There are aald to be Ueuty-nre thoutaud
lawutcuiiU player within radius of tw
uillea of New York,