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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1887)
FRUITION. Tho clouds hrtnp too low, too low, Thn Ice-bound streams refuse to slngj Tho fold, bleak blasts may bitter blow. Ami nature's pulo rofuso to flow Hut, truo as Truth, nt lnstcomes Spring! Wo toll and till with brain ami hand That our roor world may brlghtor yield; Wo mc no blossom on tho land; Hut. we falter, GoV command Uringa summer sun and KOlden field. . Down '.vhew the reaper's slcltto rinj; We look anil yonrn for harvests o cr; Our hearts are full of lmirnmrlrm: Wo toll In doubt. I.o. Autumn .InJniri, As true us Time, its treusurc-store. All, tnio toClod's good tlm". nre done; All. truo at Truth, despite our roar! Knch cycle rounded out In sun Or sluifle: nit sweet fruition won O weary heaits ! have cheer, Rood cheer. JAIrjar L. IVakeman, in Ctoutawjaan. TUB BANK OF FRANCE. An Index of tho Prosperity of tho Ropublic. Homrtliliifr About Its History nnil Present i MltmiRPtiicnt Over ptOtl.000,000 StiitHlliiK to Its Cri-illt Its 1 lMperln Circulation mill Jlcl4illlc final. ' Next to tho Bank of England, the Hank of France is tho Impost and most important of all tho other banks in Kuropc. Occupying very nearly the fame position in France as the Hank of England doqs in this county, it is in many respects similar, and performs for tho country tho same kind of duties. The public moneys are deposited with tlie Hank of France; it alone has the Polo right of issuing notes for that country. (This is what Sir Robert Pcol would have attached to tho privileges of tho Hank of England, if he had been nblo; but usage and vested interests wore too powerful.) Its capital is possessed by a proprietary whose lia bilities are of a similar nature to those of any other banking institution. It opensaeoounts with properly introduced persons, and keeps in its coffers the metallic reserves. Having mentioned t!ioc analogies be tween these two great banks, there are points whore their conduct diverges. Tho transactions of the Hank of, En gland are on a larger scale, owing to the larger mercantile operations in this country. The commercial habits of the French aro plainly indicated in tin class of bill business which their chief bank undertakes. During. tho whole of last year il. discounted no fewer thni l,j!)6,8:il) bills under four pounds, most of them payable at private addresses. It is an unusual thing for an English banker to take a bill under ten pounds, and he will require satisfactory reasons for discounting bills payable at private addresses. It is presumed here that in such a case the acceptor can not bo a substantial man, or ho would have a backer. Another point of divergence, again, is in tho government of the bank, where in the French have, shown their belief "in the eiileieney and effectiveness of gov ernment control. Ouuown government can nut in any way interfere with the operations of tho Hank of England, ex cept in respect of its note issue. The French bank is presided over by a gov . crnor, appointed by tho government, who also appoints tho two deputy governors. The three highest olilces are thus held by government men; and the .otlleoof tho governor is hold for life. It is his duty to see that tho obligations imposed upon tho bank by the govern ment are in all respects carried out, and to act as tho connecting link between it and the gnvcr.ninut. In addition to the governor audi.. it deputy-governors, the general iwsom'ily, consisting of two hundred of th. " largest shareholders, elect tho gener.il council, which is made upofilftoon regents and three eonsors. Tlio manufacturing and trading inter ests aro suppotedto be duly represented in tho council, for live of the regents must bo chosen from each of these bodies. There isyet another committee of twelve persons, who must bo share holders carrying on business in Paris, appointed by the censors. This com mittee lias tho responsibility of examin ing and passing all tho bills taken for discount. Tho bank was established in 180H by tho Emperor Napoleon Honapartc. Its constitution has been slightly modified from time to time, as circumstances havo required. It has been successfully and prudently managed, though there havo been times when its existence lias been threatened. In 1819, during the Revolution, it made largo advances to tho government and to the city of Paris, which, combined with a severe drain on its gold, strained its resources to so -ent an extent that it was compelled lo sujpond spucio payments. To lessen the ovll of this measure and limit tho iuooitvenioueo arising therefrom, its iiotos wero.mado and havo continued to Ik legal tender. Thu reports annually issued by the council of this bank to tho shareholders aro full of interesting find instructive details, whereby comparison with those of other years, and the progress of the husiuufes, can bo followed, ami the pub llu suppurt estimated. These reports present a curious study to bankers and economists in this country, for they ul! 1 1 id a glimpse of the nature of the bunking hiuinoKJ carried on in France and of tho commercial habits of the French people. To tho statistical! they form a repertory of figures from which he can construct tables of the trading t: uiiMictlous of tho country, always iin- iiiijxirtttut and valuable iu hUtory, limn tho report buforo us fortlieyeat ltw.', wo shall lay before our readers ' gome of the items mentioned. The Hank of Fraueo not only tnforms its hli uehohlera of tho amount duo to its hm omul's, but also of tho total amount opcratod through tholrnecounta. Then were 8.oU!i current aooouuts opun at Paris ami tho Utinohos, with a sum of '2f, 72 1,000 standing to their credit at the end of tho year. Omitting tlio balances duo to tho treasury, tho fluc tuations of tho total balance duo on these accounts aro given as regards their limits. On tho lOtit of April, 1885, the maximum amount duo by the bank was 20,301,000; and the minimum amount on the 28th of February was 11.5.5(3,000 being a difference of 8, 748,000. Tlio total operations in -tho year amounted to 192,983,092 being less than tho operations of 1881 b 50,058,180. The returns from th clearing-house in London have rcvcalert the same features. While tlio volume of trade as a whole has not diminished, the money values have shown a per ceptible decrease. These effects are duo to tho fall in prices in Franco no less than in England. Wo feel curious to know whether the operations of the Hank of England would excel those of its sister bank. Out of the total opera tions already gven, 226,755,520 are accounted for by the operations con ducted gratuitously for the pu'jlic treas ury. The report congratulate? tho share holders on the increase of the metallic reserves in two years of 12,000,000, of which the greater part was gold. This is not to be wondered at, seeing that silver has fallen in value so rapidly and to so great an extent. When silver was worth live shillings an ounce, the holding of the Hank of Franco was no anxiety; but now that silver has fallen to three shillings and nincpence an ounce, tho amount of its metallic reserve in silver is not worth so much by about one-fourth as tho sum stated. Thus, out of 89,552,000 gold and silver held by tho bank, a little less than half (13,311,000) was in silver. Deducting one-fourth, the value of the silver may be put at about 33,000.000. There is nothing more curious in the whole statement than the particulars of the commercial bills and "paper" dis counted. Tlio amount reached 370, 001.808 made up by 11,000,589 bills; making an average of 32 for the bills with an average of nearly 32 days to run. The large number of 103,004 bills, for 3,58S,92I, were refused discount a large portion on account of in-egular-ities of form, and tho remainder for .rant of confidence. In Paris, alono, 5,017,901 bills, amounting to 158,832, 892, were admitted to discount; of these, 11,100 bills were of tho amount of 8s. td. and below; 050,980 were from 9s. 2d. to 2; 919,753 were from 2, Os. lOd. to 1; and 3,127,065 were above 1. These llgures are an indication of the trade habits of our neighbors, and show the services rendered to the retail trade bv tho chief bank. An idea of the ini- nienso quantity of work connected with these small bills, payable chielly at the residences of the drawees, can bo gath ered from a paragraph in the statement giving an account of tho day's work on the 31st of October, tho heaviest for the year. It included tho manipulation of 199,272 bills, representing the sum of 1,850,709 to receive which, applica tion hud to be made at (59,707 dwellings. The expense of a large statfof collecting clerks and others to perform these duties adds a very large proportionate cost to these documents in addition to the discount. The bank makos advances on public securities, railway securities, and other securities. The maximum amount at Paris was on tho 12th of January, and reached 0,508.1)00 the minimum on the 25th of March, reaching 5,318. 000. At the branches the maximum oc- urred on the 12th of .July, anil was 0,152,000. The minimum was very nearly confident with tho minimum at Paris, occurring on the '-'itli ot iUaren, and amounting to 5,590,000. The total operations in advances amounted to 25.058.801. Tho note circulation is given in am plified detail, the statement showing the nuniberof notes in circulation with their denomination, the numbers issued, can celled, destroyed, and withdrawn during t he year. On the 2Sth of January, 1SS0, there were 18.139,505 notes, amounting to 110,050,539, iu the hands of the public. There aro no notes issued higher than five thousand francs (200) each, and thero wero only live of these in cir culation. The note most in uso was that of one hundred francs (1), of which thero wero 12,810.075; and the one least in use is of tho denomination of two hundred francs (S). There were only 2,021 notes of two hundred francs (3) each; 1.212 notes of which the form was out of date; and 101,020 notes for llvo francs (Is.) each in cir culation. During the year there won 9,350,000 notes issued, representing an amount of 31, 300,000; tliore wero can celled, 0,711,013 notes, representing an amount of (52,731,200. Thero were dost roved, 21.05S.50i5 notes, represent ing an amount of 101,128,032; ami there wero withdrawn from circulation. 12,070,300. Tho manufactory of tlio Hank at Hiercy produced 9,089,000 notes, of which more man mm were notes of tlftv francs (2). I he growth of tho circulation requiring an increased production of notes, fresh ImUtlings were erected lltted with every improve ment, and capable of mooting all tho demands likely to bo made. The transactions iu connection with tho deposits of securities form a con siderable portion of tho serviced ren dered by tho bank. Tho business at tached to this is of thioo kinds the free deposit, the deposits as guarantees, and tho securities deposited hy the syn dicate of stoek-brokurs. Tlio general operations in all those divUions worn 1,013,318 in number. Thuro were de posited in tho sufos nt Paris l.aSS.SSl securities, tho valuo of whloh a- mounted to 120.900,000 ropriwont lug 2M,f82 deposits brought by 11,860 dupwltors. Of tho first kind of deposit thu freo duiioslt tho number of socurltltw in tho sufus at Paris was 2,098.252 representing 82.- 923,500, of 1.C77 different descriptions, belonging to 31.157 depositors. Dur ing tho year, 190,000 persons called at tho bank in connection witli these securities. Only threo branches those at Ilordoaux. Lyons and Marseilles a)'.icar as having carried on anj oper ations in connection with the deposits of securities. The branches -transmitted to tho chief office 99,110 cou pons. The amount ot tho charges for custody of valuables at Paris reached 35,G17; and at tho threo branches enumerated, 7,891; and, as the report goes on to say, these charges arc a trilling recompensc-for the expense and tlio responsibilities which the- under taking these duties imposes on the bank. Tho branches, of which there are ninety-four, aro classified according to the importance of the business done at each during the year. Placed in order according to the extent of their oper ations, numbers are affixed again, them to show the order in which each branch stands in respect of the profits. Tho branches at Dordeaux, Mar seilles, Lyons, Havre, Lillo and Hoiteii, stand in the first rank as re gards the importance of their oper ations; bir. respectively first, second, fifth, third, fourth, and tenth in respect ctheir profits. Tho largest net profits (72,717) were realized at Marseilles; the smallest (27) at Dignc; and five brandies showed a loss. One of these, Har-le-Duc, stands forty-fourth in re spect of its operations, but shows a loss of 137. La Ilochc-sur-Yon shows the highest loss (002). The expenses connected with' the Hank at Paris amounted to 255,172; at tho brandies, 230,093; and those of a general character, such as cost of transport of specie, duties and taxes, 129,021, of which 99.1SS .represents taxes. Tho amount distributed among the 25,782 shareholders was 7, 7s. Oil. per share. The buildings occupied by tin-branches bad cost 1.231.933; but of this, there had been written oil 857,503. The number of ollicials em ployed at Paris was about the same as those emplovcil by tlio ISanltot r,ngianii in London CLOUD: those onjragod at the branches numbered 1.222. There area great manvmore partial lars of less general interest in this very intorestiii!? document, but we have given sullieient for o'ur readers to form an idea of its nature. Wo can not bet ter conclude than bv adding the words of the Council: "We should have de sired to reduce the size of this stiitc- mcnt; but it derives the greater part of its interest and importance trom the comparative figures with which it neces sarily bristle., and we have been com pelled, to make it complete, to pass all of them before your cyss. This is our excuse." ClMmbcrs1 Journal. AUSTRIAN NOBILITY. Uniiiioitloiiiihly tin) Poorest Yet Most Kv elusive. Aristocracy In tlio Worlil. No aristocracy of the world is so ex clusive as that of Vienna. Lt soenis to have inherited the appalling loneliness and isolation of the Ilapsburgs, Tho English nobility admit ordinary mor tals to their presence if their character or intellectual abilicy entitles them to a certain distinction. It is so also in Germany and elsewhere, where a titled ariftocracy exists. It is not so in Vienna. Here nothing but the bluest of blue blood entitles him in whose reins that precious fluid Hows to min gle with the real hunt ton. Official po sition amounts to nothing. A foreign embassador may bo the most eminent of savants, skilled iu literature, inch, socially accomplished, but ho is des tined, though ho passes many years at Vienna", never to see the interior of a salon of an Austrian nobleman, unless with a ticket of entrance when the fam ily aro from home. In the eyes of tjiis class, to bo a republican, a simple citi zen of the United States, represent ing tho Government at Washing ton at tho Austrian court, is to bo an liutnoio personage in deed. Hut what would become of the greater part of these exclusives without this adventitious distinction of birth. They would le tlio merest no bodies. As an aggnevetl person re marked to me: "lt is all they have.' Most of them aro poor, their fortunes or remnants of fortunes having been long since swept Into the coffers of tho Jews, to whom also have pas-sod some titles of tho lower grade, with the obli nit inns on certain properties anil a modicum of social distinction. The Jews aro as aggressive at Vienna as eUew'hero on tho Continent. I hoy aro ibo bankers and brokers. Most ot tho lino buildinirs erected within the last fifteen vears belong to them. They nrlneipally own tho railroads and stive ear lines, and tho stock in insurance and other corporations. Among them nra numbered manv of the ablest of journalists, lawyers and doctors. ThL success of a race, against whom person ally and as a religious sect there is a prejudice inconceivable in America, has "iven rise to a spirit of anti-seniitisin which is intense, but can not in so large a citv, as it sometimes doos in Hungary and Bohemia, result in actual outrage and violence. To the Government am tlio high nobility their relation lias been nrineipallv that of money-lenders, am this has boon the lever to whatever amount of social consideration they havu iii'liieve!. Vienna Cor. San trancuoo Chronicle. "Mother, will you lend mo your lmli- switch?" "Wliv. what iu tho i mm vnn wiui t with It. llarrv?" it wt iu v- - - - - - - w- "O, some of us boys are going to havo a show, and l m suing to bo Uutlalo Hill ami scalp Indians." JIarper's young A man's income should uovor bo Judged by tho numbor of doslieis nblo to1;o(Ji.-',i-"f M'rcr .-ltiwMcc TWO VETERANS MEET. Ono or Them Lenrns That Ho Was Dead anil Nearly Hurled Vears Aro. "I had the greatest kind of a sur prise a few days ago." said Colonel James Armstrong of this place, a vet eran of the Mexican war, "and although I was glad to haw it it has rather broken the thread of my reminiscences of the past forty years. . "You see I went to Mexico with the Second Regiment of Pennsylvania vol unteers, being a Lieutenant iu company E. One of the privates in the Company was a young man named William R. Shields. He was from Greensburg, too. On the march from Perota to Puebla Shields became very sick. When wo reached Puebla we took possession of an old monastery there, and used it as a hospital. When we put Shields in the hospital he was unconscious, and we' all felt that it was only a matter of a few days when we would have to bury him. Sure enough, one day the" surgeon, a young eiiap from North Carolina, re ported that Shields was dead. We laid him out on a sort of catafalque on one of tho monastery porches, having placed the body in a coffin. A detail was ordered to dig his grave and attend to the interment. We had plenty of time and could do such things decently just then. While poor Shield's grave was being dug one of the old monks of tho monastery came to the collin, which wasn't closed yet, and began to mum ble prayers over the bod-. Tho monk was in "tho middle of his mumbling, when all of a sudden he threw up his hands and exclaimed in Spanish: 'This man is not dead!' . "Of course we thought the poor monk was crazy, but we couldn't quiet his frantic protestations that we wore about to bury a live man, and his appeal to be permitted to havo the body carried to his apartment so that ho could ex periment on it were so earnest that to satisfy the noisy old chap we had tho body, collin, and all carried to the monk's room. We thought we'd let him satisfy himself that Shields was about as good a dead man as ho had ever seen, and then fetch th'e body back and go on with the funeral. If lie hadn't happened to come along, though, just then, Shields would have been un der ground within tho next twenty minutes. "While the monk was experimenting with the body, the command received orders to leave Pui;bla at once and march to the City of Mexico. In the hurry and bustle of preparing for the march we had no time to think about tiie funeral, and left Shields' body to be deposed of by the monks. The regi ment went to the Mexican capital, and manv and many a time afte.r that won dered how long those monks kept the orpso before they gave up and buried it. "Well, the other day 1 "'as in Knhn's aw office, wlicn a nearty-iooKing out ;cntleman came in. Ah, Colonel,' says Kuhn to mo, here's another Mexican veteran. Colonel Armstrong,' says he, 'shake hands with Mr. Shield's William 11. Shields, of Counellsville. Ho was iu Mexico, too.' The name rather startled me. but. of course, only for a moment. Shields?' says I. '1 had a man in my company named uiiuam it. Sliiclds,' says I. 'Company E, Second Pennsylvania volunteers.' 1 was the man,' says he. 'That was my regiment and company. The Lieutenant s name was Armstrong, ays he. " 'Well,' says I, considerably stag gered, 'if you'ro the W illiani Shields that I mean, tho last time I saw you you were1 dead and in your coffin wait ing to be buried, forty years ago this pring, at Puebla. " 'I was very sick at Puebla,' says Mr. Shields, staggered considerably himself, 'but I havo no recollection of having been dead and eollincd.1 '"Of courso not.' says I, 'but you must have heard about it.' "'Never until now,' says ho. "Well, then, I've got a nice piece of news tor you.' says i; out. it anyone had told mo forty years ago. as I stood looking at you in your collin, after detailing men men to dig your grave, that I would bo telling you of it to-day, I'm afraid I wouldn't havo believed him.' nd I up and told tho old gentle man tho storv of Ids' death and inter rupted funeral. Ho was as much sur prised to hear it as 1 was to see him alive and in tho flesh, lt seems ho had come to under the caro and doctoring of the monks, but thev hadn't said a word to him .about his having been dead and in his collin, or if they had ho didn't know it, as they talked only Spanish. Hy the tinio lie was able to join his regiment tho City of Mexico was taken and tho war virtually over. In the general rejoicing his return was never noticed particularly, and no ono happened to mention it to him that ho had been dead. So ho was ignorant of how dose he came to being buried that day in Puebla. for all these forty years, until 1 happened to meet him the other day, and ho has lived right over horo in Connellavllle. too, over since ho eamo back from Mexico. Uvccnsburg (lu) Cor. Chicago Mail. Pleasant for Strangers. Stranger (in Yorkvillo harbor shop) That's twice you've cut mo." Harbor "Yws. sah." Stranger "If you can't do bettor .ban that you'll drive away eustomors." Harbor"! ain't had 'sporionco 'null jet, sah, to shavo oustomws. Tho bosi .iily 'lows mo to shavo strangers." V. r. Shu. . ' THE STAFF OF LIFE. A Compilation of IntereatlnB Historical rnct Krlatlnjr to Hrenil. Etymology Food made from grain. The earliest history we have of bread shows the people did not poses the knowledge of leaven or yeast, and that tiie primitive way of making bread was to soak the grain in water, then press or bruise it, forming it into cakes and drying it. either by the sun or through the action of lire The next advance ment in preparation, or rather the im provement, was to pound or bray be tween stones, or in a mortar, before moistening or baking, and from this operation braying; some etymologists (especially Tooke) aro led to believe the word 'bread is from brayed, it being the past participle of bray. This is contrary to etymology, as shown by Webber and Skeats. who quote some of the' 'old words: Anglo-Saxon, breod; Middle English, breed or bred; old Ger man, Prot; Swedish, brod; Danish, braed; Belgian, brood; Hebrew, barouth, and insist that the root of all these in dicate it was brew, bake or break, and so on, and aro the natural results to formation by fermentation. Todd remarks, "it is as full as probable the Saxon brood, whence our bread, is from the verb bivdan, to nourish." but I am of tiie opinion that the word brayed is probably the correct one. A rather more elaborate pressing or grind; ing of grain led to such simple forms of bread as the oat-cakes oi bciftlund. Tin. li-Limrifk of Scotland, mitde of barley meal or pease meal, the Jewish passoVer cakes of wheat meal; tho dampers of Australia, made from what: the East Indian scones, the cord-dodger of America, and the cassava cakes of South America, made from tho cassava-root or tapioca-plant. Those were made from coarse meal, nlt. nnil water, and kneaded with the hands noon a flat surf.iee; the moss was f.'ion dtlii'i- rolled thin or shaued with tho hands and bake I in or before til fire. And this bread as named above nmrosoiiLs what is called the unloavon, as' no leaven or yeast was added to caue fermentation (the porosity and light ness of tho mass). I Referring to sacred history we find bread first mentioned in Genesis xviii, 5, when Abraham offered to "fetch a morsel of bread." Again in xix, 3, "Ho made them a feast and did bake tinleaven bread." The prehistoric excavations at the Lake Dwellings of Switzerland show abundant evidence that bread-making was one of tho arts of our prehistoric ancestors, and as early as the stone period we find stones for grinding meal and also specimens of the bread have been disinterred iu largo quantities. Tiie dough must have consisted of grains of barley coarsely crushed, and formed with hands into small cakes about the size of a lea-bis.cuit. Tradition gives us that Clung Noting, a Chinese ruler H. C. 199S. was gifted by the gods with the art of making bread with grain, and then taught his people the great blessing. At a very earlv period the art of baking was car ried almost to perfection by the Egyp tians, who baked cakes in loaves in many varieties and used several kinds of Hour, and flavored their breads with aromatic ingredients. In Egypt it is highly probable the Jews learned h art of leavening broad. It is suppospd that the Egyptians were the first to uc leaven, ami tlio secret afterward be came known to the (J reeks, who, ac cording to Diodorus, ascribed the in vention of leavening bread to Pan. who. was originally an Egyptian deity, stud it is mentioned that no loss than sixty- two varieties of bread wero known to the ancient Greeks, and from them it became known to tho Romans, and H. C. 170 the art of bread-making bo eaiye so respected that it was changed bv them to a profession H. C. 1 18, numbers of skilled Greek bakers came to Rome and, being given special privileges, soon obtained a mo nopoly over native bakers. Plinv savs nrofessional linkers wero first introduced into Rome at tho eloso of tho war with Persons, King of Mace Jon. The art of makinir bread made its wav northward slowly, as it was carried bv tho Romans during their eamnainfiis in tho northern countrie and who spread tho knowlcdgo far and wide as they went TIu iliffercnco between leaven and veast is that veast is formed by a mix ture of hops and barley, or potatoes and malt, and allowed, through the action of heat and other sources, to become mass of yeast blossoms or yeast germs, which can bo dried ami used at any time. Leaven or sour dough, is dough in which putrefaction has boguu, and which, owing to tho presence and rapid rrowtli of the yeast plant or germs nnii'klv communicates its character to tho trosli dough with which it mingles, and causes tho process of fermentation to take olaee. Tito uso of leaven in baking dates from remote antiquity, but the employment of yeast is of a more recent date The bread mentioned in the Scrip t tiros was made front cither wheat, bar ley, lontiles or beans. Parley bread was only used in times of scarcity and distress. Jtoirtrt M. Floyd, in Chicago Journal According to Scandinavian tradi tion, tho swallow hovered over tho cros; of our Lord, crying "Svala! svalaT (Console! console!) whence it was callvd svtilow, tho bird of consolation. Thero is a curious story that this bird bring homo from tho soashoro a stono that gives sight to lior llcdglings. In Prussia women oarn from twelve to twenty eouts a day acting a 'iinrds at tlio railroad crossings. They havo to opnn and eloso tho gates, at tcud the lights and swoop the crosshi A BABEL OF FILTH. j Description of n Visit to tho Hebrew Quar ter of tlio City or Amsterdam. There is a part of this great city de voted, or rather given up entirely, to tlio Hebrew race. It is called tho Joodcnhook. Those who have traveled in Italy, visited the slums of Paris, Londoi? or New York, havo something yet to sec to prove that man's imagina tion is deficient. The Israelites, of whom 05,000 llvo in this city, havo among them some who, for wealth, in telligence, and industrial energy, aro the peers of most men, and yet, visit ing the Jewish quarter, a traveler will find himself in a labyrinth of dark, narrow, muddy alleys. Hanked by old houses that seem to bo tumbling down. Damp, ragged sheets, tattered trousers, patched petticoats Hotter and swing to and fro on ropes stretched from window to window,' on tho window-sills, or dangling from nails driven into tlio tloors. In the door ways, on tho broken steps, amid tumbling-down railings old goods aro spread for sale. Shattered ruins of furniture, fragments of lire-arms, de votional objects, scraps of uniforms, bits of musical instruments, broken toys, old iron, dilapidated crockery, fringes, rags, things for which it is im possible to find words to describe, that have been spoiled by rain, by worm, by lire, by rust, by carlessncss, by ill ness, poverty, or death; things, that servants sweep into tho dust-hole; that the rag-picker disdains to pick up; that trie beggar treads under foot; that ani mals scorn to notice: every thing that tj.ves up room; that contaminates; that exhales a fetid odor; that soils; that disgusts the least sensitive being, may bo "found there in heaps and layers, destined to become tho object of mys terious bargain. In the midst of tins cemetery of in-animate objects, of this babel of I'd til, lives a populace of haggard-looking, begging, grasping men and women, by the side of which tho AJbaicin gypsies of Grenada would ap- . . , . 11! pear a cleanly and swoei-smuiuiig ace. . Here, as in all countries, they havo borrowed the color of their hair and kin from the people thoy live among. Rut they have preserved their hooked noses, sharp chins, curly hair all tho features, in short, characteristic of tlio Semite race. Tlio dictionary does not contain words wherewith to givo a de scription of these people. Shaggy heads of hair never touched by a comb; eves that cause one .to shudder, bodies is thin as an unfleshed corpse; so ugly is to arouso a feeling of compassion; so old that they preserve scarcely any re semblance of human shape; wrapped in every sort of clothing, of which it is im possible to denno either the cut or color or to ton tno sex oi ino wear- Whatever they may bo doing they do it on tho sidewalk, u omen frying fish upon small ovens, girls put ting children to sleep; men turning over old rubbish; half-naked boys roll ing aliout the pavement strewn with rotten vegetables and refuse of fish, scenes that can not be described, and that compel the tourist, when ho conies forth on tho Ixmler of a broad canal, in a clean open space, to lfclievo that his exjwrioncc has only been a dream, uid yet situated as tins portion ot He brews are in Amsterdam, with all tho poverty, misery and tilth surrounding them, the records of the criminal courts testify that tlio 'laws of tho land in which thev live arc observed by them; mil that but one Jew is found in tlio cellular prison of Amsterdam among 210 inmates. Amsterdam tor. uu- cugo Tribune. . m m Mrs. 1-ourstar's littlo" girl was there. 1 inus'. tell you ono of her odd little sayings. Her father had a small round bail spojt.on the top of his head, and kissing him at bedtime sho re marked: "Stoop down, papsv dear, I want to kiss the place where the lining shows." London Truth. A winter's tale. I took my way through tlio lonesomo wood, hero tho Jim-jam sat on a tree, Anil thu llyirag stood In n pensive mcod Alack: nnd who U mo! 1 saw the seam through tho other sail. aioiik witn nor scumiets throe; And tlm lllprlon pale, with tho scrlngy tall, Made nn awtul faco at me. THE Gill REGULATO PURELY VEGETABLE. Aro You Bilious? Tir Regulator never fall to eure. I moM cheerfully recommend It to all who suiter from llilious Attack or any Disease caused by a dis arranged ttate of the Liver. Kansas Citv, Mo. W. R. BERNARD. Do You Want Good Digestion ? I suffereil tntentely with I'till Stom a eh ,lleul nehe,ete. 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