old mr. mottle.
A Strictly Vernrlniu Jfew York Itonrillny
House J)ilsnilv.
Everybody know that dinner was
nearly ready as the combined odor of
boarding-houso vegetables had becom
so painfull intense.
Old Sir. Kottlo wandered down stair
on the early bird principle- and took
his scat. It may have been owing to
the rain and wet weather outside, but
tho old man was not in the besthumdr
Ho ncted as though the world had hus
tled him sonic and he wanted to drown
sorrow in dinner. Tho bell rang as
ho sont a pair of foraging eyes about
tho table and tho other boardors began
to drop in. The Two Maiden Ladies
wore tho first to arrive, then tho Young
Lady Hoarder attended by tho Bank
Clerk and with every body following
No ono noticed old Mr. Rottle's
gloom. Tho Bank Clerk was in such
high spirits that his sallies with the
Young Lady Boarder occupied tho at
tention of the table.
Tho elder Maiden Lady was shocked
at such a flow of spirits and remarked
it to her companion, who ato three
olives and said it was scandalous.
As for tho Bank Clerk ho was in a
reckless state. He devoured two plates,
of soup without scrutinizing tho com
position, and chatted aflably across the
tablo with tho loung Lady Boarder.
"Had quite an adventure to-day," he
remarked, spilling some cranberry
sauce on the table-cloth and putting his
buttcr-disli over tho spot.
Tho Young Lady Boarder was all
interest immediately, mid so was every
bod else, except old Mr. Bottle.
"You seo when 1 was up in Connect!
cut last month," said the Bank Clerk,
"I lost mv umbrella. It rained so 1
had to sail into a country store and in
vest n dollar and eight cents in a
family cotton. I had trouble with that
umbrella right oil. It wasn t spread
tell minutes before tho dyo began to
run and tho water fell oil the ribs in
great brown drops, just as though it
was rainiiiir molasses. I hurried to
catch a train, and when I tried to furl
that umbrella tho stick was swelled. I
had to climb on tho back platform and
it took me twelve minutes to get that
Connecticut cotton together. To-day I
whittled tho stick down and tried tho
umbrella agabi. There- was a crowd
on Wall street, but I was hurrying
along and thinking pretty hard when a
seedy old cove in front of me calls over
his shoulder as angry as can
bo: 'Hoy tliero, you young rascal,
got your umbrella out of my collar,' and
sure enough," added tho Bank Clerk,
chuckling immoderately, "in the crowd
a rib of my cotton umbrella had got
wedged between the old party's neck
and collar and was dripping molasses
colored rain down his back."
At this -mint old Mr. Rottlo turned
red, and suddenly put his In mis to the
back of his neck.
"You young wretch," ho exclaimed,
in tones that trembled with anger.
"Not contont with poking your um
brella into mo on tho street, you make
a jest of it 'in public. The rudeness
and flippancy of the rising generation
is past endurance," and choking witli
Indignation and soup tho old man hur
ried out of tho dining-room.
There was an appalled silence for
Home minutes. Tho Bank Clerk's hi
larity was already two miles and a half
away, and still moving sixty miles an
hour. At length the Young Lady
Boarder said she preferred dark ni"at
and tho Landlady asked every body to
keep their spoons for the next course.
Ar. Y. Tribune.
Courting With a Brass Band.
"Charley, I hear your girl has gone
back on you."
That's right."
What was the trouble?"
"She got mad because- I courted her
with a brass band."
"Well, that was a peculiar method;
but I should think she would have felt
coinplimonted rather than angry."
"Sho didn't. She said sho wouldn't
have any thing to do with a follow who
couldn't come to tho front with a solid
gold ring." Washington Critic.
Plantation Philosophy.
Do ignunt man, no matter of ho has
got mo' monoy den or smart man, ain't
nigh ez much uso tor do curmunlty.
liver' yeah I'so mo' an mo' 'vinccd
dat yor kaiu't guiigo do Verity o' or
nuui by whutho says. Do haug squeals
jistoz loud w'eu ho ain't hurt ez w'on
ho is.
Do man whut has do mos' frion's Is
do man whut uses 'em do least. Do
only way tor hab or nieo coat for Sun
day Is not torw'ar it mo'u onco or
week. A rkansn w Tra vckr.
A Successful Boycott.
"Say, Titmarsh, it's about tlmo you
changed that shirt."
"Oh, I'm boycotting my washer
woman." "Whut for?"
"Why, sho struck for fifty conts a
dozen, so I'm boycotting her." X. Y.
Sun.
m
A prominent junk dealer recently
received an order for ten thousand old
tomato cans. Tho dealer explained
that much of this kind of tin is used
for corners and odgo pioces on a low
grada of trunks, while many peoplo
uso it for flushings on roofs. Tho
dealer is obliged to molt tho solder off,
straighten the cans 6ut into flat sheets,
pack the pieces in flat bundles for ship
ment, and only gets about if 10 por ton
for Ids trouble. Iron Age.
r-Tho profits of tho Chicago stock
yards nro said to have roachod tho
enormous sum of 000, 000 during
the post ton years.
A SARDINES STORY.
A Commercial 1'rninl J"xpnrl In a Novel
nnl Aimiftlnir Way.
I was in a iirst-class restaurant din
ing with ii friend, and feeling in a gen
oralis mood, called for a box of sar
dines.
"Mind, now," I said to tho waiter,
"I want th'o genuine article none ol
the down Last imitation."
"Very well."
lie disappeared and soon returned
bringing what seemed do bo tho real
thing called for, picked up our check
replaced it with ono calling for lift
cents more, smiled and retired.
"Ah!" I said, tipping back tho lid
which had been skillfully opened by the
waiter, "here is food fit for a king.
Look, I added, turning the box about
so that my companion could read the
legend neatly inscribed on the gilt bain
encircling the sardine box a l'huille
d'olive "no imitation about that, ehl
Trv one."
My friend thrust his glittering fork
into one of the tempting morsels, when
to tho astonishment of both of us, it
began to work its gills and wiggle it:
tins and tail. Its eyes snapped vicious
ly. My friend was nbout to drop his
fork in amazement, believing the lisli
to be bewitched, when, to our wonder,
it suddenly spoke out in a low but in
telligible voice:
"I am no sardine."
What are you?" I asked excitedly.
"Only a herring, a harmless little
herring, it replied innocently. "I never
saw France; I don't even understand
the language of tho label on the box
that recently contained me; I don't
even know what an olivo is, but if you
want nny information about cotton
seed you can consider mo an author
ity."
By this time mv friend had some
what recovered his self-possession, and,
laying the talking fish tenderly upon
the plate, waved his hand and said, in
an interested way: "Go on; you seem
to bo quite entertaining.
"Entertaining? O, no," replied the
little herring, witli a dillidont look;
"not at nil; 1 never had a college edu
cation; if I had I might not havo been
boxed up hero with my unfortunate
friends, but might have been editing a
grocerv journal, exposing canned
goods-, frauds and otlfor abuses. No, I
am only a little herring a very small
fish from tho coast of Maine."
"From Maine?"
"Yes, Maine. Ivould not havo to
bo naturalized even to vote, but then,
you see, there aren't many peoplo who
know tho iliileroncc. I hero s many a
young fellow in this country who cuts
oil' his horse's tail, drives and talks
English, who would pass for a genuine
cockney in Zululand. Yes, 1 am a
down East Yankee from Eastport."
"Eastport?" 1 ejaculated
"Yes. closo to C.inailiv. whom n food
many so-called sardines would like to
bo in certain emergencies. I wish I
was back thoro to-day frisking in my
native element; but I am doomed, it
seems, to not only bo devoured by our
good friend here, but to tickle his pal
ate as I go down Avith a genuine sar
dine flavor. No, I am no sardine. I
am only a herring, a harmless Httlo
herrinjr from Maine."
Wo were fast growing interested.
"You see," contiuued our lishy little
friend, "some smart fellows down East
found out by experiments how they
would make mo taste so much like the
real French article that no American
could toll the diflerencc, so they went
nto the business on a largo scale. J ho
cotton-fields of the South furnished. the
seed this makes tho oil in which wo
are boiled, spiced and made to tasto so
delicious. Tako a nip at met There
now, you would not dream that you had
the tasto of cotton in your mouth,
would you? But it's there, all tho
amor Ino a rhnillo d olive only
cotton-seed oil and harmless little her
ring.
"Monoy in us? los, I should think
so. i.ot mo soo; wo cost nvo cents a
box a wholo box of us, just think!
Tho packer soils usvit a profit of from
live to seven cents, tho rotailor soils us
at about thirty cents, and by tho time
wo get to you on tho restaurant tablo
wo are worth fifty conts. Not bad for
a poor little Yankee herring, is It?
And tho a l'hulllo do cotton in which
wo are Immersed is none the best
either." Grocers Criterion.
An Adventurous Journey.
Threo young Englishmen, ono an
officer in tho army, nuothor a member
of tho British consular sorvice, and
the third a member of tho Indian civil
sorvice, havo just succeeded in accom
plishing an adventurous journey on tlio
Kusso-Chinoso frontier to tho north of
Corea, and in obtaining information
ibout a region which seems likely to
bo oven now of great political import
ance. They visited tho furthest Rus
sia!! stations, mid thence crossed the
frontier to tho Chinese posts, traveling
down tho Corcan frontier through
Manchuria, reaching Mukden, the cap
ital of tins great province, towards tho
ond of December. WiHi tho exception
of Russians, these gentlemen nro the
first Europeans who havo visited this
district, and their journey, which was
kept secret, has caused much dis
pleasure to tho Russian authorities in
.astern blberla. Manciester Uuar-
dian.
m m m
Tho fiftieth annlvorsarv: of tho mis
sion to the Kols of Central India, es
tablished by I'astor Gossnor, of Ger
many, in 183G, has been celebrated.
u 1885 it had sovonteou missionaries,
eleven ordained nativo helpers, 81,828
natlvo Christians, and ll,S.t8 commu
nicants, with a boys' school, normal
school and a theological seminary with
288 students.
THE TOMB OF JULIET.
The Ul.I-'nteri Mniilnn's Apocryplinl Rest
ing 1'lnco nt Verona, Italy.
My first stroll through tho town was
In search of tho supposed tomb of Juliet-
Shakespeare's drama it was which
naturally suggested to me such an idea.
The story of tho ill-fated lovers had
made such an impression on my mind
that it was with a veritable enthusiasm
I sauntered out in order to pay my 'de
votions to the mortal remains of her
who, in the hands of England's great
est dramatist, contributed as much to
idealize the sweetest and tendcrcst of
human passions. On my way to the
tomb, however, all my fervor evapo
rated after half an hour's conversation
with several ancient antiquarians, with
one of whom I happened to bo on inti
mate terms during my resulcnco in
Milan, having been informed by
them that tho tomb in question
was a rank imposture; that if
ever there existed such a person as
Juliet, tliero is not the slightest
shadow of proof for supposing that
her ashes are in Verona; and finally,
that the wholo story of her burial in
that town was Invented by a 6et of
tradesmen and hotel proprietors, eager
to catch and fleece unsuspecting or
credulous tourists. My feelings at be
ing thus rudely woken out of mycher
ished illusions can be better imagined
than described. However, as it was
not by any means tho first of my Span
ish castles that toppled over into tho
nether abyss just as I found myself in
the act of admiring its stately grandeur
and lino proportions, I soon managed
to put up patiently with tho inevitablo
and resolved to seo at any cost this
apochryphal dwelling of tho dead.
After a half hour's promenade through
noisome lanes and alleys, I happened at
last on a gateway somo twelve feet
high, on tho summit of which were
written tho following words in largo
rough characters: "Tomba dl Giul
vctta." The iron door stood ajar, and
1 entered an inclosure of half a square
acre, overgrown with weeds and dog
nettles, that seemed to mo to have been
at ono time a garden. And I was sub
sequently informed that tho roses
bloomed hero and the marigold and
hyacinth kepi watch and ward over tho
solitary tomb hard by. If Juliet had
been really buried hero, when the
flowers wero in blossom and tho trees
had their wealth of frondago and tho
zephyrs thrummed their melodies
through tho overhanging foliage, her
last resting place would havo been cer
tainly in thorough harmony with
her character and temperament;
but nt present there is no sceno
so incongruous as this black bar
ren wilderness no casket so utter
ly unworthy of its gem. A group
of artisans out for a holiday were play
ing at skittles within a stone s throw
of tho tomb, and their oaths, curses and
other ejaculations wero quite tho re
verse of poetical. The tomb lies in a
kind of an outhouse, and presents a de
cidedly antiquo appearance. It is some
what in tho shape of an opon mauso
leum, tho sides of which nro rather ir
regular, owing, I was told, to tho chips
stolon from tho block by enthusiastic
tourists. Around tho mausoleum stand
broken pillars and roughly hewn pedes
tals, while on tho wall to tho left, as
you enter, hangs a very old painting of
trial Lawrence The stones hero and
there aro covered all over with auto
graphs of Europeans, Americans and
English, prominent among tho latter
being that of a certain Edward Shakes
peare, a gentleman who, according to
the well-informed porter, was a
very near relative of a very great poet
who was a very near relative of Ro
meo's betrothed. Cor. Sm Francisco
Chronicle.
The Roaring of an Alligator.
Probably fow persons have overheard
of "tho roaring of an alligator." "1
heard it myself," says Mr. Sanson, "on
one occasion in tho case of a hugo
beast who appeared to bo following a
femalo of his species." Tho animal
was swimming very rapidly, diving
nnd rebounding up to thosurfacoof tho
water. Mr. Sanson was in a small Rob
Roy canoe, anil remained still to watch
his mancouvors Immediately tho alli
gator saw tho canoe, ho "camo towards
it, roaring liko a bull at each bound
above tho water." As ho avbs diving,
Mr. Sinison (who was unarmed) forced
tho canoe straight over him, and so
escaped. "Curiously enough," ho
writes, "not half an hour after this
episode, an alligator jumped from a
stoop bank over mv canoe, nnd only
just cleared it, as I was distractedly pad
dling along undor the shore, nnd inad
vertantly startled the reptile above mo.
Travels in Equador.
" in-
An Incurable Habit,
How is it that when a friend of yours
shows you a now watch you Invariably
opon the cases and oxnmino tho works
critically, 'remarking that it's a
"dandy," and that tho "works aro
very fine?" What in tho world do you
know nbout tho works of a watch, any
way r loii only make tho ownor of
tho watch nervous when you look at
thorn, you don't caro a snap about see
ing them, and ovorybody knows that
you don't. But tho next new watch
you seo you'll go jabbing away at it in
tho same way, just as though you
hadn't read this, until you tear half
your thumbnail oft' and then borrow a
knife to open it. I would advise a man
with a now and valuable watch to havo
tho easo covering tho works hofmct
cally sealed. Chicago Journal.
Tho initial velocity of tho 1.S0O-
pound projectile, recently fired twico
with 1,000 pounds of powdor from tho
new 100-ton -run Intended for tlio
British ship Bon Bow, was 2,128 foot
per second.
FATHER ANDERLEDY.
Tlio Xpw .tefiilt fleneml'n Career, nnd
111 Stay In tho United State.
"Just imagine the incalculable power
of a Fraternity at the mere mention of
whose name that of Jesus every head
is forced to bow!"
This .exclamation was uttered some
three hundred years ago by Pope
Sixtus v., one of tho most rcmnrkiible
Pontiffs who ever sat on tho Papal
throne, in alluding to the. Order of
Jesuits otherwise known as tho Com
pany of Jesus. Tho now General of
the company the twenty-third since
its foundation to whom every member
thereof owes tho most blind and un
questioning obedience, is Father An
derledy. He was born on the 3d of
June, 1819, at Berisal, a little hamlet
of tho Canton duValais in Switzerland.
He was brought up at tho Jesuit Col
lege of Brigue, on tho slopos of the
Simplon, and as soon as he was old
enough, began his first novitiate for
entering tho order. Appointed to a
professorship of literature at the
immense establishment of the
order at Freiburg he soon at
tracted tho attention of his supe
rior. Perceiving that tho remarkable
talents of this son of a poor Valais
peasant might eventually be turned to
the great advantage of tho order, he
was sent to Rome, where ho spent
some time studying philosophy and
theology under the personal supervis
ion of Father (now Cardinal) Pecei,
the elder brother of the present Pope.
His constitution, however, accustomed
to tho mountain air of Switzerland, be
came seriously injnrcd by the pestifer
ous climate of tlio Eternal City, and he
was obliged after a time to leave Rome
and return to Friburg for the purpose
of recruiting his shattered health. Just
at that time the Sonderbund revolution
was in full force in Switzerland, and
tho Jesuits .were driven out of tho
country and their establishments
closed. Father Anderledy was arrest
ed at Avenues in the Canton do Vaud,
and after running a great risk of losing
his life at the hands of the fanatical and
infuriated populace, was cast into
prison. Managing to escape, he made
his way to Chamber, where, however,
he was not allowed to remain long; for
tho troubles which broke out in the
spring of 1848 all over Europe forced
him and many other members of his
Fraternity to seek refuge in tho United
States, where ho was at length ordain
ed a priest. During cighteon months
he devoted himself to Catholic mission
work at Green Ba . Wis. His health
again giving way he was recalled to
Europe, and took up his quarters at
Tronchiennes, in the Belgian province
of Gaud, where he devoted all his time
to a searching examination of the his
tory, policy and aims of the great
order to which he belonged.
Just about that time the Jesuits be
gan to devote their attention to Ger
many. Establishments of the order
were successively founded at Cologne,
Minister, Aix-la-Chapellc, and in fact
throughout tho King of Prussia's do
minions, where toleration was the
order of the day. Each ono of these
establishments constituted a kind of
center of action, whence a throng of
zealous missionaries spread out in
every direction to proselyte tho people.
If their etl'orts were crowned with suc
cess, it was in a great measure due to
tho marvelous eloquence of Father
Anderledy, who, apparently indefati
gable, made his silver voice heard in
almost every place of importance from
the Rhino to tlio Russian frontier. But
suddenly his overtaxed forces gave
way altogether. He fell dangerously
ill and for a tiipe was entirely deprived
of the power of speech. The physicians
insisted that ho should give up preach
ing a'sovoro trial to so eloquent a
man anil ho now resolved to
devote all his abilities to the
idniinistrativo work of tho so
ciety. Successively rector of tlio Jes
uit districts of Cologno and Pader
born, he founded in 1808 tho college of
Maria Laach, which soon became ono
of the most renowned establishments
af tho order. A few years later he was
elected a member of tho Supremo
Council of tho Society, nnd owing to
his profound kuowledgo of tho politi
cal and religious situation of Northern
F.uropowas appointed to the high postof
"Assistant for Germany," with juris
liction over the latter, as well as over
Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Hol
land and Scandinavia. Tliero aro only
live of these "assistants" to tho Gon
eral, who are each intrusted with a
distinct jurisdiction, and who together
with tho General's confessor, or "ad
nionishcr," constitute tho Supreme
Council of tho order. So rcmarkablo
wero Father Anderledy's services in
this new branch of administration, and
o completely did ho succeed in win
ning the admiration and confidence of
his colleagues, that when, in 1883, tho
ulvanoing years of Father Beckx ren
dered it necessary to chooso a coadju
tor to tho General, Father Anderledy
was at first ballot nlmost unanimously
elected to fill tho ofllce.
Tho new General is ono of the clev
erest and most adroit suporlors the so
ciety has over had. Ho Is a born dip
lomatist; a man of polished manners
out autocratic temper; a profound the
ologian, an incomparablo administra
tor, and a wonderful linguist. Besides
Greek, Latin and Hobrow, ho speaks
uul writes perfectly English, German,
French, Italian and Spanish. His long
'ouiicction and intimate acquaintauco
fvith Germany aro not unlikely to havo
in important influence upon tho pres
nt and future relations of Berlin and
die Vatican. Home Cor. X. Y. Tribune.
"Jones must bo a very dear friond
jf yours?" "Ya-as, hu does come
pretty high; just lent him a twenty."
Judge.
GOLD IN TRANSVAAL.
An American Consul' ltrport on Kxten
nlvc DIcoverlr Made Iteccntly.
Mention has been made in the dis
patches recently of extensive gold dis
coveries in South Africa. Vice-Consul
Knight, representing this Govern
ment at Cape Town, has forwarded to
the State Department an interesting re
port upon tlio developments, in which
he says:
Gold mining in the Transvaal has
been carried on in a desultory manner
for something like fifteen years. The
fact that a largo portion of tho north
eatcrn territory of tho republic is
highly auriferous had been ascer
tained years ago, but tlio failure
until quite recently to discover any
thing like payable gold has kept the
fame of the Transvaal, as a country of
great mineral riches, in tho back
ground. It was only in Juno last that
the now famous Sheba reef, in tlio De
Kaap Valley, was discovered. The
quartz from this.rcef yields from ten
to thirty ounces of gold to tho ton. The
amount of gold that mining experts
claim this reef contains is fabulous.
But even this wonderful reef has
been eclipsed by another reef discov
ered shortly after and known as the
Thomas reef, samples of quartz weigh
ing 3,000 pounds from which, it is
claimed, yield 118 ounces of gold.
These discoveries naturally gave an
impetus t rrosjiecting on a large
scale, rc-ulting in the discovery of
niarvclou-ly extensive and rich gold
quartz veins. The territory witltin
which gold qiuirtz has been found ex
tends from Witwatersrand, 30 miles
from the capital, Pletoria, easterly 200
miles to the De Kaap valley, with a
varying width of from 30 to loO miles.
These gold-bearing veins or reefs
occur in patches of more or less
rich or payable character. Quartz
taken from the Witwatersrand gold
fields has yielded from four to thirty
ounces of gold to the ton. It is,
of course, impossible, considering tho
embryonic state of these g .d fields, to
give anything liko an accurate account
of their extent- or capabilities. This
much I am able to state, from tho best
information obtainable, Uiat the Trans
vaal fields when fully developed will
prove among the richest in tlio world.
These discoveries have naturally given
rise to no end of speculation and min
ing ventures, and a great rush of cap
italists, miners and adventurers lias set
in for the fields. Near the Shelba reef,
a city, Barberton, has sprung up as if
by magic, numbering already 7,000 to
8,000 population, and is rapidly in
creasing. As an illustration of faith
that men of capital have in the stabil
ity and futuro of the fields, I may men
tion that three cargoes of lumber which
arrived in Cnpo Town within two weeks
were purchased for shipment to tho
fields.
Barberton, the cento of the fields,
is situated in the De Knap Valley in
the northeastern portion of the Trans
vaal, between latitude 25 degrees and
20 degrees south. Tho nearest sea
port is Delagoa Bay, in the Portugese
possessions on the east coast from
which it is distant about 200 miles.
This route is only available in the
winter months, the prevalence of fever
in the summer time elleetually closing
it to trallic. A railway between De'a
goa Bay and Pretoria is in course of
construction, and its completion will
greatly facilitate communication with
tho fields. The next nearest route to
Barberton is via Port Natal, distant
181 miles, of which 189 miles is by
railway and tho remainder bv wagon.
The best and most nomilar route at
present is by way of Cape Town to
Kimbcrly, 040 miles by rail, and from
Kimbcrly to tutorial 300 miles by
wagon. The journey is made by this
route in from six to
twenty days, at a cost from
$75 to .$120, according to class and
stylo of traveling.
While these fields ofl'er many oppor
tunities for successful ventures to men
of capital, I can not too strongly point
out the futility of men without means
venturing here, mile's they bo thor
oughly practical miners. In the first
place, no payable placer-gold washings
have as yet bden discovered. The re
sult of successful prospecting has thus
far been invariably the discovery of
gold-quartz reefs, tho workings of
which requires largo expenditures for
machinery. While a few have, and
others undoubtedly will, continue to
reap riches by the discovery of payable
gold reefs, thousands, who, in tho ab
sence of alluvial diggings, will follow
prospecting, will, 1 fear, bo doomed to
bitter disappointment. Tho largo in
flux of population has already raised
tlio price of food to famine prices. Tho
time that must elapso before com
panies will bo in working order, owing
to tho want of ni'ichinery and the
difficulties of trmsport, makes tho
employment of large bodies of meii im
possible for somo time to come.
Tho Transvaal mining laws aro fair
ly liberal. Aliens enjoy tho samo rights
as citizens as to prospecting and min
ing. Thofeofora "digger's license"
is livo dollars per month. This entitles
the holder to prospnet upon Govern
ment lands or private lands with con
sent of tlio owner. A licenso digger
is allowed to hold ono alluvial and one
reef claim, and may buy claims from
other claim-owners. An alluvial claim
is 150x150 feot, and a quartz reef 150
feet In tho dlrectiou of tho reef and
400 feet broad. No claim marked off
by a digger can bo "jumped" until tho
holder shall havo ceased working, or
caused tobo worked thereon, for four
teen consecutive days. St. Louis Globe
Democrat,
To tho well-balanced mind, fame
consists In knowing ono has so lived
ns to deserve tlie praise of others.
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.
Mayor Filter, of Philadelphia, was
a poor boy in that city, and has won
his way to wealth and honor by his own
exertions.
Mrs. Margaret Brown, who diedjre
cently in Pittsburgh, Pa., aged seventy
nine years, missed but one communion
in fifty-three years.
The word "it's" Is said not to occur
at all in the King James translation of
the Bible and but three or four times in
Shakespeare. Boston Olobc.
Yung Wing, a Chinese convert, lias
been elected President of the Connecti
cut Congregational Church Club. He
is a naturalized citizen, and married a
Hartford lady.
Prof. Edward Olney, late of tho
University of Michigan, had a great
head. His brain weighed sixty-one
ounces, livo ounces more than Web
ster's and twelve abvve tho average.
Mrs. Patten's wedding present to
her daughter, who recently married
Congressman Glover, was a magnifi
cent full service of silver, accompanied
by a check for a hundred thousand dol
lars. Mrs. Grant is in possession of
about two hundred letters written to
her by the General during his court
ship, which form, it is said, "tlio most
exact and accurate history of tho Mex
ican war ever made."
A gentleman who wanted to con
sult tho poet Tennyson about somo lit
erary work wrote twenty letters. When
the answer camo it tersely stated:
"Dear Sir It is a fact, alas, but no
fancy, that half my letters aro un
opened." "Mammy" Wilson, who has kept
a fruit stand in New Orleans for sixty
years, is dead. She was a marvclotisly
successful yellow-fever nurse, and had
labored in every epidemic since 1847,
and had many medals and diplomas to
attest her skill.
General Greely, chief of tho
weather bureau, does not look like an
adventurous hero. Ho is tall and
slender, with dark hair and whiskers
parted in tho middle, and which, with
his eyeglasses and curious accent, give3
him the bearing of a very languid man
of fashion.
A drama, entitled "Le Chateau do
Kronburg," and written by the King
of Sweden, is shortly to bo produced
at tho German Theater at Buda-Pesth.
It is in one act, and is founded on an
episode of the war between Sweden and
Denmark in tlio seventeenth century.
X. Y. Stai.
In his address at the dedication
of the new Brook's library building at
Brattleboro', Vt., Hon. Mellon Cham
berlain, of the Boston Public Library,
said that "before 1700 there was not in
Massachusetts, so far as known, a copy
of Shakespeare's or Milton's poems;
and as late as 1723 whatever may have
been in private hands. Harvard College
library lacked Addison, Atterbury,
Bolingbroke, Dryden, Gay, Locke,
Pope, Prior, Steel, Swift and Young."
Christian Union.
A LITTLE NONSENSE."
Queer, but True
We saw a horse My up tlio creek,
A cat-nip ut her food:
Wo saw a cliostrlut-burr, and heard
A shell bark in tho wood.
All Irish editor, when refused per
mission to fight a duel with spectacles
on complained that he could not see to
shoot his father without thein. X. Y.
Ledger.
A Western paper announces that
upon the occasion of a recent boiler ex
plosion in the neighborhood, "between
three and four men were killed."
Little Giant.
"Ida says you can't come to seo
her any more," remarked a boy to the
admirer of his sister. "Why not?"
"Because you come seven nights in a
week now, and how could you come
any more without spreadiug the week
liko blazes?"
A citizen always believed to bo a
Httlo "near" bought a horse, and after
a trial complained to the seller, a neigh
bor, that the animal "sometimes over
reached." To which tho other party
responded, "Well, they say tho samo
of you." Worcester Home Journal.
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