HINTS TO SWIMMERS. "
Timely Sucpr tlon for Knthnxlantlo t.orcrs
of Aquatic Hport.
Now that tho bathing season, for llio
pcoplo Aylio Imtho only dnrrhg the sea
eon, 13 running on full time and half
soup, there will he tlio usual number of
"sail cases of drowning" reported in
tho daily paper by reporter. who scein
to think that tho ordinary drowning
caso is a rather joyous affair and great
care must therefore be taken to specify
the sad ones. Now, iu most instances
but for tho gravity of tho subject one
might say moist cases tliero is no
necessity for drowning. A little care, a
little presence of mind and tho doomei
swimmer would bo as safo from thn
watery element as n Texas bar tender.
A good swimmer is not often drowned;
not oftcucr than once.
I'cople are drowned when they aro
thrown suddenly into tho water be
cause the shock disturbs their presonco
of mind and disarranges tho life pre
server, lo avoid drowning from this
cause, therefore, never get thrown into
the water suddenly; always bo expect
ing it. If you aro crossing tho groat
desert, keep turning over in your mind
what you would do if the distant ocean
should suddonly break in on you.
If you could acquire thn habit of
brcatldng underwater it would be great
. medicine for you. bomo men can
breathe a long, long timo over boor;
thoy arc more apt to founder than
drown.
if vou (tou t know whether you ran
swim or not, having never tried, it is a
good plan to consult some well-known
authority on the subject before ventur
ing into forty foot water, do to .lay
Gould; ho lias floated about as many
water-Iocjioti schemes as any man in
America.
Jf, in spile of all precautions, you
find that you are actually drowning, no
timo should bo lost In ''.ailing in a phy
sician; if possible, go for him yourself;
tho exercise will prpvo exceedingly
beneficial.
If you should find a drowning person
oh the bench and it should prove to be
some one whom it is your interest to
save, run him through a clothes wringer
without delay; it is essential to got all
the water out of him.
Do not. however, hang him up after
this operation; it's no good; you can't
hang a man up for any thing after
you've squeezed him dry.
Sit on his chest and iullato Ids lungs
with a hand bellows to restore respira
tion, and slap him to restore circula
tion; if lids doesn't work, send for a
newspaper clerk, who can give him an
nrtilicial circulation that will make the
doctors want to go away and commit
suicide.
Haul him back and forth over a bar
rel; this is an old and very popular
mode of treatment; itis of no earthly
use whatever, but it keeps the patient
quiet and amuses tho crowd while you
are thinking what you ought to do.
Start a messenger for the man's wife
at once ami call loudly after him, "Tell
her to bring her mother along!" The
patient, needs die stimulus of a sudden
shock to euablo him to rally.
If you are iu doubt whether the man
is really drowning, bring him a sherry
cobbler; if he is drowning ho will cut oh
at the straws. If he is not drowning
he will catch on lo the cobbler.
Should you discover the drowning
person to bo the man who tells you all
about his summer vacation; where he
went, and what a "nice" place it was;
how "nice" the meals and how "nice"
the pooplc and how cheap it was and
what n good time he had, push him out
into deep water to son if he will sink.
If he does not sink immediately you
may be sure there is something wrong.
Lose no lime; a moment's delay maybe
fatal; tie a big stone about his neck and
piwh him out ngixln.llurdette, in
llrvoklyn Kuijlr.
AN ARTIFICIAL SEA.
Tim OurloiiH Work Unrrltnl Out III TunU liy
u I'r.'iu-li OlllVor.
Sir K. do Lcssops has lately com
municated to the Institution of Civi!
Engineers an interesting account of a
curious work carried out iu Tunis by
Colonel Km id aire. This gentleman ap
pears to havo spout many years lit
Tunis leveling, boring and making ex
periments of various kinds, ami has
come to the conclusion that four de
pressions, or "shotts," as ho terms
them, whleh ho names Tedjed, Djorid,
Kharsa and Molrtr, and are situated
seventy-seven feet six inches below Ihe
sea level, could by meai'sof a canal bo
readilv formed into a large Inland sea'
or lake, whleh would havo tho ellbot of
inlluenclng for good tho climate ami
fertility of the surrounding country to
a considerable degree. ,
This lake is stated to bo il, 1(31 square
miles in extent. In order to prepare
for tho vast expense with such an un
dertaking must involve, tho Colonel
proposes to sink artesian wells, for tho
purpose of cultivating tho country; and
the rent, paid for the water thus ob
tained might be applied, the whole or
in part, towards the construction of the
proposed (janal. In 1855 tho first well
was sunk to tho depth of 295,feut, when
water was found tlowlng at an average
of 1,7150 gallons per minute tho first
year, which has now increased to 11),
800 gallons per minute. Sir F. do Los
peps says:
"The banks of tho Hlver Moluh,
which fifteen mouths ago wore deserts,
mo now populated, and very shortly
tho canal is to be commenced, so that
tho civilization of the Krouuh-Afriuan
possessions must come from, below
that is to say, must of necessity depend
for water supply 0,1 wells only."
Chiiwbcn' Journal.
In Now York thoy havo got soda
water down to two cents per glass and
tho glassed are largo at that
TVO CHINESE MAIDS.
Terr York' KncluuVil (llrlx With Cramped
Vert nnil Quner Hair.
Among tho children who have been
brought to tho attention of tho Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty are two
Chinese girls. It was claimed that they
had been kidnaped in San Lrancisco
two years ajro, and were held bore for
the purpose of selling them as wives to
resident celestials. The charge was
not proven, and for the present, at
least, tho case has been abandoned,
Tho girls "oro a novcltj hero. As in
other places, the Chinese do not permit
their wives or daughters to be seen on
the street. There arc several Chinese
women in this city, and when ir iias
happened that they havo been brought
into court, or into tho presence of poo
plo with a missionary spirit, thoy have
said that thoy had not been out of the
house before for months, sometimes for
nioro than a year, and in one well an
thonticated case it was a little over two
years since a female resident of Mott
street had set her foot outside
her tenement. It was not quite
so bad in tho cases of tho girls, but
for weeks at a timo it has boon
tho habit of their guardians to keep
them shut up at home. Tho homo is
near thy head of Mott street, in a four
story building devoted partly to trade
ami manufacture. Cigars aro made on
tho first floor, and there is a store there
also. Upstairs is another commercial
establishment, and iu tho top stories
are tenements. Tho rooms are, of
course, siiiu'll and ill-fitted for habita
tion. Iu that respect tho heathen little
ones are as well oil as thousands of
their Christian fcllow-boings of the
east side. One of them is dressed in
the American fashion, anil but for the
odd waddle that passes for her gait
would not be taken for a Chinese at a
distance. The other wears her native
costume. It consists first in a blouse
that hangs from the neck to the knees,
not bolted or caught in any way at the
waist. Loose trousers aro over tho legs
anil bound at the bottoms closely
around the ankles. The shoes are
thick-soled, wooden nfl'airs. familiar as
the foot-coverings of common laundry
men, but they aro excessively small
and bear witness to the cramping of
the feet, customary with thn Chinese.
Hot It blouse and trousers are of a pale
blue color, unadorned with figure. It
is the ordinary costunio of tho Chinese
of tlo poorer class. The shiny black
hair of th'o girl, dressed liko an Ameri
can, was brushed straight back from
the brow and wound into a great knot
at the back of the head. The other
dressed her hair in tho native style.
Over each ear was a fiat, thin, circular
disk of hair that looked as if it might
havo been made of artificial hair, and
stuck to tho head. All Chinese women
learn earlv how to do this. A
gummy pomade is essential to tho
task, but it takes considerable skill to
weave and wind the hair into its thin
and circular position. S: little hair is
used In these disks that enough is left
for a large coil, which is fastened at
the top and back of the head. Neither
of these girls, one ten ami the other
twelve years old. could speak a word of
English. iV. V. Sun.
SPORTSMEN'S MUSIC.
IIoY
JUimy itn I'MMiKPxntiiii; Wllit Conic
Mi els nil Untimely r.uil.
Unfortunately for the goose, It can
be imitated to perfection, and the un
happy birds frequently meet their end
by paying too much heed to its decep
tive notes. One instance of peeuliir
interest has come to the writer's knowl
edge. The destroyers in this case wore
Captain Walter S. (Jreen, of Life-saving
Station No. 5. Lon' Brunch, and Mr.
Bright, those two shooters live on oj
posite sides of a large pond, and aro on
the constant watch for birds of any
kind that may come in from the sea to
rest. Early one morning Mr. Ilright
hoard a distant but vigorous honking,
lie soon saw a tlock of seven geese
Hying iu toward the pond. Quickly
getting ids gun and some heavy cart
ridges, ho hastened down to the edge
of the pond, keeping himself hidden
behind a heavy hedge. As soon as ho
had selected his position ho uttered a
vigorous honk, to which the leader of
tho incoming Pock responded. Fly
ing low, they sailed majestically
in over tho opposite shore, 160 yards
away trout .Mr. Uright. I hey wore
evidently weary, and anxious to settle
down iu the smooth waters of tho pond.
Suddenly, out of the tall marsh grass
on tho shore opposito Mr. Hright, two
pulls of blue smoke and two booming
reports rolled out. The leader of the
tlock folded his wings and fell to the
ground dead. Mr. Ilright then knew
for the first time that Captain Croon
was nl hand. Tho birds swerved from
their course and Hew toward Mr.
Ilright, wlm easily killed the second
bird. Moth ho and Captain Crcon did
so honking, and tho birds, after
going away to a considerable distance,
ailed back again, passing over Mr.
Blight's head at some height. With
ids heavy gun ho killed two of them,
when they circled and swept across tho
pond, where Captain Croon killed two
more, the remaining bird, which had
been wounded by scattering shot, made
a hard struggle to tio to a safe height.
Captain Croon hastily slipped iu a cart
ridge and took a long shot. A few
feathers fell from the bird, and ho Hew
across the pond. Mr. Hright thou got
a long shot at him, breaking his wing
and bringing him down. (Awwry.
John 1). Van Cordon, sixtv.nine
years of age, of Diugman's Kerry, Pike
tenuity, i'n was MiiiKi by a bee Ming
oil tho wrist Wednesday mornlne-. A
few nioitumu after ho was stunir tho
.tain became so ititousa that ho started
or tho House. As ho entered the door
mi jjiuiiiiuii. "w, iiu Kouig iu mur
ium immediately expired.
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BAYEUX TAPESTRY.
A Quaint and 1'rlcelrM Work or Not More
Than Hlght Ceuttirlr Old.
In the whole composition are repre
sented more than 620 persons, 180
horses, and 550 other animals, besides
ships, boats, buildings, trees, weapons,
tools and other objects. These figures
are drawn and colored fiat, without
any attempt at shading, and in their
spirited uncouthncss remind us of the
work of a clover child. Tho faces,
hands and legs of the human figures,
when bare, aro merely indicated by a
line of stitches. Yet it is an instance
of the durability of frail things that
these faces and hands have, in many
cases, retained for eight hundred years
a decided expression. In tho colored
portions of tho embroidery, whore tho
linen ground is covered with long
worsted stitches, little attempt is made
to imitate the lines of nature. There
is nothing improbable, it is true, in the
colors of the clothing, but those of the
animals aro not such as aro .found in
the common varieties. In tho absence
of shading and perspective, an at
tempt is mado to supply their place by
varying the color arbitrarily on the
difl'cient parts of tho same animal.
Thus a light-blue Iiorso may have Ilia
two legs which are farthest from the
spectator colored red, his ears green
and ids mane yellow. Tho hoofs on
Ids bluo legs may be red, and those of
Ids red legs green. In spito of this
grotosqtiones-, tho r-'ncral effect is
good; and time, which will usually
bring colors which lie near oaeh othor
into harmony, however discordant thoy
may havo been at first, lias mellowed
and softened tho wliolo.
There has been some controversy as
to the maker of the tapestry, and as to
i(s exact date. It is attributed by p p
nlar tradition to Matilda, wife of Will
iain the Conqueror, who is supposed
to havo worked it with her ladies to
commemorate the glories of her hus
band. Some writers suppose it to havo
been made at a somewhat later dale
than that of her lifetime. Mr. Freeman,
however, probably tho best authority
on the subject, assigns tho work to a
period little after that of the conquest,
but does not attribute its manufacture
to tho Queen. The tapestry was worked,
as he thinks, 'orOdo, Bishop of Bayoux,
half brother to William, on the mother's
side. There are some reasons to sup
pose that English workmen were em
ployed. Odo appears at least four times
in tho tapestry, and several of his vas
sals, otherwise almost unknown men,
are represented. The tapestry itself
was exhibited in tho cathedral of
B.iyetix down to tho time of the
trench revolution, being stretched
round tho nave on certain feast-days.
During t ho eight centuries which have
elapsed since its completion it lias es
caped many dangers. The church was
burned in 110(5. Ir, was pillaged by tho
Calvuiists iu 1502. Iu 1702 the tapestry
narrowly escaped being cut up into
coverings for carts for the French
Revolutionary army. In 1H0;? it was
carried to Paris and exhibited in the
Musee Napoleon to tire the French
.heart for a new conque jt of England.
On being returned to Bayoux the tapest
ry was wound on two cylinders or
windlasses in the town hall, and rolled
from one to the other for the inspection
of the curious. By This process it be
came somewhat frayed, especially near
the ends. It was not till 1812 that the
priceless relic was displayed to students
and the public, under glass, in a special
museum of its own. Thence it was
again removed in 1871, on tho approach
of the Prussian invaders. It was soon
brought, back, howover. and stretched
again in its museum, where it lias been
carefully copied several times, Scrib
Ncr's Mti'ju:inc.
WORTH CONSIDERING.
Sciiilll SiiCRrHtloiix for thn Authorities
of VllliiR.tit and Summer Itesort.
"I wish there was a committee on
names appointed for every town." said
a young lady recently "a committee
whoso tluty it should bo to see that not
only streets, but ad the hills and ponds
and roads of tho vicinity, had suitablo
names given to thoin, or old ones pre
served. Then there would be fewer
that were cither very ugly or absurdly
romantic, and, above all. there would
not be such constant repetition."
She then proceeded to arguo iu favor
of the establishment of this novel com
mittee. It was positively exasperating,
she declared, to go into tho country,
summer after summer, and find in every
place slio visited the same regulation
list of names! Sho did not believe she
had ever stayed In a village that had
not its Sunset Hill. Usually there was
Willow Brook besides, and Mirror
Lake, and she considered herself fortu
nate if she did not have to bo shown a
Rainbow Fall and a Crystal Spring,
and, perhaps, a Smugglers Cave.
As for tho Lover s Lane, Lover s Dell
and Lover's Leap, sho was so tired of
thorn that it would really seem a pleas
ant variety to take an evening stroll
along lligglnbotham road, to soo the
Red Cow s. lump by moonlight!
Then there was tno uevii s won; out
why Pulpit, Basin, Bridge, Bowling
alley and Punch-bowl, all with tho
same unpleasing prefix? At least, how
ever, those Places were named niter
somebody that the people believed in;
and when It .wan t Devil s Don, it was
sure to bo Kltln CJrotto, which was a
Treat deal sillier. Who ever hoard of
ovrn a young and imaginative Aniorl-
aii that lielteved in oivtvs.' Ann way
should a dark, damp, dirty cave bo
willed a grotto u name whleh suggests
Capri, ami tlte maglo of iuuco air and
glittering wall?
Tito young lady's idea is hardly
likely to bo realized; but tho matter of
names Is worth considering, ami it
would be well If tho authorities of our
expanding villages and summer resorts,
that seem to spring up iu a night, would
avoid alUloting I ho landscape with any
moiu nevus, smu''L'iois, ones auu
fairies, 1'ouOi'j CumjiuriiuH.
WONDERFUL LONGEVITY.
Tlio I,lfit-rrmrrrlni; Influence of Wine llrgU
men anil AIt"inlou llnbltii.
The common idea is, that longevity
lepends entirely on inherited eonstitu
ion. Tho man whose father and
mother, grandparents and great-grandparents
attained a high average age is
supposed to havo a much better chance
of long life than one whose forefathers
havo been short-lived. Probably there
is much truth in this idea; but it is not
improbable, and tho point seems worth
careful study, that longevity is atrected
indirectly rather than directly by in
heritance. It may well bo that tlio
descendant of long-lived folk is apt to bo
long lived, not solely or chiefly because
he inherits constitutional peculiarities
tending to length of life, but because
he inherits qualities loading to temper
ance and abstinence by which life is
prolonged, or even simply because
temperance and abstinence have been
encouraged during ids youth by ex
ample and by precept.
Considering tho question of longevity
from this point of view, tlio caso of
Louis Cornaro, which has always been
thought most instructive, becomes full
also of encouragement.
In the first place, it must bo remem
bered that Cornaro (who was born at
Venice about tho year 1467) was a man
of weak constitution. Moreover, from
the age of eighteen to thatof thirty-live
lie pursued courses that would have
seriously taxed the strongest constitu
tion. Life at thirty-live was a burden
to him because of the disorders brought
on by riotous living and indulgence ir.
every kind of excess. The next five
years were parsed in almost unremitted
sulVering. lie was told by his phy
sicians, when forty years old, that noth
ing could prolong his life for moro than
,wo or three years, but Mich life as re
mained to him might be less painful
him the years he had recently lived if
he would adopt more tempeiute habits,
if ever there was a ease where inherited
constitution and en intemperate life
threatened an early dath. this wa
one. But, as events befell, it turned
out that, if over there was a caso where
life-preserving influence of wise regi
men and abstemious habits was demon
strated, Cornaro' s must bo cited as es
pecially significant.
At the ago of forty Cornaro began
gradually to reduce the quantity of
food, both liquid and solid, which he
took each day, till at length he only
took what nature absolutely required.
Ho tells us that at first ho found this
spvero regimen ory disagreeble, and
confesses that "ho relapsed from time
to time to tlio liesh-pots of Eirvpt."
But by resuming his efforts after each
failuro he succeeded, in less than a
year, in adopting permanently a spare
.mil moderate system. By this time lie
was already restored to perfect health.
But t litis fj.i- be had only followed the
counsels of tho physicians somewhat
more steadily than thoy expected, or
than is usu:l in such eases, and there
fore with unexpected good results. It
was after he had recovered his health
that he wont on to those experiments
by which ho seemed to show how life
may be extended far beyond the Psal
mist's allowance.
From temperance he proceeded to
abstemiousness. Undeterred by the
doubts of his physicians as to tho wis
dom of such a course, lie diminished
Ids daily allowance of food, until at last
the yelk of an egg Mitlircd him foi a
meal! Throughout the time when he
was thus reducing Ids allowaneo of food
ids health and spirits kept improving.
Nay, ho tells us th.tt even his enjoy
ment in eating had increased, for lie
sa- he could now get more pleasure
from a small meal of dry bread than he
had ever obtained in tho days of his ex
cesses from the most exquisite dainties
of the table. As regards regimen,
Cornaro simply "avoided extremes of
boat and cold, over-fatigue, late hours,
excesses, and all violent passions of tlio
mind;" lie took moderate exorcise in
the open air; and his chief pleasures
were those obtained from licrary and
artistic study, from the contemplation
of one scenery, noblo building, beauti
ful combinations of color and sweet
music.
When Cornaro was within two yours
of four score ids diet vtiis regulate 1 iu
quality and quantity, as follows: In
four meals ho took each day twelve
ounces in all of solid food, consisting
of bread (stale, of course, for ho was
not weak-niinded), light meat, yelk of
egg. and soup.-'t7iun -1. Proctor, tn
Cosinopolilan.
Why Junks Havo Eyes.
Chinese junks and boats havo eyes
carved or painted on tlio bows, which
aro usually supposed to be -a mere fan
ciful form of ornamentation. But thoy
have a real moaning, as Mr. Fortune
found. In going up one ot the rivers
from Ningpo, ho was startled ono day
by seeing a boatman seize his broad
hat and clap it over one of tho "eyes"
of the boat, while other boats on the
stream were similarly blinded. Look
ing about for an explanation ho saw a
dead body filiating past, and lie was
told by the boatman that if tlio boat
had boon allowed to "see"' it, some
disaster would surely have happened,
cither to passengers or cirw, boforo tho
voyage untied.- .-Iff the Year Hound.
Printed matter may be copied on
any paper of an absorbent nature, by
dampening the surface with a weak
'olutiou of acutato of iron, and prov
ing In an ordinry uopying press. Ohl
writing may also bo copied on uiisiaud
paper, if wot with a woak solution of
sulphate of iron mixed witli a &implu
solution of sugar sirup.
The slto of tho city of San Diego,
Cal comprising a tract of eight litiu
drtfd aunts, was sold about tweuty year,
ago for f 260.
WALL STREET'S KING.
jAy Gonlu' remnnal CliHrncterlstlen nncl
Financial Method..
Jay Could scarcely knows what it is
to be without nn ache. Ho is not on
:lie. verge of the grave, as ho has re
cently been pictured, although people
who know him will say that he has not
very many years to live. His vitality,
though, is something wonderful. lie
"picks up" quickly.
Tlio greatest effort of his life was Ids
deal in Union Pacific. It was make or
break him. Nearly every one who was
associated with him thought that he
would die before he could cany out his
plans. His efforts were successful, and
then came the rent which brought him
relief.
It is said that Mr. Gould's principal,
trouble isdue to over-eating. Ho takes
too much food for a man of hN size. If
ho could curb his appetite ho might
know what good health is. Neuralgia
haunts him like a specter. It now at
tacks him principally in the face. Ho
is afraid of its extending to tho stomach
and heart, in which case a fatal ter
mination would be feared. Ho takes no
exercise beyond what begets in attend
ing to his business. Ho runs up and
down stairs in the big Western Union
building, but his activity in business is
of a nervous description that is ex
haustive instead of healthful. His face
is like a piece of putty in line. How he
is able to stand the great strains that
ho is subjected to is something that
puzzles himself, the doctors, and every
body who knows him. His tremendous
M ill-power is perhaps tho host explana
tion. He is able to hold up when other
men would take to their beds.
Mr. Gould's fondness for his family is
most laudable. He derives more pleas
ure from the homo circle than from any
thing else. In fact, ho cares for little
else than the society of ids wife and
children. Horses or sports he takes no
interest in. He bought his steam yacht
as much for seclusion as any tiling. He
loos not use tobacco in any form, and
liquor only as a stimulant, and then in
the smallest quantity. He always
dresses well, but not obtrusively. He
is of a most retiring disposition. He
never made but two speeches in Ids life,
and the were very brief. In conversa
tion lie is unassuming as in Ids manners.
He is a better listener than talker,
although he has a remarkably impres
sive way of talking when he lias any
tiling to say.
Ho has a habit of closing his eyes
when conversing, which has long been
a habit of Ids, and is also noteworthy in
his son George J., whom lie is training
as a financier. Mr. Gould's regard for
hi son amounts to devotion. What
ever tho young man says is law, or, at
any rate, ha? his indorsement and back
ing. Young Mr. Gould is cautious and
wily, like ids father, and has won the
hitter's confidence and support by
linking few mistakes. It was a most
gratifying thing to Mr. Gould when his
"on settled down to . business. Young
Mr. Gould is a hard worker. He is a
sturdier num than his father. Indeed,
lie is quite an athlete, and takes the
greater part of the physical strain from
Ids father.
Mr. Gould's financiering is strange.
He likes to take hold of a broken-down
road and reorganize it. Ho will secure
the property for next to nothing, and
isue a vast amount of new securities
for tlio ostensible purpose of "putting
it on its feet." iu a financial sense,
furnishing equipment and extending it
or building branches to bring additional
business to it. The old security-holders
will havo tlio right to subscribe for the
new securities at low prices, and then,
when a market is found for them, he
will sell out the new issues at the top
prices. To this plan of stock watering
lie adds the other of paying stock
dividends or dividends in scrip which
is convertible into stock. The majority
of Mr. Gould's security issues have
been in the shape of bonds which are
always more salable than stock. As
bonds can be issued after the stock is,
and be made a prior lion to stock, it is
easy enough to see tho advantage of
putting bonds on the market.
It has been said that Mr. Gould never
gave except whon lie was forced to.
.which is probably the fact. He is never
actuated by philanthropic motives in
my thing. It is contrary to his nature.
Personally he cares nothing for "so
ciety." lie would, however, sacrifice
a good portion of Ids fortune to have
"social recognition," on account of his
fam'ly. Tlio Goulds, it is generally
known, aro not "society people."
Three years ago Mr. Gould announced
his purpose to start on a tour of tlio
world iu Ids own yacht, tho Atalanta.
The announcement, it turned out, was
merely for the effect it would have on
the stock market. Mr. Gould has the
yacht, and it is probable, having
schooled Iiis son iu the ways of finance,
that before long ho will ninko a foreign
tour.
Not the least interesting thing about
Mr. Gould is ids fear of bodily harm.
Ho is iu constant receipt of letters
threatening him with death. It has
been said that hu lias not visited the
scene of tho great southwestern railwnv
strike since it occurred, for fear his
train would bo wrecked. That is a
mistake. lLt has been over ids lines
and was received at many stations even
with brass bands and laudatory spucchus
liin mill, in ijiiu suuiiou Ol tllC
country it happens that ho is popular.
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Three enormous voluntas, aggre
gating over eighteen hundred pao.s
and una hundred and forty platos, rep
roent tho contribution of tho Chal
lenger expedition to suioiililio know
ludgo. m mi i.
Tho profussiuti of the chiropodist
has buon dignified by a royal practi
tioner, fur was nutthu English throne
oooupiod by William tlio corncurvr.
HONEST PATRIOTISM.
,1 Jfnn Who 1 Wltllns to Sacrifice nim
Hclf for II1 Country's Sake.
You h ive seen somcthingin the papors
about the coast defenses. The idea has
sonichow got allroad that our coasbt
ought to lie lined with forts and guns
as a warning to Europe against declar
ing war against us some morning boforo
breakfast. Engineers have surveyed
and reported, and Congressional com
mittees have sat and reported, and for
about $80,000,000 we can get things in
such shape that wlitn the enemy's first
iron-clad heaves in sight sho cati bo
saluted in proper Ayle.
A lot of us were sitting tn tlio depot
waiting-room at Trenton, and tho only
man who had a newspaper was reading
away for dear life, when a stranger
entered with two sachels and a tall
girl, chugged the baggage under a scat,
waved the girl to another, and walked
up to the man with the newspaper and
asked:
"Mister, is there any thing iu tho
paper about our coast defenses?"
"No, sir!" was the gruff reply.
"That's singular. Havo thoy given
up the idea, do you think?'
"I don't know what you mean. Bir."
"You don't? Why, they've been talk
ing for the lastyearabout building forts
to protect our coasts. 1 live down near
the mouth of Tom's river, and I ratlior
expect they'll build a big fort, there.
The way tilings are now England,
France or Germany could declare war
airaiiist us and land a force at Tom's
river before we hail our eyes open.
Tlie 'd land right on my farm, and no
body knows the damage they'll do.
Don't see any thing about a fort at
Tom's river, eh?"
"No. sir."
"Well, that's sing-tlar. Tf this gov
ernment expects mo to get down behind
a rock with my old shot-gun and keep
Europe from ianding at that point it's
expecting a lectio too much of one man.
I'd light to thn death, of course, but the
chances are that a hull navy could lick
one nigh-sighted man. So tlio paper
don't say any thing?"
"Didn't I tell you no in the first
place!"
"Say! inebbe you don't keer a copper
about coast defenses!" exclaimed the.
two-saeliel man as a red spot appeared
on either cheek.
"Not a copper, sir!"
"I thought so from tho start! You
live out in Michigan or Indiana or Illi
nois, and are tucked away iu some holler
where the sheriff can't find ye, let alone
an invader of our sacred silo! O, no,
you don't keer!"
"Father!" chided the tall girl, as she
half rose; but he turned on her with:
"Miry, you keep shot! Pre alius
thought if Europe declared war agin us
we'd have plenty of enemies right at
home, and here's a case to prove it!
Stranger, did you lit in the last war?"
"None o' your business, sir!"
"There's Ids open hand, gentlemen!"
said tlte two-sacltel man, as ho turned
to tiie crowd. "When you find a man
who don't keer how soon the hull
of Europe jumps on this country
you have found a man who'd di:"
up the bones of Washington and seN
cm to a junk man for live dollars!"
Tiie man witli tho newspaper laid it
down, got. on his feet and asked the
other if lie would step out-doors a min
ute. "No, sir. I won't!" was tho prompt
reply. "In the fust place. I've got
these two sachels to purtect; iu tlio
second place, there's M iry; in tlio third
place, I don't tight with no man who
didn't fight in the last war. In the fust
place I asked ye if there was any tiling
in tho paper about our coast defenses."
"And I said no, you idiot!"
"And vou said you didn't keer!"
"Neither do I!"
"There's ids hand agin, gentlemen!
While I'm lying behind a rock at Tom's
river, waiting to sell my life in defence
of my country, hero's a fellor front
Coon Holler, State of Indiana, who
don't keer a cooper's copper how quick
Europe kivers tho situ of New Jersey
with tlio blood of our bravest men!"
"Father!" chided Mary again.
"Leinino alone, Maiy! You know all
about carpet rags and darning and
housework, but you never heard tho
rumble of war. If Europe is going to
jump onto this country I want to know
who's going to shoot mo in tlio back as
1 face the enemy."
The man with tho newspaper opened
it and sat down with a dangerous glit
ter iu his eyes, and there was a solemn
silence for a few minutes. Then tho
Tom's river man edged over to Mary
and they slid out doors together. Then
ho beckoned through tho open window
to,tlireo or four of us, and as wo went
out he surrounded us and whispered:
"Gentlemen, it's my soioiiiu opinion
that that feller is a jauuisary from
Europe who has come over hero to coax
Undo Sam not to put up any coast de
fences. I want to say right hero, anil
I want you to hoar it and renionibor it,
that if the enemy land at Tom's rivor it
will bo over my dead body. And I
won't be to blame for it." -M. Quad,
in Detroit Free iVcw.
An Excited Pedagogue.
Prof. Snore, of tlio University of
Texas, is a man who is very apt, when
ho becomes excited, to tYuusposo his
words. Having occasion to rebuke his
son, William, who is bucoiniur rather
fast, lie said:
"You must tiling this stop. Only
yesterday I saw you parading Austin
girl with an avenue of the opposite sex
on your arm, a burning dog stuck in
your mouth, and a little cigar trotting
along behind you." Texts Sijliitjs.
.Wording to tlio report of tho Now
York Bureau of Labor Statistics thoro
woro more than 1,500 strikus in that
State during 1830, typilust 800 iu 1685.
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