SONGS AND SONG-MAKERS.
Some Hitherto Unpublished Facts Con'
cernlnc Popular llnllntl.
Popular songs nrc often queer. So
nrc t hoi r authors. But stranger still is
tho secret governing tho public taste,
by which sonic compositions arc taken
up nn! others rejected. Not 3 per
cent, of the songs annually issued have
11 spark of originality nbout them. Jn
this country thd dozen or so publisliors
issue annually about 18,000 editions of
songs, of botweon 1(5,000,000 and 20,-
000,000 of copies. This, added to tho
reprints of English and foreign songs,
means fully thirty copies daily per cap
ita to every teacher of music in tho
land, l et out of this vast number
there is not ouo song in 600 that
reaches a popular salo of 5,000 copies
and less than one-tenth as many that
exceed an issue of 300,000 copies. Hero
arc tho sales of a few well-known
songs:
Coptt lolit.
" Flower From Mother' Grave".... .OW
Sweet Vlolots" aro,an
"Only u 1'nimy Hloom".. U00.Of)
"When the Leaven Hocln to Turn" I!i0,000
" Only to Sco Her Foco" 180,XM
Notwithstanding this apparent luck
of appreciation on tho part of a surfeit
ed public, the isuo of sheet music con
tinues a profltablo enterprise, rendered
so by tho spasmodic s:ilo of an occas
ional hit, tho pecuniary rotum of which
usually overbalances losses entailed in
other directions.
Since tho days of Stephen .C. Foster,
Henry C. Work and John Howard
Payne, a class of balladists has sprung
into existence, tho exact description of
which it would bo dillicult to give. Tho
array embraces almost every vocation
from minstrel to mechanic. Among
the moro notable are Frank Howard,
well-known as author of "Onlya Pansy
Blossom" and "When tho Bobins
Nest Again;" David Brahani, James 0.
Stewart, Win. J. Sranlan, tho actor;
Charles Connolly, Sydney Rosenfeld,
J. K. Eniniot and Walter Fhiunix.
Koscnfcld was formerly a Philadelphia
journalist, whilo Win. Henderson, tiio
writer of so many topical songs, was
formerly connected with tho editorial
stall' of tho Now York Times. These
comprise onlya very few of tho thous
and who have cssayod popular song
making. The song which stands alono in tho
Aiuerionn market in point of issues
sold is tho "Scotch Lassie Jean," which
reached 1,000,000 copies, and is still in
fair demand. Another great success
was tho ballad "Must Wo Then Meet as
Strangers?" of which many editions
have been printed. Still others are
Tucker's pretty song, "Sweet (Jene
viovo," "The Spanish Cavalier," "Call
Mo 'Hack Again," , "Sweet Forget Me
Nol," and "Prottynsa Picture." Then
there must not be omitted Westeiidorf's
"I'll Take Tlieo Back Again. Kath
leen." To name the very latent pop
ular -ong successes is a matter of moro
difficulty. The ballad that is whistled
t -day by thousands may be dead and
forgotten by to-morrow, while an'othor,
not ipiilo mi quick to catch tho popular
taste, may sell on and on, just as
familiar but old stories like "Uncle
Tom' Cabin" do. Tho hitter is to-day
among tho best soiling books in the
world. Some songs approach, but they
do not quite equal its lasting popular
ity. Following are tho approximate
Mates of some later successes:
Coptt until.
"Wult Till tin) ClotnU Holl Ily"
"lVolc-u-boo" 1T.',()!1
'When tint Kotilns N'it Ai;nln" 1H,U
"I'll Await, my Love nr.,(n)
"Over tho Ghirdun Wi.ll" W.Omi
v "CUmblDK up tint (lolilim Stair" Kiu
"Hurrv. I.lltlP Chllili-on. Humliy Morn"1. ,
"Don't Luvo Your Mother, Tom" 45,0n)
It is interesting to note how songs
are made popular. Undoubtedly the
stage is tho great factor. A catchy
ballad brought out by a prominent
singer invariably produces a desire to
imitate. Tito minstrel is, therefore,
the introducer of the song. Of all the
singers who have popularized musical
compositions in this country Lotta
stands at the head. Take the num
ber of songs written expressly for her
and see their subsequent salo in sheet
form:
Coita Sohl.
"Dmn Golden Slippers" ,. ..'HXMXX)
"In tlio MuruliiK iv tho llrlght Light" . . . .,
"Hnzornln tho Air !rioii
"Como Alotur, SlnnerM liVl.ooo
'Swim for tho tlohlon Shoro" oo.deo
How some songs eaino to bo written
h lifplintorosling study. For several
monllis there was a warm controversy
on the authorship of "Don't Leave
Your Mother, Tom." It was claimed
by Miss Maud Beverly, but it turned
out, as its English Haver indicated,
that it was an Knglish song altered,
its old form being "Stick to Your
Mother, .lack," a Yorksluro'ballad of
threadbare popularity as well as age.
Tho author of "Climbing Up the Gold
en Stair' was a poor fellow who board
ed in an attic, and got his inspiration
by climbing tho rickety stairs that led
tniUPhiladephia Cor. San Francisco
Chronicle
ii i
Entirely Too Particular.
"I wish to report a case of larceny,"
she said as alio entered tho police station
yesterday.
"Yes'm. When did it occur?"
"Last evening."
"At what place?"
"On a ferry boat, sir."
"What are tho particulars?"
"Why, 1 was with a young young
man, and-"
"Oil, you worol Well, go on."
"And trtll his name?"
"Of course." ,
"And that I novel saw him boforo?"
"Certainly."
"Thou 1 won't report tho caso, sir!
You itro too particular, and tho ring
wasn't worth over threo dollars uny.
howl" lie roil Free Press.
Tho 'confidant of uiy vices is my
master. (JoeUie.
THfc SIZE OF MATO.
A Claim Tlint Ho Norer llatl i Greater
Height Thun at Prnscnt.
Men of tho present day have no occa
sion to feel humiliated, because thoy
aie not taller and larger than thoy are,
Thcro is no reason, in tho ,discovori s
of science, for tho supposition that men
as a whole, havo ever had a greater
average height than they have now
For a long time, at Romans, in France
near tiio junction of tho Isero and
Rhone rivers, there existed a deposit
of gigantic bones which hnd long been
known as the "Giant s J-iold. In re
cent times bones havo been exhumed
there which were believed to bo human
and which were said to be those of
Teutobodus, tho King of tho Teutons
who was overcome near tho spot by
Matins, tho Roman General. Iho re
searches, of Cuvier, hovfever, proved
that those bones, together with nil tho
others exhumed in tho namo place.
were those of tho dinothcrium gigan-
tcum, an extinct animal of tho tapir
spocics, which measured about twenty3
feet in length.
Tho myth of a raco of giants has its
counterpart m thoso other creatures of
imagination, tho pigmies. Ihcso fablod
people, who woro so small that a stalk
of grain was a trco to them, which they
chopped down with tiny hatchets and
brush hooks, were said to inhabit Ethi
opia. Thoy wero always at war with
the cranes, but lived on such excellent
terms witii tho partridges that thoy
wero able to harness them into their
carriages. Thoy lived at first, accord
ing to the fable, in Iliraco, but were
driven out of Luropo by tho cranes,
and took refuge in Ethiopia. It is now
commonly supposed that tho pigmies
wero nothing moro nor loss than
monkeys of small size, llko tho mar
moset. Tho pigmy's warfare with the
crane was probably the ouo grain of
exact truth which survived in tho tradi
tinn.
Tho stories of the pigmies belong with
tho fables of tho giants. Tho men of
ancient times woro of tho same, or
nearly tho same height, as thoso of the
present day. Iho doors of the ancient
houses, the ancient armor, tho Egyptian
mummies, as well as the bones of the
fossil men, prove that there lias been
little or no variation.
Among famous tall men was the
Roman Linporor Maxiniin, whoso stat
uro was seven and three-quarters feet,
Maxiniin was a young barbarian, tho
son of a Gothic father, who tirst at
traded the attention of tlte Romans by
overcoming sixteen of their strongest
men, ouo after another, in a wrestling
contest, and, having been made a cen
turion, fought and intrigued his way to
the imperial throne.
The normal stat uro of mon and
women ranges between four feet and
six feet, four inches. Those who exceed
the latter height may be called giants,
while those who uro below four feet un
called dwarfs. There have been dwarfs
scarcely one foot six inches in height,
but even these have been considerably
taller than the fabled pigmies of an
tiquity. You Ufa Companion.
SICKENING SIGHT.
rifly-Siiven llend of Cuttln Transformed
Into Mountain of ,Miuij;Ied Flesh.
Just as the west-bound train had
reached a water tank a mile west of
Pino Blull's a herd of three thousand
Texas eattlo was observed grazing on
the adjacent prairie. Tho long-horned
animals gazed at tho locomotive a mo
ment, and then with ouo accord started
toward the train at a rapid gait. It
was evident to the cowboys in charge
of the herd that a stampede was inuni
nent, and they endeavored to stop tho
mad rush of tho thoroughly crazed mi
nimis. nTho engineer also reached the
same conclusion anil crowded on the
steam in the ollbrt to pass the ho id be
fore a collision should occur.
In this ho failed, liowover, and a nio
mont later there was a terrific shock
that shook the train from end to end,
and the quivering flesh of frightened
rattle was being ground to pulp under
tho wheels of the locomotive. Tho
cowcatcher itself worked terrific exe
cution in plunging through tho huge
masses of eattlo that woro promiscu
ously piled along tho track.
The locomotive was revorsed as
quickly as possible, when a sickening
sight met tho gaze of passengers. Dead
and dying cattle lay strowu along the
track, maimed and mangled. Many
with legs partly or wholly torn oil
made desperate efforts to get away,
while tilt hundreds unhurt, with tails
curling in the breeze, wero scattering
to all points of the compass.
As soon as the train had been brought
to a standstill a number of passengers
who wero armed with revolvers per
formed acts of meroy by killing crip
pled animals. Tho number of cattle
killed was lifty-soven. Tho locomo
tive, strange to say, was not derailed,
although considerably damaged. Re
moval of tho carcasses necessitated a
delay of over an hour. Cheyenne,
( H'yo.) 'Leader.
About Dlack-Headod Pins.
Sitting alongside a lady in tho ele
vated train the other day, writes an ob
servant Now Yorker, she had occasion
to adjust a portion of hor dress which
was fastened witii a black pin, when
tho head broke in fragments and dis
closed the fact that it was some kind of
composition fastened on it broken
needle. Curiosity led mo to make
some Inquiries, ami I found thai nearly
all the blnck-hoadod pins in the market
aro mado from needles which are
broken in tho factories in testing tho
oyes. Any ono who has handled tho
black-headed pl'is has probably noticed
their rcnutrkublo sharpness as com
pared with tho ordinary white pins
sold in tho market. This Is tho expla
nation that they lira old needles.
Chicago Journal, .
THE BARREL HAMMOCK.
Reliable AdricA or One Who 11ns Kpcrl
enced All of It Flensnres.
Kind reader, did you over swing in a
barrel hammock ono of tho genuine,
homo mado country barrel hammocks,
such as you find in tho summering
places of Now IlampshlroP If you
havo not one you missed something in
this world which falls to tho lot of but
few mon. Fall, did I say? Yes that
is it. That's part of tho pleasure of
tho hammock tho falling out.
But first, lot mo discribo tlii instru
ment of tor pleasure. It is composed
of six parts, barrol staves, two of rope,
and two of cussednoss. Two ho es aro
bored through each end of the stave,
and through these pass tho rope, the
ends being fastoncd to convenient trees,
hooks, or posts liko tho ropes of a more
peaceablo hammock. A pillow is
thrown in carelessly. This is done to
tempt men and load them on to death.
Liko a siren that pillow reaches out its
overy feather, and beckons you to como
and cnjo3 its soft embrace; and you do
so. Ami the end is not
yet. You sit down in tho mid
dle first, imagining that tho ham
mock lias sonic feeling liko its genus;
but you aro astonished at receiving
a crack on each sido of your
cranium from the two respective ond
staves. It startles you at first, and
you will doubtless feel a littlo hurt
nbout it, but, liko all tho rest, you will
look upon it as a littlo eccentricity of
tho article and swing your feet in to en
joy a reclining position. In doing so
you find that your pant- havo lowered
somo slack down between the two
middlo staves, and that in turning
around you aro i : danger of twisting
a hole about tho size of a dinner-plate
in a spot which would inconvenience
you. So you gather your robes about
you, taking all tho slack on top, and
onco more prepare to recline. This
time you iiave missed your reckoning,
for tho pillow is about ton feot above
you. liow to got up thoro is tho ques
tion. In vain you attempt to reach it.
Each timo the bottom of tho stave with
five of its neighbors flies up and hits
you in tho small of tho back. Then you
try to shdo up. Digging your toes be
tween two of tho bottom staves and
working slowly along, you manage to
tear a hole in your vest, stick a nail in
your ear, and grasp the pillow all at
tho same time. But you havo got tho
pillow and you aro happy.
There's a nowspapiir in your pocket,
but how to get it is the quostion. You
dare not movo, for tho pesky thing
will kick you out, so you content your
solf with reaching for a cigar in a con
venient pocket, striko a match on a
stave Oh, these barrel hammocks aro
accommodating and scttlo dbwn for a
smoke. In fivo minutes, under the
soothing influence of tho weed, your
mind is at rest; you havo forgotten tho
tricks that lurk in every individual
stave of your couch, and are picturing
to yourself the dash von will cutwhon,
at. homo after vacation, with eight dol
lars per week of saved board money in
your pocket, you will paralyze tho
dorks in the storo with stories of "gay
Newport, you know." At this junc
ture ono of tho young lady boarders
rushes out, anil with a "Mr. Jones, we
are going," she plants her plump form
down on tho lower staves of tho ham
mock. Tho uppor ones rise in con
junction. Jones rises, too. Your cigar
Hies in tho air and conies down in your
eyes just in timo to blind your sight as
you descend from among.tho branches to
terra linna.
"Blank, blank tho blanked thing!
who cut the rope, any way? Oh, ox
cuso mo, ladies." Of course you havo
to oiler apologies at tho tea table to
smooth tho matter ovor, but Miss
Brown will always avoid you after that,
for it is possiblo she had a suspicion that
before the cigar struck you you saw her
where the treacherous staves of tho
lowor half of that hammock had plac
ed hor.
Reader, should you over visit tho
country shun tho barrol hummock. It
cost ono man fivo yours of his life, a
now vest and tho acquaintance of a
most estimable young lady. If you
must uso it, tako it down and spread it
on tho grass, drivo a railroad spiko
through each stave, and you havo it.
Cor. Kewbcrryport (Mass.) acivs.
i
A Careful Nurse-Girl.
Tho Hibernian's idea of being care
ful is sometimes ratlior peculiar. A
lady who had recently engaged an
Irish nurse-maid said to hor ouo day,
while walking in the garden:
"Mary, wrap the baby up very care
fully, and bring him out to me."
"Yis, mum," glibly replied Mary,
and straightway departed.
She presently returned, bringing
the Infant bundled and bound in ti
shawl-strap.
"Ion unfeeling creature! shrieked
tho poor mother, frantically. "You
will kill tho child!"
"Not at all, nium, not at all. You
towld me to bo careful, an 1 am. Tho
choild was so htvvy, I thought a shawl,
slit rap was tho safest way to carry
him." Youth's Companion. m
"Did yo over hoar tho storv of Pat
and Ids employer?" asked a hackmau
as ho declined to drink tho third time.
No; 'tell us it, Vandorbilt." re
marked tho driver's "fare." "Well,
Pat was out wid Ids muster wan day
and was asked to drink. Ho did. Then
again, and lie did. Tho third timo Pat
declined, ami as ho did so said what 1
think Is very thrue, gontlemen: 'Wan,
Sur, is good. Two is bcttlier. But
three is not half onough.' " Philadel-
phia Call.
Tho nlcasautcst thine in tho world
are pleasant thoughts, and tho great
ait of life Is to havo us many of thorn
as posbilUv liovw.
SLAVERY IN BRAZIL.
I'rorlslons Made for Freeing the Hondsmen
Held In the Umpire.
In 1871 a law was passed in tho Bra
zilian Chambers or Parliament provid
ing for tho gradual emancipation of all
tho slaves in the empire, nnd requiring
a registration by masters of all slaves.
Such slaves as wero not registered by a
certain dato were to bo declared free
by tho terms of the law. Thoro were
then about 2,000,000 slaves in tho coun
try. The law also gave unconditional
freedom to all slaves who had readied
or should thereafter reach tho ago of
CO years.
In 188f the number of registered
slaves was found to bo not greater than
1,200.000.
At the opening of the Chnmbcr in
May, Mr. Alfonso Celso, a prominent
member, and son of a former Premier
of tho same name, offered a bill for the
Immediato freeing of tho remaining
slaves. Iho following aro its chief pro
visions: All slaves registered throughout tho
wholo of tho empire of Brazil are dc
clare'd to bo free from the date of the
promulgation of tho present law.
Those who aro free from bondage in
virtue of this law arc obliged to labor
for the spueo of two years in the ser
vice of their former masters, but this
service shall be non-iransfcrablc from
!iiv cause whatsoever.
From this obligation shall bo accept
ed tho following: (1). Those who shall
redeem themselves from service by
payment of such service in money. In
this case the value of such service, for
the full term of two years, shall in no
ease be valued at moro than $200. For
tho purpose of making this valuation,
tho clauses in the recent law (18SG)
and in that of November 13, 1872, shall
bo continued in full force. (2). Those
who havo reached fifty years of age.
and also thoso who shall hereafter
reach that age within tho specified time
of two yours, shall bo declared ipso
facto free, and shall at onco enter into
tho enjoymont of their freedom. The
ago of tho slave, for this purpose, shall
bo determined by tho registry; proof
to tho contrary shall only bo admitted
when tills proof shall bo in favor of the
liberty of tho slave.
When cither one of a married couple
shall havo acquired his or her freedom
from rendering obligatory service,
through whatever cause, the other shall
likewise be freed at once and without
any conditions whatever. Frcedinen,
during tho two years in which they aro
obliged to rainier service under the
present law, shall bo paid just wages or
salary, have full right to suitable cloth
ing and proper food, and to necessary
medical treatment and care should
thoy become ill or incapacitated.
All ex-masters who shall not faith
fully carry out tho obligations and du
ties imposed by tho preceding para
graph, shall lose all claim or right
whatever to the services of their for
mer slaves, now become freedmon. All
taxes and revenues destinod to tho fund
of emancipation by preceding laws and
regulations shall bo employed for the
use of establishments of practical and
professional education designed for tho
children of freedmon, and for.tho en
dowment of asylums for freedmon who
may hereafter become incapacitated for
work by disease or accident. Ar. O.
Picayune.
LIKE HER ELDERS.
A Mttlo Girl who luxl Hut Mttln Uso for
riiiliilnn Phiynmtci.
A story of tho rising generation:
In one of the suburban towns there
is a young lady quite a young lady
sho is, too whoso somewhat boj'ish
aspect and innocently masculine tastes
havo won for her the soubriquet of
Tommy. Not long ago sho gavo a lit
tlo party to tho children of tho neigh
borhood, and in preparing for tho
event her mother, in order to get at an
idoa of tho sort of young people her
daughter would liko to have attend,
told her to prepare a list of thoso sho
wished to invite. Tommy went to
work with zest and In a short time fin
ished a pretty long list.
"There, inainniii," said she with an air
of conclusiveness, "there's every single
one that 1 want to como."
Her mother took tho document and
read it with an astonishment which in
creased as her eye approached the end
of the list. Tommy hud only one girl's
name on the whole list!
"Why, Tommy!" her mother ex
claimed, "do you want none but boys
to conic to your party? What aro you
thinking of?"
"Well, inaninia," said Tommy, "you
know girls aren't any fun!"
"But would your boys have any fun
if there weren't any girls?"
"Weren't any g'irls? Why, there'll
bo Kitty BickerstalV and me, anil that
ought to bo girls enough!"
The mother, however, insisted upon
the nomination of a full quota of girls;
but in onler to get it she had to make
inquiries herself. Tommy's informa
tion was deficient. lioston Transcript.
At Springfield, O., a few days ago
a mother checked her baby carriago to
a neighboring town where sho was
about to visit, nnd forgot to remove
the child from it. Just before tho train
started she missed tho baby, and after
a frantic and fruitless search suddenly
remembered whoro sho had loft it. She
got to tho baggage-ear just in timo to
get tho infant us it was being loaded
on tho train in its enrriage.
This is the season of year when wo
uro thrown into tho socioty of tho man
who rocks tho boat for fun if ho goes
out with you for a row in tho lako or
rivor. Ho never gots to bo ovor thirty
yoara of ago, and generally partici
pates in a double funeraL Beware of
lit in. Albany Journal,
SOWING GRASS SEED.
A Subject Tlint Needs to lie Studied by the
Grent Majority of Farmers.
As a rule, the sowing of grass of var
ious kinds is made with some grain
crop, and usually in tho fall with wheat
or rye. This method, however, is not
just to tho grass, nor is it favorable for
tho best results to the seeding. 'J ho
so-called fostci? crop very often roba
the grass and exhausts the soil of its
needed nutriment, and a very poor
catcli is tho result. If tho soil is thor
oughly woll prepared by manuring nnd
sufficient tillage, tho two crops may
grow together very well, and the grass
mako a good stand. But this is seldom
the caso except with a few farmers, who
need no advice or suggestion upon tho
subject. Tho great majority of farm
ers need to study this subject, and un
derstand the requirements of grass for
its successful culture.
The preparation of tho soil should bo
very thorough. ' Tho land should bo
plowed deeply, and a liberal coat of
manure turned under, not buried, but
with tho furrows laid over at an angle
of forty-live degrees, so that tho manure
lies between tho layers of soil standing
on edge in a sloping manner. The
harrow, run along tho furrows, works
the soil and manuro together, mixing
them and making them fine and com
pact. Tho harrowing should be con
tinued until tho whole surfaco is as
smooth as a garden, and tho soil is
quito fine. If tho land is clayey and
lumpy, it should be rollod between' the
harro wings.
Sowing the seed alone is preferable.
If any grain crop at all is used, it
should bo oats in tho spring, or buck
wheat early in July, as may be most
convenient. Excellent seeding has
been mado early in August with a
pound of turnip seed to tho acre. This
shelters the young grass during the
winter, and dying, the turnips decay
in the spring and afford a most useful
fertilizer for the erop. Timothy and
clover, and orchard grass and clover,
and the three kinds mixed, and orchard
grass alone, havo been sown in all of
these throe ways with better results
than when sown with fall grain and
subjected to the risks of the winter
weather.
In sowing grass and clover seed an
even stand is desirable, and to secure
this, great care is to bo taken in tho
sowing. A very good practice is to
mako tho last harrowing with great
care, evonly and with tho marks all
parallel. Then the sower can follow
these marks, first taking the edge of tin
field and returning six short paces dis
tant from tho first course. Then re
turning on the second course, and al
ways sowing with the right hand to tin
loft. Six foot from each is east as much
as can bo taken witii light seed, as or
chard grass, blue grass, red-top, etc.,
and as much as should be taken with
timothy, and the quantity of seed taken
m ly be readily guaged to tho width of
tho cast. The cast is mado with ea h
movement of the right foot. When ti e
wind is blowing, even slightly, the
casts should lie made low, to avoid 'ir
regular dropping of tho seed, and whin
the limit seeds arc sown it is easier to
walk across tho harrow marks when
tho tracks mado are easily seen, and a?
the wind may carry tho seed to one
side, tho sower may go out of the
straight track to accommodate the
wind, and on returning can easily dis
tinguish the foot marks of the previous
track in tho soft sou.
A broadcast seeder is a convenient
implement, and costs but little, and
can bo carried by the sower with ease
It drops tho seed low, and if the sower
goes faco to the wind at the start, tho
seed is not spread unevenly. When, in
spito of all care, an irregular seeding
is anticipated, it is woll to sow half tho
seed one way, and cross the sowing tho
other way, when vacant spaces may bo
covered. An inexperienced sower
siiouid practice on tlio snow, using
sand, which can bo easily seen on tho
white surface, and in two or threo at
tempts lie will bo ablo to mako the sow
ing quito evenly.
The sowing should bo dono as soon
as tho last harrowing is finished, when
tho seed sinks in the looso soil, or is
covered by tho first shower. A smooth
ing plank is a good thing to cover seed
with. It may bo eight or ten feet long,
and is fitted with a tongue and two
stiff braces. Tho tongue is fitted to
the plunk on tho lovol, so that when it
is raised tho front end of tho plank is
olovatcd a little. This prevents tho
plank from gathering stones or seeds
in front of it, and causes it to ride over
them. It leavos a smooth, oven sur
face. American Agriculturist.
A succossfnl 'balloon trip over tho
Irish Sea has been made by tho well
known English aeronaut, Mr.Sinnnons.
IIo started from Preston for a short
ascent, but a contrary breozo took his
craft directly over tho channel, some
what to tlio aeronaut's dismay, as ho
was neither provisioned nor provided
w itli the apparatus for keeping atloat
if the balloon suddenly doscended in
mid-channel.' Happily, the wind
landed him safely in Ireland, at a farm
at Ballyboden, Rnthfarnhain, seven
miles from Dublin, after six and one
quarter Hours' journey.
A criminal suit has boon brought by
the United States against throo men in
Colorado for cutting nnd moving from
Government lands 30,000 cords of pine
and spruco wood, which thoy converted
into charcoal and sold to the Omaha
and Grant Smelting and Refining Com
pany. A civil suit is also to bo insti
tuted against them and tho smolting
company jointly for $160,331, tho pur
chase price of 1,758,000 bushels of char
coal. Tho smolting company, it ap
pears, was an innocent purchaser, nnd
lionce only liable for tho prico paid for
tho coal.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
Among the sixty -six graduates
from Amherst this voar was a Japanosa
I student.
Longing for goodness does not
bring it It is to bo sought after with
all tho might.
America is growing better. Tho
church attendanco for 1887 wns twonty
per cent over that of 1886.
Somo of his children mustgo.into
tho furnace to testify that the son of
God is there with tlieni. E. Prentice,
' Every man has in himself a con
tinent of undiscovered character. Hap
py is ho who acts tho Columbus of his
own soul!
Ho who shall introduce into public
nffairs the principlosof primitive Chris
tianity will revolutionize tlio world.
Benjamin Franklin.
The women of the Presbyterian.
Church of this country are said to havo
raised in tlio past sixteen years, $2,
150,000 for missions.
Rev. Dr. Happer has secured $100,
000 toward founding a Christian Col
lego in China and expects to open tho
institution next January.
D ing good to our fellow-men.
makes a greater impression on most of
them than any other course open to us.
Central Christian Advocate.
Depend upon it; in the midst of all
the science about the world and its
ways, and all the ignorance of God and
His greatness, tho man or woman who
can say. "Thy will be done," with true
heart forgiving us, is nearer the secret
of things than tho geologist or theolo
gian. George Macdonald.
The trustees of Harvard Universi
ty, Senator Geo. P. Hoar, ex-Speaker
Wiiithrop, Profs. Putnam, Heatou and
others, have bought for $4,000 sixty
acres of land in Bratton Township,
Adams County, O., on which is situated
tho Serpent Mound. The party will
make a National Park of the tract
N. W. Christian Advocate.
If wo work upon marble, it will
perish; if we work upon brass, timo
will efface it; if wc rear temples, they
will crumble into dust, but if wo work
upon immortal minds, if wo imbuu
them with principles, with tho jnst fear
of God and love of our fellow-men, wo
engrave on those tablets something
that will brighten to all eternity.
Daniel Webster.
Rev. Dr. Tillett, of Vandorbilt Uni
versity, recently visited a Mormon
Sunday-school whilo in Salt Lako City.
As lie entered tho infant class depart
ment a t niporary teacher was saying:
"Well, boys, whoro is your teacher? "
They all replied promptly in concort:
"In the penitentiary." The teacher
then asked: "Is ho there for doing
right or for doing wrong?" All re
plied: "For doing right." Dr. Tillott
learned afterward that the man in
question was serving a term for big
amy. WIT AND WISDOM.
The greatest homage wo can pay
to truth is to uso it, Emerson.
Tho man who blows out tho gas is
anxious to know what they feed mock
turtles on.
Whenever I find myself covetous
of something that I havo not, I can ef
fect a euro by recollecting what 1 have.
Tramp "Are you going in bath
ing, sir?" Gontleman "Yes."
Tramp "Shall I hold your pooket
book?" Tid-Bits.
Problem in arithmetic If a man
gets full when ho has a half holiday,
what would ho got if ho had a wholo
holiday? f'A-i-rlcstoicn Enterprise
Der feller dot can vhittlc a pooty
goot cha-acter out of der rough chibs
of of cry day life, ho vas enditled t haf
a goot abetite on his tomb shtono.
Pretzel's Weekly.
Do not think a lesson learned nntil
you have found somo thought that
seems particularly to fit your needs.
Each lesson holds such a thought, if wo
but find it. Seek! t
So great a happiness do I ostcem
it to bo loved, that I really fancy overy
blessing, both from gods and mon,
ready to dscend spontaneously upon
him who is loved Xcnophon.
Little Dick. I don't want to do
that. Omaha mamma But you must.
"Why?" "Because I say so." "What's
the reason I have to mind you? I ain't
your husband." Omaha World.
Lawyer There is a fearful wind
coming in at that window. Ollico boy
Shuro an' I will jist open the ither
wan, too, so tho wind can go on
through an' not bother ye. Detroit
Free Press.
In a breech of promise suit in Ohio
tho girl showed up 715 letters for 120
days of love. That was ovor six letters
per day, and yet tho young man kept
saying ho wished ho could find timo to
drop her a lino now and then.
"Thought," says Dr. Mungor,
"may stay behind silent lips, but when
it becomes feeling it runs to expres
sion." Wo havo noticed this in case3
of men who thought they wero hitting
a nail, but who felt that thoy had
mashed their fingers. Ar. Y. Commer
cial Advertiser.
A middle-aged man at tho beach,
whoso wife thought tho water too cold
for bathing that day, encouraged hor
in a novel way. "No, Moriar," ho
said, pointing to somo iron wasto pipes
that entered tho water where lie stood,
"don't you see? They're n-runnm' hot
water into tho ocean an' heatin' of her
up."
His tickor brought moro tick:
When I wns young, and all was well.
I used to live on tick, t
As merry as a marrige bell, ,
Until my wife took sick.
Then I was broke ; my darling wife ;
P Krom day to day grew sicker.
And I was forced, to save her life,
To live upon my "tieker."
OrtroU rrn Prtu.